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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88 - Gavin Newsom's John Hancock (9.4.2020)
September 04, 2020 16:03 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBCalifornia lawmakers entered the end of session Monday facing a number of important bills fashioned to curtail police violence against state residents. Sadly, given the madness of the evening, some bills--such as SB 731, which would have stopped problem cops from finding work in the state, SB 776, which would have made more police misconduct records publicly available, and AB 66, which would've restricted cops' use of rubber bullets and pepper spray and banned tear gas against demonstrators...
87 -Autumn Gonzalez of NorCal Resist (9.1.2020)
September 01, 2020 17:56 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBIn times of rising fascism and a capitalist state that refuses to care for its most vulnerable, the people come together to take care of one another. We're joined by Autumn Gonzalez of NorCal Resist, an incredible nonprofit working to protect our undocumented neighbors and, more recently, supporting our friends and leaders in the streets fighting for Black liberation. Autumn gives us the history of NorCal Resist, and then talks us through some of the more recent work they've been doing to h...
86 -Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse and Kenosha, WI (8.28.2020)
August 28, 2020 16:50 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBThis week police in Kenosha, WI, shot an unarmed Black man named Jacob Blake multiple times in the back at close range, right in front of his three children. Blake is alive, but paralyzed from the waist down. Since then, unrest has erupted throughout the city, with young residents demonstrating nightly for justice. Things took an even more horrifying turn Tuesday night, when armed, white vigilantes came out to 'defend' local businesses. They appeared to work arm-in-arm with police, who ga...
85 - Historian William Burg on the Fight to Save Historic New Helvetia (8.25.2020)
August 25, 2020 16:18 - 1 hour - 98 MBHistorian, author and president of Preservation Sacramento, William Burg, joins us to discuss the rich history of a public housing complex that is consistently in the crosshairs of monied developers and city politicians. You may have heard about the fight to save Alder Grove and Marina Vista, largest, oldest, and most concentrated public housing sites in Sacramento. For years, housing-insecure residents have heard murmurs of demolition as everything around them swiftly gentrified. But they ...
84 - Sasha Perigo on the California Housing Crisis and Uber/Lyft's Capital Strike (8.21.2020)
August 21, 2020 16:29 - 1 hour - 85 MBToday we're joined by Sasha Perigo, a San Francisco based writer and all-around wealth of knowledge on California's complex, rough-and-tumble housing battles. We start with a discussion on AB 1436, a piece of proposed state legislation that would stave off the avalanche of evictions facing California renters. (If you want to help keep your neighbors housed, sign up here to have a letter sent in your name to your state senator.) Sasha then shares with us a very interesting Dem-on-Dem state ...
83 - Prop 15 (tax the rich), with Sacramento DSA Electoral Committee Co-chairs Micaela Vazquez and Seth Strumwasser (8.18.2020)
August 18, 2020 17:19 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBIt's never a bad time to talk with your friends about taxing the rich. That's why we're joined by Micaela Vazquez and Seth Strumwasser, co-chairs of Sacramento DSA's Electoral Committee. You might not know it, but California has an unfortunate history of austerity measures against the poor and tax breaks for the ultra rich. This is, in large part, why the state finds itself unable to properly fund public schools. Seth and Micaela walk us through an exciting new ballot measure in Prop 15, as...
83 - Prop 15 (tax the rich), with Sacramento DSA Electoral Committee co-chairs Micaela Vazquez and Seth Strumwasser (8.18.2020)
August 18, 2020 17:19 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBIt's never a bad time to talk with your friends about taxing the rich. That's why we're joined by Micaela Vazquez and Seth Strumwasser, co-chairs of Sacramento DSA's Electoral Committee. You might not know it, but California has an unfortunate history of austerity measures against the poor and tax breaks for the ultra rich. This is, in large part, why the state finds itself unable to properly fund public schools. Seth and Micaela walk us through an exciting new ballot measure in Prop 15, as...
82 - Alana Mathews of the Community Justice Collaborative
August 14, 2020 19:29 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBThis episode we are joined by Alana Mathews, founder of the Community Justice Collaborative and adjunct professor at the McGeorge School of Law. We discuss her work with CJC, as well as her opposition to a startlingly tone-deaf statewide ballot measure. Proposition 20 is a "tough-on-crime" attempt to push back on Propositions 47 and 57, which were designed to get nonviolent offenders out of jails/prisons and ease the state's burgeoning prison population. As you might have guessed, friend of...
