Kenya’s Supreme Court Overturns Election Result, Austerity Standoff In Puerto Rico, And Weekend Passport: Pageant Parallels Mythical World With Climate Reality

By Worldview Staff

Sept 1, 2017, 4:05pm CT

Supporters of Kenyan opposition leader and presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, demonstrate blocking roads with burning tyres in the Kibera slum area in Nairobi, Kenya. Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017. Odinga says hackers infiltrated the database of the country's election commission and manipulated the results. Early results show President Uhuru Kenyatta with a wide lead over Odinga. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Kenya’s Supreme Court Overturns Election Result, Austerity Standoff In Puerto Rico, And Weekend Passport: Pageant Parallels Mythical World With Climate Reality

By Worldview Staff

Sept 1, 2017, 4:05pm CT

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On today’s show:

We discuss Kenya’s overturned presidential election and its turmoil with Alphonce Shiundu, an editor at Africa’s first independent fact-checking organization Africa Check.
Activist Oscar Lopez Rivera and Eric LeCompte from Jubilee talk about the Financial Oversight and Management Board mandate that 30,000 government workers in Puerto Rico must be furloughed.
Global Citizen, Nari Safavi, talks with directors of the play, A Persephone Pageant, and brings us some other global events to check out this weekend.