UpFront
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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at upfront@kpfa.org.
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SCOTUS Back in Session; Mutual Aid for Hurricane Helene in North Carolina; Plus, Proposition 4 Explained
00:08 — Jessica Mason Pieklo is Executive Editor at Rewire News and co-host of the podcast “Boom! Lawyered.” 00:33 — Margaret Killjoy host of the podcast “Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff” and was involved in mutual aid efforts for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. 00:45 — Erin Stone is Climate … Continued
Florida braces for Hurricane Milton disaster; plus how climate change-induced disasters are killing workers
0:08 – Mitch Perry is Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix. He joins us from St Petersburg, Florida, which is evacuating from Hurricane Milton. 0:18 – Eugene Cordero is professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University, and also the founder and director of Green Ninja, an educational publisher … Continued
The latest in Russia’s war in Ukraine with John Feffer; plus one year since the Oct 7 attacks with Joel Beinin
0:08 – John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 0:33 – Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
Inside Amazon’s ‘ruthless quest to own the world’ and the FTC antitrust lawsuit to break it up, with WSJ journalist Dana Mattioli
0:08 – Dana Mattioli is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal where she has worked since 2006. She has written investigative pieces about Amazon since 2019 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Journalism for her work on Amazon. Her new book is The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own … Continued
Israel’s expanding war in Lebanon with Joseph Daher; plus poet Tahir Izgul recounts his life under China’s Uyghur genocide
0:08 – Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God. 0:33 – Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur. He fled China and now lives near Washington, DC. His latest book is a memoir entitled Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir … Continued
Vice Presidential debate debrief with John Nichols; Plus Iran’s missile attack against Israel with Negar Mortazavi
0:08 – John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 0:33 – Negar Mortazavi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and host of The Iran Podcast.
Gun trafficking and how America arms gangs and cartels with Ioan Grillo; Plus Israel launches ground invasion of Lebanon with Joel Beinin
00:10 – Ioan Grillo, Mexico city-based journalist who’s made his beat crime and drugs. His most recent book is Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels [rebroadcast] 00:35 – Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History Emeritus at Stanford University.
The Pro-Russian Right wins elections in Austria; New Studies on COVID and the Brain
00:08 John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus 00:33 Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Fund Drive Special with Nate Powell: Lies My Teacher Told Me
00:08 — Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist, whose latest work is a comic adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me.