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.
Ibbo Mandaza, respected author and public intellectual from Harare about the resignation of Mugabe. Nii Akuetteh, currently serving as founding Executive Director of the African Immigrant Caucus adds to the discussion, laying out what might arise out of this political shift. In domestic politics, Norm Stamper, former police chief of Seattle, now one of the nation’s most outspoken voices … Continued
UpFront interviews Tim Redmond, Editor of 48hills.com, the publication of San Francisco’s Progressive Media Center, about the legal foibles that come along with the legalization of recreational marijuana. Tash Nguyen is a Local Advocate at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, where she works on mass criminalization and incarceration. She joins us to discuss the audit … Continued
This morning on UpFront, hosts Cat Brooks and Brian Edwards-Tiekert talk to Joseph Majkut, a libertarian policy expert trying to nudge Republicans to action on climate change. They discuss the partisan divisions on climate change and why the U.S. government should be present in global climate talks. Then, Cat Brooks continues the conversation on climate … Continued
In a science-centric broadcast, Salima Hamirani speaks with Alison Hawkes about her controversial article ‘Recoding for Conservation’, an article that discusses altering the genomes of invasive species in an effort to aid conservation. Hawkes graduated from Columbia University School of Journalism with masters in science journalism and moved to the Bay Area as a freelancer. … Continued
During this Thursday’s episode, in light of a nationalist march with 60,000 participants that took place in Poland two days ago, we speak with Rafal Pankowski, co-founder of Polish anti-extremist association Never Again and widely-published author of The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots. He joins us to discuss the growing white nationalism in … Continued
Brian Hofer, Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission, and 7 other oakland residents filed an internal affairs complaint against OPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick for false statements made about an August 16th ICE raid. We hear from Hofer this morning about the details of the complaint and the ICE raid in question. Afterwards, in light of … Continued
The Oak Knolls Development Project was approved by the City Council earlier this week. The 180 acre project will include a commercial zone, and hundreds of luxury single living units with no units of much needed affordable housing. The Oak Knolls project will be developed by SunCal, a development company previously owned by :Lehman Brothers. … Continued
This morning we speak with Sandy Close, the Executive Editor and Director of New American Media a national collaboration ethnic news organizations, about New American Media’s recent closure and what that means for progressive media in California and around the nation. Liza Osetinskaya updates us about Russian media, and Russia’s purported interference in American politics. Afterwards, host Cat Brooks … Continued
In the wake of the vote for Virginia Governor, UpFront speaks with John Nichols and Jeff Schapiro. Nichols is the Washington Correspondent for The Nation, and Schapiro has a long running career as a political columnist for columnist for The Richmond Times-Dispatch. John Nichols’ article in The Nation discusses some of the electoral outcomes emerging from yesterday’s vote. … Continued
This morning, after the resignation of the Saudi-Allied Lebanese Prime Minister, the country was thrown into additional political turmoil. We speak with Rania Masri, Lebanese-American academic, activist, human rights advocate and professor of environmental science professor, who currently in Beirut about the situation. In light of ongoing events in the US, mass-shooting and targeted violence, … Continued
