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KPFA - UpFront

UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at upfront@kpfa.org. Theme Music: Turn It Up by Digital Primitives, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

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Malcolm Harris on the paths through planetary crisis

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2026/01/01

00:08 Malcolm Harris, author of several books; the newest is What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis.This is a rebroadcast from 2025. The post Malcolm Harris on the paths through planetary crisis appeared first on KPFA.

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Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on The AI Con

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/31

00:08 Emily M. Bender is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR); they’ve co-authored the book The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. This is a rebroadcast from summer of 2025. The post Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on The AI Con appeared first on KPFA.

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Extended interview with Julian Brave NoiseCat: We...

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/30

00:08 — Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer and student of Salish art and history. His debut book is “We Survived the Night.” This interview was originally recorded earlier in December 2025. The post Extended interview with Julian Brave NoiseCat: We Survived the Night appeared first on KPFA.

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Mariah Blake on Life in the Age of Forever Chemicals

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2025/12/29

00:08 – Mariah Blake, investigative journalist just out with the book They Poisoned the World: Life and death in the age of forever chemicals. The post Mariah Blake on Life in the Age of Forever Chemicals appeared first on KPFA.

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Robert Reich on Robert Reich: Former labor secretary...

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2025/12/26

00:08 Robert Reich, political economist who worked in the administrations of three presidents (most prominently as Secretary of Labor for Bill Clinton) now emeritus Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. His latest book is Coming Up Short: a memoir of my America. This is a rebroadcast of our original interview in summer of 2025.The post Robert Reich on Robert Reich: Former labor secretary talks new memoir appeared first on KPFA.

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Cultural Historian Jeff Chang on the Life of Bruce Lee

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2025/12/25

00:08 From Bruce Lee’s San Francisco origins during the segregationist era of the Chinese Exclusion Act and family’s immigration story, to his role in the lives and minds of young Asian Americans, a new book traces Lee’s story. We talk with Jeff Chang, cultural historian, about Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. “He was a marker of culture, a sign, a signifier that put us in the pop culture conversation,” Chang says. “Folks want to whitewash his story… as if to separate

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No Straight Road Takes You There: Extended Interview...

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2025/12/24

0:08 – A rebroadcast of our powerful October 2025 interview with Rebecca Solnit, author of two dozen books, and a profound storyteller of grassroots movements and the climate and environmental crisis on this planet. Most recently, she published No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.The post No Straight Road Takes You There: Extended Interview with Rebecca Solnit appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Betty Reid Soskin, in her own voice

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2025/12/23

00:08 – Betty Reid Soskin has been a homefront warriors worker, a singer-songwriter and a performer, co-founder of the legendary Reid’s Records in South Berkeley, a writer and legislative aid and, until she turned 100, the oldest working National Park Service ranger. She died last weekend at the age of 104. This interview is from 2018, when she came to KPFA’s studios to discuss her book, Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life The post Betty Reid Soskin, in her own voice appeared

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UpFront – December 22, 2025

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2025/12/22

UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.The post UpFront – December 22, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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UpFront – December 19, 2025

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/19

On today’s show: Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again “Terror & Fear”: Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. The post

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U.S. to blockade “sanctioned” Venezuela oil tankers...

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2025/12/18

0:10 – We start today’s coverage in Venezuela. President Trump has announced a blockade on “sanctioned” Venezuelan oil vessels. Miguel R. Tinker Salas is professor emeritus of History at Pomona College and joins us to talk about Venezuela’s oil industry and this development, and parse the “absurdity” of Trump’s comments. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela. “This was not about drugs,” Tinker Salas says. “This was about oil, this was about Western Hemisphere

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Fund drive special: A People’s Guide to the San...

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2025/12/17

0:09 – Why do we fight for our Bay Area neighborhoods and advocate for change with our neighbors? And what local history informs our struggles? This fund drive special takes us on a journey from Oakland across the Bay Area with A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area by Rachel Brahinsky, professor at the University of San Francisco in Urban Studies, and Alexander Tarr, assistant professor of Geography at Worcester State University.Click here to support KPFA during our winter fund drive. The

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UpFront – December 16, 2025

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2025/12/16

UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.The post UpFront – December 16, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Call

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/15

00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. The post Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Call appeared first on KPFA.

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Fund Drive Special with Julian Brave NoiseCat

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/12

00:08 — Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer and student of Salish art and history. His debut book is “We Survived the Night.” The post Fund Drive Special with Julian Brave NoiseCat appeared first on KPFA.

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Campus Attack on Pro-Palestinian Staff and Students...

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2025/12/11

00:08 — Sang Hea Kil is professor in the justice studies department at San Jose State University. Se was suspended from her tenured position at the university and is currently contesting her case.00:33 — Peyrin Kao, is Lecturer in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, we previously spoke to him over a month into his hunger strike. He has now been suspended without pay for the Spring 2026 semester. Katie Rodger is a Lecturer at UC Davis and President of

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Fund Drive Special: History of Anarchism in the US

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/10

00:08 — Michael Willrich is a Professor of History at Brandeis University. His latest book is “American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.”The post Fund Drive Special: History of Anarchism in the US appeared first on KPFA.

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The State of US Media; Plus, Paramount and Netflix Go...

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/09

00:08 — Victor Pickard is Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania. 00:33 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. The post The State of US Media; Plus, Paramount and Netflix Go After Warner Brothers appeared first on KPFA.

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UpFront – December 8, 2025

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/08

UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. The post UpFront – December 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Tareq Baconi on Fire in Every Direction

KPFA - UpFront ·

2025/12/05

00:08 Tareq Baconi is a writer and scholar, president of Al-Shabaka: the Palestinian Policy Network; author of the 2018 book Hamas Contained, and just out with the memoir Fire in Every DirectionThe post Tareq Baconi on Fire in Every Direction appeared first on KPFA.

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