7:08AM - Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and coordinator of the Middle Eastern studies program. He is a specialist in Middle East politics. He spoke with us about President Trump's tweet this morning threatening a missile strike on Syria.

7:20AM - Mark Zuckerberg Testifies About Facebook Before Congress

Serge Egelman, Director of the Usable Security & Privacy Group at the International Computer Science Institute, affiliated with UC Berkeley, and co-director of the Berkeley Laboratory for Usable and Experimental Security

Craig Aaron, President & CEO of Free Press, an organization that works to ensure equal access to media and technology, privacy rights, and press freedom

8:08AM - Geoffrey Kabaservice, Republican historian and Director of Policy Studies at the center-right Niskanen Center. He spoke with us about Paul Ryan's announcement this morning that he plans to retire from the House.

8:34AM - David Carroll, associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, who is suing Cambridge Analytica in UK courts to find out what data they've collected on him

7:34AM - Joseph William, member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, which demonstrated outside the Police Protective League and is gathering at the LA Police Commission today to stand with the family of Eric Rivera, who was shot and killed by police and then run over by a patrol car last summer

7:49AM - Frances Causey, investigative journalist and filmmaker whose newest documentary is The Long Shadow

EVENT: The Long Shadow is playing tomorrow, Wednesday, April 11 at 7:15pm at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland. Click here for more info! [1]

8:12AM - Jim Paul, author of Syria Unmasked and the recently released Of Foxes and Chickens: Oligarchy and Power in the UN Security Council. He was executive director of Global Policy Forum, a think tank that monitors the United Nations, for nearly 20 years. He spoke to us about reports of a poison gas attack in Syria.

8:34AM - Bernard Harcourt is the author of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War with It's People and a Professor of Law and Political Science at Columbia University.

[1] http://www.renaissancerialto.com/longshadow.php

7:34AM - Monique Judge, columnist and news writer for TheRoot.com, speaks about the police shooting of Saheed Vassell, an unarmed black man in Brooklyn

8:08AM - Victories from Inside Out: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex

Taina Vargas-Edmond - Executive Director of Initiate Justice [1]

Dorsey Nunn - Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None [2]

Tim Wise - author and educator, host of the podcast Speak Out with Tim Wise [3]

8:34AM - Destiny Arts: EVOLVE [4]

Rashidi Omari - co-director of Destiny Arts Youth Performance Center and head choreographer

Kyziah Shavers - performer with Destiny Arts and an “Art-ivist”

Naia Young - performer with Destiny Arts

Upcoming Performances:  [5]

Friday, April 13, 7:30pm

Saturday, April 14, 2pm & 7:30pm

Sunday, April 15, 5pm

[1] http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/BgE/ni0YAA/t.2ga/G_-Fg3eFR4CYEP6_qlZBWw/h3/rQbm5PP5-2FuxqMeHBFNKyP47QtIGmOsZeCveK6xFQky4hfxBUMLX8W3C99Po6f1l92FSl8djbabdle-2BqlYOIScBAlzWTsVirG1NDB-2Ff9G-2FAjT-2FgSqg-2FUx2fytBBZD2SXRGGAdAuNKE3xAovYz5F4w6edC6hXoW8fGU-2BwsDhq3cFlzKUvFLI5Ozf0CAASRan2WW1cf0o7Y1pZTBUVrYNP-2BWFuJrINYce8xQP-2FbuvITYWjFSu0reFstKa3Qa34Qn8lGepPUTe8hz9vQriLSG63CFyYWBGDbxdlx87Vg9TM2lVrCtFJ-2FIE2f3ShPCV42KhtqqW30zLSarJjTZ-2BncR6h-2Fgw-3D-3D

