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Santa Cruz, the smallest County in the State, will now be represented by 3 Assembly Districts!! Mark's "2 year bills" are both in the Senate (non-custodial wardship for kids, and courthouse lactation facilities accessible by attorneys); deep dive into the election year calendar", including "pulling papers" on March 11, but no one is officially a candidate until the Secretary of State publishes the certified list of candidates on March 31st; one bill for this session submitted is AB1617, which would create an "official" wine label for the Santa Cruz Mountain appellation.

This Just in... from Outdoors Environmental News Magazine 14 January 2022 Headlines Elevate Energy in Chicago makes low-income housing more efficient (Climate Connections) Study finds low birthweight children associated with fracked oil/gas wells (Public News Service) Indigenous leaders prepare communities for climate change (btlonline.org) For centuries, Native Americans have relied on natural resources to sustain their families, communities, traditional ways of life, and cultural identities. This relationship with both land and water makes indigenous people and cultures particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. April Taylor is a sustainability scientist with the Chickasaw nation, who works at the South Central Climate Science Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Taylor assists 68 tribes across New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana to manage and plan for the many environmental impacts of climate change, including issues such as tribal water rights, sea level rise, flooding, droughts and wildfires. She was interviewed by Melinda Tuhus for Between the Lines radio newsmagazine. Climate Justice in Canada (Keith Rozendal) One of the scientists leading efforts to redirect Canadian national policy on climate change is Irena Creed, a Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. Here, she describes the social justice roots of the policy recommendation process, and some of the specifics about how Canada could address some of the inequalities created or worsened by climate change, especially for indigenous communities of the far north. Blessing of the Waters service at Rio Del Mar Beach (Keith Rozendal) The sixth and final pan-Orthodox service led by Father Meultin Janic of the Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Santa Cruz. A service reflecting on the meaning of the Epiphany/Theophany and the baptism of Jesus of Nazareth in the River Jordan. U.S. Media Ignores Climate Change Impacts of Meat Eating (btlonline.org) Roni Neff directs the program on food systems sustainability and public health at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. She was involved in a research study that looked at the coverage – or almost total lack thereof in U.S. newspapers – of agricultural impacts on climate change, especially animal agriculture. She spoke to Melinda Tuhus of Between the lines radio newsmagazine.

In 2017 an AR-15 military-style assault rifle was stolen from the Santa Cruz Police Department and remains missing. In this hour-long interview, Santa Cruz Police Lieutenant Arnold Vasquez discusses the three-week investigation he led into the AR-15 theft. Lt. Vasquez explains that he was unable to discover when or where the gun was stolen. The AR-15 rifle was discovered missing in May, 2017 and was last seen three months before that, in February, 2017 he said.    The SCPD AR-15 theft was not made public and some current Santa Cruz City Councilmembers, and the police auditor for the city, learned of the missing gun from me.     My three-part series on the SCPD stolen AR-15 was published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and is available online:  https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/02/11/ar-15-stolen-from-santa-cruz-police-department-four-years-ago-still-missing/amp/    The AR-15 was originally manufactured by ArmaLite and is now produced by Colt. The AR-15 is the civilian/police version of the U.S. military’s M-16 rifle that was the standard issue weapon for U.S. soldiers during the catastrophic war on Vietnam. In addition to the AR-15 some of the other military-style gear that the Santa Cruz Police Department has includes an armored personnel carrier, flashbang grenades, grenade launchers and sniper rifles.      This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 25, 2021 on “Transformation Highway” on KZSC. 88.1 FM, kzsc.org. 

KZSC News updates on local mutual aid resources and COVID 19 vaccines

Welcome to the CUIP Alumni podcast as part of the Banana Breath Podcast Coalition. Today, we welcome you to a special conversation with Alison Trybom Lucas, the UC Santa Cruz’s Arts Division Chief of Staff. We talk about her own college experience as one of the first cohorts of Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program, practical advice for students transitioning to the work world, and exciting programs that the Arts Division is hosting for UCSC students to network, learn, and develop themselves professionally.

A dialogue between Dr. Sylvanna Falcón, producer/host of Voces Críticas and Dr. Molly Talcott, Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles and Representation Chair of the California Faculty Association (the largest higher education faculty union in the United States) about the unprecedented coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Welcome to the Pandemicene podcast! Today we welcome you to a conversation with Kim TallBear and Jessica Kolopenuk, two Indigenous scholars at the University of Alberta, Canada. We talk about their Indigenous STS research training program, their upcoming open access class on Indigenous peoples and pandemics, what a “productive embrace of crisis” looks like,and how understanding our relations as kin on earth might help us learn how to live better together on stolen land.  Show notes can be found here.

