0:08 – Pakistan is struggling through a government crisis, with Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolving the parliament just before losing his position last week. It’s unclear how the powers there will sorted out. Joining us today is Cyril Almeida (@cyalm), a Pakistani journalist based in Karachi, who’s spent over a decade covering the government-military nexus, and was named a world press freedom hero by the International Press Institute.
0:33 – San Jose police shot K’aun Green three times outside a taqueria on March 27th after he intervened in a conflict. When police arrived he was reportedly holding a gun that he had removed from one of the assailants while breaking up the fight. We dive into how Green is doing in the hospital, what happened, what his legal case could look like, and how the community is responding, with Adante Pointer (@adanteesq), civil rights lawyer who is representing Green, as well as Kiana Simmons (@hero_tent), Founder of Human Empowerment, Radical Optimism Tent (HERO Tent), and a member of San Jose’s Reimagining Community Safety Advisory Board.
0:52 – A strike that would have involved 47,000 grocery and supermarket workers has been averted after reaching a tentative agreement on Monday. The union had received a strike authorization vote that passed with a 95% approval from its members. Margot Roosevelt (@margotroosevelt), a California economy and labor reporter at the Los Angeles Times, joins us.
1:08 – The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), out this week, says that we’ll need extreme steps to avoid climate disaster. We are joined by Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt), a climate journalist and host of the podcast Drilled (@WeAreDrilled), who is pouring through all 3,000 pages of the report and reporting about them.
1:33 – Eastern Antarctica experienced the collapse of an ice shelf larger than Manhattan in March. Catherine Walker (@CapComCatWalk), a glaciologist with NASA and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, part of the team that discovered the collapse of the Conger ice shelf, discusses the collapse and its impact as