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On today’s show: 0:08 – The recall election is over, what comes next in state politics? We discuss with Ben Christopher (@FromBenC), who covers state politics for CalMatters, and Flojaune Cofer (@Flojaune) an epidemiologist and senior policy director for Public Health Advocates. 0:34 – A special report on opioid overdoses during the pandemic in houseless … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss the state of the California gubernatorial recall election with Laurel Rosenhall (@LaurelRosenhall), who covers state politics for CalMatters. 0:34 – William Sommer (@willsommer), politics reporter for the Daily Beast joins us to discuss QAnon, and a new HBO documentary on the cultural phenomenon called Q: Into the Storm … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss the political fallout from Biden’s call for sweeping COVID vaccine mandates with John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation. 0:34 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us again to discuss the latest COVID science … Continued
Friday, September 10th: Looking back on 9/11 and the rise of Islamophobia in the United States. Marking the Ethiopian new year. All this plus headline news. photo: Erik Hathaway via Unsplash
On today’s show: 0:08 – Rebecca Dixon (@RebeccaDNELP), Executive Director of the National Employment Law Project joins us to discuss the end of federal unemployment benefits, who it will harm, and who it has harmed already in the conservative states that ended it early. 0:34 – We discuss the downfall of Oakland’s Ceasefire program and … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss the Taliban’s recently installed interim government in Afghanistan with Khury Petersen-Smith (@kpYES), Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:20 – The Ivy Hill-Alice Tenant Union (@1515AliceTU) representing apartments near Lake Merritt successfully negotiated a collective rent agreement after going on rent strike for … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich) joins us to tell the story of where he was on 09/11/2001 and discuss what the nation will do now that the federal unemployment benefits have expired. 0:34 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us … Continued
Monday, September 6th, 2021: Cat Brooks speaks to Dr. Mamyrah Prosper about Haiti and its long and deep history. Dr. Paul Farmer speaks on his book, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. All this plus headline news! photo: Dimitri Karastelev via Unsplash
Friday, September 3rd, 2021: We speak with Raymond Arsenault, author of Arthur Ashe: A Life. Next we’re joined by Alice Walker, author of Taking the Arrow out of the Heart. All this plus headline news! photo: Tom Hermans via Unsplash
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss the impact of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana with Ashley Shelton (@AshleyKShelton) founder and Executive Director of the Power Coalition and Flozell Daniels, Jr. (@FlozellDaniels) CEO & President of Foundation for Louisiana. 0:34 – Michael Mark Cohen (@LilBillHaywood), professor of African American Studies and American Studies at UC Berkeley … Continued
