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The Price of One Vallejo Police Officer’s Baton; Undercover ICE Operation Entrapped Students at Fake University

Over the past two months, the city of Vallejo has paid out $672,000 in settlements to victims of excessive force lawsuits filed against Vallejo police Officer Robert DeMarco. According to the Vallejo Sun, the lawsuits stem from two incidents in 2017 and 2018 where Officer DeMarco struck two men with his baton while they were … Continued


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Rekindling Indigenous Fire Practices in California; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Ella Rae Feingold

California’s wildfire suppression planning leaves a lot to be desired. On today’s show, we’ll learn how our neighboring native communities are rejecting the state’s militaristic approaches of fighting fire, by stewarding a relationship with it. Our guests today – Deniss J Martinez and Tony Marks-Block – are researchers and two of the co-authors of a … Continued


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Prisoner Drops Dead from Heatstroke at California Women’s Prison; Bay Area Activists Return from Protective Work in the West Bank

Today, we discuss the case of a woman who dropped dead at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla, apparently due to heatstroke. Last year, the Sacramento Bee reported that the prison’s cooling systems had failed during a heat wave. According to prisoners, temperatures inside the facility had topped 80 degrees. Our guest Elizabeth … Continued


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Colonial legacies of homophobia and racism w/ Robert Jones Jr AKA Son of Baldwin; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Mia Pixley

We spend the hour with Robert Jones Jr, who recently retired his well-known social media handle Son of Baldwin. He discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, which is about two men who are in love, enslaved on the same Mississippi plantation. We talk about how the relationship between colonialism, Western imperialism, and christian hegemony built up … Continued


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Palestine Post: Addressing the Lebanese Border & Report from the West Bank

On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with Rami Khouri,a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East; we also speak with Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn, an independent reporter who recently returned to the US from the West Bank. This week’s Resistance … Continued


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New Heat Protection for CA Workers Excludes Prisons; Leonard Peltier Benefit; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Noa Gardner

As the summer continues to heat up, legislators in Sacramento are finally moving forward with protections for workers who work in overheated indoor conditions across the state. The rules have been caught up in limbo following the state prison system’s concern that it would simply be too expensive to renovate their facilities to make it … Continued