UpFront – May 30, 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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0:08 – Activist and author, Angela Davis, discusses her book: Blues, Legacies and Black Feminism discusses several key early blues artists including Gertrude “Ma” Rainy, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday to illustrate how black women helped shape feminist historical traditions and were able to tell stories, particularly about the reality of women’s sexual experience through their music. (Recorded … Continued
0:08 – When we create visions of the future, they’re usually visions awash in technology. We can learn a lot more about our future by putting nature back in the foreground, and refocusing on what we already know about how life responds to change. Rob Dunn (@rrobdunn) is the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department … Continued
0:08 – Diving into the long tail of rising inequality in the United States. We revisit a documentary that is the product of more than four years of long form interviews with Noam Chomsky, a linguist and one of the left’s most prominent intellectuals. The film, called Requiem for the American Dream was made by Peter … Continued
0:08 – David Wengrow (@davidwengrow), is professor of comparative archeology at University College London. He joins us to discuss his latest book, co-authored with the late David Graeber, which is now available as a fund drive premium. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of David Wengrow and David Graeber’s The Dawn … Continued
0:08 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, joins us to discuss the latest COVID science and answer listener questions. This week, we spent the whole hour with him, to also discuss the spreading monkeypox virus. FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Make any pledge and receive The Politics of Sex, … Continued
UpFront – May 20, 2022
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Elie Mystal’s Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution. 0:09 – On the back of looming news from the Supreme Court, we spend our first hour with a fund drive special featuring Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC), legal analyst and justice correspondent for The Nation, and now … Continued
New Bay Area homeless numbers; Untold labor history; Plus, a People’s Guide to Capitalism
0:08 – Numbers have been released from our local counties from the national Point-In-Time homeless count. Some parts of the Bay Area, like Alameda County have seen a significant rise in people without homes while others, like San Francisco, have seen the numbers drop. We are joined by Tomiquia Moss (@meeksmoss), the founder and Executive Director … Continued
0:08 – The tragic mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, last weekend, was perpetrated by an 18 year old who livestreamed from his phone as he walked through a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, executing shoppers. In a 180-page manifesto, he explained that he targeted that supermarket specifically because it was in the most … Continued