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This show features premiums offered as thank you gifts for your generous donation to support our work on UpFront and at KPFA Radio. Go to kpfa.org or call 1-800-HEY-KPFA or 1-800-439-5732 to pledge. 7:08 – Richard Walker, professor emeritus and former chair of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Pictures of a Gone City: … Continued
Today, we break from our normal fundraising format to bring you live coverage of the Senate confirmation hearing of Gina Haspel, Trump’s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 7:08 – Rebecca Gordon, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco and author of American Nuremberg: The US Officials Who Should Stand Trial … Continued
7:08 – Karin Stanton, co-founder and editor of Hawaii 24/7, an online news website, who is based on Hawaii’s Big Island. She has filed stories for Associated Press and Reuters on the ongoing volcanic activity on the island 7:20 – Is the Bay Area Due for a Big Earthquake? Andrew Alden, science writer and founder of … Continued
7:34 – Nancy Sidebotham, Oakland Mayoral Candidate Bill Martinez, immigration attorney and organizer of this Saturday’s latin music KPFA benefit at the UC Theater, Radio-Active Resistance Radio-Active Resistance Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 7:30pm The UC Theatre Taube Family Music Hall A Benefit for KPFA FM and DACA Support Services Featuring: Arturo O’ Farrill and the … Continued
7:08am – Earlier this year Border Patrol arrested a volunteer with humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths. He was arrested for helping immigrants survive the border crossing. During his trail we learned just how intensely Border Patrol has been targeting the organization. Jeff Reinhard joins us. He’s worked with No More Deaths for the last … Continued
7:34am – Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica and author and radio producer. His new book is Habeas Data: Privacy Vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech 7:50 – Garikai Chaunza – is a journalist based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He gives an update on the upcoming national elections, slated to take place this summer. 7:57 – Theater Review: Richard Wolinsky … Continued
7:08am – Daily news and an update on Fernando Carillo, a San Jose father of three who was detained and recently freed by ICE, and is still fighting deportation. 7:34 – Central American caravan reaches US Border Monika Langarica is Senior Staff Attorney at the Immigration Justice Project of the American Bar Association and is … Continued
7:34am – Obie Anthony (@ObieAnthony) is the founder of Exonerated Nation, an organization that serves California exonerees. He was incarcerated for 17 years before being exonerated in 2011. 8:08 – Oakland performance The One Truthiness Ayodele “Wordslinger” Nzinga, co-producer and director of One Truthiness, is also a playwright, poet, educator, actor and founder of the Lower Bottom … Continued
7:08am – Jamaine Tipler is a former inmate in Atwater Correctional Facility, a federal prison in Merced County, in Central California. He wrote us about the deplorable conditions he experienced there, and is continuing to raise awareness and demand accountability and reforms to the Bureau of Prison (BOP) policy. Emailed requests for comment from Warden Andre … Continued
7:08 – Amanda Baran Is an Attorney serving as a consultant fro the Immigrant Legal Resources Center, and former Senior Advisor to the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. 7: 34 – Mark Hertsgaard is an investigative reporter for The Nation and author of On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency.
