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A weekly topical conversation.

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A dialogue at the intersection of culture, education, law, politics, economics, language and “race” deconstruction.
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Ending Immigration Detention Centers: Until all of us free none of us are free.

D ReportJan 31, 2023

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Revisiting Political Conversations: Translating the macro geo-political actions to our daily lived experiences

Revisiting Political Conversations: Translating the macro geo-political actions to our daily lived experiences

Topics:  Politics, 2024 Election

Title : Revisiting Political Conversations:  Translating the macro geo-political action to our daily lived experiences

Participants:   David Poyer, Political Commentator & Researcher
Publish Date: 03/06/2024

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

  •  What  is the role of the Supreme court to  curate the  20204  presidential election?
  • What is the John Robert’s court?
  • Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
  • How do we make sense of multiple conversations?
  •  What perspectives  can  we use to understand the dialogue,  conflict  and moment?
  •  What is the divide  between  conservative versus progressive, right versus left?
  •  What president  started the environmental  protection agency?  Answer:   Richard M. Nixon
  • Did Richard  Nixon  propose a single payer medical system in the 1970’s?
  • Is  being pro- business, pro-military and  faith-based on the markers of being on the right?
  • Is Donald Trump asking for reset regarding the US-Russia relations  characterized as pro-Russia?
  •  Why do people think the left and right are  different if they overlap on many issues?
  • Is the political  decision simplified to  Trump or not Trump?
  •  Why  do both parties agree to fund  supporting   wars abroad?
  • Have we become country that is comfortable with “low intensity  regional conflicts?”
  •  Why is it difficult to translate the macro geo-political action and the effects to micro, daily lived experiences in our respective communities?
  • What  analysis  tool or tools  can we use to make sense of all  the different conversations?
  •  What is the opportunity- cost to  our political decisions?
  •  How do the higher cost of cheeseburgers translate to how people  vote?
  • Energy and food costs are the types of things that get people kicked out of the office.
  • What is purchasing  price parity, PPP?
  • At what point does the system of winners and looser become transparent?  At what point  are we able to  identify the specific  groups that are winning?
Mar 05, 202453:46
  Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A conversation in early childhood education

  Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A conversation in early childhood education

Topics:  Education, Teaching , Gender Social Construct , Early Childhood Education

Title :  Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A conversation in early childhood education

Participants:   Cathi Miller,  Educator and Researcher
Publish Date: 12/ 27/2023

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

  • What are the different perspectives on the meaning of gender?
  • What are the societal roles of gender?
  •  How is gender projected onto our bodies?
  •  Is gendered language being marked when we say ” daughter and or son?”
  • Why don’t we say “my child” instead of defining relationship through gender?
  •  Does  Nahuatl mark gender in its language?
  •  How does gender permeate our relationships with our loved ones?
  • At what age do we learn the gender divide?
  •  How  do you address gender professionally and personally?
  •  How are babies and adults treated differently based on assumptions of gender?
  • What is the relationship between the sex we are assigned at birth and our gender?
  •  What is the role of teachers in  reinforcing  or  challenging gender?
  •  What have we learned about this practice of education when addressing gender?
  •   How do you explain gender as a social construct?
  •  Is the division of gender unequal?
  •  What are development appropriate practices in early childhood education?
  • How do educators demonstrate their respect for every child?
  • How can educators  find a balance between professional and personal responsibilities?
  • Is the first Gender and Equity Childhood course in the country being taught in Santa Monica community college by Professor Cathi Miller?
Dec 28, 202344:58
AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education

AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education

Topics:  Education,  Teaching, Artificial General  Intelligence, AI, ChatGPT, Philosophy,  Anthropology

Title : AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education

Participants:   Tony  Kashani Ph.D., Educator, Author, Philosopher
Publish Date: 09/ 13/2023

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

 

 Quote:

              “In order for these new tools, very powerful potent tools to become a tool of education… you have to go and become the expert.  And then we [will] have those tools in our hand.” – Tony Kashani

Conversation Topics:

·       How will Artificial General  Intelligence transform  our society?

·       How has AI affected the classroom?

·       What is  Artificial General Intelligence ( AGI)?

·       What is the application of AI to the field of Education?

·       What are the misunderstandings of  what AI means, is capable of doing and or cannot  do?

·       What  do the people that educate educators think about AI?

·       What are the three types of AI?  ( i.e., Generative AI, Image Generative AI (GAN), Reinforcement Learning AI)

·       Can AI address questions of digital divide and concerns of unequal control over the resource?

·       How does the conversation change if  we consider AI as a continuation of a long process of automating human labor?

·       What are the bases of our fears over AI?

·       In the age of AI, can teachers prepare students  to succeed in the society of their adult hood?

·       Is ChatGPT making students dumber?

·       How do  educators respond to the potential of AI to hurt students?

·       Can ChatGPT replace teachers?

·       “ The [AI] machines are not like humans. They do not have  emotional intelligence. They cannot build relationships  with students…  [Education] need[s] humans… We need human connection.  [human connection] is an absolute necessity for teaching and learning.”

·       “In order for these new tools, very powerful  potent tools to become a tool of education… you have to go and become the expert.  And  then we [ will]  have those tools in our hand.” – Tony Kashani

·       What are the possibilities for  transforming teaching if educators are in charge of AI?

·       What is the nature of  education?

·       Can machines ever replicate the capabilities of great human teachers?

·       Who  will  decide the future of education?

·       Is  AI able to transmit  wisdom?

·       Will people become dissatisfied with the system that depends on AI?

·       Who  holds the  keys to control  AI?

·       What are the ethical  questions concerning AI and education?

·       What is our educational  ikigai?

·       How do we embrace the absurdity of our existence?

 


Sep 13, 202347:14
Someone Who Teaches: Education and Inclusion

Someone Who Teaches: Education and Inclusion

Topics:  Education, Inclusion,  teaching  and  teaching practices.
Title : Someone Who Teaches: Education and Inclusion
Participants:   Alejandra
Publish Date: 02/01/2023
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org

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  • Conversation Topics:
  • Education updates?
  • Revisiting a conversation on Education.
  • What is the RICA exam in  teaching? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Instruction_Competence_Assessment
  • Does passing the RICA exam  make us  better teachers and or help with job security?
  • How is teacher in Cleveland Ohio different from teaching in Los  Angeles California?
  • What does it mean to mentor teachers?
  • What does inclusion mean in teaching  and or classroom formats?
  • What  does it mean to be white passing in Cleveland  Ohio?
  • What happens if you don’t “ clear “ your teaching   credential within five years?
  • Why doesn’t Ohio accept the California teaching credential?
  • What are signs of teacher burnout?
  • How do you know when it  is necessary to exit the teaching profession?
  • How  did the 2020 COVID pandemic  change the teaching practice?
  • What does going back to “ normal” mean for teachers and students?
  • What is remote learning?
  • What do we do if we are part of a group that do not want things to go back to the way things were before the pandemic?
  • “Inclusion is not program. It’s a way. Its and idea of  how you want  to build this culture .   It’s an understanding of how you are going  approach a student, and a family and staff. And  how you are  going to  support them to make a more inclusive classroom and then school and   community “
  • What do you think about when you hear the term inclusion?
  • Is disability a social construct?
  • Is inclusion about resources?
  • What happens  when you  go to work , but you see the system as more complicated than “they” want you to see it?
  • Why do teacher  leave the teaching  profession?
  • How did the  2020  COVID pandemic change the teaching profession?
  • What are the disabilities that are not visible?
  • What is emotional disturbance?
  • How do we reference our experiences in a dissociative form to critique ourselves?
  • How do we  figure out how to be ourselves within a k-12 setting?
  • What are the characteristics of a true educator?
  • What does it mean to be someone who teaches, even when they don’t have an official  title of a teacher?
Feb 22, 202301:01:12
 Ending Immigration Detention Centers: Until all of us free none of us are free.

Ending Immigration Detention Centers: Until all of us free none of us are free.

Topic:  Immigration  Detention Centers,
Segment: Ending Immigration Detention Centers: Until all of us free none of us are free.
Participants:  Hilda Cruz, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
                        Reverend  Jeffery Ryan , The Riverside Center for Spiritual Living
Broadcast Air Date
: 11/15/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org

Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:
-What is the relationship between the imprisonment of people and the subject of immigration?
-What is the difference between an immigrant detention facility and general prison facilities?
– Why are asylum seekers placed in detention centers?
– The detention  facility in Adelanto  California  holds approximately 2,000 people.
-The Adelanto  detention facility is a for profit facility that charges $120 a day for each person.
-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is funded  by public   federal  money and then DHS contracts with  private detention centers.
– Do people in the detention centers have legal representation?
-How does the non-visibility of detention centers facilitate their continual operation of violence?
-How to we turn the hidden into the visible?
-What are the alternatives to having people caged in detention centers?
–  Will AB32 terminate the renewal of contracts of detention centers in California?
-Will the Adelanto Detention Center  close with the passing of AB32?
– What are the different systems that profit from manufacturing harm for people?
-How do we create a just world where we truly feel safe?
– We all have our own gifts as humans.
– Why are people    held in  detention centers paid a 1 dollar a day for their work?
– What is the nature of health care within detention centers?
– How do  “instant noodle” soup companies  and telephone service providers benefit from the detention centers?
– The bonds for release from detention centers can cost 30,000?
– How does the pain being caused within the detention centers ripple out to our communities?
– How do we envision a world that works for everyone?
-Until all of us are free none of us are free.

