Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19
…shown that the wealthy have been able to limit their movement during the coronavirus quarantine far more than the poor. Here’s George again: JORGE ACT – Savings are pretty much impossible. Doing Uber and Lyft just because car repairs are always going to be a thing. It’s part of what we signed up for, I suppose, as an independent contractor. As far as rent, we’re still paying rent here. I paid fourteen hundred a month in Sacramento. JORGE A…
The Pandemic, Loss and Racial Inequity
…ter for Farmworker Health https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/7/21211849/coronavirus-black-americans https://southerlymag.org/2020/12/02/farmworkers-left-behind-by-broken-labor-and-disaster-aid-systems/ TRANSCRIPT Anita Johnson Up next on Making Contact: The Pandemic, Loss and Racial Inequity. For this week’s episode, we turn our attention to those Americans who are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus fallout. According to the CDC, Blacks and L…
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19 [ENCORE]
…shown that the wealthy have been able to limit their movement during the coronavirus quarantine far more than the poor. Here’s George again: JORGE ACT – Savings are pretty much impossible. Doing Uber and Lyft just because car repairs are always going to be a thing. It’s part of what we signed up for, I suppose, as an independent contractor. As far as rent, we’re still paying rent here. I paid fourteen hundred a month in Sacramento. JORGE A…
COVID-19 and Lessons from the Spanish Flu
…ive interest. Monica Lopez: Epidemiologists had been on the lookout for coronavirus outbreaks in October of 2019. Public health workers and government leaders even took part in a fictional coronavirus pandemic simulation hosted by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. And as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has repeatedly stated, a disease like COVID- 19, is the thing that’s kept h…
On the Brink: Homelessness Before and During COVID-19
…adio project dot org. Reporter Lucy Kang worked on that piece before the coronavirus pandemic. So we wanted to do an update on her segment by taking a look at how homeless communities are dealing with Covid 19. And for that, we got in touch with Candace Elder, executive director of the East Oakland Collective. So, Candace, how are people you’re working with, particularly the homeless, responding to Covid 19? Candace Elder: They are respondin…
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
…s upcoming episodes, we’ll be hearing more about prisoners during the coronavirus pandemic. Today, we bring you a radio documentary from the podcast “70-million”. We’ll go to Florida’s Palm Beach County, where BEFORE the Coronavirus pandemic, officials were trying to reduce the jail population. Previous to 2019, one in seven people in jail were there simply for failing to appear in court. Then the county started sending aut…
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
…We Hear You” “I’m an Asian American doctor on the front lines of two wars: Coronavirus and racism” by Sojung Yi, for The Lily “Asian Americans Face Dual Challenges: Surging Unemployment and Racism” by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil and Kimmy Yam, for NBC News “As anti-Asian hate incidents explode, activists push for aid” by Anh Do, for the Los Angeles Times “Crime, Race, Safety: What’s Really Happening in Oakland Chinatown?” by Momo Chang and Darwin BondG…
Part 1 of The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 and Prisons
…lima Hamirani: We begin our story in San Quentin. News clip: …positive for coronavirus. Chanthon Bun: Right before COVID really hit here around December. It was on the news that China has this thing that’s going on and, you know, we’re like, okay. But I wasn’t really paying attention to it because I was getting ready to go to my board hearing to be free on February 28. Salima Hamirani: That’s Bun, he was in San Quentin State Prison in Northern Cal…
Part 1 of The Pandemic Inside: COVID-19 and Prisons (Encore)
…lima Hamirani: We begin our story in San Quentin. News clip: …positive for coronavirus. Chanthon Bun: Right before COVID really hit here around December. It was on the news that China has this thing that’s going on and, you know, we’re like, okay. But I wasn’t really paying attention to it because I was getting ready to go to my board hearing to be free on February 28. Salima Hamirani: That’s Bun, he was in San Quentin State Prison in Northern Cal…
On the Brink: Homelessness before and during COVID-19 (Encore)
…· On the Brink: Homelessness before and during COVID-19 (Encore) When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. many of us were told to “shelter in place” in order to minimize the spread of disease. But, for a lot of people who are forced to live on the street, it’s not possible to just close the door and retreat into safety. Today’s show is about homelessness. We start by following two women as they undergo several evictions, even though they’re alr…
