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"Knight Foundation, helping NPR advanced journalistic excellence in the digital age. This is one a back to our conversation in a moment, But first we'd love your help with Monday's show. Much of the response to the pandemic has really come down to the states, and the responses have varied dramatically from issuing mask mandates to banning them altogether. The power state should willed is a question that goes back to the founding of this country. How do you feel about how your state has handled the pandemic? Leave us a voicemail 8552361 a one. A. How much power do you think states should have in choosing their response to Covid 19? And if you're unhappy with how your state is handling the pandemic at what point do you think the federal government should step in hate? 552361 a one A tell us where you are and what changes you'd like to see. You can also send us an audio file with our app. One a vox pop, and we'll share some of your stories Monday on one a Now let's get back to our conversation on post 9 11 Islamophobia. We're talking to Rozina Ali of the New York Times Magazine professor Deepak Kumar and organizer Assad Dandy are Rosina, You're working on a book capturing the recent history of Islamophobia in the US, Do you think that history has gotten erased or rewritten? I do think it's a history that we haven't reckoned with. Um a think A lot of people don't recognize just how profoundly the post 9 11 world. Changed Muslims, Muslims place in America and America itself. This was a period where really civil and constitutional rights have been eroded. And you know, we tend to think that it's because, uh, they wrote it only for terrorism suspects because of national security, and it was necessary, but In fact, it wasn't I mean, what we've been talking about this past hour is that surveillance was quite pervasive that, um, the courts were very differential to national security. And sadly, this apparatus has just continued to grow, um, not just targeting Muslims but also Other immigrants and, uh, the African American community and a lot of political protesters. And this is a history that you know they'll they'll be rightly commemorate the day of 9 11. We really haven't reckoned with. What happened after which included mass detentions of people who were put in jail for in some cases for two years without charges. The deportation of tens of thousands of people. A registry that really left people traumatized and scarred and family separation that continued, uh, that started even before 9 11 and continues to this day. Here's an email we got from Gordon, who asks, What is it that motivates a person to buy into or go through with the entrapment effort to the police or the FBI? Is it money? Assad? Were you able to deduce the motivations of the person who was informing on your group? I'm grateful that you're asking me this question, because, um, particular informant who had messaged me was actually, um, by his own admission of a troubled background. He had gotten kicked out of high school and college. He got into fights. He had drug addiction issues. He was struggling with mental illness. And one day he was caught. I believe it was on drug possession charges, and essentially, the police confronted him, They said. Either you can face up to 15 years or, uh, usual surveillance work for us. They had initially asked him. To spy on a narcotics gang, and he refused. And then and then they eventually told him that he can spy on Muslims instead. And they offered him. I think it was something around $1500 a month. Um, I want to. I do want to emphasize that this is the type of individual who Needed help. This is the type of person who, um, needed counseling. They needed mental health services They needed. Um, you know. Drug rehab, so on and so forth if he had gotten the help that he needed He wouldn't have had to take on. You know this job that he did, and of course, it's not to justify it. But more to say that this is a speaks to societal failure and speaks to how we Um, you know, have almost a callous disregard for the most vulnerable in our society. And you know there are different motivations. You know, for different people. Some do it for the money. Some do it because they truly believe they're doing what they're doing. But I can say that this particular individual Did it because he was forced into a very difficult position that no one should have to be forced into deeper. Can you expand on that a little more? What more do we know about people who participated in these surveillance programs? Yeah. So there are kids like, you know, there are some excellent reports by the Brennan center on all of this on entrapment and so forth, and I encourage your audience members to check them out. But I've summarized some of this research in my book, Which is that, um, you know, there are cases where there are minor immigration violations. So people have applied to have their immigration status Renewed. They are waiting. It doesn't happen. They stayed on in the country while they wait for this, and that becomes the basis on which to blackmail them. Quite literally. This happened to an imam who was told if you don't spy on your community, And if you don't give us information. We're going to deport you and you'll never be able to come back. And furthermore, we will try you on terrorism charges. Um and that is actually what has happened. Lawyers steed down. For instance, they have a fantastic report on how minor violations have led to which have nothing to do with terrorism. Have been used to go after people and what's called preemptive persecution. They look they did a very thorough study of 10 years of terrorism conviction cases by the DOJ and found that in 73% of these cases, the person didn't do anything. They simply were tried and convicted for holding a particular ideology. So that's the way that this work is that people as you know, others have mentioned people feel vulnerable in the climate. Where they are seen as racialized suspects. And so the FBI and other state agencies have been able to coerce them to becoming informants. In other cases, they have records of some sort, and there is a promise to reduce the sentence for to let people go. If they act as informants. This is what happened with the hard harshly. Who was also at Brooklyn College. Is that the informant who actually entrapped him, um, wound up getting a reduced sentence. I want to turn to this audio. Now This is President George W. Bush he famously visited is an Islamic center in D. C to dissuade anti Muslim sentiment following.
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"So it's always fascinating to see the facility by which they could move Where there was an interesting urban experiment going on And that they could be our partners in it. And i you know i. It's it's important. I'm blessed to have that partnership with a couple of foundations in chicago. I would like to have more speaking of philanthropic foundations in place based patient capital a good time to remind our listeners. We are brought to you. Part by the john s. and james l. knight foundation among among others interested to Focus a little bit now on the role of design design. Excellence in in our conversation. We've talked about the role if the the public sector and your office. And the mayor's initiatives How to leverage you know financing to redraw the map etcetera but time and time again your work In this conversation but in your career more. Broadly has drawn upon designers. On the one hand either. Is you know. Your work has focused on the role of design And into the The the the model that. I see you articulating and i've seen in your work In detroit The the role of design is is multiple that on the one hand. You have you know. A fee for services professionals responding to rfp's engaging with proposals you're also drawing upon the the resources the the intellectual cultural capacity of designers to give provo their services in their moral authority to put it in those terms. I think you've embodied as much as anyone. I know in the american city of the idea of the designer as a elected or appointed public official unit colleagues recently announced the formation of a committee on design. I i take this in advisory committee Tell us about that and why you think of an advisory committee on design excellence might be helpful in the context of your work in chicago. Now though this is a this has been a life. life vocation pursuit of how. How do you bring the resources that we all know. design can bring to places. That are unexpected. You know and design is often been thought of as the luxury and people pay handsomely to have designers shape their world and so we know that there's something special there and has always been had by get more people to have access to that in particular places where designed is has done enormous harm to communities through public policy primarily and so i have always you know i've always felt you know i'm i'm in a very elite profession and i've always wanted to serve broadly more people and so how do you do. Well one thing is. The public interests the public sector. You know we are responsible for the streets. We are responsible hoarding housing and and cultural institutions. So if i could a direct resources to things that are public my chances we're going to be greater in having an impact everyone And so partly why. I've dedicated so much of my career to the public sector The other thing was. How do you get designers.
