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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 upfront@kpfa.org. Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

Episode Date
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
May 06, 2024
Ajay Singh Chaudhry on The Exhausted of the Earth
May 03, 2024
UpFront – May 2, 2024
May 02, 2024
Fred Glass on California Labor History (Repeat)
May 01, 2024
Ariel Henry Resigns, What’s Next for Haiti?
Apr 30, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Apr 29, 2024
Student Protests in Solidarity with Palestine Face Violent Crackdown, What is Different This Time Around?
Apr 26, 2024
UpFront – April 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
Donald Trump’s Hush Money Trial Continues; Plus, India Elections Begin
Apr 24, 2024
Israel and Iran Escalation; Plus, Bay Area Delegation Joins the Gaza Freedom Flotilla; What Grant Pass vs. Johnson Means for Homelessness in Bay Area;
Apr 23, 2024
Sudan’s war at 1; Corona Calls
Apr 22, 2024
Austin Frerick on the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
Apr 19, 2024
UpFront – April 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
UpFront – April 17, 2024
Apr 17, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Apr 16, 2024
UpFront – April 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Escalating Warnings of Iranian Retaliatory Attack Against Israel; Plus, Costs and Benefits of Converting Public Lands to Solar Energy Farms
Apr 12, 2024
What Came of California’s CARE Court? Plus, California Water Crisis Following the Rainy Season; California DOJ Dismisses Lawsuit Against Vallejo Police Department
Apr 11, 2024
New CPI Report Out; Plus, San Jose’s AI Pilot Program to Track Down Homeless Encampments
Apr 10, 2024
Israel Gears Up for Rafah Invasion As International Pressure for Ceasefire Increases; Plus, Aaron Peskin Joins San Francisco Mayor’s Race
Apr 09, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Apr 08, 2024
Erin McElroy on Silicon Valley Imperialism
Apr 05, 2024
Protestors Shut Down Lockheed Martin Over Role Arms Contribution to Israeli Bombing of Gaza; Plus, New Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers; Oral Arguments Begin Over People’s Park; What the Baltimore Bridge Collapse Means for the Bay Area
Apr 04, 2024
UpFront – April 3, 2024
Apr 03, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
Apr 02, 2024
Labor, Capital, and the fields of California
Apr 01, 2024
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on Solidarity
Mar 29, 2024
Big Tech Facing Anti-Trust Cases by the US Department of Justice and the European Union; Plus, Study Shows Self-Administered Abortion on the Rise Following Overturning of Roe v. Wade
Mar 28, 2024
Will the Supreme Court Uphold Access to Mifepristone? Plus, China’s Leading Development of Renewable Energy
Mar 27, 2024
The Developing Changes in Israel-US Relations with Rashid Khalidi; Plus, Inside the Israel Lobby
Mar 26, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 25, 2024
Cory Doctorow on How to Seize the Means of Computation
Mar 22, 2024
California Schools Running Out of Federal Pandemic Relief Funds; Plus, Sacramento City Council Pass Ceasefire Resolution
Mar 21, 2024
Trump’s Ongoing Legal Battles; The Confederate General Who Defied the South
Mar 20, 2024
How Much Has Organizing on the War in Gaza Affected Policy in Washington D.C. and Voter Behavior in California; Plus, CA Not Projected to Meet its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals
Mar 19, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 18, 2024
What do sanctions accomplish?
Mar 15, 2024
A Look at Local Organizing Around a Gaze Ceasefire; Plus, Influencing DC Politics Toward Ending the War Gaza
Mar 14, 2024
Primary Election Results; Plus, Street Spirit is Back; ICE Detainee Migrants Crammed into Golden State Annex
Mar 13, 2024
Prime Minister Ariel Henry Resigns, What’s Next for a Haiti Transitional Government? Plus, Electric Rate Hikes and Debriefing San Francisco’s Election Results
Mar 12, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 11, 2024
Fund Drive Special with Chris Hedges
Mar 08, 2024
Fund Drive Special with Corey Doctorow
Mar 07, 2024
Fund Drive Special: The Future of Democracy with Steve Phillips
Mar 06, 2024
Egypt’s Position in the Ongoing Invasion of Gaza; Plus, Super Tuesday Races to Follow Around the Nation
Mar 05, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 04, 2024
UpFront – March 1, 2024
Mar 01, 2024
Fund Drive Special: The Life and Legacy of Bayard Rustin
Feb 29, 2024
Pressure Inside the Israeli Government], A Looming Invasion of Rafah and What a Ceasefire Would Mean for Humanitarian Aid
Feb 28, 2024
Fund Drive Poetry Special with Maya Angelou and June Jordan
Feb 27, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Feb 26, 2024
Fund Drive Special: Occupation of the American Mind; Plus, Rashid Khalidi on the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Feb 23, 2024
Fund Drive Special: David Walker on the Life of Frederick Douglass
Feb 22, 2024
Over 52 Countries Begin Arguments on ICJ Against Israel’s Occupation of West Bank and East Jerusalem; Plus, Edward Said Speech on the Idea of Palestine
Feb 21, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine – Navalny Edition; Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
Feb 20, 2024
Holiday Special: How the Real Estate Industry Invented Modern Housing Discrimination
Feb 19, 2024
A Look at Hezbollah and How it May Respond to Israel’s Attacks; Plus, Upcoming San Francisco Ballot Measures
Feb 16, 2024
California Senate Runoff; What Would Prop 1 Do? Plus, Bay Area Counties May Lose $200million in FEMA Funds
Feb 15, 2024
Pakistan Elections; Plus, Senate Passes $95Billion Aid Bill, Sending Arms to Ukraine and Israel
Feb 14, 2024
Israel Threatens Ground Invasion of Rafah, the Last Area Holding Millions Displaced from Gaza; Plus, Big Money’s Influence on San Francisco Politics
Feb 13, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Feb 12, 2024
SF Housing Policy; California After the Atmospheric River; Plus, Charlie Chaplin vs America
Feb 09, 2024
The Political Battle Over US Border Security; Plus, How “Tyranny of the Minority” is Putting American Democracy into Crisis
Feb 08, 2024
Anti-Trans Legislation Hits Hard in 2024; Hindu Nationalism’s White Supremacist Ties; Social Services Hotline Data Offers Opportunities; Plus SF Civil Settlements
Feb 07, 2024
UpFront – February 6, 2024
Feb 06, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Feb 05, 2024
UpFront – February 2, 2024
Feb 02, 2024
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Online Child Safety; Plus, Hayward City Council Votes to Divest from Four Companies; California’s Plan for Chinook Salmon Population Decline
Feb 01, 2024
The History of UNRWA and Impact of Aid Funding Cuts; Plus, Cal Poly SLO Pro-Palestinian Protestors Attacked by Police; UC Regents Employment for Undocumented Students
Jan 31, 2024
US-Iran Altercations Since the October 7th Attack in Israel; LA Times Layoffs and the Future of California Journalism
Jan 30, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
Jan 29, 2024
International Court of Justice Decision on Israel’s Genocide Case; Plus, Dr. Yousef Khelfa Describes Current Situation in Gaza Hospitals
Jan 26, 2024
Biden administration extends review of new LNG terminals; Plus, The Oakland Coal Terminal is back from the dead ; Bay Area Health Workers Protest L3Harris Weapons Development for Israel
Jan 25, 2024
New Hampshire Primary Elections Results; Plus, the Biden Administrations Escalating Actions Towards Yemen
Jan 24, 2024
Tensions in the Israeli Government Over Gaza War and Release of Hostages; San Francisco City Budget Battles; Plus, San Mateo County Supervisors Proposal Would Make Houseless Camping a Misdemeanor
Jan 23, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
Jan 22, 2024
What the Iran-Pakistan Attacks Mean for the Region; Humanitarian Crisis from the Israeli Attacks in Gaza; Plus, Poet Tahir Izgul Recounts His Life Under China’s Uyghur Genocide
Jan 19, 2024
Chevron Deference Case; A Look At Governor Newsom’s Budget Proposal
Jan 18, 2024
Taiwan Election Results and its Political Aftermath; UK and US continue to Bomb Houthis in Yemen
Jan 17, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 16, 2024
MLK Day Special
Jan 15, 2024
Hajar Yazdiha on The Struggle for the People’s King
Jan 12, 2024
Tony Platt on the Scandal of Cal [repeat]
Jan 11, 2024
People’s Park History Since 1969; Plus, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Pass Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
Jan 10, 2024
A Look At National Politics Ahead; Cheuk Kwan Writes Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
Jan 09, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 08, 2024
New California Housing Laws Going into Effect this Month; Plus, the Battle for People’s Park Continues
Jan 05, 2024
What the Attacks in Iran and Beirut Mean for the Region; Legal Charges Filed Against Bay Area Gaza Activists; Plus, UC Berkley Sends Police to Block People’s Park
Jan 04, 2024
Israel’s Latest Strategy in its Invasion of Gaza; Taking Stock of Bidenomics
Jan 03, 2024
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 02, 2024
Jenny Odell on Saving Time [repeat]
Jan 01, 2024
Astra Taylor on the Age of Insecurity
Dec 29, 2023
Jehad Abusalim on life inside (and outside) Gaza
Dec 28, 2023
Ussama Makdisi on the history of coexistence in the Arab world
Dec 27, 2023
[Rebroadcast] Amjad Iraqi on Palestinian Politics
Dec 26, 2023
UpFront – December 25, 2023
Dec 25, 2023
Brian Merchant on what workers today can learn from the Luddites
Dec 22, 2023
UpFront – December 21, 2023
Dec 21, 2023
UpFront – December 20, 2023
Dec 20, 2023
No Tech for Apartheid Opposes Google and Amazon’s Contribution to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, UNSC Votes On New Gaza Resolution; Plus, California’s $68 billion Budget Deficit
Dec 19, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Dec 18, 2023
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi and Nora Barrows-Friedman
Dec 15, 2023
Fund Drive Special History of the Modern Arab World with Ussama Makdisi
Dec 14, 2023
Fund Drive Special: The Occupation of the American Mind
Dec 13, 2023
Kenneth Roth on the UN Security Council and Ceasefire Possibility in Gaza
Dec 12, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, No Move Toward Call for Ceasefire by the Biden Administration
Dec 11, 2023
UpFront – December 8, 2023
Dec 08, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Jehad Abusalim
Dec 07, 2023
UpFront – December 6, 2023
Dec 06, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Phyllis Bennis
Dec 05, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Dec 04, 2023
UpFront – December 1, 2023
Dec 01, 2023
UpFront – November 30, 2023
Nov 30, 2023
Prospects for a Gaza Ceasefire After the Truce; Plus, New SF Housing Development Bill to Address Missing State Deadline
Nov 29, 2023
UpFront – November 28, 2023
Nov 28, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Nov 27, 2023
UpFront – November 24, 2023
Nov 24, 2023
4 Day Pause on Fire Agreed in Exchange for Hostages in Israel and Palestine; Plus, Israeli Political Strategy for Safe Hostage Exchange
Nov 22, 2023
Argentina Elects Far-right Presidential Candidate; Plus, California’s Unemployment Crash Before and After Pandemic Began
Nov 21, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Nov 20, 2023
Amjad Iraqi on the Reality of Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Backlash towards Dissent and the Future of the Palestinian People
Nov 17, 2023
How Lessons Learned from the Bosnian Genocide Apply to Gaza; Lawsuit Filed Against Biden Administration for Complacency in Genocide; Plus, Bay Area Organizers and Protestors Shutdown Bay Bridge Calling for a Ceasefire
Nov 16, 2023
Biden Meets with Xi Jinping at APEC; Plus, Escalating Violence in the West Bank as Bombing in Gaza Continues
Nov 15, 2023
Preempted for Pacifica Radio Archives Fundraiser
Nov 14, 2023
Possible Government Shutdown; Plus, Corona Calls
Nov 13, 2023
Environmental and Indigenous Rights Activist Brandon Lee on Opposing APEC; Plus, Upcoming Protests During the Summit; Homeless Sweeps Leading up to APEC
Nov 10, 2023
What Comes After the Ground Invasion of Gaza? Plus, Stanford University Students Hold “Sit-in to Stop Genocide”
Nov 09, 2023
How to Combat Rising Anti-Semitism and Reject its Weaponization; Plus, Special Election Results
Nov 08, 2023
Rashid Khalidi on What is Different This Time About Israel’s Attacks on Palestine
Nov 07, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Nov 06, 2023
Gaza and US Foreign Policy; Plus, What are Palestinians Experiencing in the West Bank
Nov 03, 2023
US-backed Kenya Plan to Send Security Forces to Haiti Has Been Halted; Plus, High Eviction Cases in Alameda County Following End of Moratorium
Nov 02, 2023
Bay Area Doctors Call for Ceasefire in Solidarity with Gaza; San Francisco Honors Dia De Los Muertos; Spain Marks Anniversary of Law Making Amends for Crimes During 40 Years of Fascist Rule 
Nov 01, 2023
UpFront – October 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Call-ins
Oct 30, 2023
On Wars with Michael Mann
Oct 27, 2023
Is there a shift in US Politics around Palestine & Israel? Plus, Boycott Divestment Sanctions and Palestine Solidarity Organizing
Oct 26, 2023
House Speaker Vote Continues; Sudan is One of the World’s Fastest Growing Humanitarian Crises; Plus, Challenges of Sending Aid to Gaza
Oct 25, 2023
Could Israel’s Offensive on Gaza Expand to a Regional War? Plus, Limitations of US Policy on Gaza
Oct 24, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls
Oct 23, 2023
UpFront – October 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023
UpFront – October 19, 2023
Oct 19, 2023
House Speaker Vote; Plus, New Report Shows Impact of Covid-19 on K-12 Education
Oct 18, 2023
Back to Back Deadly Earthquakes Hit Afghanistan; Plus, Israel Bombings of Gaza continue as Israeli Civilian Hostages Remain Missing
Oct 17, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Oct 16, 2023
What Bills Made it through the Governor’s Desk; Plus, Damien Lewis on the Secret Life of Josephine Baker
Oct 13, 2023
Andrej Grubacic on the Impact of Mutual Aid on Social Movements
Oct 12, 2023
D. J. Taylor on the Life of George Orwell; Plus, What the Future Holds for the GOP
Oct 11, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Oct 10, 2023
UpFront – October 6, 2023
Oct 06, 2023
UpFront – October 5, 2023
Oct 05, 2023
UpFront – October 4, 2023
Oct 04, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Andrej Grubacic
Oct 03, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Oct 02, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Robin DG Kelley
Sep 29, 2023
Fund Drive Special with John Nichols
Sep 28, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Obi Kaufmann
Sep 27, 2023
UAW Strike Continues
Sep 26, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Sep 25, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Klein: Doppelganger
Sep 22, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Jade Begay and john a. powell
Sep 21, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Rebecca Solnit
Sep 20, 2023
Fund Drive Special: Lessons from Earth’s Past to Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis with Michael E. Mann
Sep 19, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
Sep 18, 2023
UpFront – September 15, 2023
Sep 15, 2023
New Inflation Numbers, CA Bills Headed to Final Vote; Plus, New Research Predicts Oil & Gas Expansion
Sep 14, 2023
Storm Daniel Causes Catastrophic Floods in Libya; Plus, Kevin McCarthy Launches Biden Impeachment Inquiry
Sep 13, 2023
Google Antirust Trial Begins; Plus, Will UAW Go On Strike?
Sep 12, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
Sep 11, 2023
When people break nature’s soundscape
Sep 08, 2023
Africa Climate Summit; Plus, EPA Approves Carcinogenic Fuel?
