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As Martin Luther King once said, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." The universality of this quote is amplified in these pandemic times--particularly in the prison system, where prisoners lack the protections and social distancing capabilities to stay safe. 

On May 9, 2020 Caravans of demonstrators will call on San Quentin Prison officials to do more to protect the prison populations and send those who are soon due to be released as well as those who are sick, elderly or immuno-compromised home. They say failure to do so amounts to a sentence to death. Richard Tan, an attorney with the Labor Action Committee, tells us what's at stake. 

 

From dairy farmers in rural Wisconsin to the founders of the world's largest independent music business, people are doing what they can to hold each other up and make ends meet. 

From the United States to India to Qatar, the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the global community. Listen to hear the impacts on these communities. 

Get the global update on the pandemic. Learn some coping mechanisms. Listen to the narrative of an Artist, Screenwriter & Playwright whose play "Real Women Have Curves" whose story we share in honor of Women's History Month--even though her play has been suspended due to the covid-19 pandemic. 

As we're all hunkered down at home in this pandemic, I'm pulling some interviews that inspired me or made me smile in hopes that they may do the same for you. I interviewed Emily Yates in 2015 as I held the microphone in one hand and my five-month old daughter in my other. All of Emily's songs, in my opinion, give us space to consider important topics and smile at the same time but one of my favorites that feels like an appropriate and timely reminder is "Try Not to Be a Dick."

Emily speaks about how she went from being a military officer to a ukulele enthusiast and gives samples of a few of her songs in this piece.