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0:08 — Yaffa A.S. is the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity. Yaffa is a trans Muslim and displaced Indigenous Palestinian.
0:30 — Gabrielle Canon is a climate reporter and extreme weather correspondent for The Guardian.
0:45 — Alexei Koseff is a reporter for Calmatters covering CA state politics.
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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 Asaf Elia-Shalev, staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, just out with the book Israel’s Black Panthers: the radicals who punctured a nation’s founding myth. [This is an extended cut of an interview broadcast in abbreviated form during KPFA’s May fund drive]
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0:08 — Oliver Milman is an environmental correspondent for The Guardian, and author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run The World.
0:33 — Veena B. Dubal is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
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0:08 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
0:33 — Jeff St. John is the director of news and special projects at Canary Media, a nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis.
The post Benny Gantz Resigns, Truce Deal on the Table; Plus, California Budget Cuts Hit Distributed Energy Efforts appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 — Yanis Varoufakis is former finance minister of Greece, now Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, and co-founder of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.
0:33 — Emily Weintraut is a doctoral student in UC Davis’ Department of Food Science and Technology and unit chair of the UC Davis chapter of UAW.
0:45 — John Cavarello is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University Channel Islands. Julia is a concerned CSU faculty member.
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