Jan 31, 202345:06
Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers

Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers

Topics:  Hopi & Dine , Semiconductor design, STEM, Indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science

Title : Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers

Participants:  Vanesha Honani  and Nicholas Rajen
Publish Date: 09/07/2022

Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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  • Conversation Topics:
  • What  does a  QA engineer do?
  • What is the Fairchild plant project story?
  • Native  and indigenous community were naturally engineers?
  • What is the story of  Hopi women in  Semiconductor manufacturing?
  • Who is Richard Feynman?
  • Where is  California Indian Nations College?
  • What is the relationship between semiconductor circuitry design and Navajo tapestry design?
  • What are the different narratives about our respective communities?
  • Have the STEM fields always been considered spaces for white men only?
  • What is the story of indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science field?
  • How many Native Americans participate in coding?
  • How do we incorporate our community traditions into our professional spaces?
  • How  has  the  semiconductor shaped our current reality?
  • What are the roles of  women in STEM?
  • Women have been  left out of recognition  from the great discoveries?
  • What is  Rosalind Franklin  relation to  discovery of  DNA Molecule?
  • Emmy Noether mathematician
  • What is role of the semiconductor in our lives?
  • How did a Fairchild’s semiconductor factory end up in the Navajo reservation?
  • What is the relationship between the Hopi weaving design and the final semiconductor design?
  • How do we connect the history of  colonialism, Native communities,  and the Fairchild’s semiconductor factory  placement on a  reservation  to employ native women?
  • Why did Hewlett Packard (HP) follow the Fairchild project of  establishing manufacturing plants Hopi and Navajo land?
  • Why do we need to understand the history of  colonialism  to  understand  why the Fairchild semiconductor plant was built on a Native  American reservation?
  • Were the semiconductor engineers inspired by the native American sand paintings?
  • Why are the resources of Hopi and Navajo nations quantified and targeted by corporations?
  • Did the semiconductor circuit design copy the Navajo rug design?
  • When did the American Indian Movement take over the Fairchild semiconductor plant?
Sep 07, 202259:57
Alianza Mesoamericana:  Voces Indígenas en  Defensa de  bosques  y Pueblos/  MesoAmerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices  in Defense of Forests and  People  ( Spanish and English audio)

Alianza Mesoamericana: Voces Indígenas en Defensa de bosques y Pueblos/ MesoAmerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices in Defense of Forests and People ( Spanish and English audio)

Topics:  Indigenous  Activisms,  Mesoamerica, Environmentalism, Land rights

Title : Alianza Mesoamericana:  Voces Indígenas en  Defensa de  bosques  y Pueblos/  MesoAmerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices  in Defense of Forests and  People  ( Spanish and English audio)

Participants:   Levi Sucre, Coordinador de  Alianza  Mesoamericana de Pueblos  y Bosques
Publish Date:  03/01/2022
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

  • Mesoamerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices in Defense of Forests and  People
AMPB
  • Como nace  la organizacion ( Alianza  Mesoamericana de Pueblos  y Bosques)?
  • Autoridad y derechos indígenas de proteger sus territorios
  • ¿Quién tiene derechos legales sobre   protección de territorios indígenas?
  • ¿Cuándo los países marcaron territorios no consultaron a comunidades indígenas?
  • Hay una defensa de la naturaleza desde la cosmovisión indígena.
  • Derechos   humas incluye   el   derecho a una relación completa nuestro ambiente natural.
  • ¿Porque intentan países y corporaciones separar la definición indígena de territorios ancestrales?
  • El mapa de Mesoamérica nos muestra   que las comunidades indígenas estas donde los bosques se encuentran.
  • Hay  iniciativas de producción alternatives porque las comunidades indígenas  son los primeros afectos por el cambio climático y poder defender los  bosques.
  • Las comunidades indígenas en todo el mundo comparten las mismas amenazas.
  • Cuál es la diferencia entre ver las comunidades indígenas actuales versus comunidad indígenas romantizadas.
Mar 02, 202234:58
College and Community During COVID (a year later)

College and Community During COVID (a year later)

Topics:   College Attendance, UC Berkeley,  First  Generation College Students, COVID and College

Title : College and Community During COVID (a year later).
Participants:  Zion Rodriguez Aceves
Publish Date: 10/14/2021
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

  • You can listen to the last  year’s conversation here:  Graduating During Covid-19
  • College and Schooling during time of COVID ( a year later).
  • How did students prepare to enter college during the stress and uncertainty of a quarantine?
  • What was your experience of first year of college, while online?
  • Is going to college online similar to going away to college with everyone that you know?
  • Are second-year college students attending college in-person for the first time, behind or delayed in building new communities?
  • How  did the online format become an asset by getting the college curriculum  without having to leave the community of support behind?
  • The online format allowed us to include our families into the class.
  • What are the difficulties for technically second year-students, moving to college to attend in-person for their first year?
  • How do we prepare to adjust to the shift from online to in-person college experiences?
  • What happens  when the university treats you as a second-year student, but  it’s your first-year on campus?
  • What are foundations acquired during the first year of college attendance?
  • Figuring things out together.
  • How is campus life different during  COVID?
  • Do students wear masks on college campuses?
  • How do teachers feel about being in class with so many students?
  • Is there a college social life during COVID?
  • What are the different college retention factors for students?
  • Is UC Berkely a radical school?
  • Are colleges open to hear from new voices?
Oct 15, 202141:14
When Hispanic Labels Don’t fit

When Hispanic Labels Don’t fit

Topic: Identification  Labels,  Race Deconstruction
Participants: Daisy Ocampo, PhD, Historian
Segment: D Report
Broadcast Air Date: 10/11/2013
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive page: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending

Discussion Points

  • What happens when labels do not fit?
  • Who is included in the Hispanic label?
  • Is Hispanic the same a Latino?
  • Why do people accept imposed categories of identification?
  • When was the Hispanic label adopted by the US government?
  • How do we people learn to become Hispanic?
  • How do indigenous people challenge the Hispanic category?
Sep 24, 202143:38
Conversación con Sara Omi: Mujeres indígenas y activismo ambiental de Mesoamérica

Conversación con Sara Omi: Mujeres indígenas y activismo ambiental de Mesoamérica

Topics:  Sara Omi,  Embera,  eco-pedagogy,  environmental activism,  Coordinadora de Mujeres Líderes Territoriales de Mesoamérica
Title : Conversación con Sara Omi: Mujeres indígenas y activismo ambiental de Mesoamérica
Participants:    Sara Omi,  Coordinadora de Mujeres Líderes Territoriales de Mesoamérica
Publish Date: 09/15/21
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org

Also available on:  RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound

Temas de Conversación:
Conversation Topics:

  • ¿Como nace la coordinación de mujeres lideres territoriales de Mesoamérica?
  • Alianza de pueblos y bosques
  • Las voces de mujeres son necesarias dentro del dialogo e protección Ambiental local e internacional
  • ¿Cuáles temas se introducen al poner las voces de mujeres dentro del movimiento de protección al medio ambiente?
  • Mujeres indígenas son afectadas con mayor impacto por cambio climático.
  • ¿Comunidades indígenas son romantizadas por el estado, pero no necesariamente políticamente respetadas?
  • Las comunidades indígenas tienen soluciones para combatir los riesgos al cambio climático.
  • Las mujeres indígenas continúan la lucha para ser reconocidas en contexto local e internacional
  • ¿Eco pedagogía incluí las voces indígenas?
  • Cuáles son los programas implementados por comunidades indígenas para salvar el planeta.
  • Women maintain the cultural knowledge such as medicine and  land  management as best practices to build a healthy  planet for everyone (including non-indigenous).
  • The COVID pandemic caused the loss of any elders with great cultural knowledge that needs to be recovered and protected.
  • Recover the lost forests by planting trees to preserve our cosmovision.
  • Se busca alianza con hermanas y hermanos indígenas en las Américas y mundo.
  • Sin las comunidades indígenas no se pueden avanzar las soluciones ante daño climático.
Sep 15, 202153:40
Central America, Solidarity and Politics of Spaces

Central America, Solidarity and Politics of Spaces

Topic:  Chicana Studies, Central America,
Participants: Iris Ramirez,  Ph.D. student in Chicana Studies  UCLA
Broadcast Air Date: 10/18/19 Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org

Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside. Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:– How do we tell our own stories? – Do Central America issues fit in a Chicana Studies program? – What are the multiple roads to college? -Why  does the research literature stereotype immigrant families as   non-education   focused, when almost all immigrant family stress the  importance of education? -What is the imposter syndrome? – The unaccompanied youth   migrating from Central American want to go to  college? –  How de we talk about  Central America differently from the way talk about Mexico? – Does the United  States  have a focus on Latinadad that  is Mexico-centric? – When did the United States invade Central  America? – What is the location of the three Mexicos? – What is Chicanismo? – Is Chicana Studies open to studies focusing on Central America? – What are the national forms of hegemony within Chicana studies? – When did the conversation regarding Central American first enter our families? – Does the United States assume every  brown person is  Mexican? -What is the relationship between US intervention in Central America and the exodus of people  from Central America to the US. -How do we prepare for the politics of spaces? – What is the relationship between anti-Central American rhetoric and anti-immigrant  rhetoric? – What are the mechanisms of solidarity?

