Up Front, June 4, 2013 – June 4, 2013
Protests in Turkey: Justin Vela, Independent Journalist Based in Istanbul, Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Sweat Shops/Corporate Responsibility.
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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Protests in Turkey: Justin Vela, Independent Journalist Based in Istanbul, Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Sweat Shops/Corporate Responsibility.
SF Pride Debates Bradley Manning; Cameron Jones Immigrants rights, Fracking Bills clear first deadline in Sacramento; Christopher Martinez, State Capitol Correspondent, Pacifica Evening News David Graeber, author of The Democracy Project
Bradley Manning Controversy Consumes SF Pride; Zoe Dunning, retired Navy Commander, a lead activist in the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and a former Grand Marshall for SF Pride and Joey Cain, gay historian, curator and former SF Pride board President Douglas Rushkoff, author of Futureshock.
Covered California; Ken Jacobs, Chair UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
Syria; Fawaz A. Gerges, Director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics
Lee Fang; author of The Machine:A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right
Labor and Immigration; Bill Fletcher Jr., author most recently of They’re Bankrupting Us: and 20 other myths about Unions The Government and Labor; Seth Harris, Acting US Secretary of Labor Immigrants’ Rights Protests; Ariana Gil, organizer with Mujeres Unidas y Activas Reaction to Jason Collins Coming out; Jae Michael has more
Speech Pack: Last Day of Spring fund drive; Noam Chomsky at the Paramount Theater in Oakland; Eduardo Galeano at the First Congregational Church in Oakland
Let’s Take a Trip; Pacifica’s Social History of LSD
With Brian Edwards-Tiekert