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Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, JULY 23 PROGRAM # 9327 12:00 PM PDT Mexico Edition. Mexico Edition. The White House decided to extend Covid-19 restrictions on nonessential travel by land at the border with Mexico through August 21. This uncertainty has frustrated border communities. Renowned Mexican analysts of health care policy discuss this measure by the US, the possible […]
Extra Edition: Lawsuit Over Chlorpyrifos. Also, The Covid Costs to Farm Workers.
THURSDAY, JULY 22 PROGRAM # 9325 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: Lawsuit Over Chlorpyrifos. Last year, California banned the sale of chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide linked to brain damage in children. Now, lawyers for parents who live in Central Valley communities contaminated by the toxic chemical for decades are suing Dow Chemical and its […]
Schools Reopening Plans. Also, Listening to Underrepresented students.
THURSDAY, JULY 22 PROGRAM # 9326 12:00 PM PDT Schools Reopening Plans. Amid parents’ concerns about the Delta variant, Western states are preparing to reopen schools for full in-person instruction in the fall. Experts comment on the new recommendations to allow children to return to school, including masks and physical distancing rules, and requirements on […]
First Key Vote on Infrastructure Bill.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 PROGRAM # 9324 12:00 PM PDT First Key Vote on Infrastructure Bill. The US Senate voted today on a motion to open debate on the bipartisan infrastructure deal, the largest public initiative since the New Deal. The Republicans blocked the move, in what is seen as the first major test for the […]
Extra Edition: Rent Relief Catch-22.
TUESDAY, JULY 20 PROGRAM # 9322 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: Rent Relief Catch-22. In the Central Valley, some of the immigrant families hardest-hit by the pandemic were largely excluded from the government’s rent relief. The reason is many prioritized paying rent over food, medical care or utilities or went into debt and now they […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, JULY 20 PROGRAM # 9323 12:00 PM PDT Immigration Edition. The $3.5 trillion budget resolution to help the country recover from the Covid-19 pandemic includes funding for immigration policy changes, including legalization programs for immigrants and a path to citizenship for immigrant workers and their families. What immigration provisions are in the plan and […]
Texas: Legislative Fugitives. Also, Attempts to Delegitimize Elections.
MONDAY, JULY 19 PROGRAM # 9321 12:00 PM PDT Texas: Legislative Fugitives. Texas Democrats fled the state to protest Republican attempts to pass new laws to restrict the vote in a special session. The Texas group is planning to spend weeks in Washington DC meeting with US Senators in an effort to get national protections […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, JULY 16 PROGRAM # 9320 12:00 PM PDT Mexico Edition. The impact of the drought on Mexican farmers and rural poverty, Mexico’s Covid vaccination campaign, and Mexico’s plans to decarbonize its economy in light of climate change, are some of the stories discussed with news analysts in this weekly edition. Photo: palabranahj.org For more information about […]
Extra Edition: The Drought Emergency.
THURSDAY, JULY 15 PROGRAM # 9318 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: The Drought Emergency. As the heat wave exacerbates the drought across the West, Gov. Newsom in California asked residents to cut their water use by 15% and extended emergency drought declarations to some counties. The nation’s largest water reservoirs in Arizona, California and Nevada […]
Conviction on Berta Cáceres Murder. Also, Child Tax Credit Payments Begin.
THURSDAY, JULY 15 PROGRAM # 9319 12:00 PM PDT Conviction on Berta Cáceres Murder. Five and a half years after the murder of Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader Berta Caceres, a construction executive was found guilty in connection with the crime. The convicted man is the former president of a dam construction project opposed […]
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- "The Message": Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Power of Writing & Visiting Senegal, South Carolina, Palestine November 28, 2024
- Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance November 28, 2024
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- Amid Anti-Trans Wave, Chase Strangio to Make History as First Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court November 27, 2024
