SF Bay Area

Topics covered in this discussion include the role the Driscoll’s company has played in our local community, as well as the history of pesticides and farm workers; plus the story of one farmworker family currently suffering from cancer. Driscoll’s is the largest berry company in the world.

Interview with Palestinian activist Saif Abukeshek participating in the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza to deliver medicine and food and break the siege.

Interview with Heather Edney, co-founder in 1990 of the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Program. Edney will be part of an event on Saturday, July 19, 4PM at the 418 Project in downtown Santa Cruz which includes a panel discussion and short film screening of "Love is the Drug" by Liz Roberts.

Interview with author/activist Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about his new book "Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine - Reform, White Supremacy and an Abolitionist Future." DeWeaver will be reading from his book on Friday, July 18 at 6PM at the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences. (100 Panetta Avenue)