UpFront – October 5, 2022
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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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 [email protected].
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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.
On today’s show: 0:08 – Mitch Perry, (@MitchPerry18), Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix joins us to unpack the immediate impacts of Hurricane Ian. 0:30 – Brian Tang (@btangywx), associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at UAlbany discusses Hurricane Ian’s intensity—how it got so bad so fast, and … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We feature excerpts of Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) in conversation with Mickey Huff at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley on Monday, September 26. Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New … Continued
On today’s show: 0:11 – Ed Morales (@SpanglishKid), a journalist, filmmaker, and lecturer at Columbia University discusses Puerto Rico’s energy grid and aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
On today’s show: 0:10 – 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: 0:08 – Mitchell Schwarzer discusses the history of urban development in Oakland. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Mitchell Schwarzer’s Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption. THIS WEEKEND: 3rd i’s 20th ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL September 23-25 @ The Roxie and Castro … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We spend the hour celebrating the work of Barbara Ehrenreich, the activist, muckraker, and prolific writer who passed away September 1 at the age of 81. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $100 and receive a copy of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Had I Known: Collected Essays. Receive her talks from our … Continued