Podcasts about Fruitvale

As Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's most recent collaboration, Sinners, is dominating the domestic and worldwide box office, we thought it would be a good time to look at their first project together, Fruitvale Station. Fruitvale is partially the telling of the tragic story of the killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland CA on New Year's Day 2009, but it's so much more. Beyond being a mere recreation of events and the conveying of the awful facts, the film is a beautiful portrait of a young man who is struggling against a system that is set against him and his own difficulties. In addition to being a star making vehicle for Michael B. Jordan, the film features incredible performances from Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, and Ariana Neal. Coogler and co. received a lot of critical praise for the film which set him up to helm massive projects like Creed and the Black Panther movies for Marvel. Joining us for our look back is Chicago based film critic Zachary Lee who is a regular contributor to Roger Ebert, Letterboxd, Interview Magazine, Chicago Reader, Think Christian, and more. He's been someone we've wanted to have on the show for a while and he did not disappoint.Enjoy the show and share it with a friend!⁠⁠⁠⁠Substantive Cinema Episode List⁠Zach Interviews Ryan CooglerFreaky Tales InterviewZach & Willem Dafoe on The Legend of OchiShoutouts:Queens of DramaThe Ballad of Wallis IslandOur Revolution by Bernie SandersMy Old AssFollow ZachInstagramEverything else!Follow Us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Philip's Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Share Your Questions/Suggestions/Feedback With Us:Email: thesubstancepod@gmail.comDM on InstagramSupport Us: Support the show with an individual donation on CashApp to $TheSubstancePod or become a monthly Patreon supporter at patreon.com/TheSubstancePod

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys return to discuss Ryan Coogler's Sinners and the director's rise to the level of auteur, the new episode of The Last of Us (S2), Old Guard 2 is finally happening over at Netflix, more casting announcements for Laterns for "Laterns" on HBO, the Academy Awards makes some long overdue changes to judging and what that might mean, trailer for Predator: Badlands, and much more.CHECKED OUTFantastic FORE!SinnersTOPICS - Section 1The Old Guard 2 is finally getting releasedPaul Ben-Victor Joins ‘Lanterns' DC Series At HBOTNP STUDIOS PREMIUM (www.TheNerdpocalypse.com/premium)$5 a month Access to premium slate of podcasts incl. The Airing of Grievances, No Time to Bleed, The Men with the Golden Tongues, Upstage Conversation, and full episodes of the Look Forward political podcastTOPICS - Section 2Academy Awards decides watching the nominated movies is mandatory now for votingWTF? by JayTeeDee from the “Edit That Out” PodcastMicah: https://tinyurl.com/collarhahTerrence: https://tinyurl.com/luverscokJay: https://tinyurl.com/4daslumsTRAILERSHeads of StatePredator: Badlands

The Role of Public Universities in the Fight Against Climate ChangePublic universities like UC Berkeley have played a major role in developing climate solutions, from innovation in labs to policy initiatives. In order to create positive change in the climate space, science requires funding, which universities can provide. Further, universities, of course, educate, train, and interact firsthand with people who, in the future, will work in the climate space, putting them in an essential position in terms of climate education. How UC Berkeley is Making a DifferenceUC Berkeley specifically has made several important contributions across all aspects of climate science, climate education, and climate solutions.  Some examples include Omar Yaghi's lab and its discovery of a potentially revolutionary approach to carbon capture with COF-999, as well as the EcoBlock project in Fruitvale, Oakland, where Berkeley is helping to retrofit “residential homes to improve resilience, sustainability, and quality of life for all community members.” Further, Berkeley has established over fifty undergraduate courses related to climate issues. These courses and initiatives largely attract students because younger generations have significant firsthand experiences with climate change, including wildfires, heat waves, flooding, and air pollution. Why Climate Action from Public Universities is More Important Now than Ever BeforeWith the current uncertainty of continued federal government funding and support, some climate work may face limitations. Nonetheless, university focus on climate change is increasingly necessary to ensure that future generations of citizens are fully informed and well able to participate in a climate change constrained future. As explained by Bruce Riordan, director of the Berkeley Climate Change Network, “these problems require multiple disciplines,” and Berkeley is well positioned across multiple fields of study, research, and action,  recognizing that climate change requires integration of business, policy, and research and beyond.  About Our GuestBruce Riordan is the Director of the Berkeley Climate Change Network, a collaboration of 300+ faculty and staff at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Climate National Laboratory working in the climate change space. The BCCN seeks to accelerate Berkeley's research, education and service to meet the urgency of the climate crisis by connecting researchers for interdisciplinary projects, helping to raise money for climate research, and building connections between Berkeley academics and off-campus climate leaders across industries.For a transcript, please visit: https://climatebreak.org/how-public-universities-are-helping-to-fight-climate-change-with-bruce-riordan/. 