[2] http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/BgE/ni0YAA/t.2ga/G_-Fg3eFR4CYEP6_qlZBWw/h4/NjWKmzxNdo7xqWlz0IlIPL-2BtZkhoWGY0c4bF0NztFWfc0M-2FJz6eyXptgYd8mbfb2BdVQcA8GfRZSZoXU85G4GPsiN-2BD3UjHyo5GgXin-2BBJMhPPSTsANBpf6m-2Bm3X4V7koDOrlk7f6FPRgyo5oAkuwkxUBDe-2FgqqTqJ3QSnsREOc0jUFhTf7Yp7exD59yQV759aeT7wWIuHAh1K3rwIxwydWi2wrDUvazFtc4gMAgp0W0355xvWGW-2FPqVIsZawDsLFIu-2Favq5U-2B7kWueFHRsxwR5F4P-2FPaJPEgVnbHYXBbbiFnab2BosmUXe1P-2Fqi5Wd5RgUOoltEp8p0mr9jpjgzIQ-3D-3D

[3] https://www.speakoutnow.org/speakoutwithtimwise

[4] https://www.destinyarts.org

[5] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evolve-tickets-43636290319

7:08 - Lisa Lehner is Americans for Immigrant Justice [1], and focuses on litigation for immigrants' rights. In December 2017 a deportation plane full of Somali immigrants turned around and came back to the US. On it's return the Somali immigrants detailed horrific abuse at the hands of ICE officials on board the aircraft. [2] Now, they’re alleging continued abuse at a detention facility, where they’ve been held since December of last year. 

7:34 - Abrahm lustgarten (@AbrahmL [3]) is a senior environmental reporter with Propublica. In the 1940s the US military began using an explosive named RDX in many of their weapons. It so effective that the military still uses RDX. But there’s evidence that the chemical is toxic, that it's leaching into ground water, and that it's causing cancer.  [4]

Hosted by Salima Hamirani

Photo: John Moore/Getty Images

[1] http://www.aijustice.org/staff_biographies

[2] https://theintercept.com/2018/03/04/somali-deportation-flight-ice-detention-center/

[3] https://twitter.com/AbrahmL

[4] https://www.propublica.org/article/canadian-research-adds-to-worry-over-an-environmental-threat-the-pentagon-has-downplayed-for-decades

7:36 - Fernando Carrillo was released earlier this week after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on October 11, 2017, after dropping off his 4-year-old daughter at daycare. We spoke with him and his wife Lourdes Barraza.

8:08 - Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and works as a writer, activist, and analyst on the Middle East and UN issues. She speaks with us today regarding protests expected in Gaza.

8:34 - Adrienne Lauby is an activist with the grassroots group, Sonoma County Homeless Action! She's also one of the hosts and producers of KPFA's disability program, Pushing Limits.

8:44 - Writer and director Adrienne Price and lead actor and vocalist LeahAnn Mitchell, talk about The Red Shades, a transgender superhero rock opera. A showcase of songs will be performed this Saturday at 4:30 pm at El Rio in San Francisco.

Clarence Lang, Professor, and Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. His research areas include African American working-class and labor history.  

8:08 - Ben Felder, an investigative reporter for the Oklahoman, and a leader of their DigTeam who focuses much of his reporting on education.

Torie Shoecraft, a kindergarten teacher from Oklahoma City and member of the American Federation of Teachers.

8:34 - Sonya Lewis, Black Lives Matter chapter lead and a member of the Clark family

8:45 - Anthony Prince, labor and human rights attorney and co-chair of California Poor People’s Campaign

 

7:34 - Walter Turner, host of Africa Today, which airs Mondays at 7 PM. Also chair of the social sciences department at College of Marin.

8:08 - Padraic Kenney, professor of history and international studies at Indiana University and author of Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World

8:34 - Pam Vogel is a research fellow at Media Matters. Her research interests include local news, gender-based violence, and media representation.

 

 

Thomas Wolf, Counsel with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center, focusing on redistricting issues, and co-author of the recent piece “Why The Census Asking About Citizenship Is Such A Problem.”

8:14 Michio Kaku, professor of physics at the City University of New York, host of the radio show Explorations, which we air on KPFA, and the author of The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth.

 

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

7:34 - Norman Finkelstein, scholar and frequent commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict. His new book is Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom

8:08 - Scott Yundt, staff attorney for Tri-Valley CARES, a watchdog organization whose mission is the global abolition of nuclear weapons.

8:34 - Radhya Al-Mutawakel is the chairperson of the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights based in Yemen. She is currently in Sana’a.

Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CodePink and author of Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection