Voices: River City
292 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsVoices: River City is an independent, socialist news podcast based out of Sacramento, discussing California politics. Local radio listeners can hear us Tuesdays at 5 pm on KUTZ 103.1, with a second airing on Wednesdays at 8 am.
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The VOICES: River City Voter Guide - 2022
May 19, 2022 05:49 - 1 hour - 95 MBWe're discussing state and local elections, and who the bastards really are. Enjoy. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. If you require a transcript of our episodes, please reach out to [email protected] and we'll make it happen. And thank you t...
Councilmember Katie Valenzuela on her trip to Cuba
May 17, 2022 09:23 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBThe Biden administration on Monday eased American restrictions on Cuba, but Cuban officials were strong in their position that these were simply baby steps to a true relationship. We're joined today by Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela to discuss her recent trip to Cuba--a country where healthcare is free and housing is a human right. Valenzuela was in the Caribbean to meet with workers from all over the globe to discuss how solidarity can be fostered throughout the world. We...
Decarcerating Sacramento, with Liz Blum
May 10, 2022 10:03 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBToday we talk with Liz Blum, Campaign Coordinator (and co-founder) of Decarcerate Sacramento, a coalition dedicated to lowering the number of people incarcerated in the Sacramento region through public health tactics. Central to today's discussion is a push to increase public support for a new, successful Public Defender's Pretrial Support Program over the current punitive Probation program, which has a markedly less successful recidivism rate (by a factor of six) below what public health ...
Sacramento’s WaPo treatment, on homelessness
May 03, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBWe discuss a Washington Post piece by a reporter who parachuted into Sacramento to cover the homelessness crisis. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. If you require a transcript of our episodes, please reach out to [email protected] and we'll mak...
Twin Rivers Unified School District’s unethical treatment of a Black educator
April 26, 2022 09:12 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBToday we discuss the story of Jordan McGowan, a beloved history teacher at Rio Tierra Junior High who is being targeted by his school district for telling the truth. Mr McGowan was chair of the school's History and Social Science Department, the boys basketball coach, and the advisor of the Black student union. Everyone loved him. So why is he in the process of being fired? We discuss. We also cover the horrific push by the region's liberals to sweep our unhoused neighbors from the Amer...
Democrats losing young progressives, with DSA Sacramento co-chair Margot Rinaldo
April 19, 2022 08:37 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBPresident Joe Biden's approval ratings are plummeting with the nation's most progressive demographic -- young people. A Quinnipiac poll last week found that just 1 in 5 people under 30 approve of the president, who turns 80 in November, while 58 percent disapprove (-37% rating). The following day, a Gallup poll found that his approval rating with Millennials and Gen Z has tanked since the beginning of his term, dropping 20 points to just ~40% approval. The numbers are even worse for young f...
Redistricting madness! with Andres Ramos
April 12, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBIn a move confusing nearly every Sacramentan, City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood has announced that Sacramento City Council members are, in fact, still in charge of the districts they ran before redistricting last December, adding major implications to a recall push by reactionaries against District 4 Councilmember Katie Valenzuela. The new districts will not go into effect until their upcoming elections in 2022 and 2024. So what does that mean for an area like East Sacramento, which will t...
On Sacramento’s mass shooting, with Ryan McClinton
April 07, 2022 09:55 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBWe discuss the local Sacramento shooting with our friend Ryan McClinton. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. If you require a transcript of our episodes, please reach out to [email protected] and we'll make it happen. And thank you to Be Brave ...
Head’s up: New episode coming Thursday
April 05, 2022 15:03 - 3 minutes - 4.19 MBHi everyone! This week's episode will be publishing on Thursday, April 7. As always, we're sure it will be a banger.
