UpFront with Guest Host Vylma V – July 13, 2015
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Host Marie Choi – #Save E12th, Greece Debt Crisis, Syriza and Greek Social Movements – July 10, 2015
#SaveE12th Oakland’s City Council is under fire for moving forward with an land deal to sell off city owned land to build luxury apartments. A report by the East Bay Express earlier this week shows that the City Attorney Barbara Parker had advised the Council back in February that the deal violates the State’s Surplus … Continued
Mustafa Barghouti joins us to mark the one-year anniversary of the last Gaza War, take stock of how it’s changed politics internationally, and among Palestinians, and discuss the path forward to a just peace in the Middle East.But first: European negotiators are digging in over the crisis in Greece — will the left-wing Syriza government … Continued
How God Wound Up In the Pledge, and Why Berkeley’s Curbside Recycling Director is Facing Deportation
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is poised to deport Daniel Maher, the director of Berkeley’s Curbside Recycling Program – a man who’s lived in this country since the age of three. And it’s all because of increased cooperation between the US and China. We’ll get the details from an attorney working on his case. But first: … Continued
Most of the left’s politics for most of the last century and a half have been framed around the idea that the principle way we get money is that we work: we trade our labor to businesses that need it. But what happens if we re-think the way we distribute money, and it isn’t about … Continued
Greece votes against austerity — so now what? Plus: Max Blumenthal on Gaza
Greek voters just rejected an austerity proposal from their government’s creditors by a landslide 61% vote. The day after the election, financial markets are in turmoil, and high-level meetings are kicking off across Europe, but there’s one regular who won’t be attending. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Veroufakis resigned shortly after his position won the … Continued
Greek Debt Crisis Greek voters are under tremendous pressure as they gear up for this Sunday’s referendum. They’ll choose whether or not to accept another bailout deal from the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF. The deal would give Greece more money, but demands deeper austerity measures – cuts to pensions and … Continued
We bring you the story of a band that helped spread the 1960s counterculture from San Francisco’s Haight Asbury to towns and cities across the country . . . for five decades. It’s a cultural history of the Grateful Dead, with Peter Richardson. But first: the United Church of Christ, which numbers nearly one million … Continued
California’s drought actually has the market for high-end wines booming – which may be a very bad thing for California’s drought. We’ll talk to journalist Will Parrish about diverted streams, bulldozed woodlands, and the class politics of viticulture. Plus: The San Francisco Mime Troup launches a new production focused on police violence — we’ll bring … Continued
California’s legislature has just sent Governor Brown a bill that would make it harder to opt out of mandatory vaccinations–over howls of protest from from libertarians and vaccine skeptics. We deliver a deep history of the very first vaccine, and the very first anti-vaccination movement – a movement that included lawsuits, riots, gun battles, and … Continued