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In this episode of *Art Heals All Wounds*, I sit down with Jimmy Ramirez, an artist and high school teacher from Oakley, California. We talk about Jimmy's film Above Ground, which delves into the ways that streams and creeks in Oakland have been ‘entombed' in culverts in Oakland, California. We also discuss re-imagining our relationship to water.**Key Topics Discussed:** 1. **Discovery of Hidden Waterways**:   - My personal experience of discovering the hidden Providence River during my college years in Providence, Rhode Island, drawing a parallel to the hidden creeks of Oakland. 2. **Jimmy's Film "Above Ground"**:   - The film explores how Oakland has buried many of its natural waterways under concrete, a practice known as "entombing." This impacts local ecosystems previously supporting species like salmon and trout. 3. **Personal Connection to Peralta Creek**:   - Jimmy discusses his family's history with Peralta Creek in Fruitvale, Oakland, emphasizing how urban development has drastically altered the waterway. 4. **Impact of Water Management Practices**:   - Water management practices designed to prevent flooding have dried out natural water bodies despite heavy rainfalls, disrupting ecological balance. 5. **Historical Decisions and Urban Planning**:   - The conversation addresses the historical decisions to bury natural waterways and how early urban planning overlooked long-term environmental impacts. 6. **Environmental and Mental Health Implications**:   - We discuss the concept of "slow violence" where the lack of natural elements in urban areas contributes to mental health issues and community stress. 7. **Neighborhood Disparities**:   - Disparities between wealthier neighborhoods with more greenery and lower-income areas in Oakland are highlighted, showing the uneven distribution of environmental resources. 8. **Community Initiatives and Successes**:   - Some residents have successfully removed culverts to restore natural water flow, though legal ambiguities persist. 9. **Government and Political Dynamics**:   - Oakland officials have shown interest in Jimmy's film to raise awareness about these environmental issues, and the conversation touches on the politicized nature of water management in California. 10. **Reimagining Water Use**:    - Jimmy advocates for a collectivist approach to water systems, inspired by indigenous wisdom, contrasting America's individualistic mindset. 11. **Challenges and Resistance**:    - Addressing restrictive regulations around rainwater collection and gray water reuse, and how contractors are now more conscious about concreting over backyards. 12. **Future Projects and Art's Role**:    - Jimmy discusses future projects and the significance of art in processing climate grief and inspiring change. He also expresses gratitude for support from the California Arts Council. **Closing Thoughts and Listener Engagement:**Don't forget to go to my website and leave me YOUR story of belonging to feature on a future episode!Buy Me a Coffee!Follow Jimmy! InstagramLinkedInFollow Me!●      My Instagram&

Today, why some teens are turning to artificial intelligence for therapy. Then, we meet the Bay Area Olympic swimmer who's not competing on Team USA. And, a novel set in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood gets real about some of the challenges teens face today. Plus, a reading from our pocket sized book tour, New Arrivals.

