0:08 – Mondays with Mitch; KPFA’s Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich) joins for updates on the US relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Yemen crisis, the government budget agreement and the possibility of raising the debt ceiling, weekend ICE raids, and new Trump administration asylum rules making it harder for migrants to seek asylum in the United States.
0:34 – Francisco Ugarte is an attorney with the Immigration Unit of the San Francisco Public Defender’s office. He joins to discuss the Trump administration’s false alarm on threatened ICE raids in the SF bay area over the weekend.
1:08 – California Oil and Gas regulators were recently discovered to have invested thousands of dollars in the oil and gas companies they regulate. KPFA’s Klara Ingersoll reports on corruption within California oil and gas regulatory agencies.
1:14 – Adam Scow is a Senior Consumer Advocate with Consumer Watchdog, and originally broke this story, and he joins to discuss his findings.
1:34 – 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide
Consolee Nishimwe (@nconsolee) is an author and motivational speaker, and a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She went through the horrors of genocide at the age of 14 when she and her family were forced to leave their home in Rubengera, Kibuye and go into hiding when the genocide started. Her memoir is titled Tested to the Limit: A Genocide Survivor’s Story of Pain, Resilience and Hope.
1:46 – David Yanagizawa-Drott (@yanagizawaD) is a professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. He joins us to discuss his research into media, propoganda and conflict, which played a direct role in escal ating ethnic violence and the genocide in Rwanda.