Photo: Vote totals on the California Racial Justice Act (Kalra), AB 2542. From Ella Baker Center on Twitter
On this show:
0:08 – Donald Trump is planning to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, where unarmed father Jacob Blake was shot by police in the back seven times in August in front of his children. We talk about Trump’s visit and Wisconsin politics with Ruth Conniff, editor in chief of the Wisconsin Examiner, a nonprofit newsroom.
0:34 – Gov. Newsom just signed an eviction prevention deal, but tenants’ rights advocates say it’s far from the rent and mortgage cancellation needed to keep people in their homes — and say that the measure is overly complicated and likely will leave renters behind, if they don’t have legal representation to fight their evictions. Marc Janowitz is interim deputy director of the housing team at the East Bay Community Law Center, and Sara Hedgpeth-Harris is supervising attorney of the housing team at Central California Legal Services, based in Fresno.
1:08 – A cascade of bills on policing, prisons and racial justice passed — or failed — in the California state legislature Monday night, under a midnight deadline for the end of the legislative session. At stake were racism in sentencing, challenging “strikes” against Black jurors, a stalled effort to decertify police who commit misconduct, parole for elders, reducing jail fines and fees, and more. We talk about the policies with three guests: Derick Morgan is policy associate at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Amber-Rose Howard is executive director of CURB, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, and James Burch is director of policy at the Anti-Police Terror Project.
1:34 – Journalists Bernice Yeung and Michael Grabell join us to for an interview about the meatpacking industry and ProPublica’s new investigation showing the industry knew for years that a respiratory illness like Covid-19 could have devastating consequences for its workforce and production. Read the piece here: Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19