0:08 – The refugee crisis at the US-Mexico border: Michael Smith is the Director of Refugee Rights, with East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (@EBaySanctuary), a non-profit legal services provider dedicated to helping refugees gain asylum in the United States through the Affirmative Asylum process.
0:34 – Camp Fire update with our producer Corinne Smith (@Cocoluces) who spent a few days reporting in Chico. The death toll from the Camp Fire is now at 88 people. An estimated 50,000 have been displaced, and how they are doing now depends on a person’s means. For those without much, Walmart is home base. But there are concerns with safety – including Walmart’s hired private security guards – and where people will go next.
1:08 – On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk, we re-air an interview with acclaimed historian Lillian Faderman, a pioneer of LGBT scholarship as well as author of The Gay Revolution and the acclaimed memoir Naked in the Promised Land. On May 22, 2018 – Harvey Milk’s birthday – Faderman released her new book Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, which looks at his remarkably varied young life and his lasting impact, and how his Jewishness drove his politics.