UpFront – June 17, 2016
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We take you through a whirlwind history of community, violence, and resistance at the bars, clubs, and night spots that LGBT folk claimed as their own. Plus: Negin Farsad discusses what it man to be a muslim comedian in a not-so-muslim society, and a look at San Francisco’s Black Film Festival. Guests: Nancy Unger, professor … Continued
After Orlando, it seemed like a really important time to foreground the stories, and the experiences, of the communities that become more vulnerable when this happens. We’re starting with a discussion of what it means to be Muslim in post-September 11th America, then a look at the surprising lineage of racist ideas in America. (Tomorow … Continued
The abrupt resignation of Oakland’s was swiftly followed by news of a sex and prostitution scandal involving multiple officers from multiple agencies, some sergeants and captains, some trading sex for warnings about stings. So: how widespread was it? How high up did the cover-up reach? And is it unusual, or just unusually public? We speak … Continued
Sunday morning saw at least 50 dead and 53 wounded in a mass shooting at Orlando’s Pulse Club by an American who declared his allegiance to ISIS just before the attack. The hours since have seen calls to crack down on Muslims by right-wing politicians, and unity statements from the LGBT and Muslim communities. We’ll … Continued
Rebecca Gordon names names and makes the case for war crimes proseuctions for the post-911 era, starting in the Bush years, and carrying through the present. Plus: a professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco talks about her new book American Nuremburg: The U.S. Officials who should stand trial for post 9-11 war … Continued
Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her life, her work, her new book, and, for the first time, the University of Utah’s controversial move to fire her from the writing program she created, after she started bringing students to environmental protests. But first: While we were electioning, there was some big news on the … Continued
How the Clinton-Trump contest works out is going revolve around a question that’s been central to the last two decades of politics here in California – can you get further by rallying votes from immigrants, or from people who hate and fear them? We’ll go over what the voter registration and exit polling data from … Continued
Vote!
Voters go to the polls in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, and South Dakota – John Nichols will walk us through what to watch for up and down the ballot. But first: Tim Redmond joins us to fact-check the last-minute attack mailers that have been papering San Francisco. Plus: big oil money … Continued
While we’ve all been watching the election, the state legislature has been considering measures that could help developers do an end-run around city governments. Will it help or hurt efforts to make housing more affordable? Plus: Siddhartha Mukherjee joins us to deliver a sweeping overview of the history and future of the basic kernel that … Continued