KPFA - UpFront

00:08 — Luke Savage is a columnist for Jacobin and author of The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History. You can find him on Substack at lukewsavage.com.

00:20 — Nora, is a Master’s student at University of Michigan and a member of the Tahrir Coalition, a campus group campaigning for divestment from Israel and replacing campus police with an unarmed crisis response team.

00:33 — Ather Zia is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Gender Studies at University of Northern Colorado Greeley. Her books include “Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir.”

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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 Marco Visscher, environmental journalist just out with the book, The Power of Nuclear: The rise, fall and return of our mightiest energy source 

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00:08 — Roger Parloff is Senior Editor at Lawfare.

00:33 — Reverend Kevin Burke is a Jesuit Priest who currently serves as Vice-President for University Mission at Regis University in Denver. Previously, he was Dean and a Professor at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.

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00:08 — Mike Pierce is Executive Director and co-founder of the Student Borrower Protection Center.

00:33 — Darwin BondGraham is the news editor at the nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside.

00:45 — Terry Christensen is Professor Emeritus of political science at San Jose State University.

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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 — 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 Sandeep Vaheesan  is the legal director at the Open Markets Institute. His latest book is Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.

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00:08 — Abdullahi Halakhe is Senior Advocate for East and Southern Africa at Refugees International.

00:33 — Charlie Eaton is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced. His latest book is Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education. He is also the author of the Progressive Disclosure newsletter on Substack.

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00:08 — Jessica Gonzalez is Co-CEO of Free Press, an organization dedicated to safeguarding net neutrality, opposing unchecked surveillance, and protecting public media.

00:33 — Lida Azim is Co-Director of Afghans For A Better Tomorrow. Karen Musalo is Professor of International Law and Director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at UC Law.

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