KPFA - UpFront

Election response and analysis; Yemen’s renewed truce; Plus, a look ahead at the capitol insurrection hearings


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[caption id="attachment_382667" align="alignnone" width="905"] Chesa Boudin was ousted from his position as San Francisco's District Attorney in a June 7th recall election | Chesa Boudin [1][/caption]
0:08 - A renewed truce appears to be holding in Yemen. We speak with Baraa Shiban (@BShtwtr [2]), is a Yemeni human rights activist, and a researcher for the human rights organization Reprieve.
0:33 - A focus on local elections:
Joe Eskenazi (@EskSF [3]), the Managing Editor at Mission Local (@MLNow [4]), joins us to react and give context to the news that San Francisco District Attorney has been ousted by the city's Measure H recall vote.
Cristine Soto DeBerry (@CristineDeBerry [5]), the Founder and Executive Director of the Prosecutors Alliance of California (@ProsAlliance [6]), also a former Chief of Staff to San Francisco District Attorneys George Gascón and Chesa Boudin, joins us to discuss Bay Area prosecutor races in San Francisco, Alameda County, Solano County, and Contra Costa County.
Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha [7]), the news editor at nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside (@Oaklandside), joins us to discuss Alameda County races, including the races for Sheriff, District Attorney, and more.
1:08 - John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine, joins us to discuss reactions to national elections with a focus on congress.
1:18 - Congressman Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin [8]) who represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, and member of the House select committee investigating the January 6th, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, joins us to discuss the upcoming hearings as well as his latest book, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy.
[1] https://www.chesaboudin.com/
[2] https://twitter.com/BShtwtr
[3] https://twitter.com/EskSF
[4] https://twitter.com/MLNow
[5] https://twitter.com/CristineDeBerry
[6] https://twitter.com/ProsAlliance
[7] https://twitter.com/DarwinBondGraha
[8] https://twitter.com/RepRaskin
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