KPFA - UpFront

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 — Rollo Romig is a freelance journalist and Assistant Professor at The New School. His latest book is “I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India.”

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00:08 — Rabbi Alissa Wise is an organizational consultant, community organizer, educator, and ritual leader. From 2011-2021 was Organizing Co-Director, Deputy Director and Interim Co-Executive Director of JVP. She is currently the Lead Organizer and Co-founder of Rabbis for Ceasefire.  Rebecca Vilkomerson is an organizer, fundraiser, organizational development consultant and strategist. From 2009-2019 she was the Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is currently the Co-Director of the Funding Freedom project.

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00:08 — Jessica Mason Pieklo is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered.

00:33 — John Janosko, former Wood street encampment resident. 

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00:08 — Ben Christopher is a reporter for CalMatters covering housing policy.

00:33 — Rhodes Berry, until last month, an Assistant Chief Counsel at the Department of Energy, based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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

00:33 — Carolyn Jones is a reporter for the nonprofit news site CalMatters, she covers K-12 education.

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00:08 — Kenneth Roth is a Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs. Previously, he served as the executive director of Human Rights Watch. His latest book is “Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments.”

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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 — Aarti Kohli is the Executive Director of the Asian Law Caucus, the first organization in the country to represent and promote the legal and civil rights of Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

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

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