Alana Mathews of the Community Justice Collaborative
August 14, 2020 19:29 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBThis episode we are joined by Alana Mathews, founder of the Community Justice Collaborative and adjunct professor at the McGeorge School of Law. We discuss her work with CJC, as well as her opposition to a startlingly tone-deaf statewide ballot measure. Proposition 20 is a "tough-on-crime" attempt to push back on Propositions 47 and 57, which were designed to get nonviolent offenders out of jails/prisons and ease the state's burgeoning prison population. As you might have guessed, friend of...
81 - Misusing Pandemic Relief Funds for Killer Cops (8.11.2020)
August 11, 2020 19:25 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBIn response to the coronavirus pandemic, Sacramento County was given $181 million in CARES Act federal funding that was supposed to go to programs/expenses related to the pandemic, or to pay for new expenses that have come up or were not planned for in their budget. So far, they've spent $148 million. We'll give you three guesses on where that money went. That's right: $104 million (70.3%) went to pay salaries and benefits to the Sheriff's Office $21.5 million (14.5%) went to payroll for ...
80 - The 2020 Homeless Deaths Report (8.7.2020)
August 07, 2020 15:15 - 1 hour - 85.4 MBSacramento County saw yet another increase in deaths in the homeless community in 2019, according to an annual report by the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness. One marked outlier in these numbers is just how deeply impacted Black county residents are affected by homelessness. Despite making up 13% of the county's population, one in three people experiencing homelessness in 2019 was Black. They made up 28% of last year's recorded homeless deaths. California may be experienc...
79 - 'Strong Mayor' and California's Looming Eviction Crisis (8.4.2020)
August 04, 2020 16:32 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBWe're joined today by two very important guests to discuss two very big issues. Sacramento City Council is on track to have its most progressive and representative dais ever with the addition of Councilmember-elect Katie Valenzuela and District 8 candidate Mai Vang this fall. So naturally our white, male mayor is making a power grab. Valenzuela joins us to discuss her concerns with Mayor Darrell Steinberg's 'strong mayor' initiative, which both she and Flo have publicly criticized. Among t...
78 - California Sheriff's Departments are Gangs, California Democrats are Weak (7.31.2020)
July 31, 2020 16:49 - 59 minutes - 67.7 MBOn Tuesday, Sacramento County residents watched District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert partake in active voter suppression by fighting against a common-sense move to add a ballot measure in the November elections to allow voters to decide if they should move countywide elections (DA, sheriff, assessor) to presidential years. The reasoning Schubert gave was that it was being pushed too quickly and deserved public input. But we all know the real reason. More people vote in presidential year...
77 - Danger in the Air, Danger in the Streets (7.28.2020)
July 28, 2020 15:50 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBSome 4.25 million Americans have come down with confirmed cases of coronavirus, with deaths nearing the 150,000 mark. And California joins Florida and Texas as one of the hot spots. The Golden State is about a week or two away from reaching half a million confirmed cases and 9,000 deaths, just as the school year starts up. In various counties, 1 in 100 people have tested positive for the virus, and down at the border in Imperial County, the number is closer to 1 in 20. Here in Sacramento...
76 - Trump Goons Bad, Our Goons Good (7.24.2020)
July 24, 2020 17:06 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBSacramento City Councilmember Jay Schenirer and Mayor Darrell Steinberg have joined a chorus of local electeds throughout the country working to stop the Department of Homeland Security from deploying unidentified goons into their streets. Steinberg joined Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf in a strongly worded letter to the federal government condemning such tactics. Which is good. But a little ironic. We seem to remember, just last month, mayors Garcetti and St...
75 - Councilmember-elect Katie Valenzuela (7.21.2020)
July 21, 2020 16:47 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBSacramento's newest elected councilmember, Katie Valenzuela, joins us to discuss a whole range of issues. Among them: - The People's Budget Sacramento - The fact that Zoom hosts can read all private messages after a call - Sacramento Police Department funding in the George Floyd era - Darrell Steinberg's 'strong mayor' push - Why it feels as if her election was years ago (it's only been four months) Thanks for listening and, as always: Patreon: patreon.com/voicesrivercity ...
