On today’s show Nomiki Konst is joined by Sessi Blanchard to discuss the state of America’s opioid crisis. Sessi is an independent journalist covering “drugs and trans life,” she is also Program Director of DSA’s Overdose Prevention Program and was previously a staff writer at Filter, the only online publication dedicated to covering harm reduction.

Link to Sessi’s recent article in The Intercept“Health Officials Warn Historic Addiction Treatment Funding Burdened by Federal Bureaucracy”: https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/addiction-treatment-samhsa-gpra-tool/

Next Journalist & Communications Team Lead at CIRCLE (the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement) Alberto C. Medina talks with Nomiki about Puerto Rico’s political status along with his recent article in MANO: A Latino Counterculture Magazine entitled “The Cynical Attack on Puerto Rican Independentistas from So-Called Progressives.”

Link to Alberto’s article: https://manomagazine.com/politics-independentista-puerto-rico-statehood-progressive-racist-white-supremacy/

Then Nomiki is joined by a stellar panel comprised of Representative Chris Rabb & writer Natalie Shure where they discuss Natalie’s recent article in The New Republic “Abolish the Olympics,” Germany’s response to the flooding it’s experiencing at increasingly devastating levels due to the global climate crisis, whether or not billionaires, let alone billionaires going to space should exist, and if so, should they be allowed to return to Earth, and more!

Link to Natalie Shure’s article: https://newrepublic.com/article/162952/cancel-tokyo-games-abolish-olympics

As always, stay in solidarity.

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