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"Knight Foundation, helping NPR advanced journalistic excellence in the digital age. I'm Jen white. This is one a Let's get back to our conversation about California's historic recall election and let's bring in a new voice. Dana Bash is co anchor of State of the union with Jake Tapper and chief political correspondent at CNN. She's also host of the new Total Recall Podcast, which comes out today It explores the stranger than fiction 2000 and three California recall election. Dana. Welcome to the program. Thanks for having me So there is this one other time? California recalled their governor That was in 2003. Democrat Gray Davis was governor at the time. What happened? Oh, boy, I think the bigger question is what didn't happen. It was so wild. It was so wild and you know, I am old enough to remember it happening real time, but it's almost a decade ago. So I don't know about you, but for me, I married my memory fades quickly. It's like cramming for your test when you're covering events, and then you kind of forget about it. So going back and really not just Recalling it so to speak, but talking to the players. From Gray Davis to Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ted cost A who is certainly not a household name, but he was the guy who got the money and the Mo Jo to get the recall even happening. He is a conservative activists. And you know, sort of so many characters in between, including the adult film star. I talked to her. She ran back then, and she ran briefly in 2021 so The gist of what happened then is that there was a very big energy crisis in California. There were rolling blackouts, so it affected Almost everybody in the state personally because their lights were out and combine that with the recession. That was going on, which really was felt deeply in California because the dot com bubble had just burst a couple years before that. And then The car tax. So Gray Davis, who was the governor thought? Well, I'm going to raise funds for all of my democratic priorities, and he had a lot of them. Bye. Putting the car tax, um, increasing it. And in California it's the ultimate car culture. People love their cars. People need their cars and then suddenly they were taxed in an additional way. And all of that was kind of the perfect storm and Gray Davis learned very quickly. Some of that was his fault. Some of that was out of his control. But it didn't matter because the guy in charge always gets the blame. And so there was a lot of anger back then, and It was all over for him when Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped in because he was the biggest movie star on the planet back then, and he knew how to Run a campaign and campaign the way he knew how to promote action movies. Well, you mentioned the former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and you spoke to him. As you said for the podcast. Let's take a listen. There's millions of people out there that are dissatisfied. Dissatisfied. Maybe the way the Corona was handled this satisfied the fires dissatisfied with the blackouts you're saying dangerous for Gavin Newsom. Very dangerous? Yes, Absolutely. It's very dangerous for him because you got to take this stuff seriously for too long, too. Didn't take it seriously. But now I think they do take it seriously. So it sounds like the former governor believes the current governor is in trouble. What did you take away from this conversation with sports? Neko. Well, you know, it's interesting. He's friends with Avenue some Democrat Republican he's friends with, he says. A lot of the or at least knows a lot of the people who are on the other side of the ballot who want to take Newsom's job, So he's Very aggressively, not endorsing any of the candidates. But he is very clear as you heard about the atmospherics. And the thing that he thinks is so dangerous for Gavin Newsom. Is that the atmospherics on very different issues today. Number one is covid and all the ramifications from covid businesses closing and jobs lost and the school issues in the past year and a half. All of that, combined with a very real homeless problem. Housing prices are out of control all over California. It makes people really angry and it's again. Those are issues. Many of those are very personal. You know, there are times when there's A political movement where it's whether it's you know, health care or it was about obamacare or about spending. Let's say, let's just let's pick spending runaway runaway government spending. That's a very real issue for people, but they don't feel it necessarily in a personal way, like they felt covid or like they felt blackouts in 2003, and that's the point that he was trying to make well now. Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was the last time California had a Republican governor. How was he able to get the vote beyond being You know, absurdly famous. By not really allow allowing people to pin him down on Lot of the specific issues, particularly those today that are kind of requirements for Republicans, especially in Republican primaries. I mean, that was a big deal that because it was a recall, he was a Republican who didn't need to go through the Republican primary process. He didn't need to be vetted by conservatives to make sure he was conservative enough like you see in normal elections. At any level across across the country now, so that was big. And the fact is that he was and still is more moderate on things like the climate more moderate on social issues and then your average Republican, and that helped at the time in California, which was already quite blue. But nowhere near as blue as it is now. I mean, at this point, the registration differential between Democrats or Republican is 2 to 1. Then now, I guess the best way to put it is Republicans have about 25% of the voter registration in California. Then it was about low thirties. So which dropped a lot since then. We also talked to Gray Davis, the governor who was recalled back in 2003. What were his thoughts looking back on that time? It's so interesting because he owns it. He owns it, he says. Just just the way it is Number one. If you don't want to have a threat of being recalled, don't run. For any office in California because that's just the way California politics is. It was the whole notion of a recall was put into place through proposition. How else in California? About 100 years ago by a governor then named Hiram Johnson, and the threat was always there. He was the first person to actually be recalled from the governor's mansion. So he says he didn't take it seriously. At the beginning, he said, Look, Ronald Reagan when he was governor, there were threats four or five times That of him being recalled didn't happen. I don't really think it was going to happen. And time does heal wounds. His wound is pretty healed and he is very Zen, almost about the fact that he did what he could, and so much was out of his control. Well after researching the recall election in 2003 and looking at the recall election that's currently underway. What dots? Are you connecting beyond atmospherics? Mm. It's such a good question the whole state of our politics right now, and the idea that people back then this is a little bit of atmosphere, but I'll but I'll connected to the to the leadership in a second people back then. We're looking for something different. They Were looking for change. And what happened with the The push for the recall was that those Those characters, so to speak those individuals, they were kind of the precursors to the tea party. And so and then the tea party was a precursor to trumpism. And Trumpism is here to stay right now in the GOP. And although Larry Elder who is currently the according to polls, the front runner among the 40 Plus candidates who want to take Gavin Newsom's job today says he's not Trump in Um He is supported by a lot of trump individuals by a lot of Trump supporters because they see him. In in a similar way that he's a talk radio host. He's never held public office before. He is a good communicator. Things like that. So there lies the similarity. I will say the differences are also huge when it comes to Gavin Newsom versus Gray Davis. Not the least of which is that Gray Davis at this point Had polls..
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"Knight Foundation, helping NPR advanced journalistic excellence in the digital age. I'm Jen white. This is one a Let's get back to our conversation about California's historic recall election and let's bring in a new voice. Dana Bash is co anchor of State of the union with Jake Tapper and chief political correspondent at CNN. She's also host of the new Total Recall Podcast, which comes out today It explores the stranger than fiction 2000 and three California recall election. Donna, Welcome to the program. Thanks for having me So there is this one other time? California recalled their governor That was in 2003. Democrat Gray Davis was governor at the time. What happened? Oh, boy, I think the bigger question is what didn't happen. It was so wild. It was so wild and you know, I am old enough to remember it happening real time, But it's almost a decade ago. So I don't know about you. But for me, I'm old enough. Yeah, my memory fades quickly. It's like cramming for your test when you're covering events, and then you kind of forget about it so going back and really not just Gonna recalling it so to speak. But talking to the players, from Gray Davis to Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ted cost a who is certainly not a household name, but he was the guy who got the money and the mojo to get the recall even happening. He is a conservative activists. And you know, sort of so many characters in between, including the adult film star. I talked to her. She ran back then, and she ran briefly in 2021 so The gist of what happened then is that there was a very big energy crisis in California. There were rolling blackouts, so it affected Almost everybody in the state personally because their lights were out and combine that with a recession. That was going on, which really was felt deeply in California because the dot com bubble had just burst. Uh, a couple years before that. And then The car tax. So Gray Davis, who was the governor thought? Well, I'm going to raise funds for all of my democratic priorities, and he had a lot of them. Bye. Putting the car tax, um, increasing it. And in California it's the ultimate car culture. People love their cars. People need their cars and then suddenly they were taxed in an additional way. And all of that was kind of the perfect storm and Gray Davis learned very quickly. Some of that was his fault. Some of that was out of his control. But it didn't matter because the guy in charge always gets the blame. And so there was a lot of anger back then, and It was all over for him when Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped in because he was the biggest movie star on the planet back then, and he knew how to run a campaign and campaign the way he knew how to promote action movies. Well, you mention the former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and you spoke to him. As you said for the podcast. Let's take a listen. There's millions of people out there that are dissatisfied. Despite this five, maybe the way the Corona was handled this satisfied the fires dissatisfied with the blackouts you're saying dangerous for Gavin Newsom? Very dangerous? Yes, absolutely. It's very dangerous for him because you've got to take this stuff seriously for too long. That didn't take it seriously. But now I think they do take it seriously. So it sounds like the former governor believes the current governor is in trouble. What did you take away from this conversation with Schwarzenegger? Well, you know, it's interesting. He's friends with Avenue some Democrat Republican he's friends with, he says. A lot of the or at least knows a lot of the people who are on the other side of the ballot who want to take Newsom's job, so he's Very aggressively, not endorsing any of the candidates. But he is very clear as you heard about the atmospherics. And the thing that he thinks