74 - Scott Jones: California's Largest Adult Son (7.17.2020)
July 17, 2020 15:43 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBSacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones is bad at his job. Mind-bendingly bad. He and his deputies are so inept that, in 2019, they only made arrests in 1 out of every 11 rape cases they handled. In fact, about 2 out of every 3 violent crimes in the average year will leave the sheriff's department scratching their heads with no one to arrest. So why does the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors continue to throw money at Jones and his staff? It appears that Jones senses his own mediocrity...
73 - It Tolls for Bee (7.14.2020)
July 14, 2020 17:14 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBIt's official: A New Jersey hedge fund has the winning bid for McClatchy Newspapers -- including the flagship Sacramento Bee. And this isn't just any hedge fund. It's Chatham Asset Management, owner of The National Enquirer and a stable of other grocery store tabloids. The Enquirer, you'll remember, pulled a shameful catch-and-kill on Karen McDougal, the Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald Trump, in order to influence the 2016 election. As print media breathes its death ra...
TEASER: Patreon Special #1 - On Democrats
July 12, 2020 21:17 - 1 minute - 2.11 MBAccess this special episode by pledging as little as $5 a month to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39250467. (And if you just don't have that kind of money, email us and we'll send you a link for free.) DESCRIPTION: It's our first ever Patreon special episode! Want to know what really grinds Skyler's gears on the Democratic Party in the United States? Of course you do. Tune in next Sunday to hear Shannon discuss the Golden State Killer, and why Sacramento County's killer-cop...
72 - Britta Guerrero of SNAHC (7.10.2020)
July 10, 2020 16:14 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBSacramento sits on stolen Nisenan land, and the region was also home to the Southern Maidu, Valley Miwok and Me-Wuk people. In total, California is home to 109 federally recognized tribes. It has the largest Native American population in the country, including terminated or non-federally recognized tribes, as well as urban Indian communities. As CEO of the Sacramento Native American Health Center, Britta Guerrero interacts daily with indigenous guests from all over. And while they may make ...
71 - Tear that Statue Down (7.7.2020)
July 07, 2020 16:06 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBPresident Donald Trump stood in front of the Six Grandfathers (now known as Mount Rushmore) last weekend to warn of a "left-wing cultural revolution [...] designed to overthrow the American Revolution." He lamented that so many monuments throughout the country--from confederate symbols in the South to colonizer statues in the North--were being torn down, and vowed to put an end to this movement. It's not working. The day following Trump's speech, a Christopher Columbus statue in Connectic...
70 - Bloody Bloody City Council (7.3.2020)
July 03, 2020 15:38 - 1 hour - 112 MBBuckle up for a wild one. The nation is rethinking public safety, with major cities taking steps to defund the cops and Minneapolis dismantling its police department in earnest. So what's happening in California? On Wednesday, Sacramento City Council held a maddening emergency meeting, taking obvious measures to minimize and marginalize voices from the public and ultimately ending the session with milquetoast police 'reforms' that will simply not make the Sacramento Police Department any l...
69 - Sparxxxist Theory (6.30.2020)
June 30, 2020 17:17 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBOur 69th episode. Nice. Pressured by the interests of capital and a fussy, white petit bourgeois, Governor Gavin Newsom clearly opened California back up too early. Now coronavirus is tearing once again through the state and people are going to die. We discuss Sacramento's spike in COVID-19 cases, and the county's recent decision to shut bars back down. We also have a few updates on the fight to end policing. Sacramento City Unified School School District will not be renewing its contract ...
68 - Asantewaa Boykin of MH First and the Anti Police-Terror Project (6.26.2020)
June 26, 2020 16:30 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBRather than invest in a social safety net that protects Americans from experiencing mental health crises, addiction and homelessness, our country funnels the majority of its resources into punitive, violent police forces, and a burgeoning jail and prison system. But Asantewaa Boykin of MH First and the Anti Police-Terror Project says there's a better way. Historically, when we see someone experiencing a mental health crisis, the only option for a first responder to call has been the police...