Sep 07, 2023
New Amazon Distribution Center in Bay View, CEQA bill AB 1307 May Greenlight People’s Park development; Plus, California Forever: Building Utopian Cities from Scratch
Sep 06, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls
Sep 05, 2023
Labor History with Kim Kelly and Fred Glass
Sep 04, 2023
Tony Platt on the Scandal of Cal
Sep 01, 2023
A new uprising in Syria? Plus: AI cameras on AC transit
Aug 31, 2023
Idalia hits Florida; Ned BlackHawk on The Rediscovery of America
Aug 30, 2023
Trump DC Trial Set for March, Saudi Border Guards Massacre of Ethiopian Migrants; Plus, SFUSD Considering School Closures
Aug 29, 2023
What comes after Prigozhin; What’s coming from B.2.86
Aug 28, 2023
Paulette Steves on the Indigenous Paleolithic
Aug 25, 2023
Republican Debates; Plus, CA School District Requiring Reporting Transgender Students to Parents
Aug 24, 2023
BRICS Summit; Injunction Banning SF Homeless Sweeps May be Compromised; Plus, Bill to Raise Bay Area Bridge Tolls Put on Hold
Aug 23, 2023
California floods (in August!); Ecuador bans drilling in the Yasuni; Federal raids on Antioch police
Aug 22, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Aug 21, 2023
Matt Simon on How Microplastics Corrupt the Environment and Our Bodies
Aug 18, 2023
Ecuador Elections; Plus, 2 Year Anniversary of Taliban Afghanistan Takeover
Aug 17, 2023
Trump Indictment in Georgia, Campaign to Stop Oakland Airport Expansion; Plus, Maui Fires
Aug 16, 2023
Iran and the US Strike Prisoner Exchange Deal, Self Driving in San Francisco; Plus, Maui Fires
Aug 15, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Aug 14, 2023
Jenny Odell on “Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock”
Aug 11, 2023
ECOWAS Calls Summit on Niger Coup; Asylum Seeking under the Biden Administration
Aug 10, 2023
UN Vote to Send Security Forces to Haiti; CPUC Vote on Self-driving Taxis
Aug 09, 2023
Toxic Algae Bloom in the Bay, Plus, Mojave Desert Wildfires
Aug 08, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Aug 07, 2023
Dr. Robert Okin on “SILENT VOICES: People with Mental Disorders on the Street”
Aug 04, 2023
Fatah and Hamas Form Reconciliation Committee; Latest Developments in Niger Coup
Aug 03, 2023
Trump Indictment; Plus, Eviction Moratoria Expiring
Aug 02, 2023
Hollywood Actors and Writers on Strike; Plus, Stories from Chinese Restaurants Across the World
Aug 01, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
Jul 31, 2023
Fund Drive Special with John Perlin
Jul 28, 2023
Coup Attempt in Niger; Plus, Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates
Jul 27, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Jeff Goodell
Jul 26, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Oreskes
Jul 25, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jul 24, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Jenny Odell
Jul 21, 2023
Israeli President Isaac Herzog Addresses US Congress, Reaffirms US Support for Israel Despite Criticism
Jul 20, 2023
Donald Trump is a Target in the DOJ’s Investigation into Overturning the 2020 Election
Jul 19, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Daniel Ellsberg
Jul 18, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins
Jul 17, 2023
Zachary Carter on John Maynard Keynes
Jul 14, 2023
The Politics of Red States Across the Nation; Plus, Community Responses to the Harms of Residential Segregation
Jul 13, 2023
Seeking Abortion Care Across State Lines; UAW Members and Student Workers Arrested at UCSD
Jul 12, 2023
Floods, Fires and Hurricane Response: Climate Change Roundup
Jul 11, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jul 10, 2023
Andrew Alden on the Geology of the East Bay
Jul 07, 2023
Christina Gerhart on Disappearing Islands
Jul 06, 2023
Naomi Oreskes on The Big Myth
Jul 05, 2023
Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, and Capitalism
Jul 04, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jul 03, 2023
“Lesbian Love Story” Traces History through the Archives of Queer Love
Jun 30, 2023
Attacks on Trans Rights and the Role of Mainstream Media in Perpetuating Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric
Jun 29, 2023
The Supreme Court Session in Review ;CA Budget Heads to Final Vote; Plus, New Bill Would Hike Bridge Tolls to Fund Transit
Jun 28, 2023
Israel Approves over 5000 Homes in Settlement Expansion; Plus, Takeaways from the Biden-Modi Meeting
Jun 27, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Mpox & Covid Call-ins with Dr. Peter Ching-Hong
Jun 26, 2023
Bettina Aptheker’s “Communists in Closets” traces the history of Queer Communists in U.S. History
Jun 23, 2023
California State Budget Rundown; Plus, the Oakland A’s Move and the Business of Sports Teams
Jun 22, 2023
Latest in UK Politics; Plus, Alissa Quart Debunks the American Dream in “Bootstrapped”
Jun 21, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jun 20, 2023
Juneteenth Special with Robin DG Kelley
Jun 19, 2023
Manijeh Moradian’s “This Flame Within” Traces the History of Iranian Student Activists in the United States
Jun 16, 2023
Federal Interest Rates; Plus, Another Migrant Boat Sinking off the European Coast
Jun 15, 2023
Right wing media derides Trump document probe; Plus California legislators inch closer to a budget deal
Jun 14, 2023
Fire ecologist explains Canada’s wildfires; Plus anomalous ocean warming events and what they portend
Jun 13, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jun 12, 2023
Donald Trump, first-ever president to face federal indictment
Jun 09, 2023
Senegal Protests; 200 people displaced from San Jose’s Coyote Creek encampment; Plus, San Francisco International Arts Festival is Happening June 8th to June 18th
Jun 08, 2023
Nova Kakhovka Dam Collapse; Police and Prison Reforms in the Legislature; the end of Street Spirit?
Jun 07, 2023
New Brazilian Laws Rollback Recognition of Indigenous Lands; Plus, California Legislation on Digital Privacy and Housing
Jun 06, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jun 05, 2023
Brett Christophers on “Why Asset Managers Own the World”
Jun 02, 2023
House Vote on Debt Ceiling; Plus, the Push to Save California Public Transit; The 22nd SF Documentary Film Festival Kicks Off June 1st
Jun 01, 2023
UpFront – May 31, 2023
May 31, 2023
Debt Ceiling Deal; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
May 30, 2023
UpFront – May 29, 2023
May 29, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Robin D.G. Kelley
May 26, 2023
Fund Drive Special with John Perlin
May 25, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Douglas Tallamy
May 24, 2023
Fund Drive Special with George Monbiot
May 23, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
May 22, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Harry Belafonte
May 19, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Oreskes
May 18, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Andrew Alden
May 17, 2023
This Year Marks the 75th Anniversary of the Nakba
May 16, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
May 15, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Obi Kaufman
May 12, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Malcolm Harris
May 11, 2023
Fund Drive Special with David Harvey
May 10, 2023
Fund Drive Special with John Perlin
May 09, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
May 08, 2023
Yasmin El-Rifae on her book “Radius: a Feminist Revolution”
May 05, 2023
Federal Reserve Hikes Rates to Highest since 2007; CA Reparations Task Force Recommendations; Plus, “The Siege” Brings Palestinian History to the Stage
May 04, 2023
Collapse of First Republic Bank; CNA Striking John Muir Behavioral Health; Plus, Sudan Update
May 03, 2023
“Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado; Plus, Migrant Caravan from Tapachula arrives in Mexico City
May 02, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
May 01, 2023
“BIRTH” offers intimate look at maternal healthcare in the United State
Apr 28, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg on “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.”
Apr 27, 2023
Biden announces he’s running for reelection; Plus, Anti-CRT measures impact California school districts
Apr 26, 2023
Tucker Carlson out of Fox News; Plus, the future of Bay Area transit
Apr 25, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Apr 24, 2023
Dacher Keltner on the transformative power of “awe”
Apr 21, 2023
Sudan Internal Conflict, Civilians Caught in the Middle; Plus, What Flooding Means for Wells
Apr 20, 2023
Yemen Peace Talks; Plus, Supreme Court takes up Mifepristone
Apr 19, 2023
Portland Police extreme use of teargas in June 2020 protests; Plus, the long-term health impact of houseless encampment sweeps 
Apr 18, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Apr 17, 2023
Matthew Lasar on “Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Radio Network”
Apr 14, 2023
Clarence Thomas and judicial ethics; Plus, Tax call-ins
Apr 13, 2023
How Biden administration’s rule will affects trans student athletes; Plus, Spring Planting Call-ins
Apr 12, 2023
Israeli violence against Palestinians escalates, Israeli Defense Minister reinstated; Plus, American Library Association report shows book bans and challenges surged in 2022
Apr 11, 2023
Massive Classified Document Dump re: Ukraine; FDA considering a new round of COVID boosters
Apr 10, 2023
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
Apr 07, 2023
Israeli Police attack Al Aqsa mosque during holy month of Ramadan; Plus, SF audit finds $500m in affordable housing funds unspent; and, racist text message exchange found among Antioch police officers
Apr 06, 2023
Janet Protasiewicz wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat; Plus, Trump arraignment; and, California enters contract to make affordable insulin
Apr 05, 2023
Rise of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation nationwide; Plus, Pajaro farmworkers continue flood recovery
Apr 04, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Apr 03, 2023
George Monbiot on “Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet”
Mar 31, 2023
Migrants & Asylum Seekers under Biden Administration; Plus, Stories from Chinese restaurants around the world with Cheuk Kwan
Mar 30, 2023
Trump’s rally in Waco, Texas; Plus, Governor Newsom signs bill targeting oil price gouging
Mar 29, 2023
Israel protests and fate of the Netanyahu government; Looking and Bay Area weather ahead
Mar 28, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 27, 2023
David Harvey on “A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse”
Mar 24, 2023
Federal Reserve Raises Rates 0.25%; Plus, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases 2023 report
Mar 23, 2023
San Joaquin Valley Floods threaten Allensworth; Plus, what came of anti-war movement with Phyllis Bennis
Mar 22, 2023
The invasion of Iraq: Twenty years later
Mar 21, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 20, 2023
Robin DG Kelley on the twentieth anniversary of “Freedom Dreams”
Mar 17, 2023
Strikes against pension reform in France; US, UK, Australia ink a weapons deal; Plus, Venture Capital breakdown over Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Mar 16, 2023
Environmental groups sue over Biden approval of Willow Project; SF Budget Committee Considering boost to police funding; Plus, Wood Street Commons encampment facing final eviction
Mar 15, 2023
China brokers Iran-Saudi reconciliation; Atmospheric river and Bay Area weather ahead; Plus, San Francisco reparations process
Mar 14, 2023
Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 13, 2023
Fund Drive Special Film: Aware
Mar 10, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Dr. Gabor Mate
Mar 09, 2023
Dacher Keltner on how the feeling of “awe” can transform your life
Mar 08, 2023
Escalating Israeli violence in the West Bank; Plus, Ibram X. Kendi’s new book “How to Be a (Young) Antiracist”
Mar 07, 2023
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Mar 06, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Kristin Ohlson
Mar 03, 2023
Fund Drive Special with Paul Stamets
Mar 02, 2023
Fund Drive special with George Monbiot: sustainable change to our global food system
Mar 01, 2023
Fund Drive Special: Comic book writer David F Walker on his graphic novel about Frederick Douglass
Feb 28, 2023
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Feb 27, 2023
Russian invasion of Ukraine: one year later
Feb 24, 2023
Robin DG Kelley discusses the twentieth anniversary edition of “Freedom Dreams”
Feb 23, 2023
Another earthquake hits Turkey and Syria; Plus, geophysicist Glenn Biasi on what the past says about the next big earthquake
Feb 22, 2023
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Feb 21, 2023
Robin DG Kelley on the twentieth anniversary editing of “Freedom Dreams”
Feb 20, 2023
BBC office raided in backlash against “India: The Modi Question” documentary; Plus, LeRonne Armstrong fired from Oakland police chief position
Feb 17, 2023
East Palestine derailment chemical safety; Plus, Islamic Republic frees wave of political prisoners; Also,tenant protections for unincorporated areas of Alameda County
Feb 16, 2023
What does restorative justice work look like?; Plus, Alameda County’s New District Attorney, Pam Price
Feb 15, 2023
Nicaragua sends 200+ freed political prisoners to the US; Plus, who is responsible for the living conditions of farmworkers in Half Moon Bay?
Feb 14, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Feb 13, 2023
Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be a (Young) Antiracist”; Plus, Paolo Bacigalupi on “The Water Knife”
Feb 10, 2023
Turkey-Syria earthquake causes devastating humanitarian impact; Plus, Youtube music workers on strike at Google’s Austin office; Also, Multi-state battle over the Colorado River continues
Feb 09, 2023
Florida’s attack on AP African American Studies
Feb 08, 2023
The latest in US-China relations; Plus, most of Bay Area housing elements rejected, what’s next?