Criminals all the way down
March 29, 2022 07:46 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBA federal judge has found that former President Donald Trump most likely committed felonies during his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, including "obstructing the work of Congress and conspiring to defraud the United States." In a ruling against Trump's attorney John Eastman (who now-famously wrote the Trump coup memo), Judge David O. Carter ordered him to hand over some 101 documents, striking down his claim of attorney-client privileges on the basis of the crime-fraud exc...
Criminal turtles all the way down
March 29, 2022 07:46 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBA federal judge has found that former President Donald Trump most likely committed felonies during his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, including "obstructing the work of Congress and conspiring to defraud the United States." In a ruling against Trump's attorney John Eastman (who now-famously wrote the Trump coup memo), Judge David O. Carter ordered him to hand over some 101 documents, striking down his claim of attorney-client privileges on the basis of the crime-fraud exc...
Labor will win, with Andee Sunderland
March 22, 2022 08:36 - 57 minutes - 65.8 MBConflict is brewing at the Sacramento City Unified School District, where members of the teacher's union (SCTA) and other school district workers (represented by SEIU 1021) are planning to strike Wednesday, if the school board does not adequately address their concerns. The demands from the unions are a little complicated, but after they were reviewed by a three-person panel that included a representative appointed by the district, a representative appointed by the teachers union and an inde...
Being human on homelessness, with Robin Epley
March 15, 2022 12:45 - 59 minutes - 68.4 MBToday we're joined by Sacramento Bee opinion writer Robin Epley, who discusses a recent piece she wrote on the importance of Sacramento County keeping the Project Roomkey motel program for people experiencing homelessness, which is sure to keep hundreds of people under a roof. While it is a good thing that Project Roomkey will continue to serve Sacramentans, it should never have been in danger of closing in the first place. Homelessness is getting to be a bigger issue in the region, as Ro...
Ukraine - what the lib-hawks get wrong
March 08, 2022 10:12 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBPutin's attack on Ukraine continues, with refugee numbers soaring as Russian troops work to take the country's major urban centers, including the capital city, Kiev. In discussing the effects of this war, we focus a bit on how Americans have been responding. One opinion editor has demanded that Republicans take a hard stance on Putin. Republicans are trying to pin the crisis on Democrats with rising gas prices. Many liberal hawks are hammering the war drums on social media, with the politi...
The lawsuit against Sac police targeting demonstrators, with Tifanei Ressl-Moyer and Lyric
March 01, 2022 10:41 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBToday we're discussing the lawsuit brought against the Sacramento Police Department from demonstrators who have witnessed, first-hand, the double standard between how police treat them against how they treat white supremacists. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you, @aolbites Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again...
Sacramento County Supervisor Q Frost
February 22, 2022 15:29 - 58 minutes - 66.8 MBSacramento County Supervisor Sue Frost was caught on Telegram planning anti-vaccine protests with far-right groups such as the Freedom Angels, the Mamalitia, and the violent Proud Boys. After a local activist outed Frost, she claimed to know nothing about the kind of people she was cavorting with on the messaging app that commonly attracts reactionary fringe groups. But folks who pay attention to the supervisor know she has a history of peddling conspiracy theories and standing alongside th...
Emboldening the fascist creep
February 15, 2022 14:12 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBIt's an election year in California, and conservative Democrats are working to distance themselves from progressive movements with a renewed vigor for tough-on-crime policies. As a result, they're finding themselves with some far-right bedfellows. In San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has issued yet another police occupation of the Tenderloin District. After a high-profile looting of high-end retail spaces in Union Square last November, the mayor flooded the space with officers for three wee...
The city versus the county (featuring District 4 constituent Jeff Harris)
February 08, 2022 08:40 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBToday we discuss the nuances between city and county jurisdictions--using some of our all-time favorites as examples--in a bid to better understand who runs what in our region. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. If you require a transcript of our episo...
