Tag Archives: Politics
Extra Edition: Susana Baca.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24 PROGRAM # 9127 11:00 AM PST Extra Edition: Susana Baca. Peruvian singer-songwriter Susana Baca recently won the 2020 Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for her album “A Capella” (A Cappella), which was recorded at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and features 17 songs and poems. To mark the occasion, […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 PROGRAM # 9125 12:00 PM PST Immigration Edition. A federal judge in Texas hears a case today and considers invalidating DACA. This is the same judge who in 2015 cancelled the Obama administration’s order to extend DACA protections to immigrant parents. On other news, millions of people were left out of the […]
Is Relief on Sight? Black, Latino Businesses Struggle to Get PPP Loans. Farmworkers and Coronavirus.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 PROGRAM # 9123 12:00 PM PST Is Relief on Sight? Negotiators in Congress worked over the weekend to finalize a deal on a smaller coronavirus stimulus bill. What’s the content of the relief deal? How much was included in the package for the unemployed, tenants in trouble, the hungry, mixed-status immigrant families? […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 PROGRAM # 9122 12:00 PM PST Mexico Edition. After the Electoral College voters have officially chosen Joe Biden as president, will Mexico’s President López Obrador finally congratulate the winner? Analysts comment on the repercussions in Mexico of the end of the Trump era, the changes expected in the US-Mexico relationship under Biden, […]
Health For All: New Push. Also, Fighting the Hunger Crisis.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 PROGRAM # 9121 12:00 PM PST Health For All: New Push. Stating that the Covid-19 pandemic has hit hardest communities of color, farmworkers and other essential workers, a state legislator from California’s Central Valley is renewing his effort to expand Medi-Cal health care coverage to undocumented immigrants. In this conversation, he explains […]
Extra Edition. How to Have Safer Holiday Celebrations during the Pandemic.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 PROGRAM # 9120 11:00 AM PST Extra Edition. How to Have Safer Holiday Celebrations during the Pandemic. With the holiday season upon us, public health leaders are calling on everyone to celebrate safely by cutting back traditional gatherings to help prevent further spread of COVID-19 to friends and loved ones. What to […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 PROGRAM # 9118 12:00 PM PST Immigration Edition. After a year and a half in immigration detention and afflicted by chronic medical conditions, Rene Ramírez Alatorre is free due to high risk of Covid-19 complications. In this interview, Ramírez talks about his life as a detainee and in solitary confinement in the […]
Electoral College Casts Votes. Also, Early Voting in Georgia US Senate Runoffs.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 PROGRAM # 9116 12:00 PM PST Electoral College Casts Votes. All 50 states and DC have certified their presidential election results and the members of the Electoral College meet today to choose the president. Meantime, the US Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge by Trump and Texas to invalidate millions of votes […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 PROGRAM # 9115 12:00 PM PST Mexico Edition. An expert on political asylum of Mexicans and the author of the book “Crimen Autorizado” say that the way to explain the predominance of drug cartels, violence and impunity in Mexico is by seen this as a phenomenon of “authorized crime” and a “supplanted […]
Extra Edition. Covid Hunger Emergency.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 PROGRAM # 9113 11:00 AM PST Extra Edition. Covid Hunger Emergency. Demand for food assistance has more than doubled in California during the Covid-19 pandemic and many Latino families struggle to put food on the table despite being more likely to be employed and working. And Latinos are less likely to apply […]