is so dangerous for Gavin Newsom. Is that the atmospherics on very different issues today. Number one is covid and all the ramifications from covid businesses closing and jobs lost and the school issues in the past year and a half. All of that, combined with a very real homeless problem. Housing prices are out of control all over California. It makes people really angry and it's again. Those are issues. Many of those are very personal. You know, there are times when there's a political movement where it's whether it's you know. Health care or little that was about obamacare or about spending. Let's say, let's just let's pick spending runaway runaway government spending. That's a very real issue for people, but they don't feel it necessarily in a personal way, like they felt covid or like they felt blackouts in 2003, and that's the point that he was trying to make. Well now former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was the last time California had a Republican governor. How was he able to get the vote beyond being, you know, absurdly famous? By not really allow allowing people to pin him down on Lot of the specific issues, particularly those today that are kind of requirements for Republicans, especially in Republican primaries. I mean, that was a big deal that because it was a recall, he was a Republican who didn't need to go through the Republican primary process. He didn't need to be vetted by conservatives to make sure he was conservative enough like you see in normal elections. At any level across across the country now, so that was big. And the fact is that he was and still is more moderate on things like the climate more moderate on social issues and then your average Republican, and that helps at the time in California, which was already quite blue. But nowhere near as blue as it is now. I mean, at this point, the registration differential between Democrats or Republican is 2 to 1. Then now, I guess the best way to put it is Republicans have about 25% of the voter registration in California. Then it was about low thirties, so it's dropped a lot since then. We also talked to Gray Davis, the governor who was recalled back in 2000 and three What were his thoughts looking back on that time? It's so interesting because he he owns it. He owns it, he says. Just just the way it is Number one. If you don't want to have a threat of being recalled, don't run. For any office in California because that's just the way California politics is. It was the whole notion of a recall was put into place through proposition. How else in California about 100 years ago by a governor then named Hiram Johnson, and the threat was always there. He was the first person to actually be recalled from the governor's mansion. So he says he didn't take it seriously. At the beginning, he said, Look Ronald Reagan When he was governor. There were threats four or five times that of him being recalled and didn't happen. I really think it was going to happen. And time does heal wounds. His wound is pretty healed and he is very Zen, almost about the fact that he did what he could, and so much was out of his control. Well after researching the recall election in 2003 and and looking at the recall election that's currently underway. What dots? Are you connecting beyond atmospherics? It's such a good question the whole state of our politics right now, and the idea that people back then this is a little bit of atmospheric, but I'll but I'll connected to the to the leadership in a second people back then. We're looking for something different. They Were looking for change. And what happened with the, um The push for the recall was that those Uh, those characters so to speak those individuals, they were kind of the precursors to the tea party. And so and then the tea party was a precursor to trumpism. And Trumpism is here to stay right now in the GOP. And although Larry Elder who is currently the according to polls, the front runner among the 40 plus Candidates who want to take Gavin Newsom's job today says he's not trump in, um He is supported by a lot of trump individuals by a lot of Trump supporters because they see him. In in a similar way that he's a talk radio host. He's never held public office before. He is a good communicator. Things like that. So there lies the similarity. I will say the differences are also huge when it comes to Gavin Newsom versus Gray Davis. Not the least of which is that Gray Davis at this point Had polls..
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"Knight Foundation, helping NPR advanced journalistic excellence in the digital age. I'm Jen white. This is one A. We're discussing weddings during the pandemic in the future of the wedding industry with Eric Apandi. She's a business reporter for Axios. Also with us is Dr Rachel Lee. She is an infectious disease specialist and healthcare epidemiologist at the University of Alabama Birmingham and Jacqueline Watson. She's a certified wedding planner in Vermont. New York and Florida. She's also the founder of Jacqueline Watson Events. Now one of our own producers at one A is getting married very soon, and here's what she had to say about planning a wedding during the pandemic. This is Page in D. C. I've been planning my wedding since early last year. Um, and it's actually happening later this month. It's been really, really difficult. Um I would say wedding planning was already hard and Covid has made it It's like building a very large, complicated house on sands that are constantly shifting in some ways Last year was even easier than this year because last year there were very clear restrictions. And you sort of had the vaccines as like this milestone to aim for, whereas this year it's really just hard to know what's safe. Um, we've taken every precaution we can think of. We've made vaccines mandatory. We've Put the whole thing outside, including dancing. It's just really, really hard to know what to do. And at this point if we canceled or rescheduled, we would just be out. Thousands and thousands of dollars. Page. Thanks for leaving us that message. We'll hear more from her. Later in the conversation at Dr Lee Page mentioned that the lack of clear restrictions this year has made it harder to evaluate what's safe. And what's not. How can couples who feel like they're not really getting the guidance they need? Either from the CDC or from their state make the best decision for themselves and their families. That's a great question. I like to think of how to protect ourselves in like a law of two thirds. So there are three things that really help us. With the exception of vaccination, that's easy enough to say that's very important. But apart from vaccination, you can think about physical distancing masking an outdoor space. And so if you have two of the three that are really well built in You can generally say that you are doing your best to reduce the risk of infections around one another. Now, if you add on vaccination if someone who is vaccinated wears a mask when they're around others Generally, the risk is very low of spreading any sort of infection. And so I think, as couples are thinking through this in terms of the space that they have in the number of people that are there This may be helpful for wedding planners like Jacqueline to help kind of mitigate some of those concerns so that they can reduce the you know feelings of stress. That may be a bride to be may have. And how has what we've learned about breakthrough in cases among the vaccinated Change the way we should think about the risk of weddings and other in person events. Unfortunately, with this Delta variant breakthrough cases do happen, although what I will say is that If you are not immuno compromised in any sort of way. Generally speaking, people who have had these mild breakthrough of these breakthrough cases are mild to moderate. So you may feel like you have the flu, but You're not hospitalized. You are not needing a ventilator to help with your symptoms, And so unfortunately we do see breakthrough. But I think that's what we need to understand that we need to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible and follow public health mitigation measures, so transmit transmission and then mutations slow down. Well, lots of you are joining the conversation. Piece of mind Tweets as a wedding guest next month In this time of Covid 19. I plan to keep my mask or double mask on during the entire ceremony and reception. I may remove it, but only briefly to drink and eat will be in Maryland and Kathleen Emails. My cousin is getting married next month. It's an indoor wedding, and they're requesting not requiring vaccinations. They're also having a whole horde of Children as guests, and I have autoimmune issues. My family is unhappy about it, but I won't be attending their covid super spreader event. Jacqueline, How have you been working with couples to figure out what precautions They may need to take at their weddings or how they may need to rethink their wedding completely because of Covid. Absolutely. And our first thing that we always think about is the safety of our client and of the gas, So we really set a high standard for our clients at the very beginning. So when invitations went out, we set the tone that you have to be vaccinated in order to attend any event. Um, we also you know, like the doctor was saying, we say to them don't allow Children. Which helps we also make sure like if there is transportation via buses or anything with really, really close quarters that people are wearing their masks because this is also going to help mitigate We're trying to do and take all the right steps for our clients and for the guests so that they feel comfortable and so that they can party, um 95% of our events and we're very, very blessed. To have that, but they've been outside. They've been under tents and as a designer, we naturally separate tables out. So there's always a 6 to 7 FT. Distance just so catering Can get by. So we have that social distance aspect to it as well. And then on top of that, we're making sure that all of our vendors you know, and this is industrywide. All of the vendors are wearing masks. So people around you that are doing weddings, you know, constantly are taking all of the right precautions to keep you safe because they want to keep safe as well. And how important is communication here between the couple getting married and their guests Because I have to say Page and maybe it's a producer Hard at work page is very clear on that website about what is required of guests like it. They need to see a vaccination card masking its outwardly, but it's very well spelled out for us, so we know what to expect. When we arrive at the wedding, we know well in advance, And so as a guest, I feel really prepared. Yeah, and communication This year is key. That is the only way that we're able to do what we do, and it is a constant. We're talking to clients were talking to C. D. C. We're talking to all of the people that we need to to ensure safety and we're doing the very, very best that we can. And I think that it's valid to understand, too that while there is all this open communication There is a lot of frustration not only on the client part but on the guest part and on the vendor part and that frustration leads to people being scared. And, you know, it just goes back to us, making sure that we're communicating. You know, both parties are communicating and making sure that they fully understand what the expectations are. And if those expectations are met, then you shouldn't attend. We're talking to Jacqueline Watson. She's a certified wedding planner in Vermont, New York and Florida, also with us. Dr Rachel Lee, an infectious disease specialist and healthcare epidemiologist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and Eric Apandi. She's a business reporter for Axios. We also want to hear from you if you're currently planning a wedding, what's your experience been like doing it during the pandemic? Did you have to postpone your wedding Because of Covid. And if your wedding vendor house businessman for you, you can comment on our Facebook page tweet us at one. A. Orson as an email at one A at W am you dot org.
