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Is San Francisco a Sanctuary When You Don’t Have Housing?
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Unheard: The Plight of Mayans Struggling with Addiction in SF
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area. That...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
The Grassroots Effort to Save Lives: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 6
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled across the U.S. from 2019 to 2021. And the CDC reports that two thirds of teens who died had ...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight for Safe Consumption Sites: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 5
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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As overdose fatalities reach two to three deaths a day in San Francisco, demands for supervised consumption sites are getting more urgent. But city...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The War on Drugs Revisited: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 4
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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Some San Francisco city officials are advocating jail for unhoused people who use drugs and murder charges for people who sell drugs. Critics say t...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Criminalizing Drug Use: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 3
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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San Francisco city officials have decided that arresting unhoused people for using drugs is the way to get them into treatment programs. Critics sa...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
How Drug Addiction and Homelessness Connect: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 2
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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While San Francisco is on track to break records for the highest number of fatal overdoses in one year, health experts say the city is failing when...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
The Origins of Rampant Opioid Addiction: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 1
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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San Francisco is experiencing its worst rate of drug-related fatalities ever, and as city officials impose increasingly punitive measures against p...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Ocean is Telling Us - with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
From: Doug Wood
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Author and biologist Sandra Steingraber talks about the impact of fossil fuels on our oceans, ahead of the March to End Fossil Fuels.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:48
Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
The New Nuremberg? Cambodia’s Genocide Tribunal
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Why did it take so long to prosecute war crimes in Cambodia?

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
How Technology Fights – and Fuels – Misinformation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of On Shifting Ground, we look at the global relationship between misinformation, war, and peace.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Larry Brilliant on Stopping The Next Pandemic
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode of “On Shifting Ground,” epidemiologist Larry Brilliant joins Ray Suarez to break down what the global pandemic response com...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
We Know the Heat Is Coming. SF Has a Plan.
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco plans for future heat waves after record breaking heat in 2017 claimed six lives.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Looming shutdown at Laguna Honda Hospital was 'preventable,' doctor says
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Laguna Honda Hospital's certification is under review, and doctors say this was preventable.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
While SF Fought COVID, HIV Prevention Efforts Stalled
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, resources were diverted from HIV prevention to battle the new health threat. "Civic" talks to doctors about how that ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Wealth Gap Grew With Lower Taxes, Fewer Worker Protections
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Part 2/2 in our coverage of Income Inequality and the policies and practices that led to this on "Civic."

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
America’s Wealth Gap Is Rooted in Racism. How Did We Get Here?
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Income inequality is at a breaking point in America. "Civic" takes a look at the history of policies and programs in part 1/2.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 24:05
White Supremacist Terrorism: From Christchurch to Buffalo
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez invites Daniel Byman, author of Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism, to discuss the roots of the global white...

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  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The End of Neutrality? Finland’s NATO Bid
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode of WorldAffairs, we tackle the question, how does a country–or an individual–survive the threat of Russian aggression?

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  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Refugee Stories from Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we hear stories from people seeking refuge, and how war and immigration policy impact people on the ground.

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Data shows an increase in street fires, but that’s not the whole story
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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A look at homeless encampment fires in the Bay Area with Three journalists at the San Francisco Public Press and Mission Local have been tracking f...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Why is Mexico Suing US Gun Makers?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Journalist Ioan Grillo, and author of Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels, helps us analyze Mexico’s unprecedented lawsuit against ...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
How Has COVID-19 Changed Education?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at the lasting effects of the pandemic on education around the world.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
1918 Flu Pandemic vs. COVID-19: Nancy Bristow, U Puget Sound
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Headshot: Nancy Bristow
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nancy Bristow… Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound… and author of American Pandemic:...

  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:30