UpFront

Upcoming Israel and Lebanon Negotiations; Plus, A New Paradigm for Fighting Homelessness; And, Remembering Carl Anthony

08:00 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. 

33:00 — Marissa Kendall covers homelessness for the nonprofit newsroom Calmatters. 

45:00 — Carl Anthony has died. He was an architect, planner, founder of one of the country’s oldest environmental justice organizations, Urban Habitat. Among his many legacies: he played a pivotal role converting big stretches of Berkeley’s waterfront – including the soon-to-be-renamed Cesar Chaves Park – from dumps to parks. This at a time when the dominant landlowner around the waterfront, Santa Fe Railroad, basically wanted to build a mall instead. This is an excerpt of an interview we did in October 2017, when he’d just published his book The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race