Part 2 picks up right where we left off in Part 1, with Reem describing finding the anti-imperialist women's soccer team. Through that, she met her partner, who's now her co-parent.   Reem worked in the nonprofit sector until around 2010, when she burned out. She'd moved to Oakland upon her return to the Bay Area, though she was still connected to The City through her work with AROC. She found herself wanting to take care of her community in other ways than what nonprofits were offering.   She and her father had been estranged, but after leaving work, she joined him on a trip to the Middle East. The two were joined by Reem's youngest sister on a visit she calls "transformative." Besides gaining insight into who her dad was as a person, she truly discovered and fell in love with the food of her people. She knew right away that she wanted to create that feeling for others. Her Syrian family took note of her interest, and took her to bakeries in that country to get a glimpse of the kitchens after-hours.   She returned to the Bay Area wanting to do two things: To combat tropes and negative stereotypes about Arab culture and people, and to do that by creating a sense of hospitality. Those two ideas would eventually form the foundation of what Reem's California does today.   But she had to begin somewhere, and so she enrolled in a baking class at Laney College. Out of that class, she got a job with Arizmendi in Emeryville, where she got experience in a co-op and a kitchen. She started forming the idea of what her place would be, and while that came together, she settled on basing it around man'oushe, the street food of her people.   Over a number of years and various kitchen and bartending jobs, Reem took as many entrepreneur classes as she could. The last of these was with La Cocina. The program helped steer her toward more practical, lower-cost methods of doing business. And that's where the saj comes into play. It's what Reem uses to make her man'oushe. "It's like an inverted tandoor," she says.   An uncle in Lebanon was able to have two custom-made sajes for Reem. They arrived and that's what set it all in motion. They were approved for the 22nd and Bartlett market and the farmer's market at the Ferry Building around the same time. At both locations, they served Arabic tea and played Arabic music, creating that vibe Reem had been seeking. Within 16 months, they had grown from one market to five.   Then La Cocina told Reem that it was time to take the operation brick-and-mortar. The first location was in Fruitvale in Oakland in 2017 and lasted a couple of years. Then, after a brief foray into fine-dining, the women owners of Mission Pie asked Reem if she wanted to take over their spot at Mission and 25th. She said yes and started doing the work to get open.   And then the pandemic hit.   Once the Mission location was able to open, Reem's California did better than a lot of nearby restaurants, partly because the food lends itself to take-out so easily. But for Reem, not being able to share space and that hospitality that was at least as important as the food itself was hard. Still, they found ways to connect with the community.   In 2023, they opened a second location in the Ferry Building. They started appearing at Outside Lands a few years ago (and will be there again this year). Reem decided to start transitioning the business to a worker-owned model.   Visit Reem's Mission location, 2901 Mission Street, Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and again for dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Ferry Building location is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Follow them on social media at @ReemsCalifornia and follow Reem herself @reem.assil. Her cookbook, Arabiyya, is available on her website.   We end the podcast with Reem's interpretation of this year's theme on Storied: San Francisco—We're all in it.   Photography by Jeff Hunt

Jasmine Bassilious and Leslie Garrison from Fruitvale School District join this episode of Three Questions on Educators that Inspire! The two had a great realization when they both shared a story about an inspiring educator who happened to be the same person! Be sure to check out this episode to hear how they answer these questions: Who is a teacher that inspired you and why? Who is an administrator that inspired you and why? What advice would you give your first-year teacher self? Quotes: I would tell myself to pause, smell the roses…I really put high expectations on myself that were not attainable.” - Leslie Garrison Links: Leslie Garrison LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-garrison-a521b655/ Jasmine Bassilious LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-bassilious-7091314/ __________________________________________ Please share your thoughts with us on Twitter or Instagram at #InnovatorsMindset. More at georgecouros.ca George Couros on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gcouros George Couros on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gcouros George Couros on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/georgecourosauthor/ George Couros on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/george-couros-a5146519 For the full audio podcast: https://linktr.ee/gcouros The Innovator's Mindset: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986155497?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d What Makes a Great Principal - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948334739?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzgeorge0f-20&creativeASIN=1948334739&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.2SBTFVTBT0S6X&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Because of a Teacher - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833433X?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Because of a Teacher 2 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/194833450X?tag=onamzgeorge0f-20&linkCode=ssc&creativeASIN=194833450X&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.2SBTFVTBT0S6X Innovate Inside the Box: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948334127?ref=exp_gcouros_dp_vv_d Music from Bensound - http://bensound.com/

