How is the lockdown in India impacting India’s over 400 million working poor? What has already been the terrifying consequences of the overnight lockdown on March 25th, without an adequate relief plan or measures taken to ensure daily wage laborers can afford to stay at home and practice social distancing? APEX Express producer Preeti Mangala … Continued
Where are we in the Pandemic: the beginning? the middle? Is it time to “reopen America”? What about the data? What about mitigation? Do we have what we need to survive? We talk with Dr. James Kahn, professor emeritus, UCSF School of Medicine. With host Kris Welch.
Pandemics and other public health crises often require exceptional measures — some of them voluntary and some imposed from above. Historical geographer Graham Mooney reflects on the history of measures like isolation and quarantines — as well as elite indifference to the plight of the poor and working classes during infectious disease outbreaks. Resources: Graham … Continued
The struggle for abortion rights has been foundering for decades and, with an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court, the future of abortion in the United States looks grim. Organizer Jenny Brown argues that the timidity of the abortion rights movement has patently failed to slow the anti-abortion assault. She argues that a bolder, unapologetic … Continued
Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, along with his co-author Karen Pickett, caused a sensation with their work The Spirit Level, which amassed vast amounts of data to illustrate that whether you are poor or well off, social inequality makes us ill, unhappy, and stressed. In the documentary film “Dysfunctional Societies” Wilkinson makes the case that equality is … Continued
In recent years, the desirability of locking up millions of Americans in prison has been seriously questioned both on the left and right. It would seem, however, that domestic violence is very different than the non-violent drug offenses highlighted by critics of mass incarceration. On the face it, shouldn’t this be where police intervention and … Continued
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nurse Rona will be joined by Dalila Butler and Dr. Muntu Davis to discuss with you the Roots of Health Disparities. What environmental, educational, housing, and prevention policies are in place to help communities and individuals have … Continued
