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Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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May 06, 2024 |
Ajay Singh Chaudhry on The Exhausted of the Earth
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May 03, 2024 |
UpFront – May 2, 2024
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May 02, 2024 |
Fred Glass on California Labor History (Repeat)
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May 01, 2024 |
Ariel Henry Resigns, What’s Next for Haiti?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Apr 29, 2024 |
Student Protests in Solidarity with Palestine Face Violent Crackdown, What is Different This Time Around?
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Apr 26, 2024 |
UpFront – April 25, 2024
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Donald Trump’s Hush Money Trial Continues; Plus, India Elections Begin
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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;
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Sudan’s war at 1; Corona Calls
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Apr 22, 2024 |
Austin Frerick on the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
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Apr 19, 2024 |
UpFront – April 18, 2024
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Apr 18, 2024 |
UpFront – April 17, 2024
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Apr 17, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Apr 16, 2024 |
UpFront – April 15, 2024
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Escalating Warnings of Iranian Retaliatory Attack Against Israel; Plus, Costs and Benefits of Converting Public Lands to Solar Energy Farms
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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
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Apr 11, 2024 |
New CPI Report Out; Plus, San Jose’s AI Pilot Program to Track Down Homeless Encampments
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Israel Gears Up for Rafah Invasion As International Pressure for Ceasefire Increases; Plus, Aaron Peskin Joins San Francisco Mayor’s Race
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Apr 09, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Apr 08, 2024 |
Erin McElroy on Silicon Valley Imperialism
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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
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Apr 04, 2024 |
UpFront – April 3, 2024
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Apr 03, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
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Apr 02, 2024 |
Labor, Capital, and the fields of California
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Apr 01, 2024 |
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on Solidarity
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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
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Mar 28, 2024 |
Will the Supreme Court Uphold Access to Mifepristone? Plus, China’s Leading Development of Renewable Energy
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Mar 27, 2024 |
The Developing Changes in Israel-US Relations with Rashid Khalidi; Plus, Inside the Israel Lobby
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 25, 2024 |
Cory Doctorow on How to Seize the Means of Computation
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Mar 22, 2024 |
California Schools Running Out of Federal Pandemic Relief Funds; Plus, Sacramento City Council Pass Ceasefire Resolution
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Mar 21, 2024 |
Trump’s Ongoing Legal Battles; The Confederate General Who Defied the South
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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
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 18, 2024 |
What do sanctions accomplish?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
A Look at Local Organizing Around a Gaze Ceasefire; Plus, Influencing DC Politics Toward Ending the War Gaza
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Mar 14, 2024 |
Primary Election Results; Plus, Street Spirit is Back; ICE Detainee Migrants Crammed into Golden State Annex
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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
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Mar 12, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 11, 2024 |
Fund Drive Special with Chris Hedges
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Fund Drive Special with Corey Doctorow
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Fund Drive Special: The Future of Democracy with Steve Phillips
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Egypt’s Position in the Ongoing Invasion of Gaza; Plus, Super Tuesday Races to Follow Around the Nation
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Mar 05, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 04, 2024 |
UpFront – March 1, 2024
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Mar 01, 2024 |
Fund Drive Special: The Life and Legacy of Bayard Rustin
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Feb 29, 2024 |
Pressure Inside the Israeli Government], A Looming Invasion of Rafah and What a Ceasefire Would Mean for Humanitarian Aid
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Fund Drive Poetry Special with Maya Angelou and June Jordan
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Feb 27, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Fund Drive Special: Occupation of the American Mind; Plus, Rashid Khalidi on the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
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Feb 23, 2024 |
Fund Drive Special: David Walker on the Life of Frederick Douglass
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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
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Feb 21, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine – Navalny Edition; Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
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Feb 20, 2024 |
Holiday Special: How the Real Estate Industry Invented Modern Housing Discrimination
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Feb 19, 2024 |
A Look at Hezbollah and How it May Respond to Israel’s Attacks; Plus, Upcoming San Francisco Ballot Measures
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Feb 16, 2024 |
California Senate Runoff; What Would Prop 1 Do? Plus, Bay Area Counties May Lose $200million in FEMA Funds
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Pakistan Elections; Plus, Senate Passes $95Billion Aid Bill, Sending Arms to Ukraine and Israel
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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
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Feb 13, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Feb 12, 2024 |
SF Housing Policy; California After the Atmospheric River; Plus, Charlie Chaplin vs America
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Feb 09, 2024 |
The Political Battle Over US Border Security; Plus, How “Tyranny of the Minority” is Putting American Democracy into Crisis
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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
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Feb 07, 2024 |
UpFront – February 6, 2024
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Feb 06, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Feb 05, 2024 |
UpFront – February 2, 2024
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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
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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
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Jan 31, 2024 |
US-Iran Altercations Since the October 7th Attack in Israel; LA Times Layoffs and the Future of California Journalism
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Jan 30, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
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Jan 29, 2024 |
International Court of Justice Decision on Israel’s Genocide Case; Plus, Dr. Yousef Khelfa Describes Current Situation in Gaza Hospitals
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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
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Jan 25, 2024 |
New Hampshire Primary Elections Results; Plus, the Biden Administrations Escalating Actions Towards Yemen
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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
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Jan 23, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
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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
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Jan 19, 2024 |
Chevron Deference Case; A Look At Governor Newsom’s Budget Proposal
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Jan 18, 2024 |
Taiwan Election Results and its Political Aftermath; UK and US continue to Bomb Houthis in Yemen
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 16, 2024 |
MLK Day Special
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Hajar Yazdiha on The Struggle for the People’s King
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Jan 12, 2024 |
Tony Platt on the Scandal of Cal [repeat]
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Jan 11, 2024 |
People’s Park History Since 1969; Plus, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Pass Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
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Jan 10, 2024 |
A Look At National Politics Ahead; Cheuk Kwan Writes Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
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Jan 09, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 08, 2024 |
New California Housing Laws Going into Effect this Month; Plus, the Battle for People’s Park Continues
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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
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Israel’s Latest Strategy in its Invasion of Gaza; Taking Stock of Bidenomics
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 02, 2024 |
Jenny Odell on Saving Time [repeat]
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Astra Taylor on the Age of Insecurity
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Dec 29, 2023 |
Jehad Abusalim on life inside (and outside) Gaza
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Dec 28, 2023 |
Ussama Makdisi on the history of coexistence in the Arab world
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Dec 27, 2023 |
[Rebroadcast] Amjad Iraqi on Palestinian Politics
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Dec 26, 2023 |
UpFront – December 25, 2023
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Dec 25, 2023 |
Brian Merchant on what workers today can learn from the Luddites
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Dec 22, 2023 |
UpFront – December 21, 2023
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Dec 21, 2023 |
UpFront – December 20, 2023
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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
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Dec 19, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Dec 18, 2023 |
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi and Nora Barrows-Friedman
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Dec 15, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special History of the Modern Arab World with Ussama Makdisi
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special: The Occupation of the American Mind
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Dec 13, 2023 |
Kenneth Roth on the UN Security Council and Ceasefire Possibility in Gaza
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, No Move Toward Call for Ceasefire by the Biden Administration
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Dec 11, 2023 |
UpFront – December 8, 2023
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Dec 08, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Jehad Abusalim
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Dec 07, 2023 |
UpFront – December 6, 2023
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Dec 06, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Phyllis Bennis
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Dec 04, 2023 |
UpFront – December 1, 2023
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Dec 01, 2023 |
UpFront – November 30, 2023
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Nov 30, 2023 |
Prospects for a Gaza Ceasefire After the Truce; Plus, New SF Housing Development Bill to Address Missing State Deadline
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Nov 29, 2023 |
UpFront – November 28, 2023
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Nov 27, 2023 |
UpFront – November 24, 2023
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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
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Argentina Elects Far-right Presidential Candidate; Plus, California’s Unemployment Crash Before and After Pandemic Began
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Nov 20, 2023 |
Amjad Iraqi on the Reality of Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Backlash towards Dissent and the Future of the Palestinian People
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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
