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0:08 — Tim Redmond is a long-time San Francisco investigative reporter and founder of 48Hills.org. 0:20 — Doug Carstens is managing partner at Carstern, Black & Minteer, where’s he’s a CEQA practitioner and advisor to the CEQA Works coalition of environmental organizations. 0:33 — Sarah Moser, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at McGill University. The post New Amazon Distribution Center in Bay View, CEQA bill AB 1307 May Greenlight People’s Park development; Plus, California Forever: Building Utopian Cities from Scratch appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. The post Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Kim Kelly, labor journalist and labor organizer; now author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor [originally broadcast in April 2022] 00:33 Fred Glass teaches Labor and Community Studies at the Community College of San Francisco. He’s also Communications Director for the California Federation of Teachers. His latest book is From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement [originally broadcast in August 2017] The post Labor History with Kim Kelly and Fred Glass appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Tony Platt, currently Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society; author of the just-released The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley The post Tony Platt on the Scandal of Cal appeared first on KPFA.

00:08  Anti-government protests in Syria enter third week Sarah Hunaidi is a Syrian Writer and Human Rights Advocate Kareem Chehayeb is a Beirut-based reporter for the Associated Press, reporting on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.    00:33  A report card on a short-lived harm reduction effort in San Francisco  Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local   00:45 AC Transit’s install AI-run cameras  Jose Fermoso, senior reporter for The Oaklandside covering road safety, transportation, and public health   The post A new uprising in Syria? Plus: AI cameras on AC transit appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Hurricane Idalia makes landfall as a Category 3 storm Mitch Perry is Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix. He joined us from St Petersburg. Kasha Patel is the deputy weather editor for the Capital Weather Gang at The Washington Post, covering weather, climate change and the environment. 00:33 The Rediscovery of America Ned Blackhawk is a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada and is a professor of History and American Studies at Yale University.     The post Idalia hits Florida; Ned BlackHawk on The Rediscovery of America appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 — Robert Katzberg, former federal prosecutor, turned defense attorney. Author, most recently of The Vanishing Trial. 0:33 — Bill Frelick, Director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. 0:45 — Cassondra Curiel, teacher at Visitacion Valley Middle School, and president of United Educators of San Francisco. The post Trump DC Trial Set for March, Saudi Border Guards Massacre of Ethiopian Migrants; Plus, SFUSD Considering School Closures appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, on the mid-flight explosion that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s largest mercenary group.   00:33 John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley, on the COVID subvariant nicknamed Pirola (B.2.86), and why it’s prompting concern in public health circles. (More detailed information, along with links to new research discussed, is available via the dedicated Corona Calls podcast archive.)   The post What comes after Prigozhin; What’s coming from B.2.86 appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis) is an associate professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair Tier II of Indigenous History Healing and Reconciliation at Algoma University. Her new book is The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere. [This interview was originally recorded in August 2022] The post Paulette Steves on the Indigenous Paleolithic appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 0:33 — Tony Thurmond, is the CA State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The post Republican Debates; Plus, CA School District Requiring Reporting Transgender Students to Parents appeared first on KPFA.