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The World Bank has a new report out painting an apocalyptic vision of what climate change holds for our future — we’ll discuss it with a vice-president at the bank, and ask why her organization’s still funding coal-fired power plants. Sonali Kolhatkar discusses the geopolitics of the standoff with rebels in the Democratic Republic of … Continued
Now that Democrats control a ⅔ supermajority in both chambers of the California legislature, they theoretically have the power to roll back years of cuts to schools and services by raising taxes — but will they? We’ll talk to Robert Cruikshank of Calitics.com and Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association about the policy … Continued
Organizing Social Change; Brian Edwards Tiekert speaks with Stewart Acuff, Author of Playing Bigger Than You Are, A Life in Organizing about organizing social change.
Gaza Ceasefire?; Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University Man Up; Carlos Andres Gomez, Author of Man Up, Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood
Gaza Update; Brian Edwards Tiekert speaks with Amjad Shawa, Coordinator of PNGO the Palestinian NGO network in Gaza, as well as Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara, Currently working as a visiting professor at The American University of Beirut SEIO 1021 Strikes Port Of Oakland; Carla West Up Front Contributor
Gaza; Gideon Levy, Columnist with Haretz Women and the Workplace; Lynn Povich, author of The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
Egyptian Prime Minister Visits Gaza Amidst Isreali Strikes; Brian Edwards Tiekert Speaks with Muhammed Suliman college student in Gaza and blogger at msuliman.wordpress.com , Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics, and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of San Francisco, and Phyliss Beniss, Director of the new Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy … Continued
Immigration Reform Brian Edwards Tiekert Speaks with Dolores Huerta, Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist and Co-Founder of the National Farmworkers Association and David Bacon, Up Front Labor Correspondent, and author of Illegal People:How Globalization Creates Migration The Death Of Alan Blueford, and Police Brutality in Oakland Brian Edwards Tiekert speaks with Adam Blueford, Father … Continued
