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0:08 — Carmen Maria Machado, author of “Dream House,” a memoir bending genres and perspectives, about her experience with abuse during a same-sex relationship. 0:33 — Oscar A. Chacón is a co-founder and executive director of Alianza Americas. Katerina Linos, Law Professor at UC Berkeley and host of the podcast “Borderlines”
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 — Rebecca Grant has reported on maternal health justice for the past decade, with work appearing in New York magazine, Marie Claire, The Guardian, and more. Her latest book is BIRTH: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America.
Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers. He also drafted nuclear war plans as a RAND consultant during the Kennedy era. His book about it is The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. *This interview is from February 2018. We’re re-airing it to Mark Daniel Ellsberg Week, declared by his friends and … Continued
0:08 — John Nichols is national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine. 0:33 — LaToya Baldwin Clark is an Assistant Professor at UCLA School of Law
0:08 — Matt Gertz, Senior Fellow at Media Matters 0:33 — Janice Li is president of the BART Board of Directors Amanda Eaken is Chair of the SFMTA Board of Directors
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 — Dacher Keltner, faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center; now author of Awe: the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life
0:08 — Azaz Shami, is a Sudanese-American human rights advocate 0:33 — Alastair Bland is a reporter at CalMatters Thomas Harter is the Nora S. Gustavsson Endowed Professor in Water Resources at UC Davis
0:08 — Arwa Mokdad, Middle East analyst and peace advocate at Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation 0:33 — Imani Gandy is Senior Editor of Law and Policy at Rewire News and co-host of the podcast Boom! Lawyered
