News and issues important to Bellingham, WA, and the Pacific Northwest
Dave Willingham, Galen Herz, and CNN Engineer Devlin Sweeney
EP 201 Guest-Host Galen Herz, Co-Founder of the Bellingham Tenants Union joins the crew to discuss the Motel 6 privacy violations of thousands of people with “Latino sounding names,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s charges and safe, affordable housing for all.
EP. 145 WHRTF’s Theresa Williams on local human rights and racism past and present and on despair, inspiration, and hope. Click here to listen.
Antonio Garcia and farm-workers protest Sumas’ Sarbanand Farms. Honesto Silva Ibarra died August 6, 2017 Photo: Megan Farmer, KUOW
Ep. 135. The death of 28 year old farmworker Honesto Silva Ibarra, and the worker walk-out at Sarbanand Farms. Citizen Journalist Liz Darrow speaks with Community to Community Development’s Edgar Franks and Rosalinda Guillen and Junga Subedar with the Whatcom Civil Rights Project and Racial Justice Coalition about their organizations’ responses to the 2017 Whatcom County Jail proposal.. Dave Willingham speaks with Congressman Rick Larsen.
Edgar Franks, Rosalinda Guillen and Junga Subedar on Whatcom Jail Proposal.
100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, all-women panel with Catherine Chambers, Teizeen Mohamedali and women from around the world. We talk about young women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, stereotypes about women and more. Citizen Journalist Rosa Tobin interviews students from Brasil, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Ep. 113: CNN covers a week of protests. Citizen Journalists Brooks Collins and Liz Darrow cover the Worker and Immigrant Solidarity March, Bellingham City Council Sanctuary City discussion, and the NoDAPL freeway off-ramp march. Also, the 9th Circuit US Appeals Court upholds WA State suspension of the Trump travel ban.