Audio from Bigfoot Encounters Live show on the Bigfoot Society Youtube channel on 3/2/24.Jeff calls in and shares the HORRIFYING events that have been happening when he his camping at the "SASQUATCH SANCTUARY" between Shasta and Lassen in California. You do NOT want to miss this one. Jared calls in to share what happened to him in the Fruitvale, Texas in the late 1980s when he was a member of the National Guard. What happened when he went camping with his friends is incredibly interesting. Resource:Jeff's Youtube channel with video of the area: https://www.youtube.com/@jeffrysturgeon/videosShare your Bigfoot encounter here: bigfootsociety@gmail.com

Welcome to the Cross Border Interviews, Today's guest is Fruitvale Mayor Steve Morissette. 
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Even though we're apart, we're all in this together.Produced by Emily Shaw in April, 2020. Engineering assistance from Seira McCarthy.Sounds:“Quarantine” by Oneirine Electronic (Tommy York, Brooklyn, New York)Romeo and Mia's Quarantine Horse Race (Phil Cox, Palermo, Sicily, Italy)“Cuando el Viento” by Maggie Taurick (Maggie Taurick, Villa De Leyva, Colombia)Baker Beach (Nina Cestaro, San Francisco, California)Moka (Jolanda Moletta, Mondovì, Italy)Coffee Lockdown (Phil Cox, Palermo, Sicily, Italy)Rain (Kendall Crakow, San Francisco, California)Piano in the Rain #1 (Emily Shaw, San Francisco, California)Piano in the Rain #2 (Anna, Davis, California)Mamun's Call to Prayer (Phil Cox, Palermo, Sicily, Italy)Yacht Jangles in Fort Mason (Emily Shaw, San Francisco, California)Wind Chimes (Alice Woelfle, Fruitvale, Oakland, California)“Krishna Mantra” sung by Lakshmi (Maggie Taurick, Villa De Leyva, Colombia)Nightly Cheers for Healthcare Workers (Gary Hardcastle & Steva Stowell-Hardcastle, Inwood, Manhattan, New York)“Quarantine Love Song” (Marley Feuerwerker-Otto, Pasadena, California)Tape Hiss, Clicks, and Hums (Jeff Emtman, Providence, Rhode Island)“Song in Seoul for Zoe” (Luiz Gustavo Givisiez & Zoe Yungmi Blank, Seoul, South Korea)Photos (clockwise from top):Yacht Jangles in Fort Mason, San Francisco (Emily Shaw)View from Quarantine: Mamun and Azad in Palermo Ballaro, Sicily (Phil Cox)View from Quarantine: Inwood, Manhattan (Gary Hardcastle & Steva Stowell-Hardcastle)View from Quarantine: Pasadena (Marley Feuerwerker-Otto)Blank Tape (Jeff Emtman)Baker Beach, San Francisco (Nina Cestaro)Romeo and Mia's Quarantine Horse Race, Palermo Ballaro, Sicily (Phil Cox)Making Music, Seoul (Luiz Gustavo Givisiez & Zoe Yungmi Blank)Synthesizer (Oneirine Electronic AKA Tommy York)Audio Art Day, San Francisco (Emily Shaw)Moka in Mondovì (Jolanda Moletta)View from Quarantine: Villa De Leyva (Maggie Taurick)

