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… As part of KPFA’s on-going coverage of COVID-19 outbreaks in California prisons and ICE detention centers, we bring you this series featuring the words of incarcerated and detained people and their loved ones. Click on a link below to read and hear more: What happens when you get COVID-19 inside Santa Rita Jail… … Continued
This series is part of KPFA’s coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in California state prisons. On this episode, we hear from the mother of someone incarcerated inside Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF). KPFA spoke with a woman who only wanted to be identified as “Lisa” about her daughter who recently tested positive for COVID-19 while … Continued
KPFA has been covering the COVID-19 outbreaks inside ICE detention centers throughout the pandemic. In this story, we take a look at what’s happening inside Yuba County Jail (YCJ), where only 15 people remain in ICE custody. Javier, who is only using his first name, has been detained at YCJ for the past 13 months. … Continued
0:08 – Governor Newsom lifts California’s stay at home order Lauren Hepler (@LAHepler) is an economy reporter with Calmatters. 0:15 – Reaction to re-opening Dr Peter Chin-Hong (@PCH_SF) is a professor of medicine and an infectious disease specialist at UCSF. 0:34 – Atmospheric river in the forecast for the Bay Area today, and where we … Continued
0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch: What we know about how the impeachment trial will go down; what work might get done before then, the standoff over adopting 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 … Continued
0:08 – On the transfer of power, the Biden Presidency with a Democrat majority in Congress, challenges ahead and more. John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) is a National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation. 0:34 – KPFA News: A raft of executive orders by President Biden aims to undo many of his predecessor’s hallmark initiatives on immigration, such as … Continued
0:08 – Inside Biden’s economic stimulus plan, as new unemployment numbers show a bleak picture for the US. Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) is senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 0:34 – Inside Biden’s executive orders on immigration Eduardo Canales is Board Chair of the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and … Continued
On this show: 0:15 – In its dying gasp, the Trump administration has targeted Black migrants from African and Caribbean countries for deportations, immigrant advocates and watchdog groups say. Two Haitian boys ages 9 and 19 were detained and separated at San Francisco International Airport this week. Immigrants’ rights advocates sprang into action to try … Continued
On this show: 0:08 – Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters and Politics weekdays at 10AM on KPFA, joins us to talk about the politics in Congress, as the legislative body continues to reel from the January 6 riots. Host Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Jeserich discuss a reported “power-sharing” agreement between Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell in the U.S. … Continued
On this show: 0:08 – We air a piece by journalist Colin Edwards about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final visit to northern California on January 14, 1968. 0:34 – From the archives: Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks with Greg Bridges at a KPFA author event, on reparations, police violence, capitalism and more. 1:08 – Toward the … Continued