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Nov 16, 2023 |
Biden Meets with Xi Jinping at APEC; Plus, Escalating Violence in the West Bank as Bombing in Gaza Continues
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Preempted for Pacifica Radio Archives Fundraiser
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Possible Government Shutdown; Plus, Corona Calls
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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
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Nov 10, 2023 |
What Comes After the Ground Invasion of Gaza? Plus, Stanford University Students Hold “Sit-in to Stop Genocide”
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Nov 09, 2023 |
How to Combat Rising Anti-Semitism and Reject its Weaponization; Plus, Special Election Results
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Rashid Khalidi on What is Different This Time About Israel’s Attacks on Palestine
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Nov 06, 2023 |
Gaza and US Foreign Policy; Plus, What are Palestinians Experiencing in the West Bank
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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
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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
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Nov 01, 2023 |
UpFront – October 31, 2023
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Oct 31, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Call-ins
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Oct 30, 2023 |
On Wars with Michael Mann
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Oct 27, 2023 |
Is there a shift in US Politics around Palestine & Israel? Plus, Boycott Divestment Sanctions and Palestine Solidarity Organizing
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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
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Could Israel’s Offensive on Gaza Expand to a Regional War? Plus, Limitations of US Policy on Gaza
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls
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Oct 23, 2023 |
UpFront – October 20, 2023
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Oct 20, 2023 |
UpFront – October 19, 2023
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Oct 19, 2023 |
House Speaker Vote; Plus, New Report Shows Impact of Covid-19 on K-12 Education
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Back to Back Deadly Earthquakes Hit Afghanistan; Plus, Israel Bombings of Gaza continue as Israeli Civilian Hostages Remain Missing
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Oct 17, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Oct 16, 2023 |
What Bills Made it through the Governor’s Desk; Plus, Damien Lewis on the Secret Life of Josephine Baker
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Andrej Grubacic on the Impact of Mutual Aid on Social Movements
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Oct 12, 2023 |
D. J. Taylor on the Life of George Orwell; Plus, What the Future Holds for the GOP
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Oct 11, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Oct 10, 2023 |
UpFront – October 6, 2023
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Oct 06, 2023 |
UpFront – October 5, 2023
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Oct 05, 2023 |
UpFront – October 4, 2023
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Andrej Grubacic
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Oct 03, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Oct 02, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Robin DG Kelley
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Sep 29, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with John Nichols
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Obi Kaufmann
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Sep 27, 2023 |
UAW Strike Continues
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Sep 26, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Sep 25, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Klein: Doppelganger
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Sep 22, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Jade Begay and john a. powell
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Sep 21, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Rebecca Solnit
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special: Lessons from Earth’s Past to Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis with Michael E. Mann
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Sep 19, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
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Sep 18, 2023 |
UpFront – September 15, 2023
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Sep 15, 2023 |
New Inflation Numbers, CA Bills Headed to Final Vote; Plus, New Research Predicts Oil & Gas Expansion
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Sep 14, 2023 |
Storm Daniel Causes Catastrophic Floods in Libya; Plus, Kevin McCarthy Launches Biden Impeachment Inquiry
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Google Antirust Trial Begins; Plus, Will UAW Go On Strike?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
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Sep 11, 2023 |
When people break nature’s soundscape
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Sep 08, 2023 |
Africa Climate Summit; Plus, EPA Approves Carcinogenic Fuel?
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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
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Sep 06, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Labor History with Kim Kelly and Fred Glass
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Sep 04, 2023 |
Tony Platt on the Scandal of Cal
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Sep 01, 2023 |
A new uprising in Syria? Plus: AI cameras on AC transit
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Aug 31, 2023 |
Idalia hits Florida; Ned BlackHawk on The Rediscovery of America
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Aug 30, 2023 |
Trump DC Trial Set for March, Saudi Border Guards Massacre of Ethiopian Migrants; Plus, SFUSD Considering School Closures
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Aug 29, 2023 |
What comes after Prigozhin; What’s coming from B.2.86
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Aug 28, 2023 |
Paulette Steves on the Indigenous Paleolithic
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Aug 25, 2023 |
Republican Debates; Plus, CA School District Requiring Reporting Transgender Students to Parents
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Aug 24, 2023 |
BRICS Summit; Injunction Banning SF Homeless Sweeps May be Compromised; Plus, Bill to Raise Bay Area Bridge Tolls Put on Hold
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Aug 23, 2023 |
California floods (in August!); Ecuador bans drilling in the Yasuni; Federal raids on Antioch police
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Aug 22, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Aug 21, 2023 |
Matt Simon on How Microplastics Corrupt the Environment and Our Bodies
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Aug 18, 2023 |
Ecuador Elections; Plus, 2 Year Anniversary of Taliban Afghanistan Takeover
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Aug 17, 2023 |
Trump Indictment in Georgia, Campaign to Stop Oakland Airport Expansion; Plus, Maui Fires
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Aug 16, 2023 |
Iran and the US Strike Prisoner Exchange Deal, Self Driving in San Francisco; Plus, Maui Fires
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Aug 15, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Jenny Odell on “Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock”
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Aug 11, 2023 |
ECOWAS Calls Summit on Niger Coup; Asylum Seeking under the Biden Administration
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Aug 10, 2023 |
UN Vote to Send Security Forces to Haiti; CPUC Vote on Self-driving Taxis
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Aug 09, 2023 |
Toxic Algae Bloom in the Bay, Plus, Mojave Desert Wildfires
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Aug 08, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Aug 07, 2023 |
Dr. Robert Okin on “SILENT VOICES: People with Mental Disorders on the Street”
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Aug 04, 2023 |
Fatah and Hamas Form Reconciliation Committee; Latest Developments in Niger Coup
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Aug 03, 2023 |
Trump Indictment; Plus, Eviction Moratoria Expiring
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Aug 02, 2023 |
Hollywood Actors and Writers on Strike; Plus, Stories from Chinese Restaurants Across the World
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Aug 01, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jul 31, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with John Perlin
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Jul 28, 2023 |
Coup Attempt in Niger; Plus, Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates
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Jul 27, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Jeff Goodell
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Jul 26, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Oreskes
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Jul 25, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Jenny Odell
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Jul 21, 2023 |
Israeli President Isaac Herzog Addresses US Congress, Reaffirms US Support for Israel Despite Criticism
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Jul 20, 2023 |
Donald Trump is a Target in the DOJ’s Investigation into Overturning the 2020 Election
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Jul 19, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Daniel Ellsberg
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Jul 18, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins
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Jul 17, 2023 |
Zachary Carter on John Maynard Keynes
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Jul 14, 2023 |
The Politics of Red States Across the Nation; Plus, Community Responses to the Harms of Residential Segregation
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Jul 13, 2023 |
Seeking Abortion Care Across State Lines; UAW Members and Student Workers Arrested at UCSD
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Jul 12, 2023 |
Floods, Fires and Hurricane Response: Climate Change Roundup
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Jul 11, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jul 10, 2023 |
Andrew Alden on the Geology of the East Bay
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Jul 07, 2023 |
Christina Gerhart on Disappearing Islands
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Jul 06, 2023 |
Naomi Oreskes on The Big Myth
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Jul 05, 2023 |
Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, and Capitalism
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Jul 04, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jul 03, 2023 |
“Lesbian Love Story” Traces History through the Archives of Queer Love
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Jun 30, 2023 |
Attacks on Trans Rights and the Role of Mainstream Media in Perpetuating Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric
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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
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Jun 28, 2023 |
Israel Approves over 5000 Homes in Settlement Expansion; Plus, Takeaways from the Biden-Modi Meeting
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Jun 27, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Mpox & Covid Call-ins with Dr. Peter Ching-Hong
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Jun 26, 2023 |
Bettina Aptheker’s “Communists in Closets” traces the history of Queer Communists in U.S. History
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Jun 23, 2023 |
California State Budget Rundown; Plus, the Oakland A’s Move and the Business of Sports Teams
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Jun 22, 2023 |
Latest in UK Politics; Plus, Alissa Quart Debunks the American Dream in “Bootstrapped”
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Jun 21, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jun 20, 2023 |
Juneteenth Special with Robin DG Kelley
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Jun 19, 2023 |
Manijeh Moradian’s “This Flame Within” Traces the History of Iranian Student Activists in the United States
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Jun 16, 2023 |
Federal Interest Rates; Plus, Another Migrant Boat Sinking off the European Coast
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Jun 15, 2023 |
Right wing media derides Trump document probe; Plus California legislators inch closer to a budget deal
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Jun 14, 2023 |
Fire ecologist explains Canada’s wildfires; Plus anomalous ocean warming events and what they portend
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Jun 13, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jun 12, 2023 |
Donald Trump, first-ever president to face federal indictment
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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
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Jun 08, 2023 |
Nova Kakhovka Dam Collapse; Police and Prison Reforms in the Legislature; the end of Street Spirit?
