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Mumia Abu-Jamal On Pacifica With Noelle Hanrahan 
Pacifica's Covid, Race & Democracy interviews journalist Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio about how she helped bring Mumia Abu-Jamal to the airwaves of Pacifica....
Posted: Thu Apr 1, 2021 9:48AM
2021 Congressional Black Farmer Hearings and California Black Agriculture Summit 
Strong bipartisan Congressional support and USDA Leadership will provide equity and inclusion throughout our $333+ billion dollar California Working Landscape and beyond. 2021 Women's Herstory Month will begin to open the archives and libraries to include past, present and future opportunities for Black Women to continue to lead the way in the Land of Queen Califia....
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:32PM
US Labor, The Fight Against Racist Attacks & Xenophobia With Kent Wong UCLA Labor Center 
WorkWeek interviews Kent Wong, Director of the UCLA Labor Center and a founder of the Asian Pacifica Labor Alliance. He discusses the growing racist attacks, the history of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia....
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:51PM
What Larry Krasner the District Attorney of Philadelphia needs to do! 
Last night, Philly DA Larry Krasner was asked by journalist Shaun King about Mumia Abu-Jamal. Krasner made a joke out of Mumia supporters' demands by saying he has no "magic key" to let Mumia out. Mumia's supporters have concrete demands, including a Color of Change petition and a 40-page newspaper meticulously presenting evidence in support of the petition. Noelle Hanrahan from San Francisco's Prison presents her challenge to DA Krasner...
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:30PM
ILWU letter to PA Gov. Tom Wolf in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal 
In this March 8 letter to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, the San Francisco-based ILWU Calls for the compassionate release of Mumia Abu-Jamal and other vulnerable prisoners....
Posted: Tue Mar 9, 2021 9:45PM
Erdogan Your Time Is Up! Turkey Boğaziçi University Graduates & Supporters Have SF Rally 
Dozens of graduates and supporters of Boğaziçi University rallied in SF and spoke out against the Erdogan's government appointment of a Rector who plagiarized others for his work and is a crony of Erdogan's AKP....
Posted: Sun Feb 7, 2021 7:30PM
How Did Gore Receive At Least 114,000 More Votes Than Bush In Florida In 2000 
Jeb Bush's voter roll purging, the criminal deceit of the Florida Times Union, police intimidation, barring of precincts etc robbed the American people of our choice in 2000. The disastrous results remain with us at this time....
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:17AM
Insurrection, The Coup & The Working Class With Professor Francis Boyle 
WorkWeek interviews Professor Frances Boyle about the insurrection and coup and what should be done about it....
Posted: Fri Jan 8, 2021 7:17PM
WorkWeek On Labor & The Threat Of A Coup & Fascism, Racism At CCSF & Julian Assange 
WorkWeek looks at the threat of a coup and also the role of labor with the David Van Deusen. His Vermont Labor AFL-CIO had called for a general strike to prevent a coup. WorkWeek also looks at the systemic racism in San Francisco and an action at the British Consulate in San Francisco to demand the freedom of journalist Julian Assange....
Posted: Wed Jan 6, 2021 3:45PM
Profit Over Lives At JBS: Covid, OSHA and Life & Death With UFCW 7 President Kim Cordova 
Kim Cordova, president of UFCW 7 talks about the deaths of eight JBS meat plant workers in Greeley, Colorado from Covid-19. She discusses the failure of OSHA to protect the workers and why her union, the workers and community are protesting at the Denver OSHA office....
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 12:16AM
New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike, Union Busting, Convict Labor & Labor Solidarity 
A panel was held on the strike of New Orleans striking sanitation workers who went out in May for PPE, health and safety and $15.00 an hour. Included on the panel were strikers and also supporters in Seattle and Tacoma who have been picketing the corporate owner of the contractor Metro which employed the workers. This company brought in convict labor to bust the strike....
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:15PM
US Senate poised to pass National Juneteenth Holiday Bill S.4019 
Since that final summer military campaign in Texas beginning June 18, 1865, people of Pan African Ancestry throughout the Diaspora have always celebrated Juneteenth in a big way....
Posted: Sun Jul 5, 2020 8:19PM
WorkWeek On Police Unions, Police Terror, The AFL-CIO And Labor 
WorkWeek looks at the role of the police, police terror, labor and the AFL-CIO. The police have been expelled from the MLK Jr. Labor Council in Seattle after a debate and participants discuss the issue. Also WorkWeek looks at termination of Chicago ATU 241 bus driver and Executive Board member Erek Slater....
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:44AM
Abolition is the Floor Not the Ceiling 
It is important to remember that institutional violence flows not merely from the bullets of the police but in fact moves through all elements of the social fabric....
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2020 2:15PM
Publicly traded corporate looters are ripping off the Small Business Administration Mayor London Breed and some trigger happy cops are blowing a lot of hot air at the petty thefts taking place during the George Floyd protests, as they look the other way as the publicly traded corporate looters are ripping off over $200 million from the Small Business Administration, that hurts the small businesses that can not get the loans that were meant to go to them through the Cares Act, and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)!...
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 11:56PM
Controversies About Covid-19, Biotech Safety & US China Rivalry with Sam Husseini 
ournalist Sam Husseini with The Institute of Public Accuracy discusses the growing controversies about where Covid-19 came from, what it is and the issue of bio-tech safety and biological warfare....
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:21PM
The Coronavirus is a Disaster for Sex Workers – We Need Resources! 
Thousands of families in the US rely on the income from sex work to survive and have been thrown into a crisis by the coronavirus....
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:17AM
UAW Michigan Workers On Elections, Coronavirus, GM Strike, Democracy & Internationalism 
Pacifica and WorkWeek reporter Steve Zeltzer interviews UAW 909 Detroit retiree Frank Hammer and UAW 598 Flint Truck Assembly worker Sean Crawford about primary elections in Michigan as well as the struggles for auto workers. They also discuss the lack of protection from the coronavirus epidemic expanding into US auto plants. They also discuss the corruption crisis in the UAW, green technology and international solidarity efforts by auto workers....
Posted: Mon Mar 9, 2020 10:08PM
China uses forced labor in factories making American products Forced labor in factories that make products for American companies, including some of the companies listed further below such as GAP Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, Apple which is headquartered in nearby Cupertino, Cisco Systems which is headquartered in San Jose, or Google which is headquartered in Mountain View!...
Posted: Thu Mar 5, 2020 9:43PM
Freedom Rider: Negroes for Bloomberg 
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history....
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:50AM