UpFront

UpFront

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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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The Potential Repeal of Obamacare, Anne Kirkpatrick, and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

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In the first half episode, resident physicians in the primary care internal medicine residency program at Highland Hospital (Alameda County’s safety net hospital and trauma center), Jessica Herrera and Ingrid Bauer discuss the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Then, independent journalist Pendarvis Harshaw joins us to talk about the recent appointment of Anne Kirkpatrick as the new Oakland … Continued

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The Trump Administration: The Dismantlement of NSEERS and The Future of Our Economy

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In the first half of the episode, Abed Ayoub (Legal and Policy Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) and Deepa Iyer (Senior Fellow at the Center For Social Inclusion and author of We Too Sing America) discuss what Obama’s dismantlement of NSEERS will mean for Muslims in the US during the next presidency. Then, Robert Pollin (Distinguished … Continued

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Congress Hearing on Russian Hacking and US Cybersecurity

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In this episode, we hear footage from today’s Senate hearing on Russian hacking and US cybersecurity. Then, Norman Solomon, journalist, media critic, activist, founder of Rootsaction.org, and author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.   And Arun Gupta (journalist and co-founder of The Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal) discus their perspectives on the … Continued

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The GOP Agenda in the 115th US Congressional Session and Lead Contamination in Oakland

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In the first half of the episode, we talk to John Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation about the 115th US Congressional Session. Then we examine lead contamination in Oakland with Noel Gallo, District 5 Oakland City Council Representative, Caroline Cox, Research Director at the Center For Environmental Health, and Larry Brooks, Director of Operations for Alameda County’s … Continued

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Black Elephants in The Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans

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In this episode, we hear an interview with Corey D. Fields, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. About Black Elephants: The book considers how race structures the political behavior of African American Republicans and discusses the dynamic relationship between race … Continued

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Incarceration Around the World and SF’s Proposition Q: Banning Tents on Sidewalks

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In this episode host Salima Hamirani speaks with Jennifer Freidenbach, the Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, about the passage of San Francisco’s Proposition Q, and what that means for the city’s homeless. Then, we hear an interview with Baz Dreisinger, an Associate Professor at John Jay College for Criminal Justice, who traveled for … Continued

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The 1980 Assassination of Sister Maura Clarke in El Salvador and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

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In this episode, Mitch Jeserich speaks with Eileen Markey, a journalist and author of the book A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura, about the killings of three American-Catholic nuns in El Salvador in 1980. Then Cat Brooks speaks with Noura Erakat, an activist, attorney, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University about the Palestinian … Continued

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How Donald Trumps Uses the Protestant Prosperity Gospel, and the Life of Fred Ross

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In this episode we hear an interview with Chris Lehmann, author of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity and the Unmaking of the American Dream, about the history of American Protestantism’s obsession with financial prosperity, megachurches, and Donald Trump’s worship of positive thinking.   Then we hear an interview with Gabriel Thompson, a journalist who wrote the … Continued

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The Constitutionality of Japanese Internment and Alternative Community Governance in LA

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In this episode we hear an interview with Peter H. Irons about the constitutionality of the Japanese Internment during World War II. Irons is the author of many books, including Cases and Controversies : Civil Rights and Liberties in Context and A People’s History of the Supreme Court. Then we hear an interview with Cid Martinez, an anthropologist … Continued