
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.
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Up Front – June 19, 2014
Guests: Barbara Lee on US Military in Iraq, Gregg Cassin, an LGBT and HIV/AIDS activist and founder of Healing Circle and the SF Circle for Living, Luis Medina celebrates 40 years as a DJ, and Seth Rosenfeld, author of “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power”.
Up Front – June 18, 2014
Guests: Reese Erlich a Foreign Correspondent and author of “Inside Syria”, Maria Zamudio a San Francisco Housing Rights Campaign Organizer, and Patrick Martins author of The Carnivore’s Manifesto
Up Front – June 17, 2014
Guests: Ervand Abrahamian a professor of Middle East History Baruch College and Heather Cooley the director of the Pacific Institute Water Program
Up Front – June 13, 2014
Guests:Cathi Tactaquin Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Ramses Teon Nichol Vice President of Organizing, SEIU Local
Up Front – June 12, 2014
Guests: Harley Shaiken a Professor of Geography and an authority on global labor and chair of UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies, Scott Graves the Research Director of the California Budget Project, and Marion Nestle a Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University, and the author … Continued
Up Front – June 11, 2014
Guests:Rahul Mahajan the author of “Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond” and his Empire Notes blog: www.empirenotes.org and Dr. Kevin Kumashiro the Dean of USF School of Education, President of National Association of Multi-Cultural Education and author of “Bad Teacher-How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture.”
Up Front – June 9, 2014
Guests:Evan Greer the Campaign Director for Reset the Net, Andrew Crocker a legal fellow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Arun Gupta an Independent Journalist speaking on the topic of minimum wage.