 Today we are joined by Misha Angrist, an associate professor of the Practice in the Social Science Research Institute and Senior fellow in the Duke Initiative for Science & Society to talk about the pandemic responses of COVID-19 through the lens of genomics   Show notes can be found here.

Stop The Sweeps Santa Cruz: Activists Discuss Resistance Against Closing San Lorenzo Park     Human rights activist Abbi Samuels, and unhoused activist Hannah, discuss resistance against the Santa Cruz city manager’s Dec. 17, 2020 executive order to close San Lorenzo Park, currently the site of a homeless encampment of about 200 people. There are currently no beds available in local shelters.     Abbi Samuels explains that she contacted Gail Newel, health director of Santa Cruz County, about the park eviction and Newel said that if the public health department had been contacted she would have advised against moving the homeless encampment out of the park because it violates CDC guidelines that recognize that dispersing encampments during the pandemic may lead to a spreading of the Covid-19 virus.    These interviews with Abbi and Hannah were recorded on Sunday, December 20, 2020 and originally broadcast on Thursday, December 24th on “Transformation Highway” with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM at the University of California Santa Cruz.    Update: On Monday, December 20, 2020 unhoused and housed activists acted in solidarity to create Stop The Sweeps, an organized effort to resist Santa Cruz police efforts to evict the on-going encampment in San Lorenzo Park. Since Monday police officers have been stopped from evicting the homeless encampment and closing the rest of the park. Activists used fencing to barricade the police away from the encampment, stopping the eviction. And on December 30 a lawsuit was filed in federal court by the California Homeless Union and the Santa Cruz Homeless Union on behalf of Food Not Bombs, Alicia Avalos, Hannah Hegel, Chris Ingersoll and Randolph Tolley. As a result, a temporary restraining order was issued to stop the city from closing San Lorenzo Park.     Stop the Sweeps Santa Cruz petition:  https://www.change.org/p/santa-cruz-city-manager-martine-bernal-stop-the-closure-of-san-lorenzo-park-and-the-displacement-of-the-homeless-camp?redirect=false 

The band and culture-jamming project Negativland recently released their 14th studio album “The World Will Decide.” Long-time bandmember Jon Leidecker discusses this latest audio offering from the Bay Area media collective founded in 1980. Topics include technology, privacy, the military-prison complex and the current movements for Black Lives and defunding the police. This interview was originally broadcast on November 20, 2020 on “Transformation Highway” with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM / kzsc.org. 

Santa Cruz Indigenous Resistance & Survival in the 19th Century     Marty Rizzo is the author of a 2016 thesis titled “No Somos Animales: Indigenous Survival and Perseverance in 19th Century Santa Cruz, California” for which he received a PhD in History from UCSC. The paper is currently being made into a documentary film and a book that’s scheduled for release in Fall, 2021.     Rizzo speaks about Santa Cruz Indigenous history, the infamous 1812 assassination of Roman Catholic Spanish Padre Andres Quintana by Native Americans at the Santa Cruz Mission, the Amah Mutsun movement to protect Juristac (protectjuristac.org), and more.     Originally broadcast on KZSC 88.1 FM on Thanksgiving Day, 2017 on Transformation Highway with host John Malkin.

These days Oliver Tree lives in Hollywood. But he started out here in Santa Cruz, California. The performer’s first album (and last) - Ugly is Beautiful - was released by Atlantic Records and leapt onto the billboard charts on August 1, 2020 as both number one alternative and rock album. Oliver Tree, who embodies elements of Evil Knievel, Andy Kaufman and Iggy Pop, spoke with John Malkin on Transformation Highway on KZSC 88.1 about why the album release was delayed, what it’s like to build the world’s biggest scooter (and ride it) and why he’s done with music and has established a production company called Alien Boy Films.  

Gina Dent is an activist, author and associate professor of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dent discusses the movement to abolish police and prisons and efforts to create community health and safety without systems of coercion and punishment.    “Visualizing Abolition” is a year-long series featuring artists, activists, scholars and lawyers struggling for prison abolition. Presented by the Institute for Arts and Sciences at UCSC, the events run from October 20 to May 19, 2021 and are, “designed to examine the ways people see and understand issues of mass incarceration, detention, and policing in the United States and abroad, challenging the prevailing social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote.”   “Abolition. Feminism. Now” is the forthcoming book by Gina Dent, Angela Davis, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie, scheduled for release by Haymarket Books on March 2, 2021.   This interview was conducted by John Malkin and was originally broadcast on “Transformation Highway” on October 16, 2020 on KZSC 88.1 FM, kzsc.org.  https://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2020/visualizing-abolition

Tune in to our interview with Dr. Joan Donovan, faculty at Harvard; Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; and host of the Big If True webinar series. We discuss the spread of misinformation, social media platforms, and possibilities for online organizing.

