[caption id="attachment_380745" align="alignnone" width="788"] Joaquin Ciria has been freed after 32 years of wrongful incarceration, we speak with him and a lawyer from SF's innocence commission | Northern California Innocence Project [1] [/caption]

0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer [2]), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, joins us to discuss the latest developments in the conflict in Ukraine as Russia celebrates a holiday that commemorates the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II

0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, discusses the latest COVID science and answer listener questions.

1:08 - A new batch of job data from the federal government was shared on Friday, showing fairly stable numbers while wage growth seems to be slowing. Hayley Brown (@hayleycbbrown [3]), Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research [4], discusses the new figures with us.

1:21 - To mark Asian Pacific American Heritage month, we share another short segment from KPFA’s APEX Express exploring the music, art, and life of native Hawaiian singer and songwriter Hāwane Rios (@hawanemusic [5]).

1:33 - After 32 years of wrongful incarceration, Joaquin Ciria has been exonerated by the Innocence Commission of the San Francisco District Attorney's office [6]. He shares his story just weeks after being released.

1:45 - Continuing the discussion of Joaquin Ciria's exoneration, we speak Charlie Nelson Keever (@charliechaya [7]), Staff Attorney with the San Francisco District Attorney's Innocence Commission [8]. We explore what makes this commission unique and how it interact's with the DA's office.

[1] https://ncip.org/

[2] https://twitter.com/johnfeffer

[3] https://twitter.com/hayleycbbrown

[4] https://cepr.net/

[5] https://www.instagram.com/hawanemusic/

[6] https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/innocence-commission/#:~:text=The%20Innocence%20Commission%20is%20dedicated,that%20they%20were%20wrongfully%20convicted.

[7] https://twitter.com/charliechaya

[8] https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/innocence-commission/#:~:text=The%20Innocence%20Commission%20is%20dedicated,that%20they%20were%20wrongfully%20convicted.