Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney for the San Francisco Public Defender on: Being in the middle of a right-wing media maelstrom Why he’ll appeal the one charge that stuck — for gun possession by a felon Why the District Attorney’s office over-charged the Garcia Zarate case Where the gun came from, and what it says about … Continued
Photo from @sorayagiaccardi Students and community members in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the University of Michigan took part in a wide variety of actions under the banner, #StopSpencer. Students are hoping to build up popular opposition to Alt-Right leader and white nationalist speaker Richard Spencer, who is looking to speak on campus after his magnificent failure … Continued
Dr. Cleo Manago is a behavioral health and cultural analyst who takes an Afrocentric approach to combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic This interview is part of a series from UpFront, which airs weekday mornings at 7:am Pacific on KPFA. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast through Apple Podcasts or by pasting this link … Continued
Pat Kelley is an educator, advocate and activist who is living with AIDS. She is the Founder and President of A Family Affair HIV/AIDS (AFA) Ministry at Victory Tabernacle Deliverance Temple located in Orangeburg, SC and is currently working to change the state’s HIV criminalization laws.
Minister Rob Newells is the Executive Director of AIDS Project of the East Bay in Oakland, CA and an associate Pastor at Imani Church This interview is part of a series from UpFront, which airs weekday mornings at 7:am Pacific on KPFA. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast through Apple Podcasts or by pasting … Continued
Venita Ray was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 while serving as an Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia. She is currently the Public Affairs Field Specialist for Legacy Community Health in Houston, TX where she monitors healthcare policy and manages an advocacy training program for people living with HIV. This interview is part of … Continued
Photo from @DLamotJenkins The first of the J20 conspiracy trials resumed on Monday, November 27th. The prosecution continued its presentation of witnesses and evidence, including testimony from employees and managers of businesses in the downtown Washington, DC area that reported broken windows on Inauguration Day. Despite being in the second week of trial,there has still been no particularized evidence … Continued
In this episode, we talk to an organizer with Parkdale Organize, an autonomous and grassroots working-class organization in so-called Toronto, Canada, which has worked to build the power of collective action among various apartment buildings, neighborhoods, and workplaces. In this discussion, we talk about gentrification in Toronto, but moreover about how the group went about … Continued
Darryl V. Jones directs Aurora Theatre Company’s production of “The Royale,” a play by Marco Ramirez now at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley through December 10. He is interviewed by KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong.
Guest: Sara Wachter-Boettcher, a web consultant who works on designing things for people to use – and has just written a book about how that process so often goes so horribly off-track. It’s called Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and other Threats of Toxic Tech. Like this? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , or paste our feed link into any … Continued
