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0:08 — Sussan Tahmasebi (@sussantweets), executive director of FEMENA, and co-founder of the One Million Signatures Campaign, which is working to end gender-biased laws in Iran. 0:33 — Eduardo Martinez (@policycatalyst), newly elected Mayor for the city of Richmond.
0:08 — Sean T. Mitchell, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at Rutgers University, Newark and author of Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil. 0:33 — Jay Lund (@jaylund113), Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis.
0:08 – Noura Erakat (@4noura), human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Africana Studies, and author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. 0:35 – Hillary Ronen (@HillaryRonen), San Francisco Supervisor for District 9, which encompasses the Mission, Bernal Heights, and Portola. 0:51 – Geraldo … Continued
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
0:08 – Daniel Bergner, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. His new book is The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches.
0:08 – Guillaume Long (@GuillaumeLong), senior policy analyst at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He was formerly Ecuador’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. 0:33 – Sameea Kamal (@SameeaKamal), reporter for CalMatters covering the state Capitol and California politics. 0:42 – Olivia Debree, is a Nurse Practitioner and Associate Medical … Continued
0:08 — John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine 0:33 — Eugene Cordero(@eugeneccordero), professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University, also founder and director of the environmental educational publisher Green Ninja.
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
0:08 – Kristin Ohlson (@kristinohlson) discusses her latest book Sweet in Tooth and Claw.
