The Koza Uprising Happened 50 Years Ago and Still Relevant Today
For the 12/13/2020 Cutting Edge Show, Alan Christy, professor of history at UCSC, Provost of Cowell College, and Director of the Okinawa Memories Initiative, and Cameron Vanderscoff, co-Director Oral History of the the Okinawa Memories Initiative spoke with Nada...
Margie Kern-Marshall – Christmas Cactus
Margie Kern Marshall shares the story of the Christmas cactus.
Jeri Bodemar – No Holiday Gifts
Jeri Bodemar shares about Holiday Giving without the gifts.
A Crow’s Calling with Angela Grillo and Susan Ackerman Joseph
Susan Joseph and Angela Grillo co-lead groups around creativity and healing and (of course) dreams. We talk about their embodied / somatic way of working with dreams saying this somatic work can also be used to relieve waking life trauma. Susan gives an example of how...
Environmental Justice through Building Green, Healthy and Sustainable Communities
Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 13th, 5-6 PM. Host Ronnie Lipschutz speaks with with Darryl Molina Sarmiento, Executive Director for Communities for a Better Environment, a 40-year-old environmental justice organization with offices in both Southern and Northern...
Gilda Zelin – Letter W
Gilda Zelin explores the letter W.
Sandy Brown – Re-elected to City Council
In this program Randa Solick talked with Santa Cruz City Council member Sandy Brown about a variety of important issues. The housing crisis, and especially truly affordable housing was discussed at length. Sandy is proud that the previous council, of which she was a...
The Power of Love at Jacob’s Heart
Talk of the Bay on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 features Lori Butterworth, the Founder and Executive Director of Jacob’s Heart: Children’s Cancer Support Services, a Santa Cruz non-profit that provides family-centered care that addresses the emotional, practical and...
Unheard Voices with David Anthony, professor of African History at UCSC
On Unheard Voices , Friday December 11th, 2020 host Bobby Bishop welcomes historian David Anthony, professor of African History at UC Santa Cruz. They discussed his research into the rich history of the YMCA in South Africa, and the active – and sometimes activist -...
Claire Braz-Valentine shares her experiences teaching poetry and theater inside California’s prisons
Claire Braz-Valentine is a widely published poet and journalist. Her plays have opened in Santa Cruz and have been produced Off Broadway in New York and in many foreign countries. She has been a Poet In Schools and a Playwright in Residence at Lakeview Middle School...
The Film Gang Review: Possessor (2020)
Are we fully in control of our actions? That’s the question at the allegorical heart of Possessor, the new film from writer/director Brandon Cronenberg. Possessor is Brandon’s second film since his 2012 directorial debut, Antiviral. Despite the eight-year...
Meade Fischer – Sceptic
Meade Fischer is an admitted sceptic.
Cemre Gonen and Sam Bilal – Youth vs. Apocalypse and Youth Climate Strike
Cemre (GEM-ray) Gonen is 18 years old and a freshman at UC Berkeley. She is in the lead circle of Youth vs Apocalypse - a youth environmental justice organization that focuses on amplifying the voices of youth, especially youth of color, to fight for a livable...
Alan Ritch – A Family Arch
Alan Ritch has a surprise encounter at his family's arch.
The Vacancy Report: What a new study in LA reveals about the lack of affordable housing
Alex Ferrer is co-author of The Vacancy Report (along with Terra Graziani and Jacob Woocher). Alex is a housing researcher and a graduate student in urban planning at UCLA. His work supports tenant organizing and considers how failing to house people is an integral...
