This Thursday Trump passed an executive order on religious freedom. It allows religious institutions to endorse candidates from the pulpit and it exempts them from providing contraceptives to their employees. Jessica Pieklo, vice president of law and the courts, joins us.

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The Australian leaked a 23 page document detailing how Facebook targets teens who are feeling emotionally vulnerable. Facebook, according to the release, lets advertisers pinpoint when teens are feeling "insecure".  We talk to Luke Stark, a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at Dartmouth College.

 

Source Image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Facebook_features#News_Feed

 

The homeless population in the Bay Area is growing at a rapidness proportionate to the rate of evictions and gentrification. Host Cat Brooks speaks to Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan representing Oakland and Heather Freinkel Managing Attorney at Homeless Action Center.

Then, Ibram X. Kendi discusses his New York Times bestseller, "Stamped from the Beginning." Winner of multiple awards including Boston Globe Best Book and Kirkus Best History Book, "Stamped" chronicles the history of anti-Blackness and the racist ideas created and dispersed by our country's intellectuals and politicians.

With recent attention on Alameda County Sheriff's collaboration with ICE, host Mitch Jeserich interviews Aviva Chomsky, professor of History at Salem State University and author of "Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal" to examine national immigration policy from the Clinton presidency to the present.

The second segment focuses on criminalization of immigrants at the local level with Isaac Ontiveros, member of Oakland Sin Fronteras and Stop Urban Shield Coalition, co-director of the Center for Political Education, and facilitator in May Day mobilizations, and Sandy Valenciano, Statewide Coordinator California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance and part of ACUDIR coalition.

 

Chomsky's article "The Criminalization of Immigrants from Clinton to Trump" can be found here: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176271/tomgram%3A_aviva_chomsky%2C_the_criminalization_of_immigrants_from_clinton_to_trump/

 

 

 

On today's show we first speak with Hatem Bazian about Hamas New Charter for Palestine. Hatem Bazian is the co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States. Prof. Bazian is also a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Source Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UN_Partition_Plan_For_Palestine_1947.svg

 

Then, Cat Brooks interviews James M. Thomas on the book Are Racists Crazy.

About the book: Historian Sander Gilman and sociologist James M. Thomas look at the centuries long project to pinpoint the psychological origins of racism in their new book Are Racist Crazy: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity.

 

On today's show: May Day Protests in The Bay Area. We talk with Clarence Thomas, longtime labor unionist, activist and longshoremen and Sagnicthe Salazar, Organizer with Xicana Moratorium Coalition and Lead Organizer for Oakland Sin Fronteras Coalition.

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Then, Fred Glass explains the History of Labor and General Strikes. He is the Communications Director for the California Federation of Teachers and instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is author of the book From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement.

 

Saturday marks trumps first 100 days in office. We take a look back at what he’s accomplished, and, what he has not accomplished, But also, we take a look at what sort of mark he’s left on the country, how he’s changed the way we view the presidential office, and each other – such as immigrants. We talk to Ruth Conniff, editor in chief of the progressive.

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This past saturday was the “march for science” in washington DC and across the country. The marchers wanted to send a message to the administration who have questioned science, and the truth of climate change. But, not everyone agreed with the way marchers portrayed the scientific endeavor as something politically neutral. Dr. John Alaniz a historian of science at the University of California, Berkeley, joins us in the studio.

 

Source Image: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

On today's show Cat brooks discusses Free Speech and Hate Speech about Ann Coulter, she was supposed to give a talk at UC berkeley today. Our guest is Frances Dinkelspiel, Editor and Co-founder of the online newspaper Berkeleyside and Natalie Orenstein, Reporter with Berkeleyside.

Then, as Palestine is in hunger strike, Cat interviews David Mandel, and Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and coordinates the International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild.

Finally, she invites David Arkush, managing director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program, to comment on climate change during Trump.

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On today's show we talk with Christine Hong, associate professor in the Literature Department and the program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz and executive member of the Korea Policy Institute. As the Trump Administration engages in force displays with North Korea, we need to address the issues which could arise.

Source Image: https://pixabay.com/en/south-korea-south-korea-peace-hand-2132622/

Then, a quick update on the journey of the Caravan Against Fear, before heading to a discussion with Rasheed Shabazz, Media, Arts and Culture Program Director at RYSE Center. The RYSE center produces Richmond Renaissance, a play about the 1940s Richmond, a center for Blues, Jazz and Zydeco. The play is performed by the youth at Cerrito High School.

On today's show we speak of Free Speech in Berkeley with guest Harmeet Dhillon, First Amendment lawyer representing Young America’s Foundation and Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) in a lawsuit against UC Berkeley filed yesterday (Monday) because campus administrators do not permit BCR  to host Ann Coulter on April 27. We also invited Dan Siegel, civil rights attorney and community leader. He was a student activist during the free speech movement in the 1960’s.

Source Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/9592917489

Then, we speak of American War A Novel by Omar El Akkad, award-winning journalist and author who has traveled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade. His reporting includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantànamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri.

 

On today's show we first speak of healthcare taken as a ransom by the government to make Democrats cave to its will. Then, our guest Tony Cross, journalist at Radio France International, updates us on the French Elections results for the first round of the residential race. He is the editor of his own blog: The Raving Reporter [1].

Emmanuel Macron: 23.9% Marine Le Pen: 21.4%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source Image Macron: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmanuel_Macron_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_avril_2015.jpg

Source Image Le Pen: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Pen,_Marine-9586.jpg

Finally, we have healthcare Neena Chaudhry, Director of Education at National Women’s Law Center, she talks to us about the report "Stopping School Pushout for Girls of Color".

[1] http://theravingreporter.com/