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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.

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00:08 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect.

00:33 — Marisa Kendall is a reporter covering California’s homelessness crisis for CalMatters. June Dudas has helped her aunt and cousin to seek help through the CARE Courts. She joins us from El Cajon in southern California to discuss her family’s experience in the process.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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00:08 — Vincent Rigby is a Professor at McGill University, recently retired from Canada’s Public Service after 30 years in departments including Global Affairs, Public Safety and National Defense.

00:33 — Sam Gould is an artist and educator who lives in Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, four blocks from where ICE agents killed Renee Good. 

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CORRECTIOS:

The author followed up with the correction that activists stormed the Israeli embassy twice in 2011, not 2012.

In regards to the January 25th, the author had not mentioned that it was after the activists arrived at Mustafa Mahmoud Square with their march on January 25 and found way more numbers there than they expected. As such, they decided to lead their march to Tahrir Square.

00:08 — Rusha Latif is an Egyptian-American researcher and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on social movements and revolutions, particularly in the Middle East. Her book, Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (2022), draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Cairo during the 2011 uprising to examine activist agency in the absence of formal leadership.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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