Unmanageable with Alicia Bales

August 11, 2024--Zappa Montag and Lucky Atieno of Black to the Land at Emerald Earth Sanctuary in Anderson Valley talk about building Black Community in Mendocino County. Composer Nathaniel Stookey describes the premier of his new opera Bulrusher, set in Anderson Valley and featuring Boonville's homegrown dialect Boontling.

August 4, 2024--Local Reporter Mike Geniella talks with Alicia about developments in the criminal case against the county's former elected Auditor and other important local stories. Links to Articles: "Former Manager Seeks Mental Health Diversion in Criminal Case" Ukiah Daily Journal August 4, 2024 https://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/2024/08/04/former-manager-seeks-mental-health-diversion-in-crimina...

July 21, 2024--Neil Davis of the City of Ukiah talks about the 700-acre Western Hills Acquisition and Annexation, and plans for the future of Ukiah's Western Hills. Melodie Meyer of EPIC helps make sense of the July meeting of the Jackson Advisory Group.

Patty Clary of Californians for Alternatives to Toxics talks about her fight to uncover and remediate the toxic chemicals along the North Coast Railroad, now the Great Redwood Trail. Archive Interview: Attorney Sharon Duggan on using the legal system to enforce the Forest Practices Act. Links- Californians for Alternatives to Toxics https://alt2tox.org/ Our Children's Trust https://www.ourchildren...

June 23, 2024--Experience Juneteenth at the Mendocino Environmental and Social Justice Center, complete with stories, poetry, music, commentary and FOOD. Organized by Troyle Tognoli of the MEC and the Mendocino Chapter of Black Lives Matter. In the second half, youth climate activist and 2024 Mendocino Community High School graduate Sara Constance Rose joins Lucas Near-Verbrugghe of the Mendocino...

June 9, 2024--Episode 16 starts with a very special interview with 2024 Ukiah High School Graduate Lucy Shakman, co-founder and co-president of the Women's Empowerment Club at UHS. The second hour features Mark Andre of the Arcata Community Forest, and his extraordinary wealth of knowledge from over 30 years of stewardship in Arcata's beloved community redwoods. 

June 2, 2024--Local Native Leaders Markida Hoaglin of the White Lily Clan Wailaki Tribe and Nikcole Whipple, an enrolled member of Round Valley Indian Tribes, discuss Eel River Tribes' opposition to the Great Redwood Trail. Jessical Martinelli describes the many initiatives of the Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance. Add your name to a sign-on letter to comment on the Great Redwood Trai...

Sean White talks about his Federal Court victory against the Army Corps of Engineers for their release of turbid water from Lake Mendocino that is deadly to endangered Salmon in the Russian River. Andy Wellspring of the Coalition to Save Jackson Demonstration State Forest gives an in-depth update on the latest in efforts to achieve Tribal Co-Management and preserve the redwoods at JDSF. To see Sea...

May 12, 2024--In response to the BLM's Headwaters Deal Commemoration events, Alicia welcomes Tracy Katelman, Nancy Four Waters, and Ellen Fred for an on-air reunion to remember the struggle to save Headwaters Forest.

May 5, 2024--Voices from the MMIW/MMIP Day of Awareness in Ukiah; Don Hess on the Redwood Valley Gas Station; Fort Bragg's Alleyway Art Project with Lia Morsell. Content warning: rape, sex and drug trafficking, violence, sexual abuse of children. Links Alleyway Art Project: https://fortbraggalleywayart.org/ Redemption House:  https://redemptionhouseofthebayarea.org/ Grassroots Institute: https://w...

Musician Holly Near in Conversation; Kevin Collins of the Utility Wildfire Prevention Task Force about PG&E's Enhanced Vegetation Management, with Richard Gienger. To buy tickets to see Holly Near in concert at Ukiah's SPACE Theater on May 11, visit https://www.spaceperformingarts.org/notes-blog/holly-near-fundraiser-for-space-scholarship-program To find out more about PG&E and efforts to...

Performance Artist Ross Travis talks about his new show "Where Do We Go From Here?" touring Mendocino, Lake, Colusa and Glenn Counties starting May 12; Citizens for Healing works to change the name of Kelseyville, featuring Pomo Elder Clayton Duncan. Ross Travis's website: https://rosstravis.com/ Watch a public talk by Dr. John Parker "The Kelsey Brothers; A California Disaster, "about the two Nat...

Veteran Local Journalist Mike Geniella on the imminent demise of Ukiah's historic Palace Hotel and the felony case against County Auditor Chamise Cubbison; Bear Lincoln trial remembered with archival footage on the 29th Anniversary of the shootout in Round Valley.

Eel River News--Scott Greacen from Friends of the Eel River on Dam Removal at the Potter Valley Project; Perry Lincoln and Michelle Merrifield from the Kinest'e Coalition working toward tribal consultation on the Great Redwood Trail planning process.

Judi Bari Remembered, Kinest'e Coalition Speaks at Great Redwood Trail Agency Meeting, and Potter Valley Prepares for Dam Removal 

November 13, 2023--This episode of Unmanageable is a rebroadcast of a program first aired on KMUD Redwood Community Radio in Garberville California on October 31st. It features voices from the First Wailaki Cultural Burn in Southern Humboldt in 150 years, which happened at the So Hum Community Park on Thursday, October 19th. I was honored to be on site with the cultural burn crew, and my tape reco...

July 20, 2023--Episode 5 features a recording of Dr. Lyla June and Desirae Harp performing at an extraordinary event on Food Sovereignty organized by the local nonprofit Native Health in Native Hands , a native led, native run 501c3 nonprofit, created by Kinest'e people. The ancestral homelands of the Kinest'e , now called Wailaki, are in Northern Mendocino, Southern Humboldt, and Southwestern Tri...

April 18, 2023--Episode 4 is a conversation with Art Harwood of Harwood Forest Products in Branscomb, and Co-Founder of the Redwood Forest Foundation (RFFI), about the past, present and future of forestry in Mendocino County, recorded in Ukiah on November 10, 2021. For more information about RFFI, or to get involved with the Usal Redwood Forest, visit: https://www.rffi.org/ You can make a financia...

February 17, 2023--Episode 3 explores the ongoing disaster at the Creekside RV Park north of Willits, where a low-income community is being displaced after winter storms washed out the only vehicle access in or out of the park. For more information please visit United Disaster Relief of Northern California https://udrnc.org/ You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via payp...

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Huge thank you to all of you who have supported this effort so far by downloading, subscribing, listening and donating. If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email at unmanageablemendocino@gmail.com . You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US I’ll...

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