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By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA elections reporter OAKLAND, CA – California is one of only ten states that ban affirmative action by public institutions. Voters put that ban into the state’s constitution in 1996. But that could change this fall, when voters get a chance to overturn the ban with Proposition 16. Affirmative action … Continued
0:08 – Florida early vote: Long lines, disenfranchised people with felony records, the pandemic and more. Mitch Perry, Political Reporter for Spectrum Bay News 9 in Tampa, FL. 0:34 – Things are not as they appear in the Oakland At-Large race Darwin BondGraham is the news editor at Oaklandside. 0:45 – The big money pouring … Continued
0:08 – Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism Party wins in a landslide Linda Farthing (@LCFarthing) is a journalist and researcher currently writing her fourth book on Bolivia. 0:34 – Debate: Prop 24 – Consumer privacy Yes: Ariel Fox Johnson is Senior Counsel on Policy and Privacy with Common Sense Media, a group that rates content for … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss Congressional relief negotiations, the expedited confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett 0:34 – COVID update John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. We discuss why the sharp rise in case … Continued
0:08 – On October 10th, 2020 President Trump signed into law the Savanna Act and the Not Invisible Act, designed to address the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Mary Kathryn Nagle (@MKNAGLE) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a partner at Pipestem Law, P.C., a law firm located in … Continued
0:08 – Amy Coney Barrett: what’s next in the Senate Cat and Brian debrief with Mitch Jeserich, host Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. 0:35 – Ballot debate: Prop 15 – Tax increase for commercial property Yes: Ben Grieff is campaign director of Evolve California, a San Francisco based grassroots organizing network, and … Continued
0:08 – With increasingly severe climate events like wildfires, floods, storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, heatwaves and pollution, we may be entering a new era of migration – but where will people go? Abrahm Lustgarten (@AbrahmL) is a ProPublica Senior Environmental Reporter, with a focus at the intersection of business, climate and energy. His latest piece is … Continued
Listen to the full radio report here, first aired October 7, 2020: By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA elections reporter SACRAMENTO, CA – “Do not wait. If you can vote early, please vote early this year.” That was the primary message of Sam Mahood, press secretary for California Secretary of State Alex Padilla. Mahood declined to … Continued
0:08 – The Vice Presidential Debate Steve Phillips (@StevePtweets) is the founder of Democracy in Color, host of the podcast by the same name, and author of the book Brown Is the New White. 0:34 – Debate reaction and negotiations on the next COVID relief bill Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM … Continued
0:08 – The White House COVID outbreak – what we know and don’t know John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. 0:34 – New report: When Police Violence is a Dog Bite Abbie VanSickle is a staff writer for The Marshall Project covering criminal justice in … Continued
