America's uncritical support of Israel has remained unwavering since the UN resolution that gave over sized portions of historic Palestine to diasporic Jews. Despite the violent creation of the state, and its subsequent violent actions, the US has popularly, rhetorically and monetarily supported the occupying state of Israel. The Occupation of the American Mind is a documentary that explores how the mainstream American media has portrayed Israel in past decades.

 

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This morning's broadcast features clips from is an event on November 6th, 2017, during which Palestinian physician, activist, and politician Mustafa Bhargouti speaks about the current state of the Middle East. Afterwards, UpFront plays key excerpts from the documentary film The Occupation of the American Mind, which engages in a related critical discussion about Zionist propaganda in the U.S.

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On this morning's episode, as part of KPFA's ongoing Fun Drive, UpFront features a talk from Van Jones entitled Beyond the Messy Truth, How We Came Apart, How We Come Together from this year at First Congregational Church of Oakland. Afterwards, listen to an interview with Pratap Chatterrjee about his book Verax, a graphic novel about Edward Snowden and American surveillance culture.

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On today's show, we talk to Lina Hernandez of SEIU Local 1021 about the over 3,000 Oakland city workers set to strike after attempts to negotiate with the city were rejected.

Then, as part of our fund drive, we hear Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, one of the foremost experts on Donald Trump, speaking about his rise to power and the significance of his presidency during a KPFA event.

Next, we feature clips from Trumping Democracy, a new documentary from director Thomas Huchon that details how Trump's ascendancy into the White House was based on big money and big data, psychometrics, and fake news.

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Undocumented immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was acquitted and found not guilty in the death of Kate Steinle two years ago. Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney for the San Francisco Public Defender joins us this morning on UpFront to discuss the acquittal and its implications. Dr. Mona El-Farra, Director of Gaza Projects for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, and health chair of the Palestinian Red Crescent in the Gaza Strip. She’s visiting from Gaza and joins us in the studio to discuss the political climate in the Gaza strip. Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn of the radical left group The Weather Underground in the 1970's join us to talk about their political legacy and their respective professorial careers. Suyapa Portillo, Assistant Professor of Chicano-Latino Transnational Studies at Pitzer College, comes on air to discuss the recent elections in Honduras and the ensuing political tumult. She recently returned from Honduras as an international election observer.

Salima Hamirani hosts Friday's show. She speaks with Robert Grant about the HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis known as PrEP and asks some questions about how PrEP works and its efficacy. Robert Grant is the Associate Director of the UCSF Center for AIDS Research, directing a research laboratory, and clinical practice in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. On the one year anniversary of the devastating Ghost Ship fire in Fruitvale, Salima interviews Tiffany Saint-Bunny about the tragedy that rocker the queer and creative communities in the Bay Area, and about her ongoing work with the Trans Assistance Project [1]; an organization designed to interface with the media on behalf of trans folks, and provide trans folks with material aid. David DeBolt has worked for daily newspapers in Palo Alto, Fairfield and Walnut Creek. He joined the Bay Area News Group in 2012. He joins UpFront to discuss some of the lawsuits that came out of the Ghost Ship fire and the subsequent potential manslaughter charges that have surfaced in the past year. Despite the fact that the landlords were aware of infrastructural issues, the Ng family faces no criminal charges.

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HIV/Aids impacts black communities in specific and particular material ways. Cat Brooks interviews Dr. Cleo Manago, behavioral health, and cultural analyst, political commentator for TV1 and C-SPAN, about the distinct manner that the virus shapes sexual health for impacted black folks. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin joins UpFront to discuss homelessness in Berkeley, a particular legal case between Bay Area Rapid Transit and the former Here There encampment by Ashby station, and what steps the city might take moving forward. Here [1], is Berkeley's filing and proposed plan. Judith Mirkinson, Chair of the Comfort Women Justice Coalition, expands upon the ongoing legacy of Comfort Women during WWII and what that legacy means for today's world.

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First thing on this morning's show, Pat Kelly, founder and president of a Family Affair, an HIV-AIDS ministry at Victory Tabernacle Deliverance Temple in Orangeburg, South Carolina and a founding member of the Positive Women’s Network USA examines the intricacies of HIV status and how HIV impacts the black community. Nate Cardozo, a Senior Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s digital civil liberties team illuminates the finer points of Supreme Court Cell Phone Tracking Case: Carpenter v. the United States, another instance of potential privacy violations. As Fracking continues and is normalized, despite its evident levels of destructive environmental impact,  New York Times Journalist Blaire Briody illuminates how the fracking 'Gold Rush' impacts a specific town. She joins us to discuss her book on the subject, The New Wild West.

 

First thing on UpFront this morning, Cat Brooks interviews Minister Rob Newells, Executive Director of AIDS Project of the East Bay in Oakland and Associate Minister at Imani Community Church. The two discuss the ways in which Oakland's black community is directly impacted by HIV/Aids, and the systemic ways marginalized bodies suffer most from the virus. The GOP pushed 2017 Tax Act awaits Senate approval. Jonathan Kaplan joins UpFront to explain how the Tax Act will impact low and middle-income Californians. He is a senior policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center. Next, we hear from Sara Wachter-Boettcher, author of the book Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and other Threats of Toxic Tech about where misogyny shows up inside technology.

HIV continues to disproportionately impact already marginalized communities. Venita Ray, HIV Positive activist, lawyer, and advocate joins us on UpFront to discuss how the virus affects and impacts the black community, and what isn't being done about it. Craig Aaron, President and CEO of Free Press, speaks with us about the threat of the Federal Communications Commission's elimination of net neutrality. Were all data on the internet no longer treated horizontally--some data prioritized, bundled, or sold at a premium--the whole landscape of the web could change radically. During the last portion of the show, Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland based poet, playwright and founder of the Lower Bottom Playaz, speaks with Cat Brooks about black art and creating meaningful political narratives about blackness on the stage.