[caption id="attachment_376917" align="alignnone" width="604"] Firefighters respond to a fire at the Kharkiv National University, which was recently shelled. March 2, 2022. | Image by photoserg [1][/caption]

On today's show:

0:08 - Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock [2]), managing editor at the English-language edition of Meduza [3] discusses the extinction of Russian independent media.

0:24 - Kseniya Kharchenko, a Kyiv evacuee joins us from Poland.

0:34 - April Glaser (@aprilaser [4]), Senior Internet Policy Fellow at The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School discusses research on how social media companies are handling the war in Ukraine.

1:08 - Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf [5]), long-time San Francisco investigative reporter and founder of 48 Hills [6] discusses the Gann Limit and why California would choose not to spend its budget surplus to save public schools.

1:25 - Max Orozco, an OUSD parent whose daughter attends La Escuelita Elementary discusses how the impending school closures would affect his community.

1:33 - Moses Omolade @craft_ed._x [7], Westlake Middle School administrator and Timothy Killings, a teacher at Westlake Middle School and community organizer joins us to continue our coverage of the OUSD school closures.

Event: A march to protest the school closures is scheduled in East Oakland this Saturday, March 5 at 11 AM — 1390 66th Avenue, Oakland  94621.

[1] https://depositphotos.com/550782740/stock-photo-kharkiv-ukraine-march-2022-rescue.html

[2] https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock

[3] https://meduza.io/en

[4] https://twitter.com/aprilaser

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

[6] https://48hills.org/

[7] https://www.instagram.com/craft_ed._x/