UpFront

Journalist censored for pro-Palestinian remarks on The Hill TV; Plus we host a debate on SF vacancy tax measure

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On today’s show:

0:08 – Katie Halper (@kthalps), host of The Katie Halper Show and co-host of The Useful Idiots podcast joins us to discuss the monologue that got her censored and eventual barred from The Hill TV’s popular news show Rising.

0:23 – UC academic workers, numbering roughly 40,000 have begun voting on a multi-union strike authorization. We discuss the details with Tanzil Chowdhury, a Graduate Student Research Assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and a member of the SRU-UAW bargaining team.

0:33 – Dean Preston (@DeanPreston) San Francisco Supervisor for District 5 and Quentin L. Kopp, president of the San Francisco Taxpayers Association; a former San Francisco supervisor, state senator, and Superior Court judge debate San Francisco Proposition M.