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"Now democracy now dot org the warrant peace report. I mean he goodman juan gonzalez here in new york city. The associated press called the democratic primary race to become the city's next mayor for brooklyn borough president and former police captain. Eric adams the latest tally. Which accounts for most absentee ballots. So adams edge out former sanitation. Commissioner catherine garcia by one percentage point. That's a little over eight thousand votes adams who'd be the city second. Black mayor ran to the right of his party. Promising to tackle crime. He's also known for supporting charter schools. And the real estate industry and taking on racism in the police department of new york meanwhile updated tallies and the city council ratio. women are on track to represent a majority of the new york city council for the first time before we go to our final story nicole. Hannah jones moving to howard university rejecting resignation. Tenure from unc. Roma amata one. Can you talk about the significance of Of eric adams take winning the democratic primary. He'll then go up against curtis lou the republican choice. Yes amy well as we discussed a few weeks ago on the show. It seem most likely that adams would prevail given his initially and it turned out to be so in terms of the counts of the absentee ballots. It was a very close arrays but then again there were many candidates in this race. So i think He's he's likely to become the second african american mayor in the history of new york city. And as i mentioned before. I've known eric adams for about thirty years. Now he was a big source. Of my when i was a reporter on issue so within the police department and and wage the valiant fightback in those days against racism and police abuse within the department became increasingly conservative as it became a politician. So i think that the real the real story here. I think is that in the last year or two there has been a considerable increase in gun violence and crime across the united states. I believe a lot of it. Is police department standing down in response to the massive public criticism around the country and and more and more guns being funneled into a black and brown communities and adams then was able to capture the majority of the democratic electorate in the primary as a result of the concern that The defunding police movement had got was going too far and that they that the voters especially in the black and brown communities overwhelmingly supported him. So i think that that's the key lesson from this. But i think that adams will be not as conservative as a lot of people's think but definitely not nearly as progressive with some of the other candidates well and of course we'll continue to cover what happens here in new york city but now we're turning to nicole. Hannah jones after months of controversy. The acclaimed journalist the new york times announced tuesday. She's decided not to join the faculty at her alma mater. Unc chapel hill instead the pulitzer prize. Winning reporter will join the faculty at howard university. The prestigious historically black university where the knight foundation has established a tenured endowed professorship and race in journalism for her she also plans to create the center for journalism and democracy acclaim journalists tallahassee coats. Who's a howard alum and close friend of hannah. Jones will join her at the school and running the center. The decision by hannah jones comes after her. Tenure was initially denied by the university of north carolina. Board of trustees in may after it was first unanimously approved by the faculty. The board typically rubberstamps tenure professors who've one sector approval from their peers. The decision to deny her tenure was reversed last monday after massive protests from alumni faculty and students nicole hundred. John spoke tuesday on. Cbs this morning with host gayle king about her decision to decline the tenured professorship at unc chapel hill. This was a position that since one thousand nine hundred eighty came with tenure. The night chairs are designed for professional journalists. Who were in working in the field to come into academia and every other chair before me who also happen to be white received that position with tenure. I never been denied. No one had never been denied tenure before exactly and i went through the tenure process and i received the unanimous approval of the faculty to be granted tenure and so to be denied it and to only have that vote occur on the last possible day at the last possible moment after threat of legal action after weeks of protests after it became a national scandal. It's just not something that i want anymore. Nicole hannah jones is best known for her work at the new york times where she produce the sixteen nineteen project an interactive project that reexamines the legacy of slavery. She's won the pulitzer prize for her work. She told cbs this morning why she thinks. Unc denied her. Tenure what has been reported is that there was a great deal of political interference by conservatives. Who don't like the work that i've done particularly the sixteen nineteen project and also by the powerful donor who gave the largest donation in the seventy year history of the journalism school. So it's pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition because of discriminatory views against my viewpoint. I believe my race and my gender for more. We're joined in greensboro north carolina by joe killian investigative reporter for nc policy. Watch who nicole hundred jones credited with breaking the story about the quote discrimination. I faced in the unc. Tenure sheets said his latest story. It's an exclusive print interview with. Her headline to kohana jones declines. Unc tenure offer heads to howard university. Welcome to democracy now. We're talking about one of the oldest public university in the united states joe kelley and take us through it. What happened and who the donor is this critical point that university's journalism school is named for who intervened in this process. Sure will it's a little over-simplistic. She was denied tenure because it actually was much more unusual than that they actually decided not to vote on it. Which is something you see in politics not usually in academia killing something in a committee making sure it never comes out of committee never comes to a vote. Nobody is on record publicly one way or the other. That's something you see north carolina. General assembly Councils and county commissioner meetings not generally something you see on the board of trustees major adversity and that's what happened here and our reporting reveal that not only was there conservative backlash to the idea for working at the university from activists and elected republicans but also from walter hudson who is a arkansas media magnate and graduate graduate of the the the journalism school who gave twenty five million dollars in two thousand eighteen which led to the school being named after him and school agreeing to what he calls his core values of journalism into a wall at the at the university he was i interviewed and he said that he had concerns about this team. Nineteen project and also about an essay that hannah jones wrote on the idea of reparations for black americans or slavery and he took those concerns at all the way up the chain he. He didn't get the answer that wanted from the schools team. Who said thank you for your input. But we're gonna make the decision ourself. So he went to the chancellor the vice chancellor who oversees financial giving and at least one.
