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[caption id="attachment_375016" align="alignnone" width="600"] Ida Louise Jackson and class in 1944. Jackson was Oakland's first African American teacher. Prescott School is one of several schools slated to be closed or merged by OUSD. | Image digitized by the African American Museum and Library at Oakland [1].[/caption] On today's show: 0:08 - Jeff Cohen, co-founder of RootsAction.org [2] and founder of the progressive media watchdog group FAIR [3] (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) joins us to discuss the peace movement and Ukraine. 0:33 - The Oakland Unified School District's proposal to close or merge schools in order to overcome a budget shortfall has galvanized a week of action among students, teachers and parents across the city. Joining us to discuss are Mike Hutchinson (@Blackholemikeh [4]) OUSD School Board Director for District 5 and Clarissa Doutherd (@msclarissaellen [5]) Executive Director of Parent Voices Oakland. 1:08 - Dean Preston (@DeanPreston [6]), San Francisco Supervisor for District 5 joins us to discuss a new report presented to Supervisors this week that shows over 40,000 units sitting vacant in San Francisco. 1:33 - Acoustical engineer Trevor Cox (@trevor_cox [7]) joins us to discuss his book, The Sound Book: The [8] Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World. [1] https://oakland.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/digitalFile_bea9da06-9ba9-4d9b-a0fd-35592ea0108b/ [2] https://rootsaction.org/ [3] https://fair.org/ [4] https://twitter.com/Blackholemikeh [5] https://twitter.com/msclarissaellen [6] https://twitter.com/DeanPreston [7] https://twitter.com/trevor_cox [8] https://acousticengineering.wordpress.com/book/