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The gang plays Time Travel Dinosaur by Matt Youngmark. T-Rex hijinks and good-dog deeds ensue! Plus Hesi and Juan from Team Nahual call in and talk about their new game Juanito el Nahualito . Theme song: Bossa d'Automne by Thiaz Itch

Homeless services activist Brent Adams talks about his work to keep the houseless warm in the winter, and how he came to be devoted to this cause.

A rent control discussion moderated by Talkabout guest host Dan Woo. Stacy Falls, of the Movement For Housing Justice, and Mark Primack, former Santa Cruz Mayor/Local Architect, speak about  Measure M  on the November ballot for the City of Santa Cruz. Part 2 of 2 programs on this issue.

A rent control discussion moderated by Talkabout guest host Dan Woo. Zav Hershfield, of the Movement For Housing Justice, and Keshav Kumar, speaking for Santa Cruz Together, talk about  Measure M  on the November ballot for the City of Santa Cruz. Part 1 of 2 programs on this issue.

Headlines:  Ventura's Thomas fire Story: Dan Rather addresses the AGU Fall Meeting More at newsfromoutdoors.org

Dan Woo talks with Ryan Coonerty about the Evolution of Santa Cruz and the currently proposed solutions to the housing crisis, including a $140 million housing initiative on the county ballot in November 2018.

Cannabis Club TV founder Danny Keith and your host Dan Woo dive into the rapidly changing commercial landscape of legal (and not so legal) marijuana in California!

Brown Girl Surf is an organization committed to diversifying the surf sport by training and mentoring girls of color from the Bay Area through their programs in the water (including summer camps ), and programs out of the water . Marley Reynosa , Program and Events Manager and Lead Surf Instructor at Brown Girl Surf, is an avid surfer who has competed in national surf contests in her home country,...

An expert in Latino and Mexican politics, Dr. Adrian Félix offers his analysis of the July 2018 Mexican Presidential election as well as the state of US-Mexico political relations. Formerly of UC Santa Cruz's Latin American and Latino Studies department, he joins the Ethnic Studies faculty of UC Riverside in Fall 2018.

An interview with writer and journalist Roberto Lovato about the current state of immigration policies and his ties to Central America. His work popularized the term "Juan Crow", a reference to a system of surveillance and control of immigrants to the US that resonates with Jim Crow segregation laws. Affiliated with the San Francisco's Writers' Grotto, Lovato recently completed a 3-year turn as a...

How does the self-representation of undocumented migrants become reflected in documentary film and video? Dr. Rebecca M. Schreiber , Associate Professor in the American Studies Department at University of New Mexico discusses her new book titled The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility  (2018, University of Minnesota Press). She explains how Mexican and Central Ameri...

Your host Dan Woo explores the decimation of the great society of California beginning in the late 1970s. Proposition 13 , passed in 1978 is the root of this situation; stunting the tax base and holding the legislature's ability to mend the situation in a stranglehold the last four decades. Dan Woo grills Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association VP of Communication Susan Shelley on the impacts of the p...

Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman Valentin Lopez speaks on the Amah Mutsun's efforts to derail a proposed mining project on sacred lands in the southern tip of Santa Clara County...and their wish to return to the land and practice traditional land management techniques.

How do you meet the educational needs of the "whole child" beyond what you see in the classroom alone? Dr. Rebecca London discusses an ambitious new initiative she's a part of in the Bay Area called the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust . This research project seeks to build a database in which school and social service partners work together to meet the needs of the whole child. Dr. London is an...

Dr. Mary Thomas worked with twelve artists and independent presses for a new art exhibit titled " Emerging Visions: Creative Practice at the Nexus of Freedom and Justice " (open from April 19, 2018-June 19, 2018).  Dr. Mary Thomas is the Research Associate for the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery (Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz) and Associate Director of Development for the U.S. Latinx Art Forum .

Headlines:  Stage 1 Water Restrictions in Santa Cruz, Redwoods Park in Los Gatos, UCSC Plant Field Guide, Ebikes in Santa Cruz.  Stories:  Sambrailo Readycycle Plastic-alternative Berry Packaging, the People of Color Sustainability Collective at UCSC.  More at newsfromoutdoors.org

How can activists or advocates engage in storytelling as a political tool without compromising the complexity of the narrative? Dr. Sujatha Fernandes , Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, discusses her latest book Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses...

Dr. Ann Lopez is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, CA and an emerita professor of San Jose City College where she taught courses in Biology, Environmental Science, Ecology and Botany in the Biology department. She talked about the work of the Center for Farmworker Families, the health challenges facing farmworkers as a result of pesticides use...

Headlines:  Condor Cam, West Cliff Drive Management Plan, Burn Season, Earth BioGenome Project, Perfect Lawns Create Climate Change, Chicken Waste Power.  Stories:  New Parks Director Citizen Involvement, UCSC Chancellors Defend Development and Housing Plans.  More at newsfromoutdoors.org

Bristol Cave-LaCoste  studies prostitution and sexual policing within immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is a Ph. D. candidate in History, with a Designated Emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies, at UC Santa Cruz. She is one of four student presenters at an April 26, 2018 public campus-sponsored event discussing her archival research on the sexual po...

Formed in the early 70's, the Dixie Dregs bent the genre boundaries of rock, jazz, country and classical.  Fusing unique instrumentals, the Dixie Dregs challenged the listener to expand beyond the industry standard typically fed to the masses as pop music.  This uniqueness became the demise of their marketability. However, forty one years later—as the original members of the Dregs have reunited fo...

In this episode, we hone in on drill music, a sub-genre that has gained notoriety since 2012 due to its nihilistic, dark, hyper-violent lyrics and sonic elements. Dr. Charity Clay, a Sociology professor at Merritt College in Oakland, CA weighs in to provide understanding of the social, environmental, and historical conditions in Chicago. The aim is to provide alternate perspectives to audiences th...

An interview with Dr. Francesca Degiuli , Assistant Professor of Sociology and the director of the Gender Studies Minor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is also a Visiting Fellow in the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU. She has written numerous articles on the topics of gender, globalization and migration throughout the years exploring different subjects from labor laws i...

An interview with Dr. Paul Ortiz , Associate Professor of History from the University of Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2006, UC Press). He discussed his latest book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States  (201...

KZSC News ~ 15 Mar 2018 San Francisco Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson resigns Santa Cruz unveils citywide neighboorhood policing plan Toxins found in SF Bay Area shellfish UC Regents meet at UC Los Angeles More online at kzsc.org