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"Choice. Yes amy well as we discussed a few weeks ago on the show. It seem most likely that adams would prevail given his initially and it turned out to be so in terms of the counts of the absentee ballots. It was a very close arrays but then again there were many candidates in this race. So i think He's he's likely to become the second african american mayor in the history of new york city. And as i mentioned before. I've known eric adams for about thirty years. Now he was a big source. Of my when i was a reporter on issue so within the police department and and wage the valiant fightback in those days against racism and police abuse within the department became increasingly conservative as it became a politician. So i think that the real the real story here. I think is that in the last year or two there has been a considerable increase in gun violence and crime across the united states. I believe a lot of it. Is police department standing down in response to the massive public criticism around the country and and more and more guns being funneled into a black and brown communities and adams then was able to capture the majority of the democratic electorate in the primary as a result of the concern that The defunding police movement had got was going too far and that they that the voters especially in the black and brown communities overwhelmingly supported him. So i think that that's the key lesson from this. But i think that adams will be not as conservative as a lot of people's think but definitely not nearly as progressive with some of the other candidates well and of course we'll continue to cover what happens here in new york city but now we're turning to nicole. Hannah jones after months of controversy. The acclaimed journalist the new york times announced tuesday. She's decided not to join the faculty at her alma mater. Unc chapel hill instead the pulitzer prize. Winning reporter will join the faculty at howard university. The prestigious historically black university where the knight foundation has established a tenured endowed professorship and race in journalism for her she also plans to create the center for journalism and democracy acclaim journalists tallahassee coats. Who's a howard alum and close friend of hannah. Jones will join her at the school and running the center. The decision by hannah jones comes after her. Tenure was initially denied by the university of north carolina. Board of trustees in may after it was first unanimously approved by the faculty. The board typically rubberstamps tenure professors who've one sector approval from their peers. The decision to deny her tenure was reversed last monday after massive protests from alumni faculty and students nicole hundred. John spoke tuesday on. Cbs this morning with host gayle king about her decision to decline the tenured professorship at unc chapel hill. This was a position that since one thousand nine hundred eighty came with tenure. The night chairs are designed for professional journalists. Who were in working in the field to come into academia and every other chair before me who also happen to be white received that position with tenure. I never been denied. No one had never been denied tenure before exactly and i went through the tenure process and i received the unanimous approval of the faculty to be granted tenure and so to be denied it and to only have that vote occur on the last possible day at the last possible moment after threat of legal action after weeks of protests after it became a national scandal. It's just not something that i want anymore. Nicole hannah jones is best known for her work at the new york times where she produce the sixteen nineteen project an interactive project that reexamines the legacy of slavery. She's won the pulitzer prize for her work. She told cbs this morning why she thinks. Unc denied her. Tenure what has been reported is that there was a great deal of political interference by conservatives. Who don't like the work that i've done particularly the sixteen nineteen project and also by the powerful donor who gave the largest donation in the seventy year history of the journalism school. So it's pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition because of discriminatory views against my viewpoint. I believe my race and my gender for more we're joined in greensboro north carolina killian investigative reporter for nc policy. Watch who nicole hundred jones credited with breaking the story about the quote discrimination. I faced in the unc. Tenure sheets said his latest story. It's an exclusive print interview with. Her headline to kohana jones declines. Unc tenure offer heads to howard university. Welcome to democracy now. We're talking about one of the oldest public university in the united states joe kelley and take us through it. What happened and who the donor is this critical point that university's journalism school is named for who intervened in this process. Sure will it's a little over-simplistic. She was denied tenure because it actually was much more unusual than that they actually decided not to vote on it. Which is something you see in politics not usually in academia killing something in a committee making sure it never comes out of committee never comes to a vote. Nobody is on record publicly one way or the other. That's something you see north carolina general assembly councils and county commissioner meetings. Not generally something you see on the board of trustees major adversity and what happened here and our reporting reveal that not only. Was there conservative. Backlash to the idea for working at the university from activists in elected republicans. But also from walter. Hudson who is a arkansas media magnate and graduate graduate of the the the journalism school who gave twenty five million dollars in two thousand eighteen which led to the school being named after him and school agreeing to what he calls his core values of journalism into a wall at the at the university he was i interviewed and he said that he had concerns about this team. Nineteen project and also about an essay that hannah jones wrote on the idea of reparations for black americans or slavery and he took those concerns at all the way up the chain he. He didn't get the answer that wanted from the schools team. Who said thank you for your input. But we're gonna make the decision ourself. So he went to the chancellor the vice chancellor who oversees financial giving and at least one.
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"Now democracy now dot org the warrant peace report. I mean he goodman juan gonzalez here in new york city. The associated press called the democratic primary race to become the city's next mayor for brooklyn borough president and former police captain. Eric adams the latest tally. Which accounts for most absentee ballots. So adams edge out former sanitation. Commissioner catherine garcia by one percentage point. That's a little over eight thousand votes adams who'd be the city second. Black mayor ran to the right of his party. Promising to tackle crime. He's also known for supporting charter schools. And the real estate industry and taking on racism in the police department of new york meanwhile updated tallies and the city council ratio. women are on track to represent a majority of the new york city council for the first time before we go to our final story nicole. Hannah jones moving to howard university rejecting resignation. Tenure from unc. Roma amata one. Can you talk about the significance of Of eric adams take winning the democratic primary. He'll then go up against curtis lou the republican choice. Yes amy well as we discussed a few weeks ago on the show. It seem most likely that adams would prevail given his initially and it turned out to be so in terms of the counts of the absentee ballots. It was a very close arrays but then again there were many candidates in this race. So i think He's he's likely to become the second african american mayor in the history of new york city. And as i mentioned before. I've known eric adams for about thirty years. Now he was a big source. Of my when i was a reporter on issue so within the police department and and wage the valiant fightback in those days against racism and police abuse within the department became increasingly conservative as it became a politician. So i think that the real the real story here. I think is that in the last year or two there has been a considerable increase in gun violence and crime across the united states. I believe a lot of it. Is police department standing down in response to the massive public criticism around the country and and more and more guns being funneled into a black and brown communities and adams then was able to capture the majority of the democratic electorate in the primary as a result of the concern that The defunding police movement had got was going too far and that they that the voters especially in the black and brown communities overwhelmingly supported him. So i think that that's the key lesson from this. But i think that adams will be not as conservative as a lot of people's think but definitely not nearly as progressive with some of the other candidates well and of course we'll continue to cover what happens here in new york city but now we're turning to nicole. Hannah jones after months of controversy. The acclaimed journalist the new york times announced tuesday. She's decided not to join the faculty at her alma mater. Unc chapel hill instead the pulitzer prize. Winning reporter will join the faculty at howard university. The prestigious historically black university where the knight foundation has established a tenured endowed professorship and race in journalism for her she also plans to create the center for journalism and democracy acclaim journalists tallahassee coats. Who's a howard alum and close friend of hannah. Jones will join her at the school and running the center. The decision by hannah jones comes after her. Tenure was initially denied by the university of north carolina. Board of trustees in may after it was first unanimously approved by the faculty. The board typically rubberstamps tenure professors who've one sector approval from their peers. The decision to deny her tenure was reversed last monday after massive protests from alumni faculty and students nicole hundred. John spoke tuesday on. Cbs this morning with host gayle king about her decision to decline the tenured professorship that unc chapel hill this was a position that since one thousand nine hundred eighty came with tenure. The night chairs are designed for professional journalists who were in working in the field to come into academia and every other chair before me who also happen to be white received that position with tenure. I never been denied. No one had never been denied tenure before exactly and i went through the tenure process and i received the unanimous approval of the faculty to be granted tenure and so to be denied it and to only have that vote occur on the last possible day at the last possible moment after threat of legal action after weeks of protests after it became a national scandal. It's just not something that i want anymore. Nicole hannah jones is best known for her work at the new york times where she produce the sixteen nineteen project an interactive project that reexamines the legacy of slavery. She's won the pulitzer prize for her work. She told cbs this morning why she thinks. Unc denied her. Tenure what has been reported is that there was a great deal of political interference by conservatives. Who don't like the work that i've done particularly the sixteen nineteen project and also by the powerful donor who gave the largest donation in the seventy year history of the journalism school. So it's pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition because of discriminatory views against my viewpoint. I believe my race and my gender for more we're joined in greensboro north carolina killian investigative reporter for nc policy. Watch who nicole hundred jones credited with breaking the story about the quote discrimination. I faced in the unc. Tenure sheets said his latest story. It's an exclusive print interview with. Her headline to kohana jones declines. Unc tenure offer heads to howard university. Welcome to democracy now. We're talking about one of the oldest public university in the united states joe kelley and take us through it. What happened and who the donor is this critical point that university's journalism school is named for who intervened in this process. Sure will it's a little over-simplistic. She was denied tenure because it actually was much more unusual than that they actually decided not to vote on it. Which is something you see in politics not usually in academia killing something in a committee making sure it never comes out of committee never comes to a vote. Nobody is on record publicly one way or the other. That's something you see north carolina general assembly councils and county commissioner meetings. Not generally something you see on the board of trustees major adversity and that's what happened here and our reporting reveal that not only was there conservative backlash to the idea for working at the university from activists and elected republicans but also from walter hudson. Who is a arkansas media. Magnate and graduate graduated the The journalism school who gave twenty five million dollars in two thousand eighteen which led to the school being named after him and school agreeing to what he calls his core values of journalism into a wall at the at the university he was i interviewed and he said that he had concerns.