Feb 07, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Feb 06, 2023
Kim Stanley Robinson on “the High Sierra: A Love Story”
Feb 03, 2023
The latest in Haiti; Plus, Biden administration’s approach to the border and immigration policy; Also, 500K+ people go on strike in the UK
Feb 02, 2023
All about gas stoves; Plus, YouTube workers alleging retaliation for organizing; Also, Berkeley Here / There encampment receives eviction notice
Feb 01, 2023
Blinken in Israel and Palestine; Plus, the two-year anniversary of the Myanmar coup; Plus, Laguna Honda Hospital hearing
Jan 31, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 30, 2023
Marion Nestle on her new memoir “Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics”
Jan 27, 2023
Up Front Jan 25, 2023
Jan 25, 2023
Up Front Jan 26, 2023
Jan 25, 2023
Developments in Afghanistan; Plus, OPD Chief Leronne Armstrong suspended
Jan 24, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 23, 2023
UpFront January 20th
Jan 20, 2023
An “intimate portrait of South Africa’s racial reckoning” with Eve Fairbanks
Jan 19, 2023
What’s ahead for the House Republican agenda and nearing debt ceiling deadline; Plus, Andy Campbell on We Are Proud Boys and the January 6 Trial
Jan 18, 2023
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 17, 2023
MLK Day Special – Martin Luther King Jr. in London
Jan 16, 2023
Daniel Swain on mega floods; Plus Anya Kamenetz on how the pandemic changed children’s lives
Jan 13, 2023
Iran executes 2 more prisoners linked to anti-government uprisings; Plus Richmond’s new mayor, Eduardo Martinez
Jan 12, 2023
Who are the Bolsonaro supporters behind Brazil’s January 8th Insurrection; Plus the state of California’s flood infrastructure
Jan 11, 2023
Israel’s New extreme-right government; Supervisor Hillary Ronen joins us; Plus Oakland’s Omni Commons organize emergency storm shelter
Jan 10, 2023
More news from Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 09, 2023
Daniel Bergner on the mind and the science of our brains
Jan 06, 2023
Lula DaSilva’s back in charge of Brazil; What’s happening in California’s new legislative session; Plus impact of storms on Berkeley’s unhoused people
Jan 05, 2023
Chaos in the House; Plus when an atmospheric river hits a bomb cyclone
Jan 04, 2023
Ukrainian attack claims hundreds of Russian lives lost; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 03, 2023
Up Front Jan 2, 2023
Jan 02, 2023
Kristin Ohlson on mutualism and the powerful interspecies relationships tying ecosystems together
Dec 30, 2022
Dan Flores presents a new natural history of North America
Dec 29, 2022
Deborah Miranda on her classic memoir Bad Indians
Dec 28, 2022
Jamie Susskind on democracy in a digital world
Dec 27, 2022
How wheat built and broke empires with Scott Reynolds Nelson
Dec 26, 2022
James Bridle on AI, non-human intelligence, and biological computing
Dec 23, 2022
Protests in Peru; Plus UC academic workers unions are divided on tentative agreement
Dec 22, 2022
“Every funeral is met with more protests” Negar Mortazavi on the Iran protests
Dec 21, 2022
Final House Committee Hearing on January 6 Capitol Riot; Plus Toxic Chemicals in Fish Promised to Native Tribes
Dec 20, 2022
More news from Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Dec 19, 2022
Fund drive special with Kristin Ohlson and Gabor Maté
Dec 16, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Paul Stamets
Dec 15, 2022
Inflation shows signs of easing
Dec 14, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Kristin Ohlson
Dec 13, 2022
Russian neo-nazi paramilitary group raises fears of possible escalation; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Dec 12, 2022
UpFront – December 9, 2022
Dec 09, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Steve Phillips
Dec 08, 2022
Fund Drive Special with James Bridle
Dec 07, 2022
Raphael Warnock leads Georgia runoff; Plus fund drive special with
Dec 06, 2022
Russia missiles strike multiple Ukrainian cities; Plus flu is surging in California
Dec 05, 2022
Lev Menand on the trouble with the Fed’s role in the financial system
Dec 02, 2022
Postdocs, academic researchers reach tentative labor deal; Plus Medea Benjamin on her new book
Dec 01, 2022
Biden asks Congress to preempt a rail strike; Plus a spotlight on the Club Q massacre and its antecedents
Nov 30, 2022
Tens of thousands of protestors arrested in Iranian uprisings; Plus SFPD proposes killer robots
Nov 29, 2022
Mud, not cold slowing Russian troop movement; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Nov 28, 2022
UpFront – November 25, 2022
Nov 25, 2022
A special report on California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations for African Americans
Nov 23, 2022
UpFront – November 23, 2022
Nov 23, 2022
The spectacular collapse of FTX; Plus the implications of a nationwide rail strike
Nov 22, 2022
IAEA renews calls for DMZ near Zaporizhzhya NPP; Plus holiday COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Nov 21, 2022
Aviva Chomsky on Climate Justice, Reparations, and De-Growth
Nov 18, 2022
Downballot: criminal justice reformers and democracy initiatives made gains
Nov 17, 2022
Why Republicans can’t quit Trump
Nov 16, 2022
Russia withdraws from Kherson; Plus Dr. Swartzberg on COVID and other bugs this season
Nov 14, 2022
Lisa Hajjar on her book The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture
Nov 11, 2022
The Supreme Court Case That Threatens Tribal Sovereignty; Plus Twitter after Elon Musk
Nov 10, 2022
National elections roundup; Plus a spotlight on local elections
Nov 09, 2022
It’s election day!; Plus how a software firm created a cartel to raise rents
Nov 08, 2022
Is the Russo-Ukrainian war headed to a stalemate?; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Nov 07, 2022
Oaklanders to vote on public campaign finance measure; Plus
Nov 04, 2022
Netanyahu and far right allies win Israeli election; Plus Matt Mahan on his candidacy for SJ Mayor
Nov 03, 2022
Supreme Court poised to end affirmative action; Plus who assaulted Paul Pelosi and why?
Nov 02, 2022
What Bolsonaro’s defeat means for the Brazilian Amazon; Plus we remember Mike Davis
Nov 01, 2022
Russia to re-enter grain export deal; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Oct 31, 2022
Three open seats on OUSD school board; Plus Beatrice Adler-Bolton on her new book Health Communism
Oct 28, 2022
UpFront – October 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Journalist censored for pro-Palestinian remarks on The Hill TV; Plus we host a debate on SF vacancy tax measure
Oct 26, 2022
Mahsa Amini protestors persist against paramilitary forces; Plus we host a debate on SF Prop D/E
Oct 25, 2022
Russia threatens Kakhovka dam near Kherson; Italy swears in far-right PM Georgia Meloni; Plus more COVID questions
Oct 24, 2022
Algorithmic price fixing on apartment rentals; Plus Kaiser mental health workers end their strike
Oct 21, 2022
How Democrats are engaging Black voters in the midterm election; Plus we host a debate on Prop 30
Oct 20, 2022
Haitians reject U.S. and Mexico proposal to intervene; Plus we host a debate on Prop 29
Oct 19, 2022
What’s the proposed Berkeley vacant homes tax on the ballot this November?
Oct 18, 2022
Californians to vote on two sports gambling measures; Plus a proposed vacancy tax in Berkeley
Oct 18, 2022
Kamikaze drone strikes claim over 20 lives in Kyiv; Plus more COVID news with Dr. Swartzberg
Oct 17, 2022
Beth Macy on the next wave of America’s overdose crisis
Oct 14, 2022
CPI indicates rising food and rent costs; Asm. Adam Gray on his congressional candidacy
Oct 13, 2022
Iran uprising gains momentum despite state violence; Plus Katherine Kolbert on what must be done to save reproductive freedom
Oct 12, 2022
Candidates for San Francisco District Attorney
Oct 11, 2022
UpFront – October 7, 2022
Oct 07, 2022
Rebuilding after Hurricane Ian could take years; Plus the incarcerated people abandoned in the flood zone
Oct 06, 2022
UpFront – October 5, 2022
Oct 05, 2022
Fund drive special with David Walker
Oct 04, 2022
Putin accuses U.S. of being satanic in annexation speech; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Oct 03, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Scott Reynolds Nelson
Sep 30, 2022
12 ft storm surges as Hurricane Ian makes landfall in SW Florida
Sep 29, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Chris Hedges
Sep 28, 2022
Half a Million Puerto Ricans are still without power; Emergency packs being offered for fund drive
Sep 27, 2022
Putin’s partial mobilization provokes mass protests; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
Sep 26, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Mitchell Schwarzer
Sep 23, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Barbara Ehrenreich
Sep 22, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Dr. Gabor Maté
Sep 21, 2022
Fund Drive Special with Scott Reynolds Nelson
Sep 20, 2022
Russia’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping; Plus Dr. Swartzberg answers COVID questions
Sep 19, 2022
Labor organizer Jon Melrod on his new book Fighting Times
Sep 16, 2022
Latest on the legal battle ensuing over classified documents seized by FBI at Mar-a-Lago; Kaiser mental health workers begin their second month on strike
Sep 15, 2022
You can’t fix what you can’t see: Racism, patriarchy, and the rise of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S.
Sep 14, 2022
Republicans propose a federal abortion ban; Plus a long look at the pregnancy-related mortality crisis
Sep 14, 2022
UFW President urges signage of AB 2183; Inflation figures out today
Sep 13, 2022
Ukraine military advances into areas previously under Russian control; Plus Dr. Swartzberg on the new bivalent vaccine booster
Sep 12, 2022
Volatile conflicts over U.S. democracy continue in The Third Reconstruction
Sep 09, 2022
How will California adapt to extreme heat?
Sep 08, 2022
Dust up over Shasta River water; Plus Apache land defenders protect a sacred site from copper mining
Sep 07, 2022
Disease and illness exacerbate inequality in The Viral Underclass
Sep 06, 2022
Collapsing insect populations threaten environmental collapse; Plus how the black timber market devastates California’s ecological system
Sep 05, 2022
UpFront – September 2, 2022
Sep 02, 2022
Catastrophic floods in Pakistan displace 33 million; Plus climate change and megafloods in California
Sep 01, 2022
Billions in dark money for Republicans; Plus should California keep Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant?
Aug 31, 2022
SF Bay fish kills linked to red algae bloom; Plus trades unions overcome gridlock over housing bills
Aug 30, 2022
Ukrainians smuggled back home via Russian “underground railroad”; Plus COVID questions
Aug 29, 2022
Lessons from postcolonial Barbados on sovereign debt and the climate crisis
Aug 26, 2022
Oakland’s largest unhoused community faces Caltrans eviction
Aug 25, 2022
California to phase out all new gas cars by 2035; Plus unprecedented red algal bloom in the SF Bay
Aug 25, 2022
Biden’s debt forgiveness policy; Plus Amah Mutsun tribal Chair on the campaign to protect Juristac
Aug 24, 2022
UpFront – August 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022
Daughter of pro-Kremlin intellectual killed in car explosion; Plus more COVID questions
Aug 22, 2022
Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality
Aug 19, 2022
States could criminalize writing about abortion; Plus Asm. Ramos on his priorities for Indian country
Aug 18, 2022
How to turn guaranteed income pilots into actual policy; Plus Tim Redmond on Brooke Jenkins financial disclosure
Aug 17, 2022
One city imposes fees on UFW for marching through Cesar Chavez park; Plus Newsom plans to extend life of Diablo Canyon Power Plant
Aug 16, 2022
Explosions target air base at Russian-annexed Crimea; Kaiser therapists on strike; Plus COIVD questions
Aug 15, 2022
Reem Assil on her cookbook Arbiyya: Recipies from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora
Aug 12, 2022
Israel’s latest attack on Gaza killed 49; Facebook data used by police to prosecute Nebraska teenager who sought an abortion
Aug 11, 2022
More news on inflation; Hmong residents in Siskiyou allege racial animus in lawsuit against the county
Aug 10, 2022
Innumerable fish killed by debris flow from McKinney Fire; Plus multiple injured after escalation at Parker Elementary School
Aug 09, 2022
Russia-Ukraine war news; More COVID questions; Plus what’s next for People’s Park?
Aug 08, 2022
UpFront – August 5, 2022
Aug 05, 2022
Cal pauses construction at People’s Park; Plus Newsom’s new Delta tunnel plan
Aug 04, 2022
California declares monkeypox state of emergency; Advocates debate child mental health bill
Aug 03, 2022
4 dead in Siskiyou County McKinney fire; Plus details on the new Senate reconciliation bill
Aug 02, 2022
More COVID and monkeypox questions; Cat Brooks announces her return to KPFA
Aug 01, 2022
UpFront – July 29, 2022
Jul 29, 2022
UpFront – July 28, 2022
Jul 28, 2022
UpFront – July 27, 2022
Jul 27, 2022
UpFront – July 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022
Fund Drive Special: The latest in Ukraine; Monkeypox in SF and covid updates; Plus, Eugene Linden
Jul 25, 2022
UpFront – July 22, 2022
Jul 22, 2022
What comes after Boris Johnson?; Plus a preview of Jan. 6 committee hearing
Jul 21, 2022
Fund Drive Special: Putin’s People; Heat waves and climate change; Plus, Gore Vidal from the archives
Jul 20, 2022
Fund Drive Special: A People’s History of Climate Change; Plus, Bill McKibben speaks
Jul 19, 2022
Biden’s Middle East trip; SF’s new DA fires staff and supports police surveillance; Covid science; Plus, the latest on the war in Ukraine
Jul 18, 2022
Texas Governor orders state police to deport migrants; Plus how you can cut back on plastics this month
Jul 15, 2022
Inflation hits 9% YOY; Plus an equitable public health response to Monkeypox—what will it take?
Jul 14, 2022
Sri Lanka’s uprising; Right wing militias in the Capitol insurrection; Plus, Rojava’s anarchist politics – a graphic novel
Jul 13, 2022
Yosemite aflame; Japan’s former PM assassinated; SF’s new DA; Plus, legacies of slavery and queerness with Son of Baldwin
Jul 12, 2022
Focus on foreign policy; the latest on covid; discussing abortion; Plus Orwell’s Roses with Rebecca Solnit
Jul 11, 2022
Maternal mortality expected to rise following Roe v Wade; Plus M4BL renews campaign to free Mutulu Shakur
Jul 08, 2022
California will not require masks in schools; Parker school occupation continues; Plus Chief Caleen Sisk discusses the 7th annual Run4Salmon
Jul 07, 2022
Americans in the Spanish Civil War with Adam Hochschild; Plus, nature’s sonic marvels with David Haskell
Jul 04, 2022
An abortion clinic braces for impact of out of state patients; Plus the many barriers to abortion besides distance travelled
Jul 01, 2022
On NATO expansion; The Supreme Court’s climate ruling; Plus the Save Mills College Coalition
Jun 30, 2022
New insurrection hearings; SCOTUS rulings; Another death in Santa Rita; Plus, poetry from Diaries of a Terrorist
Jun 29, 2022
Colombia’s election; California’s new budget; And, the Supreme Court on abortion access and gun rights
Jun 28, 2022
Focus on abortion access and the meaning of the SCOTUS decision; Plus, the latest in covid science as well as in foreign politics
Jun 27, 2022
Two-years into abolishing Oakland’s school police; Plus, the magic of Drag Queen Story Hour
Jun 24, 2022
The political history of Pride with Felicia “Flames” Elizondo and Lenn Keller
Jun 23, 2022
Authors discuss the history of climate change and reflection a lifetime of abolitionist scholarship
Jun 22, 2022
Authors discuss past American viral epidemics; Plus the history of real estate and racial segregation
Jun 21, 2022
Juneteenth archival holiday special: Ibram X Kendi and Destin Jenkins
Jun 20, 2022
How Juneteenth became a national holiday; Plus, a conversation with Dr Jonathan Daniel Wells
Jun 17, 2022
The toll on CA firefighters; Our state budget; A look at SCOTUS’ summer of 2022; Plus, Y-Vonne Hutchinson’s How To Talk To Your Boss About Race
Jun 16, 2022
Federal interest rates to change; Exploring Putin’s People with Catherine Belton; Plus, a conversation with Michael Mark Cohen
Jun 15, 2022
LA elections summary; A look at last week’s Summit of the Americas; The start threat to insects; Plus, the latest on Ukraine and covid science
Jun 14, 2022
New report from the CA Reparations Task Force; Plus, Oakland declares racism a public health crisis
Jun 10, 2022
Summit of the Americas; Insurrection hearings; A history of guns in America; Plus, poet Janae Johnson
Jun 09, 2022
Election response and analysis; Yemen’s renewed truce; Plus, a look ahead at the capitol insurrection hearings
Jun 08, 2022
DA elections in SF and Solano counties; CA prisons move people w mental crises; Plus, the propaganda of the ACT UP movement
Jun 07, 2022
CIA funding virtual reality; California’s primary ballot; Understanding borders; Plus, the latest in covid science
Jun 06, 2022
Previewing the insurrection investigation; Plus, SF International Arts Fest presents Michelle Jacques
Jun 03, 2022
Use of police dogs in CA is largely unregulated – despite attacks leaving lasting injuries and trauma
Jun 02, 2022
A second Palestinian journalist killed in less than a month; Indigenous cultures in Louisiana; Plus, the Shame Machine with Cathy O’Neil
Jun 02, 2022
Oakland school closures and community resistance; Plus, the real world of gene editing with Kevin Davies
Jun 01, 2022
Alameda County elections; Oakland rent control limits; Plus, the latest updates on covid as well as Ukraine
May 31, 2022
UpFront – May 30, 2022
May 30, 2022
Fund drive special with Angela Davis
May 27, 2022
Fund drive special with Rob Dunn and Douglas Tallamy
May 26, 2022
Fund drive special featuring documentaries with Noam Chomsky and on capitalism
May 25, 2022
Rob Dunn’s natural history of the future; Plus, fund drive special with David Wengrow
May 24, 2022
Fund drive special with East Bay Yesterday; Plus, in depth on covid and monkeypox coverage
May 23, 2022
UpFront – May 20, 2022
May 20, 2022
Fund drive special: Malcolm X on his birthday; And, Elie Mystal’s Black Guys Guide to the Constitution
May 19, 2022
New Bay Area homeless numbers; Untold labor history; Plus, a People’s Guide to Capitalism
May 18, 2022
Understanding the racist mass shooting in Buffalo; Plus, fund drive special with Angela Davis
May 17, 2022
More countries try for NATO membership; The covid count grows; Plus, fund drive special with V!
