7:00 AM PACIFIC TIME: Mondays - Fridays
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 [email protected].
Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.
00:08 At least 300,000 people have been forced from their homes in northeastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two weeks, escaping a wave of resurgent inter-ethnic violence that has killed more than 160 people, including babies and young children hacked to death. To understand that we speak with Maurice Carney, … Continued
0:08 Ben Storrow (@bstorrow) Energy Reporter for ClimateWire (@EENewsUpdates) joins to discuss the Trump Administration rolling back the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. 0:34 We discuss the recent investigation by Mother Jones journalist Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) into the United States involvement in Syria. His investigation is titled “Behind the Lines“ 1:08 Following attacks in the Strait of … Continued
First congressional hearing on reparations with testimony featuring Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover (@mrdannyglover)
0:08 – David Angel is Assistant District Attorney of Santa Clara County. He joins to discuss changes in drug sentencing laws that will limit charges against non-violent drug offenders charged with possession at the misdemeanor level. 0:23 – KPFA’s Christopher Martinez covers the democratic candidates debate at the Poor People’s Campaign. 0:34 – Mark Arax (@arax_mark) … Continued
0:08 – Mondays with Mitch: Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s exits the White House; Trump Administration escalating tensions in Iran; Iran will soon surpass uranium stockpile limit made in Iran Nuclear Deal; how the 2020 Census citizenship status question will affect voting power for people of color. 0:35 – Amanda Kolson Hurley (@amandakhurley) is a writer who … Continued
0:08 – The recently coined “Black Travel Movement” began in 2015, and is expanding exponentially in interested and numbers of travelers and travel groups headed abroad. We speak to Kumi Rauf, founder and CEO (Chief Experience Officer), of Bay Area-based Traveling Black (@TRVLBLK) an organization whose mission is to inspire black people, who don’t often … Continued
0:08 – Mitch Jeserich on Oakland saying goodbye to the Warriors, and their bid for the NBA Finals Championship 0:20 – A new outbreak of ebola has spread trans-nationally, with 2 deaths now reported in Uganda Tamba Danmbi-Saa Democratic Republic of Congo Humanitarian Program Manager for Oxfam International (@Oxfam), based in Kinshasa. 0:34 – How … Continued
0:08 – India is experiencing an extreme heat wave, with temperatures reaching up to 123 degrees – what are the strategies to cope? Hem Himanshu Dholakia (@hemdholakia) is Senior Research Associate at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (@CEEWIndia) 0:16 – What did Mexico agree to to avoid Trump’s tariffs? Laura Carlsen is the … Continued
0:08 – Hong Kong: Protests over extradition law Jason Ng is Hong Kong-based attorney who heads the Progressive Lawyers Group. His books include one on the last wave of mass demonstrations in Hong Kong; it’s entitled Umbrellas in Bloom. 0:20 – What’s in California’s new budget deal Jessica Bartholow (@Jess_Bartholow) is a policy advocate with … Continued
0:08 – Monday news commentary (Mitch is out today): Thank you to our listener donors who came to dinner last week; US withdraws tariff threats; a 39 year old man found dead in Santa Rita on June 5, his identity is still unknown; LAPD kill another man in South Central; and Oakland Council President Rebecca … Continued