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"And a genius grant during her time on the 16 19 project was was being rolled out. However, and they did include this in the articles. So thank you. Wre l. Some critics and historians say there were factual inaccuracies. See, it's more than that. Not only do they say that But Jones and The New York Times both changed their their marketing and position on the accuracy is a result of those criticisms. Which in my book is them acknowledging them, so they're not just that They're not just alleged there. Acknowledged which I believe is. That's a that's a bigger deal. In my humble opinion, anyway, the John and James Knight Foundation has funded numerous night chair faculty positions nationwide, and they typically carry tenure. Hannah Jones was offered a five year contract instead. Do you know? Do you know why we're going down this road Because board Chairman Richard Stevens says the process, the protesters are mistaken. And assuming the trustees denied Jones tenure. Why, because she was never offered tenure. I want to repeat this. It wasn't a situation where she was offered 10 year. She was offered this job this five year job, but she was not offered tenure. Know which essentially is lifetime job security. Which wouldn't that be awesome, huh? She wasn't offered tenure. She was offered this job. So for for what would there has been alleged for literally days and days and stories written all over? Discussions had Is that she was offered the job and 10 year and a bunch of Republicans on the board said, Nah, screw that and revoked the offer of 10 year or denied it or voted down. Specifically, none of that happened. None of that happened. Share. The faculty, Mimi Chapman said. The board needs to trust them and the exhaustive process and recommending someone for 10 years. So they go through in there talking with the Susan King, here's dean of the school of Journalism there And a bunch of others and associate professor at the school, said the fact that he deserves an explanation for why Hannah Jones wasn't granted tenure because it was never on the table. Not at this point. And if you read through the article, they point out That they would they would consider 10 year during those first five years, but held off on making that offer based on the fact that she has no traditional academic Experience. She's she's a reporter. She's a journalist. Sure, but ultimately she she's not a teacher. That and so in that process during the course of the five years at that point, they may consider tenure but she was never offered it So it was never voted on and then it was never revoked or voted away. Literally. None of those things happened. And the irony of all ironies here is all the people bitching and moaning in this spot, or in this this story here and over this, this whole alleged incident. Are purportedly people who teach journalism. Or are involved in the process of teaching journalism. And their whole story is wildly inaccurate. That's that's more embarrassing than the idea that you're going to bring in the 16 19 lady who essentially decided to work and change history to her own liking, because she's all about the social justice and then was awarded, you know everything for it. Which is in this day and age is not that surprising but then to create and facilitate a narrative about something that never transpired. And to be, you know. All up in arms over this. By a bunch of people who are involved in the teaching of journalism at our state University. Is mind boggling to me. And it is the most embarrassing aspect of all of this. Another moon bad. Getting another teaching position at another university is hardly news. ASL large swaths of the school of journalism from the University of North Carolina, participating in a false narrative. A story that is remarkably easy to fact, check. Especially being insiders at the school there, right, still community campus community. And in and so efficiently selling it and allowing this story to permeate that students are then roped into going over and having to scream. Had to disrupt a board of governors meeting. Bore. Excuse me. Board of trustees meeting And everyone is purportedly wants to be journalists. We're going to get the facts will report the facts. We're going to do this. Is It doesn't lead me to agree with the op ed I shared with you from the Massachusetts professor claiming that universities are bastions of of right wing. Thought and In process. So, Yeah, if you've been following that story, or if you just got annoying stop following it up to initially heard it. The update now is none of the things people are mad about happened. Perfect, right. Happy Friday. Love this stuff. It is 6 50 here on the case. Seo Dae radio program, All right, coming up on the show. Have we got a young lady who is doing her part? Get kids motivated about getting vaccinated and what What could be wrong with that? In fact, I'll look that she's gotta syriza videos, which will explore coming up here on the case. Seo Dae radio program Honestly, the painless are your employees feeling burnt out from juggling work and caregiving responsibilities, help.
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"Bit. He's He's a really interesting person and watch his political career, but he's become kind of made it his personal mission. To recruit high tech venture capitalist to Miami. So look, Miami is not Austin. It's not Silicon Valley, but it does have you know this. The Knight Foundation for years has been building an innovation complex in the Wynwood area of Miami, and there is a little hub. Of technology. So look, I don't think it's Seattle. It's not Austin. But it's growing and you know, I think What worries me. I'm not worried about New York at all. I think New York Even if you go back to the seventies, you know, New York still had rich people. It still had financial headquarters. It had crime, but but what worries me? Is could San Francisco look more like Pittsburgh? Detroit If you look at what happened to cities Pittsburgh once had a vibrant innovation center of Steel and Electron IX, and even aerospace and resources and chemicals. I lived there for 20 years, I did research on it. Detroit was probably the most innovative place of its day in the early 20th century, with the auto industry and related They declined pretty dramatically. And the reason they declined. You know, I'm in urban geographer. People will say the combination of high labor costs and labor flexibility or labor inflexibility what they called institutional rigidities. Encourage capital flight or put in most, maybe not increased, put in motion capital flight to the sun belt to the suburbs and offshore. If you're looking at today's geography, you could say that San Francisco has Analogous kinds of rigidities. Lots of regulation, not building enough housing, high labor costs inflexibility. And would you expect capital flight to places like Austin or Denver or even Miami? Maybe. Do I think San Francisco will go the way of Detroit and Pittsburgh? Probably not. But does San Francisco have deep challenges now? That never experienced before? Probably? Yes. If you were hearing this conversation, and you were like the mayor of New York, the governor of New York, the mayor of San Francisco, the governor of California Would you be worried? Would you think as a few people this is who cares? I mean, this is this is minor stuff. Well, I'm a lace long I'm from New York. You know, kind of a lifelong New Yorker and I have an appointment. And then why you so I know New York better. The financial in real estate in technology community in New York is freak out. There's no other way to say it. It's freaked out. There are freaked out about people leaving You're freaked out about the impact on the budget. They are freaked out about the chaos in the mayor's race. I mean, right now, what do you have 25 candidates in running for mayor of New York? So there is a generalized freak up, but that's a good thing. I think one thing about New York is Pacific elite like them or not, in depending on which side of you out, will organize themselves the way they did after the 19 seventies. Kind of save the city. And I think this time around the civic elite realizes that has to be inclusive. It can't just be making New York and a wonderful home for the 1% that there's a real There's a new coalition for inclusive growth in New York that there's Sense that New York has to take the issues of economic inequality that got Bill de Blasio elected that a ricochet into its council and its politics very seriously. San Francisco. I know less about And my guess is they're probably isn't as much concern as there is in New York. My view of this is that New York Is big and it's resilient, and it has lots of neighborhoods and it can remake itself. It's shown itself to be on. We can talk more about how San Francisco's tougher it's smaller, It's more insular. There's the battle is more pitched between left and right business and progressives. You could see San Francisco going one of two ways. It could get its act together and kind of restore itself around inclusive growth, or it could all go south and fall apart. Now, I don't think it will fall apart. But I think it's going to lose Tech share and what's interesting, To be honest, I mean, if you look at the data There's an interesting shift already happened in the Bay Area. Most of venture capital financed by technology used to be in Silicon Valley when I studied this in the eighties and nineties Silicon Valley has lost its allure a long time ago. Silicon Valley now ranks about fourth or fifth in the United States in terms of its venture capital finance startups. San Francisco is numbers how much money is poured into these little companies? They're starting out 100% and the companies that are kind of the cutting edge of new technology. Okay, Silicon Valley got filled up with headquarters of Google, Facebook, Apple Lyrical, big established companies. And that's why those young kids would take the bus because they didn't want to live there. They wanted to live the young techies in which those industries depend wanted to live in the dynamic urban environment of San Francisco. Now the Bay Area's share, Even though Silicon Valley's gone down San Francisco has covered around 50% of all U. S startup investment. Uh, that could decline isn't going to decline to less than 30. Doubtful in San Francisco's still gonna be the number one center. Yeah, but one thing we did find. I did an analysis with a fella named in Hathaway, who's a real expert in this What we did find is that in terms of technology financed innovation financed by venture capitalists. The U. S has lost share big time. So we didn't find so much that Austin or Denver Or any other place had caught up to San Francisco so much that San Francisco was losing share to Shanghai, Beijing, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Toronto, So the other part of this equation is given the immigration restrictions. Does a lot of what used to happen in San Francisco or New York. Simply shift off shore, and I think that's the second worry of this that people just go to heck with the United States will stay home and do this stuff, right? Now, let's go back to this scenario in which maybe you're a mayor your governor, and let's say it is ah, a kind of high tax state of New York or California. You've got cities and states stuck in a terrible situation, right? Lots of businesses have closed down. Okay, Well, that's your tax base. Um, uh, it may be that property values have declined somewhat. Some of the rich are leaving. You're saying so they're facing, you know, less tax revenue. Well, what can they do? They they can raise taxes to meet their needs, which of which they clearly have a lot. Um, but then businesses might move. People might move. They could not raise taxes and not meet their needs. This sounds like a very, very bad situation. Let's call it for what it is a race to the bottom. That's what we've got going on a race to the bottom, and I think business elites have figured out that the pandemic is a perfect excuse. Squeezed. The city's if you didn't like what was happening in San Francisco in New York and your business person developing real estate you wanna develop bigger and taller. You have a tech company. You want to expand and they're constantly blocking you. They're constantly demanding. You pay a head tax. They're constantly throwing roadblocks. You just saying No, I'm gonna squeeze these people, and I think what we're seeing now is not just tax avoidance. I think it's the threat of capital flight. We've seen this movie before. It happened in Pittsburgh 150 years ago. It happened in Detroit a century ago, and I think You know, On the other hand, no blaming the mayors and governors of Miami in Florida who happened to be some of them Republican? No blaming the mayors and governors of Austin, Democrat Mayor, Republican governor for going after this. This is the way the game is played, and they're not even handing out of these gross and sentence like they did the Amazon. You do. They're just putting up their hands and saying Come here, we'll let you do business. So, look, this is something that one would think the federal government has got to step in the Bible, you know? Look, the 1st 1st things first. What we need from Biden Harris. We need to balance And remember in the new package that was passed before the holidays. It folks remember there was a stimulus and aid to small business and to people and in eviction moratorium continued. Not a penny in state local aid, So without state lovely. We're gonna have bankruptcy. We're gonna have austerity. We're gonna have service cutbacks. We're gonna people thrown out of their homes. It's gonna be horrific. Job. One is a reasonable support package state local government not forever to get through this terrible pandemic. The second thing is, I think we need some real thought Put into how do we end this race to the bottom Because once this dynamic is set in motion as it has been set in motion We've got.
