Republicans Back President Trump’s Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud. Supreme Court Hears Arguments to Undo the Affordable Care Act. California State Prisons Admit More Inmates as State Covid-19 Cases Surge.
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss the Trump’s refusal to concede, Republicans splintering support, the continued campaign for the Senate and more. 0:34 – COVID updates and listener calls. John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. … Continued
Theatre During Covid: a series of interviews about how Bay Area theatres are coping with the shutdown. Part One: Pam MacKinnon, Artistic Director of A.C.T. in San Francisco talks with host Richard Wolinsky about how A.C.T. has pivoted from live theatre to streaming, and the ways in which the company has had to trim itself in order to survive.
0:08 – What can Trump, Biden, anyone do about the COVID surge? Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) is the co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. 0:34 – Author interview: David Dayen (@ddayen) is executive editor of the American Prospect, an independent progressive magazine, … Continued
Today on the Show: The latest on 19, as five members of Mike Pence staff have tested positive for covid. Also, gaining leverage over the duopoly. Is it time to change the nature of the way we vote? And we’ll rebroadcast our interview with anti-police violence activist, Lillian House, charged with 12 trumped up felonies … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss Amy Coney Barrett’s final vote in the Senate is today; Mike Pence plans to attend, even though 5 of his staff have COVID and more. 0:34 – COVID updates and listener calls. John Swartzberg is clinical professor … Continued
0:08 – Court orders 50% transferred or released from San Quentin Brad O’Connell is Assistant Director of the First District Appellate Project. 0:15 – What’s happening inside James King is a state campaigner with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and was formerly incarcerated in San Quentin. 0:34 – Local explainer: Berkeley Mayor’s race … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA. We discuss Congressional relief negotiations, the expedited confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett 0:34 – COVID update John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. We discuss why the sharp rise in case … Continued
Guest: David Quammen, science journalist, on zoonotic diseases, those like COVID-19 that leap from animals to humans. His latest book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. Then, Samuel Moyn, a professor of law and history at Yale, on all the things that are wrong with the Supreme Court. Both interviews were broadcast … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Pelosi unveils legislation to establish bipartisan commission on presidential capacity UK workers set to be paid 2/3 of wages by government if workplace shuts due to corona virus Moscow hospitals receiving influx of covid patients, reopens two … Continued
