On today’s show: 0:08 – Beth Macy, a Virginia-based journalist discusses her latest book Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis.
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On today’s show: 0:08 – Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research discusses the Consumer Price Index out today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 0:33 – Assemblymember Adam Gray is a candidate for California’s 13th congressional district–which, starting after the election, will be a big chunk of the … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – The ongoing Mahsa Amini uprising in Iran continues to gain momentum despite a violent crackdown by the state. Fatemeh Shams, assistant professor of Persian Literature at the University of Philadelphia joins us to the discuss the women at the center of the movement and how history foretold this moment of … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We interview San Francisco District Attorney candidates Maurice Chenier (@chenier_4_sf_da) and John Hamasaki (@HamasakiLaw). 0:33 – Joe Alioto Veronese (@joeavero) discusses his candidacy for San Francisco District Attorney. Brooke Jenkins and her campaign staff were not responsive to our multiple requests for an interview. 0:44 – Joe Eskenazi (@esksf), Managing … Continued
UpFront – October 7, 2022
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On today’s show: 0:10 – We followup on Hurricane Ian with Mitch Perry (@MitchPerry18), Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix. 0:23 – Jordan E. Martinez-Mazurek, a member of the Fight Toxic Prisons Disaster Response Team discusses efforts to evacuate incarcerated people in the flood zone. 0:34 – We discuss rebuilding after Hurricane … Continued
UpFront – October 5, 2022
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0:08 – David Walker (Twitter @DavidWalker1201; Instagram @davidf.walker) award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator discusses his graphic novel The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $100 and receive a copy of The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest news from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
On today’s show: We discover how wheat built and broke empires with Scott Reynolds Nelson (@nelsonhist), professor of history at the University of Georgia. Basic Books FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Scott Reynolds Nelson’s Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.