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Listen to a news update from Zimbabwe, where civil society groups are suspicious of the role the military is playing in the new presidential administration of Emmerson Mnangagwa. Author and local advocate Jon Golinger joins UpFront to talk about the heart of San Francisco and how to preserve the soul of the city as times … Continued
January 1st marks the anniversary of the murder of Oscar Grant, killed by BART Police at the Fruitvale BART station in 2009. A vigil is held every year by community members at the Fruitvale station to honor his memory, support his family and the families of all police victims, and to demand justice for the … Continued
Melissa Chadburn discusses her new piece in the Economic Hardship Reporting Project called “The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy.” She talks about her year spent undercover at a temp agency in Los Angeles and what is going on in the largely invisible, sub-contracted work place. In the second half, we discuss glyphosate, one of the … Continued
Cat Brooks interviews Professor Tommy Curry about his book The Man-Not, Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University, where he holds the prestigious Ray A. Rothrock Fellowship (2013–2016). He serves as Executive Director of Philosophy Born of Struggle … Continued
UpFront features an interview with Reza Aslan author of Zealot and No god But God. The second half of the show Brian Edwards-Tiekert interview Eric Holt-Jimenez on his book, A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism.
In a stacked, post-holiday show we feature: Judith Mirkinson, chair of the Comfort Women Justice Coalition, explains why the new comfort woman memorial in San Francisco is so important, because it helps people understand what’s happening today and plan for the future. But that understanding is controversial, the Japanese government is petitioning SF to take it … Continued
Pratap Chatterjee, Executive Director of CorpWatch, and co-author of “Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance: A Graphic Novel:” From a prize-winning journalist and the co-author of the best-selling Zahra’s Paradise, a sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance from 9/11 to the latest drone strike 9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror … Continued
Julie McEnery is a NASA Project Scientist and Astrophysicist, and describes what she says is a major breakthrough in astrophysics and the most extraordinary scientific event of her career: this year, scientists heard the universe for the first time. The witnessed two neutron stars circle and circle, and smash into each other with such force that … Continued
This morning’s episode highlights some of our favorite coverage from this year. Listen to audio clips from the best of our best interviews in 2017!
As debate and discussion about Net Neutrality and the political implications of its dismantling continue, Timothy Karr, the Senior Director of Strategy at Free Press joins UpFront this morning. The Free Press is preparing a lawsuit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s dismantling of net neutrality and launching a campaign to demand that Congress overturn the … Continued
