VOICES: River City, Episode 70: Bloody Bloody City Council
Buckle up for a wild one. The nation is rethinking public safety, with major cities taking steps to defund the cops and Minneapolis dismantling its…
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VOICES: River City, Episode 69: Sparxxxist Theory
Our 69th episode. Nice. Pressured by the interests of capital and a fussy, white petit bourgeois, Governor Gavin Newsom clearly opened California back up too…
VOICES: River City, Episode 68: Asantewaa Boykin of MH First and the Anti Police-Terror Project
Rather than invest in a social safety net that protects Americans from experiencing mental health crises, addiction and homelessness, our country funnels the majority of…
VOICES: River City, Episode 67: California’s School-to-Prison Pipeline
Do cops belong in schools? The answer is obvious: No. Yet Americans have spent the last seven decades increasing their presence in institutions of education,…
VOICES: River City, Episode 66: The Reckoning
The crew discusses how politicians, newspaper editors and other institution leaders are simply not ready for the reality of the new world we live in….
VOICES: River City, Episode 65: Measure You
We discuss Flo’s incredible back-and-forth with Mayor Steinberg during this week’s Measure U Committee meeting, which the city almost succeeded in canceling in hopes that…
VOICES: River City, Episode 64: Feed the Pigs
Much like police forces across the nation, the violent Sacramento Police Department costs the city a whole lot of money. Just last year they had…
VOICES: River City, Episode 63: Defund the Police, with Dr. Jane Mantey
We are joined this week by Dr. Jane Mantey, Associate Director of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University, to discuss what people…
VOICES: River City, Episode 62: Tifanei Ressl-Moyer of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
This episode we are excited to be joined by Tifanei Ressl-Moyer, the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. She…
61 – George Floyd, Mayor Steinberg’s violence and white fragility, and special guest Conrad Crump
You may have seen the footage from Sunday morning of a Black man pressing Mayor Darrell Steinberg on his racist policies, such as taking $10 million…