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‘It’s an oil price spitting war’ journalist Antonia Juhasz on the oil price war sparking financial panic; Plus: Linda Sarsour on her new memoir ‘We Are Not Meant to Be Bystanders’

0:08 – Oil price war sparks financial panic

Antonia Juhasz (@AntoniaJuhasz) investigative journalist specializing in oil, currently a Scripps Journalism fellow at the University of Colorado – Boulder. Her most recent book is Black Tide. 

0:16 – What to do about a coronavirus recession

Josh Bivens is the Director of Research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

0:34 – San Francisco Supervisor calls for moratorium one evictions due to economic burden of coronavirus

Dean Preston (@DeanPreston) San Francisco supervisor for District 5, and introduced the legislation. 

0:40 – How Silicon Valley is responding to the coronavirus crisis

Lauren Hepler (@LAHepler) is a reporter for Protocol, where she reports on jobs and the tech industry. 

1:08 – Author Interview: Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) is an award-winning civil rights activist, community organizer, and mother of three. She is the former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and the co-founder of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPower Change. Sarsour served as national co-chair of the largest single day protest in US history, the Women’s March on Washington in 2017. Her new book is a memoir: We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance.

 

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