The film Black Mothers Love and Resist premieres on Friday, April 29th, at the San Francisco Film Fest | SFFF

0:08 – Elon Musk, the wealthiest person in the world, has inked a deal to acquire Twitter at $44 billion, and he says he would like to privatize it, and use it to promote free speech. We discuss Twitter’s power and the implications of the acquisition with Siva Vaidhyanathan (@sivavaid), media studies professor at the University of Virginia and author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, as well as Nora Benavidez (@AttorneyNora), Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights for Free Press.

0:36 – Fossil records show ways that the natural world responds to dramatic changes in our environment. We are joined by Thor Hanson, a conservation biologist, Guggenheim Fellow, and author, to explore how we can see climate change in biological phenomena. His latest is Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change.

1:09 – Oakland is going to court today to attempt to remove a 19-year federal oversight program, which was started in response to egregious illegal actions by a group of officers known as the Riders. Jim Chanin (@jimchanin), one of the civil rights attorney’s who represent plaintiffs in that lawsuit, speaks with us about what could happen in today’s court hearing.

1:33 – Black Mothers Love & Resist (@blackmothersfilm/), a documentary film that focuses on the ways that families victimized by police violence have built relationships, solidarity, and a movement that has spanned the nation. We are joined by the film’s director, Débora Souza Silva, as well as one of the film’s subjects, Reverend Wanda Johnson, who is Oscar Grant’s mother. The film premieres this Friday at the San Francisco Film Festival.

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