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On today’s show: 0:08 – We unpack closing arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery case with Christopher Bruce, Policy Director with the ACLU of Georgia (@ACLUofGA). 0:33 – Angelica Salas, Executive Director of @CHIRLA – The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights joins us to discuss national immigration policy and immigration provisions inside of the Build Back … Continued
0:08 – November (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation joins us to discuss the Build Back Better bill that just passed the house and heads to the Senate this week. 0:33 – More of your COVID science questions answered by Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Dr. Greg Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of African Studies at Howard University and Adjunct Professor of Law at Howard University’s School of Law joins us to discuss the month long student protest at Howard University. 0:34 – We rebroadcast this 2019 interview with Bryant Terry (@bryantterry), vegan chef, food justice … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing more charges from a Myanmar junta. We discuss the latest developments with Seinenu Thein-Lemelson, a Lecturer at UCLA and Senior Research Scientist at the Foundation for Psychocultural Research. 7:33 – We discuss the Astroworld Festival disaster, which resulted in the … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We speak with David Phillips (@David_Philipps), a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent covering the U.S. military, about the coverup of a U.S. airstrike in Syria which resulted in civilian deaths. 0:33 – We speak with Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf), founder and editor of 48hills.org, about the upcoming retirement of House … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We speak with attorneys Sandra Freeman and James Clarke to bring you up to date and take your questions on the ongoing trials involving Kyle Rittenhouse, Ahmaud Arbery, and Charlottesville. 1:08 – Carmen Maria Machado, best known for her short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, discusses a new genre-bending … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – COP 26 Wraps Up. We speak with Tina Gerhardt (@TinaGerhardtEJ) — an environmental journalist and academic covering COP 26 for The Nation and Sierra. 0:22 – We finish our coverage of the UN climate talks in Glasgow with the voice of Vanessa Nakate (@vanessa_vash), a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, who … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Maya King (@mayaaking), national politics reporter for Politico joins us to break down last week’s mayoral races. 0:34 – We discuss the 3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival with one of the founders of the festival, Ivan Jaigirdar and Mahesh Pailoor, a filmmaker whose short films Turbulence, and The … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – The Supreme Court heard arguments on FBI v. Fazaga earlier this week. Patrick Toomey (@PatrickCToomey), Senior Staff Attorney with the National Security Project at the ACLU joins us to discuss. 0:20 – Phyllis Bennis, Middle East analyst and Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies … Continued
California has a complicated relationship to immigration policy. In theory, this is a sanctuary state. The law blocks most collaboration between local law enforcement and immigration agents. But in the first five months of 2020, California has transferred nearly 600 people from its jails and prisons to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This … Continued
