[0:08]  Robin D. G. Kelley. Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. [rebroadcast].

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00:08 Walter Riley, longtime civil rights attorney, fixture of struggles for justice in the Bay Area, subject of the new book cao-authored byJesse Strauss: Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley

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On this episode, we are joined by Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minneapolis civil rights attorney, founder of the Racial Justice Network, and former president of the Minneapolis NAACP. Later in the hour we speak with Assemblymember Alex Lee, Democrat representing Silicon Valley’s 24th Assembly District on the California Budget.  Finally, we speak with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis is a senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project about her article https://prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-documents-detail-nine-figure-silicon-valley-funded-abundance-movement/ 

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Today on Upfront, we are joined by The Nation’s John Nichols and later by John Feffer from Foreign Policy in Focus. Corona Calls with Dr. John Schwartzberg will resume in July.

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00:08 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation 

00:33 — John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

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00:08 —  Mark Joseph Stern is a senior writer at Slate Magazine and co-host of the Amicus podcast. 

00:33 — Life and Work of Marjane Sartrapi

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00:08 — Steve Fisher is an investigative reporter based in Mexico City who focuses on security and immigration.

00:20 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

00:33 — Arang Keshavarzian is Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University.

00:45 — Lukas Illa is a Human Rights Organizer with the Coalition of Homelessness.

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00:08 — Ramzi Kaiss, researcher at Human Rights Watch investigating human rights abuses in Lebanon.

00:33 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.

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00:08 — Kathryn Ledebur is the Director of Andean Information Network. 

00:33 — Dharna Noor is a fossil fuels and climate reporter at Guardian U.S.

00:45 — Laurel Paget-Seekins is Senior Policy Advocate for Transportation Justice at Public Advocates.

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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

00:33 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation. 

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