Aug 17, 202143:44
Critical Race Theory: Untangling the red-baiting from sincere questions and directions

Critical Race Theory: Untangling the red-baiting from sincere questions and directions

Topics:  Race,  Critical  Race Theory, Law,  Anthropology, History
Title : Critical Race Theory: Untangling the red-baiting from sincere questions and directions
Participants:   Elliott Kim, Public Historian, Educator, Writer
Publish Date: 08/06/21
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org

Also available on:
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Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org

Discussion Topics:

  • What are questions, thoughts and directions that we carry around regarding  Critical  Race  Theory ( CRT)?
  • What did you think  when #45 used the  term  Critical  Race Theory?
  • Should  you be worried about a ban on teaching Critical Race theory, if you  teach History, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies and or Education classes?
  • What is Critical Race Theory?
  • Is the present red-baiting of Critical Race Theory an updated form of 1950’s McCarthyism?
  • How do you enforce a ban on a theory?
  • What is the most accurate definition of Critical Race Theory?
  • How does theory provide an understanding and or explanation to the world we inhabit?
  • Why is the legal context important to understand Critical Race Theory?
  • What is the institutional nature of race and racism?
  • Where does the concept of Law come from?
  • Why does Critical Race Theory emerge from a law school context?
  • Did  W.E.B Dubois use Critical Race Theory?
  • How does the Law convert the arbitrary into the natural?
  • When and how does the social construction of race become real?
  • Was the U.S. Constitution built to uphold racial inequality?
  • At what point have we naturalized our divides through the legal implant?
Aug 06, 202136:54
Questions of Gender: A conversation para los 2020’s

Questions of Gender: A conversation para los 2020’s

Topics:  Gender,  Stereotypes, Femininity, Masculinity
Title : Questions of Gender: A conversation para los 2020’s
Participants:    Gabriel  Rodriguez and  Angella Montano
Publish Date: 07/16/21
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org

Also available on:
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Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org

Discussion Topics:

  • What is the difference between teaching about gender and  living with gender?
  • What is gender to you?
  • How do we define gender?
  • Why do we consider women as the “weaker sex?”
  • Why do we change our behavior to fit with the expectations of different gender categories?
  • Where does gender exist?
  • Is Gender nature or nurture?
  • Can we see gender being taught?
  • Do we have to leave our family to escape gender expectations?
  • What is hyper femininity?
  • Is cooking considered a responsibility of women?
  • What does it mean to be a man?
  • Is gender based on genitals?
  • What does it mean to be more feminine or more masculine?
  • Can gender be severed from biology?
  • How do hair styles become  markers of gender?
  • What is the purpose of gendering children in school?
  • How do we treat boys differently from girls?
  • Why do we treat girls differently from boys?
  • Is the purpose of gender for division of labor to control resources?
  • Can we reject gender expectations?
Jul 16, 202154:32
La Escuela de La Raza Unida: A classroom at the Shade of Every Tree

La Escuela de La Raza Unida: A classroom at the Shade of Every Tree

Topics:    La Escuela de la Raza Unida,    Education, Chicana Movement, Freedom Community School
Title – La Escuela de La Raza Unida: A classroom at the Shade of Every Tree
Participants:  Alfredo Acosta Figueroa , Angelica Figueroa Rodriguez
Publish Date: 06/22/2021
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org

Also available on:
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Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org

Discussion Topics:

  • Was Blythe California originally a mining town?
  • How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida begin?
  • Why  did showing a video of Nixon eating grapes outside the Los Angeles  Memorial Auditorium  result in aggression against a student in a MECHA  meeting in a Blythe school?
  • The failure of the school board to  respond to the demands to reprimand the principal for injuring the MECHA  student resulted in Demesia  Figueroa saying “ we will never send  another one of our children to the  public school.”
  • How do you build a school when you are not a formally trained educator?
  • The office of United Farm Workers and Bert Corona  Bert Corona – Wikipedia were supporters of the school, La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
  • The  Escuela de la Raza Unida  was started   May 1, 1972
  • How did the old  post office building become the  new site of the school ( La Escuela de la Raza Unida)?
  • KERU,  Chicana bilingual radio station in  California.
  • The students in the school were active participants in the college and community movements.
  • Crystal City, Texas and Denver, Colorado also started similar schools to La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
  • Why was it against the law to sing the corrido of Joaquin Murrieta?
  • Pedro J Gonzales, Los Madrigadores  was one of the first  Mexican American radio broadcasters in Los Angeles in 1927/8?
  • What  type public school of education program was being offered to Mexican-  American and Chicana students in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s?
  • Agricultural Workers Community, AWOC
  • In 1965  there was a grape strike in Coachella.
  • Tlatelolco school in Denver Colorado.
  • Why didn’t the other community alternative schools last as long as La Escuela de La Raza Unida?
  • How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida  operate without state funds?
  • Why did  Cesar  Chavez donate a bus to La Escuela de la Raza Unida ?
  • What was the student experience of attending La Escuela de la Raza Unida?
  • What are the post COVID-19 plans for La Escuela de la Raza Unid
Jun 23, 202139:56
A Conversation: Fidencio Aldama, Yaqui Resistance and a Multi-National Gas Pipeline

A Conversation: Fidencio Aldama, Yaqui Resistance and a Multi-National Gas Pipeline

Topics:   Yaqui Resistance, Fidencio Aldama, Gas pipeline construction, Loma de Bacum

Title:  A Conversation: Fidencio Aldama, Yaqui Resistance and a Multi-National Gas Pipeline

Participants:   Scott, Member of Fidencio Aldama Support Group

Publish Date: 05/23/2021

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Yaqui Political Prisoner  Fidencio Aldama

For more information  visit the following  web pages:

– https://fidencioaldama.org/ 


– https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/mexico-pipeline-divides-yaqui-communities-and-triggers-wave-of-violence/


What is the history of Indigenous people’s claim to the land, and resistance in protection of the  land?

1533 can be a starting point to understand  present Yaqui communities’ resistance in protection of themselves and  their homelands.

What are the eight communities the comprise the Yaqui nation?

Why  does a U.S-based energy company want to build a  gas pipeline through Yaqui territory in  Sonora Mexico?

How is the connection to an ancestral land a defining element for many indigenous   communities?

Why is asking indigenous  people to move different  from asking non-_indigenous people to move from New York to Los Angeles?

Los Angeles is on occupied Togva land?

Is it possible to organize against settler-colonial-nation states  such as  Canada, United States of America, and Mexico?

The Yaqui people hold a memory of themselves  before Spanish colonization, before the country of Mexico and before USA corporations.

What is the responsibility of people inside theUS  for the actions of  American companies  injuring people outside of the Unites States?

When we talk about environmental issues,  do we forget to include indigenous people?

How are environmental issues tied to structural racism?

 Is the fight against the North Dakota Pipeline similar to the fight against the Sinaloa gas pipeline?

Why  have Indigenous people been paying the price for other people’s comfort.

The company IEnova, that is building a gas pipeline through Yaqui territory in Sonora Mexico is a subsidiary of Sempra  Energy, based in San Diego California.

The gas pipeline  would pass through Yaqui  territory but would not  provide gas to the Yaqui community?

 Did Sempra  energy receive  consent from all Yaqui communities to build a gas pipeline through Yaqui territory?

What are the legal processes for international corporations to build on indigenous land?

Loma de Bacum sued the energy company to halt construction of the Guaymas-El Oro gas pipeline through their territory.

On August 26, 2016  the court of Sonora ruled that the gas pipeline construction through Yaqui territory had to stop because they company did not have consent.

When the gas company  ignored the court’s order to stop construction, the Yaqui community  stopped construction through direct action.

What happened during the attack in Loma de Bacum  that resulted in the death of one person?

Why was Fidencio Aldama  taken into custody by the  prosecutor of  Sorona?

What are the contradictions in the evidence used against Fidencio Aldama?


