UpFront – April 22, 2016
An hour-long news magazine with a strong focus on state and local issues. Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert and produced by the KPFA News Department.
UpFront
7:00 AM PACIFIC TIME: Mondays - Fridays
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.
Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.
In the past couple years, there has been a small flood of books warning that technology is moving us towards an economy with many many fewer paying jobs. Most writers tackle this as an economic problem; this hour, we tackle it as a political one – one that requires a re-examination of what it means … Continued
DD Guttenplan has been doing beat reporting from the Sanders campaign trail for The Nation — he joins us to take the pulse of the movement behind the Sanders campaign, after a major defeat in New York. Then: followup on two immigration stories that have dropped out of the headlines: the plight of Central American … Continued
Linda Khoury interviews Leila Abdelrazzaq about the challenges of putting the Palestinian experience in graphic novel form. Plus: What happens when popular movements collide with giant pools of wealth that say they want to help? Erica Kohl-Arenas spent years studying the relationship between foundations and farmworker organizations — we’ll discuss her findings. Guests: Leila Abdelrazaq, … Continued
Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 85 Muslims asylum seekers from Nepal and Bangladesh who traveled over multiple continents to arrive to the US, only to be sent back. We’ll get the details. Plus, today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the US v. Texas case. It’s also the deadline for tax day! We talk about … Continued
UpFront Special KPFA 67th Birthday Programming – April 15, 2016
An hour-long news magazine with a strong focus on state and local issues. Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert and produced by the KPFA News Department.
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