Welcome to the Pandemicene podcast! We welcome you to a conversation with Kim TallBear and Jessica Kolopenuk, two Indigenous scholars at the University of Alberta, Canada. We talk about their Indigenous STS research training program, their upcoming open access class on Indigenous peoples and pandemics, what a “productive embrace of crisis” looks like, and how understanding our relations as kin on earth might help us learn how to live better together on stolen land.

The University of California will no longer require standardized testing. We explore what that means for students. Also, we take a look at how voting may be different in Santa Cruz county for the November 3rd general election.

KZSC joined the nationwide COMMUNITY RADIO BLACKOUT on June 2nd, 2020 — 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence — followed by 24/7/365  of programming calling for racial justice. George Floyd’s death is part of an appalling history of racist harassment, assault, and murder that stretches back far too long in the life of our nation. There are too many victims whose experiences never made headlines and whose names will never become public. KZSC and UC Santa Cruz work within the same context of white supremacist systems, structures, and conditions that make life more dangerous and precarious for people of color. We need to do all that we can to dismantle these injustices. KZSC, like our country, have taken too long to translate our ideals into action or sustainable change.  We must do better, in order to uphold the highest values that we pursue in our mission — to provide "access in a non-discriminatory, progressive fashion to those traditionally underrepresented in the media. This includes, but is not limited to, women, cultural, ethnic and racial minorities, people of various sexual orientations and gender expressions, seniors, youth, children and persons with disabilities."

Santa Cruz locals working in agriculture talk about how COVID-19 has affected their businesses. Also, a look into the future of contact tracing in Santa Cruz county.

Radio is an essential service in California, and we take a behind-the-scenes look at how KZSC has adjusted its operations to accommodate Santa Cruz county's stay-at-home orders. Also, a report on how the coronavirus has affected the Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall.

COVID-19 rules could force a housing shakeup for UC Santa Cruz in the fall. Fewer students might return to Santa Cruz if most classes are online only, and all dorm rooms on campus could be converted to singles, says UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive. KZSC news talks to Larive and others about housing. More at kzsc.org

An interview with Jan Goff LaFontaine, Jaqueline Mendoza, and Jessica Espinoza about LaFontaine's Speaking Out Campaign against sexual violence. LaFontaine believes in creating social change, empowering women and girls, one photograph at a time. LaFontaine's visual photography projects reflect a collaboration between the survivors themselves and the photographer and are focused on hope, healing, and transformation. The healing stories of Mendoza and Espinoza are featured in the campaign and they assist LaFontaine in gathering and supporting survivors on their healing journeys.         

History professor Alan Eladio Gómez of justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University discusses his research and book "The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics & Latin American Social Movements" (University of Texas Press, 2016). We also discuss his next book manuscript titled 'With Dignity Intact': Rebellion, Justice, and Power in the U.S. Federal Prison System, 1969-1974" (under contract, University of Nebraska Press).  

A live phone interview on July 25, 2019 with Juan Carlos Davila, a documentary filmmaker, journalist and PhD student in Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz, shortly after the official resignation of Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosello following two weeks of street protests.

A joint interview with Paulina Moreno, the Project Director of the Thriving Immigrants Initiative and the 2020 Census Project at Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County (CAB) and her colleague Joseph Watkins, Assistant Project Director for the 2020 Census Project at CAB. We discussed the SCOTUS decision to not include the citizenship question to the US Census, the organizing efforts for Census 2020, and why it is important to be sure that #EveryoneCounts in Santa Cruz county and beyond.  

Anti-war congresswoman Barbara Lee, reducing waste and increasing pay in restaurants, and a new track by Octostrange are on the menu with Dan Woo and new co-host Jasper Ramirez...who is grilled on how he got in to the air room.

Sabine El Gemayel talks wireless technology with Dan Woo and new co-host Jasper.

An interview with Karla Vasquez, founder of SalviSoul, a cookbook project documenting the stories of Salvadoran women, their recipes and Salvadoran food ways. Karla is a food justice advocate, a food historian and a proponent for healthy food accessibility in low-income communities. 

Headlines: Poetry reading in Chadwick Garden; golf ball pollution art Story: The Nature Corps Volunteer Weekend in Big Sur More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

**Please note this interview covers a sensitive topic and may not be suitable for all listeners.** Since October 2018, KZSC and the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz have been teaching journalism classes in Watsonville, California at the Digital NEST. This special episode is co-produced by three Watsonville High School students from the class: Nance Rodriguez, Dafne Martinez, and Casey Martinez. Their audio-video project included an important interview with Jaqueline Mendoza, a local sexual assault survivor. This interview took place on May 9, 2019 on the rooftop of the Digital NEST.

