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 upfront@kpfa.org.
Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.
7am – Thousands of ICE detainees claim that they’re forced to participate in labor programs that ICE says are strictly voluntary and that solitary confinement is being used as punishment for detainees who refuse to cooperate. UpFront Producer Lucy Kang speaks with investigative journalist Spencer Woodman (@spencerwoodman) about his recent Intercept article “Private Prison Continues to Send ICE Detainees to Solitary Confinement for … Continued
On today’s show we speak with Rebecca Merton of Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) and Lourdes Barraza, whose husband is currently detained at West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California about dismal conditions reported by people under ICE detention. We end with an hour-long conversation with Alex Vitale, professor and coordinator of the … Continued
On today’s show, we discuss how reproductive rights are faring under the Trump administration. We speak with Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst at Rewire, reproductive justice activist, and host of Rewire’s podcast Boom Lawyered and Regina Campuzano of the Bay Area Reproductive Justice coalition, which is organizing the Rally for Reproductive Justice this Saturday in San … Continued
Dr. Erica Pan, Director of the Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention and Deputy Health Officer at Alameda County Public Health Department speaks with UpFront this morning about the epidemic levels of flu during this year’s flu season. We discuss what you need to know, what epidemic status means, and how to best take … Continued
Tio Brooke of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee joins UpFron to speak with us about the labour strike in Florida’s prisoners, where those incarcerated are forced to work for no pay under brutal conditions. The strike is expected to start this week. “The Birthday Party” at ACT’s Geary Theatre is running through February 4th. We hear about the … Continued
7am – Rep Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) discusses the Trump Administration after one year in office, and on the brink of a government shutdown at midnight. 7:30am – Today also marks one year since the historic Women’s March in Washington. We sit down with Yvonne Quiroz, (@WomensMarchOak) co-chair of the Oakland Women’s March about what to expect this weekend and … Continued
Today, we air a special show featuring thirteen interviews from influential thinkers, strategists, and activists spanning the fields of racial equity, immigration, environmental justice and more about the impact of Donald Trump’s first year in office. Tune in as we ask them what the biggest impact to their work has been, where they see the … Continued
On September 19th, 2017, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake impacted Central Mexico. The destruction that followed was widespread. UpFront checks in again with the post-disaster Mexico to follow up on the story from 2017. Lora Jo Foo, an environmental activist with No Coal in Oakland joins this morning’s show to discuss a Lawsuit against City of Oakland for … Continued
Alexis R. Santos-Lozada is a demographer and professor at Pennsylvania State University. He joins us on the air this morning to discuss the unreported deaths missing from post-Maria estimates. Santos-Lozada found more than 1,000 deaths missing from the official count of Puerto Rican casualties from Hurricane Maria. Déborah Berman-Santana, retired professor of geography and ethnic studies at Mills College … Continued
As part of Martin Luther King Day, UpFront revisits The Pacifica Archive to listen to a piece by journalist Colin Edwards about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final visit to northern California on January 14, 1968 and his speech at Santa Rita. Afterwards, we play tape from compiled speeches by Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther … Continued
