On today’s show: 0:11 – Ed Morales (@SpanglishKid), a journalist, filmmaker, and lecturer at Columbia University discusses Puerto Rico’s energy grid and aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
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On today’s show: 0:10 – 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 – Mitchell Schwarzer discusses the history of urban development in Oakland. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Mitchell Schwarzer’s Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption. THIS WEEKEND: 3rd i’s 20th ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL September 23-25 @ The Roxie and Castro … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We spend the hour celebrating the work of Barbara Ehrenreich, the activist, muckraker, and prolific writer who passed away September 1 at the age of 81. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $100 and receive a copy of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Had I Known: Collected Essays. Receive her talks from our … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We spend the hour with Dr. Gabor Maté (@DrGaborMate), a physician best known for his work on addiction, attention deficit disorder, and the pscho-social dimensions of disease. We discuss his new book, co-authored with his son Daniel. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Gabor Maté’s The … Continued
On today’s show: We discover how wheat built and broke empires with Scott Reynolds Nelson (@nelsonhist), professor of history at the University of Georgia. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Scott Reynolds Nelson’s Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.
On today’s show: 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 – 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.
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