May 23, 202138:01
A Second Round of COVID-19 Graduations:  Celebrating  Through Uncertainty and Recognizing Achievements

A Second Round of COVID-19 Graduations: Celebrating Through Uncertainty and Recognizing Achievements

Topics:   Graduation, College, COVID-19, Family, Community
Title: A Second Round of COVID-19 Graduations:  Celebrating  Through Uncertainty and Recognizing Achievements
Participants: Precious Fasakin
Publish Date: 05/17/2021
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Discussion Topics:

  • How do we  prepare to graduate during a second year into the COVID19 pandemic?
  • How do you study Economics through a lens of justice?
  • What does it mean to be an “applied  student?”
  • An anthropology research project examining the “culture of incarceration in the United States.”
  • How did teaching through COVID19 social distance classes change the availability for teachers to support students?
  • Dr. Linda Jean Hall
  • “Research is we search.”
  • How do we prepare for a life without school structure, after graduation?
  • How does college attendance structure people’s lives differently from those that did not attend college?
  • Thinking about  graduation with considerations of the pandemic.
  • How did  going to school help us maintain a semblance of normalcy while coping through COVID19?
  • How do give ourselves credit for stepping up to help those in need  when systems  failed?
  • How do we give credit to our families for making sure we continued with our commitment to education ?
May 16, 202132:28
 “Foreign Adjustment Program”- A conversation on going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s

“Foreign Adjustment Program”- A conversation on going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s

Topics:  School, Immigration, Foreign Adjustment  Program, High School, Los Angles 1950’s
Title:  “Foreign Adjustment Program”- A conversation on going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s
Participants: Francisco Gonzalez
Publish Date: 04/14/2021
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Discussion Topics:

  • Going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s.
  • Learning English in the 1950’s as a teenager.
  • What was the “Foreign Adjustment” English language program ?
  • The Foreign Adjustment Program included students from Russia, Germany, Peru and Mexico.
  • Why do some students laugh at other students for not speaking English?
  • Why  did Foreign Adjustment participants from Mexico, Central and South  America get called “wet backs,”  but not students from Europe, if all  were equally newly arrived students ?
  • What kind of interactions occur between US-born and non US-born students?
  • How was the group of students in the Foreign Adjustment program treated by the school faculty and students?
  • How do students remember the different teaching approaches, 60-plus years later ?
  • How was the Foreign Adjustment program different from  the “regular school?”
  • How  did joining the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) become one  of  two options (Gym/Sports or ROTC) in High school in the 1950’s?
  • ROTC participation post World War II?
  • What was the United  States immigration policy in 1954, that deported an eleventh-grader to Mexico?
  • If  you are undocumented and a teenager, at what point in our lives do we  consider ourselves American or at least part of America?
Apr 14, 202130:02
 Stop Anti-Asian Hate: Building Solidarity Communities

Stop Anti-Asian Hate: Building Solidarity Communities

Topics:  Asian Hate,  Racism, History, Anthropology, Community
Title:  Stop  Asian Hate: Building  Solidarity Communities
Participants: Elliot Kim -Historian, Educator, Community Organizer, Actor and Writer
Publish Date: 04/05/2021
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Discussion Topics:

  • Is Anti-Asian hate, a resurgence of  historic  racist recipes of the United States?
  • What is the relationship between the current anti-Asian acts of violence and anti-black  racism?
  • Why are older people targeted, when they are unable to fight back?
  • What is the documented history of anti-Asian violence?
  • How many of us have been targets of violence because of the color of our skin?
  • Where do communities that are not perceived as White or Black, fit within the conversation of the white-black binary?
  • Is the violence against Asian communities legitimatized by the  beliefs of American nationalism?
  • What California law made it illegal to bring a  legal case against a white man?
    People v. Hall 1850
  • Why do we call some people “aliens?”
  • Where does the hate come from?
  • What is the difference between willful ignorance and conditional ignorance?
  • How optimistic are we for humanity?
  • How do we dismantle systems of thought for our self-liberation?
  • How do we build  communities of safety?
  • Does hatred  live in the infrastructure?
  • Where do we find our optimism for a better future?
Apr 05, 202140:07
Acknowledging Indigenous Science

Acknowledging Indigenous Science

Topic:  Indigenous Science,  Decolonial Theory, Plant Pathology
Participants: Natalie Solares, Master’s degree in Plant Pathology , UC Riverside
Broadcast Air Date: 10/25/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
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Discussion Topics:
– What is plant pathology?
Botrytis cinereal is grey rot?
-What careers are available in plant pathology?
-Are humans creating the plant diseases?
-How did the potato get to Ireland?
-How do we navigate the different knowledge systems as we move through graduate work?
– How does western science take advantage of past and present indigenous knowledge?
-Can indigenous work to domesticate plants be protected from being co-opted by university researchers?
-What does it mean to question “Western science?
Sin maize no hay paise.
–  How do we change  current science authorship to reflect local  traditional science communities as the rightful authors of their  respective knowledge?
-Greg Cajete, University of New Mexico
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants ( 2015)
-How do we credit indigenous knowledge into the present academic template?
-How do we  build the spaces of empowerment?

Mar 10, 202142:02
Speaking of Care:  When in Community, We All Count

Speaking of Care: When in Community, We All Count

Topics:  Perceptions of community. Social, political and economic safety during COVID-19
Title:
 Speaking of Care:  When in Community, We All Count
Participants: Blue Andrade
Publish Date: 02 /20/2021
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Discussion Topics:

  • Perspectives on community.
  • Returning from Cuba to U.S pandemic.
  • How did Cuba respond  to COVID- 19 differently from the United States?
  • What happened to the workers when the  employers stopped paying the extra $2 pay for working during the quarantine?
  • Are we experiencing different perceptions of reality?
  • Is the government also part of our community?
  • What is fake concern?
  • Is it genuine for the government to state that it cares for peoples’ safety , If the police a  government official place people at risk of injury?
  • How did the private companies become wealthier during COVID-19 while so many people were struggling?
  • Is the United States of America a country of contradictions?
  • Can the government  trust the people?
  • How do communities protect one another when the government does not  protect the people?
  • How has the quarantine  affected the work of the communities of care?
  • During the shutdown, we can see the transparency of the capital extraction system.
  • Why  the  words socialist, radical, and   activist taboo?
  • How do we speak with full optimism of this things we want?
  • What are the contradictions  in system that requires you to play but makes it hard to play the game?
Feb 20, 202142:18
Music, Culture and Community in the Time of COVID

Music, Culture and Community in the Time of COVID

Topics:    Music,  Culture,  Community-Building
Title:
Music, Culture and Community in the Time of COVID
Participants: Eduardo Valencia, Musician and  Music Educator
Publish Date: 02 /04/2021
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Discussion Topics:

  • What is the role of music in community?
  • How is music central to understanding people?
  • How have musicians been affected by COVID-19?
  • For many musicians there may not be a return to normal after COVID.
  • Should musicians be considered essential workers?
  • Why do most people assume music is a hobby?
  • Is music a form of language?
  • How do we support musicians during this COVID-19 shut down?
  • How does music express community membership?
  • How does music serve as an anchor to define community?
  • Can music cross assumptions of cultural divides?
  • Is music a type of language?
  • Can music communicate across generational time?
  • How does language serve as an archive of information?
  • How did  Richie Valens learn the song “La Bamba?”
  • What does it mean to grid the music?
  • What is the future of music?
Feb 04, 202131:21
When Does a Riot Become a Coup d’état?

When Does a Riot Become a Coup d’état?

Topics: January 6, 2021, DC  Capital Trump Riot, Insurgency .
Title:
 When Does a Riot Become a Coup d’état?
Participants: Dave Poyer,
Publish Date:
01/19/2021
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Discussion Topics:

  • Is the for-profit model  of health care designed to address the COVID-19 pandemic?
  • How do we make sense of what happened on January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C.?
  • When was the last time that the capital was ran sacked?
  • The rioting in D.C was not an accident.
  • What were the logistics  necessary to get over 66, 000 people to the US capital on January 6?
  • At what point does a  riot become an insurrection?
  • How do political street fights move to political parties?
  • Is the Hawaiian shirt a coded uniform for the “proud boys?”
  • What  will be the risk to the “ right of assembly” resulting from the January  6, 2021 protest that that turned into an unlawful entry into the  Washington  D.C. Capital?
  • Will peaceful protests become criminalized because of the actions of the DC rioters?
  • Is there a difference in calling the actions of the entry into the  capital, an insurrection instead of coup d’état?
  • What is the difference between legitimate and illegitimate power-grab?
  • Why did we create funny memes of the people that entered the capital instead of taking actions of the rioters more seriously?
  • How did information become weaponized?
Jan 19, 202101:05:37
Online Teaching and Learning Under COVID19: Adjusting to the moment.

Online Teaching and Learning Under COVID19: Adjusting to the moment.

