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Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, on the recent May Revise horrorshow, the death of AB1999, and California's new state slug. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Butch Hancock, country singer-songwriter and founding member of The Flatlanders, on performing with his son Rory, his series of "No Two Alike" shows at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, and how songwriting requires self-discipline. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
John Laird, California State Senator, discusses the Santa Cruz WAMM (Wo/Man's Alliance of Medical Marijuana), zoning disputes, and how California is streamlining environmental regulation. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Sam Chase, vocalist and guitarist for The Sam Chase & the Untraditionals, on writing 120 songs during the pandemic, how different musical stylings merge in the Untraditionals' work, and how being the least talented musician in the room can be a good thing sometimes. Hosted by "Kalamity Kyle" Keller and Kaos.
Aaron Jones, singer and multi-instrumentalist for traditional Scottish band The Old Blind Dogs, discusses how traditional folk music is affected (and unaffected) by modern musical sensibilities, how The Old Blind Dogs has evolved over the decades, and how Jones makes a living as a musician. Hosted by "Kalamity Kyle" Keller and Kaos.
Ben Rice -- lawyer and member of WAMM (the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana) -- discusses WAMM's founding, altercations with police over growing medical marijuana, and an important upcoming City Council vote. Hosted by "Kalamity Kyle" Keller and Kaos.
Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, discusses the State Legislatures's "suspense file," how the state is handling a potential $32 billion budget shortfall, and the nitty-gritty of how a bill moves through committees. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
John Laird, California State Senator, on collaborating with other state governments, a recent bill with the Sierra Conservancy, and how bills are named. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Tina Baine, author of AROMASTORY: The Overlooked History Of An Underdog Town, on her journalism background, local land grants, and the 12-year process of writing AROMASTORY (which, according to Baine, was not unlike childbirth). Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange and Kaos.
Fred Keeley, mayor of Santa Cruz, discusses his personal history in Santa Cruz, pay issues in local government, and the city's various housing expansion efforts (most notably south of Laurel). Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange and "Kalamity Kyle" Keller.
John Laird, California State Senator, on the pitfalls of corporate fundraising, UCSC on-campus housing, and recent environmental issues in the Sierra Nevada. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Dave Reid -- Director of the Santa Cruz County Office of Response, Recovery, and Resilience -- discuss the office's founding, their response to recent winter storms, and what a public works official can and can't control. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Griffin Boyle and Gine Johnson from Central Coast Community Energy 3CE discuss their efforts to re-direct profits locally, the function and importance of heat pumps, and 3CE's Electrify Your Home program. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Jim Greiner, percussionist for local band Yuji Tojo, on layering electric guitar tracks, musical influences, and the "business" part of the "music business." Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, speaks on the recent deadline for "gutting and amending" bills, how her office writes bills, and "new Assembly smell." Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Don Lane, former mayor of Santa Cruz, discusses his recent Lookout Santa Cruz op-ed entitled "Eight things you know about homelessness that are wrong." Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange and Kaos.
John Laird, California State Senator, on his encounter with President Biden, touring disaster sites in Santa Cruz County, and the recent Benchlands encampment closure. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, Tamara Caselin Avila ("DJ Tamarindo"), and Kaos.
Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, speaks on President Biden's recent visit to Santa Cruz, the different federal agencies involved in storm response, and the bills she's currently working on. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
Nick Pasculli, Chief Public Information Officer and Communications Director for Monterey County, discusses the logistics behind disaster declarations, what Monterey County is doing to prepare for the next storm, and storm safety protocol. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange and "Kalamity Kyle" Keller.
Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, on her recent election win, her experience as a rules committee staffer, and joining various Assembly committees. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange.
Matt Miller, Senior Program Specialist for local nonprofit Ecology Action, talks about his time at UCSC, Eco Action's Adult Bike Program, and the possibility of improving bike infrastructure in Santa Cruz. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange.
Mark Stone, CA State Assemblymember, discusses recent redistricting, not running for re-election, and the work he's most proud of. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Golden Voice Gene" Fintz, and Tamara Caselin Avila ("DJ Tamarindo").
Rosemary Menard, head of Santa Cruz City Water Department, discusses "climate-proofing" Santa Cruz's water system, the "Pure Water Soquel" project, and current aquifer storage. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Golden Voice Gene" Fintz, and Tamara Caselin Avila ("DJ Tamarindo").
Lee Butler, Director of the Santa Cruz City Planning and Development Department, discusses the current big push for development, recent bills from the state congress, and the city's progress meeting the 747 new housing units required for the 2015-2023 housing dev't cycle. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Tamara Caselin Avila ("DJ Tamarindo").
Tony Shafer, retired fireman, on wild firefighting strategy, questions residents should ask their fire district/County Board of Supervisors/City Council, and prepping for fire disasters. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange.
Tom Brezsny, longtime Santa Cruz real estate agent, talks about studying for the real estate exam when the 1989 earthquake hit, watching people move into vs. leave town, and recent developments in the real estate world. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange.
Dr. Cal Gordon, Deputy Health Director for Santa Cruz County, on the 4th wave of COVID hitting Santa Cruz, the value of telling apart different strains, symptoms of Omicron vs. Delta, and current testing options. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange.
John Laird discusses recent redistricting -- including a major change that split Santa Cruz County into 3 (!!!) districts -- as well as his sea-level rise bill, which is currently parked in Assembly. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange.
DJ Badger (KZSC News and Talk Director) chats with two members of the UCSC Men's Ice Hockey team to talk about the upcoming season, the history of Ice Hockey at UCSC, and what we can expect from them in the future.
Santa Cruz, the smallest County in the State, will now be represented by 3 Assembly Districts!! Mark's "2 year bills" are both in the Senate (non-custodial wardship for kids, and courthouse lactation facilities accessible by attorneys); deep dive into the election year calendar", including "pulling papers" on March 11, but no one is officially a candidate until the Secretary of State publishes the certified list of candidates on March 31st; one bill for this session submitted is AB1617, which would create an "official" wine label for the Santa Cruz Mountain appellation.
This Just in... from Outdoors
Environmental News Magazine
14 January 2022
Headlines Elevate Energy in Chicago makes low-income housing more efficient (Climate Connections)
Study finds low birthweight children associated with fracked oil/gas wells (Public News Service)
Indigenous leaders prepare communities for climate change (btlonline.org)
For centuries, Native Americans have relied on natural resources to sustain their families, communities, traditional ways of life, and cultural identities. This relationship with both land and water makes indigenous people and cultures particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
April Taylor is a sustainability scientist with the Chickasaw nation, who works at the South Central Climate Science Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Taylor assists 68 tribes across New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana to manage and plan for the many environmental impacts of climate change, including issues such as tribal water rights, sea level rise, flooding, droughts and wildfires. She was interviewed by Melinda Tuhus for Between the Lines radio newsmagazine.
Climate Justice in Canada (Keith Rozendal)
One of the scientists leading efforts to redirect Canadian national policy on climate change is Irena Creed, a Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. Here, she describes the social justice roots of the policy recommendation process, and some of the specifics about how Canada could address some of the inequalities created or worsened by climate change, especially for indigenous communities of the far north.
Blessing of the Waters service at Rio Del Mar Beach (Keith Rozendal)
The sixth and final pan-Orthodox service led by Father Meultin Janic of the Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Santa Cruz. A service reflecting on the meaning of the Epiphany/Theophany and the baptism of Jesus of Nazareth in the River Jordan.
U.S. Media Ignores Climate Change Impacts of Meat Eating (btlonline.org)
Roni Neff directs the program on food systems sustainability and public health at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. She was involved in a research study that looked at the coverage – or almost total lack thereof in U.S. newspapers – of agricultural impacts on climate change, especially animal agriculture. She spoke to Melinda Tuhus of Between the lines radio newsmagazine.
In 2017 an AR-15 military-style assault rifle was stolen from the Santa Cruz Police Department and remains missing. In this hour-long interview, Santa Cruz Police Lieutenant Arnold Vasquez discusses the three-week investigation he led into the AR-15 theft. Lt. Vasquez explains that he was unable to discover when or where the gun was stolen. The AR-15 rifle was discovered missing in May, 2017 and was last seen three months before that, in February, 2017 he said.
The SCPD AR-15 theft was not made public and some current Santa Cruz City Councilmembers, and the police auditor for the city, learned of the missing gun from me.
My three-part series on the SCPD stolen AR-15 was published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and is available online:
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/02/11/ar-15-stolen-from-santa-cruz-police-department-four-years-ago-still-missing/amp/
The AR-15 was originally manufactured by ArmaLite and is now produced by Colt. The AR-15 is the civilian/police version of the U.S. military’s M-16 rifle that was the standard issue weapon for U.S. soldiers during the catastrophic war on Vietnam. In addition to the AR-15 some of the other military-style gear that the Santa Cruz Police Department has includes an armored personnel carrier, flashbang grenades, grenade launchers and sniper rifles.
This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 25, 2021 on “Transformation Highway” on KZSC. 88.1 FM, kzsc.org.
Welcome to the CUIP Alumni podcast as part of the Banana Breath Podcast Coalition. Today, we welcome you to a special conversation with Alison Trybom Lucas, the UC Santa Cruz’s Arts Division Chief of Staff. We talk about her own college experience as one of the first cohorts of Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program, practical advice for students transitioning to the work world, and exciting programs that the Arts Division is hosting for UCSC students to network, learn, and develop themselves professionally.
A dialogue between Dr. Sylvanna Falcón, producer/host of Voces Críticas and Dr. Molly Talcott, Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles and Representation Chair of the California Faculty Association (the largest higher education faculty union in the United States) about the unprecedented coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Welcome to the Pandemicene podcast! Today we welcome you to a conversation with Kim TallBear and Jessica Kolopenuk, two Indigenous scholars at the University of Alberta, Canada. We talk about their Indigenous STS research training program, their upcoming open access class on Indigenous peoples and pandemics, what a “productive embrace of crisis” looks like,and how understanding our relations as kin on earth might help us learn how to live better together on stolen land.
