0:08 – May Day: Workers with Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, and Target are joining in one big strike and asking shoppers to boycott to protest unsafe working conditions and unethical corporate business practices. Lauren Kaori Gurley (@LaurenKGurley) is a staff writer at Vice, based in Brooklyn. She covers workers and the labor movement for VICE’s … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Tenants announce a rent strike to demand rent and mortgage payment cancellations San Francisco moves forward with ordinance to close county jail deemed unsafe and unsanitary
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0:08 – New unemployment data released today shows 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment, or 1 in 5 workers – and the numbers are probably Ben Zipperer is an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, and co-author of the new report ‘Unemployment filing failures’ 0:25 – KPFA News: Now a look at organizing. Housing … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Bay Area counties loosen restrictions in their new shelter-in-place orders.
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Governor Gavin Newsom says schools could open by July. Democrats and unions urge economic relief for state’s and local governments. Senator Bernie Sanders urges economic relief be extended to undocumented. Arguments made to unseal legal ruling denying … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Bay Area counties extend their shelter-in-place orders until the end of May.
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: living under shelter-in-place, balancing risks of going out, and more on federal relief. 0:34 – Homeless advocates are demanding answers after an incident Friday in which Oakland Police officers drew guns on two volunteers who spent the morning handing out humanitarian supplies at unhoused encampments. KPFA’s Ariel Boone (@arielboone) reports. Candace … Continued
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