Photo: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at a press conference about the Green New Deal.
0:08 – A stunning new video investigation by the Marshall Project and the New York Times examined hundreds of flights used by ICE to transport and deport detained immigrants, exposing and infecting those detained with the coronavirus, and spreading Covid-19 around the world. Barbara Marcolini (@babimarcolini) is a journalist on the visual investigations team at the New York Times, and Emily Kassie (@emilykassie) is the director of visual projects at the Marshall Project.
0:34 – It’s tax day! Taxes are due today, Wednesday July 15. We take your calls and tax questions with Susan Lee, tax preparer and Certified Financial Planner, and the former host of “You and Your Money” on WBAI in New York. Susan shares wisdom about filing extensions — which are also due today — and we talk about anti-war tax resisters.
1:08 – Joe Biden has dropped a $2 trillion climate plan, drawing from many ideas in the Green New Deal. Political scientist Thea Riofrancos says the price tag on Biden’s plan is promising, because climate response will warrant massive investment — but says he overrelies on promises to only use green technology that is “made in America,” which will slow the world’s climate response while the planet has less than 10 years to reduce carbon emissions and get on track to a 1.5º C temperature increase. Riofrancos is assistant professor of Political Science at Providence College and author of the forthcoming book Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador.
1:34 – Can Oakland schools possibly safely reopen? We host a discussion with Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, and Roseann Torres, who represents District 5 on the Oakland Unified School Board.