CalCare is dead; May establishment Dems fall with it
February 01, 2022 09:35 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBOn Monday California's Assembly was slated to vote on AB1400, which would have paved the way for the Golden State to become the first in the union to adopt single-payer healthcare. Progressives this week hinted that they weren't messing around on CalCare, and would block any state party endorsement for legislators who vote against it. This meant they would not be able to use state party money in their 2022 campaigns. But in a devastating turn of events, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, who authore...
Sacramento City Council’s 2022 races
January 25, 2022 10:10 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBToday we'll be discussing the launch of the 2022 election cycle, looking at races local to the Sacramento region. As a launching point, we'll talk about Yousef Baig's Sacramento Bee piece on the need for fresh faces on the Sacramento City Council. While we disagree with his ongoing cheerleading for a strong mayor form of government, we do agree that the majority of the current council needs to go. Here are the seats that are up for election this year: District 3 On Monday, January 24, Kar...
A single-payer future in California
January 18, 2022 15:26 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBSingle-payer advocates in California scored a big win last week when a proposed law passed through the Assembly Health Committee on an 11-3 vote. Now AB1400, introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-27), will go to the lower chamber's Appropriations Committee this Thursday. If it passes, the bill will make its way to the Assembly floor for a vote. Fantastic news, right? It would be, if Governor Gavin Newsom hadn't started to show signs of buckling under the pressure from his millionaire ...
202 - EXCLUSIVE: It’s time to free Sirhan Sirhan, with Sirhan’s attorney Angela Berry (1.3.2022)
January 03, 2022 07:03 - 58 minutes - 66.5 MBGovernor Gavin Newsom has three weeks to decide if he will sign off on a parole panel's recommendation to release 77-year-old Sirhan Sirhan, the man who has spent over half a century in federal prison after being convicted for the killing of Senator Robert F Kennedy in 1968. This story is proving itself to be a case study on the question of mainstream Democrats actually practicing what they preach. By all legal and personal accounts, Sirhan has proven himself rehabilitated, and is ready to...
201- Jeff Harris is cruel and does not deserve a city council district (12.14.2021)
December 14, 2021 08:02 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBLast week the City of Sacramento, led by District 3 Councilmember Jeff Harris, launched a widespread, violent sweep against hundreds of unhoused folks living in trailers and cars on Commerce Circle. Since City Manager Howard Chan is less likely to commit to sweeps these days unless a councilmember tells him to do it in their district, it's safe to infer that Harris was the mastermind behind this move, which tore families apart and forced people to lose some of their only belongings just tw...
200 - Sacramento wins!
December 07, 2021 07:33 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBFor episode 200, we discuss all our favorite things about our favorite town :) Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guillotine4you, @aolbites Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/voicesrivercity Sacramentans can hear us on 103.1 KUTZ Tuesdays at 5 pm and again Wednesdays at 8 am. If you require a transcript of our episodes, please reach out to [email protected] and we'll make it happen. And thank...
199 - Guns N‘ Cookies
November 30, 2021 09:56 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBRemember when Sacramento's neoliberal consensus teamed up with conservative ghouls to blame unhoused folks for the rise in E. coli in the American River, and used it to harass them with more frequency? Turns out that was all a massive lie, and that bird and dog droppings were to blame. It's a tale as old as California capitalism, using specious conservation concerns to mask one's disdain for people experiencing homelessness (See: Friends of Ballona Wetlands in this LAT column). It also...
198 - Sean, baby (11.23.2021)
November 23, 2021 15:56 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBToday we're discussing two enigmatic newcomers to state and local politics: Sacramento City Councilmember Sean Loloee and SEIU Local 1000 president Richard Louis Brown. Loloee, who represents Sacramento's District 2, recently made headlines when he admitted in the middle of a council meeting that he was "not a fan of affordable housing." We all know that conservative politicians actively work to gentrify their districts, but it's always fun to hear them say the quiet part loud. From his c...
