UpFront
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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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Up Front, December 3, 2012 – December 3, 2012
Trans Pacific Partnership agreement; Ben Beachy,Research Director with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Have You Seen Marie? ; Sandra Cisneros , trail-blazing Chicana author who launched her career with The House on Mango Street has a new illustrated book out called Have you seen Marie?
UpFront – California Superstorms; The Left and the Fed
Meteorologist Jan Null on the “atmospheric river” weather pattern hitting California this weekend, how a more prolonged version once turned the central valley into a 6,000-square mile lake, and how climate change could make the next one even worse. Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Alternet.org editor Adele Stan about the unbearable whiteness of the GOP: 19 white … Continued
UpFront – Palestinian Statehood; Doha Climate Talks; Same Sex Marriage at the Supreme Court
On the bid for recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN: Yousef Mounayyer, executive director of The Jerusalem Fund Ian Williams, UN Correspondent for Tribune Magazine, and senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus On the Climate Talks in Doha: Mijin Cha, senior analyst at Demos On the competing marriage cases before the Supreme Court: … Continued
UpFront – the World Bank on Climate Change
The World Bank has a new report out painting an apocalyptic vision of what climate change holds for our future — we’ll discuss it with a vice-president at the bank, and ask why her organization’s still funding coal-fired power plants. Sonali Kolhatkar discusses the geopolitics of the standoff with rebels in the Democratic Republic of … Continued
UpFront – Will a Democratic SuperMajority in Sacramento change anything?
Now that Democrats control a ⅔ supermajority in both chambers of the California legislature, they theoretically have the power to roll back years of cuts to schools and services by raising taxes — but will they? We’ll talk to Robert Cruikshank of Calitics.com and Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association about the policy … Continued
Up Front, November 23, 2012 – November 23, 2012
Organizing Social Change; Brian Edwards Tiekert speaks with Stewart Acuff, Author of Playing Bigger Than You Are, A Life in Organizing about organizing social change.
Up Front, November 21, 2012 – November 21, 2012
Gaza Ceasefire?; Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University Man Up; Carlos Andres Gomez, Author of Man Up, Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood
Up Front, November 20, 2012 – November 20, 2012
Gaza Update; Brian Edwards Tiekert speaks with Amjad Shawa, Coordinator of PNGO the Palestinian NGO network in Gaza, as well as Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara, Currently working as a visiting professor at The American University of Beirut SEIO 1021 Strikes Port Of Oakland; Carla West Up Front Contributor