On today’s show:
0:18 – The San Mateo County Superior Court was recently sued for imposing a $300 civil assessment automatically every time an individual misses a payment or court deadline in their traffic infraction case. Joining us to discuss are Zal Shroff, Senior Racial Justice Attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the SF Bay Area (@lccrsf), a representing attorney on the case and Manuel Galindo, an organizer with the Debt Collective (@StrikeDebt), which is one of the plaintiffs.
0:33 – The Oakland Unified School District’s pending decision to close or merge 19 schools in order to overcome a budget shortfall has galvanized a week of action among students, teachers and parents across the city. We continue our coverage with Moses Omolade, Westlake Middle School administrator and hunger striker and Arleita Bailey, a student at Westlake Middle School.
1:08 – Assemblymember Alex Lee (@alex_lee), representing the 25th Assembly District in San Jose, joins us to detail the death of AB 854, the Ellis Act reform bill that he authored.
1:20 – We continue our discussion with Shanti Singh, Communications and Legislative Director for Tenants Together (@TenantsTogether).
1:33 – Andrew Knoll, Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard, winner of prestigious International Prize for Biology and the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences joins us to discuss his new book, A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters.