0:08 – Elections roundup: Wisconsin Ruth Conniff (@rconniff) is editor in chief of the Wisconsin Examiner, a nonprofit newsroom. 0:15 – Elections roundup: Florida goes for Trump on anti-socialist sentiment Mitch Perry (@MitchPerry18) Political Reporter for Spectrum Bay News 9 in Tampa. 0:22 – Elections roundup: Trumps wins in Texas, and Democrats fail to take … Continued
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0:08 – Election Day: on the ground in Florida Mitch Perry (@MitchPerry18) is a political reporter for Spectrum Bay News 9 in Tampa, FL. 0:19 – Election Day: on the ground in Wisconsin John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. 0:34 – What to watch in national politics Steve Phillips (@StevePtweets) … Continued
Reform groups and prison abolitionists diverge on California’s Prop 25: Trading bail for anti-Black algorithms
This story aired on UpFront on Monday, November 2, 2020. By Ariel Boone (@arielboone), KPFA election reporter In the final days of the 2018 California legislative session, the push to eliminate cash bail went through massive revisions that lost it support from a lot of groups working to end mass incarceration. It passed — … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss the upcoming election, anxieties around political violence and Trump refusing a peaceful transfer for power, and where swing states – Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania – are at now, one day before the election. 0:34 – COVID updates … Continued
0:08 – The 2020 election and the Black Vote Kevin Powell, writer, human rights activist, poet, journalist, and author of 14 books, including his most recent work “When We Feed the World,” a collection of essays about the present and future of America. 0:34 –November 1st, marks Day 1 of the multi-day holiday Dia De … Continued
0:08 – What can Trump, Biden, anyone do about the COVID surge? Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) is the co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. 0:34 – Author interview: David Dayen (@ddayen) is executive editor of the American Prospect, an independent progressive magazine, … Continued
0:08 – One week to go: The state of vote suppression Ari Berman (@AriBerman) is a senior reporter for Mother Jones covering voting rights. He is also the author of the book Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. 0:34 – Author interview: Ainissa Ramirez (@ainissaramirez) is a materials scientist … Continued
0:08 – Chile votes to replace dictatorship-era constitution Naomi Larsson Pineda (@naomilars) is a British-Chilean freelance journalist covering Chile for Al Jazeera, the Guardian and the Telegraph UK. She’s currently based in London. 0:34 – After wining his immigration case twice, 30 year old asylum-seeker Walter Cruz-Zavala is still incarcerated by ICE – why? The … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss Amy Coney Barrett’s final vote in the Senate is today; Mike Pence plans to attend, even though 5 of his staff have COVID and more. 0:34 – COVID updates and listener calls. John Swartzberg is clinical professor … Continued
Moms 4 Housing organizer Carroll Fife takes on incumbent McElhaney in fierce Oakland council race over housing, policing
By KPFA election reporter Ariel Boone (@arielboone) OAKLAND, CA – On a sunny Saturday morning in DeFremery Park in West Oakland, 50 people have come to knock on doors. There are ironworkers, students, democratic socialists, even Sunrise Movement climate activists — all here to support Carroll Fife, a candidate for Oakland city council in … Continued