May 16, 2022
Fund Drive Special with John Nichols
May 13, 2022
Palestinian-American journalist killed in the West Bank while reporting; Exploring California’s geography; Plus, Angela Davis on the blues
May 12, 2022
Philippines to elect another Marcos as president; Palestinian activism and food with Reem Assil; Plus, fund drive special with Eve Ensler
May 11, 2022
Sri Lanka politicians’ homes burned down as PM resigns; Political upset in SF; Plus, fund drive special with Elie Mystal
May 10, 2022
Exoneration after 32 years of imprisonment; New job numbers level off; Plus, updates from Ukraine and on covid science
May 09, 2022
For APPI Heritage Month: Bruce Lee
May 06, 2022
Corporate profits causing inflation; Sen. Nancy Skinner on Roe v. Wade’s end: “It’s the perfect undermining of democracy”; Plus how California’s cities can adapt to drought
May 05, 2022
Abortion economics; Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women; Plus, keeping cool with Eric Dean Wilson
May 04, 2022
Supreme Court likely to limit abortion access; Oil company to blame in plastics pollution; Oakland rent control; Plus, it’s AAPI Heritage Month
May 03, 2022
All the latest from Ukraine; Covid updates; Plus, exploring our world’s soundtrack
May 02, 2022
Oakland teachers and longshoremen plan May Day protests; Plus the 30 year anniversary of the LA Uprising
Apr 29, 2022
January 6 capitol riot investigations; Public transit mask mandate; Plus Samora Pinderhughes on his YBCA exhibit
Apr 28, 2022
Twitter’s new owner; Climate change in fossils; Oakland police oversight to end; Plus, Black Mothers Love & Resist
Apr 27, 2022
French elections; Ukraine updates; Covid science; Plus, memoir from native California
Apr 25, 2022
Emeryville Mayor Bauters on climate change; Plus pandemic revives Oakland roller skating culture
Apr 22, 2022
Nationalizing the oil industry; Court ruling overturns the public transit mask mandate; Plus Klamath dam slated for removal
Apr 21, 2022
Al Aqsa mosque raided; Stanford nurses to strike; SF special election; Plus, it’s 4/20
Apr 20, 2022
CA lake to go dry; Divestment from fossil fuels in CA’s pensions; New federal oil leases; SF exonerates a 32-year murder conviction; Plus, today’s elections in SF
Apr 19, 2022
Ukraine negotiations; French elections; Covid updates; Plus, the human vs animal divide
Apr 18, 2022
Special Broadcast from the Pacifica Radio Archive: Paul Robeson in 1958
Apr 15, 2022
Inflation hits 8.5% YoY; Investigation reveals America’s highest earners and their taxes; Plus Bandaloop celebrates its 30th anniversary
Apr 14, 2022
Tax season; Pakistan’s new PM; Plus, applied ecology with Rob Dunn
Apr 13, 2022
French elections; police spending from local to national; SF’s redistricting process; Plus, spring gardening
Apr 12, 2022
Focus on California’s climate and drought; Plus, Ukraine and covid updates
Apr 11, 2022
About the California Reparations Taskforce; Plus a discussion of eligibility for reparations
Apr 08, 2022
Post-Ukraine oil politics; CA eviction protections; OUSD budget; Plus, finance capital in higher education
Apr 07, 2022
Pakistan’s government crisis; San Jose police shooting; Plus, a focus on climate change
Apr 06, 2022
Sri Lanka’s uprising; Sacramento schools’ strike victory; And, “A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution”
Apr 05, 2022
New York Amazon workers unionize; California’s drought outlook; Ukraine updates; Plus, covid conversations
Apr 04, 2022
Biden signs Emmett Till anti-lynching bill; Plus the history of Nazism in Ukraine
Apr 01, 2022
The conspicuous disappearance of Trump’s phone records; Plus former diversity recruiter at Google sues company for racial bias
Mar 31, 2022
SF special election; Gray wolves’ receive protections; Gas company profits and new CA tax proposals; Plus, eviction protections
Mar 30, 2022
“It’s the same thing that I have to see again”: Watching the Russian bombardment of Kharkiv
Mar 29, 2022
Boosting the military budget; Exploring sanctions on Russia; Plus, restorative justice with Oakland students
Mar 29, 2022
Covid rescue dollars used for police; Russia and Ukraine plan more talks; Plus, covid science
Mar 28, 2022
Recap of Ketanji Brown Jackon’s Senate confirmation hearing; Plus the importance of cancer screenings
Mar 25, 2022
NATO and G7 leaders meet in Brussels; Lateefah Simon is reinstated to the BART Board; Plus Sacramento teachers, Richmond steelworkers begin strikes
Mar 24, 2022
Prisoners on hunger strike in Merced County; Indigenous medicine; plus, updates on Ukraine and covid science
Mar 21, 2022
Panic at the gas pump; and, the growth of narcissism
Mar 18, 2022
“So Much Tragedy”: One family’s story of fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine
Mar 17, 2022
The power’s out at Chernobyl; Deadly Hong Kong COVID wave; Plus the DOJ prosecutes capitol rioters
Mar 17, 2022
Two years of covid lockdown; ICE detention visitation; and a focus on SFPD
Mar 16, 2022
Gas prices surge; California’s proposed mental health courts; and psychosomatic syndromes
Mar 15, 2022
Ukraine updates; focus on police violence trials around the country; Plus, weekly covid updates
Mar 14, 2022
Fund Drive Special with John Nichols
Mar 11, 2022
Fleeing war, Ukrainians seek refuge; Plus fund drive special with Andrew Knoll and David Wengrow
Mar 10, 2022
Ethnic geographies of Ukraine; Plus – Black Power graphic novels
Mar 09, 2022
Geopolitics and racism at the borders of Ukraine; and Fund Drive Special with Rebecca Solnit
Mar 08, 2022
Analysis and reports from the ground in Ukraine; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; Plus, a new Black Panther Party graphic novel
Mar 07, 2022
Geophysicist in Kyiv on IPCC Report; Plus the risk of nuclear meltdown in Ukraine from the Russian invasion
Mar 04, 2022
The extinction of Russian independent media; Kyiv evacuee flees to Poland; Plus more on the crisis facing public schools
Mar 03, 2022
Breastfeeding in a bomb shelter in Kiev; House Rep Ro Khanna on Ukraine; Plus, fund drive special with Louise Mita
Mar 02, 2022
Front line report from Kyiv; Ukraine war’s effect on oil; Plus, attention and deficits in modern life
Mar 01, 2022
Ukraine Invasion, COVID Updates, and Climate Science; Plus Fund Drive special with Andrew Knoll
Feb 28, 2022
Russo-Ukrainian War Update; Plus Fund Drive Special with Yaba Blay
Feb 25, 2022
U.S. threatens sanctions against Putin’s cronies, but will it stop the bombardment?; Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer; Plus Fund Drive Special with David F. Walker
Feb 24, 2022
The battle against OUSD school closures continues; Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh; Plus Fund Drive Special with David F. Walker
Feb 23, 2022
Russia violates int’l law at Ukraine border; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; Revisiting Malcolm X’s the Ballot or the Bullet
Feb 22, 2022
Why prisons are banning paper mail; Plus Tur Ha Ak on Black Solidarity Week
Feb 18, 2022
Teachers and students on the SF School Board recall; Plus Longshore workers rally with Oakland teachers
Feb 17, 2022
Ukraine border crisis continues; SF Police Commission votes tonight on MOU; Plus community advocates win 100% affordable housing development in the Mission
Feb 16, 2022
Biden’s plan to seize Afghan funds could worsen humanitarian crisis; Asm. Mia Bonta’s legislative proposal to remedy OUSD’s budget problems; Plus Black Solidarity Week kicks off
Feb 15, 2022
Ottawa truckers protest Canada’s vaccine mandate; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; Plus FCMAT, the entity managing OUSD’s fiscal crisis since 2003
Feb 14, 2022
FTP Movement launches campaign to house aging civil rights activists; Plus Dr. Carr on Harriett Tubman
Feb 11, 2022
The politics of the Beijing Olympics and the future of Olympic boycotts; More on SFPD’s MOU with the SF District Attorney; Plus: Texas butterfly sanctuary shut down by far-right extremists
Feb 10, 2022
OUSD approves school closures; Militia members mount successful campaign to recall Shasta County Supervisor; Plus San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis
Feb 09, 2022
French President Macron Meets with Russian President Putin; SFPD will not longer cooperate with District Attorney on use of force investigations; Worker safety concerns and a possible strike at Chevron; Plus the consequences of dismantling San Quentin’s death row
Feb 08, 2022
The latest jobs figures; More COVID science; Amir Locke killed by Minneapolis Police; Plus a movement emerges against OUSD school closures
Feb 07, 2022
Jihadist leader dies in a US special forces raid in Syria; Plus the life and legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune
Feb 04, 2022
San Mateo court sued for imposing de facto tax on late traffic tickets; More on the week of action in Oakland; Plus Ellis Act reform bill dead and buried
Feb 03, 2022
The peace movement and Ukraine; OUSD proposal to shutter schools galvanizes a week of action; Plus new report shows 40,000 vacant units in SF
Feb 02, 2022
Asm. Ash Kalra kills California single payer bill; Healthcare workers condemn decision by legislator; Canadian suicidologist on children’s mental health during COVID pandemic; Plus how to pay attention with Johann Hari
Feb 01, 2022
Rep. Pramila Jayapal aims to revive Build Back Better bill and urges diplomacy over Ukraine; Plus COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg
Jan 31, 2022
New California law that outlaws non-consensual condom removal AKA “stealthing”; Plus CRC’s COVID-related mutual aid campaign
Jan 28, 2022
Xiomara Castro sworn in as president of Honduras; SCOTUS will take up challenge to affirmative action; SCC Supervisor Otto Lee on alleged corruption at Sheriffs; Plus music historians discuss the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Jan 27, 2022
The latest on tensions between Russia and Ukraine; Study estimates $156B racial gap in home appraisals; Berkeley takes up TOPA; Plus groups urge ICE to release Enrique Cristobal Meneses
Jan 26, 2022
PG&E’s emerges from probation for its role in the San Bruno pipeline explosion; Sexual abuse allegations at FCI Dublin; Asm. Alex Lee on Ellis Act reform; “Technology won’t win this fight. It’s organizing.” Brandon Anderson on Raheem’s national campaign to explore 911 alternatives
Jan 25, 2022
A look back at Biden’s first year in office; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; Jury selection begins in federal trial against George Floyd’s three other captors; Plus AG Bonta investigates alleged corruption at Santa Clara County Sheriffs
Jan 24, 2022
UpFront – January 21, 2022
Jan 21, 2022
Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption’s impact on Bay Area Tonga community; COVID outbreak at San Quentin; More on the February 15th special election; Plus the family of Angel Ramos to commemorate the 5 year anniversary of his death with a community give back
Jan 20, 2022
Volcanologist on the Hunga Tonga eruption; Over 100 prisoners object to proposed settlement in Babu v. Alameda County; Jane Kim is newly-hired as Executive Director of the California Working Families Party; Plus Oakland’s progressive tax to fund city services
Jan 19, 2022
Senate at an impasse over filibuster; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; LAPD collaterally kills 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta days before Christmas; Plus the racism of Chicago’s automated traffic enforcement
Jan 18, 2022
UpFront – January 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022
UpFront – January 14, 2022
Jan 14, 2022
More on inflation; Across the country, students walkout; COVID Update on Santa Rita Jails; Plus direct actions taking place on MLK Day
Jan 13, 2022
Are critical voting rights bills in the Senate finally seeing support from the Biden Admin?; Omicron’s impact on airlines; The state politics of remote learning; Plus are far-right candidates shifting power in rural districts?
