7:08 – Zahra Billoo is a civil rights attorney and the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) 7:13 – Sarah Lazare is a reporter for In These Times and a freelancer for other outlets including The Intercept and The Nation. She recently co-authored a joint story with Ear … Continued


7:34 – Darwin BondGraham, staff writer for the East Bay Express who wrote “Back to the Underground,” about new regulations under legalization pushing the cannabis industry back into the illicit market. He also has a new story out about the lack of diversity in recent Oakland Police Department academies and difficulties hiring women and black people … Continued


7:08 – Behind the scenes with the performers of the two-man play “Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison,” that will take place on Saturday, April 21  3:00 pm Black Repertory Group Theater 3201 Adeline Street, Berkeley ($10-20). You can find tickets online here.  Fred Johnson is a formerly incarcerated person that has gone on to address the human … Continued


7:34 – Holly Joshi, Executive Director of MISSSEY (@misssey_org), an organization that works with both young people at risk of sexual exploitation and those who have been sexually exploited. She is a former officer at the Oakland Police Department where she worked on the issue of sex trafficking. 8:08 – Kanchan Hunter is co-director at Spiral Gardens Community Farm, a … Continued


7:34 – Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset 7:46 – Maxine Doogan, organizer for the Erotic Service Providers Union and President of Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research Project on FOSTA-SESTA and SB 1204’s effects on sex workers 8:08 – David Neiwert, investigative journalist, Pacific Northwest correspondent for the Southern Poverty Law Center, and author … Continued


7:34 – Jonathan Kauffman is a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle food section and the author of Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat 8:15 – San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin represents the city’s District 3 and recently sponsored an ordinance that would create permitting and enforcement regulations on electric scooters … Continued


7:35 – Nour Adam, Syrian journalist and Editor at Damascus Media Center who fled from violence in Eastern Ghouta, Syria 7:40 – Reese Elrich, foreign correspondent, author of Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect, and writer of the nationally syndicated column Foreign Correspondent, which can be read locally at … Continued