In Episode 78, Scott Piehler's topics include: The city council votes to move ahead with plans for De-Pave park, and addresses parklets alongside Webster and Park. Both the city planning board and the AUSD Board of Education are looking to fill vacancies. Below market townhomes are available for first time home buyers. The Mastick Senior Center website is hijacked. Alameda's own Deborah Crooks is presenting her folk opera that follows a pair of falcons nesting on the Fruitvale bridge. Condolences are in order for the Faction Brewing family. And Gene Kehane presents an interview that can only be described as un-beleaf-able. Plus, weekend events of interest.Support the show• AlamedaPost.com • Podcast • Events • Contact •• Facebook • Instagram • Threads • BlueSky • Reddit • Mastodon • NextDoor • YouTube • Apple News •

Who's most likely to dance on a table?Welcome back HMA listeners. In today's episode, Selena and Lizette reconnect and share stories about their recent 'first-time' experiences. We'll also dive into a fun game called 'Who's Most Likely To?' Stay tuned!Join the Hijas, Madres and Amigas crew at the Dia De Los Muertos Festival!SAVE THE DATE OCT 29, 2023 Fruitvale Village, OaklandDía de los Muertos CelebrationInternational Boulevard, Oakland, CA, United States, 94601https://www.instagram.com/diaoakland/?hl=enJoin us and be part of the show. See you there!!!--DOWNLOAD and SUBSCRIBE to Hijas Madres Y Amigas & FOLLOW US ON:INSTAGRAM@hijasmadresyamigashttps://rb.gy/v3kfq@seelenaaa_https://rb.gy/suy5y@lizetteaguilera_https://rb.gy/81p2gSPOTIFYLizette - https://tinyurl.com/328abak3Selena - https://rb.gy/ohw0oTIK-TOK@hijasmadresyamigashttps://tinyurl.com/2aw88byh--SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter at www.justjmarc.com/hijasmadresyamigasPlease email us here with any suggestions, comments, and questions for future episodes. hijasmadresyamigas@gmail.comRemember ya'll, when you know better you do better!

ABRAM JACKSON: Con la mirada baja, su brazo sobre su pierna, este joven personifica la fuerza tranquila, dominio de sí mismo. La obra de Wiley está parcialmente inspirada en una escultura romana de 2000 años de antigüedad. El gálata moribundo representa a un oponente de Átalo I de Pérgamo que luce derrotado y en una pose similar a la obra original, mostrando compostura ante la muerte. El artista reimagina aquella escultura en la forma de un joven negro y deja a nuestra imaginación el momento que este joven está confrontando, con coraje y fortaleza. Esta escultura tiene gran resonancia para la reverenda Wanda Johnson. Oscar Grant, su hijo, fue asesinado en 2009 por un oficial de la policía del sistema de transporte rápido BART, en la estación de Fruitvale en Oakland. WANDA JOHNSON: Pienso en los amigos de Oscar esa noche en la plataforma y los veo siendo maltratados por la policía, veo la fortaleza de mi hijo. Veo cómo él presenció la injusticia y cómo defendió a sus amigos, sin saber que sería la última vez que lo haría. Y, aun así, estaba dispuesto a morir por ellos, por defender lo que era correcto. ABRAM JACKSON: Todas las obras que veremos hoy fueron creadas el año pasado, más o menos. Son una respuesta al asesinato de George Floyd y a la violencia perpetrada en contra de tantos jóvenes de raza negra y que es sancionada por el Estado en este país. Escuchemos al artista: KEHINDE WILEY: Tiene resonancia aquí porque este es nuestro presente. Necesitamos llegar a asimilar por qué tanta gente está siendo asesinada en nuestras calles, necesitamos llegar a asimilar el poder del Estado. Cada una de estas pérdidas es tratada y manejada por los familiares y seres queridos, y con suerte continuarán haciéndolo, resaltando la importancia de cada una de estas personas. Con mi trabajo pretendo poder crear no solo una declaración política, sino una declaración que sea espiritual, mucho más personal y poética, que hable de la humanidad de todos nosotros; que hable de los lazos que existen entre aquellas grandes obras históricas monumentales europeas y algunos de aquellos grandes, históricos y monumentales, muchachos y muchachas negros y morenos que están a nuestro alrededor todos los días. El deseo de ser visto, el deseo de estar vivo, de eso trata esta obra. ABRAM JACKSON: Cuando termine de visitar esta sala, por favor, pase por la primera entrada a la derecha. Verá un cuadro muy grande de un hombre con camisa amarilla. Esa será nuestra próxima parada.