197- California progs vs mods, with Jackie Fielder of the Daybreak PAC
November 16, 2021 07:48 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBToday we're joined by friend of the show Jackie Fielder, who shocked California with her 2020 state Senate run flanking Scott Wiener from the left. The arc of today's discussion covers the growing importance of the chasm between the state Democratic Party's moderates and progressives. Jackie also talks with us about her new political action committee, Daybreak PAC, and how she hopes to help change the state's political landscape with it. So far for 2022, Daybreak is supporting four progre...
197- California Progs vs Mods, with Jackie Fielder of the Daybreak PAC
November 16, 2021 07:48 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBToday we're joined by friend of the show Jackie Fielder, who shocked California with her 2020 state Senate run flanking Scott Wiener from the left. The arc of today's discussion covers the growing importance of the chasm between the state Democratic Party's moderates and progressives. Jackie also talks with us about her new political action committee, Daybreak PAC, and how she hopes to help change the state's political landscape with it. So far for 2022, Daybreak is supporting four progre...
196 - Where in the world is Governor Gavin Newsom?
November 09, 2021 07:47 - 57 minutes - 66.3 MBListen, we get it. It's daylight saving's and we're all trying to recover from the changing of the clocks (something we can apparently blame the Nazis for). But there are bigger fish to fry. Such as the big question: Where is Governor Gavin Newsom, who has disappeared since getting his booster shot last month? After chatter started up about the California executive's absence, his partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom came out with an amusing tweet admonishing 'haters'. But people have been genui...
195 - Boosted and Floosted (11.2.2021)
November 02, 2021 15:31 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MBIn a welcome rarity, we've got a full house today! Resident epidemiologist Dr. Flo talks us through the big news of the week related to COVID-19. Here in California, the state is setting up 4,000 sites to give out 1.2 million vaccines for kids aged 5-11 in the first week of availability. Meanwhile, the Center for Disease Control is recommending that every adult who has had a Johnson & Johnson shot (as long as they're at least two months removed) get a booster of any kind. Kempa went with P...
195 - Boosted and floosted (11.2.2021)
November 02, 2021 15:31 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MBIn a welcome rarity, we've got a full house today! Resident epidemiologist Dr. Flo talks us through the big news of the week related to COVID-19. Here in California, the state is setting up 4,000 sites to give out 1.2 million vaccines for kids aged 5-11 in the first week of availability. Meanwhile, the Center for Disease Control is recommending that every adult who has had a Johnson & Johnson shot (as long as they're at least two months removed) get a booster of any kind. Kempa went with P...
194 - Cleaning Democrats of cop and oil money, with Amar Shergill (10.26.2021)
October 26, 2021 13:50 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBThe California Democratic Party's executive board voted Sunday on a plan to permanently stop taking money from both Big Oil and cops. It ultimately failed, due to resistance from establishment Democrats. We're joined by Amar Singh Shergill, chair of the Democrats' Progressive Caucus, to walk us through the vote, and why the party's decision to make no decision for another four months was a massive disappointment to the party's left flank. A 100-year storm hit northern California on Sunday...
193 - On SEIU 1000 drama and removing colonizer statues, with Bobby Roy (10.19.2021)
October 19, 2021 07:25 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBOver the weekend board leaders in SEIU Local 1000--one of the most powerful unions in California--took the remarkable steps to strip its controversial president, Richard Louis Brown, of most of his powers. In a meeting called against Brown's wishes (and under fire of threats that he would punish anyone who attended), a majority of the union's board members put new bylaws and rules into place that would disperse power among union leadership and amend the disciplinary process. We're joined b...
192 - Gavin Hancock (10.12.2021)
October 12, 2021 05:32 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBA note to all of our listeners: VOICES: River City is moving back to its weekly format, given that all four hosts are working full-time and the world is becoming a terribly busy place again. We will be providing some patron perks in the future, including meet-ups, so we hope you'll continue to support our work! We also take a moment to mention the alarming rise in far-right groups putting up flyers doxxing members of the Sacramento community, and threatening physical harm. For the meat of ...
