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00:08 — Mar Omega is a community organizer and head of the media team for the San Francisco Trans March. She also goes by Mar xoxo, the Bay Area’s finest trans pinay pop princesa. Both her music and social work are intimately intertwined as she creates audiovisual and physical spaces for everyone to be liberated and celebrated. Her song “like this” is out now. 00:20 — Isaac Ceja is a freelance contributor to the LA Local reporting on Boyle Heights. 00:33 — Zubaida Akbar is the Afghanistan Program Manager at Femena. Her work is focused on supporting the work of grassroots civic movements and women human rights defenders, who are advocating for gender equality and an end to the oppressive policies of the Taliban imposed on women. The post Trans March Kicks Off Pride Weekend; Plus, Boyle Heights Community After the Lineage Warehouse Fire; Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan Exacerbated by International Community’s Normalization of Taliban appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 — Hunter’s Point community members are demanding answers after toxic materials were discovered during the cleanup of the former naval shipyard. We speak with Bradley Angel of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and journalist Tom Molanphy about the latest developments, community concerns, and the legacy of environmental contamination in Bayview-Hunters Point. 00:33 — Dazon Dixon Diallo of SisterLove joins us to discuss the impact of federal cuts to reproductive health and HIV/AIDS funding on communities in the U.S. and around the world. The post The Fight for Accountability on Chemical Waste in Hunters Point Continues; Plus, Federal Cuts Hitting HIV/AIDS Care appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 — John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, about Russia’s war in Ukraine. 00:33 — Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and co-director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, joins the program to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East. The post Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus Middle East Roundup with Khury Petersen-Smith appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Walter Riley, longtime civil rights attorney, fixture of struggles for justice in the Bay Area, subject of the new book cao-authored byJesse Strauss: Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley The post Walter Riley on Walter Riley appeared first on KPFA.

Today on Upfront, we are joined by The Nation’s John Nichols and later by John Feffer from Foreign Policy in Focus. Corona Calls with Dr. John Schwartzberg will resume in July. The post The Rule of Johns appeared first on KPFA.