WANDA JOHNSON: Mi nombre es Wanda Johnson. Soy la madre de Oscar Grant, quien fue asesinado el 1 de enero de 2009 en la estación Fruitvale de BART en Oakland, California. ABRAM JACKSON: Aquella noche, Oscar Grant fue baleado por la espalda, asesinado por un oficial de la policía del sistema de transporte rápido BART. Esta escultura, titulada Duelo juvenil, es de especial importancia para su madre. WANDA JOHNSON: Cuando lo mataron, sus amigos estuvieron en duelo por la muerte de un ser querido, de luto por la pérdida de un amigo, por la muerte de un familiar. Nunca se volverá atrás: ya no se podrá llamar a esa persona ni conversar con ella. Nunca se podrá hacer una broma, reírse y comer con esa persona. Pero ahora, me toca enfrentarme a estar sola. En la plataforma y en el hospital, en duelo, todos nosotros en duelo, preguntándonos ¿por qué? “Duelo juvenil” parece decir: “Debería tener paz. Debería poder vivir en libertad, no tener que esconder quién soy o temor a ser identificado, ni estar en la mira por mi apariencia. No debería ponerme la capucha de mi sudadera o una gorra para que no puedan ver mi verdadero yo”. Pienso en cómo tanta gente nuestra ha tenido que tener tanta fuerza y tanto esmero, y simplemente tantos dones, talentos y habilidades, y, sin embargo, pierden la vida en vano. Y ahora todos esos dones, sus talentos, su valentía, están sepultados en la tierra, junto con ellos. Así como este joven, estuve yo muchas mañanas, muchas noches. Hecha una bola, rezándole a Dios. ¿Por qué tenía que pasar esto? Y ahora, 13, 14 años después, aún resuena esa misma pregunta. ¿Por qué tuvo que sacar la pistola y dispararle cuando no era necesario? ABRAM JACKSON: Cuando termine de explorar este espacio, vaya a la última y trascendental sala de la exposición. Ahí nos encontramos para hablar de la figura a caballo.

Fruitvale Station (2013) is based on the real-life events leading to the death of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer on New Year's Day 2009 at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland, California. The film depicts the final day in Oscar Grant's life, interspersed with flashbacks from his past, which together provide a richly layered picture a young man whose life was tragically cut short. The film was written and directed by Ryan Coogler  (in his first feature film), and stars Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant, Melonia Diaz as his girlfriend, and Octavia Spencer as Oscar's mother. Fruitvale Station not only provides a moving account of Oscar Grant's final day, but also presents a chilling indictment of police violence and the role that race still plays in perpetuating it. I am joined by Professor Michael Pinard of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Professor Pinard is a nationally recognized expert on criminal law, race and the criminal justice system, and the challenges faced by individuals with criminal convictions when reintegrating into society. Timestamps:0:00   Introduction4:18    Impressions of the film when it came out and today7:23    Living in the shadow of the criminal justice system9:25    Bystander recordings and their impact13:14  The challenges of prosecuting police violence17:17  The humanity of Oscar Grant18:53  How white and black people perceive law enforcement differently21:40  The fleeting nature of life for many black and brown Americans24:58  “The talk”26:45  What's changed since Oscar Grant's death, and what hasn't33:44  The need for a film about the school to prison pipeline37:09  The parents of the incarcerated Further reading:Cummings, André Douglas Pond, “Reforming Police,” 10 Drexel L. Rev. 573 (2018)Fan, Mary D., Camera Power: Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data (Univ. Cambridge Press 2018)Pinard, Michael, “Poor Black and ‘Wanted': Criminal Justice in Ferguson and Baltimore,” 58 Howard L.J. 857 (2015)Schwartz, Joanna, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (Viking 2023)Simonson, Jocelyn, “Beyond Body Cameras: Defending a Robust Right to Record the Police,” 104 Geo. L.J. 1559 (2016)Law on Film is created and produced by Jonathan Hafetz. Jonathan is a professor at Seton Hall Law School. He has written many books and articles about the law. He has litigated important cases to protect civil liberties and human rights while working at the ACLU and other organizations. Jonathan is a huge film buff and has been watching, studying, and talking about movies for as long as he can remember. For more information about Jonathan, here's a link to his bio: https://law.shu.edu/faculty/full-time/jonathan-hafetz.cfmYou can contact him at jonathanhafetz@gmail.comYou can follow him on X (Twitter) @jonathanhafetz You can follow the podcast on X (Twitter) @LawOnFilm

