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0:08 – US politics roundup: calls to remove Trump from office, the 25th Amendment, Republicans supporting the President, impeachment, John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation. 0:34 – Racist vandalism of Black art in Oakland Refa One is an Oakland Native and lifelong artivist and Director of AeroSoul (@AerosoulArt), an international organization of … Continued
0:08 – Trump incites violent white mob at the US Capitol, one day after Georgia Democratic victory tips Senate to Democrat majority Steve Phillips (@StevePtweets) is the founder of Democracy in Color, he’s host of the podcast “Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips,” and author of the book Brown Is the New White. 0:34 – … Continued
On this show: 0:08 – The district attorney in Kenosha County, Wisconsin has announced he’ll decline to press charges against Rusten Sheskey, the officer who shot Black father Jacob Blake seven times in his back on August 23, 2020. We hear from Ruth Conniff (@rconniff), editor in chief of the Wisconsin Examiner, a nonprofit newsroom; … Continued
0:08 – On the ground in Georgia on election day LaTosha Brown (@MsLaToshaBrown) is co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund. 0:16 – How the Georgia Senate elections could determine the US economy for a decade Mark Weisbrot (@MarkWeisbrot) is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 0:34 – California’s looming eviction crisis, what … Continued
On this show: 0:08 – Mondays with Mitch – Mitch Jeserich and Brian Edwards-Tiekert talk about national news that broke over the new year. Mitch hosts Letters and Politics weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. 0:34 – How did the B.1.1.7 Covid-19 variant come into existence? We take your Covid-19 questions with Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious … Continued
0:08 – Ahead of the historic Senate run-off election in Georgia, we dive into grassroots community organizing, voter mobilization, and community building. Mondale Robinson (@mondalerobinson) is the Founding Principal of the Black Male Voter Project and National Political Director for Democracy For America. 0:34 – Kamau Franklin is Founder of Community Movement Builders (@CommunityMvt) a community … Continued
0:08 – The largest, least-regulated drug trade in the United States – one that you are probably participating in this morning – the caffeine industry. Murray Carpenter has devoted an entire book to a substance that also provided much of the stamina needed to write it: it’s called Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, … Continued
As part of KPFA’s ongoing coverage of COVID-19 inside California state prisons, we spoke with Monique Jimenez and her daughter Kayla. Their husband and father, Chris, is incarcerated at Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP), which at one point had one of the highest number of active COVID-19 cases within California state prisons. They shared with … Continued
Advocates are calling the COVID-19 outbreak at the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, CA a “humanitarian catastrophe.” As of December 28, 2020, 86 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the county jail, including five people in ICE custody and 15 staff. Our reporter Lucy Kang spoke to two men incarcerated in the ICE detention … Continued
As the COVID-19 pandemic is surging inside California’s prisons, jails and ICE detention facilities, we hear from people incarcerated inside and their family members. Renee Benavidez is the founder of We Are Their Voices, a group of family members fighting for better conditions for their incarcerated loved ones during the pandemic. Her husband Jason is … Continued
