On this show: 0:08 – Vaccines: Paid for by the public, made for profit Dean Baker is senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. His latest op-ed, with Achal Prabhala, Arjun Jayadev in the New York Times is “Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights.” 0:34 – California prison COVID outbreak: San Quentin … Continued
0:08 – India: millions of farmers and supporters initiate historic, general strike today Rajkamal Singh is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of California Santa Barbara. 0:34 – CA prisons: Largest COVID outbreak sweeping the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) in Corcoran, CA in Kings County Michelle Hoyt’s partner Lyle Crook, 54 … Continued
In many ways and for many people, the biological aspects of COVID-19 are cloaked in mystery. So, in this episode, we talk about COVID: Where are we and where are we going? We discuss the latest spike in cases, why it’s happening, and what we can do about it. We also take some of the … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA, and joins us to discuss the latest on COVID-19 relief negotiations in Congress, the Senate budget negotiations that may prevent another government shutdown, and more. 0:34 – COVID call-ins John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at … Continued
Today on the show: Extreme need in San Francisco’s Mission district as covid takes its mighty toll. Also a pitch for Karen Bass or Barbara Lee to be the next senator from California to fill Kamala Harris’s coveted Senate Seat. And our drumbeat reporting on the battle for Georgia continues
On this episode of It’s Going Down, we speak with long-time anarchist and organizer Dean Spade, author of the new book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), published by Verso Press. We discuss the explosion of mutual aid projects which have formed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the … Continued
Today on the show: Covid19 invades the prisons of California and across the country, and California prison officials seem to adopt a pro spreader strategy. Is the Gov’s response to corona worse than doing nothing? Also more on Biden’s extreme right wing foreign policy picks. Today we’ll hear from the Yemeni community about why they … Continued
Two historians: Thomas Sugrue, editor of a symposium on the Public Books website, on the coronacrisis and its impact on cities, and Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne, on the role of a crude masculinity in evangelical Christianity. photo: Pedro Lastra
Guest: Maureen Ferran is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and viral researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State. Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash
0:08 – Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13), senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about president-elect Joe Biden’s economic appointments and the likelihood of more pandemic economic assistance from Congress. Baker says Biden’s picks, including Cecilia Rouse, Janet Yellen, Jared Bernstein, Heather Boushey, and Adewale Adeyemo, are generally to the left of President … Continued
