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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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Protests in Iran Escalate as Internet is Shut Off;...

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2026/01/09

00:08 — Narges Bajoghli is Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare.00:33 — Mitchell Plitnick, is a political analyst and writer. He is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, and is co-author, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. The post Protests in Iran Escalate as Internet is Shut Off; Plus, Is AIPAC’s Influence

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UpFront – January 8, 2026

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2026/01/08

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 – January 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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UpFront – January 7, 2026

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2026/01/07

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 – January 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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How Actors Left in Venezuela’s Government are...

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2026/01/06

00:08 — Miguel R. Tinker Salas is Professor Emeritus of History at Pomona College. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela.00:33 — Geo Maher is an abolitionist educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He has taught previously at Vassar College, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. His latest book is Anticolonial Eruptions (2022). The post How Actors Left in Venezuela’s Government are Reacting to Maduro’s

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Corona Calls for 01.05.2026

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2026/01/05

Discussed in this episode: Influenza levels are rising quickly This year’s flu vaccine appears to be reducing the risk of hospitalization in adults by 30-40%. That’s a significant help, but a worse topline than in prior flu seasons. This is likely because the Influenza A subclade K, which has come to predominate, emerged too late to be specifically targeted by this year’s vaccine. The implications of RFK Jr’s CDC drastically changing the childhood vaccination schedule (which it had not done by

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UpFront – January 2, 2026

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2026/01/02

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 – January 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

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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

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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...

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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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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

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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

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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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