0:08 – Two cities mourn mass shootings: live from El Paso, TX and Dayton OH
Lauren Villagran (@laurenvillagran) is a reporter with the El Paso Times and the USA Today Network, and covered the protests of Trump’s visit to El Paso yesterday.
0:20 – Tom Gnau (@ThomasGnau) is a staff writer with the Dayton Daily News, covering the aftermath of the shooting and Trump’s visit yesterday.
0:34 – Author Interview: R.O. Kwon (@rokwon) is a writer and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. The Incendiaries is her first novel.
1:08 – KPFA News: In the wake of the deadly shootings in Dayton and El paso, disagreements on gun control have flared up yet again. This time, Trump seems to be advocating for some restrictions that some gun control advocates support, like taking guns away from people who show warning signs of dangerous behavior. However, Trump’s comments about people with mental illness proven divisive, and mental health advocates say it’s a distraction from the real problems. KPFA’s Sean Flanelly reports.
1:13 – KPFA News: Thousands of people marched in cities across Colombia and around the world last week to protest the rising numbers of assassinations of social activists, human rights defenders and former members of the FARC guerrillas who had demobilized…They demanded that the country’s right wing president President Ivan Duque (DOO-cay) guarantee their safety. Alexandra Ruiz Castillo (@AleRuizCastillo) reports from Bogota.
1:19 – Author Interview: James Brandon (@JBJustBE) produced and played the central role of Joshua in the international tour of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi for a decade, and is codirector of the documentary film based on their journey, Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption. He’s the cofounder of the I AM Love Campaign, an arts-based initiative bridging the faith-based and LGBTQ2+ communities, and serves on the Powwow Steering Committee for Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) in San Francisco. Ziggy, Stardust and Me is his first novel.
(Photo: Several of the El Paso shooting victims / Wikipedia)
