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[caption id="attachment_375793" align="alignnone" width="603"] A truck displays signs protesting Canada's COVID vaccine mandate. | Image by Ana Krachkovskaya, 2022.[/caption] On today's show: 0:08 - We discuss the Ottawa truckers' protest with Tracey Lindeman (@traceylindeman [1]), a freelance journalist near Ottawa who has been covering the protest for The Guardian and the Associated Press. 0:20 - Program Director of ALMAS, Alianza de Mujeres Activas y Solidarias, a domestic worker organizing project of the Graton Day Labor Center [2], Renee Saucedo (@ReneeSaucedo1 [3]) joins us to discuss their one day protest. 0:33 - Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health joins us to discuss the latest COVID science and answer listener questions. 1:08 - Mark Osler (@Oslerguy [4]), professor of law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a former federal prosecutor joins us to discuss the federal trial against the three other Minneapolis Police Officers charged in George Floyd's killing. 1:25 - Moses Omolade, Westlake Middle School administrator joins us on the 14th day of his hunger strike. 1:33 - We discuss the oversight of Oakland’s FCMAT—Financial Crisis Management Assistance Team with Kitty Kelly Epstein, educator, scholar, and host of KPFA's Education Today [5], Pecolia Manigo [6], co-director of Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network and member of the Reparations for Black Students Coalition, and Clarissa Doutherd [7], Executive Director of Parent Voices Oakland. [1] https://twitter.com/traceylindeman [2] https://www.gratondaylabor.org/ [3] https://twitter.com/ReneeSaucedo1 [4] https://twitter.com/Oslerguy [5] https://kpfa.org/program/education-today/ [6] https://twitter.com/SistahPecolia [7] https://twitter.com/msclarissaellen