Amazon in LIC; Tear Gas and Chaos in Tijuana; How Some Medical Implants Are Making People Sick; Talking About Rape
The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 27, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- Maritza Silva-Farrell, executive director at ALIGN NY, an alliance of labor and environmental justice groups, and Lena Afridi, director of economic policy development at the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development, talk about Amazon HQ2 coming to Long Island City.
- Dara Lind, Vox senior reporter and host of "The Weeds” podcast, and Adolfo Flores, national security correspondent for immigration for Buzzfeed News, discuss the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border where South American asylum seekers were met with tear gas this weekend amid clashes with the United States Border Patrol.
- Spencer Woodman and Sasha Chavkin, reporters for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), discuss their findings in the first-ever global examination of the medical device industry.
- Sohaila Abdulali, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape (The New Press, 2018), talks about her own experience as a rape survivor and the essay she wrote then that went viral in 2012 and offers her insights as a feminist and rape crisis counselor in confronting the crime and its aftermath.
