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Extra Edition: How to Coexist with Covid (Repeat Program.) Also, Eviction Protections End.
THURSDAY, JULY 14 PROGRAM # 9683 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: How to Coexist with Covid (Repeat Program.) As the nation struggles to move Covid-19 from being a pandemic to an endemic, an infectious disease expert discusses new approaches to fight the pandemic. Instead of planning to eradicate the virus, scientists suggest learning how to […]
Risks of Not Getting Children Vaccinated against COVID-19. Also, BA.5 Variant Worries.
THURSDAY, JULY 14 PROGRAM # 9684 12:00 PM PT Risks of Not Getting Children Vaccinated against COVID-19. “If you’ve had Covid already you don’t need to be vaccinated.” A public health expert joins this program to debunk this and other myths, with a focus on those parents who are still hesitant to vaccinate their children. […]
Drought and Water Supply; Wildfire Season.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 PROGRAM # 9682 12:00 PM PT Drought and Water Supply; Wildfire Season. As the historic drought worsens, unregulated industries turn to open new agricultural wells and over pumping groundwater, threatening the water supplies for disadvantaged communities. To protect the stressed aquifers and communities, Gov. Newsom released an executive, drought-emergency order, requiring new […]
Extra Edition: Finding Housing After Prison.
TUESDAY, JULY 12 PROGRAM # 9680 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Finding Housing After Prison. People who were previously incarcerated face a number of barriers when trying to find housing: landlord stigma, prior evictions, good paying jobs, loss of income, and more. A new journalistic project looks into the constant threat of homelessness people suffer […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, JULY 12 PROGRAM # 9681 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. After the Biden-AMLO meeting in the White House, a journalist who attended the meeting reports on the talks on migration, including AMLO’s call for US immigration reform and more visas for temporary workers of diverse sectors. Also, two days after six county executives in […]
Overturning Roe: Impact on Migrant Women. Also, Red Flags and Another Mass Shooting.
MONDAY, JULY 11 PROGRAM # 9679 12:00 PM PT Overturning Roe: Impact on Migrant Women. An advocate talks about the impact that overturning Roe v. Wade may have on migrant and rural women, their families and farmworker and civil rights. Many farmworking women live in states where abortion is being declared illegal or heavily restricted. […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, JULY 8 PROGRAM # 9678 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Political analysts discuss the public security strategy of the Mexican government now that Mexico exceeded one hundred thousand of disappeared people. How is the Hugs not Bullets policy working in reducing the rates of violence and impunity? What are the challenges ahead? In other […]
Extra Edition: Combating Deadly Heat Threat in the Fields (Program Repeat.)
THURSDAY, JULY 7 PROGRAM # 9676 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Combating Deadly Heat Threat in the Fields (Program Repeat.) Millions are under heat watches as a dangerous heat wave is warming the fields throughout the US South and Southwest. Exacerbated by climate change, temperatures for this summer season are expected to be worse than […]
Latinos Receive Nation’s Highest Civilian Honor. Also, Supreme Court Ties EPA’s Hands on Pollution.
THURSDAY, JULY 7 PROGRAM # 9677 12:00 PM PT Latinos Receive Nation’s Highest Civilian Honor. President Biden is awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to Raúl Yzaguirre, Julieta García, and others. Civil rights advocate Yzaguirre led for 30 years the National Council of la Raza, now known as UnidosUS, and […]
Migrant Deaths and Border Managing.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 PROGRAM # 9675 12:00 PM PT Migrant Deaths and Border Managing. More than 50 migrants died in a trailer in the sweltering heat of Texas, as part of a rising toll of deaths of people trying to cross the border. A coalition of human rights and environmental groups warn that the number […]
