0:08 – Debriefing the watershed election from Colombia last week, which brought for the first time, a left wing government, we explore what it means to take office in a country that is mired in political corruption investigations beset by inflation. We’re joined by co-authors of a recent piece from Jacobin magazine: Mikael Wolfe (@Mikaeloup) is associate professor of history at Stanford University, and Christian Robles-Baez is a PhD candidate also at Stanford.

0:34 – The new fiscal year starts for California this Friday. Sunday night brought an announcement that the legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom agreed on a budget deal. We start by exploring what’s included in the budget with Alexei Kossef (@akoseff), who reports on the state capital for the nonprofit newsroom CalMatters.

0:42 – We continue on the California budget, this time exploring what’s not included in the budget, with Michael Herald (@michaelherald1), director of policy advocacy at the Western Center on Law and Poverty.

0:50 – Closing out our California budget segment, we explore a nearly 50-year old restriction imposed by voters called The Gann Limit, which caps overall spending but also has many exceptions. We explore the restrictions with Chris Hoene (@chriswhoene), executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center.

1:08 – Last week, the US Supreme Court made a move against gun regulations, striking down a New York state law which restricted people carrying guns outside their homes without a proven need for them. What this leaves a big question over, is gun regulations in blue states like California. We’re joined by Ben Christopher (@FromBenC), who covers politics and elections for CalMatters, to discuss.

1:20 – A new California State Senate Bill, SB505, would require owners of guns to purchase liability insurance that would cover how guns would get used. We’re joined by that bill’s sponsor, State Senator Nancy Skinner (@NancySkinnerCA), who represents District 9, in the East Bay.

1:33 – Continuing our conversation with State Senator Nancy Skinner (@NancySkinnerCA), we discuss how California’s legislature is addressing abortion access, including enshrining the right to access in the state constitution.

1:42 – Abortion access in California isn’t currently threatened, but the impact on clinics and providers will increase heavily from abortion seekers coming from out of state. We speak with Debbie Bamberger (@debbiebamberger) who is an abortion provider with Planned Parenthood in Oakland, who was the first Nurse Practitioner in to be trained for aspiration abortions in California, and has worked in the field of abortion care for 35 years.

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0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the latest developments in international news: The G7 meeting, Russian oil, the war in Ukraine, and implications of Latin America’s latest elections.

0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, discusses the latest COVID science and answer listener questions.

1:09 – Fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision that overturns a federally protected right to abortion access. We speak with Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady), Senior Editor of Law and Policy for Rewire News Group as well as co-host of the podcast Boom! Lawyered.

1:33 – From a young person’s perspective, we speak with Beezus B. Murphy, a Seattle-area high school student and author of graphic novel My Mom Had An Abortion, who reflects on what it meant to learn of her mother’s choice.

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0:08 – Two years after the Oakland Unified School District passed the George Floyd Resolution, which completely dismantled their school police department, we speak with Ebony Johnson, a staff organizer with the Black Organizing Project who was at the forefront of the push to dismantle.

0:33 – As we head into Pride weekend less than two weeks after homophobic and transphobic slurs shut down a drag queen reading event at the San Lorenzo Public Library, we speak with Lil Miss Hot Mess (@LilMissHotMess), a drag queen, children’s book author, and board member of the international organization Drag Queen Story Hour (@dqshtweets). Near the end of the episode, she gives us a short reading. For the full in-person experience, Lil Miss Hot Mess will be reading live at Black Bird Bookstore, in the Outer Sunset in San Francisco. The event will be outdoors, at 11am on July 9th.

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As pride weekend approaches, we decided to look back at the political history of the annual Pride celebration.

0:08 – Former host Salima Hamirani speaks with Felicia “Flames” Elizondo, a local lifelong trans activist who was a part of San Francisco’s 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riots, who lived her last three decades with AIDS.

Last year, we spoke with Sue Englander, a close friend of Elizondo on the eve of her passing. Listen to that episode here.

0:33 – The New York City uprising that became known as the Stonewall Riots happened 53 years ago this week. We dive into that with this deep cut from the Pacific Radio Archives Pacifica Radio Archives.

1:08 – Bay Area Lesbian Archives founder Lenn Keller speaks with Liam O’Donohue on this episode of East Bay Yesterday.

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