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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
7:08AM – Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and coordinator of the Middle Eastern studies program. He is a specialist in Middle East politics. He spoke with us about President Trump’s tweet this morning threatening a missile strike on Syria. 7:20AM – Mark Zuckerberg Testifies About Facebook Before Congress … Continued
7:34AM – Joseph William, member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, which demonstrated outside the Police Protective League and is gathering at the LA Police Commission today to stand with the family of Eric Rivera, who was shot and killed by police and then run over by a patrol car last summer 7:49AM – Frances Causey, … Continued
7:34AM – Monique Judge, columnist and news writer for TheRoot.com, speaks about the police shooting of Saheed Vassell, an unarmed black man in Brooklyn 8:08AM – Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex Taina Vargas-Edmond – Executive Director of Initiate Justice Dorsey Nunn – Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or … Continued
