Dr. Ann Lopez on Farmworker Rights and Immigration
In this interview, Dr. Ann Lopez of the Center for Farmworker Families discusses a proposed bill that would grant some rights to undocumented farmworkers while leaving them open to deportation if they cannot comply with some very stringent conditions. Dr. Lopez says...
Natural Dreamwork with Mary Jo Heyen
Mary Jo Heyen is a certified practitioner of Natural Dreamwork and a meditation instructor. Her work with hospice patients, “The Healing Medicine in the Dreams and Visions of the Dying” is featured in the professional Journal of Palliative Medicine. Her dreamwork has...
Medicare for All, Free Tuition, and Strong Climate Policy: Necessary and Possible!
On Good News Santa Cruz this week Christine Barrington interviews local political scientist Paul Schaarfsma who is encouraging citizens to open their minds to the possibility that three critical policies are necessary and achievable: Medicare for All; Tuition Reform;...
Randa Solick – Soil
Randa Solick discovers ways soil can rescue us.
Alan Ritch – Stay Back
Alan Ritch heeds the warning to stay back.
The Film Gang Review: Honey Boy
Honey Boy, the winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, starts off with a literal bang: a young man getting blown backwards by an explosion. The smoke clears to reveal he’s an actor on a movie set, tethered to a rope, dangling...
Building Relations
Kent Madsen, Ruth Cruddas and George Bunch discuss their work with Santa Cruz Al Salvador (santacruzalsalvador.org) building relations between the Guillermo Ungo and El Pilar communities in El Salvador and churches in the Santa Cruz area. Learn from the plight of...
Faith Matters: Truth
A neo-Pagan, evangelical pastor, and a teacher of a Hindu Vedic tradition have a conversation about how each faith understands the concept of Truth. TOPIC: TRUTH GUESTS: JAIRAM SHARMA (HINDU VEDIC) PASTOR JESSE WEST (EVANGELICAL) SANDY STONE...
Steve Pleich – Better Self
Steve Pleich reflects on the recent calls for compassion.
Gen Z and Democracy
Gen Z and Democracy Tune in to “Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 8 at 5:00pm on KSQD 90.7FM Tune in for a very special discussion on the role this coming-of-age generation plays in the preservation of democracy. What does a democratic republic and a two-party system...
Soul Centered Living with Laura Grace
Laura V. Grace, PhD is a Jungian practitioner, author and public speaker. An active member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, Laura has taught more than two hundred courses on the transforming power of night-time dreams. Her Waking Dreaming™,...
Just for Fern
UCSC doctoral candidate Helen Holmlund has traveled all over the world to study the fascinating physiology of ferns. She has even risked being eaten by Australian crocodiles in order to collect her data! Locally, she studies resurrection ferns, which may appear dead...
All steelhead and rainbows
UCSC doctoral candidate Katie Kobayashi's personal and professional lives look very similar, and she wouldn't have it any other way. You can usually catch her in waders angling for fish somewhere between Santa Cruz and Patagonia. We caught up with Katie about the fish...
Women’s Exxpedition Update
The all-female sailing expedition around the world to raise awareness about ocean pollution will be underway for two years. Marine biologist Rikki Erikson, one of the leaders of the first legs of the journey, tells the harrowing, but exciting story of their sail with...
Want to Climb a Wind Turbine?
If your car breaks, you take it to a mechanic. If your wind turbine breaks, you call a climbing technician who isn't afraid of heights. In this interview we talk with Jackie Sommers and David Anthes of Rope Partner, a company in Santa Cruz that will go climb a huge...
