Local non-profit news site Mission Local has published a 2-part investigative report this week on civil settlements involving San Francisco law enforcement that has cost taxpayers roughly $70 million dollars since 2010. We’re joined by Will Jarret, Mission Local’s data reporter and lead investigator on the two-part series titled: “$70 million dollars in SF law … Continued

It is pride month, and we’re spending intentional time this month – as we do every month – tracking movement for queer liberation and the processes that try to muzzle the rights of our queer families. In this episode we look at a homophobic legislative process going on in Uganda, a country where the law … Continued

Roadside Theater is a professional ensemble of storytellers and theater makers hailing from the mountains of central Appalachia. In its decades since its founding in 1975, the ensemble has taken on the task of people’s theater, engaging social issues and abandoning the ‘fourth wall’ concept in order to bring audiences into the process of cultural … Continued

Criminalization of gender-based violence was meant to protect victims of violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of those victims—the criminalization of survival. Victims of violence are regularly punished by the criminal legal system. Our guest, Leigh … Continued

Over the past week, dozens of people seeking asylum, who reached US in the southern area of Texas, were flown to Sacramento, in what critics – including Gavin Newsom – have called a political stunt, led by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, as the latter tries to build energy into his Republican presidential campaign. Florida’s Division … Continued