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Jun 07, 2023 |
New Brazilian Laws Rollback Recognition of Indigenous Lands; Plus, California Legislation on Digital Privacy and Housing
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Jun 06, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jun 05, 2023 |
Brett Christophers on “Why Asset Managers Own the World”
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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
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Jun 01, 2023 |
UpFront – May 31, 2023
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May 31, 2023 |
Debt Ceiling Deal; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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May 30, 2023 |
UpFront – May 29, 2023
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May 29, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Robin D.G. Kelley
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May 26, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with John Perlin
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May 25, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Douglas Tallamy
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May 24, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with George Monbiot
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May 23, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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May 22, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Harry Belafonte
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May 19, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Naomi Oreskes
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May 18, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Andrew Alden
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May 17, 2023 |
This Year Marks the 75th Anniversary of the Nakba
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May 16, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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May 15, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Obi Kaufman
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May 12, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Malcolm Harris
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May 11, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with David Harvey
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May 10, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with John Perlin
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May 09, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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May 08, 2023 |
Yasmin El-Rifae on her book “Radius: a Feminist Revolution”
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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
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May 04, 2023 |
Collapse of First Republic Bank; CNA Striking John Muir Behavioral Health; Plus, Sudan Update
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May 03, 2023 |
“Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado; Plus, Migrant Caravan from Tapachula arrives in Mexico City
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May 02, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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May 01, 2023 |
“BIRTH” offers intimate look at maternal healthcare in the United State
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Apr 28, 2023 |
Daniel Ellsberg on “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.”
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Apr 27, 2023 |
Biden announces he’s running for reelection; Plus, Anti-CRT measures impact California school districts
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Apr 26, 2023 |
Tucker Carlson out of Fox News; Plus, the future of Bay Area transit
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Apr 25, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Apr 24, 2023 |
Dacher Keltner on the transformative power of “awe”
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Apr 21, 2023 |
Sudan Internal Conflict, Civilians Caught in the Middle; Plus, What Flooding Means for Wells
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Apr 20, 2023 |
Yemen Peace Talks; Plus, Supreme Court takes up Mifepristone
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Apr 19, 2023 |
Portland Police extreme use of teargas in June 2020 protests; Plus, the long-term health impact of houseless encampment sweeps
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Apr 18, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Apr 17, 2023 |
Matthew Lasar on “Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Radio Network”
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Apr 14, 2023 |
Clarence Thomas and judicial ethics; Plus, Tax call-ins
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Apr 13, 2023 |
How Biden administration’s rule will affects trans student athletes; Plus, Spring Planting Call-ins
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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
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Massive Classified Document Dump re: Ukraine; FDA considering a new round of COVID boosters
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Apr 10, 2023 |
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
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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
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Apr 06, 2023 |
Janet Protasiewicz wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat; Plus, Trump arraignment; and, California enters contract to make affordable insulin
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Apr 05, 2023 |
Rise of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation nationwide; Plus, Pajaro farmworkers continue flood recovery
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Apr 04, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Apr 03, 2023 |
George Monbiot on “Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet”
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Mar 31, 2023 |
Migrants & Asylum Seekers under Biden Administration; Plus, Stories from Chinese restaurants around the world with Cheuk Kwan
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Mar 30, 2023 |
Trump’s rally in Waco, Texas; Plus, Governor Newsom signs bill targeting oil price gouging
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Mar 29, 2023 |
Israel protests and fate of the Netanyahu government; Looking and Bay Area weather ahead
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Mar 28, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 27, 2023 |
David Harvey on “A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse”
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Mar 24, 2023 |
Federal Reserve Raises Rates 0.25%; Plus, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases 2023 report
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Mar 23, 2023 |
San Joaquin Valley Floods threaten Allensworth; Plus, what came of anti-war movement with Phyllis Bennis
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Mar 22, 2023 |
The invasion of Iraq: Twenty years later
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Mar 21, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 20, 2023 |
Robin DG Kelley on the twentieth anniversary of “Freedom Dreams”
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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
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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
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Mar 15, 2023 |
China brokers Iran-Saudi reconciliation; Atmospheric river and Bay Area weather ahead; Plus, San Francisco reparations process
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Mar 14, 2023 |
Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 13, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special Film: Aware
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Mar 10, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Dr. Gabor Mate
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Mar 09, 2023 |
Dacher Keltner on how the feeling of “awe” can transform your life
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Mar 08, 2023 |
Escalating Israeli violence in the West Bank; Plus, Ibram X. Kendi’s new book “How to Be a (Young) Antiracist”
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Mar 07, 2023 |
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Mar 06, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Kristin Ohlson
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Mar 03, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special with Paul Stamets
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Mar 02, 2023 |
Fund Drive special with George Monbiot: sustainable change to our global food system
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Mar 01, 2023 |
Fund Drive Special: Comic book writer David F Walker on his graphic novel about Frederick Douglass
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Feb 28, 2023 |
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Feb 27, 2023 |
Russian invasion of Ukraine: one year later
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Feb 24, 2023 |
Robin DG Kelley discusses the twentieth anniversary edition of “Freedom Dreams”
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Feb 23, 2023 |
Another earthquake hits Turkey and Syria; Plus, geophysicist Glenn Biasi on what the past says about the next big earthquake
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Feb 22, 2023 |
Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Feb 21, 2023 |
Robin DG Kelley on the twentieth anniversary editing of “Freedom Dreams”
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Feb 20, 2023 |
BBC office raided in backlash against “India: The Modi Question” documentary; Plus, LeRonne Armstrong fired from Oakland police chief position
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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
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Feb 16, 2023 |
What does restorative justice work look like?; Plus, Alameda County’s New District Attorney, Pam Price
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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?
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Feb 14, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Feb 13, 2023 |
Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be a (Young) Antiracist”; Plus, Paolo Bacigalupi on “The Water Knife”
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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
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Feb 09, 2023 |
Florida’s attack on AP African American Studies
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Feb 08, 2023 |
The latest in US-China relations; Plus, most of Bay Area housing elements rejected, what’s next?
