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0:08 – Christopher D. Cook (@chrsdcook) is an award-winning journalist who writes for Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, and The Economist. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis. He joins us to discuss his latest article in the Nation “Can the Blue Wave … Continued
0:08 – The refugee crisis at the US-Mexico border: Michael Smith is the Director of Refugee Rights, with East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (@EBaySanctuary), a non-profit legal services provider dedicated to helping refugees gain asylum in the United States through the Affirmative Asylum process. 0:34 – Camp Fire update with our producer Corinne Smith (@Cocoluces) who spent a few … Continued
0:08 – The US House Democratic leadership is called into question, and former House Leader Nancy Pelosi is vying to keep her chair. We’re joined by Norman Solomon (@normansolomon), National coordinator of the online activist group RootsAction.org, to explain. He’s the author of many books on media, politics, and public policy, including War Made Easy: How Presidents … Continued
0:08 – The Life and Legacy of Arthur Ashe: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Arthur Ashe’s historic 1968 win at the US Open when he became the first African-American man to win a major tennis title. For much of the hour we’ll speak with historian Raymond Arsenault, author of the new biography Arthur Ashe, A … Continued
For this Thanksgiving holiday show, we re-air an interview with Eric Holt-Gimenez (@eholtgim) Executive Director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First. He’s joins us to discuss his latest book, A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat.
0:08 – Marion Nestle (@marionnestle) is a professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Her latest book is Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat. 1:08 – Randy Shaw (@beyondchron) is the Editor of Beyond Chron and the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which publishes Beyond Chron. Shaw … Continued
0:08 – Air pollution and your health Dr Kari Nadeau joins us for the hour. She is an expert in adult and pediatric allergy and asthma. She is the Director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, and Section Chief of Allergy and Asthma at the Stanford School of … Continued
0:08 – Congressman Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) represents California’s 17th Congressional district which encompasses parts of Santa Clara and Alameda counties, including Silicon Valley. 0:34 – Carmen Segarra (@carmenmsegarra) is an attorney and previously served as a regulator with the US Federal Reserve bank of New York supervising Goldman Sachs. In 2011 she blew the whistle, exposing in a … Continued
0:08 – We spend much of the hour in the Congo as a new outbreak of Ebola, called the worse since its discovery in 1976, continues to threaten the region. We speak with co-founder and executive director of Friends of the Congo, Maurice Carney about the new Ebola outbreak, local militia, cholera, the pillaging of … Continued
0:08 – Florida embattled in a state-wide recount Mitch Perry (@MitchEPerry) Tallahassee-based reporter with the Florida Phoenix, an online nonprofit news site covering state politics, spent all day Wednesday in court and explains the recount process. 0:20 – Georgia elections are also in court, advocates are demanding all votes be counted Cliff Albright (@cliff_notes) is the co-founder with Black … Continued