Topics:  Education,  Students , COVID 19, Zoom fatigue
Title:
Online Teaching and Learning Under COVID19: Adjusting to the moment.
Participants: Precious  Fasakin
Publish Date:
12/17/20
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Discussion Topics:

  • What is the student perspective to remote learning in response to COVID19?
  • How do teachers feel about teaching during COVID19?
  • How do we go to college under COVID 19?
  • How did “zoom” change the way  we decompress from school time?
  • Why did school expectations change from insecurity]at start of the shut down to the present high demands?
  • What was lost in the transition from in-person education to online classes?
  • Can Educators acknowledge that this  school moment is not normal?
  • How are the roles of teachers and students changed  under a COVID19 education?
  • What does school look like when we put students first, people first, and  community first?
  • How  are teachers supposed to ask  students to turn in work , when they  might have had a death in the family as result of COVID19?
  • Why do educators second-guess themselves in their ability to  teach appropriately and effectively under COVID19?
  • Can we be open about our vulnerability as students or teachers?
  • Maybe our fatigue is not with learning  but  more specifically we are tired of being on the computer?
  • What is screen fatigue?
  • Why are some students struggle with the online format, while other students are succeeding?
  • Can we adjust to this  emergency by accessing opportunity to adjust for greater potential?
  • How do we take  inventory of the things that did not work  while teaching online ?
  • What are some successes of online teaching?
  • This pandemic has forced us to imagine better futures.
  • How has teaching ton online instruction changed the physical university model?
  • This  pandemic has highlighted the  importance the support of office  administrator, technical , registrar and maintenance in keeping the  university system running.
  • The reliance on video classrooms has forced a reveal  that did not exist before.
  • Is asking students to turn on their cameras and unwarranted invitation to their homes?
  • Why do most teachers have  a bookshelf in the background of their videos?
Dec 17, 202045:00
Mining the Past to Build Social Memory

Mining the Past to Build Social Memory

Topic:  Archaeology, Anthropology, Maya, Social Memory
Participants:  Ryan Mongelluzo PhD, Associate Professor  San Diego Mesa College
Broadcast Air Date
: 11/08/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
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Discussion Topics:
– Is our understanding of the past  based movies?
– Where in Guatemala do we find Ucanal?
-How do you conduct photogrammetry with drones?
-How long does it take archaeologists to map a site?
-What new maps of Maya sites are generated via Lidar archaeometry?
-When were 30 or 40,000 people living in site of Ucanal? 
-How do physical features of sites demonstrate significance of power arrangements?
-How does the past inform the present?
-Is social memory a practice of purposefully forgetting and purposefully remembering?
-How does the work of archaeology become appropriated by countries for the purpose of nationalism?
-Is it accurate to frame the Maya of 800 years ago as Mexican or Guatemalan nationals?
– How are our collective fictional narratives based on someone  else’s perception of reality?
-What evidence can we use to reconstruct yesterday?
-Why do we speak so concretely about the past, if accuracy of context gets weaker the further we go into the past?
-How do we challenge the present by looking at the past?
-Can we see social inequality in the archaeological  record?
– Why is it a problem for archaeologists to see themselves reflected  what is being excavated?
-Does the concept of citizenship apply to membership formats of the past Maya classic city-states?
– Why don’t we see native American iconography in the United States of America flag?
-How does the nation-state of Mexico mirror the nation-state of USA, as both products of the colonial encounter?
-Is the modern nation-state trying to forget the indigenous Maya?

Dec 07, 202043:34
History of Memories: Mexican School Segregation

History of Memories: Mexican School Segregation

Topic:  Education, School Segregation, Mendez v. Westminster, Mexican-American,
Segment: History of Memories: Mexican School Segregation
Participants: 
Gabe  Flores,  Historian.  Doctorate Candidate in History department, UC Riverside
Broadcast Air Date
: 11/22/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
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Nov 20, 202044:04
Rise to Reunite, Al Orto Lado, Family Reunification, US-Mexico Border

Rise to Reunite, Al Orto Lado, Family Reunification, US-Mexico Border

Topic:  Rise to Reunite, Al Orto Lado, Family Reunification, US-Mexico Border,
Segment: Rise to Reunite: Don’t be Afraid to Take a Stand Against Government Policies of Hate
Participants:  Angeline  Chen,  Attorney and Co-founder of
Rise to Reunite
Broadcast Air Date
: 01/17/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

-Rise to  Reunite , “We are a volunteer group of immigration attorneys and community  members dedicated to helping reunite children with their families at the  border.”
Al Otro Lado,   ”   We are a bi-national, social justice legal services organization serving  indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana, Mexico.”
-How do we support one another as humans?
-There are over 20,000  migrants in  Tijuana, waiting immigration proceeding.
– What is the Migrant Persecution Protocol?
– Why does the government  send  Central Americans to Tijuana to  wait for their immigration proceeding?
– How are the migrant shelters funded?
– What is the experience of children at the shelters?
-How do we motivate people to do more to help the people seeking asylum?
-How do we make sense of the US government’s action of  taking children  from their parents?
-What is the difference in the  detention of men  versus detaining women with children?
-What is the motive for applying torture tactics on the people being detained?
-Why are people purposefully being kept in hieleras,  ice boxes ?
-If  border enforcement officers are not following explicit instructions,  then  why  do they puncture water bottles, keep the lights on at night  and take away people’s extra clothing to cause injury?
-Are officials being guided by a policy of hatred?
-If the courts ended the zero-tolerance policy, then why are families being separated?
-What is the relationship between the history of US intervention in Central America and the present immigration movements?
-What happens when we recognize the humanity of one another and  question the policies of violence imposed by nations?
-What is the lasting trauma effect on children resulting from being detained and separated from their families?
-How are national policies different from human policies?
-Don’t be afraid to take a stand.

Nov 13, 202045:06
Peace and Dignity Run: Becoming an Instrument of Healing

Peace and Dignity Run: Becoming an Instrument of Healing

Title: Peace and Dignity Run: Becoming an Instrument of Healing
Topic:  Peace and Dignity run 2020,
Participants: Atl Gonzales,
Peace and Dignity ,  
Broadcast Air Date:  02/14/2020
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
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Discussion Topics:

  • How did the Peace and Dignity Journey begin?
  • What is the generation that was born after World War 2, saw Vietnam war and lived the Chicana movement?
  • What was it like to grow up in Chavez Ravine?
  • What happens to children when they grow up in a violent place?
  • How do we find peace when we have been through violence?
  • What were the respective sources of spirituality for the Brown Berets, Black Panther and American Indian Movement?
  • Spiritual leader Lenard Crow Dog
  • Gustavo Gutierrez, UFW organizer and Peace and Dignity
  • What was the first theme of the Peace and Dignity run?
  • How do indigenous people manifest their right to exist?
  • Why did the first  peace and dignity run occur in 1992?
  • Who were the Chicanos of 1960’s in comparison to the present Chicanos?
  • How was Mexico different for indigenous people before NATFA?
  • Why are Indigenous activists are being murdered in North and South America?
  • What are the present genocidal acts being committed against indigenous people?
  • What is the history of inventing Latino?
  • Why did the Spanish and Portuguese colonizer call themselves Latinos?
  • How does the Latino community outcast the indigenous community?
  • Chicanas are part of the land, part of the Indigenous people.
  • Running can be a healing experience.
  • Why does the Los Angeles marathon start in Chavez Ravine?
  • What does the staff held by the runners represent?
  • What is lost in translating native teachings into the English language?
  • Are our bodies water and fire?
  • Where on our bodies is the center of the universe?
  • What is the spiritual internet, the spiritual network?
  • Thomas Banyacya (June 2, 1909 – 1999), Hopi elder
  • Native people in the Americas are being threatened because of corporations’ Lithium mining interest
  • The runners becomes instruments of healing
  • For more information  visit,  https://peaceanddignity.net/
Oct 25, 202047:45
Politics of COVID-19: Is This Our Chernobyl Moment?

Politics of COVID-19: Is This Our Chernobyl Moment?

