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0:08 — Negar Mortazavi is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the Iran Podcast. She joins us from Washington D.C.

0:20 — Juan Carlos, an immigrant and US Veteran currently detained by ICE at Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield, CA. Priya Arvind Patel, Supervising Attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice.

0:33 — Dr. Blair J. Wylie, is Founding Director of The Collaborative for Women’s Environmental Health and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University. She discusses why pregnant people are most at risk during a heatwave. 

0:45 — Anna Ortega, is an Amazon San Bernardino air hub worker organizing with Inland Empire Amazon Workers United. Keith Brower Brown is Labor-Climate Organizer at Labor Notes. 

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0:08 — Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng is a Physician and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. 

0:33 — Maritza Perez Medina is the Director of Federal Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance. 

0:45 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills. Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. 

The post UN Expert Calls for Ending the Global War on Drugs; Plus the Battle Over Rent Control in San Francisco appeared first on KPFA.

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

0:33 — Dr. Peter Chin-Hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease physician at UCSF Medical Center.

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

0:33 — Dr. Peter Chin-Hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease physician at UCSF Medical Center.

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Brian Merchant, founder of the speculative fiction outlet Terraform, recently laid-off technology columnist for the LA Times, and author most recently of Blood in the Machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech. [This is a repeat of an interview originally recorded in December 2023]

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00:08 Cory Doctorow, blogger, digital rights activist, author of many books of science fiction, and a few of non-fiction, the most recent of which is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

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0:08 — Zahra Billoo serves as the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) office. Molly Sampson, BUSD parent.

0:33 — Jack Poulson is an independent journalist writing about the intersection of technology and the military. He is also the Executive Director of Tech Inquiry, a tech accountability non-profit organization.

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0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies.

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

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0:08 — Priscilla Orta is the Director of Project Corazon for Lawyers for Good Government. Project Corazon was created to defend the rights of migrants in the face of inhumane immigration policies.

0:33 — Susan Neiman is an American writer and academic. She is the director of the Einstein Forum, in Potsdam, Germany. Her latest book is “Left is Not Woke.”

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