We speak with , Ashley Overhouse, the Water Policy Advisor for Defenders of Wildlife and Kim Delfino, the President and Founder of Earth Advocacy who are working to safeguard the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The recent California state budget includes significant CEQA  reforms aimed at streamlining housing development and other projects. 

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Over 500,000 Haitian nationals currently have Temporary Protected Status in the United States, and the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement last week revoking their protections.  We’ll speak with Nana Gyamfi who is the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration or BAJI.

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Pinkwashing and purplewashing are tools of Israeli propaganda that build a narrative around the Jewish state as a haven for women and queer people. The Zionist arguments for these themes include statements like: Hamas would kill queer people or trans people, and that on the far opposite side Israel’s legal system protects those groups. It’s a framework that pits queer folks and women against Palestine, and in support of Israel. But activists say pink- and purple-washing are part of a false propaganda machine. Joining us to discuss Israel’s pinkwashing and purplewashing campaigns, is Yaffa A.S., the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity. Yaffa is a trans Muslim and displaced Indigenous Palestinian.

Check out the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity’s website: https://www.themasgd.org/

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On today’s Palestine Post we speak with Raed Jarrar who is an Arab-American political advocate based in Washington, DC. He is currently the advocacy director for the organization Democracy in the Arab World Now – or DAWN.

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On today’s Palestine Post,  we speak with Laith who is a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement and one of the national leaders of the Mask Off Maersk Campaign. Shipping giant Maersk announced this month that it would cut ties with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

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The mission of Law & Disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.

After the Supreme Court recently ruled that school systems are, for now, required to offer parents an “opt-out” option allowing their children to be excused from class when the course material conflicts with their religious beliefs, our Resistance in Residence artists this week are children’s book authors Sarah and Ian Hoffman. Sarah and Ian are the authors of Jacob’s Missing Book, a kid-friendly story about book banning, censorship, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Check out their books here: https://www.sarahandianhoffman.com/

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Black migrants in the US from around the world are disappearing amidst the Trump administration’s crackdowns. We’ll speak with Pierre Labossiere. Pierre grew up in Haiti and co-founded the Haiti Action Committee in 1990. He lives in Oakland and is heavily involved in solidarity work with Haiti, including webinars and protests.

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We speak with The Nation’s John Nichols about the stunning victory of New York City mayoral candidate and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. John is the National Affairs correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times. His latest article for The Nation is called “Zohran Mamdani Proves that Power Belongs to the People.”

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We speak with Dr. Ayodele Nzinga about the disappearance of Arts funding from Oakland’s new budget –  Dr. Ayodele– also known as Wordslanger –is an arts and culture theoretician/practitioner working at the intersections of cultural production, community development, and community well being to foster transformation in marginalized communities. She is the Executive Director of the Black Arts Movement Business District Community Development Corporation, of Oakland; and founder and producer of BAMBDFEST International Biennial, a month-long arts and cultural festival animating the Black Arts Movement Business District in Oakland CA. She was also Oakland’s first poet laureate in 2021.

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Today, we speak with Tim Redmond about San Francisco’s controversial new budget. Tim has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 40 years. He is the founder and editor of 48hills.org. He has won more than 40 national and local awards for journalism.

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