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Jul 13, 2023 • 60min
The Politics of Red States Across the Nation; Plus, Community Responses to the Harms of Residential Segregation
0:08 — William Kleinknecht is a longtime newspaper reporter who covered politics, government, criminal justice, and the environment for the Detroit Free Press, New York Daily News, and Newark Star-Ledger. His latest book is “States of Neglect: How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America”
0:33 — Leah Rothstein is co-author, with Richard Rothstein, of Just Action, a sequel to The Color of Law. The sequel describes how local community groups can redress the wrongs of residential segregation.
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Jul 12, 2023 • 60min
Seeking Abortion Care Across State Lines; UAW Members and Student Workers Arrested at UCSD
0:08 — Amy Littlefield, is the abortion access correspondent at The Nation and a freelance investigative reporter who focuses on the intersection of religion and health care. Her latest feature for The Nation, “Life on the Abortion Borderland,” appears in the magazine’s new special issue, “Body Politics.”
0:33 — Adam Schwartz, is SENIOR STAFF ATTORNEY AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
0:47 — Udayan Tandon, is a PhD Student worker in the Computer Science Department at UCSD and Unit Chair for UAW Local 2865 at UCSD.
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Jul 11, 2023 • 21min
Floods, Fires and Hurricane Response: Climate Change Roundup
0:08 — Jeff Masters, has worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. He co-founded Weather Underground in 1995 and writes, he is also an author for Yale Climate Connections
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Jul 10, 2023 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
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Jul 7, 2023 • 60min
Andrew Alden on the Geology of the East Bay
Andrew Alden, geologist and science writer, publisher of the Oakland Geology Blog, and now author of Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
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Jul 6, 2023 • 60min
Christina Gerhart on Disappearing Islands
00:08 – Christina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she founded the environmental humanities initiative. She’s just out with a new book called Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
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Jul 5, 2023 • 60min
Naomi Oreskes on The Big Myth
00:08 Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. Her new book, co-authored with Erik Conway, is The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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Jul 4, 2023 • 60min
Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, and Capitalism
00:08 Malcolm Harris, author of several books; the newest is Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World
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Jul 3, 2023 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
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Jun 30, 2023 • 60min
“Lesbian Love Story” Traces History through the Archives of Queer Love
0:08 — Amelia Possanza is a Brooklyn-based writer and book publicist. Her debut work is Lesbian Love Story, A Memoir in Archives, published by Catapult Books.
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