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Fund Drive Special with Annie Leonard (opens the original)
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00:08 — Annie Leonard is an environmental and anti-consumerist activist who served as the Executive Director of Greenpeace US and created the film “The Story of Stuff.” Her latest book, co-authored with Andre Carothers, is Protest: Respect It Defend It Use It. The post Fund Drive Special with Annie Leonard appeared first on KPFA.
Fund Drive Special: Astra Taylor on End Times Fascism (opens the original)
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00:08 — Astra Taylor is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. Her latest book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, is co-authored with Naomi Klein. The post Fund Drive Special: Astra Taylor on End Times Fascism appeared first on KPFA.
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls (opens the original)
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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. The post Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls appeared first on KPFA.
“It’s a barbarity”: Advocates call for ICE to stop detaining pregnant women; Plus, medical neglect and retaliation in U.S. prisons (opens the original)
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0:08 – “It’s a barbarity, it’s a form of medical torture.” That’s what advocates say about ICE’s treatment of pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women. In the first nine months of the Trump administration, there were 18 miscarriages among pregnant people held in ICE detention. Then, last fall – Immigration and Customs Enforcement stopped counting pregnancy loss under their watch altogether. We speak with Maanvi Singh, national immigration reporter for the Guardian, who co-reported the new investi
Federal Reserve Raises Rates; Trump Seeks to Pave and Log U.S. Forests (opens the original)
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On today’s show: We talk with economist Dean Baker about the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise the overnight interest rate – something President Trump did not want the central bank to do. In the second half of the program, we cover the Trump administration’s efforts to scrap the Roadless Rule, which has prevented major logging and road-building in tens of millions of acres of U.S. forests for a quarter century. 0:08 – Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research,
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