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0:08 – Immigrant advocates and labor activists protested ICE’s use of Amazon facial recognition technology in San Francisco. KPFA’s Casey Roepke covers the demonstration. 0:12 – A small group of Amazon engineers traveled to Shakopee, Minnesota in solidarity with warehouse workers on strike. Weston Fribley (@wtfribley) is a Seattle-based web development engineer with Amazon Go and part … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch; KPFA’s Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich) joins for updates on the US relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Yemen crisis, the government budget agreement and the possibility of raising the debt ceiling, weekend ICE raids, and new Trump administration asylum rules making it harder for migrants to seek asylum in the United States. … Continued
0:08 – How Bay Area communities are organizing to protect immigrant families ahead of ICE raids, expected to start Sunday. We speak with Cynthia Bourjac (@CynthiaBourjac) is an Immigrant Rights Organizer with Causa Justa, and part of the rapid response network in Oakland and San Francisco. KPFA has put together a list of resources, upcoming … Continued
0:08 – Darwin Bond Graham (@DarwinBondGraha) is an independent journalist covering violence and misconduct by police departments. He discusses the Vallejo Police Department’s hiring of Howard Jordan, the former Oakland Police Chief, as a consultant. 0:34 – Josie Camacho is one of the organizers of a vigil gathering for immigrant detention. She joins to share her work in … Continued
0:08 – Kaiser mental health workers called a one day strike today, to protest worsening access to mental health care for San Francisco children. Chaya Rivka is a child psychologist at the Kaiser San Francisco clinic, and joins us from the picket line. 0:20 – Carrie DeCell (@cmd_dc) is a staff attorney at the … Continued
0:08 – Leonard Spector (@leonard_spector) updates the show about Iran’s nuclear enrichment status. He is deputy director of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies’ James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and the former assistant deputy administrator for arms control and nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration. 0:34 -KPFA News: State lawmakers have given their … Continued
0:08 – Banter – Cat and Brian discuss the recent earthquakes in Southern California, preparedness and how to plan for the next Big One here; plus: the Kaiser auditorium development is up for a vote in front of the Oakland City Council, but here’s the context you rarely hear about. 0:34 – Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) … Continued
0:08 – The Welcome Home Project is a new photo exhibit featuring formerly incarcerated men and women who’ve been able to turn their lives around. We speak with Welcome Home coordinator Micky Duxbury and the featured photographer Ruth Morgan about the exhibit and its inspiring stories. 0:34 – From the archives: Restorative Justice Healing We … Continued
0:08 – William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., is an Economist, Researcher, and Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Hosted by Jeannine Etter. 0:34 – David K Randall is a senior reporter at Reuters. His latest book is “Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague.” Hosted by Brian … Continued
0:08 – Susan Little (@litteEWG) is a Senior Advocate for Government Affairs with the Environmental Working Group. She joins to discuss recent reports about lead in the drinking water of 1 in 5 CA schools. 0:23 – KPFA’s Klara Ingersoll reports on migrant detention protests in San Francisco. 0:26 – KPFA’s Christopher Martinez reports on … Continued
