UpFront – April 11, 2024
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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New CPI Report Out; Plus, San Jose’s AI Pilot Program to Track Down Homeless Encampments
0:08 — J.W. Mason, associate professor of economics at John Jay College, and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. 0:33 — Ethan Varian is a reporter covering housing for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Vishnu Pendyala is an Assistant Professor of Applied Data Science at San Jose State University.
Israel Gears Up for Rafah Invasion As International Pressure for Ceasefire Increases; Plus, Aaron Peskin Joins San Francisco Mayor’s Race
0:08 — Tamara Nassar is an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, and the producer of the EI Podcast. She joins us from Amman, Jordan. 0:33 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills. Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Erin McElroy on Silicon Valley Imperialism
00:08 – Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. As a graduate student, they co-founded the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project here in the Bay Area. Their newest book on what happens when tech capital collides with cities in the former eastern bloc is Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions … Continued
0:14 — Ken Jacobs is Co-chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center. 0:33 — Christopher Elmendorf is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. His expertise includes property and land-use law. 0: 45 — Khalid M. Mosalam is the Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering and … Continued
UpFront – April 3, 2024
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Labor, Capital, and the fields of California
Two repeats on this Cesar Chavez day: 00:08 Bruce Neuburger, longtime radical activist who spent most of the 1970s working in California’s vegetable fields during the heyday of the United Farm Workers. His book is called Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California [interview originally aired in 2014] 00:33 Kathryn … Continued
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on Solidarity
00:08 Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, co-authors of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. (They’ll be presenting their book in-person at a book event at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley on April 16; the event is free, but the bookstore requests you RSVP to secure a seat.)
Big Tech Facing Anti-Trust Cases by the US Department of Justice and the European Union; Plus, Study Shows Self-Administered Abortion on the Rise Following Overturning of Roe v. Wade
0:08 — Mitch Stoltz is IP Litigation Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He also leads EFF’s antitrust and competition working group. 0:33 — Elisa Wells, is co-founder of Plan C, a national abortion pill access campaign working to normalize the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail. She is also the co-author of the … Continued