On today’s show: 0:08 – Jon Melrod (@JonathanMelrod), a political activist, labor organizer, human rights lawyer and pancreatic cancer survivor discusses his new book Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War.
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On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss the ongoing legal battle over the classified documents seized by the FBI at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel), an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties at emptywheel.net 0:35 – Kaiser returned to the bargaining table yesterday, but their mental health … Continued
You can’t fix what you can’t see: Racism, patriarchy, and the rise of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S.
Stock photo by AntoineLanz from Pixabay When the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, perinatal care providers braced themselves for a surge in pregnancy-related mortality. A total abortion ban has been predicted to result in a 20% increase in the rates of pregnancy-related mortality overall and a 30% increase … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy), Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group and co-host of the podcast Boom! Lawyered unpacks South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s legislative proposal for a federal abortion ban. 0:20 – John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine discusses the Republican … Continued
0:13 – KPFA Reporter Erin Bump reports on efforts to address rising gun violence in West Oakland. 0:33 – Teresa Romero (@UFWPresident), President of United Farm Workers discusses Governor Newsom’s hesitancy to enact AB 2183, the bill that would allow farm workers to vote to unionize from home. 0:45 – JW Mason (@JWMason1), associate professor … Continued
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest news 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.
On today’s show: 0:08 – Peniel E. Joseph (@PenielJoseph), Founding Director Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin discusses his latest book, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss extreme heat and its impacts on agriculture and farm worker communities in the Central Valley with Josué Medellín-Azuara (@josuemedellin), Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Merced and Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou (@drfernandezbou), a scientist at UC Merced and co-founder of the SocioEnvironmental and Education Network. Both … Continued
Dust up over Shasta River water; Plus Apache land defenders protect a sacred site from copper mining
On today’s show: 0:08 – Craig Tucker (@scraigtucker), the Natural Resources Policy Advisor for the Karuk Tribe joins us to discuss the ongoing dispute over water rights between ranchers, farmers, and tribes on the dwindling Shasta River. 0:33 – Wendsler Nosie Sr., former Chair and current Councilmember of the San Carlos Apache Tribe and Vernelda … Continued
0:08 – Steven Thrasher (@thrasherxy) discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Thrasher is the inaugural holder of Northwestern University’s Medill School’s Daniel Renberg Chair, the first of its kind professorship created to focus on LGBTQ research.