0:08 – President Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to boost clean energy industry production. We are joined by Michael Wara (@MichaelWWara), a lawyer and Senior Research Scholar at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment, as well as the Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program there, whose research is focused on climate and energy policy.
0:33 – Diving into the visual art of the ACT UP movement, we speak with Jack Lowery, whose new book focuses on Gran Fury, the propaganda collective wing of that movement. His book is called It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic.
1:09 – One of today’s highest-stakes elections in California is the proposal to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, in part because it’s being watched nationally as a bell-weather for backlash against progressive criminal justice reforms. We interview both a supporter and opponent of the recall: Richie Greenberg (@richieSF2016) began the original petition to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin; and Lara Bazelon (@larabazelon) is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law and the chair of the San Francisco District Attorney Office’s Innocence Commission.
1:35 – Moving northeast, today’s election in Solano County sees another District Attorney race. We turn to Scott Morris (@OakMorr), a Solano County journalist with the Vallejo Sun who covers policing, protest, civil rights, and far-right extremism.
1:46 – CalMatters has published an investigative report on how the California state shuffles prisoners between different institutions when they suffer from mental health crises, to their own detriment. We are joined by Byrhonda Lyons (@ByrhondaL), an award-winning journalist for CalMatters who was one of the co-authors on the report. She was previously an editor for the San Quentin News, a prisoner-run newspaper out of the state prison.