KPFA - UpFront

Trump’s First Year in Office, Plus, An Update from Houston Post-Harvey


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Today, we air a special show featuring thirteen interviews from influential thinkers, strategists, and activists spanning the fields of racial equity, immigration, environmental justice and more about the impact of Donald Trump's first year in office. Tune in as we ask them what the biggest impact to their work has been, where they see the resistance and their biggest hopes and fears for the coming year.
But first, we'll hear a brief update on what Houston looks like months after Hurricane Harvey devastated the city from Dr. Abdul Haleem-Mohammad, Founder and CEO of ACTION Community Development Corporation and local radio host from our sister station KPFT.
**Please scroll down for phone numbers and resources related to immigration and ICE raids.
Guests: 
Dr. Abdul Haleem-Mohammad, Founder and CEO of ACTION Community Development Corporation, minister at a local mosque and radio host from our sister station KPFT
John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation
Anthony Wright, Executive Director of Health Access California
Mary Sweeters, Climate and Energy Campaigner with Greenpeace
Sophia Andary, co-lead of Women's March San Francisco
Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of the SF Bay Area Chapter of Council on American Islamic Relations
Woods Ervin, Program & Policy Director of TGI Justice Project
Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of Arab Resource Organizing Center
Norman Solomon, coordinator of RootsAction.org
Charles Long, member of BlackOUT Collective
Craig Aaron, President and CEO of Free Press
Chuck Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits inequality
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Fellow on the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative at Prosperity Now
Sean Morales-Doyle, attorney in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center
 
RESOURCES FOR IMMIGRATION AND ICE RAIDS
Rapid Response Phone Numbers
A reminder to ONLY use these numbers for CONFIRMED raids or personal attacks.
These numbers were put out by the National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area Chapter:
Alameda County-(510) 241-4011
San Francisco County- (415) 200-1548
San Mateo County- (203) NOMIGRA (203-666-4472)
Santa Clara County- (408) 290-1144
Monterrey County- (831) 643-5225
Fresno County- (559) 978-4797
Sacramento County - (916) 245-6773
Santa Cruz County - (831) 239-4289
SIREN (texting) - (201) 468-6088
 
Other organizations to call:
Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC) [1]
National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area [2]
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) [3]
Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus [4]
California Immigrant Policy Center [5] (CIPC)
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance [6] (CIYJA)
Central American Resource Center [7] (CARECEN)
Centro Legal de la Raza [8]
Immigrant Legal Resource Center [9] (ILRC)
La Raza Centro Legal [10]
Mujeres Unidas y Activas [11] (MUA)
Pangea Legal Services [12]
[1] http://araborganizing.org/
[2] http://www.nlgsf.org/
[3] http://ca.cair.com/sfba/
[4] http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/
[5] http://www.caimmigrant.org/
[6] http://www.ciyja.org/
[7] http://www.carecensf.org/
[8] http://centrolegal.org/
[9] https://www.ilrc.org/
[10] http://www.lrcl.org/
[11] http://mujeresunidas.net/
[12] http://www.pangealegal.org/
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