KUCI: Digging Out

Unpacking The Paths From Casablanca To The US

Today we turn to immigration, with Fatima Majid's narrative laying out the complexities of her journey from Casablanca, Morocco to eventually Las Vegas, Nevada. This coverage is a bit of a lure to all listeners, to pursue other narratives in their midst. It’s never what you think it is.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Anis “Bistro,” La Chance – album.

Elder Neglect - A Pre-Existing Condition in the Age of Covid

Dr. Laura Mosqueda, Professor of Family Medicine and Geriatrics at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, covers the institutional, the cultural, and the personal aspects of our elder population amidst the current pandemic. Dr. Mosqueda is also the co-director of the National Center on Elder Abuse, a federally-funded clearinghouse for information on research, training, best practices, news and resources on elder abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; The James L’Estraunge Orchestra “Groovin’ You.”

Reflections on the 59th Presidential Inauguration

Adam Smyer, attorney and writer, offers his fresh take on the optics and the words conveyed at the 59th Presidential Inauguration. Considering his latest book entitled, "You Can Keep that To Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor," ’tis a gift to mine his thinking.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, “Parable of Inclusion” Dimensional Stardust album.

Nobles and Deplorables in Our Republic

Kevin O’Leary, journalist, writer, political science faculty member at Chapman University, and fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy at UCI, draws on the history of the republic as the host endeavors to attribute roles of OC individuals in the melee perpetrated on the nation’s capital January 6th. Of interest is O’Leary’s latest book, released in September 2020, Madison’s Sorrow: Today’s War on the Founders and America’s Liberal Ideal.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Sean Jones “Lift Every Voice,” Roots album.

The Debris Is Plastic, Labeling Is Complicated

John Hocevar, Oceans Campaign Director of Greenpeace USA talks about his organization’s latest campaigns to reduce plastic production. This includes the lawsuit his organization filed last month in California, against the Wallmart Corporation, for deceptive labeling of plastic containers. Plastic, the debris that lasts tens of thousands of years.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Rone “Room with a View,” Room With a View album.

Climate Health, Activist’s Health

Welcome to the new time slot for, and the trimmed size of, this show. Today, José Trinidad Castañeda, Orange County Climate Action Campaign organizer and non-profit builder, has two separate tracks in which he’s working: the planet’s health and his own.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; “What’s Going On” feat Jasmine Cephas Jones.

Carbon Tax Carried Forward into New Regimes in 2021

My guests are OC Citizens Climate Lobby activists, Tom Osborne (Laguna Beach chapter) and Mark Tabbert (Newport Beach chapter and national board) look into where the 117th Congress and the new Biden/Harris will take legislation pertain to the carbon tax.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, “Ao Redor Do Samba,” Azymuth.

Matriarchy, Mary, and More

Leading us through a bit of patriarchal unlearning is my guest, Ava Park Founder, Director and Curator of The Museum of Woman in Irvine and Founder, Spiritual Director, The Goddess Temple of Orange County, a women's spiritual organization meeting at The Museum of Woman with currently monthly Sunday Goddess services and Holy Days.
Mary and the Virgin birth are considered in the context of two thousand years ago.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; and Alice Coltrane, "Journey in Satchidananda," World Spirituality album.

Common Power Pays Purpose Forward

Charles Douglas III, with a Starbucks managerial career and activism in his tool belt, is on to something very special. He is now responsible for vision, brand, and community at a new organization known as Common Power. His colleague, David Domke spoke last week on “Ask A Leader”. On today’s show, Charles takes up how Common Power builds teams and develops a new generation of leaders, presently joining organizations inside Georgia to engage voters in the two consequential Senate run-off elections, taking place 1-5-21; early voting has begun this week.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits album; (1:54)John Fahey, “Joy To The World,” Christmas Guitar Soli With John Fahey, album.

A Memorial to COVID-19 Casualties; Requesting For A Nation

What if we arranged a memorial to the COVID-19 casualties . . . all of them? Reverend Terry LePage, minister affiliated with the United Church of Christ respectfully considers: where, who, how, why, and when. If you have more to add, the host is but an email away, cshambaugh@kuci.org.