Month: June 2024

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Focus on Africa - South Africa elections: The ANC loses its majority. What happens next?

Following last week's elections, South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, has lost its majority. The ANC now needs a coalition partner to ally with. It's begun closed-door negotiations with its political opponents, but who will it choose and why?

Also Nigeria's public workers begin an indefinite nationwide strike following failed negotiations with the government

And have you heard of 'adaptive' clothing? It's a new much needed fashion trend, helping people with disabilities to shop with ease.

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Native America Calling - Monday, June 3, 2024 – Prepare for election misinformation

Is there really a mass of Chinese immigrants forming an army within the United States? Are there legions of ineligible voters deciding elections? Are the people you disagree with politically getting influenced by Russian agents? Anymore, news consumers can choose where they get their facts from - and increasingly those facts are in dispute. A new poll by the Media Insight Project finds 53% of those asked think news organizations will report inaccuracies or misinformation about the upcoming election. We will get some clues about what Native news consumers should look out for, and what news organizations could do to restore trust in their products.
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CBS News Roundup - 06/03/2024 | World News Roundup

Jury selection begins for Hunter Biden's trial in Delaware. Massive California wildfire. Mexico gets it first female president. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Bad Faith - Episode 377 Promo – We Are The Leaders We’ve Been Looking For (w/ Eddie Glaude)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast   Princeton Professor of African American studies Eddie Glaude Jr. returns to Bad Faith to discuss what he told students at historically Black Morehouse College in advance of Biden's commencement address, why he's now ambivalent about his 2016 openness to voting third party in deep red and deep blue states, how to break free of the "vote blue no matter who" mindset, Cornel West and political pragmatism, and more. One of Briahna's all-time favorite guests remains one of her favorite interlocutors in this, his second appearance.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Six Lung Collapses, Then A Rare Disease Diagnosis

Thirty million people live with a rare disease in the United States. And for many of them, it often takes years to get a diagnosis. For one Chicago woman, those years were marked by uncertainty and doctors’ dismissal of her growing pain as she experienced lung collapse after lung collapse. She was eventually diagnosed with a rare form of endometriosis. Reset sits down with her to hear her story and to talk about how women navigate physical pain and the medical system. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - I, Claudia: Mexico’s new leader

Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected Mexico’s first female president. Now the real fight begins: crime is rocketing, corruption is rampant and the country is divided. Hurricane season has arrived in the Atlantic, and America’s coastal states are braced for a stormy one—thanks to forces both natural and man-linked (11:02). And introducing the new co-host of “The Intelligence” (20:11).


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Up First from NPR - Gaza Ceasefire Proposal, Hunter Biden Trial, Mexico Elections

The latest negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza are underway. The trial of President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden begins in Delaware. Mexico is poised to elect its first female president.

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Start the Week - Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology

In front of an audience at the Hay Literary Festival Adam Rutherford talks to the botanist and Native American Robin Wall Kimmerer. In her book, Braiding Sweetgrass she shows the importance of bringing together indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge, to increase understanding of the languages and worlds of plants and animals.

Hugh Warwick is an expert on hedgehogs but in his latest book, Cull of the Wild, he focuses on animals less native, and beloved. From grey squirrels in Anglesey to cane toads in Australia he explores the complex history of species control, and the ethics of killing in the name of conservation.

The writer Olivia Laing turns her attention to the efforts to create paradise on earth. In The Garden Against Time she retells her own attempts to restore a walled garden in Suffolk while investigating the long history of gardens – real and imagined, follies and pleasure grounds.

Producer: Katy Hickman