We speak with community organizers Rachel Jackson and Adrienne from Bay Area Amazonians about Amazon’s attempts to halt workers’ increasing efforts to unionize and ongoing anti-worker labor practices. Rachel Jackson, an organizer from the Bay area, working on issues of police brutality. Adrienne is an organizer with Bay Area Amazonians. Links genstrike.org; BayAreaAmazonians.org; Caravan For … Continued
We speak with two therapists about mental health during the pandemic. And later Poor News Network examines America’s War on the Poor.
Guests: David Bacon is a photo journalist, writer, activist. Lately he has been documenting the farmworker populations and the COVID-19 spikes Raymond Nat Turner is a poet-in-residence for Black Agenda Report. Harry Britt obit, by Dr. Ellen Shaffer Photo by Liz Caldwell on Usplash.com
Guest: Sonia Shah is a science journalist and contributor to the Nation Magazine. She is the author of PANDEMIC: Tracking Contagion from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, and most recently, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. Her latest article in the Nation is It’s Time to Tell the … Continued
On tonight’s show, guest producer Anuj Vaidya, with the Performance Studies department at UC Davis, shines a bright light on Strike University, the digital picket line for the University of California student movement that seeks to decolonize, democratize, queer, and abolish the current oppressive university system. In conversation with Anuj are Shreya Deshpande also from … Continued
The coronavirus pandemic has put gig workers in the forefront of the conversation centered around worker’s rights. Considered essential workers, many of who are struggling with whether to stay on the road (and risk the physical health) or stay home and face economic uncertainty due to the lack of employment protections. (We also cover the … Continued
We hear organizers from last night’s Fuck Your Curfew Rally in Oakland, Ca. Later we speak with longtime union worker John Reimann about the pandemic and workers rights and the 40 million dollars owed by the Golden State Warriors to the city of Oakland, California. And Poor News Network explores America’s war on the poor … Continued
We speak with various individuals about Covid-19’s impact on the residence of San Francisco. Troubling data shows Covid-19 mostly struck communities of color. Guests: Kim F. Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Dr. Monique LeSarre, Executive Director of Rafiki Coalition Supervisor Shamann Walton (district 10, San Francisco) Michelle Pierce, Executive Director, Bayview … Continued
We’ll hear audio from today’s mass rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Where the brother of George Floyd spoke and Valerie Castile, the mother of Philando Castile. Also we speak with journalist Rebecca McDonald aka BFresh and hip-hop artist Bun B about the murder of George Floyd. Philando Castile was 32-year-old African-American, who was pulled over while … Continued
We all have our “go-to” coping mechanisms. Some of these are healthy—mindfulness practices, journaling, and exercise, to name a few. But most of us also have coping mechanisms we wish we didn’t turn to so easily, from eating too many baked goods and binge-watching all 11 years of Cheers, to reading too much news even … Continued