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Feb 07, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Feb 06, 2023 |
Kim Stanley Robinson on “the High Sierra: A Love Story”
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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
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Feb 02, 2023 |
All about gas stoves; Plus, YouTube workers alleging retaliation for organizing; Also, Berkeley Here / There encampment receives eviction notice
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Feb 01, 2023 |
Blinken in Israel and Palestine; Plus, the two-year anniversary of the Myanmar coup; Plus, Laguna Honda Hospital hearing
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Jan 31, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 30, 2023 |
Marion Nestle on her new memoir “Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics”
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Jan 27, 2023 |
Up Front Jan 25, 2023
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Jan 25, 2023 |
Up Front Jan 26, 2023
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Jan 25, 2023 |
Developments in Afghanistan; Plus, OPD Chief Leronne Armstrong suspended
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Jan 24, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 23, 2023 |
UpFront January 20th
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Jan 20, 2023 |
An “intimate portrait of South Africa’s racial reckoning” with Eve Fairbanks
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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
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Jan 18, 2023 |
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 17, 2023 |
MLK Day Special – Martin Luther King Jr. in London
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Jan 16, 2023 |
Daniel Swain on mega floods; Plus Anya Kamenetz on how the pandemic changed children’s lives
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Jan 13, 2023 |
Iran executes 2 more prisoners linked to anti-government uprisings; Plus Richmond’s new mayor, Eduardo Martinez
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Jan 12, 2023 |
Who are the Bolsonaro supporters behind Brazil’s January 8th Insurrection; Plus the state of California’s flood infrastructure
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Jan 11, 2023 |
Israel’s New extreme-right government; Supervisor Hillary Ronen joins us; Plus Oakland’s Omni Commons organize emergency storm shelter
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Jan 10, 2023 |
More news from Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 09, 2023 |
Daniel Bergner on the mind and the science of our brains
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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
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Jan 05, 2023 |
Chaos in the House; Plus when an atmospheric river hits a bomb cyclone
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Jan 04, 2023 |
Ukrainian attack claims hundreds of Russian lives lost; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 03, 2023 |
Up Front Jan 2, 2023
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Jan 02, 2023 |
Kristin Ohlson on mutualism and the powerful interspecies relationships tying ecosystems together
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Dec 30, 2022 |
Dan Flores presents a new natural history of North America
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Dec 29, 2022 |
Deborah Miranda on her classic memoir Bad Indians
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Dec 28, 2022 |
Jamie Susskind on democracy in a digital world
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Dec 27, 2022 |
How wheat built and broke empires with Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Dec 26, 2022 |
James Bridle on AI, non-human intelligence, and biological computing
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Dec 23, 2022 |
Protests in Peru; Plus UC academic workers unions are divided on tentative agreement
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Dec 22, 2022 |
“Every funeral is met with more protests” Negar Mortazavi on the Iran protests
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Dec 21, 2022 |
Final House Committee Hearing on January 6 Capitol Riot; Plus Toxic Chemicals in Fish Promised to Native Tribes
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Dec 20, 2022 |
More news from Russia’s war in Ukraine; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Dec 19, 2022 |
Fund drive special with Kristin Ohlson and Gabor Maté
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Dec 16, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Paul Stamets
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Dec 15, 2022 |
Inflation shows signs of easing
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Dec 14, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Kristin Ohlson
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Dec 13, 2022 |
Russian neo-nazi paramilitary group raises fears of possible escalation; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Dec 12, 2022 |
UpFront – December 9, 2022
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Dec 09, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Steve Phillips
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Dec 08, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with James Bridle
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Raphael Warnock leads Georgia runoff; Plus fund drive special with
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Dec 06, 2022 |
Russia missiles strike multiple Ukrainian cities; Plus flu is surging in California
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Dec 05, 2022 |
Lev Menand on the trouble with the Fed’s role in the financial system
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Dec 02, 2022 |
Postdocs, academic researchers reach tentative labor deal; Plus Medea Benjamin on her new book
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Dec 01, 2022 |
Biden asks Congress to preempt a rail strike; Plus a spotlight on the Club Q massacre and its antecedents
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Nov 30, 2022 |
Tens of thousands of protestors arrested in Iranian uprisings; Plus SFPD proposes killer robots
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Nov 29, 2022 |
Mud, not cold slowing Russian troop movement; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Nov 28, 2022 |
UpFront – November 25, 2022
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Nov 25, 2022 |
A special report on California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations for African Americans
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Nov 23, 2022 |
UpFront – November 23, 2022
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Nov 23, 2022 |
The spectacular collapse of FTX; Plus the implications of a nationwide rail strike
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Nov 22, 2022 |
IAEA renews calls for DMZ near Zaporizhzhya NPP; Plus holiday COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Nov 21, 2022 |
Aviva Chomsky on Climate Justice, Reparations, and De-Growth
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Nov 18, 2022 |
Downballot: criminal justice reformers and democracy initiatives made gains
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Nov 17, 2022 |
Why Republicans can’t quit Trump
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Nov 16, 2022 |
Russia withdraws from Kherson; Plus Dr. Swartzberg on COVID and other bugs this season
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Nov 14, 2022 |
Lisa Hajjar on her book The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture
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Nov 11, 2022 |
The Supreme Court Case That Threatens Tribal Sovereignty; Plus Twitter after Elon Musk
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Nov 10, 2022 |
National elections roundup; Plus a spotlight on local elections
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Nov 09, 2022 |
It’s election day!; Plus how a software firm created a cartel to raise rents
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Nov 08, 2022 |
Is the Russo-Ukrainian war headed to a stalemate?; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Nov 07, 2022 |
Oaklanders to vote on public campaign finance measure; Plus
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Nov 04, 2022 |
Netanyahu and far right allies win Israeli election; Plus Matt Mahan on his candidacy for SJ Mayor
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Nov 03, 2022 |
Supreme Court poised to end affirmative action; Plus who assaulted Paul Pelosi and why?
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Nov 02, 2022 |
What Bolsonaro’s defeat means for the Brazilian Amazon; Plus we remember Mike Davis
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Nov 01, 2022 |
Russia to re-enter grain export deal; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Oct 31, 2022 |
Three open seats on OUSD school board; Plus Beatrice Adler-Bolton on her new book Health Communism
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Oct 28, 2022 |
UpFront – October 27, 2022
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Oct 27, 2022 |
Journalist censored for pro-Palestinian remarks on The Hill TV; Plus we host a debate on SF vacancy tax measure
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Oct 26, 2022 |
Mahsa Amini protestors persist against paramilitary forces; Plus we host a debate on SF Prop D/E
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Oct 25, 2022 |
Russia threatens Kakhovka dam near Kherson; Italy swears in far-right PM Georgia Meloni; Plus more COVID questions
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Oct 24, 2022 |
Algorithmic price fixing on apartment rentals; Plus Kaiser mental health workers end their strike
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Oct 21, 2022 |
How Democrats are engaging Black voters in the midterm election; Plus we host a debate on Prop 30
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Oct 20, 2022 |
Haitians reject U.S. and Mexico proposal to intervene; Plus we host a debate on Prop 29
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Oct 19, 2022 |
What’s the proposed Berkeley vacant homes tax on the ballot this November?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Californians to vote on two sports gambling measures; Plus a proposed vacancy tax in Berkeley
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Kamikaze drone strikes claim over 20 lives in Kyiv; Plus more COVID news with Dr. Swartzberg
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Oct 17, 2022 |
Beth Macy on the next wave of America’s overdose crisis
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Oct 14, 2022 |
CPI indicates rising food and rent costs; Asm. Adam Gray on his congressional candidacy
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Oct 13, 2022 |
Iran uprising gains momentum despite state violence; Plus Katherine Kolbert on what must be done to save reproductive freedom
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Oct 12, 2022 |
Candidates for San Francisco District Attorney
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Oct 11, 2022 |
UpFront – October 7, 2022
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Oct 07, 2022 |
Rebuilding after Hurricane Ian could take years; Plus the incarcerated people abandoned in the flood zone
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Oct 06, 2022 |
UpFront – October 5, 2022
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Oct 05, 2022 |
Fund drive special with David Walker
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Putin accuses U.S. of being satanic in annexation speech; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Oct 03, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Sep 30, 2022 |
12 ft storm surges as Hurricane Ian makes landfall in SW Florida
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Sep 29, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Chris Hedges
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Half a Million Puerto Ricans are still without power; Emergency packs being offered for fund drive
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Sep 27, 2022 |
Putin’s partial mobilization provokes mass protests; Plus COVID questions with Dr. Swartzberg
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Sep 26, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Mitchell Schwarzer
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Sep 23, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Barbara Ehrenreich
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Dr. Gabor Maté
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Sep 21, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with Scott Reynolds Nelson
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Sep 20, 2022 |
Russia’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping; Plus Dr. Swartzberg answers COVID questions
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Sep 19, 2022 |
Labor organizer Jon Melrod on his new book Fighting Times
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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
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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.