Show notes can be found here.
Stop The Sweeps Santa Cruz: Activists Discuss Resistance Against Closing San Lorenzo Park
Human rights activist Abbi Samuels, and unhoused activist Hannah, discuss resistance against the Santa Cruz city manager’s Dec. 17, 2020 executive order to close San Lorenzo Park, currently the site of a homeless encampment of about 200 people. There are currently no beds available in local shelters.
Abbi Samuels explains that she contacted Gail Newel, health director of Santa Cruz County, about the park eviction and Newel said that if the public health department had been contacted she would have advised against moving the homeless encampment out of the park because it violates CDC guidelines that recognize that dispersing encampments during the pandemic may lead to a spreading of the Covid-19 virus.
These interviews with Abbi and Hannah were recorded on Sunday, December 20, 2020 and originally broadcast on Thursday, December 24th on “Transformation Highway” with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Update: On Monday, December 20, 2020 unhoused and housed activists acted in solidarity to create Stop The Sweeps, an organized effort to resist Santa Cruz police efforts to evict the on-going encampment in San Lorenzo Park. Since Monday police officers have been stopped from evicting the homeless encampment and closing the rest of the park. Activists used fencing to barricade the police away from the encampment, stopping the eviction. And on December 30 a lawsuit was filed in federal court by the California Homeless Union and the Santa Cruz Homeless Union on behalf of Food Not Bombs, Alicia Avalos, Hannah Hegel, Chris Ingersoll and Randolph Tolley. As a result, a temporary restraining order was issued to stop the city from closing San Lorenzo Park.
Stop the Sweeps Santa Cruz petition:
https://www.change.org/p/santa-cruz-city-manager-martine-bernal-stop-the-closure-of-san-lorenzo-park-and-the-displacement-of-the-homeless-camp?redirect=false
The band and culture-jamming project Negativland recently released their 14th studio album “The World Will Decide.” Long-time bandmember Jon Leidecker discusses this latest audio offering from the Bay Area media collective founded in 1980. Topics include technology, privacy, the military-prison complex and the current movements for Black Lives and defunding the police.
This interview was originally broadcast on November 20, 2020 on “Transformation Highway” with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM / kzsc.org.
Santa Cruz Indigenous Resistance & Survival in the 19th Century
Marty Rizzo is the author of a 2016 thesis titled “No Somos Animales: Indigenous Survival and Perseverance in 19th Century Santa Cruz, California” for which he received a PhD in History from UCSC. The paper is currently being made into a documentary film and a book that’s scheduled for release in Fall, 2021.
Rizzo speaks about Santa Cruz Indigenous history, the infamous 1812 assassination of Roman Catholic Spanish Padre Andres Quintana by Native Americans at the Santa Cruz Mission, the Amah Mutsun movement to protect Juristac (protectjuristac.org), and more.
Originally broadcast on KZSC 88.1 FM on Thanksgiving Day, 2017 on Transformation Highway with host John Malkin.
These days Oliver Tree lives in Hollywood. But he started out here in Santa Cruz, California. The performer’s first album (and last) - Ugly is Beautiful - was released by Atlantic Records and leapt onto the billboard charts on August 1, 2020 as both number one alternative and rock album. Oliver Tree, who embodies elements of Evil Knievel, Andy Kaufman and Iggy Pop, spoke with John Malkin on Transformation Highway on KZSC 88.1 about why the album release was delayed, what it’s like to build the world’s biggest scooter (and ride it) and why he’s done with music and has established a production company called Alien Boy Films.
Gina Dent is an activist, author and associate professor of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dent discusses the movement to abolish police and prisons and efforts to create community health and safety without systems of coercion and punishment.
“Visualizing Abolition” is a year-long series featuring artists, activists, scholars and lawyers struggling for prison abolition. Presented by the Institute for Arts and Sciences at UCSC, the events run from October 20 to May 19, 2021 and are, “designed to examine the ways people see and understand issues of mass incarceration, detention, and policing in the United States and abroad, challenging the prevailing social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote.”
“Abolition. Feminism. Now” is the forthcoming book by Gina Dent, Angela Davis, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie, scheduled for release by Haymarket Books on March 2, 2021.
This interview was conducted by John Malkin and was originally broadcast on “Transformation Highway” on October 16, 2020 on KZSC 88.1 FM, kzsc.org.
https://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2020/visualizing-abolition
Tune in to our interview with Dr. Joan Donovan, faculty at Harvard; Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; and host of the Big If True webinar series. We discuss the spread of misinformation, social media platforms, and possibilities for online organizing.
The University of California will no longer require standardized testing. We explore what that means for students. Also, we take a look at how voting may be different in Santa Cruz county for the November 3rd general election.
KZSC joined the nationwide COMMUNITY RADIO BLACKOUT on June 2nd, 2020 — 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence — followed by 24/7/365 of programming calling for racial justice. George Floyd’s death is part of an appalling history of racist harassment, assault, and murder that stretches back far too long in the life of our nation. There are too many victims whose experiences never made headlines and whose names will never become public. KZSC and UC Santa Cruz work within the same context of white supremacist systems, structures, and conditions that make life more dangerous and precarious for people of color. We need to do all that we can to dismantle these injustices. KZSC, like our country, have taken too long to translate our ideals into action or sustainable change. We must do better, in order to uphold the highest values that we pursue in our mission — to provide "access in a non-discriminatory, progressive fashion to those traditionally underrepresented in the media. This includes, but is not limited to, women, cultural, ethnic and racial minorities, people of various sexual orientations and gender expressions, seniors, youth, children and persons with disabilities."
Santa Cruz locals working in agriculture talk about how COVID-19 has affected their businesses. Also, a look into the future of contact tracing in Santa Cruz county.
Radio is an essential service in California, and we take a behind-the-scenes look at how KZSC has adjusted its operations to accommodate Santa Cruz county's stay-at-home orders. Also, a report on how the coronavirus has affected the Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall.
COVID-19 rules could force a housing shakeup for UC Santa Cruz in the fall. Fewer students might return to Santa Cruz if most classes are online only, and all dorm rooms on campus could be converted to singles, says UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive. KZSC news talks to Larive and others about housing. More at kzsc.org
An interview with Jan Goff LaFontaine, Jaqueline Mendoza, and Jessica Espinoza about LaFontaine's Speaking Out Campaign against sexual violence. LaFontaine believes in creating social change, empowering women and girls, one photograph at a time. LaFontaine's visual photography projects reflect a collaboration between the survivors themselves and the photographer and are focused on hope, healing, and transformation. The healing stories of Mendoza and Espinoza are featured in the campaign and they assist LaFontaine in gathering and supporting survivors on their healing journeys.
History professor Alan Eladio Gómez of justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University discusses his research and book "The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics & Latin American Social Movements" (University of Texas Press, 2016). We also discuss his next book manuscript titled 'With Dignity Intact': Rebellion, Justice, and Power in the U.S. Federal Prison System, 1969-1974" (under contract, University of Nebraska Press).
A live phone interview on July 25, 2019 with Juan Carlos Davila, a documentary filmmaker, journalist and PhD student in Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz, shortly after the official resignation of Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosello following two weeks of street protests.
A joint interview with Paulina Moreno, the Project Director of the Thriving Immigrants Initiative and the 2020 Census Project at Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County (CAB) and her colleague Joseph Watkins, Assistant Project Director for the 2020 Census Project at CAB. We discussed the SCOTUS decision to not include the citizenship question to the US Census, the organizing efforts for Census 2020, and why it is important to be sure that #EveryoneCounts in Santa Cruz county and beyond.
Anti-war congresswoman Barbara Lee, reducing waste and increasing pay in restaurants, and a new track by Octostrange are on the menu with Dan Woo and new co-host Jasper Ramirez...who is grilled on how he got in to the air room.
An interview with Karla Vasquez, founder of SalviSoul, a cookbook project documenting the stories of Salvadoran women, their recipes and Salvadoran food ways. Karla is a food justice advocate, a food historian and a proponent for healthy food accessibility in low-income communities.
Headlines: Poetry reading in Chadwick Garden; golf ball pollution art
Story: The Nature Corps Volunteer Weekend in Big Sur
More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com
*Please note this interview covers a sensitive topic and may not be suitable for all listeners.*
Since October 2018, KZSC and the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz have been teaching journalism classes in Watsonville, California at the Digital NEST. This special episode is co-produced by three Watsonville High School students from the class: Nance Rodriguez, Dafne Martinez, and Casey Martinez. Their audio-video project included an important interview with Jaqueline Mendoza, a local sexual assault survivor. This interview took place on May 9, 2019 on the rooftop of the Digital NEST.
Making the Chinese Mexican author tills the historical context of nationalism...exploring discrimination both aimed at, and stemming from, Mexico over the past century.
Dr. Rebecca Hernandez (Mexican-American and Mescalero Apache) is the Director of the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) at UC Santa Cruz and Rennea Howell (member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma) is an AIRC student intern. They discuss the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and their collective efforts to raise awareness on this serious issue.
Alberto Ledesma, an Assistant Dean for Diversity at U.C. Berkeley, was brought undocumented to Oakland, California at eight years old. He graduated U.C. Berkeley three times over and has held faculty positions at Cal State University, Monterey Bay, and U.C. Berkeley. In this interview, he discusses his book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life (The Ohio State University Press, 2017).
Sandra Soto is an Associate Professor or Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona (UofA). She discusses the charges brought against three UofA students for protesting a campus presentation on March 19, 2019 by armed Border Patrol agents. The students are known as #TheArizona3.
Slug Support rep Mariah Lyons tells Dan Woo and DJ Peach where to find help surviving as a student.