PREVIEW: 191 - Spunt! (10.8.2021)
October 08, 2021 14:55 - 2 minutes - 2.7 MB[To hear/view the full episode, become a patron today!] Today we're discussing: - A man fleeing California for Texas because it has grown too "communistic" - Why Christopher Columbus sucked - Mark Zuckerberg's platform from Hell And we also have an important announcement. Enjoy!
190 - You can‘t just take our homes away [without us fighting] (10.5.2021)
October 05, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBWe're joined by friend and sometimes-host Elliot, a member of the Sacramento Tenants Union, to discuss the lifting of California's eviction moratorium, and what that means for our region and the state's most vulnerable communities. Who is at risk of eviction? More people than our electeds would care to admit. We also touch on the various ways that people have won strong renters' protections throughout the world. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkem...
UNLOCKED: 189 - Et tu, Caltrans? with Councilmember Katie Valenzuela (10.1.2021)
October 03, 2021 19:12 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBWe're unlocking this episode since Councilmember Valenzuela is joining us to discuss a terribly dangerous action by Caltrans that's putting lives at risk. And they're doing it all at the request of District 3 Councilmember Jeff Harris, who doesn't even represent the constituents around the highways. Want to tell Caltrans you don't approve of their behavior? Contact them here. Thanks for listening, defund the police and, as always: Twitter: @youknowkempa, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune, @guill...
PREVIEW: 189 - Et tu, Caltrans? with Councilmember Katie Valenzuela
October 01, 2021 07:37 - 5 minutes - 6.71 MBWant to view/hear the full episode? Become a patron today! The lede is buried deep in this episode, but we have a wildly worthwhile conversation on the way to the good stuff. We're discussing the disturbing trend of unconstitutional city and state demolitions of unhoused communities throughout the Sacramento region. But which Sacramento City Councilmember is to blame beyond Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol?
188 - Push polls and homelessness plans (9.28.2021)
September 28, 2021 06:47 - 1 hour - 79 MBToday, homelessness expert and cohost Shannon Dominguez-Stevens walks us through this year's homeless deaths report, how to support our unhoused neighbors and how a new Sacramento lawsuit could halt the city's $100 million plan to address homelessness. We also discuss an absurd push poll leveled against Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela (here's her letter to constituents about it). The poll, which was sent to registered voters in the councilmember's district, called Valenzuel...
PREVIEW: 187 - On Democrats and your interests (9.24.2021)
September 24, 2021 15:42 - 4 minutes - 5.11 MB[Want to view/hear the full episode? Become a patron today!] A quick update in the post-failed-recall era: Governor Newsom in the last week has addressed three bills that needed signing on his desk, to mixed results. The good? He signed a bill targeting Amazon and protecting employees who want to take breaks--you know, like human beings. The bad? He's fucked farm labor unions who wanted to have vote by mail elections (you know, the kind that state Democrats celebrate in our primary and gen...
186 - Natomas Unified loves fascists (9.21.2021)
September 21, 2021 15:36 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBA Natomas Unified School District high school had a college-credit civics teacher so well loved that they advertised a student-made video about him on their website. Last spring, that same teacher was voted to deliver the commencement speech to the graduating class. But today? Today, Superintendent Chris Evans has scrubbed that teacher's video from the website, posting instead a 30-minute interview he held with a far-right agitator who once said that Jews owned the banks. We're joined...
PREVIEW: 185 - Governor nuisance (9.17.2021)
September 17, 2021 14:32 - 10 minutes - 11.5 MB[To hear or view the full episode, become a patron today!] Today we do a post-mortem on the absolute drubbing of the California GOP in Governor Gavin Newsom's recall election. Does it mean anything at all for Democrats in 2022? (No.) Is the California GOP beyond repair? (Yes.) Will Governor Newsom make some bold, progressive moves with his new momentum? (Doubtful.) What a way to spend nearly $300 million and nearly a year of our lives.
