Scientists estimate that over 8 million tons of plastic enter the world’s oceans each year. Much of it breaks down into irretrievable tiny particles, wreaking havoc on the sea creatures who mistake it for food. Now some of this plastic is finding its way back into our food system, not as packaging, but inside our food and water.
How can we stop the onslaught of plastic into our oceans? Can we protect marine life? How does ingesting plastic affect human life? We’ll discuss on City Visions tonight, with guests:
- Rachael Coccia, the Surfrider Foundation’s Plastic Pollution Manager
- Debbie Raphael, Director of San Francisco’s Department of the Environment
Tune in at 7pm at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream live. Call or email with questions for the panelists!
How are recidivism rates trending? The formerly incarcerated still are ineligible for many jobs and have limits on their voting rights. Should we be doing more to help them become productive citizens and good neighbors?
Join us tonight on City Visions at 7pm, for another in our series on criminal justice in the Bay Area. This show focuses on life after incarceration, or what’s known as “reentry.” Guests include:
- Michael Mendoza, Policy Director at the Anti-Recidivism Project (or, ARC). He was sent to adult prison as a juvenile and served 17 years behind bars. Since his release, he has gotten a B.A. in Political Science from San Francisco State University and has worked in various policy reform efforts – at #cut50 and ARC – and he continues to mentor and educate currently incarcerated people.
- Amika Mota, Program Director of Women’s Prison Re-Entry & Policy at the Young Women’s Freedom Center. She began organizing for Reproductive Justice and young mothers’ rights over twenty years ago, as a teenage mother and midwife. She began advocating for women in prison during her seven-year incarceration in the California Department of Corrections, where she served time at both the California Institute for Women (CIW) and the Central California Womens Facility (CCWF).
Tune in at 7pm at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream live. Call or email with questions for the panelists!
The next time you eat a piece of avocado toast, thank a hippie. It was the hippie movement that gave rise to so much of what we eat and take for granted today: tofu, yogurt, organic produce, farm to table, whole grain breads and so much more.
On tonight’s City Visions, we’ll hear from Jonathan Kauffman, a James Beard award-winning journalist and author of Hippie Foods: How Back to the Landers, Longhairs and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Described by the New York Times as “briskly entertaining,” Hippie Foods makes the case that beyond bell bottoms and politics, one of the lasting impacts of the hippie movement is how it changed the way we eat.
Tune in at 7pm at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream live. Call or email with questions for Jonathan!
UPDATE: Tommy had to reschedule, so the show never aired. We hope to have him on soon.
On tonight’s City Visions on KALW, I’ll interview Tommy Orange, author of the acclaimed 2018 debut novel, There There. In the novel, Orange explores the lives of urban Native Americans—stories and perspectives that have historically been underrepresented in literature.
Orange was born and raised in Oakland, California and is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He is a graduate of and now teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In There There, rather than trying to convey the Oakland urban Native experience from one point of view, Orange introduces 12 narrators and describes their individual struggles with identity and authenticity, tradition and modernity. What does it mean to be Native American in the United States today?
Find out more by tuning in tonight at 7pm on local public radio KALW in San Francisco (91.7 FM) and streaming live on our website. Call with comments and questions during the program at (866) 798-TALK, email or text us anytime at cityvisions@kalw.org or tweet us @cityvisionsKALW.
On tonight’s City Visions, I’ll be talking to Bay Area author and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Vanessa Hua about immigration, motherhood, and the state of race relations in the Bay Area and beyond.
Tune in tonight at 7pm on local public radio KALW in San Francisco (91.7 FM) and streaming live on our website. Call with comments and questions during the program at (866) 798-TALK, email or text us anytime at cityvisions@kalw.org or tweet us @cityvisionsKALW.
The 62nd annual San Francisco International Film festival opens next week. With 163 films from 52 countries, the Bay Area will be bursting with cinematic and live performances reflecting the social and cultural issues of our time.
