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0:08 – Impeachment Watch: Articles of Impeachment to be drafted by the House Today House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she is directing the House Judiciary Committee to draft articles of impeachment of President Trump. Mitch and Brian discuss what’s next in the impeachment process. Issues floated: abuse of power, bribery, obstruction of justice and obstruction … Continued
0:08 – Impeachment Watch with Mitch Jeserich of Letters & Politics. The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing in the impeachment process on Wednesday, addressing the constitutionality and history of impeachment. 0:33 – Lewis Raven Wallace (@lewispants), independent journalist and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast, talks about being fired from … Continued
0:08 – This holiday, we re-air one of our favorite interviews with acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise about many points covered in the documentary, The Great White Hoax, that explores Donald Trump’s race-baiting 2016 campaign for the presidency. We speak about the history of white identity, racism and the longstanding historical pattern of … Continued
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
