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Cat Brooks and Brian Edwards-Tiekert host an election special following Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s presidential debate.

The first hour features:

00:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.

00:24 — Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.

00:36 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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00:08 — Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. His latest book is Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.

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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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00:08 Sasha Abramsky, Western Correspondent for The Nation, just out with Chaos Comes Calling: the battle against  the far-right takeover of small-town America

EVENT: Sasha Abramsky will be doing a book event at the Book Passage in Corte Madera tomorrow (Saturday, 9/7/24) at 1:PM

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00:08 US Special Counsel Jack Smith is back in court with a superseding indictment of Donald Trump meant to stay on the right side of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling.

Jeremy Stahl, jurisprudence editor at Slate.

00:34 San Francisco’s housing authority is trying to kick out dozens of people living in the Potrero HIll Terrace Annex who thought they were paid up tenants — it turns out they were paying rent to a rogue employee of a property management company who was pocketing the payments.

Sara Shortt Director of Tenants Rights Counseling Programs at Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco.

Ora Prochovnick, Director of Litigation and Policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative of San Francisco

00:46 Thousands of hotel workers in California working under expired contracts struck over Labor Day weekend — and some are still out on strike.

Ted Waechter, is an organizer and communications representative for UNITE HERE Local 2

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00:08 — Sameea Kamal is a reporter for CalMatters covering the state Capitol and California politics.

00:33 — Joel Beinin a Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. 

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0:08 —  John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

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00:08 Brian Merchant, author of  Blood in the Machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech, and purveyor of a Substack newsletter by the same name. [This is a holiday repeat of an interview originally recorded in December 2023, shortly before Merchant was unironically laid off from his tech columnist position at the LA Times.]

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Sunaura Taylor, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Her new book is Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from  a wounded desert

EVENT: Sunaura’s presenting her book in an event with Yomi Young on Monday September 9 at 6:pm at Pegasus Books in Downtown Berkeley.

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00:08 The California Local Journalism Preservation Act, which would have taxed large tech platforms to subsidize local reporting, was abruptly shelved and replaced with a deal to have Google and California contribute smaller sums of money to a journalism fund administered through UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism.

Jon Schleuss is a data journalist  who currently serves as the president of the NewsGuild-CWA, which had been supporting the now-shelved legislation and opposes the new deal. 

Neil Chase is the Chief Executive Officer of the nonprofit newsroom CalMatters. He was formerly Executive Editor at The Mercury News and the East Bay Times, and is supportive of the new deal.

00:33 At UC Berkeley, pro-Palestinian activists are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit brought against UC over its alleged tolerance of antisemitism.

Zaid Yousef, president of the UC Berkeley’ Muslim Student Association.

Ronald Cruz is the attorney representing the proposed intervenors, also an organizer for  United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund (UEAALDF).

00:45 At San Francisco State University, pro-Palestinian activists are declaring a win after the university divested from four companies that profit from Israel’s war in Gaza.

Rama Ali Kased is an Associate Professor in Race and Resistance Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

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