Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses the Democratic National Convention Monday night.
On this show:
0:08 – How did the first day of the online Democratic National Convention go? We talk about the keynote speech by Bernie Sanders went with two guests: Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy), former press secretary for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign; now a contributing editor to Current Affairs magazine, and John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation.
0:34 – The unusual thunderstorm making its way through Northern California ignited at least a dozen fires. We talk with Captain Robert Foxworthy, northern region public information officer with CalFire.
0:40 – To talk more about this strange, hot and humid California weather, we discuss climate change with Eugene Cordero, professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University and founder of Green Ninja, an education provider that uses climate and environmental topics to teach middle school science.
0:50 – Why is PG&E texting, calling and emailing Californians warning of rolling blackouts? Who will they effect, and what’s causing the shutoffs? Mark Toney, executive director of TURN, The Utility Reform Network, says an investigation is needed into possible causes — including Wall Street traders, individual consumers’ use of generators, and more.
1:08 – A group of Black physicians and midwives, through strikes, protests and petitions, are leading a campaign to remove San Francisco Sheriff’s Deputies from SF General Hospital. We speak with Dr. Erinma Ukoha, a resident physician in Obstetrics & Gynecology
at UCSF, and Dr. Adeola Oni-Orisan, a medical anthropologist and resident physician in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF. Both work at San Francisco General Hospital. More information on the “DPH Must Divest” campaign is available here. They are planning an action for Friday outside SFGH.
1:20 – SFPD is asking for a raise — and it could be a fight. Tim Redmond joins us to discuss; he’s a veteran San Francisco political reporter, also the founder and editor of 48hills.org.
1:34 – At the U.S.-Mexico border, the Border Patrol runs a training program for children called the Border Patrol Explorers. In her series “Unmasking America,” Cat Brooks sat down with Morley Musick, who spent time on the border reporting on this group. Read Morley’s reporting in The Nation here.