UpFront – October 17, 2024
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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Live from Gaza; Plus, Berkeley Mayoral Candidate Interviews
00:08 — Rami Almeghari, reporter for Pacifica Evening News, KPFA. 00:16 — Sophie Hahn, councilmember representing Berkeley district 5, which is north Berkeley and a chunk of the hills. 00:33 — Kate Harrison served on the Berkeley City Council representing District 4, or downtown, until earlier this year, when she quit. 00:45 — Adena Ishii … Continued
SFUSD School Closures; Electoral Map Ahead for Harris; Plus, CA Proposition 32 Debate and Explainer
00:08 — Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local. 00:20 — Steve Phillips is founder of Democracy in Color. His latest book is How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good. 00:33 — Joseph Sanberg is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, and represents the Yes on … Continued
Rebecca Nagle on By The Fire We Carry
00:08 Rebecca Nagle, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, host of the podcast This Land, just out with the book By The Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
SCOTUS Back in Session; Mutual Aid for Hurricane Helene in North Carolina; Plus, Proposition 4 Explained
00:08 — Jessica Mason Pieklo is Executive Editor at Rewire News and co-host of the podcast “Boom! Lawyered.” 00:33 — Margaret Killjoy host of the podcast “Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff” and was involved in mutual aid efforts for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. 00:45 — Erin Stone is Climate … Continued
Florida braces for Hurricane Milton disaster; plus how climate change-induced disasters are killing workers
0:08 – Mitch Perry is Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix. He joins us from St Petersburg, Florida, which is evacuating from Hurricane Milton. 0:18 – Eugene Cordero is professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University, and also the founder and director of Green Ninja, an educational publisher … Continued
The latest in Russia’s war in Ukraine with John Feffer; plus one year since the Oct 7 attacks with Joel Beinin
0:08 – John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 0:33 – Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
Inside Amazon’s ‘ruthless quest to own the world’ and the FTC antitrust lawsuit to break it up, with WSJ journalist Dana Mattioli
0:08 – Dana Mattioli is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal where she has worked since 2006. She has written investigative pieces about Amazon since 2019 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Journalism for her work on Amazon. Her new book is The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own … Continued
Israel’s expanding war in Lebanon with Joseph Daher; plus poet Tahir Izgul recounts his life under China’s Uyghur genocide
0:08 – Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God. 0:33 – Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur. He fled China and now lives near Washington, DC. His latest book is a memoir entitled Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir … Continued