67 - California's School-to-Prison Pipeline (6.23.2020)
June 23, 2020 16:52 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBDo cops belong in schools? The answer is obvious: No. Yet Americans have spent the last seven decades increasing their presence in institutions of education, to devastating results. We discuss chapter three in Alex Vitale's 'The End of Policing' (which you can download for just $3 from Verso Books!), while incorporating some local flair. Longtime Sacramento residents may remember 25 years ago, when Sacramento County sheriff's deputies terrorized students at Encina High School: pepper spray...
66 - The Reckoning (6.19.2020)
June 19, 2020 16:21 - 1 hour - 86 MBThe crew discusses how politicians, newspaper editors and other institution leaders are simply not ready for the reality of the new world we live in. But they better get ready. Thanks for listening and, as always: Patreon: patreon.com/voicesrivercity Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guillotine4you, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune And thank you to Be Brave Bold Robot for the tunes.
65 - Measure You (6.16.2020)
June 16, 2020 23:11 - 53 minutes - 61.4 MBWe discuss Flo's incredible back-and-forth with Mayor Steinberg during this week's Measure U Committee meeting, which the city almost succeeded in canceling in hopes that the public would not learn of the mayor and Sacramento City Council's abhorrent misuse of Measure U funding. Remember: Republicans are evil, but California's Democrats are in no way here to help you either. Thanks for listening and, as always: Patreon: patreon.com/voicesrivercity Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guillotine4you,...
64 - Feed the Pigs (6.12.2020)
June 12, 2020 13:44 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBMuch like police forces across the nation, the violent Sacramento Police Department costs the city a whole lot of money. Just last year they had to pay out millions for killing Stephon Clark in his grandmother's back yard, and then for illegally kettling and arresting demonstrators protesting against District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert's refusal to press charges against the officers who ran into Clark's yard and killed him. So, naturally, the city of Sacramento is paying the cops even mor...
63 - Defund the Police, with Dr. Jane Mantey (9.9.2020)
June 09, 2020 16:35 - 1 hour - 95.1 MBWe are joined this week by Dr. Jane Mantey, Associate Director of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University, to discuss what people mean when they say, "Defund the police," and what a society that values community-oriented responses rather than punitive policing as a method for ameliorating society's ills might look like. Jane may live in Texas, but she's a longtime Sacramento scholar, politico, journalist and activist who knows the region well. She guides us as we g...
62 - Tifanei Ressl-Moyer of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (6.5.2020)
June 05, 2020 17:43 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBThis episode we are excited to be joined by Tifanei Ressl-Moyer, the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. She breaks down the police violence we've been seeing in the streets of Sacramento, as well as the deeply unjust legal system in the region. In light of Mayor Darrell Steinberg instating an unconstitutional curfew on the city of Sacramento, we have seen an uptick in police harassing and arresting demonstrators, then hitting them with trumped ...
61 - George Floyd, Mayor Steinberg's violence and white fragility, and special guest Conrad Crump (6.2.2020)
June 02, 2020 15:33 - 2 hours - 141 MBYou may have seen the footage from Sunday morning of a Black man pressing Mayor Darrell Steinberg on his racist policies, such as taking $10 million each year from Measure U funding that's supposed to go to underserved communities and giving it to a violent, irresponsible Sacramento police force. That man's name is Conrad Crump, and we were lucky to have the longtime community organizer join us for this episode. This past week has been a long year. So it's fitting that we recorded just as t...
60 - The Fight to Rest (5.30.2020)
May 30, 2020 15:46 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBThis episode doesn't cover George Floyd, but the next one sure as hell will. We recorded before demonstrators in Minneapolis wrested a police station from cops and burned it down, before the cop who killed Floyd was arrested, and before some 2,500 Sacramento demonstrators marched for him, raising a #BlackLivesMatter flag on the pole outside a Sacramento police precinct Friday evening. Tune in Tuesday for more on all of that. We do cover a long overdue lawsuit brought forth by homeless advoc...
59 - Broke-Ass Sac (5.22.2020)
May 22, 2020 18:17 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBLooks like it wasn't a great idea for the city of Sacramento to put taxpayers on the line to help fund the Kings arena, after all. Now that the pandemic has sufficiently dried up parking revenue, the city is looking at cutting some of its central services in order to continue honoring bond debt incurred to pay for the new Golden1 Center. We take a look at which services will be on the chopping block, such as police (#DecimateSacPD) and things like parks, libraries and street work. We also...
