0:08 – As the UN Climate Action Summit kicked off day two in NYC, the world is watching Greta Thunberg. Yesterday she gave an impassioned speech, lambasting leaders for turning the youth for hope while failing to take meaningful action on climate mitigation. Host Brian Edwards-Tiekerts reports of the UN General Assembly, and catches up with CA Governor Gavin Newsom on our state’s climate goals, and where his office has failed to cut off oil and gas extraction
0:38 – A whistleblower revealed allegations Trump leaned on the Ukrainian president to investigate a political rival, presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son in Ukraine. The allegations, if proven true, are illegal, unethical and impeachable. We speak with John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation.
1:08 – Oakland city workers contract bargaining update: workers are demanding a pay increase, the first in ten years after major pay cuts and layoffs during the recession. We speak with Julian Ware, an IT worker for the City of Oakland, and a member of The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) Local 21.
Event: Local 21 & SEIU 1021 will be holding an informational picket on Weds Sep 25 at 12 noon at 14th & Broadway in Oakland.
1:25 – KPFA News: Environmental Justice advocates in the San Joaquin Valley are breathing a sigh of relief, and satisfaction, after stopping a bill that would have exempted some oil companies from air monitoring requirements. The bill was aimed to help one company in particular, Kern Oil and Refining near the valley town of Lamont. AB 1299 started as a bill to fund volunteer wildlands fire fighters. But as the legislative session came to a close, the bill’s sponsor tried to push it through with a different purpose in a secretive legislative procedure known as gut and amend. A last-minute effort by citizens and environmental groups forced sponsors to drop the transformed bill. Vic Bedoian reports from Fresno.
1:34 – Live, in-studio: Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of four novels: Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Tree of Codes, Here I Am, and two books of non-fiction: Eating Animals, and his newest book – We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-six languages.
KPFA Event: Tonight Tuesday Sep 24, 7:30 PM with SAMIN NOSRAT, chef and author of the best-selling cookbook and Netflix series ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’
First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
For info and tickets: https://kpfa.org/event/kpfa-radio-94-1-fm-presents-jonathan-safran-foer/