She the People; Trump's Planned Parenthood Gag Rule; Earth Week: Adaptation to Climate Change; How and Why to be Invisible

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 25, 2019

Coming up on Today's Show:

  • Activist, founder and president of She the People, Aimee Allison talks about the 2020 race and the Democratic presidential candidate’s forum held Wednesday in Houston. She the People is a national network aimed at empowering women of color as voters and candidates. 
  • The Trump Administration's recent changes to the Title X family planning program would shift tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood toward faith-based clinics. Laura McQuade, CEO at Planned Parenthood of New York City, discusses the latest news.
  • Jeffrey Ball, lecturer at Stanford Law School, scholar-in-residence at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, and writer on energy and the environment talks about how communities are trying to adapt to climate change, while still working on mitigation.
  • Akiko Busch, writer, essayist and faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, discusses her new book, How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in Time of Transparency (Penguin Press, 2019). It explores her wish for invisibility in our highly-networked lives.

 

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