58 - Garlfield? (5.19.2020)
May 19, 2020 17:02 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBWe were worried that a budget episode may be a bit of a snooze-fest, but this one got weird real fast. Boomer memes, nudes, cannabis freak-outs and a theory on why the Silent Generation always TYPE IN ALL CAPS. Once we settle down, we eventually get into which programs got the chopping block and what was spared in Governor Newsom's revised, pandemic-responsive California state budget. The good news? A lot of the money originally earmarked for tackling homelessness is still there. But that d...
57 - Feelin' Special (5.15.2020)
May 15, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBDemocratic state Assemblymember Christy Smith lost to California GOP darling Mike Garcia this week in a special election over Katie Hill's vacated #CA25 congressional seat. This wasn't your everyday special election (and not just because of the story behind Hill deciding to step down). Santa Clarita residents had to cast their votes in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic. Paul Mitchell of Political Data, Inc. broke down what we can take away from the race this week on Twitter (hin...
56 - Tickling Brain (5.12.2020)
May 12, 2020 17:33 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBAs a frontline social worker, Shannon went out last week and got tested for coronavirus (if you think you might need a test, go here). She shares all the details on the protocol and what it feels like to have a six-inch swab tap your frontal cortex. According to the state of California's COVID-19 tracker, Sacramento County is doing very well, not having more than 10 new confirmed cases in a given day since May 3. With more robust testing, we can keep it that way. Californians may have noti...
55 - Ahmaud Arbery (5.8.2020)
May 08, 2020 17:51 - 1 hour - 107 MBThis week we discuss the Georgia father and son who were finally charged two months after killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who had been going for a run in their neighborhood. We also talk about the reopening of California, and what that looks like as a few stores reopen today (Friday, May 8). It's a long one, so here are the timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 6:15 - California is activating portions of 'phase 2' in what will be a very long process to reopen the state. Here in Sacrament...
54 - Golden State, Phase 2 (5.5.2020)
May 05, 2020 17:17 - 59 minutes - 67.9 MBThis week the gang discusses how Sacramento is the best major metropolitan region in the country, as far as COVID-19 goes. In fact, California as a whole has performed better than most states (for what that's worth) in doing what needs to be done to keep our older and immunocompromised friends and family safe. Governor Gavin Newsom is moving the state into 'phase two' in its coronavirus response, reopening some businesses with the caveat that they practice physical distancing with practices...
53 - Kim Lau of the Encampment Med Team (5.1.2020)
May 01, 2020 16:09 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBWe have a very special guest today in the founder of the Encampment Med Team, Kim Lau. Organized in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, this group of Sacramento region medical students (and a handful of other students) originally formed to help educate people experiencing homelessness on the dangers of the coronavirus, and on what they could do to mitigate the risks of contracting it. Today, they're connecting people in camps who may be symptomatic with coronavirus testing, as well...
52 - Sheeple (4.28.2020)
April 28, 2020 15:21 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBThe gang decides to have some fun this episode, discussing some of their favorite conspiracy theories to come out of the coronavirus pandemic. From 5G to Bill Gates to COVID-19 as a bioweapon, this is a topic the whole family can enjoy. Thanks for listening and, as always: Patreon: patreon.com/voicesrivercity Twitter: @youknowkempa, @guillotine4you, @ShanNDSTevens, @Flojaune And thank you to Be Brave Bold Robot for the tunes.
51 - Sick (4.24.2020)
April 24, 2020 16:49 - 1 hour - 88 MBShannon is back! But she's still not feeling well, and she's experiencing barriers navigating the medical system while battling her own gall bladder. We discuss the stressors in trying to get well in the time of COVID-19, as well as the biases that doctors tend to have surrounding race, gender and body type. We also dive more deeply into the recent 'flu klux klan' rallies against Governor Newsom's stay-at-home mandate, comprised of Trump loyalists, anti-vaxxers and a petite bourgeoisie eage...