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"The Digital Age Knight Foundation believes informed and engage communities are essential for healthy democracy. More at night Foundation daughter Warg 7 30. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will act on legislation to impeach President Trump for a second time. If vice president Pence declines to invoke the 25th amendment to try to force Trump out. Trump leaves office in nine days as president elect Joe Biden is sworn in about 90 people have been arrested and two U. S. Capitol police officers are among five people have died since Trump supporters stormed the capital building last Wednesday. Some states have begun opening what are called vaccination mega sites in an effort to administer more doses of covert 19 vaccines. NPR's Allison Aubrey has more the U. S. Is averaging about 250,000 new cases a day and deaths ever each to record highs in recent days, there's great urgency to speed up the vaccination campaign. But as some governors open up access to more people, there are not enough vaccination sites up and running. Some states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey and taxes are opening mega sites. Zeke Emanuel, who is an adviser to President elect Biden says the challenge is to improve coordination and increase capacity sports stadiums, convention centers, schools, parking lots that have been set up for testing and can be adapted to vaccine administration, he says all off And should be on the table as vaccinations. Ramp up. This is NPR news Live from KQED News. I'm Brian what San Francisco Police say they are preparing for a possible trip Pro Trump rally outside Twitter's headquarters on Market Street today. A police spokesman says the department has been in contact with Twitter and will have sufficient resource is to respond to any demonstration. Twitter announced Friday that it was permanently suspending President Trump's personal account. That's after determining his recent tweets violated the company's glorification of violence policy following last week's riot, the U. S Capitol. Most of Twitter's employees are not at the company's headquarters. They've been working remotely through much of the cove in 19 pandemic. The State Assembly plans to have its first hearing today on Governor Newsome's proposed budget, which he unveiled Friday. KQED Politics reporter Katie Orr says lawmakers have already expressed support for taking action quickly, at least on Newsome's proposals that deal with the cove in 19 pandemic. He's proposing $2.5 billion for testing and contact tracing more than $370 million for vaccine distribution, and Newsome says he's also expecting more help from the federal government to get people vaccinated. The governor's budget plan also has more spending on wildfire prevention and response K through 12 education and help for small businesses affected by the pandemic. The state Senate has its first budget hearing later this week. I'm Brian what KQED news Support for KQED comes from Abbvie, a research based global bio pharmaceutical company, Abbvie discovers and delivers.
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"Confined these days, our book critic Maureen Corrigan has a new novel to recommend that she says gallops off into unchartered territory. It's an updated Western called outlawed. Here's Maureen's review. Talking to friends this past week I've described and the North's new novel outlawed as the Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. That's a glib tagline, but there's some justification for it. Outlawed, opens in an alternative America of 18 94 that was tourney asunder by a flu epidemic some 60 years earlier. West of the Mississippi centralized government has been replaced by a patchwork of independent towns. One of the few things this fragmented America agrees on is that women are put on Earth to bear Children. That's it, and because too much knowledge, especially medical knowledge of women's bodies is frowned upon. Barren women are regarded as freaks of nature, which is they're ostracized, imprisoned and sometimes put to death. That status quo is pretty much okay with the heroine of outlawed a 17 year old woman named Ada. She's content to be married off to a man chosen for her and settles into await her first pregnancy. Which fails to happen. In less than a year, EDA is expelled from her husband's house and after a few twists of fate joins up with the infamous hole in the Wall Gang. North's novel that real life band of 19th Century Gun slingers is reimagined as a group of mostly non conforming gender outlaws who identify as female or non bynder e. They're led by a Messianic figure called the kid. In finding a home with the gang. ADA comes to realize that sexual desire can roam as wide and free as deer and buffalo on the range. Outlawed in this quick summary concerned, gimmicky, But there's much more going on in the smart adventure tale than just a sly up ending of the traditional Western rooted in macho individual ism and violence. For all the ways North ingeniously stretches the limits of the genre. She's also clearly a fan. She doesn't shy away from the expected gunfights, and her rendering of such scenes is jittery and absorbing. But North also dwells on the bloody aftermath of these shootouts and the damage that bullets do to the body. In common with writers of classic Westerns. North also evokes the rugged landscape of the West, especially the area around the gang's hideout with its salt flats, prairie dog burrows and notched wall of bright Red rock Many stories high that gives the hole in the wall gang its name. It's there that the final showdown between the gang and the posse of lawmen who are pursuing them will take place. Most of all, though, it's the affecting character of Ada, who's the steady draw here? Once faith tosses her out of her complacent life, Ada in the time honored tradition of the Western becomes Ah Hunter. Like Mattie Ross in true grit, or dare I say Ethan Edwards in the Vex John Ford film The Searchers. Ada is on the trail, not of someone, but of something. She wants medical knowledge of women's bodies. Ada joins the gang for protection but also to get loot from the hold ups to be able to travel and study with a master midwife She's heard about A woman who practices farther west. ADA aims to save other infertile women from being ostracized or murdered. There's a moment after she settles in with the gang. When Ada almost decides to stay put, she tells us I saw how the valley now blooming into beauty after the long winter. Could feel like home. What I had planned instead was so amorphous and uncertain. What if I stayed in the valley? I would learn know more about myself or people like me. Then I had known When I left, I would die without knowing what made me the way I woz. The heroes of the traditional Western were always sure about what made them the way they were. What made a man a man for Ada and the other outlaws of this spirited novel? The frontiers of gender and sexuality beckon to be explored. Maureen Corrigan teaches literature at Georgetown University. She reviewed outlawed by Anna North After we take a short break. We'll hear from journalist Maria Ressa. She's the executive editor and CEO of rap Lor and online Media organization based in Manila. Authoritarians, president of the Philippines, Rodrigo do Turkey has threatened to shut grappler down and he's warned journalists they're not safe from assassination. Russia is now facing the possibility of several years in prison. I'm Terry Gross, and this is fresh air weekend. Support for NPR comes from this station and from Crown with Barack Obama's a promised land the first volume of his presidential memoirs Obama reflects on his life and early years in office. A promised land is out now, wherever books and audio books are sold. And from noon, providing an online evaluation and the tools to help people lead healthier lives through behavior. 