Political Report, Tuesday, April 4th, with Chris Krohn: Reclaiming Santa Cruz History and Meaning of May Day

Posted by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 5, 2021 | All Talk, Chris Krohn, Local, Politics, Program, Talk of the Bay | 0

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Political Report, Tuesday, April 4th, with Chris Krohn: Reclaiming Santa Cruz History and Meaning of May Day

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Photo: Tom Scribner, the Industrial Workers of the World, May Day and the hot bed of radicalism, Santa Cruz, California.

We’ve got a bunch of radicals and ex-radicals, ruffians, writers, and rogue leftists this week on Talk of the Bay. “Reclaiming Santa Cruz History and Meaning of May Day” this week on Talk of the Bay. Join your host Chris Krohn as he reflects on the meaning of May Day with guests local historian and writer Bruce Bratton and Santa Cruz City councilmember and university lecturer, Sandy Brown.

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Ronnie Lipschutz

Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Emeritus Professor of Politics at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught from 1990 to 2020, and Co-director of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz (https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/). He received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He teaches and writes about energy, resources and social sustainability, foreign policy, global politics and sociology, politics and popular culture, and surveillance society. He is the author/co-author and editor/co-editor of numerous books and articles. His most recent book, with Dr. Doreen Stabinsky, is Environmental Politics for Changing World—Power, Perspectives and Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).