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0:08 – This Thanksgiving, we want to bring one of the stories we’ve been most grateful to help tell — it’s an audio documentary from our own Lucy Kang that just won an Excellence in Journalism award from our region’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. It’s a story about one of the clusters … Continued
0:08 – Eric Foner is a professor of History at Columbia, author of The Second Founding: How the Civil war and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. 0:34 – Holly George Warren is a two-time Grammy nominee and the award-winning author of sixteen books. Her latest book is Janis: Her Life and Music. 1:08 – Lyvonne Proverbs (@lyvonnep) is body … Continued
0:08 – Vallejo residents are organizing a rally today to demand Solano County DA Krishna Abrams bring charges against the police officer who shot and killed Ronell Foster in February 2018, with families of victims of police violence. Lisa Davis, lead organizer with the Justice Coalition of Vallejo, joins us. 0:17 – Psychotherapist, teacher and author … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch with Hadar Aviram (@aviramh), professor of law at University of California Hastings College of the Law. 0:17 – Further impeachment updates with Ruth Conniff (@rconniff), editor-at-large for The Progressive Magazine, and editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner. 0:27 – KPFA’s Richard Wolinksy reviews Bull in a China Shop, now running at the … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: what we learned from this week’s impeachment hearings Mitch Jeserich is host of Letters and Politics, at 10am on KPFA and affiliated Pacifica stations, and co-host of KPFA’s special Pacifica National broadcast of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings this week. 0:34 – Robert Townsend (@Robert_Townsend) is an actor, writer, director, comedian … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: what to expect in week 2 of impeachment hearings, Trump’s intimidation of the witness, how the public is divided in response to the impeachment inquiry, and more – with our colleague, Mitch Jeserich. 0:34 – The City of Oakland brutally swept another homeless encampment last week, this time on E 12th … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Debriefing Trump impeachment hearings – Day 1 The House holds the first open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, with two witnesses: Ambassador William Taylor, the Chargé D’affaires for the U.S. State Department in Ukraine and Secretary George Kent, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Public impeachment hearings are set to open tomorrow, featuring William Taylor, a former ambassador and the top US diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, a deputy assistant Secretary of State. Mitch joins us to discuss context and the issues at play, ahead of the historic impeachment proceedings. 0:34 – Christopher W … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Mitch is back from Capitol Hill KPFA’s Mitch Jeserich join us in-studio with reflections on covering Capitol Hill, what political partisanship looks like in the Trump era, and the latest on the impeachment inquiry. Public hearings will begin Wednesday November 13th, join us for special live broadcast of the proceedings starting … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch Live from Capitol Hill with Mitch Jeserich Today is the last day of House hearings on impeachment: White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney was subpoenaed and called to testify, but did not show up. Over 10 people were called to give depositions this week, and only 2 showed up. The … Continued