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Republicans propose a federal abortion ban; Plus a long look at the pregnancy-related mortality crisis
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Sep 14, 2022 |
UFW President urges signage of AB 2183; Inflation figures out today
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Sep 13, 2022 |
Ukraine military advances into areas previously under Russian control; Plus Dr. Swartzberg on the new bivalent vaccine booster
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Sep 12, 2022 |
Volatile conflicts over U.S. democracy continue in The Third Reconstruction
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Sep 09, 2022 |
How will California adapt to extreme heat?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
Dust up over Shasta River water; Plus Apache land defenders protect a sacred site from copper mining
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Sep 07, 2022 |
Disease and illness exacerbate inequality in The Viral Underclass
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Sep 06, 2022 |
Collapsing insect populations threaten environmental collapse; Plus how the black timber market devastates California’s ecological system
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Sep 05, 2022 |
UpFront – September 2, 2022
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Sep 02, 2022 |
Catastrophic floods in Pakistan displace 33 million; Plus climate change and megafloods in California
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Sep 01, 2022 |
Billions in dark money for Republicans; Plus should California keep Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant?
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Aug 31, 2022 |
SF Bay fish kills linked to red algae bloom; Plus trades unions overcome gridlock over housing bills
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Aug 30, 2022 |
Ukrainians smuggled back home via Russian “underground railroad”; Plus COVID questions
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Aug 29, 2022 |
Lessons from postcolonial Barbados on sovereign debt and the climate crisis
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Aug 26, 2022 |
Oakland’s largest unhoused community faces Caltrans eviction
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Aug 25, 2022 |
California to phase out all new gas cars by 2035; Plus unprecedented red algal bloom in the SF Bay
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Aug 25, 2022 |
Biden’s debt forgiveness policy; Plus Amah Mutsun tribal Chair on the campaign to protect Juristac
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Aug 24, 2022 |
UpFront – August 23, 2022
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Aug 23, 2022 |
Daughter of pro-Kremlin intellectual killed in car explosion; Plus more COVID questions
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Aug 22, 2022 |
Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality
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Aug 19, 2022 |
States could criminalize writing about abortion; Plus Asm. Ramos on his priorities for Indian country
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Aug 18, 2022 |
How to turn guaranteed income pilots into actual policy; Plus Tim Redmond on Brooke Jenkins financial disclosure
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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
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Aug 16, 2022 |
Explosions target air base at Russian-annexed Crimea; Kaiser therapists on strike; Plus COIVD questions
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Aug 15, 2022 |
Reem Assil on her cookbook Arbiyya: Recipies from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora
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Aug 12, 2022 |
Israel’s latest attack on Gaza killed 49; Facebook data used by police to prosecute Nebraska teenager who sought an abortion
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Aug 11, 2022 |
More news on inflation; Hmong residents in Siskiyou allege racial animus in lawsuit against the county
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Aug 10, 2022 |
Innumerable fish killed by debris flow from McKinney Fire; Plus multiple injured after escalation at Parker Elementary School
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Aug 09, 2022 |
Russia-Ukraine war news; More COVID questions; Plus what’s next for People’s Park?
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Aug 08, 2022 |
UpFront – August 5, 2022
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Aug 05, 2022 |
Cal pauses construction at People’s Park; Plus Newsom’s new Delta tunnel plan
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Aug 04, 2022 |
California declares monkeypox state of emergency; Advocates debate child mental health bill
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Aug 03, 2022 |
4 dead in Siskiyou County McKinney fire; Plus details on the new Senate reconciliation bill
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Aug 02, 2022 |
More COVID and monkeypox questions; Cat Brooks announces her return to KPFA
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Aug 01, 2022 |
UpFront – July 29, 2022
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Jul 29, 2022 |
UpFront – July 28, 2022
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Jul 28, 2022 |
UpFront – July 27, 2022
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Jul 27, 2022 |
UpFront – July 26, 2022
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Jul 26, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special: The latest in Ukraine; Monkeypox in SF and covid updates; Plus, Eugene Linden
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Jul 25, 2022 |
UpFront – July 22, 2022
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Jul 22, 2022 |
What comes after Boris Johnson?; Plus a preview of Jan. 6 committee hearing
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Jul 21, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special: Putin’s People; Heat waves and climate change; Plus, Gore Vidal from the archives
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Jul 20, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special: A People’s History of Climate Change; Plus, Bill McKibben speaks
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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
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Jul 18, 2022 |
Texas Governor orders state police to deport migrants; Plus how you can cut back on plastics this month
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Jul 15, 2022 |
Inflation hits 9% YOY; Plus an equitable public health response to Monkeypox—what will it take?
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Jul 14, 2022 |
Sri Lanka’s uprising; Right wing militias in the Capitol insurrection; Plus, Rojava’s anarchist politics – a graphic novel
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Jul 13, 2022 |
Yosemite aflame; Japan’s former PM assassinated; SF’s new DA; Plus, legacies of slavery and queerness with Son of Baldwin
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Jul 12, 2022 |
Focus on foreign policy; the latest on covid; discussing abortion; Plus Orwell’s Roses with Rebecca Solnit
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Jul 11, 2022 |
Maternal mortality expected to rise following Roe v Wade; Plus M4BL renews campaign to free Mutulu Shakur
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Jul 08, 2022 |
California will not require masks in schools; Parker school occupation continues; Plus Chief Caleen Sisk discusses the 7th annual Run4Salmon
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Jul 07, 2022 |
Americans in the Spanish Civil War with Adam Hochschild; Plus, nature’s sonic marvels with David Haskell
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Jul 04, 2022 |
An abortion clinic braces for impact of out of state patients; Plus the many barriers to abortion besides distance travelled
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Jul 01, 2022 |
On NATO expansion; The Supreme Court’s climate ruling; Plus the Save Mills College Coalition
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Jun 30, 2022 |
New insurrection hearings; SCOTUS rulings; Another death in Santa Rita; Plus, poetry from Diaries of a Terrorist
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Jun 29, 2022 |
Colombia’s election; California’s new budget; And, the Supreme Court on abortion access and gun rights
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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
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Jun 27, 2022 |
Two-years into abolishing Oakland’s school police; Plus, the magic of Drag Queen Story Hour
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Jun 24, 2022 |
The political history of Pride with Felicia “Flames” Elizondo and Lenn Keller
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Authors discuss the history of climate change and reflection a lifetime of abolitionist scholarship
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Jun 22, 2022 |
Authors discuss past American viral epidemics; Plus the history of real estate and racial segregation
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Jun 21, 2022 |
Juneteenth archival holiday special: Ibram X Kendi and Destin Jenkins
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Jun 20, 2022 |
How Juneteenth became a national holiday; Plus, a conversation with Dr Jonathan Daniel Wells
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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
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Federal interest rates to change; Exploring Putin’s People with Catherine Belton; Plus, a conversation with Michael Mark Cohen
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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
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Jun 14, 2022 |
New report from the CA Reparations Task Force; Plus, Oakland declares racism a public health crisis
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Jun 10, 2022 |
Summit of the Americas; Insurrection hearings; A history of guns in America; Plus, poet Janae Johnson
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Jun 09, 2022 |
Election response and analysis; Yemen’s renewed truce; Plus, a look ahead at the capitol insurrection hearings
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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
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Jun 07, 2022 |
CIA funding virtual reality; California’s primary ballot; Understanding borders; Plus, the latest in covid science
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Jun 06, 2022 |
Previewing the insurrection investigation; Plus, SF International Arts Fest presents Michelle Jacques
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Jun 03, 2022 |
Use of police dogs in CA is largely unregulated – despite attacks leaving lasting injuries and trauma
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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
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Oakland school closures and community resistance; Plus, the real world of gene editing with Kevin Davies
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Alameda County elections; Oakland rent control limits; Plus, the latest updates on covid as well as Ukraine
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May 31, 2022 |
UpFront – May 30, 2022
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May 30, 2022 |
Fund drive special with Angela Davis
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May 27, 2022 |
Fund drive special with Rob Dunn and Douglas Tallamy
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May 26, 2022 |
Fund drive special featuring documentaries with Noam Chomsky and on capitalism
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May 25, 2022 |
Rob Dunn’s natural history of the future; Plus, fund drive special with David Wengrow
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May 24, 2022 |
Fund drive special with East Bay Yesterday; Plus, in depth on covid and monkeypox coverage
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May 23, 2022 |
UpFront – May 20, 2022
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May 20, 2022 |
Fund drive special: Malcolm X on his birthday; And, Elie Mystal’s Black Guys Guide to the Constitution
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May 19, 2022 |
New Bay Area homeless numbers; Untold labor history; Plus, a People’s Guide to Capitalism
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May 18, 2022 |
Understanding the racist mass shooting in Buffalo; Plus, fund drive special with Angela Davis
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May 17, 2022 |
More countries try for NATO membership; The covid count grows; Plus, fund drive special with V!
