UpFront

02.15.23 - 7:00am

By jgonzalez

0:08 — Julian Ward, restorative justice facilitator who’s run victim-offender dialogues in California’s prisons, and community-based restorative justice processes, mostly working through the Ahimsa Collective. 0:19 — Trino Jimenez, went through a restorative justice process with the man who killed his oldest brother. He now gives talks about restorative justice in prisons.  0:33 — Pamela … Continued

02.14.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 — Dan La Botz, is editor of New Politics and author of What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution, A Marxist Analysis. 0:33 — Marisa Kendall, is a reporter covering homelessness as part of the Bay Area News Group’s housing team.  Enrique Bazán, is Assistant Director of Ayudando Latinos A Soñar (ALAS) a Latino-centered community … Continued

02.13.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments 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.

02.10.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 — Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the center for antiracist research at Boston university, where he’s also Andrew W. Mellon professor in the humanities. His newest book is for kids: it’s an adaptation of his memoir, now entitled How to be a (young) antiracist.  0:33 — Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugo-, Nebula-, and Locus Award-winning … Continued

02.09.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 — Zaina Erhaim, a Syrian journalist based in the UK, formerly with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Hoshang Hesen, is a journalist currently in the Kurdish city of Qamishli in northeast Syria. 0:25 — Sam Regan, is a music generalist on the Youtube charts team, also on the organizing committee for the … Continued

02.08.23 - 7:00am

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0:33 — Jonel Edwards, is Co-Executive Director at Dream Defenders. 0:40 — Shana L Redmond, Professor of English and Comparative Literature At Columbia, in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race; also president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the … Continued

02.07.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 — Jake Werner, Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute. His research examines the emergence of great power conflict between the US and China and develops policies to rebuild constructive economic relations. 0:33 — Sam Tepperman-Gelfant, is a Managing Attorney on the Metropolitan Equity Team at Public Advocates.  

02.06.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments 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.

02.03.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 — Kim Stanley Robinson, is an American writer of science fiction.

02.02.23 - 7:00am

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0:08 — Dahoud André is a Haitian community activist based in New York and is a member of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. 0:33 — Esmeralda Flores, border policy advocate for CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles). 0:44 — Polly Smythe, is an industrial correspondent for Novara Media.