February 09, 2022

OUSD approves school closures; Militia members mount successful campaign to recall Shasta County Supervisor; Plus San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis

[caption id="attachment_375447" align="alignnone" width="604"] Naloxone (Narcan) is administered to reverse opioid overdoses. | Image by VCU Capital News Service [1] is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 [2][/caption]

On today's show:

0:08 - Paul Offit (@drpauloffit [3]) Doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Vaccinology and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania discusses his latest book: You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation [4].

0:33 - We debrief the OUSD Board's decision to close and merge a smaller list of Oakland's schools with D3 Councilmember Carroll Fife (@carroll_fife [5]), Pecolia Manigo (@SistahPecolia [6]), co-director of Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network and member of the Reparations for Black Students Coalition, Maurice "André" San-Chez, choir and dance teacher at Westlake Middle School and hunger striker, and liz suk (@liz_suk [7]), Executive Director of Oakland Rising.

1:08 - Doni Chamberlain (@donichamberlain [8]), a former newspaper reporter who publishes A News Cafe [9], an online news and opinion blog about Shasta County politics and Lisa Pruitt (@lisareneepruitt [10]), an expert on the intersection of law and rural livelihoods and professor at UC Davis School of Law join us to discuss a successful campaign mounted by a militia group to recall Shasta County Supervisor Leonard Moty.

1:33 - We discuss San Francisco's fentanyl crisis with Trisha Thadani (@TrishaThadani [11]), city hall reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who recently coproduced a multi-media news feature on the topic: A Disaster in Plain Sight [12], Laura Guzman, Senior Director of Capacity Building and Mobilization at the National Harm Reduction Coalition, and Jason Norelli, who works on GLIDE’s Harm Reduction [13] team as a Navigation Manager.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/vcucns/31579570334

[2] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

[3] https://twitter.com/drpauloffit

[4] https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/paul-a-offit-md/you-bet-your-life/9781541620384/

[5] https://twitter.com/carroll_fife

[6] https://twitter.com/SistahPecolia

[7] https://twitter.com/liz_suk

[8] https://twitter.com/donichamberlain

[9] https://anewscafe.com/

[10] https://twitter.com/lisareneepruitt

[11] https://twitter.com/TrishaThadani

[12] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/sf-fentanyl-opioid-epidemic/