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0:08 – One week to go: The state of vote suppression Ari Berman (@AriBerman) is a senior reporter for Mother Jones covering voting rights. He is also the author of the book Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. 0:34 – Author interview: Ainissa Ramirez (@ainissaramirez) is a materials scientist … Continued
0:08 – Chile votes to replace dictatorship-era constitution Naomi Larsson Pineda (@naomilars) is a British-Chilean freelance journalist covering Chile for Al Jazeera, the Guardian and the Telegraph UK. She’s currently based in London. 0:34 – After wining his immigration case twice, 30 year old asylum-seeker Walter Cruz-Zavala is still incarcerated by ICE – why? The … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss Amy Coney Barrett’s final vote in the Senate is today; Mike Pence plans to attend, even though 5 of his staff have COVID and more. 0:34 – COVID updates and listener calls. John Swartzberg is clinical professor … Continued
By KPFA election reporter Ariel Boone (@arielboone) OAKLAND, CA – On a sunny Saturday morning in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, 50 people have come to knock on doors. There are ironworkers, students, democratic socialists, even Sunrise Movement climate activists — all here to support Carroll Fife, a candidate for Oakland city council in … Continued
0:08 – Debriefing the last Presidential debate of 2020 John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation. 0:20 – In early October, protests erupted over the shooting and killing of a young man in Nigeria’s Delta State allegedly by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives. Protests quickly grew overnight to an organized, nationwide movement … Continued
0:08 – Court orders 50% transferred or released from San Quentin Brad O’Connell is Assistant Director of the First District Appellate Project. 0:15 – What’s happening inside James King is a state campaigner with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and was formerly incarcerated in San Quentin. 0:34 – Local explainer: Berkeley Mayor’s race … Continued
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
