KUCI: Digging Out

”STANDOFF”

Returning to do this show is Jacqueline Keeler, a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer and activist, with her latest book: "Standoff, Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands." The Bundy takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's standoff against an oil pipeline in North Dakota are two sides of the same story that created America and its deep-rooted cultural conflicts. Through a compelling comparison of conflicting beliefs and legal systems, Keeler explores whether the West has really been won—and for whom. This show is the first of two parts of a broad reaching, first rate story telling that you may wish you had heard when you first received your history lesson(s). Part 2 is available in a separate podcast.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Redbone, “We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee”

If Ms. Smith Went to Washington .....

Former Assemblywoman and current local government official, Representative Christy Smith, who’s close general election loss last year, really does meet this show’s theme. Stay with me listeners – it will be apparent.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits - album; Rone, “Ginko Bilboa: Room With A View - album.

Root Causes of Uprooting

Silvio Carrillo, journalist, activist, and artist offers what keeps getting missed in mainstream coverage: a nuanced perspective of the motivations for Central American refugees to flee dangerous conditions. Silvio speaks as the California director of Berta Cáceres.org; the late activist, his aunt, who championed indigenous claims to resources in Honduras. Listeners can dig out by contacting their federal representatives in support of HR1574 and S388.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Natalia LaFourcade “Hasta la Raíz.”

Nuance Meets Asian Hate With Surprising Delicacy

Johanna Kim, Newport Beach businesswoman, civic contributor, and parent, examines the moment in which her three generations of Korean American family members dwell. KUCI listeners are invited to turn out and learn at the 4/3/21 Stop Asian Hate rally at Freedom Hall/Mile Square Park, 16801 Euclid Street in Fountain Valley at noon.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Ted Coleman Band “Sweet Bird” Taking Care of Business – album.

Prison Pandemic Voices

Keramet Reiter, UCI professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Law, and director of Lifted, the prison education program in the UC system, brings a crowbar with her latest program that she’s building with colleagues and a crew of graduate and undergraduate students. Prison Pandemic, “Stories from the Inside,” is an ongoing project compiling voices of and about incarcerated people in California. Listening to her interview is the first way to engage. Other ways include: following @uciprisonpndmic and Prisonpandemic.uci.edu, or writing: Prison Pandemic/PO Box 4430/Sunland, CA 91041.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Devon Gilfillian, “What’s Going On,: feat Jasmine Cephas Jones

Common Power Prioritizes on Voting Rights

David Domke, associate director of Common Power, talks about how his organization is building on the momentum of the last recent general and special elections to address the national and state legislative voting rights measures. If you want more where this came from, you’re an email away to sign up for CP’s rousing gatherings or just follow up: https://commonpower.org talks; hand wringing is officially out of fashion.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Sunscreen, “Voices,” Just A Drop EP.

The Poseidon Misadventure

Today we turn out sights to local drinking water and the Poseidon desalination plant proposed in Huntington Beach, under consideration on and off and now on again.
And examining the process and the merits of this massive infrastructure investment is Andrea León-Grossmann, Climate Action director of AZUL, advancing environmental justice as climate change is being tackled in all sectors on all levels.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Captain Planet, ”Big Man” feat Shungudzo – No Visa - album.

Preaching Climate to All Choirs

Kristen Poole, Ned B Allen Professor of English Renaissance Literature at the University of Delaware, and general editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World, talks about her new book, "Christianity in a Time of Climate," Wipf and Stock Publishers; a special tool for the era. Listeners are invited to find a copy of this lovely tome, for a broader experience of her particular thinking.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel the Spirits album; “
Fritz Kreisler: "Praeludium and Allegro," performed by Johanna Röhrig, violin and the Mozart Chamber Orchestra.

Shareholder - You Are Here

Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, primes shareholders of all portfolio sizes to advocate for justice, bringing several tools to the show, including his book, "The Shareholders Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable."
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Johnny Pacheco, “El Faisan”

”No Going Back” From This COVID Situation

Dr. Manuel Pastor, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the USC, as well as director of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and their Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration; and serves on Governor Newsom’s taskforce for Covid-19 recovery, weaves social solidarity into the pandemic recovery model.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Chick Corea ”Spain” Return to Forever album. RIP, Chick!