Pete
On today’s show:
0:08 – Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University discusses Israel’s latest attack in Gaza, which killed 47.
0:33 – An annual report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that California ranks in the bottom third of state in terms of child well-being. Kelly Hardy (@kellyahardy), Senior Managing Director for Health & Research projects at Children Now joins us to discuss.
0:45 – Adrienne Shilton, Director of Public Policy at California Alliance of Child and Family Services discusses AB 2317, which would allow the state to establish children’s residential mental health treatment facilities.
1:08 – According to court filings discovered by Motherboard, Facebook data was used by police to prosecute a Nebraska teenager who sought an abortion. We discuss this revelation with Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler), Editor in Chief of Motherboard, a division of VICE Media.
1:20 – San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu (@DavidChiu) discusses the city’s lawsuit against the federal government over the revocation of Medicare funds to Laguna Honda Hospital. This comes after the harried transfer of the hospital’s vulnerable patients in order to come into federal compliance resulted in 9 deaths due to what San Francisco Supervisors call “transfer trauma.”
1:33 – We look back at the historic battle for People’s Park with excerpts from an audio documentary about “Bloody Thursday” that KPFA produced to air on its one-year anniversary, May 15, 1970.