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UPTE union rep Bill Spencer talks UC technical worker strike status. Also, UC election measure info!
The Ace of Cups may not have been the first all-female rock and roll band, but they were the one that mattered within that bizarre wrinkle in time that constituted late 1960s San Francisco.
The Ace of Cups are in Santa Cruz on Friday May 17th, 2019 at the Rio Theatre
Labor rights attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan talks about ensuring fair business practices in the gig economy as well as older economic sectors, her $20 million settlement victory from Uber, and a possible run for senate in Mass.
Daniel sat down with the current UCSC SUA Vice President of External Affairs, Davon Thomas, to talk about the work he does in his position and the statewide scope it encompasses. Topics discussed include tuition hikes, state lobbying, minority representation, undocumented aid, and much more. Thanks for tuning in!
This week, Oiko explores environmental impacts of agriculture and what we can do to lessen our carbon footprint by changing our diet. Ronald Donkenvoort, farming for over thirty years, gives us a glimpse how farming has changed over time, while Rebecca King talks about the unique challenges of being a sheep dairy in a changing climate. Anthony Tomaso, a beekeeper, tells us the health benefits of local honey. Ian O'Hollaren takes us underwater to taste seaweed, nutritionally dense and great for the environment. Our second segment talks with Greg Gilbert, plant pathologist, about the deadly plant disease Sudden Oak Death and the havoc it's wreaking on Californian forests.
Listen to a special episode of Oiko! Usually a biology show this week we expanded to include interviews with astronomers, psychologists, and historians as part of the Graduate Research Symposium held this weekend. New celestial bodies on the outskirts of our solar system, machine learning, and the environmental policy of China in the 1950s and much more included in this episode! Follow DJ Gina on Instagram for more content @881oiko
Nicknamed the "Reef Sentinel" for his multidisciplinary approach to coral reef studies, Dr. Terry Hughes' research on bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef earned him a spot on Nature Journal's top ten people who matter in 2016. He discusses the future health of the world's reefs, economic security of nations that depend on the reef, and his latest research methods.
Headlines: Opioid deaths down in Santa Cruz; Poacher sentenced; Microplastic pollution spreads
Stories: UC’s Cool Campus Challenge update, Profile of a young naturalist, Luba Kaplanskya, intern with the Ken Norris Center for Natural History
More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com
Headlines: Cool Campus Challenge , Ag series, Sea levels threaten the Embarcadero, 2020 Census
Stories: Ken Norris Center for Natural History
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Isaí Ambrosio is the Director of the Davenport Resource Services Center and the inaugural Activist-in-Residence for UC Santa Cruz/Research Center for the Americas. We discussed his work in Davenport, California, his challenges in obtaining his education while learning English, and his plans as the activist-in-residence.
Dr. Safiya Noble, Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication, is the author of the best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press, 2018). Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society.
An interview with Nina Simon, outgoing director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and incoming CEO for Of By For All. We discuss rebuilding of the MAH to reach an unprecedented level of financial stability, what she's learned about her own leadership style, about realizing one's own career potential, and about the Of By For All movement.
Daniel sat down with CUIP intern for the Ken Norris Center, Luba Kaplanskaya, to talk about the center's work, natural history more broadly, and Luba's personal associations with the subject.
Tired of the rich deciding when they want to invest in local communities? or talking about giving tax cuts on the implied promise that they might help those in need? This week Unquestionable tackles neo-feudalism.
Radio Live Spectacular debuts in spectacular form. Host Brendon Hannaford is joined by local up-and-coming Santa Cruz stand up comedian Natasha Collier, and a little boy named Maxwell Silver (Daniel Fisher). Originally aired on 1/19/19.
Mayor Martine Watkins accused new councilmember Drew Glover of bullying at the 2/12 meeting. Input on this issue, as well as surrounding incidents became the cover story of the GoodTimes on March 5.
RIP Peter McGettigan, and Dan Stolpe.
Drug rehabilitation professional Dr. Mark Stanford of Janus of Santa Cruz talks all things drug abuse with Dan Woo on this week's episode.
Comedian, author, and speaker Dave Nihill reps Irish comedy and the upcoming Real Irish Comedy Festival. More info at: http://realirishcomedytour.com/. cheers, dan woo
Dr. Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Assistant Professor of Sociology from Santa Clara University, is the author of Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity (2018, UC Press). He discusses some of the changes to the criminal justice system in California and about his upcoming research in this subject area.
Headlines: Dry farming, Self-driving cars, LA gas power plants shut, CA Green New Deal, Atmospheric River soaks California
Stories: Central Valley Environmental Justice issues, North Coast Rail Trail EIR finalized
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Dr. T. Christopher Aplin is an independent scholar and ethnomusicologist currently working with the Fort Sill Apache Tribe to secure grant funding to preserve their recorded cultural heritage. Dr. Aplin discusses his book in progress about the music of the Apache prisoners of war taken with Geronimo in 1886 and about the indigenous influence on popular music
DJ Maladroit sits down with Anna Maria from City on a Hill Press. They talk astrology, Kanye, and falling in love with strangers.
Created by Dustin Lennin Choto
Dr. Melissa Guzman-Garcia, Assistant Professor of Latino/a Studies at San Francisco State University, discusses being a women of color/Latina faculty member in academia, about mentoring, and about her research on migration and religion.
Headlines: Mauna Kea Protection, Government Shutdown Impact on Food Assistance, Mount Tamalpais Environmental Takeover, Golf Ball Ocean Impacts, Anchovy Conservation, Santa Cruz Homeless Camp, Santa Cruz Bike Commuting
Stories: Santa Cruz Waste Management, The Natural History of Where You Live pt. 2
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DJ Maladroit is joined by Erika Staud of On The Spot. They discuss SOPHIE, music production, and food.
Created by Dustin Lennin Choto
Headlines: Groups vow to fight Rollback of Clean Water Protections
Stories: 2018 Wildfire Season, UN Climate Summit; Search and Rescue at the Camp wildfire in Butte County.
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Dan Woo dissects the heartless and brainless arguments of those in the market-rate theologian class. To those who say, 'can't afford it? GET OUT!" Dan Woo appreciates your opinion...but...
DJ Maladroit is joined by Aadam Mohammad from On the Spot to talk about the Sonic the Hedgehog video games.
Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto
On this episode of Half Hour Lunch Break, student artist Lizzy Choi talks favorite Smash Bros. characters, their art process, and Lust vs. Love.
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Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto
Originally aired on Transformation Highway on August 24, 2017, this interview with Jackie Sue Powell, certified yoga instructor in Santa Cruz, California is about global yoga, social justice and well-being. Jackie discussed her commitment to make yoga accessible, both in terms of cost and imagining yoga practices outside the studio. She spoke about her life-changing experiences teaching and learning yoga around the world, including Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Palestine. We also talked about the role yoga could play in improving the well-being of social justice activists.
For this first episode of Half Hour Lunch Break, DJ Maladroit interviews City on a Hill Press's Co-Editor-in-Chief Laretta Johnson. They talk about eggs, corn, and bad first dates.
Half Hour Lunch Break is a podcast where UCSC students come on and talk about whatever is on our DJ's mind.
Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto
An interview with UC Santa Cruz Professor Micah Parks of Literature about her new book True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape (2018, Outpost 19). We discussed her unique upbringing living in a log cabin on a commune and how that sparked her creativity and love of reading and about the writing of her latest book.
An interview with Dr. Theresa Montaño, Vice-President of the California Teachers Association (CTA) about the unprecedented Los Angeles Unified School District strike. Dr. Montaño has an extensive teaching career at all levels of education in California public schools. Now a professor of Chicana/Chicano Studies with an emphasis in education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Dr. Montaño research interests include: teacher activism; Chicana/o and Latino/a educational equity; critical multicultural education; and Bilingual/ELL education. Dr. Montaño believes that these are crucial times for public education and for CTA.
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District is set to buy out private water company California American Water (Cal-Am). District General Manager Dave Stoldt breaks down the details of his agency's task for listeners with Dan Woo.
DJ Maladroit sits down with video essayist Jack Saint / LackingSaint. They discuss Jack's inspirations, the current socio-political atmosphere, and Mexican food.
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This time Dj Maladroit is joined by Ashley of the YouTube channel "Trash Theory." They discuss Weezer, Lil Uzi Vert, favorite Simpsons character and more.
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Dr. Ranita Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas discusses her book, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press, 2017). Ray's book challenges common views that targeting “risk behaviors” among youth such as drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Dr. Ray is an ethnographer specializing in women of color feminisms, children and youth, urban inequalities, and education and policing.
An interview with Dr. Barbara Sutton, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department from the University at Albany and author of Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York University Press, 2018).
An interview with Gabriel Medina, Assistant Program Director and Digital Arts and Technology Manager at Digital NEST (Nurturing Entrepreneurial Skills with Technology), as well as an Adjunct Professor in Digital Media at Cabrillo College about nurturing creativity and artistry in Watsonville, the pros/cons of exposing young people early to technology, and about his upbringing in Watsonville.
An interview with Carol Garcia, Program Coordinator of UCSC’s People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) about creating an inclusive sustainability movement and the necessity for having students of color in leadership roles. As the granddaughter of migrant workers, we also addressed the health issues facing farmworkers in the Salinas area.
This interview is about the role of community collaborations in art projects. Part 1 of this interview is with Robin Treen, Special Projects Coordinator at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA) and Donna Conwell, Associate Curator at the Montalvo Arts Center is about the New Terrains project organized by SJMA and the artist residency at Montalvo Arts Center. Part 2 of this interview is with Agustina Woodgate and Stephanie Sherman of RadioEE.net, a nomadic, online, translingual radio station that hosts 24-hr broadcast events about mobility and movement.
