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

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Guests:Cathi Tactaquin Executive Director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Ramses Teon Nichol Vice President of Organizing, SEIU Local
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Guests: Cory Cook a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, David Cobb the National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited, and Jeffrey Clements the President and Co-Founder of Free Speech for People and author of the “Corporations Are Not People“