On today’s show:

0:08 – Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing more charges from a Myanmar junta. We discuss the latest developments with Seinenu Thein-Lemelson, a Lecturer at UCLA and Senior Research Scientist at the Foundation for Psychocultural Research.

7:33 – We discuss the Astroworld Festival disaster, which resulted in the deaths of up to 10 people, with musician Kev Choice (@kevchoice), a pianist, M.C., producer, rapper, educator and activist based in Oakland.

7:41 – We discuss the recent deaths in a Santa Rita Mental Health Crisis Unit with Yolanda Huang, a longtime civil rights attorney who has represented many clients fighting institutionalized racism and abuses by the justice system.

8:08 – What’s going on with inflation? We speak with Dean Baker (@deanbaker13), a senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research.

8:33 – We speak with New Yorker journalist Sarah Stillman (@stillsarita) on her latest New Yorker piece “The Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters.“

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On today’s show:

0:08 – We speak with David Phillips (@David_Philipps), a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times  correspondent covering the U.S. military, about the coverup of a U.S. airstrike in Syria which resulted in civilian deaths.

0:33 – We speak with Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf), founder and editor of 48hills.org, about the  upcoming retirement of House Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier.

0:46 – UC non-tenured faculty just averted a strike. We get the details from Khalid Kadir (@iamkhalidkadir), an award-winning Lecturer at UC Berkeley.

1:08 – Mamyrah Prosper (@MamyrahProsper), Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins us to discuss Haitian democracy following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – We speak with attorneys Sandra Freeman and James Clarke to bring you up to date and take your questions on the ongoing trials involving Kyle Rittenhouse, Ahmaud Arbery, and Charlottesville.

1:08 – Carmen Maria Machado, best known for her short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, discusses a new genre-bending memoir of an abusive relationship called In the Dream House.

1:33 – We’re joined by Jacobin Magazine staff writer Alex Press (@alexnpress) and film and TV propmaster and armorer Dutch Merrick (@DutchMerrick) to discuss the latest developments in the IATSE contract and the take a deep dive into the events which led to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the set of the low-budget western movie, Rust.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – COP 26 Wraps Up. We speak with Tina Gerhardt (@TinaGerhardtEJ) — an environmental journalist and academic covering COP 26 for The Nation and Sierra.

0:22 – We finish our coverage of the UN climate talks in Glasgow with the voice of Vanessa Nakate (@vanessa_vash), a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, who addressed world leaders at the summit on Thursday.

0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer more COVID questions. Today we focus on boosters, advice for people making plans for the holidays, and the Iowa deer study.

1:08 – We speak with Clarissa Doutherd (@msclarissaellen) and District 5 OUSD Board Director Mike Hutchinson (@Blackholemikeh) on the #SaveHeadStart campaign, an organizing victory that halted Oakland school closures.

1:33 – We discuss the Ahmaud Arbery trial with Christopher Bruce, Policy Director with the ACLU of Georgia (@ACLUofGA) and Rev. James Woodall, Public Policy Associate with the Southern Center for Human Rights.

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0:08 – Maya King (@mayaaking), national politics reporter for Politico joins us to break down last week’s mayoral races.

0:34 – We discuss the 3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival with one of the founders of the festival, Ivan Jaigirdar and Mahesh Pailoor, a filmmaker whose short films Turbulence, and The Shower are playing during in the festival.

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