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This show is a tribute to the life and legacy of Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres , on the two year anniversary of her assassination in her home on 2 March 2016. She received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015. Thank you to Skylight and The Goldman Environmental Prize for granting permission to use their clips for this broadcast. This broadcast features Karen Calles, Voc...

A conversation with two key organizers of the UC Santa Cruz conference " Dig In: Cultivating Inclusive Approaches to Food Justice ," (held on March 2, 2018). Dr. Linnea Beckett (Food Justice Coordinator, Colleges Nine and Ten, UCSC) and Chris Lang (Environmental Studies Graduate Student, UCSC) addressed the meaning of food justice, discussed racism and racial dynamics in the vegan movement, and wh...

TJ Demos is a Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, and he is the Founder and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies . He writes widely on the intersection of contemporary art, global politics, and ecology and discussed his latest book called Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017). He addressed...

Carol from KZSC's   Test of Time interviews legendary jazz drummer Billy Cobham .  Acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer, Cobham has recorded with many great jazz bands of our era.  From his work with Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra to his innovative solo career, Cobham continues to push the boundaries of jazz. Hear Cobham speak about his current Crosswinds Project , the inspiration behi...

KZSC News ~ 08 Mar 2018 Santa Cruz Mayor David Terrezas talks homeless relocation Police body cams mandated in San Benito County and Santa Cruz City Interview with Movement For Housing Justice UCSC and residents debate growth vs. sustainability goals More online at kzsc.org

KZSC News ~ 01 Mar 2018 Queer Fashion Show Funds Mural As Activism Financial Soul Searching In Santa Cruz Santa Cruz County's priorities vary greatly by region UC Santa Cruz laborers protest for solidarity More online at kzsc.org

KZSC News ~ 08 Feb 2018 Updates on office of UC Santa Cruz President Hepatitis A Outbreak in Monterey County Save Our Shores protests possible oil drilling UC Santa Cruz Workers' Union protests More online at kzsc.org

KZSC News ~ 15 Feb 2018 UCSC Chancellor speaks on undocumented student issues Santa Cruz City Council votes on rent freeze Highlights from Martin Luther King Convocation More online at kzsc.org

KZSC News ~ 22 Feb 2018 Immigration issues update (Ari Shiell) Trump attempts to defund earthquake warning system   UC Santa Cruz Student Union Assembly meets with Chancellor Blumenthal   (Daniel Martinez) More online at kzsc.org  

In this episode, we discuss our narrow options when it comes to who is considered authentic and inauthentic hip-hop. Since hip-hop has been heavily dominated by the survival driven, hyper-masculine, straight black male, our mold for who is authentic only accommodates those who identify as such. Anyone else outside of that is considered "wack." I want to discuss what this means for black representa...

Dr. Patricia de Santana Pinho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz . She is the author of several publications on blackness, whiteness, racism, and forms of resistance to racism in Brazil, including Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book, Mapping Diaspora: Afr...

Dr. Emily Haozous was a 1995 graduate of UC Santa Cruz's Porter College and earned her BA in music. She earned her MSN and PhD from Yale University School of Nursing and is currently an Associate Professor and Regent's Professor at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing . Dr. Haozous discussed her cancer research focused on improving symptom management and cancer outcomes for American Ind...

Dr. Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Chair and Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a return guest, discussing the 1-year anniversary of the Women's Marches , the emergence of the #metoo movement, and her assessment of the challenges from 2017 under the Trump Administration.

KZSC News ~ 25 Jan 2018 Voices From the Santa Cruz Women's March  (Max Ryan) Santa Cruz resolution on Ecuadorian oil imports  (Quinn Edmonson) Possible challenge to offshore oil drilling in California  (Daniel Martinez) More online at kzsc.org Max Ryan Quinn Edmonson

KZSC News ~ 18 Jan 2018 ICE planning immigration enforcement actions in Northern California  (Daniel Martinez) NAACP March in Santa Cruz on MLK Day  (Daniel Wootan) Food justice commentary ahead of eco-farming Conference  (Lani B) UC Santa Cruz's Long Range Development Plan aims for 28,000 student enrolment  (Anna Rose) More online at kzsc.org

Chicago blues musician,  Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater , spoke with Carol from the Test of Time. Clearwater talks about the Chicago blues scene, his Cherokee heritage, and the good fortune of his first headdress. At 83, Clearwater shows no sign of slowing down.  He's working on songs for a new album and planning a European tour this year.  

Dr. Ashwini Tambe is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies at University of Maryland-College Park. She has recently been writing about the #metoo movement. We discussed the precursors to this public outcry about sexual harassment, abuse, and violence; what it means to survivors/victims to be living through this moment; and how we should understand the circle of complicity that has emboldened t...

Headlines: Alaskan power microgrids, Meteorologist reports on climate change, a CAT scan of the Earth, New tech beams heat into space. Stories: Wildfire insurance gets expensive, hard to find; Pushback against Measure Z in Monterey; Children's climate lawsuit argued in SF court; Californians push back against Trump oil expansion. More at newsfromoutdoors.org  

KZSC News ~ 11 Jan 2018 Offshore oil drilling in California possibly to be expanded  (Jordan Penland) Monterey County group fights to oust oil drilling and fracking  (Ty Goering) Santa Cruz County Supervisor details 2018 priorities  (Daniel Wootan) More online at kzsc.org

Download episode Listen in as we chat and hear music by Mele'uhane, coming from Kona, on Hawai'i island; Keikilani Lindsey, the dad, with sons Leo and Kaneala. Living the life of traveling musicians, they are on the mainland touring in support of their newest CD, Anaspond. In addition to the laughter-filled interview, you'll hear the instrumental that honors the voyaging canoe Hokule'a,  the sweet...

Carrie Kahn is an award-winning NPR foreign correspondent. In this interview, she discussed the challenges of reporting about natural disasters and the bravery of local journalists in Latin America who risk their lives to provide the news. She provided an update on the rebuilding efforts in Mexico (from 2017 earthquakes) and Haiti (from 2010 earthquake). She also discussed the recent removal of Te...

Professor Emeritus Norma Klahn (Literature) and Professor Emeritus Pedro Castillo (History) are the co-founders of UC Santa Cruz's Chicano Latino Research Center (CLRC). They also served as the Center's first co-directors in the 1990s. The CLRC is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year (2017) and the opening of its own archives ( Nuestras Historias ) for research. We discussed how the CLRC sta...

Professor Beth Currans is the author of a new book called Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Activists Transform Public Space (University of Illinois Press). She is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Eastern Michigan University . We discussed her major research findings, her views on the January 2017 Women's Marches, and how she engages in scholar-ac...

Chris Zepeda-Millan is the author of a new book called Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism (2017, Cambridge University Press).  Dr. Zepeda-Millan is an assistant professor in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.  We discussed his book's major findings, about his views regarding today's political climate when it comes to immigration, and about the role of Spanis...

The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue is a multi-year public history project involving professors and undergraduate student researchers. As the project director, UC Santa Cruz Professor Alan Christy spoke about the extent of military occupation of Okinawa today, about Charles Eugene Gail (the namesake of the project) and about the extensive labor involved in creating a digital public his...