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
Part 1: Covid-19 and the Growing Inequality of Wealth Guest: David Dayen, Executive Editor of The American Prospect where he’s been writing the column Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report. He is the author of the book, Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. Part II: Former Labor Secretary on … Continued
0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA 0:34 – COVID-19: updates on latest research and listener calls John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. 1:08 – Author interview: Claire Bond Potter (@TenuredRadical) is a political historian at the New … Continued
Evren Odcikin, Associate Artistic Director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival, discusses how the Covid shutdown affected the company, and discusses the impacts of BLM, the fires in Southern Oregon and the switch to streaming. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Theatre During Covid: a series of interviews about how Bay Area theatres are coping with the shutdown. Part Two: John Fisher, Executive/Artistic Director of Theatre Rhino, “The Longest Running Queer Theatre in the World,” discusses the immediate aftermath of the shutdown, his decision to create weekly solo shows from his home, and the move from theatrical presentation to digital. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
