Prodemocracy demonstrators clash with law enforcement in Hong Kong in August 2019. Photo by Studio Incendo. On this show: 0:08 – Last Tuesday, China passed a national security law that applies to Hong Kong. It criminalizes secession, subversion, terrorist activities, and collusion with foreign powers — and today, Hong Kong is seeing its first prosecution … Continued
Guest: Mike Davis, renown radical scholar and writer. He is the author of The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism (The book is available exclusively from www.orbooks.com). Mike Davis is also co-author with Jon Wiener of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.
On this show: 0:08 – We talk about the spread of Covid-19 in the Bay Area with Art Reingold, division head of epidemiology and biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He says more studies are desperately needed to determine how people are transmitting the virus, and that the nation’s testing infrastructure is being further … Continued
Flyer for “Day of Rage” demonstrations planned in cities worldwide against Israel’s plans to illegally annex occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank On this show: 0:08 – Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones appear to emerge successful in their races for Congress in New York. Charles Booker nearly defeated Amy McGrath in Kentucky’s Senate primary. … Continued
Photo from Twitter user @LATUVyBe On this show: 0:08 – Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters and Politics weekdays at 10, joins us to talk about the versions of policing reforms being considered in the House and Senate. The main difference, Mitch says, is over the issue of “qualified immunity” for police officers. 0:18 – A boycott … Continued
Photo taken outside San Quentin State Prison by Zack Haber on Twitter On this show: 0:08 – Mitch Jeserich is the host of Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM. He joins hosts Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Cat Brooks to talk about the passing of lifelong activist and independent media stalwart Margy Wilkinson, and the House passing … Continued
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We speak with Pastor Ben McBride about the rally in Louisville, Kentucky to demand justice for Breonna Taylor. More than three months after police fatally shot Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, in her home, protesters are increasing the pressure on authorities to bring criminal charges against the three officers involved. And later, we speak … Continued
0:08 – New unemployment numbers are out – and they show over 2 million people have filed or applied for some type of assistance. Heidi Shierholz is director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Department of Labor. Steven Pitts is Associate Chair at the UC Berkeley Center for … Continued
0:08 – A video went viral Tuesday of Kentucky voters pounding on the door of a polling place, demanding to be allowed to vote, after the entire city of Louisville, 600,000 people, was allocated just a single voting location. If the primaries are a mess for voting rights, what will happen in November? Ari Berman is … Continued
