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“They’re absolute hellholes.”
Refugee rights attorney Isabella Mosselmans describes what she says her clients are facing after being deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea: police violence, denial of medical care, inadequate food, malaria, and, for some, the threat of being sent back to countries where they fear persecution.
Mosselmans, Director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council, joins Ian Masters on Background Briefing to discuss the growing use of third-country deportations and the legal fight over where the U.S. can send people.
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10/02/2026
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10/01/2026
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“PATIENTS OVER PALANTIR”
More than a thousand nurses with National Nurses United took to the streets of San Francisco Wednesday, marching to the ICE Field Office at 630 Sansome Street, home to immigration courtrooms and short-term holding cells that have become a focal point of immigration enforcement in the Bay Area. Nurses demanded an end to ICE enforcement and called on hospitals and public institutions to cut ties with Palantir.
For nurses, those fights are connected.
Palantir develops technology used by ICE to identify people for potential arrest and deportation. Court filings this year also revealed that ICE shared improperly obtained Medicaid data with Palantir personnel. At the same time, Palantir has expanded its footprint inside the U.S. health-care system, where its technology is being used for functions including hospital staffing and scheduling.
Nurses say they see a red line. They don’t want the same company working with immigration enforcement and the military becoming increasingly embedded in hospitals, patient care and sensitive health data systems.
The protest also comes as nurses continue mourning Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse whose killing deeply affected nurses across the country.
Hundreds of nurses, many dressed in red, filled an entire city block as they approached the federal building. Unlike previous acts of civil disobedience at 630 Sansome, there were no arrests Wednesday.
As hospitals increasingly turn to AI and automated systems, nurses say technology should never replace clinical judgment, undermine patient privacy or make people afraid to seek medical care.
"Patients over Palantir. Patients over profits".
KPFA News brought you a live report from the march on tonight’s Pacifica Evening News. We’ll have more coverage Thursday at 6 p.m. on KPFA/KPFK/KFCF
“I was a permanent resident. I’m still a permanent resident. Never committed a crime.”
Mahmoud Khalil speaks with Democracy Now! about his detention, the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to deport him, and why he believes his case raises a larger question about the right to speak out for Palestine.
Hear the full interview at KPFA.org.
Cat Brooks Anti Police-Terror Project
“Medicare for All is not a radical idea,” said Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a keynote speaker at the National Nurses United convention, where this year’s theme is “Vision for a Healthy Society: Defeating the Fascists and the Billionaires to Deliver Our Vision for a Healthy Society.”
El-Sayed was joined by Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose message remains focused on taking on the billionaire class. The two vowed that if Democrats take back Congress, they will push to tax billionaires, establish federal safe-staffing requirements, support unions and make health care accessible to all.
KPFA News spoke directly with Dr. El-Sayed and asked what he would say to fellow Democrats who still consider Medicare for All a radical idea...and what his message is to MAHA voters amid concerns over handouts to polluters and the deregulation of pesticides.
Full story tonight on the Pacifica Evening News at 6pm on KPFA, KPFK and KFCF.
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09/30/2026
Raising up Voices: Mahmoud Khalil in the Bay Area this weekend and a Fall Fund Drive update ~ KPFA's latest e-newsletter ➡️ https://mailchi.mp/kpfa/raising-up-voices-mahmoud-khalil-in-the-bay-area-this-weekend
Howard Zinn was a World War II bombardier. Years later, reading survivors’ accounts of Hiroshima changed how he understood what he had done from 30,000 feet above the ground.
In this archival Against the Grain interview, Sasha Lilley speaks with Zinn about war, the civil rights movement, and the experiences that shaped A People’s History of the United States.
Listen to the conversation on KPFA.
Howard Zinn photo by Slobodandimitrov (original); altered image shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Against the Grain Radio
09/30/2026
U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick has announced his decision to end 23 years of federal court oversight of the Oakland Police Department.
“I will be dismissing this action with prejudice,” Orrick said.
The case, Delphine Allen et al. v. City of Oakland, led to a court-ordered agreement requiring sweeping police reforms following the “Oakland Riders” scandal, in which officers were accused of falsifying reports, planting evidence, beating suspects and violating civil rights.
Addressing Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, Orrick praised her commitment to constitutional policing and said responsibility for oversight belongs with Oakland residents and their city leaders.
“Now it’s important for the court to get out of the way and let the people of Oakland and their leaders build the future,” he said.
However, not everyone in the community is welcoming the decision. The Anti Police-Terror Project says it will not celebrate the decision as “proof that OPD has somehow earned the right to police itself.”
“Today the federal judge may have closed the case, but the community is not closing ours. For more than two decades, OPD needed a federal judge and monitor looking over its shoulder because history showed us what happens when police are left to police themselves. Now, at the exact moment federal oversight disappears, Oakland cannot weaken the civilian oversight structures our communities fought to create. We need more independent oversight, more transparency, and more accountability, not less. We refuse to go backwards,” said Cat Brooks, executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project.
But John Burris, an attorney for the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit in 2000, said that although the department did not fully comply with every required task, he “supports the judge’s decision.”
Burris believes the city’s Police Commission, which is authorized to monitor compliance, should be ready to assume full oversight of the department. The civil rights attorney lamented that it took the department 23 years to reach this point, but said he hopes the Negotiated Settlement Agreement requiring police reforms “puts me out of business.”
(Disclosure: Cat Brooks is a KPFA programmer; her affiliation did not influence this coverage.)
09/29/2026
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