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0:08 – Three young women opposition activists were attacked, assaulted and tortured in Harare, and the Emerson Mnangagwa government is accusing them of lying and holding them in jail. We talk about the ongoing arrests and repression of activists under the Mnangagwa government with two gender justice and feminist activists: Sitabile Dewa is founder and … Continued
0:08 – The U.N. Human Rights Council is holding an urgent debate this week, rare in its history, to examine racism and police violence against African-Americans in the United States. The family of George Floyd asked for them to open a formal probe. We talk with Gay McDougall, distinguished scholar-in-residence at Fordham University’s Leitner Center … Continued
0:08 – Palestinian, Tunisian, and Syrian activists and journalists say Facebook is removing their accounts on the pretext of terrorism, when they are in fact documenting human rights abuses. David Kaye (@davidakaye), a law professor at UC Irvine and the current United Nations special rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of … Continued
0:08 – Arisha Hatch, Vice President and Chief of Campaigns at Color Of Change, discusses the impact of George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent protests on the 2020 elections, and the political opportunities that have opened up. She says the protests have “dramatically changed the conversation” for candidates on the local, state, and national levels. 0:18 … Continued
Friends, family, and community members are mourning the death of 23-year-old Erik Salgado, who was killed by California Highway Patrol officers in Oakland on June 6, 2020. In Oakland on June 6, three unnamed California Highway Patrol officers shot dozens of rounds at a vehicle driven by 23-year old Erik Salgado, killing him and … Continued
0:08 – Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters & Politics weekdays at 10AM, joins us for “Mondays with Mitch” to discuss what is and isn’t included in the House Democrats’ proposed policing reform — the Justice in Policing Act. We take a look at the history of qualified immunity and how this legislation would impact the process of … Continued
0:08 – “It’s not a broken system. It’s a system that’s working exactly as it was built to work, as a way to control, harm, repress and kill people. and because it’s not broken, policing can’t be reformed to be made less violent. Minor tweaks to the way police look or operate are not going … Continued
0:08 – The latest filings show 1.5 million new unemployment claims in the U.S. — and that’s not including 700,000 people who applied for pandemic unemployment assistance, because they don’t qualify for the state UI programs. Together, that’s 2.2 million people who applied for unemployment last week. Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute points out … Continued
0:08 – Hours-long lines at the polls, scores of voters sent to nursing homes to cast their ballots, black voters not receiving confirmation of their registration, voting machines without cords, poll workers without the information necessary to operate the machines, police being called on voting rights observers — these are just some of the stories … Continued
0:08 – NFL commissioner Roger Goodell published an “apology” video recognizing that athletes have the right to protest, and didn’t mention Colin Kaepernick’s name once. Dr. Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at UC Berkeley, and one of the lead organizers calling for a black athletes’ boycott of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, … Continued
