Rep. Meeks; Mayoral Politics; Razom's Advocacy for Ukraine; #BLTrees: A Year in the Life
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 14, 2022
Coming up on today's show:
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U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks (D, NY-5), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, talks about the latest news, especially the latest on Russia's invasion of Ukraine - and shares what he learned on a trip to the Poland-Ukraine border earlier this month.
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Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power at Gothamist and WNYC, and Ruby Cramer, senior staff writer for Politico Magazine, talk about the latest city news, including this weekend's murders of homeless people, how the mayor is handling this phase of the COVID era and how he has recently acknowledged that at least for some, work from home is here to stay.
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Dora Chomiak, president of Razom, a Ukrainian-American human rights organization, talks about what her group is doing to help Ukraine, and what policies they are advocating for the U.S. to implement.
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We check in on our year-long project #BLTrees, following the seasons through the trees around us with Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week. This month, Georgia Silvera Seamans, director of the Washington Square Park Eco Projects, founder of Local Nature Lab, and a member of the #BlackBotanistsWeek organizing committee, talks about tree "phenology" -- how the coming of spring will show up in our trees.
Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available.
