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7:08 – Breaking news: Justice Anthony Kennedy announces retirement John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent with The Nation Magazine. Camille Pannu teaches law at the UC Davis School of Law where she also directs the Water Justice Clinic. 7:34 – Update on the children separated and detained at the border with Denise Bell is a researcher for … Continued
7am – Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) is Senior Legal Analyst for rewire.news and co-host of the Boom! Laywyered. podcast. She joins us in-studio to discuss the latest US Supreme Court cases including NIFLA v Becerra (regulating crisis pregnancy centers) and gerrymandering decisions. 7:34am – Kassie Siegel (@KassieSiegel) is the Director and Senior Counsel of the Climate Law Institute. She joins us to discuss … Continued
7:08am – Immigration Detention in Contra Costa County. KPFA’s Carla West reports live from the ICE Protest at West County Detention Facility in Richmond 7am – 7pm. Then, Mark DeSaulnier, Democrat representing California’s 11th Congressional District–which includes both the West County Detention Facility, and the Concord Naval Weapons Base – about the Trump Administration’s proposal to detain thousands of … Continued
7am – Breaking: US Supreme Court rules on the privacy of cell phone records in Carpenter vs. United States. Joining us to discuss is Alan Butler (@AlanInDC )senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Frontier Center (EPIC), a public interest research center based in Washington DC. Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar )is Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica and author and radio producer. His … Continued
7:00 – News headlines 7:08 – Lauren Markham (@LaurenMarkham_) is a Northern California-based reporter, writer, and author. Her latest book is The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. 8:08 – Juan Prieto is with the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
7:00 – Billboard 7:08 – News headlines and analysis with Brian and Mitch 7:34 – Li-Shin Yu and Ric Burns (@RicBurnsFilms) direct the new documentary film The Chinese Exclusion Act now streaming for free until Monday, June 25th on American Experience website. 7:56 – Richard Wolinsky (@Rich_Bookwaves) reviews “A Walk On The Moon” playing at the ACT Theater … Continued
7am – News headlines and analysis with Brian and Mitch 7:34 – Zoe Carpenter is an associate Washington editor with The Nation. Her latest piece is called “What Its Like Inside a Border Patrol Facility Where Families Are Being Separated.” 8:08 – KPFA News: Today marks 2018’s World Refugee Day, a year with the dubious distinction of seeing … Continued
7am – News headlines and analysis with Brian, Mitch and new co-host Gina Madrid! They discuss child separation at the border, “Jogger Joe” charged in Oakland for robbery but not theft for stealing homeless man’s possessions, and Mountain View names elementary school after Pulitzer Prize-winner Jose Antonio Vargas, who is also an undocumented immigrant. 7:34 – We … Continued
7am – Breaking news and analysis with Brian and Mitch: the repeal of Costa Hawkins made it on the California ballot in November. Then, an update on the Republican’s immigration bill and the separation of children from their parents seeking asylum on the border. 7:34 – Thomas Peele (@thomas_peele) is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter on … Continued
7:08am – Raymond “Boots” Riley (@BootsRiley)– is an Oakland-based rapper, activist, and now director. His debut film Sorry To Bother You hits theaters July 6th. 7:34 – The History of Juneteenth Dr. Kevin Thompson – is an Adjunct Professor of the African-American Studies Program at the University of Houston. Some argue Juneteenth should be recognized as a … Continued
