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0:08 — Brian Concannon is a human rights lawyer and the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. 0:33 — Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local.
0:08 — Damon Tighe, works in biotechnology and moonlights as a naturalist; he’s been organizing volunteer documentation of the bloom and its effects. Eric Buescher, senior attorney at San Francisco Baykeeper. 0:33 — Brad Shaffer is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. He is also the director of UCLA’s … Continued
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
0:08 — Dr. Robert Okin is former chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. He spent two years interviewing people on the street who seemed to have mental disorders; his book about that, just out in its second edition, is SILENT VOICES: People with Mental Disorders on the Street.
0:08 — Yousef Munayyer is a fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, DC. 0:33 — Abdushakur Aboud is the Senior Editor for the Swahili service of Voice of America.
0:08 — Kenneth White, former federal prosecutor, current federal defense attorney, and the host of the podcast “Serious Trouble” about Donald Trump’s legal problems. 0:33 — Leah Simon-Weisberg is Legal Director at ACCE Institute and Adjunct Professor of UC Law, SF (UC Hastings) and Chair of the Berkeley Rent Board.
0:08 — Felipe Torres Medina, is a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, currently part of the WGA strike. 0:33 — Cheuk Kwan’s new book is Have You Eaten Yet: Stories from Chinese restaurants around the world.
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
0:08 — John Perlin, visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara’s physics department; his newest book is A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization.
0:08 — Abdoushakur Aboud, is the senior Editor for the Swahili service of Voice of America. 0:17 — J.W. Mason, associate professor of economics at John Jay College, and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
