7:08 Anne Chandler (@AnneChandlerTX)is the Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center’s Houston Office. She’s been in McAllen,TX, to visit courtrooms and detention facilities to learn of the treatment of separated parents and children along the U.S. border. She reports back on what she say and learned on the border.
Read more about her work here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/whats-really-happening-asylum-seeking-families-separated/
7:34 Rauf Mammadov (@RaufNMammadov) is resident scholar on energy policy at The Middle East Institute. He focuses on issues of energy security, global energy industry trends, as well as energy relations between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Caucasus.
8:08 Homeless Evictions at the Berkeley Marina
We hear from a recent UC Berkeley Journalism School graduate Jessica Prado about living in an RV at the marina. Then we hear from Berkeley City Manager City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley about why her office called for this eviction. Then, Mayor Jesse Arreguin responds. He explains the Council voted to delay the eviction one week, and they are looking at sanctioned parking lots but the City has not identified anywhere for people to go.
8:20 Wildfire in Yolo/Napa/Lake County – What’s behind it? William (Bill) Stewart, Co- Director, Center for Forestry and Center for Fire Research and Outreach at UC Berkeley.
8:34 What’s in the air? What to do about it?
Dr. John Balms, professor of medicine at UCSF and in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley; he’s published research on the impacts of wildfire smoke on the lungs of firefighters. Then, he takes listener calls.