Topics:  Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2020 Presidential Elections , Government Bail Outs
Title:
Politics of COVID-19: Is This Our Chernobyl Moment?
Participants:  Dave Poyer, Political Junky
Publish Date:
10/2/20
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Discussion Topics:

  • How much has changed in the world of US Politics?
  • Will the death of judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg affect the Presidential election?
  • Is the American Care Act at risk with a replacement supreme court judge?
  • Why did the democratic party settle for the ACA instead of single payer Medicare system for all?
  • Is government designed to represent the common folks?
  • Was the 2020 Care Act the greatest upward transfer of wealth in recent US History?
  • Is the COVID moment   our Chernobyl moment?
  • Why did we bail out the cruise shop   companies?
  • Does Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine   help explain transformative political and capitalism changes?
  • How does the politics of an Appalachian coal town differ from downtown Los Angeles?
  • Is Donald Trump’s wealth equivalent to the 1%?
  • What is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee?
  • If you can’t raise 2 million dollars just from the   contracts in your cell phone, then the DCCC doesn’t want you?
  • Why did the DCCC oppose Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes’s political run?
  • Are corporate interests shaping the rise of global conservative nationalism?
  • Are people realizing that they are like serfs, or wage-slaves?
  • What    kind of economy do we have where there is over supply of food and homes  yet there is an increasing percentage of people   hungry and without    shelter?
  • Capitalism is full of inconsistencies.
Oct 02, 202001:02:04
It’s Not a Trend: History of Police as Violence and Community Voices for Accountability

It’s Not a Trend: History of Police as Violence and Community Voices for Accountability

Topics:  History, Police Violence, Police accountability. Labor, Community Safety
Title:
It’s Not a Trend: History of Police as Violence and Community Voices for Accountability
Participants:  David Chavez,  Historian
Release Date:
09/18/20
Homepage :
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"If we are really  being serious of  pushing  for public  safety or for  having  a dignified humanity or seeing life as precious, we not only  have to abolish the police in its current form  and the way law  enforcement is right now,  but we also  have to  abolish the cop in our  head…”
—  David Chavez

Discussion Topics:

  • What is the history of police violence in USA?
  • What did the Black Panthers and Brown Berets say about violence from the police?
  • Were the police  held accountable for starting riots to stop the labor movement?
  • What was the police involvement in the Haymarket Massacre of  May 4, 1886?
  • What was the police involvement in the Black Wallstreet Massacre of Tulsa Oklahoma May 31 and June 1, 1921?
  • When did police take part in lynching?
  • “It’s not [ a trend] to bring up the issue of police violence,  In fact it is historical”- David Chavez
  • How do the military patterns of no-knock raids in Afghanistan become visible in the no-knock raids by police at home.
  • The attention on police violence has grown to the point that Teen Vogue has articles addressing police abuse.
  • Why do people try to frame the attention on police accountability as an inverse discussion to police killed on duty?
  • For some communities calling the police for help means risking injury by the same police that respond to the call.
  • What is the connection between the present police and the slave patrols of the 1800’s?
  • What is state abandonment?
  • How can we examine the relationship between Whiteness and policing?
  • Can people perceive themselves as White by being on the side of police?
  • Is the police  an organization that is anti- labor movement?
  • What happens when we apply police accountability as an employment issue?
  • How do we learn to self-regulate our movements as a  response of fear of being targeted by the police?
Sep 18, 202053:15
History and Anthropology Perspectives: Past, Present (COVID-19), and Future of Labor and Society

History and Anthropology Perspectives: Past, Present (COVID-19), and Future of Labor and Society

Topics:  History, Anthropology, Labor Rights, Society,  Society Changes
Title:
History and Anthropology Perspectives: Past, Present (COVID-19), and Future
of Labor and Society
Participants:  Elliot Kim,  Historian
Release Date:
09/08/20
Homepage :
http://www.dreport.org,

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“The only justice that exists in this world is that which we create...”- Elliot Kim

Discussion Topics:

  • “Hustory” is the human story.
  • What happens when you intersect labor rights as lived experiences with the academic perspective of a Historian?
  • How does the long history of people advocating for a just compensation of their labor, connect to the present COVID19 labor      issues?
  • Why do we need to work 40 hours a week?
  • How will our work patterns change as a result of COVID-19?
  • How did the “unskilled worker” get reclassified as an essential worker?
  • Is there a difference between Hazard-pay and Equitable-pay?
  • What happens to the people that cannot do their jobs remotely?
  • Can we update an employment model that is approximately 200-years-old?
  • How do we recognize dignity in all labor?
  • Are the creative opportunities of employment changes being co-opted to reproduce exploitation of labor?
  • Did Adam Smith believe it was economically more advantageous to convert a slave into an employee?
  • Do employers only see workers as non-human capital?
  • As a human being, how do you want to participate on this planet?
  • People power
  • Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914. Why did the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attack 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado?
  • How do we dream big? Dream beyond the  expectations of being reasonable.
  • Have you read Looking Backward by Edward Belamy?
  • What is the utopian vision for labor for an equitable  world?
  • What is the difference between a living wage, family wage and a fair wage?
  • Does the arc of history bend toward justice or chaos?
  • Change is constant.
  • Are expressions of our power as individuals, able to change our reality?
  • Did COVID-19 sever our sense of collective work experiences?
  • How fast can we change society, to make it more equitable for everyone that is currently struggling?
  • Can we turn around society for the better in a week?
  • History happens through incremental  changes but also through abrupt shifts and marked moments.
  • Was Emit Till killed as a result of a lie from Carolyn Bryant?
  • What is your perception of time?
  • How do we image the future?
  • How do we acknowledge our own agency to do better?



Sep 05, 202001:20:39
Cultivo Nepantla:Working with Mycelium, Knowledge and Community

Cultivo Nepantla:Working with Mycelium, Knowledge and Community

Topic: Cultivo Nepantla, Mycelium, Cancun, Mushrooms, Sustainable Future,
Title: Cultivo Nepantla:Working with Mycelium, Knowledge and Community.
Participants: Susie Sanchez Valenzuela and Alfonso Enrique Valenzuela, Founders of Cultivo Nepantla
Release Date: 08/20/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Homepage :
www.dreport.org,

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 Discussion Topics:

  • Find out about Cultivo Nepanta on:
    Instagram.com/cultivo_nepantal
    facebook.com/ cultivo- nepantla  
    youtube.com- Clean Cancun-Sustainable Urban Mushroom Farm 
  • How does your perspective change, if you move from Riverside to Cancun?
  • Do you ask yourself, “who are we?,” “where do we come from?”
  • How do we explain a  leaving the United states to older generations  that risked so much to enter the United States?
  • Would our movements be more free-flowing, if national borders did not exist?
  • Did the grand-parents of our grand-parents have the same life questions that we have today?
  • What are some things that you cannot take with you when you move from the United States to Mexico?
  • What does it mean to be “Mexican- American” in Mexico?
  • How do we acknowledge that our past experiences are preparation for this time we are now living?
  • Can we accept starting from zero as a necessary experience of growth?
  • How do we convert non-assets in the United States into assets in Mexico?
  • How did COVID-19 affect the tourist industry in Cancun?
  • COVID-19 shut down global economies but also created new opportunities?
  • What does the term Nepantla mean?
  • Nepantla means, occupying the spaces in-between.
  • Creating a bridge with people, knowledge and community.
  • How does the mushroom connect our world in endless ways?
  • What is the circular economy?
  • This moment is asking for something new.
  • What can we learn from mushrooms?
  • Mycelium connects our natural world.
  • Can Mycelium be used to breakdown   cardboard?
  • What are the rules for how resources are produced, distributed and consumed  in the local economy?
  • What are the many possibilities for Cultivo Nepantla?
  • Can we convert waste into food?
  • Follow Cultivo Nepantla on social Media.
  • What is the funding campaign to support the growth of Cultivo Nepantla?
  • COVID-19 transformed how we look but cannot transform what we  care  about.
  • Creating a network of  knowledge and support.
  • How are we preparing for the future after COVID-19?
  • How can we support and participate  with Cultivo Nepantla?
  • Donate to  Cultivo nepantial here:
Aug 19, 202045:09
Qualified Immunity: Unreasonable Standards

Qualified Immunity: Unreasonable Standards

Topic: Qualified Immunity, Law, Police Accountability, Right to jury trial
Title:
Qualified Immunity: Unreasonable Standards
Participants:  John Burton, Civil  Rights Attorney
 www.johnburtonlaw.com
Release Date:
08/02/20
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org,

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Discussion Topics:

  • What is qualified Immunity?
  • How does qualified immunity relate to the national mass movements for police accountability?
  • The modern era of police misconducted litigation starts in the 1960’s with the Warren Court.
  • What is the Federal Civil right act of 1871?
  • Why is section 1983 of  1871 Civil right  act important?
  • What is an unreasonable seizure under the 4th amendment?
  • How did the good faith defense under common law turn into qualified immunity?
  • If the officer did not know that her/ his actions violated a prior existing law, then does  qualified immunity apply?
  • Is qualified immunity judge-made?
  • Is an unreasonable arrest, a violation of the 4th amendment?
  • Does qualified immunity undercut congressional policy and the intent of section 1983 of Civil rights Act of 1871?
  • How do you overcome qualified immunity?
  • If  the police officers did not know that their actions apply to a  violation of a specific law, then   qualified immunity averts a trial?
  • How does qualified immunity deprive plaintiffs from their 7th amendment right, a right to jury trial?
  • How did video change the perception of police actions of abuse?
  • How did cases of police misconduct change after the 1992 Rodney King case?
  • What is the relationship of police militarization and the current issue of police abuse?
  • What is the role of police in a capitalist society?
  • Is qualified immunity intended to protect the personal assets of police officers as individuals?
  • If an officer violates the constitution, then the agency of the officer is responsible  for the damages?
  • Can police officers be held to the same legal standard as drivers and doctors?
  • How does qualified immunity maintain class relationships intact?
  • Why  does the repeated practice of relying on prior cases of constitutional  violations to prove as standards, results in a deterioration potential  clear standard to serve as objective tests?
  • Qualified Immunity takes the decisions of a trial from the jury and gives it to the judges?
  • What are current supreme court cases dealing with qualified immunity?
  • Congress has the power to end qualified immunity.
Aug 03, 202040:42
 Towards Definitions of Indigena and Chicana Membership: A Conversation