50 - Logan Dreher of the Sunrise Movement on Earth Week (4.21.2020)
April 21, 2020 17:34 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBWe're joined this episode by Logan Dreher, hub coordinator for Sacramento's branch of the Sunrise Movement, to talk about Earth Week. The climate justice movement had to get creative this year in the face of pandemic, but they've pulled together a number of safe events in order to honor the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The schedule, which can be found at earthdaylivesace.org, includes: 4.22 (Earth Day) - A Chalk-Out, in which Sacramento residents are encouraged to chalk up the region's s...
49 - Racial Disparities in the Coronavirus Pandemic (4.17.2020)
April 17, 2020 16:34 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBThe California Department of Public Health released coronavirus statistics this week showing that 12 percent of Californians who have died from COVID-19 were Black, even though they make up just 6 percent of the state's population. Host Dr Flojaune Cofer, a leading expert on racial disparities in public health, breaks down how a deep history of injustice ties in with poverty and, ultimately, vulnerability during a pandemic. We also take a look at Surgeon General Jerome Adams's questionable ...
48 - The California Nation-State (4.14.2020)
April 14, 2020 16:41 - 56 minutes - 64.7 MBCalifornia, Oregon, and Washington have joined together in a pact for an aligned approach in how and when to reopen the states once the left coast is closer to getting out of the woods with the coronavirus. This, of course, comes alongside discussions over Governor Gavin Newsom referring to California as a "nation-state. Is there a future for a west coast secession? Is that something the Left should even want? Or is this all political posturing, anyway? There is, in fact, a multi-state counci...
47 - Michelle Pariset on California Housing During Coronavirus (4.10.2020)
April 10, 2020 17:02 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBNearly 1 in 3 U.S. apartment renters did not pay their April rent, and you can be sure that number will be higher in May. Californians in particular feel increasingly housing insecure these days, which is why we've invited housing advocate Michelle Pariset on to discuss who is fighting for the little guy in California's capitol, as well as what Gavin Newsom is doing (and what he should be doing) to protect renters and homeowners struggling with mortgages. While Pariset and coalitions like ...
46 - Cops Hate Public Health (4.7.2020)
April 07, 2020 17:46 - 53 minutes - 60.8 MBMost northern Californians are nearing their one-month anniversary of sheltering in place, and it's beginning to show. Not just in unkempt hair and lack of pants, but also in how we've come to interact with our new universe. But some things never change. This week we discuss how Sacramento police ruthlessly continue to terrorize the homeless community, despite the CDC and other public health experts recommending that law enforcement allow people without housing to shelter in place during t...
45 - Profiles in Idiocy (4.3.2020)
April 03, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 94.9 MBWhat a week for awful leadership. Sacramento's Bethany Slavic Missionary Church is now linked with some six-dozen coronavirus cases. In fact, about 1/3 of the county's confirmed cases are linked with church gatherings. Meanwhile, Sacramento golf courses have been deemed "essential" during the pandemic. Not to be outdone, Republican governors out east are doing their part to endanger their constituency, with Georgia's Governor Kemp admitting that he JUST found out that coronavirus can be spr...
44 - Elliot Stevenson of the Sacramento Tenants Union (3.31.2020)
March 31, 2020 17:42 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBThis week we have a very special guest in Elliot Stevenson of the Sacramento Tenants Union, a group dedicated to protecting and empowering tenants against their landlords in the Sacramento region. They're working overtime to let renters know their rights during the coronavirus pandemic, and are also offering assistance for tenants looking to organize. Interested in joining the fight? Click here and fill out this form. We then discuss the cease and desist letter that California's homeless a...
43 - An End to Rent (3.27.2020)
March 27, 2020 15:29 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBThe nation is beginning to understand just how long this may be our new reality, with the United States now counting the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world. We see from a breakdown of death rates by region in the Financial Times that coronavirus is rising at a concerning rate in New York City, while there is cause for some cautious optimism in Washington and California. President Trump continues to embarrass himself on the world stage, setting the bar quite low for othe...
42 (Special!) - Staying in 4 Public Health (3.24.2020)
March 24, 2020 14:58 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBNo, you're not dissociating. It is actually Tuesday. We just thought it'd be nice to give you a special episode this week as a thank-you for staying home and doing your part. We check in on something that has struck all of us in the early weeks of "shelter in place." People are coming together to help out--from the Sacramento COVID Volunteer Corps to community members stepping up to speak for the folks who our electeds continue to ignore. This is one of our more casual episodes, but we do ...