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On today’s show: 0:08 – Ryan Costello (@ryecostello), Policy Director at National Iranian American Council discusses the ongoing Iranian uprisings. 0:33 – San Francisco Supervisors will consider a proposal by SFPD to authorize armed robots to kill suspects. Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf) is a long-time San Francisco investigative reporter and founder of 48 Hills joins us … Continued
On today’s show: 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.
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
Your browser does not support the audio tag. California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations was created in September of 2020, making it first and only state to study the institution of slavery and its harms and to devise a plan as to how to provide reparations. An initial report came out earlier this summer, and … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
On today’s show: 0:08 – Stacy-Marie Ishmael (@s_m_i), managing editor for crypto at Bloomberg News discusses the spectacular collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. 0:33 – One of the nation’s largest rail unions narrowly voted down a contract brokered by the White House, stoking fears of an economically devastating strike in the run-up to Christmas. … Continued
On today’s show: 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.
00:08 Aviva Chomsky, professor of History and Latin American Studies at Salem State, on her new book Is Science Enough: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice
00:08 A special report by Jeannine Etter on the work of California’s first-in-the-nation Task Force on Reparations for African Americans 00:33 Daniel Nichanian, editor in chief of Bolts Magazine and contributing editor for Inquest — on what downballot races signalled about voters’ appetite for expanding democracy and shrinking the prison system.
00:08 John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation, on why Donald Trump is still a favorite for the Republican presidential nomination, and what that means for the party. 00:35 Kavitha Surana, reporter at ProPublica, on how anti-abortion activists plan to defend and expand the nation’s strictest abortion bans 00:48 Tarini Hardikar, graduate student researcher at UC … Continued