Dr. Michelle Téllez is an Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. For 20 years, Dr. Téllez has been committed to exploring shared human experiences and advancing social justice. An interdisciplinary scholar trained in sociology, Chicana/o studies, community studies and education, her work seeks to uncover stories of identity, transnational community formation, gendered migration, resistance, and Chicana mothering. We discussed the changing face of Arizona politics, community-based social justice movements, and how to find joy in times of distress.
Defenders Of Wildlife Southwest Program Director, Bryan Bird sounds the alarm about the environmental harm a southern border will cause to plants, animals, and yes, to humans.
KZSC's DJ Maladroit (Dustin) sits down with Vanessa Silberman & Carissa Johnson to talk musical influences, encounters with strangers, and favorite vegan treats.
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Alexandra Moore, PhD candidate in Visual Studies and the Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, studies contemporary global art with a focus on works by African and European artists that critically engage the geographies produced by colonialism. In this interview, we discussed her previous work as the Executive Director of Breaking Ground, a nonprofit that supports community-initiated development projects in Cameroon, and the Forest Law exhibit being shown at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery until Dec. 1, 2018.
Elise Granata and Helen Aldana of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, also known as the MAH, talk about the active role a museum can have in a local community. Elise, the MAH’s Community Manager, discusses the re-structuring of the MAH's mission and being the founder of the participatory, time-based social experience called POWER HOUR. Elise, the MAH’s Intercultural Programs Coordinator and a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, talks about her various new collaboration efforts, including building connections to Watsonville.
An interview with Dr. Macarena Gómez-Barris, Chair of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute about her research on the harm of extractivism on Indigenous territories in the Americas. She writes and teaches on social and cultural theory, decolonial thought, racial and extractive capitalism, social movements, queer and submerged perspectives, critical Indigenous studies, experimental film, and social / environmental transformation. She is the author of books about state violence in Chile, about indigenous struggles against extractive capitalism and more recently, about art and the pink tide in Latin America. We discussed various aspects of her research, specifically the areas focused on indigenous struggles against extractive capital.
Experienced geriatrician and author, Dr. Anne Kenny and host Dan Woo dissect their experiences of caring for elder relatives, through the lens of Kenny's book Making Tough Decisions about End-of-Life Care in Dementia.
2nd segment: Info on the future of tenant protections in Santa Cruz.
Theme music: "1978" by Do Make Say Think, and "Mirrors" by Homebrew (homebrewsantacruz.bandcamp.com)
Dr. Susan J. Noonan and Jon McGee enlighten host Dan Woo on their books: Take Control of Your Depression, and Dear Parents: A Field Guide For College Preparation
theme music: "1978" by Do Make Say Think and "Mirrors" by Homebrew (homebrewsantacruz.bandcamp.com)
Dustin (DJ Maladroit) got to sit down with hip-hop beat maker Guala Beatz. They discuss Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, video game nostalgia, and more.
Dustin (DJ Maladroit) recently got to sit down with electronic dream-pop artist Adib Sin. They talk about his time working at a ramen shop, Miyazaki films, and their love for music featured in the Sonic the Hedgehog games.
Bennett interviews Groom of the Tomb author, gamebook collector, and bibliographer Demian Katz. Demian describes how he got his start collecting and the origins of gamebooks.org, the definitive bibliography of interactive fiction. Tales of rare finds and the collector's frenzy that literally threatened to collapse his house! Demian has since donated his collection to Special Collections at UC Santa Barbara for safekeeping and future scholarship. A librarian himself, he discusses gamebooks' interdisciplinary place amongst literary history, computer science, game design, and their cousin in pop publishing, the cheap, mass produced melodramatic blockbuster "dime novels" of the late 19th century. Plus hope in the rediscovery of gamebooks in the Twitch era and the authors of today!
A few of Demian's gamebook recommendations:
Life's Lottery
Fabled Lands series
Lone Wolf
Lost Worlds (novel game systems)
Combat Heroes (novel game systems)
Steam Higwayman
Treasure Hunt (early example of the form)
Santa Cruz City School Board candidates debate before Tuesday's Election. Public Water Now from Monterey County talks with Dan Woo about the prospects for a public water takeover on the Monterey Peninsula from privately-owned California American Water.
This episode explores Monterey County's water company buyout ballot measure. Dan Woo also shares his elated, but conflicted, view of a democratic party in civil conflict...and of course new developments on Measure M.
The gang plays To Be Or Not To Be by Ryan North, a spectacularly successfully Kickstarted branching narrative adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Zach calls in from "the good Ferrell's Donuts" (respectfully disagree). Hear don give the 'ultimate sigh' as emo Hamlet. Ophelia is really into plumbing. Spooky, scandalous graveyard makeout sessions! Lauren calls in from Taco Bell and gets the ghost puns rolling. With guests Michael Chemers, Elizabeth Swensen, and Don.
The gang returns to Groom of the Tomb by Demain Katz, a tribute to the melodramatic dime novels The Bride of the Tomb. Hearts ache, tears flow, new love is spurned! The ponies you ordered last episode have arrived. Bennett calls out the listeners until they pick up the phone, and our opiated protagonist make a fateful trip to the poorly constructed theatre...
Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch
Drew Glover, longtime Santa Cruz resident talks about his second run for city council, and the issues he is running on! Dan Woo runs down a bit of his Mail-in ballot to guide the conversation.
A dissection of Prop 10, a bill that enters a scene of sky-rocketing housing costs, would allow California communities to enact across the board rent control rather than laws affecting just half the population. A caller gets several minutes of airtime and finds both common and uncommon ground with host Dan Woo.
Theme music: "1978" and "The Universe!" both by Do Make Say Think; "Mirrors" by Homebrew (https://homebrewsantacruz.bandcamp.com)
The gang plays Groom of the Tomb by Demain Katz, a book that combines his love of melodramatic dime novels with his extensive gamebook knowledge. Our very sad very rich protagonist can hardly drag himself out of his palatial hotel room after the death of his bride to be. We unlock keys and fail dice rolls as depression and a new love interest threaten to divert the investigation into her mysterious suicide.
Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch
Part 2 of Thrusts of Justice by Matt Youngmark. The gang continues to get to know their super powered battle armor. We take a side trip to an undersea cave and get drunk on ancient pirate rum. Save yourself or your mysterious new friend? Tad and Bennett discuss their least favorite ways to die. Special guest Donovan joins.
Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch
The gang plays Thrusts of Justice by Matt Youngmark. Your online journalism career is flailing - you jump at the chance to become the superhero you always admired! A little kid calls in and has pragmatic recommendations. Will that nosy neighbor ruin our chance to save the world? And can we trust this guy in the black helicopter?
Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch
Award-winning author and UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande discusses her new memoir A Dream Called Home (2018). A Dream Called Home is her follow-up memoir to The Distance Between Us. This new memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree at UC Santa Cruz and to find her place in her new adoptive country.
MariaElena De La Garza is currently the Executive Director of the Community Action Board (CAB) of Santa Cruz County and recipient of the 2018 UC Santa Cruz’s Tony Hill award for her work as a community leader. Paulina Moreno is the Project Director of the Thriving Immigrants Initiative a new south county CAB project coordinating legal services, policy advocacy, education and outreach, and essential services to the immigrant community. In this interview, they talk about the work of CAB, about what they see as challenges facing immigrant families and students in our county, and about the new Thriving Immigrants Initiative.
Howard Penn, Executive Director of the Planning and Conservation League alerts listeners to the expiration of the Land And Water Conservation Fund on September 30, barring congressional action. Host Dan Woo steers the conversation.
LC of Not So Distant Relatives' interviewed Herb Alpert and Lani Hall about “Herb Alpert Re-imagines the Tijuana Brass”.
Alpert is an iconic trumpet player and the co-founder of A&M Records. He also is a composer, sculptor, and philanthropist. He has won nine Grammys and is the only artist to hit No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist and an instrumentalist.
Lani Hall is a Grammy-winning singer and composer in her own right. She was the lead singer of Brasil ’66 from 1966 until 1971 and is also known singing the title song to the James Bond film "Never Say Never Again".
The duo, who have been married since 1974, kick off their tour here in Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 15th, at the Rio Theatre, brought to you by long-time KZSC sponsor, Kuumbwa Jazz.
Dr. Molly Talcott is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, Associate Vice President of the California Faculty Association (the largest higher education faculty union in the US), and the co-founder of LUCI (the Los Angeles Union Cooperative Initiative). In this conversational interview with Dr. Talcott, we discuss the most explosive news of the week, which includes the Paul Manafort conviction, the guilty plea of Michael Cohen, and the stunning refusal of the GOP to hold 45 accountable.
In this interview with author Tommy Orange (enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma), Orange discusses his highly acclaimed debut novel There There. Orange talks about how he conceptualized his novel, his views on the limited representation of Native life in literature, and why engaging with historical memory in his book was necessary for telling a contemporary story about urban Native life.
An interview with Dr. Liz Philipose about spirituality and politics. Dr. Philipose studies and teaches for transformation as a former professor of women’s studies and global politics. In this interview, Dr. Philipose discusses how the social world creates separation between us and about our internal capacity to heal and transform our everyday lives.
Dr. Cindy Cruz of UC Santa Cruz's Education Department discusses her research focused on LGBTQ street youth narratives and experiences, including homeless queer and trans-youth in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Cruz addresses how she has come to understand the survival strategies of LGBTQ homeless youth, the specific challenges facing LGBTQ homeless youth, the role of gentrification in exacerbating precarious conditions, and how the state of California needs to better address this crisis.
Tad is game master on an original role playing quest!
Rana (Elizabeth Swensen), Pebble (Rebecca), Benetos and Banjo the bear set out to scour the wastelands of the Yester Zone for artifacts from The Before Times. This episode finds our party deep in the ruined Temple of Milton Hasbro, who scholars believe to have been a highly powerful wizard of The Before Times who hid many treasures here, guarded by ancient magic. Will the callers help the party solve maniacal riddles and avoid traps in their not-so-trivial pursuit of treasure?
Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch
The gang plays Time Travel Dinosaur by Matt Youngmark. T-Rex hijinks and good-dog deeds ensue! Plus Hesi and Juan from Team Nahual call in and talk about their new game Juanito el Nahualito.
Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch
Special guests James Ryan and Nina play Consider the Consequences by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins. The book is from 1930 and is the first known commercial publication of a branching narrative fiction novel. Each story spans the entire life of a character and the gang and callers decide whether to make prudent or passionate choices, and reflect on what a "choice point" really meant for a woman in the 1930s.
Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch
Homeless services activist Brent Adams talks about his work to keep the houseless warm in the winter, and how he came to be devoted to this cause.
A rent control discussion moderated by Talkabout guest host Dan Woo. Zav Hershfield, of the Movement For Housing Justice, and Keshav Kumar, speaking for Santa Cruz Together, talk about Measure M on the November ballot for the City of Santa Cruz.
Part 1 of 2 programs on this issue.
A rent control discussion moderated by Talkabout guest host Dan Woo. Stacy Falls, of the Movement For Housing Justice, and Mark Primack, former Santa Cruz Mayor/Local Architect, speak about Measure M on the November ballot for the City of Santa Cruz.
Part 2 of 2 programs on this issue.
Headlines: Ventura’s Thomas fire
Story: Dan Rather addresses the AGU Fall Meeting
More at newsfromoutdoors.org
Dan Woo talks with Ryan Coonerty about the Evolution of Santa Cruz and the currently proposed solutions to the housing crisis, including a $140 million housing initiative on the county ballot in November 2018.
Cannabis Club TV founder Danny Keith and your host Dan Woo dive into the rapidly changing commercial landscape of legal (and not so legal) marijuana in California!
Brown Girl Surf is an organization committed to diversifying the surf sport by training and mentoring girls of color from the Bay Area through their programs in the water (including summer camps), and programs out of the water. Marley Reynosa, Program and Events Manager and Lead Surf Instructor at Brown Girl Surf, is an avid surfer who has competed in national surf contests in her home country, the Dominican Republic. Her experiences as a female surfer in the Dominican Republic and as a Latina in the U.S. fuel her dedication to empowering women of color through outdoor recreation.
An expert in Latino and Mexican politics, Dr. Adrian Félix offers his analysis of the July 2018 Mexican Presidential election as well as the state of US-Mexico political relations. Formerly of UC Santa Cruz's Latin American and Latino Studies department, he joins the Ethnic Studies faculty of UC Riverside in Fall 2018.
An interview with writer and journalist Roberto Lovato about the current state of immigration policies and his ties to Central America. His work popularized the term “Juan Crow”, a reference to a system of surveillance and control of immigrants to the US that resonates with Jim Crow segregation laws. Affiliated with the San Francisco's Writers' Grotto, Lovato recently completed a 3-year turn as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research.
How does the self-representation of undocumented migrants become reflected in documentary film and video? Dr. Rebecca M. Schreiber, Associate Professor in the American Studies Department at University of New Mexico discusses her new book titled The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility (2018, University of Minnesota Press). She explains how Mexican and Central American migrants have depicted themselves and members of their communities since 9/11 through documentary photography, film, video, and audio projects.
Your host Dan Woo explores the decimation of the great society of California beginning in the late 1970s. Proposition 13, passed in 1978 is the root of this situation; stunting the tax base and holding the legislature's ability to mend the situation in a stranglehold the last four decades. Dan Woo grills Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association VP of Communication Susan Shelley on the impacts of the proposition which is the crowning achievement of their anti-tax prophet, Howard Jarvis....and asks why property owners deserve rights.
Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman Valentin Lopez speaks on the Amah Mutsun's efforts to derail a proposed mining project on sacred lands in the southern tip of Santa Clara County...and their wish to return to the land and practice traditional land management techniques.
How do you meet the educational needs of the "whole child" beyond what you see in the classroom alone? Dr. Rebecca London discusses an ambitious new initiative she’s a part of in the Bay Area called the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust. This research project seeks to build a database in which school and social service partners work together to meet the needs of the whole child. Dr. London is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and Faculty Director of the Student Success Evaluation and Research Center at UCSC. Her research focuses on understanding the challenges faced by disadvantaged children and youth and the ways that communities and community organizations support young people to be healthy and successful.
Dr. Mary Thomas worked with twelve artists and independent presses for a new art exhibit titled "Emerging Visions: Creative Practice at the Nexus of Freedom and Justice" (open from April 19, 2018-June 19, 2018). Dr. Mary Thomas is the Research Associate for the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery (Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz) and Associate Director of Development for the U.S. Latinx Art Forum.
How can activists or advocates engage in storytelling as a political tool without compromising the complexity of the narrative? Dr. Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, discusses her latest book Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017) about how the power of storytelling can sometimes undermine structural changes in society.
Headlines: Stage 1 Water Restrictions in Santa Cruz, Redwoods Park in Los Gatos, UCSC Plant Field Guide, Ebikes in Santa Cruz.
Stories: Sambrailo Readycycle Plastic-alternative Berry Packaging, the People of Color Sustainability Collective at UCSC.
More at newsfromoutdoors.org
Dr. Ann Lopez is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, CA and an emerita professor of San Jose City College where she taught courses in Biology, Environmental Science, Ecology and Botany in the Biology department. She talked about the work of the Center for Farmworker Families, the health challenges facing farmworkers as a result of pesticides used in our county, and how to provide stability for these families who make an important contribution to our local community.
Headlines: Condor Cam, West Cliff Drive Management Plan, Burn Season, Earth BioGenome Project, Perfect Lawns Create Climate Change, Chicken Waste Power.
Stories: New Parks Director Citizen Involvement, UCSC Chancellors Defend Development and Housing Plans.
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Bristol Cave-LaCoste studies prostitution and sexual policing within immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is a Ph.D. candidate in History, with a Designated Emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies, at UC Santa Cruz. She is one of four student presenters at an April 26, 2018 public campus-sponsored event discussing her archival research on the sexual policing of migrant women.
Formed in the early 70's, the Dixie Dregs bent the genre boundaries of rock, jazz, country and classical. Fusing unique instrumentals, the Dixie Dregs challenged the listener to expand beyond the industry standard typically fed to the masses as pop music. This uniqueness became the demise of their marketability. However, forty one years later—as the original members of the Dregs have reunited for their Dawn of the Dregs tour—the massive response and fan support is proving that notion to be obsolete
Carol from KZSC's Test of Time spoke with Steve Morse, guitarist and founding member of the Dixie Dregs about his early influences, work ethics and the band's reunion tour.
Steve also talks about his career with Deep Purple, sharing his first experience as the band's guitarist and how Deep Purple and its music has retained his attention for 24 years.
In this episode, we hone in on drill music, a sub-genre that has gained notoriety since 2012 due to its nihilistic, dark, hyper-violent lyrics and sonic elements. Dr. Charity Clay, a Sociology professor at Merritt College in Oakland, CA weighs in to provide understanding of the social, environmental, and historical conditions in Chicago. The aim is to provide alternate perspectives to audiences that dismiss its cultural value, and write it off as pathological to city conditions.
An interview with Dr. Francesca Degiuli, Assistant Professor of Sociology and the director of the Gender Studies Minor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is also a Visiting Fellow in the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU. She has written numerous articles on the topics of gender, globalization and migration throughout the years exploring different subjects from labor laws in China to undocumented students in the United States. She discussed her first book, Caring for a Living: Migrant Women, Aging Citizens, and Italian Families (2016, Oxford University Press). This ethnography explores the challenges facing postindustrial societies with an aging population, such as Italy, and the difficult work performed by eldercare workers who are im/migrant women.
An interview with Dr. Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of History from the University of Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2006, UC Press). He discussed his latest book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States (2018, Beacon Press) about the shared civil rights struggles of African American and Latinx communities.
This show is a tribute to the life and legacy of Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres, on the two year anniversary of her assassination in her home on 2 March 2016. She received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015.
Thank you to Skylight and The Goldman Environmental Prize for granting permission to use their clips for this broadcast.
This broadcast features Karen Calles, Voces Críticas production assistant for the Winter 2018 quarter.
KZSC News ~ 15 Mar 2018
- San Francisco Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson resigns
- Santa Cruz unveils citywide neighboorhood policing plan
- Toxins found in SF Bay Area shellfish
- UC Regents meet at UC Los Angeles
More online at kzsc.org
A conversation with two key organizers of the UC Santa Cruz conference "Dig In: Cultivating Inclusive Approaches to Food Justice," (held on March 2, 2018). Dr. Linnea Beckett (Food Justice Coordinator, Colleges Nine and Ten, UCSC) and Chris Lang (Environmental Studies Graduate Student, UCSC) addressed
the meaning of food justice, discussed racism and racial dynamics in the vegan movement, and what the process and practice of decolonizing food means to them.
TJ Demos is a Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, and he is the Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology and discussed his latest book called Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017). He addressed the meaning of Anthropocene and neoliberal sustainability, and spoke about his views about the future of the environmental justice movement today.
Carol from KZSC's Test of Time interviews legendary jazz drummer Billy Cobham. Acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer, Cobham has recorded with many great jazz bands of our era. From his work with Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra to his innovative solo career, Cobham continues to push the boundaries of jazz.
Hear Cobham speak about his current Crosswinds Project, the inspiration behind the songs, and why he's returning to this early body of work.
KZSC News ~ 08 Mar 2018
- Santa Cruz Mayor David Terrezas talks homeless relocation
- Police body cams mandated in San Benito County and Santa Cruz City
- Interview with Movement For Housing Justice
- UCSC and residents debate growth vs. sustainability goals
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 01 Mar 2018
- Queer Fashion Show Funds Mural As Activism
- Financial Soul Searching In Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz County's priorities vary greatly by region
- UC Santa Cruz laborers protest for solidarity
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 08 Feb 2018
- Updates on office of UC Santa Cruz President
- Hepatitis A Outbreak in Monterey County
- Save Our Shores protests possible oil drilling
- UC Santa Cruz Workers' Union protests
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 15 Feb 2018
- UCSC Chancellor speaks on undocumented student issues
- Santa Cruz City Council votes on rent freeze
- Highlights from Martin Luther King Convocation
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 22 Feb 2018
- Immigration issues update (Ari Shiell)
- Trump attempts to defund earthquake warning system
- UC Santa Cruz Student Union Assembly meets with Chancellor Blumenthal (Daniel Martinez)
- More online at kzsc.org
In this episode, we discuss our narrow options when it comes to who is considered authentic and inauthentic hip-hop. Since hip-hop has been heavily dominated by the survival driven, hyper-masculine, straight black male, our mold for who is authentic only accommodates those who identify as such. Anyone else outside of that is considered "wack." I want to discuss what this means for black representations, how we got here, and what we can do to broaden the scope of black bodies and voices we see and hear in hip-hop.
Dr. Patricia de Santana Pinho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of several publications on blackness, whiteness, racism, and forms of resistance to racism in Brazil, including Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book, Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2018), examines the construction of black transnational solidarity within the geopolitical context of the black diaspora. Pinho is a native of Salvador, Bahia and has a PhD in Social Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil. She spoke about the current political situation and unrest in Brazil.
Dr. Emily Haozous was a 1995 graduate of UC Santa Cruz's Porter College and earned her BA in music. She earned her MSN and PhD from Yale University School of Nursing and is currently an Associate Professor and Regent’s Professor at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing. Dr. Haozous discussed her cancer research focused on improving symptom management and cancer outcomes for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Dr. Haozous works from a social justice lens to address issues of health inequities in indigenous communities. She is a member of the Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache Tribe and is from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She will be the keynote speaker for the American Indian Health Symposium, called “Hearts, Minds, and Futures” at UC Santa Cruz on Feb. 10, 2018.
Dr. Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Chair and Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a return guest, discussing the 1-year anniversary of the Women's Marches, the emergence of the #metoo movement, and her assessment of the challenges from 2017 under the Trump Administration.
KZSC News ~ 25 Jan 2018
- Voices From the Santa Cruz Women's March (Max Ryan)
- Santa Cruz resolution on Ecuadorian oil imports (Quinn Edmonson)
- Possible challenge to offshore oil drilling in California (Daniel Martinez)
More online at kzsc.org
Max Ryan Quinn Edmonson
KZSC News ~ 18 Jan 2018
- ICE planning immigration enforcement actions in Northern California (Daniel Martinez)
- NAACP March in Santa Cruz on MLK Day (Daniel Wootan)
- Food justice commentary ahead of eco-farming Conference (Lani B)
- UC Santa Cruz's Long Range Development Plan aims for 28,000 student enrolment (Anna Rose)
More online at kzsc.org
Chicago blues musician, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, spoke with Carol from the Test of Time. Clearwater talks about the Chicago blues scene, his Cherokee heritage, and the good fortune of his first headdress. At 83, Clearwater shows no sign of slowing down. He's working on songs for a new album and planning a European tour this year.
Dr. Ashwini Tambe is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies at
University of Maryland-College Park. She has recently been writing about the #metoo movement. We discussed the precursors to this public outcry about sexual harassment, abuse, and violence; what it means to survivors/victims to be living through this moment; and how we should understand the circle of complicity that has emboldened this behavior. We also reflected on what it means to have a US president in office with accusations of sexual harassment and assault and about the crowdsourced survey created by Dr. Karen Kelsky regarding sexual harassment in academia.
Articles written by Dr. Ashwini Tambe:
Speculation about the "why?" question
Analytical piece answering the "what" question
Blog by Dr. Karen Kelsky, posted on Jan. 1, 2018 on the Chronicle of Higher Education: When Will We Stop Elevating Predators?
Headlines: Alaskan power microgrids, Meteorologist reports on climate change, a CAT scan of the Earth, New tech beams heat into space.
Stories: Wildfire insurance gets expensive, hard to find; Pushback against Measure Z in Monterey; Children's climate lawsuit argued in SF court; Californians push back against Trump oil expansion.
More at newsfromoutdoors.org
KZSC News ~ 11 Jan 2018
- Offshore oil drilling in California possibly to be expanded (Jordan Penland)
- Monterey County group fights to oust oil drilling and fracking (Ty Goering)
- Santa Cruz County Supervisor details 2018 priorities (Daniel Wootan)
More online at kzsc.org
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Listen in as we chat and hear music by Mele'uhane, coming from Kona, on Hawai'i island; Keikilani Lindsey, the dad, with sons Leo and Kaneala. Living the life of traveling musicians, they are on the mainland touring in support of their newest CD, Anaspond. In addition to the laughter-filled interview, you'll hear the instrumental that honors the voyaging canoe Hokule'a, the sweet harmonies of "Na Na Na," plus the rascal blues-inflected jokey "Sugar Honey Iced Tea." The fellas echo a reggae feeling on "Malama Ka 'Aina," a composition in Hawaiian, reminding us to take care, Malama, our World, the 'aina. Mele'uhane played at Pono Hawaiian Grill on Friday, January 5th at 6:30 pm.
Carrie Kahn is an award-winning NPR foreign correspondent. In this interview, she discussed the challenges of reporting about natural disasters and the bravery of local journalists in Latin America who risk their lives to provide the news. She provided an update on the rebuilding efforts in Mexico (from 2017 earthquakes) and Haiti (from 2010 earthquake). She also discussed the recent removal of Temporary Protective Status for Haitians living in the US and the kinds of devastating effects this may have for families in Haiti who rely on remittances.
Professor Emeritus Norma Klahn (Literature) and Professor Emeritus Pedro Castillo (History) are the co-founders of UC Santa Cruz's Chicano Latino Research Center (CLRC). They also served as the Center's first co-directors in the 1990s. The CLRC is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year (2017) and the opening of its own archives (Nuestras Historias) for research. We discussed how the CLRC started, its impact in the University of California system, its relevance for understanding a range of social issues today, and the importance of CLRC in mentoring graduate students and supporting faculty research.
Professor Beth Currans is the author of a new book called Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Activists Transform Public Space (University of Illinois Press). She is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Eastern Michigan University. We discussed her major research findings, her views on the January 2017 Women's Marches, and how she engages in scholar-activism today.
Chris Zepeda-Millan is the author of a new book called Latino Mass
Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism (2017, Cambridge University Press). Dr. Zepeda-Millan is an assistant professor in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. We discussed his book's major findings, about his views regarding today's political climate when it comes to immigration, and about the role of Spanish media in informing the public about anti-immigrant legislation.
The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue is a multi-year public history project involving professors and undergraduate student researchers. As the project director, UC Santa Cruz Professor Alan Christy spoke about the extent of military occupation of Okinawa today, about Charles Eugene Gail (the namesake of the project) and about the extensive labor involved in creating a digital public history project. He explained the ways in which students played a key role as project collaborators. Alan Christy is an associate professor of history and provost of Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz.
Headlines: Death toll rises in Santa Rosa fires, More mega fires expected in CA future, Increase in black carbon, CA senators introduce land protection bill, Birds illuminating playful side of animals, Gardeners fostering bee and butterfly populations, Researching maximum efficiency of wind farms.
Stories: UCSC examines Santa Cruz' housing crisis, Grant Money to Clean Up Illegal Marijuana Grows, Updates on lives of Pajaro farm laborers.
Plus a calendar of events and more at newsfromoutdoors.org
Puerto Rico has been devastated following Hurricane Maria. Juan Carlos Davila Santiago, is a filmmaker, journalist, writer, and graduate student in the doctoral program of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He recently returned from a trip to Puerto Rico where his family is based and where he spent most of his summer. He provided a first-hand account of what he witnessed in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. He addressed the issue of the impact of climate change on the islands and community-based recovery efforts that are not being reported by the mainstream US media. These community-based recovery efforts include support from the following groups:
Center for Popular Democracy's Hurricane María Community Recovery Fund
Defend Puerto Rico Relief Fund
Casa Taller Relief Fund Puerto Rico
Casa Pueblo
Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico
Taller Salud
Headlines: Fires trigger anti-gouging rent control, Grants issued to clean up illegal cannabis grows, Sudden oak death, and more.
Stories: California's wildlife agency sued over whale entanglements, climate change could make tick population grow, oil train proposal for the California coast is abandoned by Phillips 66.
Plus a calendar of events and more at newsfromoutdoors.org
KZSC News ~ 2017 10 26
- Rent Control Imposed following fires (Jordan Penland)
- Study: More fires like Napa's in California's future (Jordan Penland)
- Juvenile accused of murder to stand trial as an adult (Jordan Penland)
- Rent Control on Santa Cruz ballot (Daniel Wootan)
- Santa Cruz approves recreational marijuana sales (Parker Hume)
- Rifle discovered at Santa Cruz middle school (Alex Vareljian)
- Decreased punishment for intentional HIV transmission (Jordan Penland)
- Sudden Oak Death Syndrome adds fuel to fires (Daniel Martinez)
More online at kzsc.org
Bookshop Santa Cruz, a locally owned and independent bookstore, has organized a series of events this past year as part of a new program called Words to Act On: Education, Empathy, and Action. This Fall 2017, Santa Cruz Bookshop has organized a series of events and campaign addressing the topic of immigration. Casey Coonerty Protti is a second generation owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz and has run daily operations since 2006. We discussed the events, the history of this established family business, and about the challenges facing independent bookstores in today's market.
Read a letter from Casey about why she started the program.
In this week's installment of Slug Talk, RIZ aka RSD interviews Nick Kleiber, Nicole O'Connor, Dante Capone, and Autumn Brown--four student-athletes from the UCSC Cross Country Team. Recorded live on-air 10.13.17.