184 - A community-driven political report card, with Social Justice Politicorps (9.14.20210)
September 14, 2021 13:46 - 58 minutes - 66.6 MBToday we're joined by Kula Koenig and Andi Bianchi of Social Justice Politicorps to discuss their new political report card. Kula and Andi are asking Sacramento county residents--particularly those from marginalized and underrepresented communities--to grade city and county electeds on their performance this year. Ready to grade your electeds? You can find the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/socialjusticeSac2021 You can also learn more about the region's political arc at SJPC's ...
PREVIEW: 183 - On healthcare as politics, and tragedy as politics (9.10.2021)
September 10, 2021 15:16 - 9 minutes - 11.3 MB[Want to get the full episode? Become a patron today!] While Mexico has followed Argentina as the most recent Latin American nation to decriminalize abortion, the United States Supreme Court kicked the can on a new Texas abortion law that poses a serious threat to Roe v. Wade. We discuss what this means for Americans, and how folks can fight back. We also discuss the devastating killing that took place last weekend in Land Park. As a community grieves, right-wing media like the California ...
182 - On labor and climate justice (UNLOCKED, from 4.22.2021)
September 07, 2021 13:46 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBThis episode was originally published for patrons on 4.22.2021. We were joined by Aaron Ziemer of Sunrise Sacramento to discuss the confluence of labor and climate justice. Last spring a bill to end fracking--a practice Governor Gavin Newsom claimed he was against as recently as September 2020, before going silent in the early days of the recall effort--died in the state Senate's Natural Resources and Water Committee, with key Democrats refusing to cast their votes. One of those senators wa...
TEASER: 181 - A city with trees (9.3.2021)
September 03, 2021 08:10 - 4 minutes - 5.03 MB[Patrons who prefer to view/listen to the full episode can find it here!] Today we cannot help but ask the age-old question: Sacramento or San Francisco?
180 - Freeing Sirhan Sirhan, with Redemption Row California president Jen Abreu (8.31.2021)
August 31, 2021 07:16 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBToday we're joined by Jen Abreu, president and CEO of Redemption Row California. We discuss Friday's hearing for Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of killing Senator Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Thanks to the Redemption Row team, Sirhan was recommended for parole by a two-person panel--a hugely important step that may soon result in his release. We discuss two perspectives on his ruling: - This Los Angeles Times piece in favor of his release by Nicholas Goldberg, and - This Sacramento Bee piece ...
PREVIEW: 179 - Weatherman freed (8.27.2021)
August 27, 2021 06:58 - 3 minutes - 3.61 MB[To view/listen to the full episode, become a patron today!] Today we discuss the commutation of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's father, David GIlbert, who has been serving a sentence of 75 years to life in prison for his role in a 1981 robbery of a Brink's armored truck turned violent. Gilbert and his wife, both members of the Weather Underground, had been acting as getaway drivers for members of the Black Liberation Army. (Watch the award-winning 2002 documentary on it her...
178 - Gone viral (8.24.2021)
August 24, 2021 06:26 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBIt's the same story on the national and state level: Rural regions with lower vaccination rates and vastly smaller medical infrastructure are seeing surges in COVID-19, forcing them to try and find beds for patients in far-off regions with larger medical centers. At least six rural counties in California are seeing record numbers in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. The Sacramento region's hospitals are among those feeling the pressure of the surge, with beds filling up quickly thro...
PREVIEW: 177 - Cops hiding deaths
August 20, 2021 08:13 - 3 minutes - 4.11 MB[To view or hear the full episode, become a patron today!] Far too often we hear about police treating people of color like they're second-class citizens, such as last year, when Solano County Sheriff's deputies knocked a Black woman unconscious in front of her children when she was changing seats with her father on a day-trip outside of Dixon. We also see how horrible the system can be for folks within the system. Here in Sacramento, the sheriff's department doesn't let the public kno...