0:08 – Coronavirus outbreak shuts down large events, how will it impact workers?
Joelle Gamble (@joelle_gamble) is an economist and organizer. She is a principal at the Reimagining Capitalism initiative at Omidyar Network and is on the Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institute. Her latest piece in the Nation Magazine is “A Survival Guide for the Coronavirus Economy”
0:18 – Saru Jayaraman (@SaruJayaraman) is the President of One Fair Wage, Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Saru authored Behind the Kitchen Door, a national bestseller. And her most recent book is Forked: A New Standard for American Dining.
0:34 – The US and the Taliban have penned a peace deal in Afghanistan, but the violence and political conflict continues. For more on the ongoing crisis, and how it impacts women in Afghanistan, we speak with Sonali Kolhatkar (@RUWithSonali), host and producer of Rising Up with Sonali now airing at 3 pm on KPFA Weekdays and co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a US-based non-profit organization that works with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).
(Photo: Women line up in Kabul, Afghanistan, 2006 / Wikipedia )