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with Walter Thompson, a journalist and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee organizer who recently penned an article in SF Magazine about the 50th anniversary of the uprisings in Bayview-Hunter’s Point following the police murder of 16 year old Matthew “Peanut” Johnson. We talk with Walter about the historical context for the uprising. then, a debate about California’s Proposition … Continued
In this episode of Upfront host Salima Hamirani speaks with Shoshana Walters of the Center for Investigative Reporting about her recent article exploring the prevalent sexual abuse on remote weed farms in Northern California. Then, we hear from Wenonah Hauter, founder and Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on food, water, energy … Continued
Host Cat Brooks speaks with Brooke Tepestra, an organizer with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), and Pastor Kenneth Glasgow of the Ordinary People’s Society, about the state of the nationwide prison strikes, and the reality of forced prison labor in this country. and Host Mitch Jeserich talks with Ellen Kreitzberg, professor at Santa Clara Law School … Continued
With Maria Moore, sister of Kayla Moore, who was killed by the police in early 2013. Host Cat Brooks talks with Moore about the murder of her sister, and the status of the lawsuit her family has filed. and With Susan Faludi, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of the seminal feminist work, Backlash (1991). Her latest … Continued
With Caroll Fife of the Oakland Justice Coalition and Robbie Clark of Black Lives Matter, Bay Area, comment on the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and how it resonates with issues that people in the Bay Area are facing. The show also features listener calls.
With Rosa Brooks, a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, a columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy, former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and current Special Coordinator for Rule of Law and Humanitarian Policy, running a new Pentagon office dedicated to those issues. She has received the Secretary of Defense Medal for … Continued
In this episode of UpFront we hear recordings from a film on the genesis of capitalism, tracing it’s history through an exploration of the life Adam Smith, and the many historic moments that built up to The Wealth of Nations. “Adam Smith: The Birth of the Free Market,” is part of a six-part series on the history of … Continued
In this episode of UpFront we hear recordings from a film on the life and works of Karl Marx, entitled “What if Marx Was Right?,” part of a six-part series on the history of capitalism (Capitalism) by filmmaker Ilan Ziv. This episode questions whether history has “gotten Marx wrong” by focusing on The Communist Manifesto instead … Continued
In this episode of UpFront Cat Brooks and Mitch Jeserich honor the upcoming 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. They play excerpts from the documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution, directed by Stanley Nelson (2015) and discuss the current situation of constant police shootings against black bodies across the … Continued
In this episode of UpFront Cat Brooks and Mitch Jeserich play excerpts from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World and Me, read by the author himself, and wrestle with the difficulty black and brown parents face in explaining a racist world to their children. About the book: Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages … Continued
