0:08 – Immigrant advocates and labor activists protested ICE’s use of Amazon facial recognition technology in San Francisco. KPFA’s Casey Roepke covers the demonstration.
0:12 – A small group of Amazon engineers traveled to Shakopee, Minnesota in solidarity with warehouse workers on strike. Weston Fribley (@wtfribley) is a Seattle-based web development engineer with Amazon Go and part of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. He calls in from the strike in Shakopee.
0:33 – Kristy Dahl (@KristyDahl) is a senior climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. She joins to discuss her new report that examines the rise in potentially lethal heat driven by climate change across the United States.
0:42 – Sea level rise caused by global warming may affect Oakland in the near future. Collin Miller is a coordinator with Oakland Climate Action Coalition dedicated to engaging Oakland residents in creating and implementing climate solutions that strengthen the environmental, economic, and social resilience of front line communities.
Oakland Resources:
- Adapting to Rising Tides Project
- Oakland’s Preliminary Sea Level Rise Roadmap
- the Pacific Institute’s Adapting to Oakland Report,
- the West Oakland Environmental Indicator Project
- California EnviroScreen 3.0,
- Oakland’s new Resilience Department
- Sustainable Oakland
1:08 – Berkeley has proposed a ban on natural gas hookups. Kate Harrison (@KateHarrisonD4) serves as Berkeley City Councilmember representing District 4. She joins to discuss the ban.
1:26 – KPFA’s Richard Wolinsky reviews “The Year of Magical Thinking” running at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley through Sunday, July 21.
1:34 – Leroy Moore and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia discuss their latest book, a Poverty Scholarship textbook: Poor People-Led theory, art, words & tears across Mama Earth. Gray-Garcia is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, and Moore is a Po Poet and journalist.