Queens & Manhattan Borough Presidents; Amazon Workers Union; "Junk Science" & Evidence; Technology & Life Without It
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 1, 2022
On today's show:
- Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine weigh in on issues facing their boroughs and the city, including public safety, COVID, and the state budget.
- In a vote that came down to 2,654 votes in favor to 2,131 against unionization, New York City's warehouse Amazon workers become the first in the nation to unionize. Jane McAlevey, organizer, senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, The Nation's strike correspondent and the author of A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing & the Fight for Democracy (Ecco, 2020), and Gwynne Hogan, reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, discuss the vote and what comes next.
- M. Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project and the author of Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (Akashic Books, 2022), talks about cases in which forensic "science" led to wrongful convictions and tries to push back on the idea (from shows like "CSI") that forensics takes human error out of the equation.
- From Google Maps to vehicle backup cameras and beyond, technology helps us navigate our worlds. Listeners call in to share what tech tools they can't live without and what happened when they had to.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
