Banning Nuclear Weapons; Military's Response to Puerto Rico; Rise and Fall of Rent Law; Today's Slavery

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 6, 2017

Coming up on today's show:

  • Joshua Keating, staff writer at Slate focusing on international affairs , talks about the Nobel Committee's award to anti-nuclear weapon group ICAN as this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Plus, Alice Slater, the New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and who also serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War, discusses the work of ICAN and the Nuclear Ban Treaty.

  • Brigadier General Jose Reyes, Puerto Rico National Guard Assistant Adjutant General and Dual Status Commander, gives an in depth view into how the military is responding to victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and explains why some are saying the military's efforts are lacking in comparison to the hurricane aftermath in Texas and Florida. Then David Begnaud, CBS News correspondent, and A.J. Vicens, reporter at Mother Jones, talk about how the island is recovering and take calls from listeners with family and friends in Puerto Rico.

  • There are 1 million rent stabilized apartments in New York. In the latest installment of The People's Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition, Emily Goldstein, senior campaign organizer for Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, talks about the history of rent law in New York, who it helps and why it's so controversial.

  • Siddharth Kara, director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (Columbia University Press, 2017), draws on years of field research to outline the various forms of human trafficking and forced labor, from U.S. agricultural workers to sex trafficking in Nigeria.

 

 

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