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On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we're discussing the tragic killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira.

Dom Phillips, who was working on a book called How to Save the Amazon, wrote extensively about Brazil's uncontacted Indigenous tribes, Indigenous people uniting to protect their land, the exploitation of the Amazon by loggers, ranchers, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, evidence linking Brazil meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation, and more.

Bruno Pereira faced regular threats for helping Indigenous communities organize and monitor their land, according to the Guardian. He also ran workshops with communities under threat.

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we're discussing how the media are covering the January 6 hearings, Republican politicians who are still standing by Donald Trump, and future plans to overturn elections.

Michael Luttig, a retired conservative judge who informally advised Mike Pence, testified that Donald Trump and his supporters are preparing an "attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but [to] succeed."

On this edition of Your Call, Ryan Busse will discuss Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America. Busse is a former firearms executive who built a successful career selling millions of guns.

After getting an insider's view of the industry's addition to fear and hardcore conservatism, he decided to leave and expose what’s happening behind the scenes. He says the multibillion-dollar gun industry fosters extremism, racism, and the radicalization of right-wing America. What's the most effective way to take on the powerful gun lobby?

On this edition of Your Call, we'll continue our discussion about the House committee hearings to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

According to interviews with Donald Trump's inner circle, there were competing factions in the Trump White House: one that tried to convince him that the election results were legitimate, and the other, led by Rudy Giuliani, who continually pushed the big lie. Former Attorney General Bill Bar described Trump as "detached from reality" in his efforts to overturn the election. In response, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer tweeted: Yet when Barr resigned he praised Trump to the hilt, and never revealed he thought Trump was either “detached from reality” or willfully lying, or both.

The committee also followed the money and revealed that Trump and his allies scammed money from supporters over false claims of election fraud. The campaign raised $250 million after sending out relentless emails to supporters, sometimes 25 per day. The last fundraising email on the topic was sent a half-hour before the Capitol attack.

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we discuss the impact of the climate crisis on coastal redwood forests and giant sequoias.

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Corey Johnson discusses Poisoned, a Tampa Bay Times’ series that exposed how Gopher Resource, Florida’s only lead smelter, endangered hundreds of workers and polluted the surrounding low-income community.

On this edition of Your Call, we’re discussing ongoing labor issues at Amy’s Kitchen, the company that sells vegetarian soups and meals in grocery stores across the country and has multiple drive-thru restaurants in Northern California. Amy’s Kitchen is a $500 million company, according to the Petaluma Star.

Workers have reported several issues on the job, including poor wages, unsafe working conditions and stress injuries. UNITE HERE Local 19 filed multiple unfair labor practice charges alleging that the company’s San Jose location unlawfully fired and disciplined workers for protected activity and union involvement, threatened to fire workers for union support, interrogated workers, surveilled workers, solicited grievances to undermine organizing efforts, and subjected workers to repeated anti-union captive audience meetings. Earlier this year, Teamsters Local 665 also filed a complaint to Cal/OSHA against Amy’s Kitchen’s Santa Rosa location.

On this edition of next Your Call, we’ll discuss the January 6th committee hearings, which begin tonight at 5pm PT.

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin said, "No president has ever come close to doing what happened here in terms of trying to organize an inside coup to overthrow an election and bypass the constitutional order."

The committee is expected to present new material documenting the attack, question witnesses, and provide the public with an initial summary of its findings about the coordinated effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and prevent the transfer of power.

On this edition of Your Call, we'll discuss San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin who was recalled by 60 percent of (74,335) voters. Only 25.8 percent of registered voters returned their ballots (127,926 out of 495,498 registered voters). Mayor London Breed will choose Boudin's replacement.

Recall supporters, backed by $7.2 million in contributions, said, "Chesa Boudin is failing us. We need real public safety and accountability." After the results came in last night, Boudin said, "People are angry, they’re frustrated, and I want to be very clear about what happened tonight. The right-wing billionaires outspent us three to one. They exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset and they created an electoral environment in which we were literally shadow boxing."

What does this outcome mean for the future of criminal justice reform?

On this edition of Your Call, we'll discuss gun violence committed with handguns and semi-automatic rifles. Six states have increased the minimum age to purchase semi-automatics from 18 to 21.

Families impacted by the Uvalde massacre are taking steps that could lead to lawsuits against Daniel Defense, the company that made the weapon used to kill 19 children and two teachers. Daniel Defense is a powerful Republican donor and has received more than 100 federal contracts and a few loans.