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality
…t, I’m your guest-host, Paulina Velasco. When you look at the way the coronavirus pandemic is playing out in the United States—the people that are dying, the people that are out of work—and those who are fed up and taking to the streets to protest a racist system, to say Black Lives Matter, how is it all connected? Kimberlé Crenshaw: There was the moment of, oh, my God, there is a racial crisis here. Oh, my goodness, this is actua…
COVID-19 Pandemic Capitalism and Bonds
…ronment. Astra Taylor. Astra Taylor The real pandemic here is capitalism Coronavirus COVID- 19, is an illness, but an unfathomable number of people in the United States alone are going to die of this disease.– Deaths that could be prevented because they’re not getting access to adequate medical care because of the shortage of ventilators, because of a shortage of staff, because they’re afraid to go see a doctor, because they don’t want medical d…
Bio Hackers versus Big Pharma: Tackling the Rising Cost of Insulin
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, many Americans are worried about their health insurance. The cost of treating the illness, if a patient ends up in the ICU, can run into the tens of thousands of dollars without coverage. Which most people just can’t afford. Today we bring you a piece we produced last year about a related topic -the rising cost of insulin, and the effectiveness of medicare for all. As the cost of insulin continues to…
The Great Divide: Racism, Wealth Inequality, and Elections
Coronavirus and the precaution of social distancing is on our minds. Ian Haney Lopez says what we need is social solidarity instead of Trump’s dog whistle politics. In The Great Divide: Racism, Wealth Inequality, and Elections Acclaimed author Ian Haney López talks about his new book – Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. He explores the links between current day wealth and race inequality, elections,…
The End of Student Debt: Free College and Debt Strikes
…tate. The day before SF State ended in-person classes because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, I joined Aldane on his way to school. ALDANE WALTERS – I am a part of the BECA program, that’s the broadcasting and electronic communication arts, and my area of emphasis is TV production. KATHRYN STYER MARTINEZ – Aldane knew that the best place to study would be the US. But coming to the US meant he would have to deal with the costly public higher e…
Re:Work Radio: Stranded
…thout a ticket. He thinks that if we leave from here, they’ll be safe from coronavirus. That’s why he’s loading everyone onto the train election. Gulzar [00:18:36] via you without a date. We said we will not pay the fine. Take everyone to jail will like it. There will be comfortable. Where will they go with 35 people? Does the government have money to feed us all? So they let us go and we returned home. I had to spend some money on the bus line be…
Best of Making Contact 2021
…ifornia school teacher and a DJ. LAWRENCE: When we went into lockdown on coronavirus, I feared the worst. I just thought we were gonna have like food droughts and water rations and putting gas in in in plastic bags. And, you know, I just I feared the worst and so part of me like I really went into prepper mode and started stacking up like all of my food rations. And stuff like that. If you have all the food and other people didn’t prepare, you b…
Call for pitches on prisoners during COVID-19
…ils, and immigrant detention centers are at an exceptionally high risk for coronavirus. Meantime, family members of those locked up are worried sick. Relatives along with advocates and prisoners themselves organize to limit the spread of the virus. They demand prisoner releases and reimagine a world without humans in cages. But releases are slow. By some estimates, over half the prison population is non-violent drug offenders. How do advocates cha…
The fight to reclassify some gig workers in California
…s study, gig workers have lost significant income since February, when the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on the United States. More than half of the respondents in his study reported losing 75-100% of their weekly earnings during that period. Benner also found that most delivery drivers belong to marginalized groups, meaning the drop in wages disproportionately affects the nation’s most vulnerable. About half of America’s gig workers are…
70 Million: Voting from Jail is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
…of a deadly virus? For months, the Cook County jailwas a hotspot for the coronavirus. In fact, just after we spoke with detainees about their voting experiences for this episode, in-person visits were banned from the facility until infection numbers came down. Stevie Valles: The impact of having polling machines in the jail was felt immediately. And then Wednesday after our first weekend having elections in the jail, the NBA season was canceled….