Jan 12, 2022
The Ukraine border crisis; Newsom’s budget proposal; Asm. Ash Kalra on the single payer CalCare Bill; Omicron ravaging San Francisco’s homeless in congregate shelters; Plus Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses
Jan 11, 2022
Supreme Court hears Biden’s vaccine mandate; More COVID science & questions; Mother seeks justice for son beaten to death in LA jail; Plus Oakland teachers and students organize for COVID safety
Jan 10, 2022
Notorious Yuba County Jail once again being used to detain immigrants; SF teachers stage sickout; Records show: Richmond Police dogs bite people in high numbers
Jan 07, 2022
Where’s the FBI’s investigation on the Capitol 6 riots?; BLM protestors sue the City of Sacramento for police violence; Oakland’s redistricting; Plus Fredricka Newton on Huey P. Newton and the legacy of the Black Panther Party
Jan 06, 2022
School districts in chaos due to COVID surge fueled by Omicron; New York’s transit system faces slowdowns due to worker shortage; Immunocompromised folks seek 4th and 5th booster shots; Plus Mailk Al Nasir on Gil Scott-Heron
Jan 05, 2022
Congress reconvenes; More COVID questions; Plus Edward Slingerland on his latest book about alcohol and civilization
Jan 04, 2022
Zach Carter on John Maynard Keynes; Brian Fagan on how pre-historic humanity navigated climate change
Jan 03, 2022
UpFront – December 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2021
Whose Point Reyes?: A Battle For the Future of Public Lands
Dec 30, 2021
Alec MacGillis on Amazon and Inequality PLUS: the politics of land use at Point Reyes
Dec 30, 2021
Claire Potter on Political Junkies; Savala Nolan on Body Politics
Dec 29, 2021
How racism got built into our cities
Dec 28, 2021
Omicron: the view from the hospitals; Plus: Sam Quinones on fentanyl and meth and hope
Dec 27, 2021
UpFront – December 24, 2021
Dec 24, 2021
Jaime Lowe on the women who fight fires while incarcerated; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the idea of being a nation of immigrants
Dec 23, 2021
What about deflation?; SF Mayor cracks down on the Tenderloin; What happened to the defund movement?; Plus the surprising rebound of monarch butterflies
Dec 22, 2021
Gabriel Boric elected President of Chile; Debate on net metering for rooftop solar; Investigative report on the Vacaville PR firm who contracts with police; Plus PPIC reports on use of force and traffic stops
Dec 21, 2021
Voting rights bills face more of the same opposition in Congress; More on the Omicron growth curve; Oakland considers lateral hires for police; Plus Jenn Johns on her concert tomorrow night
Dec 20, 2021
Fund Drive Special with Chris Hedges
Dec 17, 2021
Fund Drive Special: Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses; Rest in power, bell hooks
Dec 16, 2021
Fund Drive Special with Malik Al Nasir and Bryant Terry
Dec 15, 2021
Fund Drive Special with Betty Reid Soskin and David Wengrow
Dec 14, 2021
More on Rising Inflation; COVID Science Questions; Plus Fund Drive Special with Fredrika Newton
Dec 13, 2021
Fund Drive Special with Mitch Jeserich on the History of Democracy
Dec 10, 2021
Fund Drive Special with Bryant Terry on Black Food and Mark Bittman on Animal, Vegetable, Junk + Bittman Bread
Dec 09, 2021
Oakland approves additional funds for OPD; Plus Fund Drive Special with David Wengrow and Damon B. Akins
Dec 08, 2021
Kshama Sawant recall vote tallies today; Nikki Giovanni, Mitch Jeserich from our new Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection
Dec 07, 2021
Critical Bills Seeking Passage in Congress; More on the Omicron variant; Stacey Abrams runs for governor of GA; Plus details of a new report on police killing of Sean Monterrosa
Dec 06, 2021
SF ramps down shelter in place hotels for homeless with grave consequences; Plus a stunning multimedia exhibit at the Asian Art Museum
Dec 03, 2021
SCOTUS hears a Mississippi case challenging Roe v. Wade; Kelp forests rebound; Oakland Mayor proposes a boost to police funding; A conference for families who lost loved ones to violence; Plus archival tape of Stephen Sondheim
Dec 02, 2021
NOAA forecasts California drought will persist past winter; SF Supes set aside money for affordable housing; Family of Agustin Gonsalez demands AG Bonta charge the officers who killed him in 2018; Plus it’s World AIDS Day
Dec 01, 2021
Protestors Decry Standstill at WTO for Global COVID Vaccine Access; Honduran Presidential Election Recap; Trial begins against former MN police officer who killed Daunte Wright; Oakland’s MACRO Program Manager; Smash and Grabs Hit Cannabis Biz; Plus SF Supes to Vote on $46M for Affordable Housing
Nov 30, 2021
A preview of upcoming SCOTUS cases with Mark Joseph Stern; Fears surround new ‘Omicron’ COVID variant; Plus the Producers on ‘Who Killed Malcom X?’ Docuseries
Nov 29, 2021
UpFront – November 26, 2021
Nov 26, 2021
UpFront – November 25, 2021
Nov 25, 2021
How to stay safe from COVID during Thanksgiving; The troubled history of Thanksgiving; Plus how Amazon handles your data
Nov 24, 2021
A recap of closing arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery case; Immigration provisions in the Build Back Better bill; David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything
Nov 23, 2021
Build Back Better heads to Senate; COVID questions answered; Wisconsin jury finds Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges; Narendra Modi repeals farm bills after year-long farmers protest
Nov 22, 2021
Howard University students end month long protest; Bryant Terry on veganism and Thanksgiving
Nov 19, 2021
Latest Developments in Myanmar; Astroworld Festival Disaster; Deaths in a Santa Rita Heath Crisis Unit; Dean Baker on Inflation; Sarah Stillman on the Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters
Nov 18, 2021
U.S. Military Coverup in Syria; Rep. Jackie Speier is Retiring; UC Non-tenured Faculty Avert Strike; Haitian Democracy After President Moïse’s Assassination
Nov 17, 2021
Ongoing White Supremacist Trials; Carmen Maria Machado on “In the Dream House”; IATSE Contract & Alec Baldwin Shooting
Nov 16, 2021
COP 26 Wrap Up; COVID questions answered; Oakland’s #SaveHeadStart campaign; Plus Georgia organizers discuss the Ahmaud Arbery trial
Nov 15, 2021
Maya King breaks down mayoral races; Plus preview of the 19th annual 3rd i film festival
Nov 12, 2021
SCOTUS hears state secrets case; Famine in afghanistan; Plus the people steamrolled by California’s high speed rail
Nov 11, 2021
“My dreams were ripped apart by ICE”: Caught in the “double punishment” of ICE transfers
Nov 10, 2021
California’s slice of the Build Back Better pie; The story of a man released from prison only to face deportation; Can California accelerate the timeline for climate action?; Plus Mark Bittman on his latest book Animal, Vegetable, Junk
Nov 10, 2021
Analyst on black voter turnout in Virginia and New Jersey elections; COVID questions answered; More on the Jonathan Cortez shooting; Plus SF District Attorney on the charges levied against the SFPD Officer who fatally shot Sean Moore in 2017
Nov 08, 2021
Congress to vote on social spending bill; Dr. Yaba Blay on her latest book One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
Nov 05, 2021
SCOTUS hears challenge to 100-year-old NY gun law; Drawing patterns on GOP strategy from VA governor’s race; Plus former Oakland homeowners-turned homeless
Nov 04, 2021
John Deere strikers vote down new contract; Twin Cities approve rent control but won’t abolish police; SFPD draining city coffers with civil rights violations; Facebook Papers on India; Methane commitments made at COP 26
Nov 03, 2021
Is Biden Walking into Climate Talks Empty-handed?; A lawyer unpacks the SCOTUS hearings on the Texas abortion ban; Plus Fredrika Newton on the legacy of Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party
Nov 02, 2021
What happened to Build Back Better?; More COVID questions answered; Plus the former Danville police deputy who killed Laudemer Arboleda is convicted
Nov 01, 2021
A sociologist discusses the so-called “Great Resignation” and Oakland’s Unity Council hosts Dia de los Muertos
Oct 29, 2021
The provenance of Haitian gangs; John Deere strike update: includes one vehicular death on the picket line; How unhoused folks have fared in the rain; And the last days of a FEMA trailer park set up for survivors of the Paradise Fire
Oct 27, 2021
Voting rights continually curtailed by GOP Senators and judges with Republican fealty; Kyrsten Sinema’s political transformation; Plus the female inmates that respond to California’s wildfires
Oct 26, 2021
What’s left to fight for in the Build Back Better Bill; More COVID questions answered; Plus Staten Island Amazon workers attempt to unionize
Oct 25, 2021
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the San Francisco Int’l Arts Festival kicks off despite inclement weather
Oct 22, 2021
Youth climate activists go on hunger strike over federal inaction on climate; Ioan Grillo on Blood Gun Money; Plus Reflections on the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire
Oct 21, 2021
Experts on needed policy solutions for domestic violence; A Florida anti-fascist organizer is sentenced unfairly; Plus Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval
Oct 20, 2021
More on Trumpworld links to January 6th; Where street violence meets state violence with Rev. Ben McBride; SF gears up for school board recall; Plus we get the scoop on an inter-departmental police scandal
Oct 19, 2021
Biden’s failing Build Back Better-than-nothing bill; More COVID questions answered; Minneapolis to vote on police defunding in city charter amendment; More on the passage of the CRISES Act; Plus IATSE strike averted
Oct 18, 2021
UpFront – October 15, 2021
Oct 15, 2021
Afghan economy collapsing; Workers at John Deere, film set workers on strike; Corruption at the EPA Chemicals division; Plus black immigrants detail abuses in complaint against their captors
Oct 14, 2021
Inflation, jobs, and supply chain woes with economist Dean Baker; Where is the defund movement now?; Plus another look at the racial discrimination of the real estate industry
Oct 13, 2021
Social spending bill is watered down further; COVID science questions; Is there really an unprecedented increase in racial justice funding?; Plus advocates take aim at aging oil infrastructure in response to pipeline leak
Oct 12, 2021
UpFront – October 11, 2021
Oct 11, 2021
UpFront – October 8, 2021
Oct 08, 2021
Fund Drive Special – Brian Fagan on ancient civilizations in climate crisis; Plus Gary Kamiya with more tales of San Francisco
Oct 07, 2021
Fund Drive Special – Damon Akins on indigenous California history; Plus Bryant Terry on publishing Black Food
Oct 06, 2021
Fund Drive Special – Douglas Tallamy and Brian Fagan
Oct 05, 2021
Mondays with Mitch; COVID questions with Swartzberg; Plus A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
Oct 04, 2021
UpFront – October 1, 2021
Oct 01, 2021
Fund Drive Special – Savala Nolan and Betty Reid Soskin
Sep 30, 2021
Fund Drive Special – Gary Kamiya and Douglas Tallamy
Sep 29, 2021
Fund Drive Special – Betty Reid Soskin and Poet Warriors
Sep 28, 2021
Erin McElroy on Counterpoints; PLUS Mitch Jeserich on Congress, and Dr. John Swartzberg on COVID
Sep 27, 2021
Honoring Bay Area Poets Jack Hirschman and Janice Mirikitani; KPFA’s Avotcja at the Black Women’s Blues Festival
Sep 24, 2021
Biden Promises 500 Million Vaccines for Countries in Need – Will it be Enough?; Archival Interview with Janice Mirikitani; Plus authors of “Inflamed”
Sep 23, 2021
Tree stewards say saving giant sequoias will require luck and lots of fuel reduction; Jack Hirschman at SF Civic Center Library; Plus indigenous historian Damon Akins discusses his latest book We are the Land
Sep 22, 2021
Mass expulsion of Haitian refugees from Texas; Avotcja spits poetry at the Black Women’s Blues Festival; Plus Gary Kamiya on the Spirits of San Francisco
Sep 21, 2021
Left Behind: Overdose, homelessness and survival during Covid-19
Sep 20, 2021
Senate parliamentarian rules out immigration policy in reconciliation bill; Dr. Swartzbert takes COVID-19 Calls; More on the FBI Shooting in East Oakland; Plus Asm. David Chiu on Evictions & Rental Assistance
Sep 20, 2021
Amy Littlefield on How Restrictive Abortion Laws in Texas Are Pushing Some to Cross the Border; David Zirin on the “Kaepernick Effect” in the NFL
Sep 17, 2021
N. and S. Korea’s dueling missile tests; Capitol Hill gears up for another far-right rally; California braces for tidal wave of evictions; Plus Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. on being scapegoated for uprisings at Cook County Jail
Sep 16, 2021
What’s Next in California After Recall?; Special Report on Rise of Opioid Overdoses in Alameda County; Deadly FBI Shooting in East Oakland
Sep 15, 2021
California recall election day; A look at the HBO Documentary on Qanon; the 9/11 Wars and the contractors who profited; Plus Kenneth Chamberlain Jr. on the new film The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Sep 14, 2021
Fallout from Biden’s Vaccine Mandates; CHP Responds Violently to Caltrans Encampment Sweep; Plus Legislating Criminal Justice Reform
Sep 13, 2021
Looking Back on the Impact of 9/11 and the Rise of Islamophobia & Marking the Ethiopian New Year
Sep 10, 2021
“Uneven recovery” spells disaster for unemployed Americans; The downfall of Oakland’s Ceasefire program; Unhoused artists use their art as protest; Plus the risky human interventions to counter climate crisis
Sep 09, 2021
Taliban installs Afghan interim government; Oakland tenants win landlord concessions after 13 months of rent strike; Plus OnlyFans and the conservatives who tried to shut it down
Sep 08, 2021
Federal unemployment expires; Could COVID variants outpace science?; Plus a report on the sea creatures laying waste to California’s kelp forests
Sep 07, 2021
Cat Brooks Speaks with Mamyrah Prosper about Haiti; Paul Farmer on Lessons from Failures to Contain Ebola
Sep 06, 2021
Speaking with Authors Raymond Arsenault and Alice Walker
Sep 03, 2021
Impact of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana; Author Carmen Maria Machado; Legacy of Baba Zumbi of Zion I
Sep 02, 2021
Should OPD be released from federal oversight?; Plus Claire Bond Potter discusses her book Political Junkies
Sep 01, 2021
Afghanistan: The US’ longest-running war has come to an end; Plus, 50th anniversary of George Jackson assassination
Aug 31, 2021
SF DA Chesa Boudin reacts to his father winning clemency; Dr. John Swartzberg talks Covid booster shot science
Aug 30, 2021
What’s in the New Native American Voting Rights Act? We speak with OJ Semans; Plus, Larry Hildes discusses Leonard Peltier as part of Black August Commemoration
Aug 27, 2021
The Afghanistan Papers, PLUS: The consultantification of the pandemic
Aug 26, 2021
Settling Afghan refugees; smoke + COVID; PLUS: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Aug 25, 2021
Who is Larry Elder? Plus: A History of Native California
Aug 24, 2021
SF DA Chesa Boudin on Going After Ghost Guns; COVID-19 Call-ins; Shot Spotter Surveillance; Fight Over Point Reyes Seashore
Aug 23, 2021
Census Data and Redistricting; Black August and Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Aug 20, 2021
Afghanistan Pullout Continues; California’s Changing Demographics, Schools Re-Opening; Black Women’s Blues Festival
Aug 19, 2021
Rafia Zakaria on Afghanistan; COVID Concerns at Oakland Schools; Updates on Haiti; Plus Oakland Celebrates Shock G Day
Aug 18, 2021
Evacuation Continues in Afghanistan; Low Rates of Vaccination Among Cops; Analysts Oppose Oakland Mayor’s Call for More Traffic Stops
Aug 17, 2021
Afghanistan Capital overtaken by Taliban forces; Oakland Mayor collaborates with Governor to bring state law enforcement into city; Plus physicians stand up with indigenous leaders against the Line 3 Pipeline
Aug 16, 2021
Mutual Aid Fund for Veteran Members of the Black Panthers Launched; A History of the Friday the 13th
Aug 13, 2021
Methane emissions reduction critical to curbing world warming; San Jose children near the airport face lead poisoning
Aug 12, 2021
Cuomo Steps Down; Kids, Schools and COVID-19; Deep Dive on Haiti
Aug 11, 2021
Infrastructure Bill; Forest Fire Management; Violent Police Crackdown on Line 3 Protest; History of Anti-Vax Sentiment; Taliban Advances
Aug 10, 2021
Eviction Moratorium and Infrastructure Bill, COVID Case Rate Hits 100K Per Day; Aviva Chomsky on Cuba
Aug 09, 2021
Oakland Schools Prepare to Re-Open; Black August and the Legacy of George Jackson
Aug 06, 2021
Iraq AUMF repeal gains momentum; Vaccine passports, will they work?; Mass tree die off in East Bay parks; Plus where is that rent relief money?
Aug 05, 2021
Biden Renews Expelling of Migrants at Border; Spike in Delta Variant; PG&E May Have Caused Dixie Fire; Black Arts Movement Fest Kicks Off
Aug 04, 2021
Special Election in Ohio; Deep Dive on CRT; Can We Re-Imagine Capitalism?
Aug 03, 2021
Eviction Moratorium Expires without Vote from Congress; Delta Variant Roars Through US; Is Crime Really Up?; Oakland Cops call for ‘Tough on Crime’ Policies
Aug 02, 2021
UpFront – July 30, 2021
Jul 30, 2021
Fund Drive Special: USGS geophysicist on what the past says about the next big earthquake; Rupa Marya and Raj Patel discuss new book “Inflamed”
Jul 29, 2021
UpFront – July 28, 2021
Jul 28, 2021
Why are Cubans protesting, and how Cuba should treat own political dissidents; Plus a deep dive on water, money, and power in the Golden State
Jul 27, 2021
Dr. John Swartzberg talks Covid breakthrough infections; plus, fund drive special with Blake Spalding on “This Immeasurable Place”
Jul 26, 2021
Fund Drive Special – A journey through the People’s History of the Bay Area with Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr
Jul 23, 2021
Fund Drive Special: Lessons from ancient cities with Annalee Newitz; Plus another take on ancient societies and how alcohol may have made them possible with Edward Slingerland
Jul 22, 2021
How Prepared is California for Wildfire Season?; An archival Carlos Santana Interview; Plus Fund Drive Special Redux: Obi Kaufmann on Forests in Age of Climate Change
Jul 21, 2021
Fund Drive Special – Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel; Plus Haiti has a new prime minister, but does it matter?
