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0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch: more on the filibuster, its political uses by Republicans, Senate rules and more Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA 0:34 – COVID call-ins: John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. 1:08 – ‘I. Can’t. Breathe: the trial … Continued
0:08 – 18th anniversary of 2003 US Iraq invasion: history, neoliberalism redevelopment, racism and more. Yousef Baker (@YousefKB) is assistant professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach and co-founder of the Iraqi Narratives Project. 0:34 – “One crisis after another:” Farmworkers in Santa Cruz County are eligible for the vaccine, yet still … Continued
0:08 – After the mass shooting of spa workers in Atlanta, what it’s like on the ground George Chidi (@neonflag) is a journalist and columnist for the online news site Decaturish.com, based in Atlanta, GA. 0:20 – On organizing against anti-Asian hate and combatting white supremacist violence Jung Hee Choi (@jungheechoi) is Deputy Director of … Continued
0:08 – Looking back on one year in pandemic: how the Bay Area locked down, March 17 2020 Erin Allday (@erinallday) is a health reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who has been reporting extensively on the coronavirus outbreak in California. 0:23 – The pandemic wealth boom Omar Ocampo is a researcher for the Program … Continued
0:08 – More than 138 protesters have been killed in Myanmar military crackdown on resistance against its coup Seinenu Thein-Lemelson is a Burmese-American psychological anthropologist, currently a lecturer and post-doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Department at UCLA. 0:25 – Kayleigh Long is a researcher on Myanmar with Amnesty International. Their most recent report is “Myanmar: … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: now that federal relief has passed, what’s preventing Dems from achieving their goals? The filibuster, explained. Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich) hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. 0:34 – COVID call-ins: John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. 1:08 – I. Can’t. … Continued
0:08 – A civil rights class action lawsuit has been filed against San Jose for police violence against protesters in demonstrations after the killing of George Floyd Tifanei Ressl-Moyer is Thurgood Marshall civil rights fellow for the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and one of the attorneys representing plaintiffs … Continued
0:08 – China continues the crackdown on Hong Kong autonomy Au Loong-Yu is a founder of Globalization Monitor, a Hong Kong based group which monitors labor conditions in China. He is the author of Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China. 0:34 – Author interview: Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) is a … Continued
0:08 – Governor Newsom’s third State of the State address paints a rosy picture, but major challenges with schools re-opening, pandemic recession, inequality, unemployment and more. Dr. Monica Gandhi (@MonicaGandhi9) is an infectious diseases doctor and professor of Medicine at UCSF. Michael Herald is the Director of Policy Advocacy with the Western Center on Law … Continued
0:08 – New UpFront series launch – I. Can’t. Breathe: The trial of Derek Chauvin Alex Vitale (@avitale) is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and the author of “The End of Policing” 0:18 – The jury selection process Mary Moriarty (@MaryMoriarty) was a public defender … Continued
