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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
Earlier this summer, San Quentin State Prison was the site of one of the country’s largest COVID-19 outbreaks. Elsie Lee is a co-founder of Sistas’ with Voices, an advocacy group formed to speak against inhumane conditions in California prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her husband, Wilbert Lee is currently incarcerated in San Quentin. Elsie spoke … Continued
As COVID-19 surged inside California’s prisons, jails and ICE detention facilities, we hear from people incarcerated inside and their family members. Michelle Hoyt’s partner Lyle Crook, 54, is incarcerated at the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility in Corcoran, CA. She’s been regularly communicating with him and others inside throughout the outbreak. In mid-December, Lyle contracted COVID-19. … Continued
0:08 – KPFA News: Mexico has the pandemic’s fourth largest overall death toll, and that number is widely understood to be an undercount due to extremely limited diagnostic testing. Even so, over the course of this year, confirmed cases of COVID-19 became Mexico’s leading cause of death. Shipments of vaccines began trickling in last week, … Continued
0:08 – Unemployment benefits may take weeks to arrive; advice for navigating California’s EDD system Daniela Urban is Executive Director of the Center for Workers’ Rights and special counsel to Legal Aid At Work (@LegalAidAtWork). 0:34 – Author interview: Aya de Leon (@AyadeLeon) is an acclaimed writer of poetry and prose. She is the director … Continued
0:08 – Trump signs COVID relief bill after lengthy, chaotic delay John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation. 0:34 – COVID call-ins John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. 1:08 – Colorism is discriminatory treatment based on skin tone, with wide implications across communities worldwide. … Continued
0:08 – Deirdre Cooper-Owens is associate professor of history at Queens College, CUNY, about how American gynecology experimented on enslaved women in her book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the origins of American Gynecology. 1:08 – New vaccines by Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech offer new hope that an end to the COVID 19 pandemic may be … Continued
