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


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


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


7am – Record expungements are under way in California with the implementation of Prop 64 and the legalization of recreational marijuana. Hundreds of thousands or Californians are now entitled to have their records cleared or sentences reduced for penalties involving marijuana, such as possession. However, the process is complicated. David Downs (@davidrdowns ) is the Cannabis Editor with … Continued