Tuesday, August 10th, 2021:

All this plus headline news!

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On today’s show:

0:08 – On this edition of Monday’s with Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich), we discuss the Biden infrastructure bill and 71st anniversary of the Hiroshima / Nagasaki bombings.

0:34 – Dr. John Swartzberg joins us again to discuss the latest on the COVID Delta wave as schools prepare to open.

1:08 – We spend the second hour with Aviva Chomsky, history professor and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. We discuss the latest protests in Cuba, American media bias, and how Cuba treats its own political dissidents. 

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On today’s show:

0:08 – First day of school starts for Oakland Unified School District on Monday August 9th. Sailaja Suresh, Senior Director of Strategic Projects & Initiatives at OUSD, and Chaz García, 27 year veteran OUSD elementary school teacher, and OEA’s 2nd Vice President join us to discuss how educators are preparing for re-opening under COVID.

0:34 – We discuss Black August with Dr. Gregory Carr (@AfricanaCarr), Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University and look back at the lives and legacies of George and Jonathon Jackson.

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On today’s show:

0:08 – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently passed a measure to repeal both Authorizations for Use of Military Force Against Iraq (1991 and 2002). Phyllis Bennis (@PhyllisBennis) Middle East analyst and Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies joins us to discuss.

0:34 – We’re seeing the gradual sanctioning of vaccinated only spaces. California has digital vaccine record program, where users can register online for a validated digital credential they can pull up on their smartphones. But this program has a huge backlog. Daniele Escheverria (@DanielleEschev), Breaking News and Engagement Reporter for the SF Chronicle joins us to discuss why that is.

0:45 – These vaccine passports present data privacy and ethical concerns according to Nicol Turner Lee (@drturnerlee), who joins us to discuss whether these digital credentials will work and who gets left out in the process.

1:08 – California allocated billions of dollars in rent relief for struggling tenants and landlords, but only a fraction of it has been spent. We discuss why that is with Lauren Hepler (@LAHepler) who covers housing and neighborhood retail for the San Francisco Chronicle’s race and equity team.

1:18 – Aileen Theile Fire Chief of the East Bay Regional Parks District Fire Department, joins us to discuss why certain tress in the parks are dying off en masse, the fire danger this presents, and what firefighters plan to do about it.

1:34 – We discuss police free schools with Indigo Byers, a founding member of the Black Organizing Project. BOP has teamed up with other organizations to host an Art Jam this Friday from 4 PM to 7 PM at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater.

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Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 on Upfront:

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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021:

All this, plus the news!

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On today’s show:

0:08 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich)joins us to discuss the federal eviction moratorium which expired last weekend without a vote form Congress.

0:34 – Dr. John Swartzberg joins us to discuss surge of coronavirus cases due to the hyper-infectious Delta variant and field listener questions.

1:08 – We discuss the politics of national crime statistics and myths about the uptick in crime with sociologist Tamara K. Nopper (@tamranopper)

1:34 – Some recent assaults and robberies spooked Chinatown residents last week. Oakland Police called in the FBI to help curb violence. We invite Cheuk-Ning Li, an Oakland organizer for APEN-the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and Ben Wang (@BenWang80), co-director of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee to unpack these recent events.

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On this show:

0:08 – Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice is the latest book by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, tackling health and structural injustices, and taking us on a medical tour of the human body. Our guests are Rupa Marya, professor of medicine at UCSF, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, and Raj Patel, professor of public affairs and nutrition at the University of Texas at Austin.

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1:08 – Earthquakes! We speak with two guests:

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