7:08 – Lisa Lehner is Americans for Immigrant Justice, and focuses on litigation for immigrants’ rights. In December 2017 a deportation plane full of Somali immigrants turned around and came back to the US. On it’s return the Somali immigrants detailed horrific abuse at the hands of ICE officials on board the aircraft. Now, they’re alleging continued … Continued
News
East Bay newsmakers! SF Film Fest!
Who decide what’s news in the East Bay, and who’s covering it? We talk with Nick Miller, of the East Bay Express (Trump is coming to the Bay Area Friday! racism on nextdoor.com!), and with Martin Reynolds, former editor of the former Oakland Tribune, about Oakland Voices; community correspondence with the REAL news. With host … Continued
James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, historian, and author of several books including The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, and Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press. Today we often bemoan the 24 hour … Continued
Opal Tometi, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, Black feminist writer, communications strategist and cultural organizer. She is the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. And David Cay Johnston, American investigative journalist and author, specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting joins us to discuss taxes … Continued
On Saudi Arabia’s bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen with Sheila Carapico, professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud Roam co-authors of the book The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow