I CAN'T WAIT FOR TICKERT AND KOLHATKAR!!!!
TWO OF MY FAVORITES ON KPFA.
THANK YOU!!!!

It will be so great to hear Brian's great, incisive journalistic take again on a regular basis in the morning as I get ready for work. Been too long, and I've missed him! And welcome, Sonali. I've heard you from time to time on Saturdays, though not always a convenient time for me to listen. I look forward to hearing more of your good work in this new show!

Oh No! Bring back Democracy Now! in this time slot. This is a HUGE bummer.

I am delighted that Brian is back and thrilled that Sonali has joined him. This is the type of program that I have desperately wanting over the past year. I am thrilled with this change! About time.

I am puzzled over why this new line up has happened. I think that the previous line up , especially with Al-Jazeera English was important for listeners to have access to. I think that this is a thinly veiled attempt by certain people at KPFA to hold on to their privileges no matter what the listeners say.I don't see why that Brian Edwards- Tiekert should be rewarded with having a new show after he engaged KPFA in a very expensive lawsuit and then took a settlement and got his old position back. Remember that check that sat un-cashed in the desk of LemLem Rijo for over a year?He was part of the group of producers and programmers who oppose change at any cost. There is exciting things going on all over the place. Right now, there is the BAsics Bus Tour going through the southern part of the U.S. , engaging people in why this system is intolerable and that things don't have to be this way and that there are people willing and able to take responsibility for bringing change about. That revolution in this country is possible and necessary and that there is a leader, Bob Avakian, who has been leading on how this can be done. Why doesn't KPFA put some of the reports from this tour on?

I was very disappointed to learn that Brian is returning and I will no longer listen in the morning at this time slot. With all the drama that he has been part of, it is disappointing that he is being rewarded. He did a poor job of reporting (not covering the South Bay), as well as Treasurer, rudely treating other LAB members, and used Robert's Rules to keep anything from getting done during meetings. He has always seemed like he was just in this for himself. I am disgusted that he got his time back.

Great to have B.E.T back. The addition of Sonali makes UP Front a truely great addition to KPFA. Thx to Andrew's great leadership at KPFA in splitting the difference and also allowing The Morning Mix! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Amy to come back in some capacity also! If I wasn't already maxed out for contributions I would have gladly supported this program financially this year. BRAVO!!

What a surprize - the intelligence, the heart, the voice, the reporting of Brian had been sorely missed by hundreds of us - so many of us discussed this at different KPFA events. BRIAN, you've brought me back, as well as countless others, and I was thrilled to call in and conribute during your show each day. Your show is smooth, informative and - not long enough !! FINALLY FINALLY - it starts my day in a great way. .

So glad to have Brian back! His shows are always the highest quality and my favorites at KPFA. I just increased my pledge to show my support of UpFront. I have been very upset at management for taking his show with Amy off the air. I am excited about this new show!

i thought we were going to have something new and interesting
we already hear these two programmers on other shows
how about something new?

Thank you for bringing Brian back to a morning time slot. He is an intelligent, informed and informative host and reporter. I also enjoy Sonali's Sat. program. So I am looking forward to a revived morning line-up. This past year, I had quit listening until 9:00 A.M. I am delighted with professional radio for our Bay Area audience in the mornings.

I AM glad to have a state and local program on in the morning, but if Up Front is going to swoop in on our beloved Democracy Now!, you've got to fill those big boots and make an honest commitment to social and political journalism.
On one of your inaugural programs, you all had a great dialogue going with an Oakland City Council person and an Occupy activist over new city protest ordinances - I almost never hear this kind of critical discussion on the air and was super excited. Then, you all cut off the very obviously frustrated council person mid-argument so that you could go on to a 20 minute segment about...chocolate. There is a reason that I listen to KPFA and not NPR, CBS, or Wild 94.9, and it ain't 'cause I want to hear infomercials for our local businesses.
Instead, please focus on the broad community issues that have import for all of us (your cycling program was great, I came to the site to listen to the last few minutes) and remember - Amy is always watching!

I think that when a Washington Post reporter blithely reports the well-intentioned but frustrated and mistake-ridden attempts of the empire to help the poor suffering people of Afghanistan and liberate its women, perhaps the KPFA interviewer might refrain from participating so enthusiastically in an NPR-esque celebration of empire; perhaps the KPFA interviewer might avoid joining the reporter in calling those in resistance to the invasion "bad guys"; perhaps the KPFA interviewer might ask a mildly challenging question -- even Michael Krasny and Terry Gross are capable of this; perhaps we can have our community radio station back?

I am disappointed that Brian is back. I have found his tone derisive and condescending all the way back to his segments with Andrea Lewis and Philip Maldari. I'd like Democracy Now in that spot until a better programming/host can be developed.

It is so nice to hear David's voice on Up Front. I have missed his view of labor on the morning shows since the changes were made a couple years ago. David Bacon's international and broad perspective helps us to understand the larger scene and how labor issues are all interconnected. No other coverage has been as comprehensive, detailed, professional and informational. Now when will we get Reyna Cowan back to tell us about films? I heard her on the Saturday show the other day, but miss her in the mornings with her regular coverage of films. Oh, yea, there's also Jennifer Stone's commentaries that were dropped when programming changed... Great show Brian and Sonali!!

Please, please, take Tiekert of the air so I can listen to KPFA in the morning again and resume my support of the station. I just can't donate a penny knowing that it somehow compensates him.

I'm really perplexed by people who don't enjoy this show. Democracy Now has not gone away and I found Al Jazeera English to be the same news one finds on most networks.I can only imagine that there are station politics at play here by people voicing such unhappiness with the show -- I can't see how it could genuinely be in response to the actual programming of Up Front which brings in great sources and the manner of interviews are thoughtful, deep and far reaching.

Please give greater emphasis to domestic issues, especially public education. I don't care so much about Pakistan as I do my neighborhood schools.

Jan. 18,2013
I am amazed that the program today talking about the Black African slave trade refer to White people running the slave trade. Jews were the dominant players in this slave trade and it is misleading to say White and not Jew. t is amazing that the fact that Jews were predominant players in the slave trade was suppressed info for so long but THE SECRET RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLACKS AND JEWS, a book published not too long ago revealed the vast role of Jewry in this slave trade; including the Dewolfs. Rhode Island, especially the Jews of Newport, RI was a major origin of slaver ships which made a triangular voyage to Africa, then to ports in the South to sell the slave cargo and usually buy sugar and cotton and return to RI.
Here is an excerpt of the book:
http://www.blacksandjews.com/JewsInSlaveryA-G.html
On video google there is an excellent lecture by Black history professor Tony Martin on "The Judaic Role in the Black African Slave Trude".

He's the former co-host of The Morning Show, at the time KPFA's top-rated local program.
MY REASON for canceling my membership...Not Brian personally, but his narcissism.

I have appreciated Mike Rose's writings, and it was a real pleasure to hear him speak on your program. Thank you.

I like Brian Edwards Tiekart. I loved his interview with Howard Jarvis Tax guy a few months ago - that Howard Jarvis lawyer had his talking points, was so self assured and smug, probably because no one had ever asked him tough questions - but completely unprepared to answer the tough questions. That was courageous.

I loved his recent interviews with David Bacon and Gavin Newsome, for example. He's always interesting.

Tiekart's smart guy, though he doesn't a have radio voice he is extremely knowledgeable and keeps us aware of local government and corporate abuse. Keep up the good work!

UPFRONT is an excellent program. Brian Edwards is courageous and prepares so well for interviews. I am a reporter (Russian River Times) but Mr. Edwards is my hero. He is unafraid to ask the hard questions, and the topics are common to us all around the Bay Area. What about a segment on the "selling of Sonoma county to vine developers?" Congratulations

BOOO WHOOO!!! Poor rich people are not getting enough police protection in the hills of Oakland! My heart goes out to them! Their rich material goods are being threatened while OPD stalk, harass and murder poor black people in the flats! Such injustice!

You asked for a story to cover and I was immediately reminded of the coverage needed for some on line protesters of Oakridge Nuclear Power Plant who are going on trial on May 7th '13 in Knoxville. For specifics visit transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com for continual updates.
The story is in nwtrcc@nwtrcc.org April-May newsletter. Marches going against military action are countersymbolic resource to future resistance. Thank you for this forum.