0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: KPFA’s Mitch Jeserich joins for a discussion on the Squad vs. Pelosi and Trump and the future of the democratic party, previewing Robert Mueller’s testimony this Wednesday, and looking forward to the 2020 campaign season.
0:34 – Xiomara Caro Diaz is an organizer and activist, and a program director with the Center for Popular Democracy. She joins us live from the streets in San Juan, Puerto Rico to discuss the demands for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló.
0:48 – Chernoh M. Bah (@africanistpress) is a Sierra Leonean journalist, historian and editor-in-chief of the Africanist Press.He was involved in the response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and joins for an update on Ebola outbreaks in Africa. In 2015, he published a deep investigation into the epidemic: “The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals & Rogue Politicians.
1:08 – Evicted: How Oakland’s unhoused face untold cycles of displacement
A couple months ago, KPFA brought you a documentary on day to day life in a homeless community in Oakland near Home Depot in Fruitvale called The Community of Grace. That was a community that was more or less self-organized: the people there set rules, enforced them, chose who to let move in, and who to turn away.
Now, the city’s announced it intends to close that area and evict the people living there. So we decided to explore the story of what happens when unhoused people get evicted. And that meant telling the story of a different encampment, one that didn’t get to organize itself, because it consisted of people flooding in from other evictions. Reporter Lucy Kang (@ThisIsLucyKang) got to know three women living there, and followed them through what came next.
1:42 – Needa B is a housing activist and co-founder of the Village. She joins to provide context on homelessness and eviction in Oakland.