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May 16, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with John Nichols
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May 13, 2022 |
Palestinian-American journalist killed in the West Bank while reporting; Exploring California’s geography; Plus, Angela Davis on the blues
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May 12, 2022 |
Philippines to elect another Marcos as president; Palestinian activism and food with Reem Assil; Plus, fund drive special with Eve Ensler
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May 11, 2022 |
Sri Lanka politicians’ homes burned down as PM resigns; Political upset in SF; Plus, fund drive special with Elie Mystal
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May 10, 2022 |
Exoneration after 32 years of imprisonment; New job numbers level off; Plus, updates from Ukraine and on covid science
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May 09, 2022 |
For APPI Heritage Month: Bruce Lee
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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
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May 05, 2022 |
Abortion economics; Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women; Plus, keeping cool with Eric Dean Wilson
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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
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May 03, 2022 |
All the latest from Ukraine; Covid updates; Plus, exploring our world’s soundtrack
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May 02, 2022 |
Oakland teachers and longshoremen plan May Day protests; Plus the 30 year anniversary of the LA Uprising
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Apr 29, 2022 |
January 6 capitol riot investigations; Public transit mask mandate; Plus Samora Pinderhughes on his YBCA exhibit
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Apr 28, 2022 |
Twitter’s new owner; Climate change in fossils; Oakland police oversight to end; Plus, Black Mothers Love & Resist
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Apr 27, 2022 |
French elections; Ukraine updates; Covid science; Plus, memoir from native California
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Apr 25, 2022 |
Emeryville Mayor Bauters on climate change; Plus pandemic revives Oakland roller skating culture
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Apr 22, 2022 |
Nationalizing the oil industry; Court ruling overturns the public transit mask mandate; Plus Klamath dam slated for removal
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Apr 21, 2022 |
Al Aqsa mosque raided; Stanford nurses to strike; SF special election; Plus, it’s 4/20
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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
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Apr 19, 2022 |
Ukraine negotiations; French elections; Covid updates; Plus, the human vs animal divide
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Special Broadcast from the Pacifica Radio Archive: Paul Robeson in 1958
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Inflation hits 8.5% YoY; Investigation reveals America’s highest earners and their taxes; Plus Bandaloop celebrates its 30th anniversary
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Apr 14, 2022 |
Tax season; Pakistan’s new PM; Plus, applied ecology with Rob Dunn
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Apr 13, 2022 |
French elections; police spending from local to national; SF’s redistricting process; Plus, spring gardening
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Focus on California’s climate and drought; Plus, Ukraine and covid updates
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Apr 11, 2022 |
About the California Reparations Taskforce; Plus a discussion of eligibility for reparations
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Apr 08, 2022 |
Post-Ukraine oil politics; CA eviction protections; OUSD budget; Plus, finance capital in higher education
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Apr 07, 2022 |
Pakistan’s government crisis; San Jose police shooting; Plus, a focus on climate change
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Sri Lanka’s uprising; Sacramento schools’ strike victory; And, “A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution”
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Apr 05, 2022 |
New York Amazon workers unionize; California’s drought outlook; Ukraine updates; Plus, covid conversations
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Apr 04, 2022 |
Biden signs Emmett Till anti-lynching bill; Plus the history of Nazism in Ukraine
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Apr 01, 2022 |
The conspicuous disappearance of Trump’s phone records; Plus former diversity recruiter at Google sues company for racial bias
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Mar 31, 2022 |
SF special election; Gray wolves’ receive protections; Gas company profits and new CA tax proposals; Plus, eviction protections
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Mar 30, 2022 |
“It’s the same thing that I have to see again”: Watching the Russian bombardment of Kharkiv
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Boosting the military budget; Exploring sanctions on Russia; Plus, restorative justice with Oakland students
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Covid rescue dollars used for police; Russia and Ukraine plan more talks; Plus, covid science
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Recap of Ketanji Brown Jackon’s Senate confirmation hearing; Plus the importance of cancer screenings
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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
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Mar 24, 2022 |
Prisoners on hunger strike in Merced County; Indigenous medicine; plus, updates on Ukraine and covid science
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Panic at the gas pump; and, the growth of narcissism
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Mar 18, 2022 |
“So Much Tragedy”: One family’s story of fleeing Russia’s war in Ukraine
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Mar 17, 2022 |
The power’s out at Chernobyl; Deadly Hong Kong COVID wave; Plus the DOJ prosecutes capitol rioters
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Two years of covid lockdown; ICE detention visitation; and a focus on SFPD
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Mar 16, 2022 |
Gas prices surge; California’s proposed mental health courts; and psychosomatic syndromes
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Mar 15, 2022 |
Ukraine updates; focus on police violence trials around the country; Plus, weekly covid updates
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Mar 14, 2022 |
Fund Drive Special with John Nichols
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Mar 11, 2022 |
Fleeing war, Ukrainians seek refuge; Plus fund drive special with Andrew Knoll and David Wengrow
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Mar 10, 2022 |
Ethnic geographies of Ukraine; Plus – Black Power graphic novels
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Geopolitics and racism at the borders of Ukraine; and Fund Drive Special with Rebecca Solnit
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Mar 08, 2022 |
Analysis and reports from the ground in Ukraine; COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg; Plus, a new Black Panther Party graphic novel
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Mar 07, 2022 |
Geophysicist in Kyiv on IPCC Report; Plus the risk of nuclear meltdown in Ukraine from the Russian invasion
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Mar 04, 2022 |
The extinction of Russian independent media; Kyiv evacuee flees to Poland; Plus more on the crisis facing public schools
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Mar 03, 2022 |
Breastfeeding in a bomb shelter in Kiev; House Rep Ro Khanna on Ukraine; Plus, fund drive special with Louise Mita
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Front line report from Kyiv; Ukraine war’s effect on oil; Plus, attention and deficits in modern life
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Mar 01, 2022 |
Ukraine Invasion, COVID Updates, and Climate Science; Plus Fund Drive special with Andrew Knoll
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Russo-Ukrainian War Update; Plus Fund Drive Special with Yaba Blay
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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
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Feb 24, 2022 |
The battle against OUSD school closures continues; Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh; Plus Fund Drive Special with David F. Walker
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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
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Why prisons are banning paper mail; Plus Tur Ha Ak on Black Solidarity Week
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Feb 18, 2022 |
Teachers and students on the SF School Board recall; Plus Longshore workers rally with Oakland teachers
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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
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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
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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
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Feb 14, 2022 |
FTP Movement launches campaign to house aging civil rights activists; Plus Dr. Carr on Harriett Tubman
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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
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Feb 10, 2022 |
OUSD approves school closures; Militia members mount successful campaign to recall Shasta County Supervisor; Plus San Francisco’s fentanyl crisis
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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
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Feb 08, 2022 |
The latest jobs figures; More COVID science; Amir Locke killed by Minneapolis Police; Plus a movement emerges against OUSD school closures
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Feb 07, 2022 |
Jihadist leader dies in a US special forces raid in Syria; Plus the life and legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune
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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
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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
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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
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Feb 01, 2022 |
Rep. Pramila Jayapal aims to revive Build Back Better bill and urges diplomacy over Ukraine; Plus COVID science with Dr. Swartzberg
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Jan 31, 2022 |
New California law that outlaws non-consensual condom removal AKA “stealthing”; Plus CRC’s COVID-related mutual aid campaign
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jan 24, 2022 |
UpFront – January 21, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Jan 18, 2022 |
UpFront – January 17, 2022
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Jan 17, 2022 |
UpFront – January 14, 2022
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jan 05, 2022 |
Congress reconvenes; More COVID questions; Plus Edward Slingerland on his latest book about alcohol and civilization
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Jan 04, 2022 |
Zach Carter on John Maynard Keynes; Brian Fagan on how pre-historic humanity navigated climate change
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Jan 03, 2022 |
UpFront – December 31, 2021
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Dec 31, 2021 |
Whose Point Reyes?: A Battle For the Future of Public Lands
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Alec MacGillis on Amazon and Inequality PLUS: the politics of land use at Point Reyes
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Claire Potter on Political Junkies; Savala Nolan on Body Politics
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Dec 29, 2021 |
How racism got built into our cities
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Dec 28, 2021 |
