0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Live from Congress with Mitch
Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich) is host of Letters and Politics, at 10am on KPFA and affiliated Pacifica stations. He joins us from Washington where he’s covering the impeachment inquiry from Congress, featuring interviews with Rep Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Ralph Nader on Nancy Pelosi.
0:34 – San Francisco District Attorney’s race, Day 2:
Leif Dautch (@Leif4SFDA) is a Deputy State Attorney General.
7:47 – Nancy Tung (@NancyforSFDA) is a longtime prosecutor in San Francisco.
1:08 – Kincade Fire:The fire has displaced roughly 200,000 people from across Sonoma County since evacuation orders began last Thursday. There are over a dozen shelter locations, serving a total of over 2,000 people, and more in cars and RVs in parking lots. KPFA producers Corinne Smith (@Cocoluces) and Ariel Boone (@arielboone) went to the shelter at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial to bring you their stories. These are some of their voices.
Victor, Mariano, and Antonio work in agriculture, landscaping and construction, who depend on a day’s wage. They not only had to leave their homes behind, but their income, too.
Morgan Weatherly left her home on Chalk Hill Road in Healdsburg on Saturday afternoon with three children and her dogs and cats. When we talked with her, she was debating returning to her house for a bag of baby photos.
1:20 – Salinas Valley State Prison is also impacted by the wildfires and the PG&E shutoffs.
Alma Martinez is the wife of someone incarcerated in Salinas Valley State Prison.
1:34 – More than 4,000 firefighters are currently working across California battling multiple fires, and at least 700 are California prisoners, who earn as little as 8 cents and up to $1 per hour.
Amika Mota is a former prisoner firefighter, and the policy director at the Young Women’s Freedom Center (@YoungWomenFree) in San Francisco. We spoke to her in 2018.