Are critical voting rights bills in the Senate finally seeing support from the Biden Admin?; Omicron’s impact on airlines; The state politics of remote learning; Plus are far-right candidates shifting power in rural districts?
On today’s show:
0:08 – How are the voting rights bills are shaping up in the Senate? We discuss with Pastor Michael McBride (@impastormike_), National Director of Faith in Action’s LIVE FREE campaign and Elizabeth Hira (@ElizabethHira), Policy Counsel and Spitzer fellow in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
0:34 – How has the COVID surge caused by the Omicron variant impacted airlines? We speak with Madhu Unnikrishnan (@munnikrishnan), Editor of Airline Weekly and Skift.
1:08 – We discuss the state politics of remote learning with Kitty Kelly Epstein, educator, scholar, and host of KPFA’s Education Today, which airs every other Friday of the month at 2:30 PM.
1:34 – We discuss recent reporting from Hannah Allam of the Washington Post on the far-right, Three Percenters moving in on a local school board race in rural Eatonville, WA with former candidate for Eatonville School Board, Sarah Cole and the far-right candidates shifting power in rural districts with Kate Bitz (@katebitz), organizer, researcher, and Program Manager with the Western States Center. The resource Kate Bitz referenced at the end of this segment: Strengthening Local Government Against Bigoted and Anti-Democracy Movements
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