Up Front – July 3, 2014
Guests: Calvin Welch a long-time housing activist, and a lecturer in Urban Affairs at University of San Francisco and Peter Kwan who runs the San Francisco Homesharers Group, a non-profit that encourages home sharing.
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Up Front – July 2, 2014
Guests: Rashid Khalidi a Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and author of many books, including “The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood” and Shlomi Eldar a contributing writer for Al-Monitor’s “Israel Pulse” and author of numerous books including “Getting to Know Hamas.”
Up Front – July 1, 2014
Guests: Juan Cole a Professor of History at the University of Michigan, author of the blog juancole.com, and author of the new book “The New Arabs: How the Millenial generation is changing the Middle East,” David Bacon a labor correspondent for UpFront and author of his books include “Illegal People” and “The Right to Stay … Continued
Up Front – June 30, 2014
Guests: John Quigley a Professor, Emeritus of International Law at Ohio State University, Jenny Montoya Tansey the Health Matters Project Director at Californians for Safety and Justice, William Gould a Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford University, Chair of the National Labor Relations Board during the Clinton Administration, and the author of many books including … Continued
Up Front – June 27, 2014
Guests: Marie Levin of California Families Against Solitary Confinement, John Curl the author of “For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America,” board member of the Network of Bay Area Cooperatives, a member of Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop, and the author of the novel, “The Co-op Conspiracy,” and … Continued
Up Front – June 26, 2014
Guests: Robert Dreyfuss a contributing editor to “the Nation” and author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam,” Tommi Avicolli Mecca a long time queer and housing activist, and Carl Deal the co-director with Tia Lessin of the film “Citizen Koch.”
Up Front – June 25, 2014
Guests: Dana Frank a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Dave Zirin the author of “Brazil’s Dance with the Devil”.
Up Front – June 24, 2014
Guests: Sydney Levy the advocacy director at Jewish Voice for Peace and Dr. Michael Harris one of the founders of the San Francisco Voice for Israel.