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It’s the mother of all Grand Bargains: Governor Brown is doing shuttle diplomacy between oil companies, developers, trade unions, environmental groups, and affordable housing advocates to pass a growing package of bills before the legislature goes on recess. We tackle the climate deal, and look at why it’s drawing fire from some environmental groups. Plus: … Continued
The Senate Republicans just introduced another version of their own healthcare plan to replace Obamacare. We discuss how it will hold up against their previous plans with Anthony Wright (Executive Director of Health Access). Next, we talk with Paul Ehrlich (Stanford Biologist), about his recent paper on the sixth mass extinction, a species die-out that will … Continued
When you move from defending a woman’s right to choose to pursuing reproductive justice, there are suddenly a lot more issues in play than abortion: economic inequality, the right to healthcare, wages for uncompensated labor. Cat Brooks talks to the two women who literally wrote the book. Plus: a look at why some environmental justice … Continued
The city council of Seattle just voted through an municipal income tax for its wealthiest residents, and the vote was unanimous. Host Brian Edwards-Tiekert talks to socialist city councilmember Kshama Sawant about how that happened, then takes a look at the push to do something similar in San Francisco. Plus: Cat Brooks talks to filmmaker Jon Else about … Continued
A quick look at the state of play in the Senate, where Republicans are running out of room to delay the release of a new effort at Obamacare repeal. Then, we turn to Sacramento and ask: could California create its own single-payer healthcare system? Finally, a history of the movements, organizations, and tactics that fed … Continued
Federal Judge Thelton Henderson holds a hearing today that will determine whether the Oakland Police Department becomes the first in the nation to go into federal receivership – we talk to investigative journalists Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham about the scandal and coverup that brought things to this point. Plus: Cat Brooks discusses the lives … Continued
Did you know US Prisons isolate inmates in cells the size of bathrooms for up to 23 hours per day? Salima Hamirani talks to Keramet Reiter about the history of prisoner isolation, and the rise of the Supermax Prison. Guests: Keramet Reiter, assistant professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine; author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison … Continued
Today guest host Philip Maldari talks to Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now about preparations for the G20 protests in Hamburg, Germany. Then host Cat Brooks interviews Bernard Harcourt, political theorist and professor at Columbia Law School about his book “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age.” The book explains how digital technology is breaking … Continued
On today’s show, guest host Philip Maldari interviews Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of the book “Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection. Benjamin speaks about the U.S. war machine and our current situation in the Middle-East. Medea’s latest piece with co-author Kate Harveston is “Sorry, Meals on Wheels, Our War Machine Is Hungry.” … Continued
On today’s show, host Cat Brooks interviews Wesley Lowery, author of the book “They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.” Lowery was the Washington Post’s lead reporter in Ferguson in 2014, and his book tries to tackle the magnitude of police violence on black people, and what these … Continued
