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Two repeats on this Cesar Chavez day: 00:08 Bruce Neuburger, longtime radical activist who spent most of the 1970s working in California’s vegetable fields during the heyday of the United Farm Workers. His book is called Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California [interview originally aired in 2014] 00:33 Kathryn … Continued
00:08 Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, co-authors of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. (They’ll be presenting their book in-person at a book event at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley on April 16; the event is free, but the bookstore requests you RSVP to secure a seat.)
0:08 — Mitch Stoltz is IP Litigation Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He also leads EFF’s antitrust and competition working group. 0:33 — Elisa Wells, is co-founder of Plan C, a national abortion pill access campaign working to normalize the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail. She is also the co-author of the … Continued
0:08 — Jessica Mason Pieklo is Executive Editor at Rewire News and co-host of the podcast Boom! Lawyered. 0:33 — Michael Davidson is an assistant professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. He was previously the U.S.-China Climate Policy Coordinator for the environmental … Continued
0:08 — Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance. 0:33 — Luke Goldstein is a writing fellow at The American Prospect.
00:08 — Anthony D’Agostino, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University. 00:33– Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Cory Doctorow — author, blogger, digital rights activist — has written many books and essays, both science fiction and non-fiction. His most recent non-fiction book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.
0:08 — Carolyn Jones is a reporter for the nonprofit news site CalMatters, she covers K-12 education. 0:33 — Basim Elkarra is Executive Director of Sacramento Valley’s branch of the Council on Islamic-American Relations.
0:08 — David A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic. 0:33 — Elizabeth R. Varon is an American historian, and Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. Her latest book is “Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South.”
0:08 — Mohammed Khader, Manager of Policy and Advocacy Campaigns for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights 0:33 — Sameea Kamal is a reporter for CalMatters covering the state Capitol and California politics. 0:45 — Alejandro Lazo is a Climate reporter for Calmatters.
