What would happen if instead of being privately owned, productive goods were continually put up for auction?

  On this edition of Your Call’s media roundtable, we’ll have a conversation with journalist Thomas Frank about his new book Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society.

Last month in San Francisco, an estimated 30,000 people protested against President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, which has led to the incarceration and separation of children from their parents.

One particularly vocal group at the protest: Japanese Americans, part of the group Nikkei Resistors. 

We’ve heard about kids sent to camps and detention facilities and we’ve seen the images of children in cages, wrapped up in foil blankets. One question we’ve been asking is—what happens to them after detention?

Today on Crosscurrents:

• Farmers behind barbed-wire fences: Japanese Americans remember incarceration during World War II //
• What happens to children separated from their parents seeking asylum? //
  

How far have we come in reforming criminal justice, and what will it take to change the system? With 2.2 million people behind bars, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Still, that number is at a two-decade low, according to a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report.

Today on Crosscurrents:

Oakland is gearing up for a major election //

A new project from the Oakland Zoo gives mountain lion cubs a second chance //

Bay Area Beats: Kev Choice //