On this morning’s episode, as part of KPFA’s ongoing Fun Drive, UpFront features a talk from Van Jones entitled Beyond the Messy Truth, How We Came Apart, How We Come Together from this year at First Congregational Church of Oakland. Afterwards, listen to an interview with Pratap Chatterrjee about his book Verax, a graphic novel about Edward … Continued
Daniel Ellsberg Reveals He Was a Nuclear War Planner, Warns of Nuclear Winter & Global Starvation.
The US Supreme Court issued an order allowing Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban v 3.0 to take effect while lower courts rule on its constitutionality. On today’s show we’ll speak with Zahra Billoo of the Council on American Islamic Relations about the disappointing order and what it means. Then, Trump announces a dramatic reduction in federal … Continued
On today’s show we are in a conversation with Jack Weatherford, renown scholar on Genghis Khan. He argues in his book, Genghis Khan and the Quest for God, that Genghis Khan inspired Thomas Jefferson for the Freedom of Religion principle. Letters & Politics and KPFA are offering the following items as thank-yous for donations: MP3 CD: Letters … Continued
On today’s show, we talk to Lina Hernandez of SEIU Local 1021 about the over 3,000 Oakland city workers set to strike after attempts to negotiate with the city were rejected. Then, as part of our fund drive, we hear Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, one of the foremost experts on Donald Trump, speaking about his rise to power and … Continued
ACLU Vows to Keep Fighting as Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Mostly Muslim Travel Ban to Take Effect; Native American Tribes Join to File Historic Lawsuit Against Trump Attack on Bears Ears National Monument; Honduran Riot Police Refuse to Carry Out Crackdown on Opposition Protests After “Illegal” Election.
On today’s show we’ll take up the unconscionable tactics that the Republican Party resorted to in order to pass the largest tax code re-write in recent history at the Senate, even though the Trump administration has been roiled in news of Michael Flynn’s guilty plea. We’ll speak with Stephen Spaulding of Common Cause about the … Continued
Young Muslim and Arab Americans are being targeted by FBI surveillance, and this, says Sunaina Maira, colors the way they think and act. Maira describes who and what’s being monitored and why; the range of emotions surveillance generates; and the ways in which Muslim Americans are pushing back against post-9/11 regimes of surveillance and repression. … Continued
On today’s show, host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Depression-era scholar Robert S. McElvaine about the trickle-down economics approach and massive tax cuts of the 1920s that preceded the Great Depression. Robert McElvaine is a professor of History at Millsaps College in Mississippi, he is author of the book The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941. His latest piece … Continued
Undocumented immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was acquitted and found not guilty in the death of Kate Steinle two years ago. Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney for the San Francisco Public Defender joins us this morning on UpFront to discuss the acquittal and its implications. Dr. Mona El-Farra, Director of Gaza Projects for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, and … Continued