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"So look, Miami is not Austin. It's not Silicon Valley, but it does have you know this. The Knight Foundation for years has been building an innovation complex in the Wynwood area of Miami, and there is a little hub of technology. So look, I don't think it's Seattle. It's not Austin. But it's growing and you know, I think What worries me. I'm not worried about New York at all. I think New York Even if you go back to the seventies, you know, New York still had rich people. It's still at financial headquarters. It had crime, but but what worries me Is could San Francisco look more like Pittsburgh? Er, Detroit if you look at what happened to cities Pittsburgh once had a vibrant innovation center of steel in Electron IX, and even aerospace and resources and chemicals. I lived there for 20 years, I did research on it. Detroit was probably the most innovative place of its day in the early 20th century, with the auto industry and related They declined pretty dramatically. And the reason they declined. You know, I'm in urban geographer. The people will say the combination of high labor costs and labor flexibility or labor inflexibility what they called institutional rigidities. Encourage capital flight or put in most, maybe nine crews put in motion capital flight to the sun belt to the suburbs and offshore. If you're looking at today's geography, you could say that San Francisco has Analogous kinds of rigidities. Lots of regulation, not building enough housing, high labor costs inflexibility. And what do you expect Capital flight to places like Austin or Denver or even Miami? Maybe. Do I think San Francisco will go the way of Detroit and Pittsburgh? Probably not. But does San Francisco have deep challenges now? That never experienced before? Probably Yes. If you were hearing this conversation, and you were like the mayor of New York, the governor of New York, the mayor of San Francisco, the governor of California Would you be worried? Would you think as a few people this is who cares? I mean, this is this is minor stuff. Well, I'm a lace long I'm from New York. You know, kind of a lifelong New Yorker and I have an appointment. And then why you so I know New York better. The financial in real estate in technology community in New York is freak out. There's no other way to say it. It's freaked out. There are freaked out about people, leaving their freaked out about the impact on the budget. They are freaked out about the chaos in the mayor's race. I mean, right now, what do you have 25 candidates in running for mayor of New York? So there is a generalized freak up, but that's a good thing. I think one thing about New York is Pacific elite like them or not, in depending on which side of the yard. We'll organize themselves the way they did after the 19 seventies. Kind of save the city. And I think this time around the civic elite realizes that has to be inclusive. It can't just be making New York and a wonderful home for the 1% that there's a real There's a new coalition for inclusive growth in New York that there's Sense that New York has to take the issues of economic inequality that got Bill de Blasio elected that a ricochet into its council and its politics very seriously. San Francisco..
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"Frustrated, But we have a chance that maybe we can Get beyond some of the obstruction. It's going on. We've got some serious problems in this country because it to something about this Cobain crisis we got to do you know some real serious stuff about climate change, and we need to. If we demonize all the people that were doing these things, it's going to be hard to get them to cooperate with us on stuff that needs to be done so well, that's got to be bounced. Maybe a reconciliation panel or something along those lines. We talk more with Bruce came when we return and hear from you. Michael Krasny. I'm Tanya mostly and I'm Peter wrote down what an incredible week it has been incited by President Trump. A mob stormed the capital and what's being called an insurrection. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is certified as the next president and Democrats win control of the Senate with two special election victories in Georgia will wrap up the week's biggest news That's next time on here and now. Karen now coming up at noon, right after science Friday, which starts at 11 Support for KQED comes from the John s. And James L. Knight Foundation, helping public radio advance journalistic excellence in the Digital age Knight Foundation believes informed and engaged communities are essential for healthy democracy. More at night foundation dot or g'kar the time now, just about 9 20. This is Forum Michael Krasny. We're raising the question the segment of Forum about who should be held accountable for Wednesday's deadly siege on the U. S Capitol and how and if you have something you'd like to Say about this. Or if you have any questions you might have for a guest. Bruce Kane is professor of political science at Stanford. We would like to hear from you give us a call now at 8667336786. Number again for your calls. 8667336786 we get in touch on Twitter and Facebook. We're at KQED Forum or email. US Forum, KQED side or Spring. Susan on is our first caller. Susan. Welcome. Good morning. Yeah, that was wondering if someone like Rudy Giuliani but also be held accountable at all. So people on the first three people who are not necessarily in the government, but I mean, how do you hold someone who's.
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Half of Americans Don’t Vote. What Are They Thinking?
"A new study by the knight foundation reports that millions of Americans eligible to vote don't vote on C. span's Washington journal program Sam gill of the knight foundation tells us why how many non voters are there in the United States it is about a hundred million non voters I think in the last election it was it was just under a hundred million and it tends to since the sixties vacillate around forty to fifty percent of the electorate which right now is about a hundred million people can you underscore that point because that is a huge number yeah I mean look again if you look at the the last election Donald Trump won the electoral college Hillary Clinton as we know one of the popular vote but between the two of them you know you're looking at kind of twenty five to twenty seven percent of the eligible electorate forty percent of the eligible electorate chose not to vote so did not vote because two hundred million people it was a more popular choice for Americans who are eligible to vote than either of the two candidates who are running back to the study one of the questions that you ask is what do you believe is the most important issue facing the United States today number one was immigration number two was health care followed by jobs in the economy and again the same question if you think that these issues are important why not cast your ballot for the candidate you think best suited to deal with those issues well I think this study helped us to to understand a couple elements of this first I just point out it's not like not voters care about different things you know the three issues that you mentioned are things that a lot of people in America care about their issues that we perceive as mattering deeply to our lives to how our families are doing to how we're doing to what the future of this country will look like so not voters are prioritizing the same issues they're not asking the the the the electoral system to prioritize and the system of government to prioritize different issues you know we did find that non voters don't always map on to the way that parties divide these issues so for example non voters are more likely to favor the construction of a wall along the southern border they're somewhat less likely to favor a path to citizenship for for undocumented immigrants to this country but they're also less likely to think that what we ought to do is scrap the affordable Care Act and replace it so that would be a clear example where non voters Vince some points of view that are are pretty content with the current Republican Party and certainly president Donald Trump but they have other views that really don't reflect that so they don't exactly now by the parties and that might be a question we need to ask ourselves is is our current way of sorting ideologically exactly representative of some of the ways that I'm that most Americans see these choices are a lot of Americans see these choices again I think the other thing we found is that you know non voters just aren't sure that their vote makes a difference third there literally not sure that it's going to be counted and they're generally not sure that their voice and their ideas are important for the decisions that are made in this country so even if they feel passionately about these issues if they're not sure that the system is going to work for them then and it's the other things we have to do it's the kind of effort and attention we might perceive it it takes to to go out and vote this may not be the highest priority learn more about the one hundred million project on C. span dot org forward slash W.
Five days after chemical attack in Syria
"Bleaker street presenting the new thriller beirut from the writer of the borne trilogy starring jon hamm and rosamund pike beirut now playing in theaters and from the john s and james l knight foundation helping npr advanced journalistic excellence in the digital age this is morning edition from npr news i'm noel king and i'm david greene it has now been five days since a rebel stronghold outside damascus syria was hit by a deadly suspected chemical weapons strike president trump has been promising a tough response to that attack but unlike a year ago when trump ordered a tomahawk missile strike just two days after another chemical bombardment in syria he has so far held off taking any action this morning the president did tweet than an attack on syria could quote be very soon or not soon at all in the meantime the town of duma has now reportedly fallen to syrian government forces and let's bring in npr national security correspondent david welna david good morning david so the white house is saying all options still on the table but is it is it still looking like the united states is going to carry out some kind of reprisal here.