Kathleen DuVal on Native Nations [repeat]
00:08 Kathleen DuVal, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author most recently of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America [originally recorded in September 2024]
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Robin DG Kelley on the Declaration of Independence
00:08 Robin DG Kelly, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He’s just authored an article in Hammer and Hope on the Declaration of Independence entitled “Do You Understand Your Own Language?.” His forthcoming book is entitled Making A Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life (due out January 17)
Lebanon and Israel Ceasefire Framework Sees Protest in Beirut; Plus, Supreme Courts Bans Transgender Athletes from Women’s Sports
00:08 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria. His is also the author of the forthcoming book, Gaza Apocalypse. 00:33 — Shelby Chestnut is Executive Director of Transgender Law … Continued
DSA-Backed Candidate Successes in New York; Plus, SFPD Disrupt San Francisco Trans March, Make Arrests
00:08 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation 00:33 — Niko Storment is co-director of the San Francisco Trans March
UpFront – June 29, 2026
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Trans March Kicks Off Pride Weekend; Plus, Boyle Heights Community After the Lineage Warehouse Fire; Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan Exacerbated by International Community’s Normalization of Taliban
00:08 — Mar Omega is a community organizer and head of the media team for the San Francisco Trans March. She also goes by Mar xoxo, the Bay Area’s finest trans pinay pop princesa. Both her music and social work are intimately intertwined as she creates audiovisual and physical spaces for everyone to be liberated and … Continued
Mariah Blake on Forever Chemicals
Mariah Blake, investigative journalist and author of They Poisoned the World: life and death in the age of forever chemicals [rebroadcast from 2025]
The Fight for Accountability on Chemical Waste in Hunters Point Continues; Plus, Federal Cuts Hitting HIV/AIDS Care
00:08 — Hunter’s Point community members are demanding answers after toxic materials were discovered during the cleanup of the former naval shipyard. We speak with Bradley Angel of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and journalist Tom Molanphy about the latest developments, community concerns, and the legacy of environmental contamination in Bayview-Hunters Point. 00:33 — … Continued
San Francisco’s Budget Battle; Plus SNAP Benefit Cuts and the Fallout from USAID Reductions
San Francisco is facing difficult budget decisions as city leaders weigh layoffs, service reductions, and competing priorities around homelessness, public safety, and a growing fiscal shortfall. We speak with Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition about what’s at stake in the city’s budget battle and the changes advocates say are needed. Then, ProPublica reporters … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus Middle East Roundup with Khury Petersen-Smith
00:08 — John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, about Russia’s war in Ukraine. 00:33 — Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and co-director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, joins the program to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East. … Continued