KZSC News ~ 2017 10 19
- Cabrillo College students hacked
- Fire rages in Boulder Creek
- Evangelist wins settlement with city of SC
- O'mei restaurant reopens
- Examining wine country fires
- New SCPD Chief's homeless strategy
- Interview with Chicano Batman
- Arrests at UCSC College Republicans meeting
More online at kzsc.org
We report on environmental threats to the coastal zone, the 25th birthday of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary and the hepatitis A outbreak in SC County. Plus headlines, a calendar of events and more.
We review the latest on the rash of wildfires in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties, and celebrate the reopening of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Hwy 1, destroyed after wildfires and landslides struck Big Sur. Plus headlines, a calendar of events and more.
Santa Cruz County is experiencing a major housing crisis. Steven McKay, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, is the co-Principle investigator of a research project called "No Place Like Home" to better understand the housing crisis in the area. Hermes Padilla is an undergraduate student who was part of the research team for "No Place Like Home" after taking Professor McKay's class. This study involved well over 1,400 surveys and interviews with local residents about how they are experiencing the local housing crisis. They, along with the other researchers, will be discussing the findings of their study at a community event scheduled for October 19, 2017 at 7PM in downtown Santa Cruz. The event is the kick-off event to Affordable Housing week with a wide-range of county organizations and community groups.
KZSC News ~ 2017 10 12
- Wildfires raze urban California areas (Tyler Harris & Keith Rozendal)
- Monterey Peninsula Pushes For Public Water Company (Matt)
- Arrests Weapon filled music video (Charlotte)
- The Fight Against Chloropyrifos (Samantha Rocinos)
- Peak Monarch Watching Season (Olivia Joyce)
- Carmel Moves To Ban Plastic Straws (Matthew Sandoval)
- Pfeifer Big Sur Bridge To Reopen (Maelin Rose)
- Fourteen Llamas Rescued By Monterey Zoo (Sandra Cortez)
- Police presence at Homeless Camp riles debate in Santa Cruz (Daniel Wootan)
More online at kzsc.org
An interview with Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCSC and the Director of The Culture & Achievement Collaborative. She is a first generation college student and now faculty member who helped launch UCSC's First Generation Initiative to raise the visibility of the First Generation community at UCSC. We discussed the cultural challenges facing First Generation students. Being a native of Phoenix, we also talked about her reaction to the presidential pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaoi of Phoenix.
An interview with Dr. Christine Shearer of Coalswarm about the coal industry and global warming. Coalswarm is a conglomerate which tracks coal projects around the world. Dr. Shearer discussed how these coal projects are affecting the climate, the myths purported by the current administration about "clean coal," and her vision for the future of the environmental justice movement. Dr. Shearer discussed the most egregious coal projects happening in parts of Asia and about the urgent need to garner a renewed commitment to addressing global climate change.
An interview with Professor Zeus Leonardo of UC Berkeley's Education Department. We discussed his research on race and pedagogy, about the challenges facing public education today, and about the differences between white privilege and white supremacy as a framework to discuss whiteness. We also discussed the events happening in the city of Berkeley and at UC Berkeley by right-wing groups seeking to disrupt the city, specifically discussing the enormous financial burden to provide security for these speakers.
We report on air quality in the Santa Cruz Mountains and what some locals are doing to help. Plus an interview with an independent Native American journalist, environmental news headlines, a calendar of events and more.
Originally aired on Talkabout, August 16. 2017. Mairo Kuntze interviews comic book shop owner and musician Joe Ferrara, who tells stories of working with "The Lost Boys" cast, as well as being acquainted with artists before they became famous such as Adam Scott and Juice Newton.
An interview with Dr. Shearer of Coalswarm to discuss the effects of climate change on the village of Kivalina, located in a remote area of Alaska. Dr. Shearer is the author of Kivalina: A Climate Change Story (2011, Haymarket Press). Dr. Shearer discusses how climate change is forcibly displacing this community that has agreed to a community relocation over 20 years ago. However, no federal resources are available to facilitate this relocation. Dr. Shearer also addresses a lawsuit filed by the village of Kivalina against 24 fossil fuel companies, which was recently dismissed.
An interview with Peter Esmonde, long-time volunteer with the Prisoners Literature Project. The Prisoners Literature Project is an all volunteer, grassroots, non-profit organization that has sent books to prisoners in 49 states. We discussed how the PLP started, about the history of the books-to-prisoners movement, and the arbitrary regulations PLP navigates in trying to get books to prisoners. We also discussed the rights of incarcerated people to an education and what receiving books means to them.
An interview with Dr. Rebecca Hernandez Rosser, Director of UC Santa Cruz's American Indian Resource Center, about a range of issues facing indigenous communities in the United States, including lack of access to opportunities for higher education. She addressed the health struggles, both physical and mental, facing Native communities and other communities of color and about the food justice movement. She spoke about the People of Color Sustainability Initiative, which is a
project out of the UCSC American Indian Resource Center committed to broadening the discourse of sustainability. Dr. Rosser also discussed indigenous cultural representations through art, including the challenges facing Native artists within an art market that has a
limited image of who makes up indigenous communities. we also discussed the troubling statistics regarding the incarceration rate of Native peoples, and her plans for the upcoming academic year with the center.
An interview with Perla Pineda (Project/Program Coordinator) and Angelica Villegas (Program Facilitator) of Girls Inc of the Central Coast. We discussed the programmatic work of Girls Inc of the Central Coast in the local Santa Cruz and surrounding communities, the importance of offering gender-specific programs and services targeting girls, and about the role of empowering middle school and high school girls/young women to be confident leaders.
An interview with Jackie Sue Powell, certified yoga instructor in Santa Cruz, California. We discussed the role yoga has played in her health and well-being. Jackie discussed her commitment to make yoga accessible, both in terms of cost and imagining yoga practices outside the studio. She spoke about her life-changing experiences teaching and learning yoga around the world, including Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Palestine. We also talked about the role yoga could play in improving the well-being of social justice activists.
The Ace of Cups, one of the first all-women rock bands emerging in the mid-sixties , were at the center of the San Francisco music scene and the summer of love in 1967.
Fifty years later, the group has come together to record a proper studio album of old and new songs. Listen here to Carol's exclusive interview on the Test of Time with Ace of Cups' guitarist & bassist Denise Kaufman.
Kaufman talks about the band's past, present, and future. Their upcoming triple album on High Moon Records offers a vast array of songs with the help of many Bay Area musicians and friends. You'll hear Kaufman share clips from the upcoming album and tell the stories behind them. It's been a long time coming, but is well worth the wait.
Justin Mosley was the guest on Artista on Art, 8/16/17 and we talked about The Frogman Experience, his collaborative projects with other musicians and hearing about how his band members have gone through their own metamorphosis to come together and perform as magical creators.
Check out their upcoming show:
The Catalyst Club August 24:
http://www.catalystclub.com/…/1540103-frogman-experience-s…/
Also, check out more about the band at http://www.thefrogmanexp.com/bio/
KZSC News ~ 01 June 2017
- School funding in peril under Trump budget proposal (Jordan Penland)
- Record rains bring boom times for California creatures (Maelin Rose)
- US House Bill criminalizes undocumented immigrants (Jordan Penland)
- New group opposes Santa Cruz's corridors development plan (Gina Ranieri)
- Santa Cruz libraries expand hours, restrict patron behavior (Sydney Fishman)
- Santa Cruz approves $1.2 million transportation spending plan (Frances Maurer)
- Santa Cruz Pride parade and Dyke/Trans March this weekend (Ty Goering/Closet Free Radio)
- California Democrats split on 'single-payer' health insurance bill (Ty Goering)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 25 May 2017
- Unemployment drops in Santa Cruz (Kavya Aswadhati)
- Scientists worried about California salmon extinction (Sydney Fishman)
- CalTrain goes electric, nearly doubling capacity (Maelin Rose)
- Santa Cruz marchers concerned about Monsanto (Melanie Gomez)
- Santa Cruz high school teachers developing an LGBTQ curriculum (Jordan Penland)
- Huge Mud Creek landslide closes Hwy 1 in Big Sur (Gina Ranieri)
- UCSC students work to reduce rents in Santa Cruz (Anna Rose Leff)
- State Senate committee halts 5G Wireless Bill (Suzanne Potter/CA News Service)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 18 May 2017
- Leopard sharks dying en mass in SF Bay (Jordan Penland)
- Cruzio co-founder explains net neutrality (Maelin Rose)
- Fossil Free UC winning support of UC chancellors (Ty Goering)
- César Chávez convocation focuses on immigrant rights (Daniel Wootan, Keith Rozendal)
- UCSC chancellor Blumenthal on trailer park housing (Killian Fay, Daniel Wootan)
- CHP devices can test drivers for drugged driving, judge accepts results (Hannah Whelan)
- CA Lands Commission orders CEMEX sand mine to submit to regulation (Neroli Devaney)
- Santa Cruz regs target protest sleepers at City Hall, passed without Council debate (John Malkin)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 11 May 2017
- LandWatch urges Salinas to increase affordable housing (Sydney Fishman)
- Rally in Santa Cruz reacts to City's report on homelessness (Kavya Aswadhati)
- More details emerge on UC audit, Napolitano apologizes (Sean Corfield)
- Environmentalists concerned about invasive French broom (Jeannie Santos)
- Marina considers medical, recreational marijuana businesses (Duncan Ober)
- Salinas "Dreamer" taken by ICE from Monterey County Jail awaits deportation (Maelin Rose)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 04 May 2017
- New federal office opened to track immigrant crime (Sydney Fishman)
- Santa Cruz County launches Nurse-Family Partnership (Maelin Rose)
- Afrikan/Black Student Alliance takes control of UCSC admin building (Sean Corfield)
- CA Assembly Member Mark Stone supports news on KZSC (Dan Orange)
- Former Seattle PD Chief Norm Stamper speaks in Santa Cruz (John Malkin)
- White-supremacist propaganda targets UCSC (Kavya Aswadhati)
- UCSC campus blockaded on May Day (Neroli Devaney)
More online at kzsc.org
Transformation Highway - being the change.
