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7:34AM – Monique Judge, columnist and news writer for TheRoot.com, speaks about the police shooting of Saheed Vassell, an unarmed black man in Brooklyn 8:08AM – Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex Taina Vargas-Edmond – Executive Director of Initiate Justice Dorsey Nunn – Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or … Continued
7:08 – Lisa Lehner is Americans for Immigrant Justice, and focuses on litigation for immigrants’ rights. In December 2017 a deportation plane full of Somali immigrants turned around and came back to the US. On it’s return the Somali immigrants detailed horrific abuse at the hands of ICE officials on board the aircraft. Now, they’re alleging continued … Continued
7:36 – Fernando Carrillo was released earlier this week after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on October 11, 2017, after dropping off his 4-year-old daughter at daycare. We spoke with him and his wife Lourdes Barraza. 8:08 – Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and works as a writer, … Continued
Clarence Lang, Professor, and Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. His research areas include African American working-class and labor history. 8:08 – Ben Felder, an investigative reporter for the Oklahoman, and a leader of their DigTeam who focuses much of his reporting on education. Torie Shoecraft, a … Continued
7:34 – Walter Turner, host of Africa Today, which airs Mondays at 7 PM. Also chair of the social sciences department at College of Marin. 8:08 – Padraic Kenney, professor of history and international studies at Indiana University and author of Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World 8:34 – Pam Vogel is a research fellow at … Continued
Thomas Wolf, Counsel with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center, focusing on redistricting issues, and co-author of the recent piece “Why The Census Asking About Citizenship Is Such A Problem.” 8:14 Michio Kaku, professor of physics at the City University of New York, host of the radio show Explorations, which we air on KPFA, … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
7:34 – Norman Finkelstein, scholar and frequent commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict. His new book is Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom 8:08 – Scott Yundt, staff attorney for Tri-Valley CARES, a watchdog organization whose mission is the global abolition of nuclear weapons. 8:34 – Radhya Al-Mutawakel is the chairperson of the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights based in Yemen. She … Continued
7:34 Jeremy Adam Smith, editor of Greater Good, published by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. He’s the author and editor of books on topics ranging from compassion to racism to fatherhood. His recent article for Scientific American is entitled Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? 8:08 Marc Levine, Democratic assemblymember representing California’s 10th district. He’s the … Continued
7:34 – Andy Kroll, investigative reporter with Mother Jones and author of “Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica” 8:08 – Ashley Yates, activist and one of the frontline organizers at Ferguson following the murder of Michael Brown 8:35 – Kharyshi (kai-REE-shee) Wiginton, Senior Community Programs Manager at McClymonds High School and Founder of Culture Keepers, … Continued
