Up Front, February 5, 2013 – February 5, 2013
Obama’s Judicial appointments; Nan Aron , President, Alliance for Justice Al Young Day ; Al Young , California Poet Laureate Emeritus
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Up Front, February 4, 2013 – February 4, 2013
Monitor’s Report says OPD is backsliding; John Burris, Oakland-based Civil Rights Attorney The Myths of Happiness ; Sonja Lyubomirksy , author of The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, but Does
Up Front, February 1, 2013 – February 1, 2013
Latest Unemployment Figures; Doug Henwood,editor of the Left Business Observer, and host of Behind The News , which airs on KPFA thursdays at noon Israel bombing inside Syria;Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan , 49ers in the Super Bowl, LBGT issues at the forefront; Dave Zirin writes about the politics of … Continued
Up Front, January 31, 2013 – January 31, 2013
Senate hearing on Chuck Hagel nomination for DOD director; William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Project at the New America Foundation , and Alice Slater , New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Progressive Change and the Political System;Norman Solomon author, media critic, and co-founder of rootsaction.org and John Nichols , … Continued
Up Front, January 30, 2013 – January 30, 2013
Egypt ; Ashraf Khalil , independent journalist based in Cairo, and author of the book Liberation Square Plutonium Shipments to Lawrence Livermore; Scott Yundt , Staff Attorney, Tri-Valley CAREs Speaks with us about a new Government Proposal that involves transporting plutonium bomb cores from Los Alamos National Laboratory In New Mexico, to the Lawrence Livermore … Continued
Up Front, January 29,2013 – January 29, 2013
California and the Coming Immigration Reform Debate; Anoop Prasad , Staff Attorney for Immigrant Rights with the Asian Law Caucus and David Bacon , UpFront Labor Correspondent and author of the forthcoming The Right to Stay Home: Ending Forced Migration and the Criminalization of Immigrants join us in studio. Does CEQA need to be reformed?; … Continued
Up Front, January 25,2013 – January 25, 2013
State of the State Analysis ; a look at governer Jerry Brown’s state of the state address with Lenny Goldberg , Executive Director of California Tax Reform Association Palestine ; Sonali Kolthatkar is joined in studio by Palestinian activist Lyad Burnat about a new wave civil uprising that could mark the beginning of a third … Continued
Up Front, January 23, 2013 – January 23, 2013
Foodopoly ; Wenonah Hauter speaks with us about her book Foodopoly: The Battle over the Future of Food and Farming in America Moving College Classes Online? ; Mohammad Qayoumi , President of San Jose State University, Bob Miester , Professor of Social Science and Political Thought at UC Santa Cruz, and Cinthia Flores Second Year … Continued