Jul 20, 2021
Infrastructure Bill Faces Challenges; Latest COVID-19 News; Flooding in Europe and Its Link to Climate Change; Upcoming Ballpark Vote
Jul 19, 2021
Enbridge Line 3 ramps up surveillance tactics against water defenders; Kanahus Manuel on her father’s experience at Kamloops Residential School
Jul 16, 2021
A Look at the Massive ‘Human Infrastructure’ Package; Rent Relief and Debt in California; Psychedelics and Smoking; California to Pay Reparations for Forced Sterilizations in Prisons
Jul 15, 2021
Protests rock South Africa; More details emerge in killing of Haiti’s Moïse; Damning new housing report says workers need multiple jobs to afford Bay Area housing
Jul 14, 2021
Who’s funding the Chesa Boudin recall effort? Republicans, real estate and tech cash. Plus, why we need real decriminalization of psychoactive plants and fungi
Jul 13, 2021
GOP weaponizes critical race theory in a bid to gin up voters in Northern Virginia; State Sen. Kamlager discusses two police accountability bills waiting to be signed into law; Plus how Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly medical journal
Jul 12, 2021
UpFront – July 9, 2021
Jul 09, 2021
Haiti launched into martial law after President Jovenel Moise is assassinated; SFMUNI service slow to return; Meteorologist discusses deadly heat + drought; Plus the risks posed by human interventions to mitigate crisis
Jul 08, 2021
Oakland’s small businesses navigate recovery; Workers tackle racism in the hospitality industry; Celebration caravan planned for Saturday to mark Oakland budget organizing victory
Jul 07, 2021
Supreme Court deals blow to voting rights; Plus: How the “Citizen” app encourages racist vigilantism
Jul 06, 2021
UpFront – July 5, 2021
Jul 05, 2021
Redux: The danger of conspiracy theories; Plus Benjamin Dixon on his book God is Not a Republican and the Evangelical blurring of church and state
Jul 02, 2021
Special on Violence in Oakland: Nikki Jones on Black public health; faith leaders on violence prevention; Councilmember Fife debunks myths about the police budget; Plus — disinvestment and consequences with the legendary Mistah F.A.B.
Jul 01, 2021
AROC calls for a week of actions in defense of Palestine; Sherman Bell ends his solo hunger strike at SATF State Prison; Plus San Jose Unified School District votes to end its contract with police
Jun 30, 2021
How Newsom’s budget will impact tenants; New study shows racial housing discrimination increased nationwide
Jun 29, 2021
Abolitionists respond to Derek Chauvin’s sentencing; Oakland’s city council votes to rethink police budget; John Nichols talks Biden’s infrastructure plan
Jun 28, 2021
What to expect during Derek Chauvin’s sentencing; Plus, Socorro “Cori” Moreland on the Black trans-masculine experience
Jun 25, 2021
Felicia “Flames” Elizondo, !Presente! Remembering the life of a beloved SF trans activist. Plus, Julián Delgado Lopera on the award-winning queer novel Fiebre Tropical
Jun 24, 2021
A closer look at President Daniel Ortega’s rightward shift in Nicaragua; Why Zionism is incompatible with queer liberation; Plus, Amy Sueyoshi on “Discriminating Sex”
Jun 23, 2021
It’s pride month! We learn about Oakland Black Pride from its Executive Director, as well as SF Pride from its Board President; Jared Aldern talks about fighting fire with fire – managing forests with indigenous cultural burning practices; we discuss the recent military coup in Mali with Marcel Kitissou; Plus we celebrate Octavia Butler’s birthday with Moya Bailey and Isis Asare
Jun 22, 2021
Conservative Democrat Joe Manchin proposes changes to landmark voting rights legislation; Cal/OSHA revises COVID guidelines to match the rest of the state; a new photo exhibit takes us back to the days of early HIV/AIDS activism; Plus, two union drives across the UC system and at a chocolate factory in San Francisco
Jun 21, 2021
“We are reclaiming our time,” says Dr. Gregory Carr of Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.
Jun 18, 2021
A pink wave in Peru? Too soon to say says Javier Puente; State Senator Nancy Skinner lays out priorities in California’s biennial budget; the Black Liberation Walking Tour launches this weekend; Plus legal experts chime in on SCOTUS decisions
Jun 17, 2021
Tensions Roil In Palestine Ahead of Nationalist March; Israel Launches New Airstrikes; Bay Area Braces for Summer Heatwave, Drought, and Power Shutoffs; Kate Aronoff Discusses Her New Book, Overheated
Jun 16, 2021
China is furious at the US because of Biden-led effort to single it out as a threat to world order; Daniela Urban answers unemployment questions; Nikki Fortunato Bas talks about her proposed Oakland budget; and reporter Alec MacGillis uses Amazon as a vehicle to explain uneven wealth distribution
Jun 15, 2021
Biden campaign staffers sign onto mass letter for Palestine; Novavax says its vaccine is 90% effective; Plus: Examining the ADL’s claims of anti-Semitism
Jun 14, 2021
Republicans seek to pass legislation to suppress critical race theory pedagogy; the President of the Oakland A’s says short of a new waterfront ballpark, the team could move to Las Vegas
Jun 11, 2021
Veena Dubal and Dara Kerr on the poor conditions gig workers are facing post-Prop 22 — plus, Char Adams discusses police violence against Black children
Jun 10, 2021
Elites vote with resentment in Mexico’s midterm elections; Democrats displace border crisis onto Central America; investigative report by ProPublica explains how the wealthy evade taxes; Plus an interview with new Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi
Jun 09, 2021
At Treaty People Gathering, indigenous activists stand against Enbridge Line 3 pipeline; Plus, Supreme Court politics and the fight over a lithium mine on tribal land
Jun 08, 2021
A centrist Democrat strains majority on critical voting rights legislation; more COVID-19 science questions answered; Plus activists respond to SJPD police killing of Demetrius Stanley
Jun 07, 2021
Revisiting the Federal Highway Act of 1956 with Professor Ed Blakely; Plus, Oakland A’s face opposition to building a waterfront baseball stadium at Howard Terminal
Jun 04, 2021
Ian Millhiser on ‘The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America’; Plus, honoring the lives of Erik Salgado and Angel Ramos; and a conversation about mental health, racism, and policing
Jun 03, 2021
Landmark air quality rule could severely curtail East Bay refinery pollution; Plus, Black Women Wail gathers for healing in Oakland
Jun 02, 2021
John Nichols on the Biden administration’s approach to legislating; Plus: Open Vallejo’s coverage of Vallejo Police; and Naomi Oreskes discusses her book ‘Science on a Mission’
Jun 01, 2021
UpFront – May 31, 2021
May 31, 2021
Fund Drive Special: Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
May 28, 2021
Fund Drive Special: Artist and naturalist Obi Kaufmann on water and forests in California; plus, East Bay Yesterday’s Oakland Hills Fire Special on the 30th anniversary of the firestorm
May 27, 2021
Fund Drive Special: Blake Spalding speaks about pandemic impacts from one of the reddest patches of red state America; plus ‘A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area’
May 26, 2021
A ceasefire has ended the Israeli bombardment — but where does this leave Gaza? Plus: CA Attorney General Rob Bonta says his campaign will reject contributions from law enforcement; and Oakland artists discuss the movement for a just and fair city budget
May 25, 2021
Marking the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder: a conversation with local and Minnesota activists; Plus: Mitch Jeserich on opposition to the January 6 commission
May 24, 2021
Celebrating Malcolm X’s birthday with excerpts from his 1964 speech The Ballot or the Bullet
May 21, 2021
Bernie Sanders introduces resolution to block weapons sale to Israel; Oakland organizers blockade Israeli ship; plus Blake Spalding speaks about pandemic impacts from one of the reddest patches of red state America
May 20, 2021
Israeli bombardment of Gaza weakens healthcare and continues to kill hundreds; Plus: honoring Malcolm X on his birthday
May 19, 2021
Why is there so little opposition to war in Israel? Plus: Fund Drive Special with Angela Davis; and OPD’s failure to investigate the murder of Waajid Bey
May 18, 2021
How policing impoverishes communities and strengthens U.S. ties to Israeli occupation: Fund drive special with Alex Vitale
May 17, 2021
Fund Drive Special: Davey D and Jeff Chang on “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip Hop History”
May 14, 2021
What can be done in Gaza: advocacy efforts in Washington DC and local organizing to support Palestinian rights; Plus a Fund Drive Special: The State of Water, illustrated by Obi Kaufmann
May 13, 2021
Israel escalates bombing in Gaza, killing 35 Palestinians including 10 children; Plus: Angela Davis in her own words
May 12, 2021
Rapid escalation of Israeli violence in Jerusalem has killed at least 27 Palestinians, how we got here and US involvement; Plus a Fund Drive Special: ‘It was like a carnival’ the Betrayal of the 1946 Oakland General Strike
May 11, 2021
For California tenants in debt, rent relief program has great promise — and major limitations
May 10, 2021
New CDC guidelines on aerosol COVID transmission risks indoors, what it means for reopening, and more; Plus: Victoria Law on her new book ‘Prisons Make Us Safer: and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration’
May 10, 2021
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, we discuss self-care, fighting stigma and more; Plus: Why are Republicans attacking the 1619 Project?
May 07, 2021
Over 7 million tenants in jeopardy as judge strikes down national eviction moratorium, what’s next?; Plus: Oakland in limbo as Mayor delays budget release; Kaiser layoffs, amid mental healthcare system crisis; and the Black Mama’s Bailout campaign
May 06, 2021
Will Facebook ban Trump? For now, long term decision still pending; Plus: Inside the fight against CCSF budget cuts; on the ground with protesters outside Oakland Mayor Schaaf’s home; and Bruce’s Beach: a Black family’s fight to reclaim land grabbed in 1920s
May 05, 2021
Why the US should stop hoarding vaccines; Plus: The history of racism and racist policing in Alameda, CA with journalist and historian Rashid Shabbaz; and over 500 anti-abortion measures have passed this year, advocates urge action to combat them
May 04, 2021
Biden’s first 100 days more progressive than expected, but advocates urge him to be bolder; Plus: Behind the COVID crisis in India; and today Oakland City Council to consider Reimagining Public Safety Task Force recommendations to reinvest in community safety
May 03, 2021
Biden’s plan for free community college; How local organizers are working to combat Georgia voter suppression; Plus: May Day march planned in San Francisco
Apr 30, 2021
Biden’s 100 day speech; Plus: Oakland’s scathing homelessness audit spotlights lack of process, long term plan; and we examine the A’s Howard Terminal proposal in West Oakland
Apr 29, 2021
California loses first House seat: the Census numbers and what it means for politics; Plus: Behind the investigation exposing Windsor Mayor’s history of sexual assault; and San Francisco’s earthquake retrofit scandal
Apr 28, 2021
Governor Newsom orders ban on fracking by 2024; Plus: Albert Woodfox with Cat Brooks on his decades in solitary confinement in Angola; and a new project with the ‘Abolition Apostles’ to support those incarcerated there
Apr 27, 2021
Inside the Democrat vs Republican infrastructure plans; Plus: I. Can’t. Breathe: the conviction of Derek Chauvin and murder of Daunte Wright; and new DOJ report condemns Alameda County’s Santa Rita jail conditions
Apr 26, 2021
House approves bill for Washington DC statehood, the 51st state with full Congressional representation; Plus: Political commentator Benjamin Dixon on his book ‘God is not a Republican’
Apr 23, 2021
Family of Mario Gonzalez, killed in Alameda police custody, demands justice; Plus: On this Earth Day, we discuss gardening, herbalism, and connecting with nature during the pandemic
Apr 22, 2021
I. Can’t. Breathe: the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict and the future of US policing; Plus: Wendy Liu on her book ‘Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism’
Apr 21, 2021
Florida signs anti-riot legislation into law, amid nationwide push to crack down on protest; Plus: The 420 Holiday; and waiting on the verdict for the murder of George Floyd
Apr 20, 2021
Johnson & Johnson vaccine paused, experts wait to see if there are more adverse reactions; Plus: CA declares drought disaster, preparations and lessons learned from the last drought
Apr 19, 2021
Kennis Henry of National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations on HR-40, Samsarah Morgan on Black Maternal Health Week
Apr 16, 2021
Celebrating 72 years of KPFA on-air: Where we are now with the war in Afghanistan; Plus: Remembering Reese Erlich, and the history of KPFA with Matthew Lasar
Apr 15, 2021
Where do migrant children go, after they arrive at the border? Plus: New investigation reveals Facebook has allowed world leaders to deceive the public; and an extended author interview with Dr Paul Farmer
Apr 14, 2021
Navigating CA’s unemployment system: we take your calls with Daniela Urban with the Center for Workers’ Rights; Plus: The Police Killing of Daunte Wright: what’s known so far, and processing the trauma with Rosa Clemente
Apr 13, 2021
Remembering journalist and KPFA ally Reese Erlich; Plus: I. Can’t. Breathe: the trial of Derek Chauvin and protests erupt over the police killing of another young black man, Daunte Wright
Apr 12, 2021
UpFront – April 9, 2021
Apr 09, 2021
UpFront – April 8, 2021
Apr 08, 2021
How the detention and deportation machine is working under Biden; Plus: Tyrell Wilson, 32, was shot and killed by Danville Police on March 11, bystanders and advocates say it was unprovoked and looked like murder
Apr 07, 2021
Judge orders Oakland Police Department release more police records, is this a new era of accountability? Darwin Bond Graham weighs in; Plus: I. Can’t. Breathe: the trial of Derek Chauvin – youth witness testimony, police conduct, and more
Apr 06, 2021
Stephen Macekura on why GDP growth is a “Mismeasure of Progress”; plus, your Covid call-in questions answered
Apr 05, 2021
What the PRO Act would mean for labor organizing and workers’ rights; Plus: Radio B’alam is bringing Mam language and culture to the airwaves; and mutual aid spotlight: CALMA
Apr 02, 2021
What’s in Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, and the pathway to passage; Plus: More on California doing away with cash bail for those who can’t afford it; and actor and playwright Margo Hall
Apr 01, 2021
On this Trans Day of Visibility, the fight to defeat dangerous anti-trans legislation sweeping GOP majority states; Plus: New records reveal more on OPD officer who murdered Alan Blueford; and Fresno residents fight pollution and Amazon warehouse
Mar 31, 2021
CA Supreme Court issues historic ruling its unconstitutional to detain people who cannot afford bail; Plus: How will Oakland spend its federal stimulus funding? And, author Johann Hari on the roots of the US War on Drugs
Mar 30, 2021
I. Can’t. Breathe: Opening arguments begin in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin; Plus: A new NBC Bay Area documentary ‘The Moms of Magnolia Street’ chronicles the story of a group of Oakland moms who formed Moms 4 Housing
Mar 29, 2021
Are CA oil companies complying with the law? New investigation shows regulators don’t know, and frontline communities are at risk; Plus: Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota is threatening lands, waters, and communities: sexual assaults and harassment are on the rise
Mar 26, 2021
What policies actually reduce gun violence? Plus: Rob Bonta appointed as California’s new Attorney General; and Mills College announces end to degree programs, we host a round table on the impacts and hear from students, alums and listeners
Mar 25, 2021
Israel holds fourth election in two years; Plus: We examine the COVID pandemic impacts on Black communities, complexities and solutions; and PG&E found liable for Zogg Fire, what it means for the utility and wildfire season
Mar 24, 2021
Supreme Court hears case that could undermine CA’s landmark law and farmworkers’ organizing power; Plus: Oakland to reopen schools starting March 30, we hear from the teachers union plus an update on the reparations campaign for Black students
Mar 23, 2021
New data on the Pfizer vaccine shows asymptomatic transmission risk cut by 94%; Plus: How does sex trafficking continue to be so pervasive in Oakland? The film ‘Still I Rise’ examines racism and the roots of sexual exploitation
Mar 22, 2021
On the 18th anniversary of 2003 US invasion of Iraq, what we’ve learned about racism and neoliberalism; Plus: “One crisis after another” Santa Cruz County farmworkers facing poor crops, low wages, COVID risks and hunger