Making the Chinese Mexican author tills the historical context of nationalism...exploring discrimination both aimed at, and stemming from, Mexico over the past century.

Dr. Rebecca Hernandez (Mexican-American and Mescalero Apache) is the Director of the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) at UC Santa Cruz and Rennea Howell (member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma) is an AIRC student intern. They discuss the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and their collective efforts to raise awareness on this serious issue.

Alberto Ledesma, an Assistant Dean for Diversity at U.C. Berkeley, was brought undocumented to Oakland, California at eight years old. He graduated U.C. Berkeley three times over and has held faculty positions at Cal State University, Monterey Bay, and U.C. Berkeley. In this interview, he discusses his book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life (The Ohio State University Press, 2017).

Sandra Soto is an Associate Professor or Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona (UofA). She discusses the charges brought against three UofA students for protesting a campus presentation on March 19, 2019 by armed Border Patrol agents. The students are known as #TheArizona3.

Slug Support rep Mariah Lyons tells Dan Woo and DJ Peach where to find help surviving as a student. Also UPTE union rep Bill Spencer talks UC technical worker strike status. Also, UC election measure info!

The Ace of Cups may not have been the first all-female rock and roll band, but they were the one that mattered within that bizarre wrinkle in time that constituted late 1960s San Francisco.  The Ace of Cups are in Santa Cruz on Friday May 17th, 2019 at the Rio Theatre   

Labor rights attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan talks about ensuring fair business practices in the gig economy as well as older economic sectors, her $20 million settlement victory from Uber, and a possible run for senate in Mass.

Daniel sat down with the current UCSC SUA Vice President of External Affairs, Davon Thomas, to talk about the work he does in his position and the statewide scope it encompasses. Topics discussed include tuition hikes, state lobbying, minority representation, undocumented aid, and much more. Thanks for tuning in!

This week, Oiko explores environmental impacts of agriculture and what we can do to lessen our carbon footprint by changing our diet. Ronald Donkenvoort, farming for over thirty years, gives us a glimpse how farming has changed over time, while Rebecca King talks about the unique challenges of being a sheep dairy in a changing climate. Anthony Tomaso, a beekeeper, tells us the health benefits of local honey. Ian O'Hollaren takes us underwater to taste seaweed, nutritionally dense and great for the environment. Our second segment talks with Greg Gilbert, plant pathologist, about the deadly plant disease Sudden Oak Death and the havoc it's wreaking on Californian forests. 

Listen to a special episode of Oiko! Usually a biology show this week we expanded to include interviews with astronomers, psychologists, and historians as part of the Graduate Research Symposium held this weekend. New celestial bodies on the outskirts of our solar system, machine learning, and the environmental policy of China in the 1950s and much more included in this episode! Follow DJ Gina on Instagram for more content @881oiko

Nicknamed the "Reef Sentinel" for his multidisciplinary approach to coral reef studies, Dr. Terry Hughes' research on bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef earned him a spot on Nature Journal's top ten people who matter in 2016. He discusses the future health of the world's reefs, economic security of nations that depend on the reef, and his latest research methods.

Headlines: Opioid deaths down in Santa Cruz; Poacher sentenced; Microplastic pollution spreads Stories:  UC’s Cool Campus Challenge update, Profile of a young naturalist, Luba Kaplanskya, intern with the Ken Norris Center for Natural History More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

Headlines: Cool Campus Challenge , Ag series, Sea levels threaten the Embarcadero, 2020 Census Stories: Ken Norris Center for Natural History More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

Isaí Ambrosio is the Director of the Davenport Resource Services Center and the inaugural Activist-in-Residence for UC Santa Cruz/Research Center for the Americas. We discussed his work in Davenport, California, his challenges in obtaining his education while learning English, and his plans as the activist-in-residence.

Dr. Safiya Noble, Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication, is the author of the best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press, 2018). Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society.  

An interview with Nina Simon, outgoing director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and incoming CEO for Of By For All. We discuss rebuilding of the MAH to reach an unprecedented level of financial stability, what she's learned about her own leadership style, about realizing one's own career potential, and about the Of By For All movement.

Daniel sat down with CUIP intern for the Ken Norris Center, Luba Kaplanskaya, to talk about the center's work, natural history more broadly, and Luba's personal associations with the subject.

Tired of the rich deciding when they want to invest in local communities? or talking about giving tax cuts on the implied promise that they might help those in need? This week Unquestionable tackles neo-feudalism.

Radio Live Spectacular debuts in spectacular form. Host Brendon Hannaford is joined by local up-and-coming Santa Cruz stand up comedian Natasha Collier, and a little boy named Maxwell Silver (Daniel Fisher). Originally aired on 1/19/19.