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.
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7:08 — Laura Carlsen, director of the Mexico-City based international relations think tank Mira: Feminisms y Democracies 7:20 — Jessica Mason-Pieklo, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered 7:33 — Steve Phillips, Founder of Democracy in Color
0:08 — Lior Sternfeld, associate professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. 0:33 — Craig Aaron, president and co-CEO of Free Press.
0:08 — Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. 0:33 — David Dayen, executive editor of the American Prospect. His latest book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.”
7:08 — Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International 7:33 — David Dayen, executive editor of the American Prospect
0:08 – John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy in Focus 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
00:08 Malcolm Harris, author of several books; the newest is What’s Left: three paths through the planetary crisis
00:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 00:33 — Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is Executive Director of Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank.
00:08 — Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. 00:20 — Munira Lokhandwala is Director of Tech and Training at LittleSis, a nonprofit public interest research organization focused on corporate and government accountability. Their latest report is “Downgraded by War: Rising … Continued
00:08 Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology Emeritus at UCLA; Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge; author most recently of On Wars [this is a re-broadcast of an interview originally recorded in September 2023]