On tonight’s City Visions, I’ll be talking to festival producers and filmmakers about how they tackle critical topics like immigration, wealth inequality, and redemption. We’ll also find out which celebrated musicians and Hollywood stars will be in town for the festivities. Joining me will be:
- Rachel Rosen, Director of Programming at SF Film, host of the San Francisco International Film Festival
- Tom Shepard, documentary filmmaker and director/producer of UNSETTLED: Seeking Refuge in America
- Amanda Mortimer, Bay Area journalist and producer of The Great American Lie, a documentary taking a deep-dive into the relationships between gender and wealth inequality and the American dream, directed by California first lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
Tune in tonight at 7pm on local public radio KALW in San Francisco (91.7 FM) and streaming live on our website. You can call with comments and questions during the program at (866) 798-TALK, email or text us anytime at cityvisions@kalw.org or tweet us @cityvisionsKALW.
If you shop online, use social media, rely on dating apps, or access free email, then your personal information – such as your address, clothing size, and even your politics and dating preferences – isn’t private.
Tonight on City Visions, we’ll find out how tech companies gather and share information about you every day and discuss how you can protect your digital privacy. We’ll also cover how California’s landmark 2018 privacy law may be changing in the face of industry lobbying efforts.
Joining me to discuss will be:
- Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Rick Arney, Board Member of Californians for Consumer Privacy and co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
Listen live at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area at 7pm or stream on-line. Call or email with your questions!
On tonight’s City Visions, I’ll speak with the founders of Grab Your Wallet and Sleeping Giants to learn how two Bay Area residents took to Twitter to organize influential corporate boycotts following the 2016 election. In the process, they created two different and successful grassroots campaigns — one a boycott of companies doing business with Trump and his affiliates and the other aimed at advertisers on Breitbart, an alt-right website.
How did these campaigns take off, and what are the limits of Twitter activism? When consumers demand that companies stop advertising or doing business, where’s the line between stopping hate speech and censoring free speech?
Joining me to discuss will be:
- Shannon Coulter, co-founder of Grab Your Wallet;
- Matt Rivitz, founder of Sleeping Giants; and
- David Snyder, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition
Listen live at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area at 7pm or stream on-line. Call or email with your questions!
Democrats once again have a super majority in the California Legislature, but will they be united on the challenging issues facing the state? What role will Bay Area legislators play in shaping state policy next year?
On tonight’s City Visions, we continue our analysis of the midterm election with a focus on the California State Legislature. We will talk priorities and challenges with three Bay Area legislators.
What do you want them fighting for in Sacramento? Joining me to discuss will be:
- Assembly Member David Chiu – representing District 17, the eastern side of San Francisco.
- Senator Nancy Skinner – representing District 9, which includes Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
- Assemblymember Phil Ting – representing District 19, the western side of San Francisco.
Listen live at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream on-line. Call or email with your questions!
As Democrats prepare to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, what role will California’s 53-person strong congressional delegation play? Will Nancy Pelosi be our next Speaker of the House?
Now that the historic midterms are over, it is time to ask, “What’s next?” Democratic representatives Anna Eshoo (CA-18) and Jared Huffman (CA-2), along with UC Berkeley political science professor Eric Schickler, join me for a discussion on City Visions tonight previewing the 116th Congress:
- Anna Eshoo represents the 18th District which covers San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, including Silicon Valley. She has been a member of Congress since 1993 and serves as the senior member of the House Energy and Commerce committee.
- Jared Huffman represents the 2nd Congressional district which runs along the coastline from Marin County to the border of Oregon. Congressman Huffman has served in Congress since 2013, and serves on the Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
- Professor Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott professor of Political Science. An expert on Congress, Professor Schickler has won the Richard F. Fenno prize for his study of legislative politics and the Woodrow Wilson prize for best book on government and politics.
Listen live at 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area or stream it on-line. Please call or email with questions for the panelists!