Omicron: the view from the hospitals; Plus: Sam Quinones on fentanyl and meth and hope
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Dec 27, 2021 |
UpFront – December 24, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dec 20, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special with Chris Hedges
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Dec 17, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special: Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses; Rest in power, bell hooks
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Dec 16, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special with Malik Al Nasir and Bryant Terry
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Dec 15, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special with Betty Reid Soskin and David Wengrow
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Dec 14, 2021 |
More on Rising Inflation; COVID Science Questions; Plus Fund Drive Special with Fredrika Newton
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Dec 13, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special with Mitch Jeserich on the History of Democracy
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Dec 10, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special with Bryant Terry on Black Food and Mark Bittman on Animal, Vegetable, Junk + Bittman Bread
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Dec 09, 2021 |
Oakland approves additional funds for OPD; Plus Fund Drive Special with David Wengrow and Damon B. Akins
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Kshama Sawant recall vote tallies today; Nikki Giovanni, Mitch Jeserich from our new Storytelling for Social Change Video Collection
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nov 29, 2021 |
UpFront – November 26, 2021
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Nov 26, 2021 |
UpFront – November 25, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021 |
How to stay safe from COVID during Thanksgiving; The troubled history of Thanksgiving; Plus how Amazon handles your data
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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
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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
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Nov 22, 2021 |
Howard University students end month long protest; Bryant Terry on veganism and Thanksgiving
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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
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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
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Nov 17, 2021 |
Ongoing White Supremacist Trials; Carmen Maria Machado on “In the Dream House”; IATSE Contract & Alec Baldwin Shooting
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Nov 16, 2021 |
COP 26 Wrap Up; COVID questions answered; Oakland’s #SaveHeadStart campaign; Plus Georgia organizers discuss the Ahmaud Arbery trial
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Nov 15, 2021 |
Maya King breaks down mayoral races; Plus preview of the 19th annual 3rd i film festival
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Nov 12, 2021 |
SCOTUS hears state secrets case; Famine in afghanistan; Plus the people steamrolled by California’s high speed rail
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Nov 11, 2021 |
“My dreams were ripped apart by ICE”: Caught in the “double punishment” of ICE transfers
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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
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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
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Nov 08, 2021 |
Congress to vote on social spending bill; Dr. Yaba Blay on her latest book One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nov 01, 2021 |
A sociologist discusses the so-called “Great Resignation” and Oakland’s Unity Council hosts Dia de los Muertos
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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
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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
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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
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Oct 25, 2021 |
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the San Francisco Int’l Arts Festival kicks off despite inclement weather
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oct 18, 2021 |
UpFront – October 15, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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Oct 12, 2021 |
UpFront – October 11, 2021
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Oct 11, 2021 |
UpFront – October 8, 2021
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Oct 08, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special – Brian Fagan on ancient civilizations in climate crisis; Plus Gary Kamiya with more tales of San Francisco
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special – Damon Akins on indigenous California history; Plus Bryant Terry on publishing Black Food
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special – Douglas Tallamy and Brian Fagan
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Oct 05, 2021 |
Mondays with Mitch; COVID questions with Swartzberg; Plus A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
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Oct 04, 2021 |
UpFront – October 1, 2021
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Oct 01, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special – Savala Nolan and Betty Reid Soskin
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Sep 30, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special – Gary Kamiya and Douglas Tallamy
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Sep 29, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special – Betty Reid Soskin and Poet Warriors
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Sep 28, 2021 |
Erin McElroy on Counterpoints; PLUS Mitch Jeserich on Congress, and Dr. John Swartzberg on COVID
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Honoring Bay Area Poets Jack Hirschman and Janice Mirikitani; KPFA’s Avotcja at the Black Women’s Blues Festival
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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”
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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
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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
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Sep 21, 2021 |
Left Behind: Overdose, homelessness and survival during Covid-19
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sep 14, 2021 |
Fallout from Biden’s Vaccine Mandates; CHP Responds Violently to Caltrans Encampment Sweep; Plus Legislating Criminal Justice Reform
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Sep 13, 2021 |
Looking Back on the Impact of 9/11 and the Rise of Islamophobia & Marking the Ethiopian New Year
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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
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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
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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
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Sep 07, 2021 |
Cat Brooks Speaks with Mamyrah Prosper about Haiti; Paul Farmer on Lessons from Failures to Contain Ebola
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Sep 06, 2021 |
Speaking with Authors Raymond Arsenault and Alice Walker
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Sep 03, 2021 |
Impact of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana; Author Carmen Maria Machado; Legacy of Baba Zumbi of Zion I
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Sep 02, 2021 |
Should OPD be released from federal oversight?; Plus Claire Bond Potter discusses her book Political Junkies
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Sep 01, 2021 |
Afghanistan: The US’ longest-running war has come to an end; Plus, 50th anniversary of George Jackson assassination
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Aug 31, 2021 |
SF DA Chesa Boudin reacts to his father winning clemency; Dr. John Swartzberg talks Covid booster shot science
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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
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Aug 27, 2021 |
The Afghanistan Papers, PLUS: The consultantification of the pandemic
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Aug 26, 2021 |
Settling Afghan refugees; smoke + COVID; PLUS: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Aug 25, 2021 |
Who is Larry Elder? Plus: A History of Native California
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Aug 24, 2021 |
SF DA Chesa Boudin on Going After Ghost Guns; COVID-19 Call-ins; Shot Spotter Surveillance; Fight Over Point Reyes Seashore
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Census Data and Redistricting; Black August and Dr. Mutulu Shakur
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Aug 20, 2021 |
Afghanistan Pullout Continues; California’s Changing Demographics, Schools Re-Opening; Black Women’s Blues Festival
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Aug 19, 2021 |
Rafia Zakaria on Afghanistan; COVID Concerns at Oakland Schools; Updates on Haiti; Plus Oakland Celebrates Shock G Day
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Aug 18, 2021 |
Evacuation Continues in Afghanistan; Low Rates of Vaccination Among Cops; Analysts Oppose Oakland Mayor’s Call for More Traffic Stops
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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
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Mutual Aid Fund for Veteran Members of the Black Panthers Launched; A History of the Friday the 13th
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Aug 13, 2021 |
Methane emissions reduction critical to curbing world warming; San Jose children near the airport face lead poisoning
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Aug 12, 2021 |
Cuomo Steps Down; Kids, Schools and COVID-19; Deep Dive on Haiti
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Aug 11, 2021 |
Infrastructure Bill; Forest Fire Management; Violent Police Crackdown on Line 3 Protest; History of Anti-Vax Sentiment; Taliban Advances
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Aug 10, 2021 |
Eviction Moratorium and Infrastructure Bill, COVID Case Rate Hits 100K Per Day; Aviva Chomsky on Cuba
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Aug 09, 2021 |
Oakland Schools Prepare to Re-Open; Black August and the Legacy of George Jackson
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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?
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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
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Aug 04, 2021 |
Special Election in Ohio; Deep Dive on CRT; Can We Re-Imagine Capitalism?
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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
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Aug 02, 2021 |
UpFront – July 30, 2021
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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”
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Jul 29, 2021 |
UpFront – July 28, 2021
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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
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Jul 27, 2021 |
Dr. John Swartzberg talks Covid breakthrough infections; plus, fund drive special with Blake Spalding on “This Immeasurable Place”
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special – A journey through the People’s History of the Bay Area with Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr
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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
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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
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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?