Towards Definitions of Indigena and Chicana Membership: A Conversation

Topic: Indigena, Indigenous Identity, Chicana Studies, Chicana Community
Title:
 Towards Definitions of Indigena and Chicana Membership: A Conversation
Participants:  Dean Mayorga
Broadcast Air Date:
07/10/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:

  • Have you read the article, How the Chican@ Discourse Silences Indigenous Peoples from Mexico + Central Americans?
    Available at, https://medium.com/@jessicabhdz/how-the-chican-discourse-silences-indigenous-peoples-from-mexico-central-americans-b72b5897ad26
  • Is there a difference between being indigenous and identifying as indigenous ancestry or indigenous descendant?
  • What does Indigeneity mean within Chicana and Brown context?
  • What is relationship between defining indigenous and racism?
  • Is indigenous classification marked by assessments of being other than or less than White?
  • Chicana is an inclusive term?
  • What is the difference between Chicana Studies as academic and   outside Chicana lived experience?
  • How do we take ownership of own experiences and our own names?
  • “The book of indigeneity cannot close off at colonization.” – Dean
  • Chicanas   express old and new traditions
  • How do we learn to own our ways of membership?
  • Is there a disconnection between the field of Chicana studies and the communities of Chicanas, Chicanx and Chicanos?
  • An act of remembrance
  • Why does the nation-state want to erase indigenous definitions and instead accept Hispanic and Latino labels?
  • How did the theory of mestizaje influence Chicana Studies and Chicana communities?
  • What happens to mesitizaje discourse if we access race deconstruction   material?
  • How did the adoption in belief in mestizaje produce a platform of loss?
  • What is the role of colorism for light skinned Chicanx/Chicanas/Chicanos?
  • Can you take a DNA test to find out if you are indigenous or Spanish?
  • Indigeneity is political and
  • How does the Hispanic and Latino movement erase indigenous definitions?
  • How do we acknowledge the power to control the terms we will use to name ourselves?
  • Do you have to apologize for being person that has moved from one land  base to another?
  • What is the role of social media in redefining Chicanisma?
  • Is Chicana Studies changing more now than before?
  • Is being Chicana in constant flux?
  • How did Chicanas get repackaged as Hispanics?
  • The politics of renaming.
  • How often is Chicana Studies updated?
Jul 13, 202047:02
Bringing Down Monuments to Build Up New Histories

Bringing Down Monuments to Build Up New Histories

Topic: Confederate Monument Removal, Public History
Title:
Bringing Down Monuments to Build Up New Histories
Participants:  Daisy Ocampo, Ph.D., Historian.  Assistant Professor in California State University San Bernardino
Broadcast Air Date:
07/03/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:

  • How is public memory created through public spaces?
  • How are communities challenging public monuments?
  • Why was Andrew Jackson called “Indian Killer?”
  • What is the historian perspective on the current movements to remove public monuments that are perceived as racist?
  • Public monuments are statements of power?
  • National monuments signal specific histories that are remembered but also specific histories that are suppressed.
  • The physical narratives are being re-written to challenge the dominance of colonial histories.
  • How is history contested?
  • Why  is the figure of Christopher Columbus celebrated in the United States  if Columbus did not set foot on the land currently labelled as United  States of America?
  • Are statues like textbooks in their historical function?
  • Why is Junipero Sera Celebrated in California?
  • What is role of racial discourse in the analysis of public history?
  • For some people the statues represent heroes, while for others the same figures represent  terrorists.
  • What were the different reactions to writing on the cross on top of Mount  Rubidoux in Riverside?
  • What was the name of  the indigenous village that resided at the base of the place currently called Mount Rubidoux?
  • Frank Miller and President Taft bought the property to place the cross on top of Mount Rubidoux
  • ow do you decolonize places and monuments?
  • What is the difference between Whiteness, White Supremacy and White people?
  • What is the documented process of manufacturing Whiteness?
Jul 05, 202044:46
Violence Is Not Always an Option: Police, Trauma and Transformation

Violence Is Not Always an Option: Police, Trauma and Transformation

Topic:   Police Violence, Police reform, Civil Rights, Law
Title:
Violence Is Not Always an Option: Police, Trauma and Transformation
Participants:  Pascual Torres  J.D, Esq.
Broadcast Air Date: 06/26/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:

  • Ollin  is  a Nahuatl word  that  loosely translates into movement.
  • How do you introduce healing and transformation into the law?
  • Abuse of Power: Violence, It calls you back
     Article  available  on Peoples college of Law website: http://www.peoplescollegeoflaw.edu/the-abuse-of-power-violence-it-calls-you-back/
  • How was it to grow up in the 90’s in Boyle heights?
  • What is the relationship between the current police practices and the history of colonization?
  • Are police officers legally permitted to strike someone with closed fists?
  • Is there an “us versus them” mentality within the police?
  • Why do some communities get protected and served while other communities get harassed?
  • Race, class, and education level will determine who gets justice and who gets war?
  • What is justice by zip code?
  • The police are a tool of colonization.
  • Why is violence always an option for police?
  • Why is the age of 13 when we learn to start to fear police violence?
  • When you are constantly under surveillance  by the police, you begin to self-monitor yourself?
  • Did the police give you “Dodger baseball cards?”
  • If you criminalize a certain sector of the community, it doesn’t matter how you treat them?
  • How does colonization and trauma connect to violence?
  • “The untamed violence against our communities is no longer an option,”- Pascual Torres
  • Police violence is a problem that cannot be transferred to the next generation, it must be solved now.
  • What is the history of the police in the United States?
  • What is trauma?  Trauma is an experience that  stays with you for a long time and impacts you negatively.
  • What if the police violence is purposeful to traumatize communities in order to continue the colonizing effect?
  • Can we change the job requirements to be  a police officer?
  • What does it mean to defund the police?
  • Justice is part of the healing process.
  • Do we have a system where everyone is accountable for their actions?
  • How was the law used to colonize people?
  • If you don’t transform your trauma, you transmit the trauma.
Jun 26, 202040:05
 Children Born for This Moment: A Parenting Conversation

Children Born for This Moment: A Parenting Conversation

Topic   Fatherhood, Covid19 and  national Uprising movements
Title:
Children Born for This Moment: A Parenting Conversation
Participants:  Terrance Steward, State-Wide Director of Time Done  and  David Chavez  Historian , ABD
Broadcast Air Date: 06/19/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:

  • How is Covid-19 and the response to advocate for police accountability adding pressures to parenting?
  • What are the new conversations with our children regarding Covid-19 and Police violence?
  • How do we balance our engagement with politics of an outside world and the relationships with our children?
  • How did schooling change for our children when schools shut down?
  • How is school going to be for children next year?
  • How do we explain everything that is happening in this world to our children without scaring them?
  • How do we prepare our children to deal with racism?
  • When schools shut down, parents went into teacher-mode.
  • Children can understand racism and anti-black violence.
  • Are parents ready to send their children to physical classrooms this upcoming fall?
  • How do we manage our concern for our families and our concern to stay engaged in the world that we care about?
  • When did we realize that the shutdown might place our families at risk?
  • Is it safe to take your children to the grocery store?
  • It was surreal moment to see people’s fears empty  stores of grocery supplies.
  • How do you create a phone tree to build community support?
  • How do we talk to our children to make sure they are OK?
  • Many of our children have been at protests since the age of two.
  • How do we keep our children from internalizing the hate?
  • We  must tell our kids, they were born for this moment too
  • The children know that there is a reason why we are staying home and why  we go outside  to protest.
  • How do we help our children understand that this moment will not stay like this forever and that there is a change coming?
Jun 21, 202039:52
061220_Rising Up Toward Freedom: Optimism and Hope

061220_Rising Up Toward Freedom: Optimism and Hope

Topic   National Uprisings Against Police Brutality,  George Floyd, Police  Reform
Title:
Rising Up Toward Freedom:  Optimism and Hope
Participants:  Denise Spencer, MBA
Broadcast Air Date: 06/12/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org
Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org
Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:

