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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
7:34 – Adama Iwu, Head of Government Relations in the Western States for Visa and the founder of We Said Enough app 8:08 – Terry Kupers, Professor emeritus at the Wright Institute, award-winning psychiatrist and author of Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax and How We Can Abolish It
7:34 – Melina Abdullah, founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter of Los Angeles Sonia Lewis is one of the leaders of Black Lives Matter Sacramento chapter 8:08 – Åsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. Her new book is Two Sisters: A Father, His … 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
7:08 – Matthew Lasar teaches history and media courses at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He’s the author of Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio’s Civil War and Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network 8:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Voices that Changed the World from Pacifica Radio Archives
7:08 – Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and works as a writer, activist and analyst on Middle East and UN issues discusses the US’s decision to start military operations in Syria. 7:34 – Andrea Ritchie in conversation with Cat Brooks about her new book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women … Continued
