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Sep 19, 2024 • 60min
UpFront – September 19, 2024
0:08 — Heiko Wimmen, is Project Director for the Iraq/Syria/Lebanon project at the International Crisis Group.
00:20 — Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
00:33 — Christine Hong is an Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against UCSC. Rachel Lederman serves as senior counsel at the Center for Protest Law and Litigation. She has represented many of the people arrested during pro-Palestine demonstrations in the Bay Area and currently represents the student protestors and faculty who were banned by the UC Santa Cruz campus. Christine Hong is an Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against UCSC.
00:45 — Aditi Hariharan is a 4th year student at UC Davis and President of the UC Student Association, representing the undergraduate student body of the University of California system.
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Sep 18, 2024 • 60min
Fall Fund Drive Special: Lies My Teacher Told Me
00:08 — Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist, whose latest work is a comic adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me.
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Sep 17, 2024 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Rob Larson
00:08 — Rob Larson is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College. His latest book is Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More.
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Sep 16, 2024 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. John Swartzberg
00:08 — Anthony D’Agostino, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University.
00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
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Sep 13, 2024 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Rashid Khalidi
00:08 — Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance.
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Sep 12, 2024 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Kathleen Duval
00:08 — Kathleen Duval, professor of history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author most recently of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
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Sep 11, 2024 • 60min
2-Hour Presidential Debate Special
Cat Brooks and Brian Edwards-Tiekert host an election special following Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s presidential debate.
The first hour features:
00:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.
00:24 — Khury Peterson-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.
00:36 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Sep 10, 2024 • 60min
Fund Drive Special with Yanis Varoufakis
00:08 — Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. His latest book is Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
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Sep 9, 2024 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
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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Sep 6, 2024 • 60min
Sasha Abramsky on Chaos Comes Calling
00:08 Sasha Abramsky, Western Correspondent for The Nation, just out with Chaos Comes Calling: the battle against the far-right takeover of small-town America
EVENT: Sasha Abramsky will be doing a book event at the Book Passage in Corte Madera tomorrow (Saturday, 9/7/24) at 1:PM
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