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Jul 20, 2021 |
Infrastructure Bill Faces Challenges; Latest COVID-19 News; Flooding in Europe and Its Link to Climate Change; Upcoming Ballpark Vote
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Jul 19, 2021 |
Enbridge Line 3 ramps up surveillance tactics against water defenders; Kanahus Manuel on her father’s experience at Kamloops Residential School
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jul 12, 2021 |
UpFront – July 9, 2021
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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
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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
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Jul 07, 2021 |
Supreme Court deals blow to voting rights; Plus: How the “Citizen” app encourages racist vigilantism
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Jul 06, 2021 |
UpFront – July 5, 2021
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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
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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.
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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
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Jun 30, 2021 |
How Newsom’s budget will impact tenants; New study shows racial housing discrimination increased nationwide
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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
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Jun 28, 2021 |
What to expect during Derek Chauvin’s sentencing; Plus, Socorro “Cori” Moreland on the Black trans-masculine experience
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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
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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”
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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
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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
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Jun 21, 2021 |
“We are reclaiming our time,” says Dr. Gregory Carr of Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jun 03, 2021 |
Landmark air quality rule could severely curtail East Bay refinery pollution; Plus, Black Women Wail gathers for healing in Oakland
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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’
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Jun 01, 2021 |
UpFront – May 31, 2021
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May 31, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special: Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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May 24, 2021 |
Celebrating Malcolm X’s birthday with excerpts from his 1964 speech The Ballot or the Bullet
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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
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May 20, 2021 |
Israeli bombardment of Gaza weakens healthcare and continues to kill hundreds; Plus: honoring Malcolm X on his birthday
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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
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May 18, 2021 |
How policing impoverishes communities and strengthens U.S. ties to Israeli occupation: Fund drive special with Alex Vitale
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May 17, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special: Davey D and Jeff Chang on “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip Hop History”
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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
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May 13, 2021 |
Israel escalates bombing in Gaza, killing 35 Palestinians including 10 children; Plus: Angela Davis in her own words
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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
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May 11, 2021 |
For California tenants in debt, rent relief program has great promise — and major limitations
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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’
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Kennis Henry of National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations on HR-40, Samsarah Morgan on Black Maternal Health Week
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Apr 12, 2021 |
UpFront – April 9, 2021
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Apr 09, 2021 |
UpFront – April 8, 2021
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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
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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
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Apr 06, 2021 |
Stephen Macekura on why GDP growth is a “Mismeasure of Progress”; plus, your Covid call-in questions answered
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mar 04, 2021 |
Fund Drive Special: A Black Women’s History of the US and Maya Angelou’s fantastic 1995 performance in Oakland
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Feb 02, 2021 |
Congress moves toward budget reconciliation, process for passing COVID relief; Plus: San Francisco’s new Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin
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Feb 01, 2021 |
A Black, progressive view on the Biden Presidency with Benjamin Dixon; Plus: The danger of conspiracy theories
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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
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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
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Jan 27, 2021 |
COVID-19 Behind Bars: Stories of the Pandemic
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Jan 27, 2021 |
“No human being should have to live that way”: COVID-19 inside Central California Women’s Facility
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Jan 26, 2021 |
“Who will make it out alive is a gamble”: COVID-19 inside ICE detention in Yuba County Jail
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jan 19, 2021 |
King Day Special: Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations; Oakland’s 7th annual Reclaim MLK Weekend; Remembering King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam”
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Jan 18, 2021 |
A closer look at Uganda’s presidential election with Horace Campbell — plus, Clayborne Carson on King’s radical legacy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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Jan 04, 2021 |
Georgia elections and beyond: Black-led community organizing, voter mobilization, and collective power
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Jan 01, 2021 |
From the UpFront Archives: On Caffeine, Rain, the US History of Smallpox and the How of Happiness
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Dec 31, 2020 |
Pandemic in Prison: Monique and Kayla Jimenez, Pleasant Valley State Prison
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Dec 30, 2020 |
Pandemic in ICE Detention: Jonny and Eduardo, Yuba County Jail
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Dec 30, 2020 |
Pandemic in Prison: Renee Benavidez, California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi
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Dec 30, 2020 |
Pandemic in Prison: Elsie Lee, San Quentin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dec 25, 2020 |
KPFA Holiday Special: Live with Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Ibram X Kendi
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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
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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
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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
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Dec 21, 2020 |
Fund Drive Special: john a. powell on History of Race and Identity, and Transforming Conceptions of Self and Other
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dec 14, 2020 |
KPFA Fund Drive Special: Ta-Nehisi Coates with Greg Bridges in Berkeley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nov 27, 2020 |
KPFA Special from the Archives: Nick Estes on his book ‘Our History is the Future’
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nov 05, 2020 |
2020 Elections roundup: votes to be counted, swing states, California ballot measures, Oakland, SF and more
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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
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Nov 03, 2020 |
Reform groups and prison abolitionists diverge on California’s Prop 25: Trading bail for anti-Black algorithms
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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
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Nov 02, 2020 |
The 2020 Election and the Black Vote; Plus: Oakland’s 25th Annual Dia de los Muertos Festival goes virtual
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oct 26, 2020 |
Moms 4 Housing organizer Carroll Fife takes on incumbent McElhaney in fierce Oakland council race over housing, policing
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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
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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
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Oct 22, 2020 |
With Prop 16, a new generation of Californians has a chance to reinstate affirmative action. Will they?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oct 09, 2020 |
California’s election is now underway. Here’s how to vote safely and securely
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oct 05, 2020 |
Trump tests positive for COVID-19, what are the implications? Plus: Food assistance available, with the Redwood Empire Food Bank
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Oct 02, 2020 |
Stories from the Fire Zone
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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
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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
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Sep 30, 2020 |
“She’s a Disaster”: Imani Gandy on Amy Coney Barrett and the Supreme Court
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Live updates on the Glass Fire in Sonoma County; Plus: the California ecosystems on fire, through science and art
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Sep 29, 2020 |
Bay Area Cooling Centers for Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2020
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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
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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’
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Sep 25, 2020 |
What’s inside Prop 22, Uber and Lyft’s $182M ballot measure on the fate of gig drivers?
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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?
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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
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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
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Sep 22, 2020 |
The politics of replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg; Plus: Progressive Bay Area District Attorneys form a new prosecutors alliance
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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
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Sep 18, 2020 |
“Sean died for a bigger cause”: Remembering Sean Monterrosa
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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
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Sep 17, 2020 |
CA farmworkers confront heat, smoke and COVID pandemic through harvest; plus: Wendy Liu on her new book ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’
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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
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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
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Sep 14, 2020 |
UpFront – September 11, 2020
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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
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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
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Sep 09, 2020 |
UpFront – September 8, 2020
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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’
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Sep 07, 2020 |
Burning Man Special: Black Rock City is built on Northern Paiute land
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Aug 27, 2020 |
Fenceline communities around Houston were facing environmental catastrophe before Hurricane Laura. Also — Israel continues its bombing of Gaza
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Aug 26, 2020 |
“Eleven years later, and I’m still fighting”: Remembering Oscar Grant
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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
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Aug 25, 2020 |
Fire ecologist explains how prescribed burns cultivate forest resilience; Plus, does fire smoke facilitate the spread of COVID-19?
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Aug 24, 2020 |
Love in the Digital Age: Exploring the Intersection of Sex, Justice and Technology
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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
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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
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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
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Aug 19, 2020 |
“I have the memories. They just stay in my head”: Remembering Jessica Williams
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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
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Aug 18, 2020 |
“They didn’t refer to her as a human”: Remembering Kayla Moore
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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
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Aug 17, 2020 |
Honoring political prisoners Jamil Al-Amin and Leonard Peltier and continuing to fight for their freedom
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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
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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
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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
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Aug 11, 2020 |
75 years after bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Utah downwinder Mary Dickson describes the ‘staggering human cost’ of nuclear testing
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Aug 10, 2020 |
UpFront – August 7, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Aug 04, 2020 |
Secretive Vallejo police clique celebrated fatal shootings by officers; Plus, Congress lets additional unemployment benefits lapse, as workers face claims delays
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Aug 03, 2020 |
Kalonji Changa on Black August, commemorating Black resistance & winning freedom for Black prisoners
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Jul 31, 2020 |
New study says masks offer protective benefits to the wearer, too. Plus, an update on strikes in ICE detention center
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jul 23, 2020 |