[caption id="attachment_374165" align="alignnone" width="613"] Boarded up storefronts at Valley Plaza, North Hollywood, CA on October 21, 2011. The nearly 100 acre retail strip mall was largely abandoned after the 2008 financial crisis. | Image by Steve Devol is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 [1][/caption]
On today's show:
0:08 - John Nichols (@NicholsUprising [2]), National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation joins us to discuss the Senate's impasse over the filibuster.
0:33 - Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health joins us again for our weekly COVID science segment.
1:08 - Hamid Khan, Coordinator and Organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition [3](@stoplapdspying [4]) and Andrea Ritchie (@dreanyc123 [5]), author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color [6] and co-founder of the Interrupting Criminalization [7] initiative join us to unpack the LAPD shooting death of Valentina Orellana Peralta.
1:33 - We discuss the racism of automated traffic enforcement with Emily Hopkins (@indyemapolis [8]), an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica who co-authored an investigation into the racial disparities of Chicago’s automated traffic enforcement system and Brian Hofer (@b_haddy [9]), who chairs the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission, and is executive director of the advocacy group Secure Justice [10].
[1] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
[2] https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising
[3] https://stoplapdspying.org/
[4] https://twitter.com/stoplapdspying
[5] https://twitter.com/dreanyc123
[6] http://invisiblenomorebook.com/
[7] https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/
[8] https://twitter.com/indyemapolis
[9] https://twitter.com/b_haddy
[10] https://secure-justice.org/
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