7:08 Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands joined Families Belong Together rallies protesting the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance immigration policies.
- In the nation’s capitol, they marched on the White House.
- At Tule Lake, Japanese Americans rallied near a World War 2 – era camp where they and their family members were imprisoned.
- Here in the Bay Area, protests targeted facilities where the government is processing, imprisoning, or proposing to imprison immigrants.
- Along the US-Mexico Border, thousands rallied outside facilities where migrant children who’ve been separated from their families are being held.
Here are some voices from across the country.
7:34 – Andres Manuel Lopez Obredor won the Mexican Presidential election in a landslide. Joining us with the analysis is Laura Carlsen is the Director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy.
8:08 Kristina Dahl is Senior Climate Scientist with the union of Concerned Scientists, which just released a critical new report titled Underwater: Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate.
8:24 KPFA News: the political crisis deepens in Nicaragua. KPFA’s Danae Vilchez (@DanaeVilchez) reports.
8:34 Why did California just ban soda taxes until 2030? Because of the heavy influence of the beverage industry, says Larry Tramutola a political strategist, who has worked on successful tax forgiveness process campaigns in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco.
Photo by co-host Antonia Juhasz in San Francisco, CA