A group discussion about Standing Rock, the fight to protect clean water and tribal sovereignty, as well as local organizing efforts for the DAPL divestment campaign. Featuring Chief Elkman of the Nakota Nation of South Dakota, Kanyon (Coyote Woman) Sayers-Roods, Costanoan Ohlone Mutsun creative artist and educator, Kelsey Hill of the Lakota People's Law Project, Paul Rubio, Yeome/Mestizo native american community leader and multi-media artist, and Nancy Parks, local healer and community organizer.
KZSC News ~ 27 April 2017
- Opposition to Ocean St Extension housing development (Maelin Rose)
- No charges to be filed in killing of teen Luke Smith (John Malkin)
- President of California secession campaign steps down amid Russia controversy (Dylan Fabris)
- PG&E's $90 million settlement over San Bruno explosion approved (Daniel Wootan)
- State Auditor says UC President hid $175 million + interfered with audit (Ty Goering)
- UCSC students asked to fund inter-collegiate athletics program (Rizal Aliga)
- Chris Krohn discusses Santa Cruz City Council actions (John Malkin)
- Public meeting to discuss hotel proposal near the Santa Cruz Harbor (Maelin Rose)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 20 April 2017
- UCSC Police boost patrols for unsanctioned 420 gathering (Maelin Rose)
- CA Legislature to address housing costs (Sydney Fishman)
- Anti-LGBTQ vandals strike Santa Cruz church repeatedly (Jordan Penland)
- Federal civil rights lawsuit filed against SCPD over Sean Arlt's killing (John Malkin)
- Cannabis takes over Salinas valley greenhouses (Maelin Rose)
- Plan for "safe-injection" sites opposed by Take Back Santa Cruz (Ty Goering)
- Cockfights being investigated in south Santa Cruz county (Daniel Wootan)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 13 April 2017
- UCSC protest rejects US strikes against Syria (Dylan Fabris)
- Santa Clara's at-large voting system challenged (Ty Goering)
- Ghost Ship Fire reporting earns East Bay Times a Pulitzer prize (Kavya Aswadhati)
- Federal disaster relief coming to Monterey Bay counties (Kathia Damian)
- Legislation aims to tame PG&E price spikes (Daniel Wootan)
- UCSC social scientist studying agriculture wins a Guggenheim award (Annarose Leff)
- Ten-foot shark stranded near Pleasure Point dies (Maelin Rose)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 06 April 2017
- 70% of SF Bay Area would pay higher taxes to fix traffic (Sydney Fishman)
- Neuro-toxic pesticide ban not completed by EPA (Ty Goering)
- Construction of wildlife tunnel under Hwy 17 expected to start in 2020 (Maelin Rose)
- Santa Cruz City Council unanimously opposes Dakota Access Pipeline (Ty Goering)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 2017 03 30
- Santa Cruz rejects claim from family of man killed by SCPD (John Malkin)
- Monterey Bay Community Power is a go (Keith Rozendal)
- Salinas saw 14 homicides in the last 3 months (Daniel Wootan)
- Pajaro Valley fights seawater intrusion (Sydney Fishman)
- SC storm damage at $100 million-"Bigger than the earthquake in '89" (Keith Rozendal)
- Santa Cruz asks for citizen input on choice of new Police Chief (Daniel Wootan)
More online at kzsc.org
“It’s bigger than the (1989) earthquake,” according to Santa Cruz County Supervisor John Leopold. He’s talking about the storm damage in January and February in Santa Cruz. Today on the show we’ll hear a lot more about that disaster from Leopold—and State Senator Bill Monning.
Plus environmental news headlines, a surf report, a calendar of events, and more. Stick around!
Headlines
2:25 Local economics of surfing (Sydney Fishman)
2:45 Stranded in Big Sur (Maelin Rose)
Winter Storm Damage Review with State Senator Bill Monning
The storm damage in January and February in Santa Cruz is likely to cost more than $100 million for the county to bounce back.
State Senate Majority leader Bill Monning has been touring the damage in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and Monterey Counties. Statewide, 86% of California counties have been declared disaster zones, and the overall cost to recover is probably more than a billion dollars. Here’s Bill Monning's report, from KZSC’s Bushwacker’s Breakfast Club, where the State Senator was interviewed by John Sandidge and Dan Orange.
Santa Cruz County Storm Damage Could Cost $100 Million—Supervisor John Leopold
In Santa Cruz County, the storm damage from January and February—at more than 150 sites—is estimated to cost on the order of $100 million to repair. County Supervisor John Leopold has some of the details, from his interview on KZSC’s Bushwacker’s Breakfast Club.
County gets lower-cost SBA loans for uninsured with Storm Damage
If you personally suffered storm damage during the winter rains that aren't covered by insurance, the county has gotten you some help.
The County of Santa Cruz sought and secured a special designation from the U.S. Small Business Administration allowing residents, property owners and business owners to apply for low-cost loans to cover damages. Eligible losses are wide-ranging, and the deadline to apply for physical damage (to personal property, your home, landscaping etc) is May 19.
You can also apply online at: DisasterLoan.sba.gov/ela. Or apply by calling the Small Business Administration at (800) 659-2955.
Climate Change at the Regents meeting
The Regents of the University of California met last week in San Francisco. Before the meeting got underway, several students addressed the Board about their concerns about climate change, urging the UC system to push towards only using renewable energy to power the 10 campuses.
Community Choice Power
The City of Salinas voted unanimously this week to sign up for the Monterey Bay Community Power authority.
Also this week, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors finalized joining the Community Choice Power authority. The vote at the county was 3-2 vote, the supervisors split over the formula to place representatives of the county on the power agency board.
Santa Cruz City and County have also signed on to the Monterey Bay Community Choice Joint Powers Agreement, and County Supervisor John Leopold said that it was an important move for a county that embraces environmental values.
KZSC News ~ 2017 03 23
- Salinas approves community power (Kathy Damian)
- SC County Jail Chapel closed (Daniel Wootan)
- Livermore lab restores and releases nuke test films (Ty Goering)
- More than 400 stranded in Big Sur (Maelin Rose)
- Crisis intervention training for SCPD (Kathy Damian)
- UC pressured to cap non-resident students (Keith Rozendal)
- First female Chancellor to lead UC Berkeley (Keith Rozendal)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 2017 03 16
- Oil co. lawsuits challenge Monterey's Measure Z (Kathy Damian)
- Return of pelagic red crabs in Monterey (Maelin Rose)
- Russian Pussy Riot Theatre comes to Santa Cruz (John Malkin)
- Monterey Sherriff "will not assist in immigration raids" (Ty Goering)
- SC METRO cuts service, and goes electric in 2017 (Keith Rozendal)
- Food Not Bombs dispute with SC Post Office (Hannah Whelan)
- Students for Justice in Palestine mock checkpoints at UCSC (Kavya Aswadhati)
- CalTrans begins demolishing Big Sur's Pfeiffer Cyn Bridge (Sean Corfield)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News ~ 2017 03 09
- CPR Saves Santa Cruz surfer from seizure (John Malkin)
- Failure of automatic alerts in San Jose flood (Kathy Damian)
- Good news from the Sierra snowpack survey (Keith Rozendal)
- Lapis Lustre Sand Mine ordered closed (Ty Goering)
- International Women's Day strike and demonstrations (Sydney Fishman)
- New UC immunization policy (Maelin Rose)
- DHS/HSI agent to be ousted from SCPD (John Malkin)
- Monterey juvenile hall project short $6 million (Kathy Damian)
- 5-story parking garage planned for downtown Santa Cruz (Maelin Rose)
- Body found in Monterey Bay (Jeannie Santos)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News - 02 March 2017
- California DREAMers not taking student aid (Ty Goering)
- Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Hwy 1 to be replaced (Kathy Damian)
- Prop 57 spurs reviews for juveniles tried as adults in SC (Daniel Wootan)
- John Steinbeck's 115th in Salinas (Maelin Rose)
- Watsonville's Granite Construction to bid on border wall (Kathy Damian)
- SC Police: DHS/ICE "betrayed our community's trust" (Kavya Aswadhati; Morgan Corona)
- Community responds to SCPD's statements (John Malkin)
- Santa Cruz unanimously passes sanctuary resolution (Annarose Leff)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News - 22 February 2017
- Recent Storm Damage (Quinn Edmondson; Rizal Aliga; Francis Mauer)
- SCPD not charged for killing Sean Arlt (John Malkin)
- ICE agents routinely pretend to be local police (Annarose Leff)
- The "Day Without Immigrants" (Kathy Damian)
- 75 yrs after the internment of Japanese-Americans (Kavya Aswadhati)
- Homeopathic remedy a serious risk to kids (Sydney Fishman)
- Man Found Dead in San Lorenzo River (Jennifer Arriaga)
- Santa Cruz Vets 4 Vets (Maelin Rose)
More online at kzsc.org
KZSC News - 16 February 2017
- "Free Meth" Hoax (Frances Maurer)
- Parks Master Plan & the Pogonip (Jeannie Santos)
- Santa Cruz Public Library Vet Center Opens (Kathia Damian)
- DHS/SCPD Arrests on Monday (Ty Goering; KZSC News)
- Student Mental Health at UCSC (Maelin Rose)
- Crochet Coral Reef @ Porter Sesnon Gallery (Jennifer Arriaga)
- UCSC declared a sanctuary campus (Harrison Trussell)
- Stand w/ Planned Parenthood Santa Cruz rally (Morgan Corona; Kavya Aswadhati)
More online at kzsc.org