News & Politics
[caption id="attachment_375330" align="alignnone" width="302"] Image courtesy of Reparations for Black Students [1][/caption] On today's show: 0:08 - Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13 [2]), senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research joins us to discuss the latest federal jobs figures. 0:33 - Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health joins us to discuss the latest COVID science and answer listener questions. 1:08 - Jaylani Hussein (@Jaylanihussein [3]), Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Minnesota Chapter joins us to discuss the Minneapolis police killing of Amir Locke and the federal trial against three Minneapolis Police Officers charged in George Floyd’s killing. 1:33 - Walter Riley (@walterphillip [4]), longtime Oakland social justice activist and civil rights lawyer and Kitty Kelly Epstein, educator, scholar, and host of KPFA's Education Today [5] join us to discuss the movement that has emerged against the OUSD's proposed decision to close or merge schools. [1] https://reparationsforblackstudents.org/ [2] https://twitter.com/DeanBaker13 [3] https://twitter.com/Jaylanihussein [4] https://twitter.com/walterphillip [5] https://kpfa.org/program/education-today/