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08:00 — Dean Baker is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

33:00 — Heiko Wimmen is Project Director for the Iraq/Syria/Lebanon project at the International Crisis Group.

45:00 — Scout helped organize the April 2024 Google sit-in protest, as a member of No Tech for Aparthied and is now co-hosting Techlash — a nine-hour livestream and fundraiser on Saturday, April 18th spotlighting Big Tech’s complicity in ICE surveillance, genocide, and oligarchy, while raising funds for the 50 Google workers fired for demanding accountability.

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Voices from KPFA’s early decades and interview with Matthew Lasar, historian and author of “Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network.”

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08:00 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. 

33:00 — Marissa Kendall covers homelessness for the nonprofit newsroom Calmatters. 

45:00 — Carl Anthony has died. He was an architect, planner, founder of one of the country’s oldest environmental justice organizations, Urban Habitat. Among his many legacies: he played a pivotal role converting big stretches of Berkeley’s waterfront – including the soon-to-be-renamed Cesar Chaves Park – from dumps to parks. This at a time when the dominant landlowner around the waterfront, Santa Fe Railroad, basically wanted to build a mall instead. This is an excerpt of an interview we did in October 2017, when he’d just published his book The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race. 

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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

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08:00 — Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is Associate Professor of Physics and Core Faculty Member in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her new book is “The Edge of Space-Time:Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie.”

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00:08 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, associate professor of physics and astronomy as well as core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire.  Her new book is The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie.

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08:00 — Jamal Abdi is President of the National Iranian American Council in Washington D.C.

33:00 — Ruth Conniff, is editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner.

45:00 — Jeffrey Mount is a senior fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center. He is an emeritus professor of earth and planetary sciences  at UC Davis.

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08:00 — Omid Memarian is the Director of Communications at DAWN and also serves as the organization’s Senior Iran Analyst. He has previously worked as a journalist and human rights professional.

33:00 — Eugene Cordero is professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University.

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08:00 — Anthony D’Agostino, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University.

33:00 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

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08:00 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation

33:00 — Tim Redmond is founder of 48hills.

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