  • Did Covid-19 create a catalyst for change in this country and other countries?
  • How do we create a new normal that is inclusive?
  • This is a painful time, but it is also a hopeful time.
  • We must be encourage by the bravery and tenacity of this upcoming youthful generation.
  • The murder of George Floyd and the lives of all the people that were cut short will give us life and gives freedom.
  • How do we build a world where the children of today do not  get to know the kind of oppression experienced by the past?
  • How has the police historically used violence to create and enforce the category of “people of color?”
  • Why  do some people tell us to wait and be patient for society to change,  when we stand on the benefit of generations before us that were  impatient and fought to change things for the better?
  • The  movement of protest is representative of the United States because  “every community” is standing in solidarity in support that Black lives  matter.
  • Is this the beginning of revolutionary change?
  • “A taste of freedom is what I long for…”- Denise Spencer
  • We owe the mass movement of uprising our hope.
  • How did the Covid-19 shelter in place protocols create a population of greater awareness?
  • How  do we make peace with the contradictions of aspiration stories of  liberty and freedom, while understanding that the United States was  built on legally supported inequality?
  • Can the police be both good and bad?
  • What is the effect being able to prove police abuse through video?
  • Racism is a mechanism of control to help the people in the money maintain their status.
  • The increments of change that we have seen in our lifetime come from the type of revolutionary action we see today.
  • This is not the time to throw up our own roadblock in our minds, we must the people   fighting for a better world.
  • We owe it to people protesting on the streets, to let go of our [academic] rhetoric and join them.
  • The days of oppression will end, we demand police reform.
  • Why did the White House put a second fence?
Jun 14, 202045:29
Graduating During Covid-19

Graduating During Covid-19

Topic  Graduations,  Covid-19, National Uprisings Against Police Brutality
Title:
Graduating During Covid19
Participants: Lizeth Aguirre,  Chandra and Zion
Broadcast Air Date:  06/05/2020
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

  • How do you prepare to graduate during Covid-19?
  • How do we acknowledge the hard work of students if we are unable to hold a physical graduation ceremony?
  • Covid-19 measures of quarantine and social distancing disrupted our school friendships, colleagues and support.
  • The school transition to online formats severed our opportunities to say goodbye to friends and professors.
  • How did students figure out the housing situation when colleges and universities informed students they had to leave campus?
  • Getting ready for graduation causes anxiety, and fear but also optimism and exciting energy
  • How does the post gradation job hunting season look during the covid-19 national shut down?
  • How do you prepare for your first year of college when the college you plan to attend is under quarantine due to Covid-19?
  • What is the difference between an online education and an in-person school experience?
  • What are your thoughts on graduating during the national uprising against police brutality?
  • How  do we manage our frustration, fears and heart break when seeing people  risk their lives to protest police brutality during a pandemic?
  • How do we support Black Lives Matter?
  • This generation is taking a stand and committing itself to changing the future for the better?
  • How do we walk forward with optimism?
  • We educate ourselves and the people around us to end police brutality.
  • How do we use our college preparation as tool sets to take-on the future?
  • How do we build a community with the tools developed from our college experience?
Jun 06, 202041:07
Self-care: Taking control of our safety

Self-care: Taking control of our safety

Topic  Self-care,  Covid-19
Title:
Self-care, taking control of our safety
Participants:
Carlos LaMadrid,  Social Work Professional
Broadcast Air Date:  05/29/2020
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page:
http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org

Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Discussion Topics:

  • How do we practice self-care during this moment of concern over Covid-19?
  • As people are sheltering at home, the pressures of hunger, violence and insecurity become more elevated.
  • We are in a period of mourning
  • How has this moment highlighted the different educational and economic disparities?
  • How has the recovery community served as model of coping?
  • What are the systems of polarity as response to stress keep us off balance?
  • How does the moment of sheltering at home create mirrors for self-reflection?
  • During this Covid-19 moment, many of us have become brave enough to ask for help.
  • What does it mean to want to “get back to work?”
  • How  did this moment create an accelerated use of “technology” by people  that previously never used video conferencing for daily communication?
  • What new perspectives will we carry forward as we “open up?”
  • How has our response to Covid-19 shifted the national conversation regarding workers’ rights, housing and economic justice?
  • What was the impact of having “mom and pop” grocery stores open during the moment of insecurity?
  • Some people are scared of the future and other people are optimistic of the future being built.
  • How do we build a society that recognizes that all people are essential?
  • Why are we denying the observance or the recognition of elements of death as we take inventory of Covid-19?
  • What happens when we move from not knowing anyone that has died from Covid-19 to knowing someone that died from Covid-19?
  • What  is necessary for our emotional health, psychological health, spiritual  health and physical health during this period of mourning?
  • What is the psychological effect of not being able to care for your deceased loved-ones because of the Covid-19 pandemic?
  • How do we take control of safety for ourselves?
  • How do we   build hope for the future?
  • You have to do the best you can, not  just for you but for others?
  • Why do I have to take care of myself  first before I can take care of others?
May 31, 202043:14
Wearing Masks: Racial Prototypes, Stigma and Risks

Wearing Masks: Racial Prototypes, Stigma and Risks

Topic: Racial profiling during Covid 19, Ahmaud Arbery,
Title: Wearing Masks: Racial prototypes, Stigma and Risks
Participants: Terrance Stewart, MA State-wide Director of Time Done Broadcast Air Date: 05/21/2020 Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org
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Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

 Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR. 

Discussion Topics: For many of us, the shelter in place did not decrease vulnerabilities but intensified our threat levels. Why is risk of death from Covid-19 greater for the African American community than other communities? Many people feel more vulnerable to risk of physical injury from others than from contracting Covid19 Depending on the skin tone, some us wear the mask and signal a threat Why can some people wear bandanas as masks without activating alarm? Are police shifting their practices away from targeting bandanas as suspicion and instead moving toward bandanas as safe? How did the narrative of African-a American communities being more at-risk of contracting Covid-19, result in a heightened fear of African American communities in public? Are the prior systems of violence also quarantined? People that were hungry before the Covid-19 shelter in place policy are now more hungry under the Covid19 quarantine efforts. People that were harassed by the police before the Covid-19 shelter in place policy are now harassed more under the Covid19 quarantine efforts. The stigma applied to certain populations What are the psychological effects of lynching? What is relationships between the infrastructure of caretaking of deceased bodies away from public site and lack of concern of threats of Covid-19? Are we desensitized from seeing people coded as Black being killed? What is the history in United States displaying dead Black bodies? How do we internalize the multiple examples of violence toward the Black community and express it our families? How do we make sense of he killing of Ahmaud Arbery within the context of Covid-19? What is the history of lynching as state sanctioned violence? Why is there a debate of whether the killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a form of racism? How do we define racism? Is the release of Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael a form of state sanction of their acts? Is racism as American as apple pie? What are the first legal codes that identify people as Black? Why did Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael suspect robbery if Ahmaud Arbery was jogging? Is every person that jogs suspected of having committed a crime? What are the dictionary associations with the colors black, brown, yellow, red and white? How does our language rewrite our codes of inequality? If we invest in understanding the system, we can build a better future. Why is self-love and self-appreciation threatening to a system that relies on inequality? Why can’t some of run in public because it is perceived as threatening? Have you read the book Bad boys by Ann Ferguson? -Have you seen the film Juice? Why is there a stigma associated with wearing a hoodie? Why do we have to sacrifice our comfort so other people can be more comfortable? Where do people get their ideas about racial prototypes and stigma? If Mexicans, Native Americans and Asians were also Lynched, then why do we only associate lynching with Black communities?

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May 24, 202045:36
D Report 051520- Nursing COVID-19: Experiences Symptoms and Safety

D Report 051520- Nursing COVID-19: Experiences Symptoms and Safety

Topic COVID-19,   Nurse experience, Public Safety
Title:
Nursing COVID-19: Experiences  Symptoms and Safety
Participants: Vanessa  Valenzuela,   Nurse

Broadcast Air Date:  05/15/2020
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
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http://www.kucr.org
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Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of  the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of  the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.

Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.

Discussion Topics:

  • What are the symptoms of COVID-19?
  • How are nurses adapting to the urgency of care-taking for COVID-19 patients?
  • When did nurses become aware that  COVID-19 was uniquely different from  other cases such as flu virus?
  • What  is the  relationship between the need to flatten the  curve of COVID-19  transmission and the limits of the medical infrastructure’s capacity to  care for patients?
  • Why are some nurses  having to buy their own medical protective supplies?
  • Did nurses think of themselves as first-responders before COVID-19?
  • Why did most people this COVID-19  was less severe than the  common flu?
  • The medical  field is still learning more ab out the effects of  COVID-19.
  • HOW is the general public learning to escalate its  preventative care-taking?
  • Is COVID-19 going to pass during the summer?
  • How do Nurses  respond to the different sources of misinformation?
  • How do  Nurses take care of themselves?
  • How do Nurses take care not to expose their respective  families and  loved ones to COVID-19?
  • What does “normal” look like during this COVID-19 period?
  • Why do some people believe that COVID-19 is not real?
May 16, 202041:44