Mar 19, 2021
The mass shooting in Atlanta and combatting white supremacist violence; Plus: Oakland moves a step closer to public safety reforms and defunding OPD
Mar 18, 2021
One year COVID-19 pandemic anniversary: where we were, where we are, and lessons learned (or not), with journalists, mutual aid groups, and listener calls
Mar 17, 2021
‘Killing spree’ crackdown on protesters in Myanmar, violence and repression escalates; Plus: Cuomo and cultures of abuse: we discuss power, rape culture and building systems of accountability; and Oakland poised to vote on new police-free mental health response program
Mar 16, 2021
The Senate filibuster, explained; Plus: New ‘I Can’t. Breathe.’ series: the trial of Derek Chauvin and jury selection; and the second anniversary of the Christchurch massacre and combatting white supremacy
Mar 15, 2021
Protesters brutalized by San Jose police during racial justice demonstrations file lawsuit; Plus: Food Not Bombs Santa Cruz is battling the city to keep distributing food and water
Mar 12, 2021
China signs new ‘patriots only’ legislation tightening rule of Hong Kong, and the protest movement continues; Plus: The American Rescue Plan, explained; and ‘Artist as First Responder’ with Ashara Ekundayo
Mar 11, 2021
Governor Newsom’s third State of the State address paints a rosy picture of recovery, but many challenges ahead; Plus: The history of police violence in Antioch, and the growing movement for justice
Mar 10, 2021
I. Can’t. Breathe: The trial of Derek Chauvin, new UpFront series launches today; Plus: How do Oakland Police spend their time? A new report analyzes 911 calls
Mar 09, 2021
Mumia Abu-Jamal is diagnosed with COVID, advocates demand immediate release; Plus: After the insurrection: An abolitionist response to white supremacy with Tracey Corder and Ramah Kudaimi
Mar 08, 2021
Fund Drive Special: ‘A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area’ highlights history, geography, power and transformation in one of the most watched regions in the world
Mar 05, 2021
Fund Drive Special: Jeff Chang + Davey D on politics, hip-hop history, their new book and more; Plus: From the KPFA Archives: Langston Hughes in Berkeley, 1958
Mar 04, 2021
Fund Drive Special: A Black Women’s History of the US and Maya Angelou’s fantastic 1995 performance in Oakland
Mar 03, 2021
Senate to hold second hearing on Capitol riot; Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine; plus, how Oakland negotiations for MACRO are going
Mar 02, 2021
Davey D and Jeff Chang talk Black-Asian solidarity and new edition of “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop”; plus, Dr. John Swartzberg answers questions about the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine
Mar 01, 2021
Why do so many Black youth go missing? And why we don’t hear about them; Plus: Black History Profiles in Black Excellence: Carter G Woodson
Feb 26, 2021
KPFA Fund Drive Special: Maya Angelou live in Oakland; Plus: Oakland playwright and poet Ayodele Nzinga on her new book ‘SorrowLand Oracle’
Feb 25, 2021
In Memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti: poems, interviews, and more on-air on KPFA; Plus: Fund Drive Special: A People’s Guide to the SF Bay Are
Feb 24, 2021
Senate confirmation hearings of Deb Haaland, Xavier Becerra; and Texas’ polar vortex explained; Plus: Family demands justice for killing of Angelo Quinto by Antioch Police while in a mental health crisis
Feb 23, 2021
New data suggests Pfizer vaccine is 85% effective in preventing spread, plus more on the latest COVID research with Dr Swartzberg; Plus: KPFA Fund Drive Special: A Black Women’s History of the United States
Feb 22, 2021
Can the ‘Justice for Black Farmers Act’ address the history of discrimination? We ask black farmers; Plus: KPFA Special Black History Month Profile in Excellence: Kwame Nkrumah
Feb 19, 2021
Texas blackouts leave millions without power now entering Day 4; Plus: Indigenous Peoples Day 5 face felony vandalism charges in Marin County; and KPFA Fund Drive Special: Alan Watts
Feb 18, 2021
Legal action after impeachment: NAACP sues Trump under KKK Act of 1871, and new Georgia DA investigation; Plus: Bay Area solidarity for democracy movement in Myanmar, and Kaiser fined for COVID worker violations
Feb 17, 2021
Impeachment Debrief: Republicans win acquittal, what’s next; Plus: The inequities of schools re-opening; and KPFA Fund Drive exclusive new audio of Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou
Feb 16, 2021
Debriefing Impeachment and what’s next for the right in America; Plus: Special rebroadcast of ‘Evicted,’ winner of the 2021 Excellence in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter
Feb 15, 2021
Haiti in political crisis, as President Moise refuses to step down; Plus: Impeachment Watch: Prosecution urging Trump incited the siege on the Capitol concludes, defense to take the floor
Feb 12, 2021
Impeachment Watch: what’s happening in the right-wing media world; Plus: Combating violence against Asian communities, what does public safety look like? And: The latest Chevron oil spill in the Bay, what happened and what’s next?
Feb 11, 2021
Black Oaklanders are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates, why?; Plus: Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, AL poised to take historic union vote
Feb 10, 2021
The historic second impeachment of Donald Trump kicks off today; Plus: Oakland swears in new police chief, amid calls for radical change to policing and public safety concerns
Feb 09, 2021
A new COVID variant in South Africa halts AstraZeneca vaccine rollout, deemed ineffective; Plus: EDD’s lack of transparency with Bank of America adds to massive errors, fraud, and crisis for Californians waiting for relief
Feb 08, 2021
Facing the opportunity gap: the impact of schools re-opening on black and brown students; Plus: Special Black History Month profile in excellence: Harriet Tubman
Feb 05, 2021
Amazon’s anti-union tactics on workers organizing in Bessemer, Alabama; Plus: San Francisco sues School Board over re-opening; and a preview on tonight’s KPFA event: A Black Women’s History of the United States
Feb 04, 2021
The upcoming Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump; Plus: New investigation reveals right-wing extremist groups a magnet for military members; And sex trafficking victims still struggle behind bars despite state laws
Feb 03, 2021
The military coup in Myanmar, and its connection to war crimes against Rohingya; Plus: The new Fred Hampton film and legacy of the Black Panther Party with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr, Oakland’s Carroll Fife and Tur Ha Ak
Feb 02, 2021
Congress moves toward budget reconciliation, process for passing COVID relief; Plus: San Francisco’s new Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin
Feb 01, 2021
A Black, progressive view on the Biden Presidency with Benjamin Dixon; Plus: The danger of conspiracy theories
Jan 29, 2021
The fallout from Prop 22, and what’s next for app-based workers; Plus: Why does California’s vaccine rollout exclude people with disabilities? And Bay Area action Sunday to demand mass releases from CA prisons
Jan 28, 2021
Biden issues executive orders on racial equity; Plus: How is the vaccine rollout going inside CA prisons? And SF’s new Board President Shamann Walton talks housing, policing and the pandemic
Jan 27, 2021
COVID-19 Behind Bars: Stories of the Pandemic
Jan 27, 2021
“No human being should have to live that way”: COVID-19 inside Central California Women’s Facility
Jan 26, 2021
“Who will make it out alive is a gamble”: COVID-19 inside ICE detention in Yuba County Jail
Jan 26, 2021
Newsom lifts stay-at-home order, new CA eviction moratorium extension leaves many questions around rollout; Plus: Santa Rita jail COVID outbreak: hundreds in quarantine, so why isn’t the virus being contained?
Jan 26, 2021
‘It’s a mess’ California’s vaccine rollout slow and difficult, plus your COVID questions answered with Dr John Swartzburg; and Global Day of Action demands end to war on Yemen, militarism in the Middle East
Jan 25, 2021
This week’s transfer of power and the new Biden Presidency, with journalist John Nichols; Plus: Oakland’s new Councilmember Carroll Fife
Jan 22, 2021
Biden’s plans for economic stimulus, immigration reform; Plus: New campaign for reparations for black students at OUSD aims to address decades of disinvestment, anti-black racism
Jan 21, 2021
Dr. Monica Gandhi on the emerging coronavirus strains and how to protect yourself; Plus, two Haitian boys detained at SFO under the Trump administration’s final attacks on Black migrants
Jan 20, 2021
Michael E. Mann chronicles decades of climate “inactivism” in new book — Plus, Oakland police officers outed supporting right-wing conspiracies on social media
Jan 19, 2021
King Day Special: Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations; Oakland’s 7th annual Reclaim MLK Weekend; Remembering King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam”
Jan 18, 2021
A closer look at Uganda’s presidential election with Horace Campbell — plus, Clayborne Carson on King’s radical legacy
Jan 15, 2021
The historic second impeachment, the Senate trial, and what next with law professor Marjorie Cohn; Plus: The Gwich’in, Arctic communities pledge to keep fighting despite Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil sale
Jan 14, 2021
House to vote on 25th Amendment to remove Trump; Plus: Attorney for Lisa Montgomery on death penalty, fighting for her life and mental healthcare; and what Biden can do to change the COVID response with epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves
Jan 12, 2021
Bay Area Congressmen Jared Huffman, Mark DeSaulnier on being inside US Capitol siege and what next; Plus: Inside the culture of white supremacy extremism with writer Talia Lavin
Jan 11, 2021
‘We could have the trial tomorrow’ John Nichols on Trump impeachment, sedition, and what may be next; Plus: Racist vandalism of Black art in Oakland
Jan 08, 2021
Violent white mob storms US Capitol, incited by Trump politics, social media, law enforcement; Plus: Crisis deepening at California’s unemployment office, we answer listener questions with Daniela Urban with the Center for Workers’ Rights
Jan 07, 2021
No charges for cop who shot Jacob Blake, DA says — plus, right-wing militias riot in D.C. as Congress was to certify presidential election results
Jan 06, 2021
Decision Day in Georgia; Plus: California’s looming eviction crisis and we take listener calls; and a Google worker on new union effort, Alphabet Workers Union
Jan 05, 2021
Voter participation surging on eve of Georgia contest for fate of U.S. Senate – Plus, Geoff White tells a history of hacking in new book “Crime Dot Com”
Jan 04, 2021
Georgia elections and beyond: Black-led community organizing, voter mobilization, and collective power
Jan 01, 2021
From the UpFront Archives: On Caffeine, Rain, the US History of Smallpox and the How of Happiness
Dec 31, 2020
Pandemic in Prison: Monique and Kayla Jimenez, Pleasant Valley State Prison
Dec 30, 2020
Pandemic in ICE Detention: Jonny and Eduardo, Yuba County Jail
Dec 30, 2020
Pandemic in Prison: Renee Benavidez, California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi
Dec 30, 2020
Pandemic in Prison: Elsie Lee, San Quentin
Dec 30, 2020
Pandemic in Prison: What it’s like inside California’s prisons and ICE detention facilities as told by people incarcerated and family members
Dec 30, 2020
How journalists are putting their lives on the line in Mexico, despite intimidation and murder; Plus: Combatting the COVID surge in East Oakland with Dr Noha, Roots Community Health Center
Dec 30, 2020
Voices from inside Yuba County ICE Detention Facility’s COVID outbreak; Plus: Espionage, romance, and eco-racial justice politics: Aya de Leon on her new spy thriller released today
Dec 29, 2020
Trump signs COVID relief and spending bill after chaotic delay; Plus: Colorism and impacts of skin tone discrimination in Asian and African-American communities
Dec 28, 2020
From the UpFront Archives: Historians Deirdre Cooper-Owens on the history of gynecology and its origins in slavery; Plus: Greg Carr on African-Americans’ distrust of vaccines
Dec 25, 2020
KPFA Holiday Special: Live with Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Ibram X Kendi
Dec 24, 2020
Fresno leading metro area in COVID crisis, hospitals overwhelmed; Plus: California’s new Senator Alex Padilla; and how to stay sane during shelter in place with Dr Brenda Wade
Dec 23, 2020
What’s in, and out, of the new COVID relief bill; Plus: Community health spotlight: the Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness in SF; and the fight around CA’s ethnic studies curriculum
Dec 22, 2020
Attorney General Becerra asks CA Supreme Court to intervene over criminal charges for pregnancy loss; Plus: What are the impacts of Trump withholding CA healthcare funding over abortion? And, stories from inside the state’s prison pandemic
Dec 21, 2020
Fund Drive Special: john a. powell on History of Race and Identity, and Transforming Conceptions of Self and Other
Dec 18, 2020
Fund Drive Special: A People’s Guide to the SF Bay Area; Plus: US unemployment grows, still no relief; and voices from inside California prisons’ COVID pandemic
Dec 17, 2020
COVID relief negotiations in Congress down to the wire; Plus: UC Davis Dr David Cooke on being a part of the Pfizer vaccine trial; and new report shows prisons contributed to 500,000 more COVID cases this summer
Dec 16, 2020
Fund Drive Special: Robert Reich on the state of democracy, the Biden presidency and more; Plus: SF Sups to vote on whether to continue hotel shelter for unhoused residents
Dec 15, 2020
The Electoral College votes today; Plus: First doses of Pzifer vaccine distributed to hospitals in US; and a new investigation exposes abuses among CA children sent out of state to for-profit facilities
Dec 14, 2020
KPFA Fund Drive Special: Ta-Nehisi Coates with Greg Bridges in Berkeley
Dec 11, 2020
New LA District Attorney George Gascon kicks off term with sweeping criminal justice reforms; Plus: Landmark anti-trust action against Facebook; and CA counties overrun with COVID crisis, ICUs full
Dec 10, 2020
How intellectual property rights could bar COVID vaccine distribution worldwide; Plus the CA prisons COVID outbreak: CDCR faces overcrowding and backlog at county jails, yet refuses to release medically vulnerable inmates
Dec 09, 2020
India: farmers initiate historic general strike; Plus: Inside the COVID outbreak at California’s largest, most overcrowded prison in Kings County; and A People’s Guide to the SF Bay Area
Dec 08, 2020
US Senate: sprint to some kind of COVID relief deal, as benefits cliff and government shutdown looms; Plus: After the Gig: How the sharing economy got hijacked with Juliet Schor
Dec 07, 2020
Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Prime Minister declares end to war, but fighting continues, humanitarian crisis deepens; Plus: The history of vaccines, abuse, distrust among people of color in the US
Dec 04, 2020
Navigating CA’s unemployment mess: we answer your calls with Daniela Urban, with Center for Workers’s Rights; Plus: El Sereno mother shares her story of being evicted by officers from Caltrans-owned vacant home
Dec 03, 2020
How evictions are making the Covid crisis worse, and how “long-haulers” are finding community. Plus, California improperly approved hundreds of oil and gas drilling permits
Dec 02, 2020
Supreme Court hears Trump Administration’s case to exclude undocumented immigrants from the Census; Plus: San Francisco weighs new police contract, apartment smoking ban and creating a housing inventory
Dec 01, 2020
Encouraging vaccine results from Moderna spurs hope amid devastating COVID surge; Plus: Claire Potter on how alternative media hooked us on politics and broke our democracy
Nov 30, 2020
From the UpFront Archives: Confronting white culture, history and racism with Tim Wise; Plus: Life after violent right wing hate groups with Tony McAleer
Nov 27, 2020
KPFA Special from the Archives: Nick Estes on his book ‘Our History is the Future’
Nov 26, 2020
International Day to End Violence against Women: Lisa Montgomery sentenced to death as advocates rally for mental healthcare; Plus: the movement for debt abolition; and Ethiopia’s Tigrey conflict explained
Nov 25, 2020
Guatemala in political and climate crisis; Plus: Biden’s transition team picks with ties to fossil fuels, toxics alarms many, and vegan holiday ideas with chef Bryant Terry
Nov 24, 2020
“In 2 weeks, we don’t have a hospital bed for you” Fresno nurse warns against Thanksgiving gatherings, shares experience on frontlines; Plus: What Biden can do now for reproductive health
Nov 23, 2020
As California announces curfew and many cancel holiday plans, epidemiologist Dr. Chris Beyrer takes Covid questions; plus, can in-person live art safely thrive during Covid?
