We speak with activist Donald Lacy about the 5 to 3 vote on Tuesday to adopt a new city motto of “Love Life.” We also have sound/ testimony about Oakland City Council Freeze Rents for 90-Days and David Roach talks about the Oakland Int’l Film Festival happening this week.  


On today’s program we speak with Stephanie Cornwell, the Program Services Director with (World) Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases about women living with HIV/AIDS and Alameda County HIV Infection rate among women being the highest in the western United States. And later Poor News Network examines economic violence against communities of color.


On today’s program we speak with author Monique W. Morris, about her new book Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.  An examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, resource officers and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with … Continued