KPFA - UpFront

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

00:33 — Sheng Tao, Oakland city mayor.

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00:08 — Avril Benoît, Chief Executive Officer of Doctors without Borders, USA.

00:20 — Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, is Executive Director at Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is also a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank.

00:33 — Susie Shannon, is campaign manager for Yes on Prop 33 and Policy Director for Housing Is A Human Right Team.

00:45 — Michael Lens is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy.

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00:08 — Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.

00:33 — Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local

00:49 — Teresa Wierzbianska’s feature on Berkeley Measure GG

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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 — Ramzi Kaiss, researcher at Human Rights Watch investigating human rights abuses in Lebanon.

00:33 — Jessica Anderson is a human rights researcher based in Michigan. Since 2013, she has been working with Visualizing Palestine, an organization that uses data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. Alongside Aline Batarseh and Yosra El-Gazzar, Jessica is a co-editor of the new book Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, published by Haymarket Books.

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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 — Rami Almeghari, reporter for Pacifica Evening News, KPFA.

00:16 — Sophie Hahn, councilmember representing  Berkeley district 5, which is north Berkeley and a chunk of the hills.

00:33 — Kate Harrison served on the Berkeley City Council representing District 4, or downtown, until earlier this year, when she quit.

00:45 — Adena Ishii serves on the reparations task force for Berkeley’s school district.

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00:08 — Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local.

00:20 — Steve Phillips is founder of Democracy in Color. His latest book is How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good. 

00:33 — Joseph Sanberg is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, and represents the Yes on Prop 32 campaign. John Kabateck is the California state director with the National Federation of Independent Business, and represents the No on Prop 32 campaign.

00:50 — Dr. Enrique Lopezlira is the director of the Low Wage Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center.

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00:08 Rebecca Nagle, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, host of the podcast This Land, just out with the book By The Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land 

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