UpFront – May 23, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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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.
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Fund Drive Special: Teaching Palestine
00:08 — Adam Sanchez is the managing editor of Rethinking Schools and a former high school history teacher based in Philadelphia. He is the editor of A People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War and the co-editor of Teaching Palestine. Jesse Hagopian is a Rethinking Schools editor, a former high school teacher, and on … Continued
Fund Drive Special: Josh Jackson on California’s Incredible Public Wilderness
00:08 — Josh Jackson is a writer, photographer. He advocates for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he employs storytelling and visual narratives to inspire engagement with California’s unknown landscapes. His latest book is The Enduring Wild: A Journey Into California’s Public Lands.
Israel Allows More Food Aid Into Gaza, UN Warns of Child Death and Starvation
00:08 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
Republican Budget Bill and California Budget Impact on Healthcare; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — Christine Mai-Duc is California Correspondent for KFF Health News, covering healthcare policy. Alexei Koseff covers state politics for Calmatters. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Malcolm Harris on Three Ways to Address the Climate Crisis – Fund Drive Special
00:08 — Malcolm Harris, is a freelance writer and bestselling author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. His latest book is What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis.
john a. powell on the Power of Bridging
00:08 — john a. powell is Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley and a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies. His latest book is The Power of Bridging How to Build a World Where We All Belong.
Trump Middle East Tour in Wealthy Gulf Nations; Plus, China-US Trade War Truce
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. 00:33 — Jake Werner, Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute. His research examines the emergence of great power conflict between the … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.