KPFK Rebel Alliance News -Black August; Yellow Freight; Food Swamps; Reparations

KPFK Rebel Alliance News California’s lieutenant governor and other elected officials on Tuesday urged Taylor Swift to postpone her Los Angeles concerts as a way to stand in solidarity with striking hotel workers. Starting Thursday, Swift is scheduled to perform six sold-out shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood near Los Angeles, with some hotel properties doubling and tripling what they charge because she is coming. Unite Here Local 11, which represents some 30,000 hotel workers, is negotiating for better wages, improved health care benefits, higher pension contributions and less strenuous workloads. Contracts expired last month at more than 60 hotels, including properties owned by major chains such as Marriott and Hilton. This is KPFK Rebel Alliance News Good evening I’m Angela Birdsong Here are Today’s Headlines: -Food Swamps and Food Deserts -Black August Honors Past Freedom Fighters and Remembers Their Sacrifices. -Yellow Freight Bankruptcy -NAACP Antelope Valley Address Police Brutality Against Black Women -Kenya Has Agreed to Lead a Multi-National Force to Haiti -International news with Polina Vasiliev -And the Community Calendar …All this and more coming up at 6pm this evening KFPK Rebel Alliance News Monday - Friday 6pm-7pm PT 90.7 FM Los Angeles 98.7 FM Santa Barbara 93.7 FM San Diego and 99.5 FM Ridgecrest / China Lake Heard worldwide anytime online and archived at KPFK.org.