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G&R Episode 14: Welcome Back Koster! Politics and the Pandemic w/ Prof. Sarah Koster!

G&R Episode 14: Welcome Back Koster! Politics and the Pandemic w/ Prof. Sarah Koster!

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


G&R Episode 14: Welcome Back Koster! Politics and the Pandemic w/ Prof. Sarah Koster!

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Length:
65 minutes
Released:
Apr 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this timely episode, Bob and Scott welcome back Professor Sarah Koster back to Green and Red. We discuss the latest developments in the world of public health and COVID19, the disproportionate impacts coronavirus is having on black, brown and low income communities, why California seems to have peaked in the crisis and the amazing work being done by first responders and healthcare workers.  
Sarah Koster is a Nurse Practitioner based in Oakland, CA.  She has worked in research and program evaluation in the area of Infectious diseases in a variety of locales including southern Africa. She currently teaches Community Health at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, CA.  
Further reading: NY Times: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus The Intercept: Two Weeks as a New York City Nurse in the Pandemic Bob's latest: "Blaming China, Not Capitalism."  
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Released:
Apr 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.