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People United presents coverage of both a press conference by the Decarcerate ATX coalition, which wants a repeal of city ordinances that put unreasonable burdens on Austin's homeless residents, and the 17th annual Cesar Chavez "¡Sí, Se Puede!" March on Austin's east side, which focused on issues affecting low-income Latino residents.

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People United features Evan Smith, a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of The Texas Tribune, on the news media, politics, and the public interest.

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People United features historian Jacqueline Jones on her book Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical, which examines the writer, orator and agitator in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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People United talks with the host's mother, Joyce Campbell, about her career in public television from 1959, when she started at KQED in San Francisco, until 2011, when she retired from KCET in Los Angeles.  She also worked at KUID in Moscow, Idaho, and WETA in Washington, DC.

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People United features Virginia Grise performing, and also talking about, The Panza Monologues, the play she wrote with Irma Mayorga, based on Chicana women's stories about "that roll of belly we all try to hide!"

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People United features historian Rachel Ida Buff on her book Against the Deportation Terror: Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century, which focuses on the work of those associated with the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, from its origins during the Great Depression through the Reagan Era.

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People United presents the second in its two-part coverage of a Democratic candidates forum for Texas's 10th congressional district, organized by Wooten, Highland and Skyview Democrats.  Madeline K. Eden, Matt Harris, Kevin Nelson, Mike Siegel, Tami Walker, and Tawana Walter-Cadien are competing for their party's nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Michael McCaul in the fall.  (Early primary voting runs through Friday, March 2, 2018.  Primary election day is March 6.)  This episode has the candidates taking questions from audience members.

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People United presents the first in its two-part coverage of a Democratic candidates forum for Texas's 10th congressional district, organized by Wooten, Highland and Skyview Democrats.  Madeline K. Eden, Matt Harris, Kevin Nelson, Mike Siegel, Tami Walker, and Tawana Walter-Cadien are competing for their party's nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Michael McCaul in the fall.  (Early primary voting runs from Tuesday, February 20, through Friday, March 2, 2018.  Primary election day is March 6.)

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People United features Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir on election interference and the responsibility of elected officials to protect the integrity of the voting process.

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People United features Bo Delp of the Workers Defense Project on the case for paid sick leave for all workers.  (On February 16, 2018, the Austin City Council voted 9 to 2 in favor of an ordinance requiring all private employers to grant an hour of paid sick leave for every thirty hours a worker has spent on the job, capped at eight full sick days per year.  Ora Houston of Council District 1 and Ellen Troxclair of Council District 8 were the dissenters.)

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