Nov 20, 2020
Coronavirus sweeping CA prisons: San Quentin stalls on releases, hunger strike in Corcoran, pressure on state mental health hospitals; Plus: One man’s story of being stabbed at the Million MAGA March last weekend
Nov 19, 2020
Promising research shows there may be enduring immunity for COVID; Plus: Labor, the election and the Biden term to come with Jane McAlevey
Nov 18, 2020
Second vaccine shows promising results, according to company data; Plus: Congressman Ro Khanna on the state of the election, COVID relief and more
Nov 16, 2020
Lessons from the ground in Georgia, as mobilization continues to decide the US Senate; Plus: Behind the myths and superstitions of Friday the 13th
Nov 13, 2020
What the Biden Administration can do on foreign policy, the economy and education; Plus: A new Stanford study on where people get infected by COVID-19: cafes, gyms and restaurants
Nov 12, 2020
The outlook for the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court; Plus: What the Biden Administration can do now on healthcare, immigration, Big Tech monopolies and climate action
Nov 11, 2020
“Stunning:” Pzifer announces COVID-19 vaccine 90% effective in first analysis; Plus: Republicans and Trump; and George Gascon defeats Jackie Lacey for LA District Attorney
Nov 09, 2020
Election 2020: If Biden wins, what will his Presidency look like with a Republican controlled Senate and Supreme Court? Plus: The US racial divide, the Black vote, and more with Professor Greg Carr
Nov 06, 2020
Election 2020: Trump sues to stop vote count in PA, MI while urging full count in AZ; Plus: Results roundup in the South Bay, Vallejo; and causes and ways to address gun violence in Oakland
Nov 05, 2020
2020 Elections roundup: votes to be counted, swing states, California ballot measures, Oakland, SF and more
Nov 04, 2020
Election Day: Make or break in swing states, Florida, Wisconsin; Plus: Organizing for election protests, and a police crackdown; and State Houses to watch
Nov 03, 2020
Reform groups and prison abolitionists diverge on California’s Prop 25: Trading bail for anti-Black algorithms
Nov 02, 2020
Election 2020: Biden’s lead, the power of swing states, and anxiety over contested results; Plus: SF to end hotel program for unhoused but what next? Massive campaign spending in Oakland; and high stakes in San Jose city elections
Nov 02, 2020
The 2020 Election and the Black Vote; Plus: Oakland’s 25th Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival goes virtual
Oct 30, 2020
As COVID surges around the US, presidential candidates promise pandemic end, but what can they actually do? Plus: Gov Newsom’s unprecedented challenge to the death penalty; and a Richmond elections roundup
Oct 29, 2020
The GOP is doing everything it can to suppress the voting, as Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh signal’s he’d support Trump in a disputed election; Plus: The political dynamics of Latinx voters in 2020
Oct 28, 2020
Walter Cruz-Zavala has won his immigration case twice, but ICE refuses to release him – why?; Plus: The real impacts of PG&E power shut-offs are still unknown, advocates want answers and accountability
Oct 27, 2020
Pence at the center of a new White House COVID outbreak, as Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett; Plus: The big picture (and loopholes) around Prop 15; And inside the fierce race in Oakland’s D3 over housing, policing
Oct 26, 2020
Moms 4 Housing organizer Carroll Fife takes on incumbent McElhaney in fierce Oakland council race over housing, policing
Oct 25, 2020
The last Trump-Biden presidential debate; Plus: Protests demand end to deadly SARS forces in Nigeria; and the 18th annual 3rd i South Asian film festival this weekend
Oct 23, 2020
Appeals court: ‘Worst epidemiological disaster’ San Quentin must release or transfer 50% of prisoners to combat COVID; Plus: Berkeley and Vallejo Mayor’s races; and CA Senate District 15 candidates Ann Ravel vs Dave Cortese
Oct 22, 2020
With Prop 16, a new generation of Californians has a chance to reinstate affirmative action. Will they?
Oct 21, 2020
On the ground in major swing state, Florida; Plus: A look at the Oakland At-Large race and SF election battles; then: CA Senate District 22 candidates Scott Weiner and Jackie Fielder
Oct 21, 2020
Bolivia: Socialist party wins landslide election, one year after coup; Plus: Live debates on Prop 24 consumer privacy, and Prop 25 ending cash bail
Oct 20, 2020
Could there be COVID relief from Congress before the election? Plus: Meet the candidate running against Devin Nunes; and a live debate on Prop 22, app-based workers rights
Oct 19, 2020
How does new federal laws aim to combat violence against Native women? Plus: New mural in West Oakland showcases life and legacy of the Women of the Black Panther Party
Oct 16, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett confirmation debrief; Plus: Live debates on Prop 15 commercial taxes, Prop 19 property tax transfer and Prop 21 rent control
Oct 15, 2020
Climate change will force a new era of migration – but where will people go? Plus: Ericka Huggins on the legacy and lessons of the Black Panther Party, 54 years later
Oct 09, 2020
California’s election is now underway. Here’s how to vote safely and securely
Oct 08, 2020
Highlights of the Vice Presidential debate; Plus: Healthcare workers with SEIU 1021 and CNA on strike at East Bay hospitals; and COVID in Santa Rita jail
Oct 08, 2020
The COVID outbreak in the White House with UC Berkeley infectious disease expert John Swartzberg; Plus: New report exposes serious violence and injury inflicted by police dogs
Oct 07, 2020
California lifts unemployment processing freeze – what pitfalls to avoid with your claim; Plus: Newly released records show no discipline of Richmond Police involved in Celeste Guap sex trafficking scandal
Oct 06, 2020
What we know and don’t know about the President’s COVID illness; Plus: Voices from the fire zone in Sonoma and Napa counties
Oct 05, 2020
Trump tests positive for COVID-19, what are the implications? Plus: Food assistance available, with the Redwood Empire Food Bank
Oct 02, 2020
Stories from the Fire Zone
Oct 01, 2020
Trump’s taxes; What criminal justice reform bills Gov Newsom did and didn’t sign; Plus stories from the Glass Fire: how the evacuations are impacting seniors, ag workers and day laborers
Oct 01, 2020
Recapping the first Presidential debate; Plus: Glass Fire update: conditions on the ground in Sonoma and Napa counties with reporter Sarah Stierch
Sep 30, 2020
“She’s a Disaster”: Imani Gandy on Amy Coney Barrett and the Supreme Court
Sep 30, 2020
Live updates on the Glass Fire in Sonoma County; Plus: the California ecosystems on fire, through science and art
Sep 29, 2020
Bay Area Cooling Centers for Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2020
Sep 28, 2020
What does Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court mean for reproductive rights? Plus: Updates on 3 new fires in Napa and Sonoma Counties, over 10,000 people evacuated
Sep 28, 2020
The fate of the Affordable Care Act will be decided by the Supreme Court in November, plus Trump’s nominee; Plus: A new film for hope: ‘Organizing is the New Cool’
Sep 25, 2020
What’s inside Prop 22, Uber and Lyft’s $182M ballot measure on the fate of gig drivers?
Sep 24, 2020
Breonna Taylor: Officer charged, but not for killing her; movement for justice continues. Plus: the CRISIS Act would create community mental health system in CA, alternative to police, but will Gov Newsom sign it?
Sep 24, 2020
The history of the Federalist Society, now vetting Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, and the outlook for reproductive rights; Plus: CA may be undercounting COVID deaths
Sep 23, 2020
Fall Fund Drive kicks off today! Decisions pending before the Supreme Court this fall; Plus: Family of Miles Hall reaches settlement with Walnut Creek but continues fight for mental health response reforms
Sep 22, 2020
The politics of replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg; Plus: Progressive Bay Area District Attorneys form a new prosecutors alliance
Sep 21, 2020
Third Parties in the 2020 Election and what it means for US democracy; Plus: Cruise 4 Justice event this weekend highlights 2017 police killing of Michael Barrera, many others
Sep 18, 2020
“Sean died for a bigger cause”: Remembering Sean Monterrosa
Sep 17, 2020
“We live in distress” One Oakland teacher on 9th Circuit upholding Trumps revoking TPS for 400,000 people; Plus: San Jose, Cupertino scheduling homeless sweeps, despite COVID moratorium
Sep 17, 2020
CA farmworkers confront heat, smoke and COVID pandemic through harvest; plus: Wendy Liu on her new book ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’
Sep 16, 2020
Did ICE allow a doctor to perform mass hysterectomies on jailed women in Georgia? Plus – Fire updates, and a new report that police have shot 115 people in the head during U.S. racial justice protests
Sep 15, 2020
Talking with a rabbi whose congregation was targeted by an extremist — plus, San Francisco can now access $492 million in funding for homeless
Sep 14, 2020
UpFront – September 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
What’s the effect on your lungs of 25 days of smoke? Also — Sonoma County growers are sending undocumented workers to pick grapes in evacuation zones
Sep 10, 2020
Smoke blocks the sun in the East Bay as new fires rage across California; plus, how organizers in the Mission won a victory for affordable housing
Sep 09, 2020
UpFront – September 8, 2020
Sep 08, 2020
Rick Pearlstein on Ronald Reagan, the Labor History of Silicon Valley, Remembering David Graeber, James Foreman Jr. on ‘Locking Up Our Own’
Sep 07, 2020
Burning Man Special: Black Rock City is built on Northern Paiute land
Sep 04, 2020
Taking care of your mental health during the traumatic crises of racism and a pandemic — plus, what Biden needs to do to win over progressive voters
Sep 04, 2020
San Leandro police officer is charged with voluntary manslaughter for killing Steven Taylor in April; advocates call for justice for Dijon Kizzee in Los Angeles and Trayford Pellerin in Louisiana
Sep 03, 2020
Advocates denounce Gov. Newsom for handing a refugee and abuse survivor over to ICE custody — plus, who’s excluded from Trump’s new pandemic unemployment benefits? We take your questions
Sep 02, 2020
A look at the racial justice bills that passed or failed before California’s legislative deadline; plus, new investigation shows meatpacking industry knew of dangers of respiratory illness for years
Sep 01, 2020
Black women in the WNBA are leading athletes in wildcat strikes and calls for racial justice. Also — How law enforcement enables deadly far-right violence in Kenosha, Portland, and across the U.S.
Aug 31, 2020
In Black August, shining a spotlight on political prisoner Mutulu Shakur; Plus, John Nichols on what we learned from the DNC & RNC
Aug 28, 2020
Antonia Juhasz on how Covid-19 could send the oil industry to the grave; Plus, the Republican anti-BLM rhetoric that encouraged a 17-year-old Trump supporter to shoot dead anti-racist protesters in Kenosha
Aug 27, 2020
Fenceline communities around Houston were facing environmental catastrophe before Hurricane Laura. Also — Israel continues its bombing of Gaza
Aug 26, 2020
“Eleven years later, and I’m still fighting”: Remembering Oscar Grant
Aug 25, 2020
Wisconsin protesters take to the streets after Kenosha police shoot Black man 7 times in front of his children; Plus, 15 years after Hurricane Katrina, two storms bear down on Gulf Coast
Aug 25, 2020
Fire ecologist explains how prescribed burns cultivate forest resilience; Plus, does fire smoke facilitate the spread of COVID-19?
Aug 24, 2020
Love in the Digital Age: Exploring the Intersection of Sex, Justice and Technology
Aug 23, 2020
Why isn’t California evacuating two prisons in Vacaville threatened by fires? Plus: As Harris becomes VP nominee, a look at Black leadership and electoralism in U.S. history
Aug 21, 2020
California wildfire stories: Farmworkers toil in smoke and heat; Cal Fire crews stretched thin battling 23 major fires; Smoke threatens recovery for Covid patients; Thousands evacuate
Aug 20, 2020
Federal monitor issues scathing report criticizing Oakland’s police department & mayor for response to killing of Joshua Pawlik; Eviction moratorium bill moves forward in CA
Aug 19, 2020
“I have the memories. They just stay in my head”: Remembering Jessica Williams
Aug 19, 2020
Briahna Joy Gray and John Nichols respond to first day of virtual DNC; plus — Black medical professionals say SF Sheriff’s Deputies should be removed from SF General Hospital
Aug 18, 2020
“They didn’t refer to her as a human”: Remembering Kayla Moore
Aug 18, 2020
What’s next for the Oakland Police Commission, as it ousts its vice chair & heads to the ballot? Plus, an interview with adult film performer Mickey Mod
Aug 17, 2020
Honoring political prisoners Jamil Al-Amin and Leonard Peltier and continuing to fight for their freedom
Aug 14, 2020
Arab American Studies is on the chopping block in California curriculum; Plus, a pediatric infectious disease expert takes questions on Covid-19 and children
Aug 13, 2020
Chicago activists keep organizing against police violence despite extreme repression & lockdown measures from Mayor Lori Lightfoot; Biden picks Harris as running mate; Plus, how to date safely during Covid
Aug 12, 2020
OUSD reopens without union agreement; attorney representing Sean Monterrosa’s family says Vallejo PD is “out of control”; and Lebanese activist calls for political responsibility in wake of explosion
Aug 11, 2020
75 years after bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Utah downwinder Mary Dickson describes the ‘staggering human cost’ of nuclear testing
Aug 10, 2020
UpFront – August 7, 2020
Aug 07, 2020
Remembering Jessica Williams; reforming the jury selection process to root out racism; and Joelle Gamble on the economic stimulus workers need now
Aug 06, 2020
Why the 2020 Census may be headed toward a serious undercount; Remembering homelessness advocate Mike Lee; a Central CA woman is charged with murder for a stillbirth
Aug 05, 2020
What happened when Border Patrol violently raided a humanitarian camp for migrants? Plus, Covid-19 spreads in Mesa Verde detention center & unlawful evictions continue in Imperial County
Aug 04, 2020
Secretive Vallejo police clique celebrated fatal shootings by officers; Plus, Congress lets additional unemployment benefits lapse, as workers face claims delays
Aug 03, 2020
Kalonji Changa on Black August, commemorating Black resistance & winning freedom for Black prisoners
Jul 31, 2020
New study says masks offer protective benefits to the wearer, too. Plus, an update on strikes in ICE detention center
Jul 30, 2020
How to talk with people who won’t wear masks; Plus, advocates demand justice for Black girl jailed in Michigan for not doing homework
Jul 29, 2020
Immigrant rights activists lock themselves to Gavin Newsom’s gate; Covid Q&A with Dr. John Swartzberg; BAMBD Fest brings Black Oakland theater online
Jul 27, 2020
Greg Carr on the legacies of Rep. John Lewis and C.T. Vivian; Plus, what equitable distance learning should look like for under-resourced children
Jul 24, 2020
A stunning new film shows “Covid’s Hidden Toll” on agricultural workers; Chicago activists condemn Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s embrace of law enforcement
Jul 23, 2020