
Monday Morning Politics; Rethinking the BQE; Students Walk Out to Protest Climate Inaction; A Place for Women's Activism
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 18, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Jane Coaston, senior politics reporter at Vox, talk about the white nationalist ideas that influenced the alleged New Zealand shooter, and the connections to similar acts of violence in the United States and around the world.
- David Graham, staff writer at The Atlantic, who covers U.S. politics and global news, talks about the latest national political news — as well as Beto O'Rourke's entry into the 2020 presidential campaign.
- New York City comptroller, Scott Stringer, offers his proposal for repairing and reimagining the BQE into a trucks-only highway with a park on top.
- Varshini Prakash, executive director and a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots movement that is demanding immediate action from the United States Congress to address the climate change crisis, talks about the student climate strike, organized to protest inaction around climate change. Students Alexandria Villaseñor, Fridays for Future school striker in solidarity with Greta Thunberg and organizer for the global strikes that Fridays For Future calls for, Olivia Wohlgemouth, Climate Strike NY organizer at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, and Spencer Berg, Climate Strike Organizer at ICE (Institute for Collaborate Education), join the conversation.
- Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, political activist and feminist organizer, Pamela Shifman, executive director of the NoVo Foundation, and Miyhosi Benton, member of the Women's Building advisory circle and senior associate at the Women & Justice Project (WJP), a non-profit organization that centers the leadership of women directly impacted by incarceration, talk about the transformation of the former Bayview Correctional Facility in Chelsea into The Women's Building, which they envision as a hub for the girls' and women's rights movement.


