UpFront Special KPFA 67th Birthday Programming – April 15, 2016
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The world’s fifth-largest country is rocketing toward regime change: Brazil’s parliament will this weekend take up the question of impeaching Dilma Roussef. We lay out the tangled confluence of severe recession, corruption scandals, and mass demonstrations that brought Brazil to the brink, and look at what’s next. Then: we’ll go inside the politics, economy, and … Continued
David Bacon delivers a labor history of Silicon Valley, and how it helps explain the massive diversity problems facing most jet-setting tech firms. Plus: Katherine Isbister on the multi-billion dollar video game industry, and what it is doing to the people – especially children – who play them. Guests David Bacon, veteran labor journalist and … Continued
San Francisco’s Mayor is promising to dismantle all homeless encampments — we look at what happened when another city tried the same thing. Plus: San Francisco’s Public Defender is asking the state Attorney General to investigate the SFPD — he comes in-studio to explain why, and take your calls. Guests: Mike Rhodes, former editor of … Continued
Another police shooting in San Francisco — this time Luis Gongora, a homeless man who’d been living on the sidewalk. Two night later, police raid the encampment where Gongora had been staying — we talk to Jennifer Friedenbach of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. Plus: the Oakland City Council has unanimously approved a 90-day … Continued
The Treasury Department just issued new rules against a tax maneuver called an “inversion” — where a US company turns itself into a foreign one to get out of taxes. That’s already scuttled one multi-billion dollar merger — but is it enough? Plus: a look at Mehrsa Baradaran’s new book, How the Other Half Banks … Continued
We spend the first half of the show on live reaction to the Wisconsin primary results, then go into what can only be described as a massacre at KGO: the nation’s news/talk format pioneer spent 27 years as the most highly-rated radio station in the Bay Area, now the giant chain that purchased it has … Continued
The housing wars have come to Oakland: the city council votes tonight on declaring a state of emergency, expanding the city’s rent controls and eviction protections, and imposing a moratorium on evictions and rent hikes. Carroll Fife joins us in studio to break down how it works, and how something that aggressive got so far. … Continued
Military historian Andrew Bacevich says that for the past two and a half decades, America has been waging one war in the greater Middle East — a war with ever-shifting fronts, a war that creates enemies as fast as it defeats them, a war that is ultimately doomed. He joins us live in-studio. But first: … Continued