Gaius and Jackson are looking back at the gripping true life drama, Fruitvale Station, ten years after its theatrical release. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, in his feature directorial debut, Fruitval Station is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Melonie Diaz, Ahna O'Reilly, and Octavia Spencer, the film is one of the best first features by a director and the pair look back at cultural importance of the film while also seeing how the movie still packs a huge impact 10 years later. Follow Us On Instagram Follow Us On Twitter Like Us On Facebook Follow Us On TikTok

Darrell Castle talks about crime in American cities which is out of control due to public policies not to prosecute it. Transcription / Notes CRISiS IN PUBLIC SAFETY Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report. This is Friday the 4th day of August in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about crime and specifically crime out of control because of public decisions not to prosecute it, all backed and enforced by George Soros funded district attorneys. Today's discussion will concentrate on the city of Oakland, California with the premise that Oakland is an example of what is happening across the country. Yes, crime is exploding across the country fueled by progressive policies of non-prosecution of criminals. It should be obvious to us by this time that if you make crime legal you will get a lot of crime. Well, crime is so bad in Oakland that the NAACP recognizes that prosecuting criminals, even if they are black, is in the best interest of the community and the African American community is no different. When my city of Memphis, Tennessee elected a Soros backed DA by a narrow margin in the last election many on the left celebrated. I wondered at the time if all those African Americans celebrating knew what would happen to their communities under his term. Memphis, as a result, suffers from the same problems as Oakland, California although not as severe. Normally, California is a trend setter and I suppose that Soros funded D.A. crime is no different. Crime is so out of control in Oakland that the President of the Oakland NAACP, Cynthia Adams, along with the senior pastor of the Acts Full Gospel Church, Bishop Bob Jackson, wrote an open letter to the elected leaders of their community and I will share some of that letter with you now. “Oakland residents are sick and tired of our intolerable public safety crises that overwhelmingly impacts minority communities. Murders, shootings, violent armed robberies, home invasions, car break-ins, sideshows, and highway shootouts have become a pervasive fixture of life in Oakland. We call on elected leaders to unite and declare a state of emergency and bring together massive resources to address our public safety crises. African Americans are disproportionately hit the hardest by crime in East Oakland and other parts of the city. But residents from all parts of the city report that they do not feel safe. Women are targeted by young mobs and viciously beaten and robbed in downtown and uptown neighborhoods. Asians are assaulted in Chinatown. Street vendors are robbed in Fruitvale. News crews have their cameras stolen while they report on crime. PG&E workers are robbed and now require private security when they are out working. Everyone is in danger.” Well, that is indeed horrible, isn't it. The conditions this lady describes are not something that Americans should have to endure. However, there is a dear price that must be paid for progressive politics. The basic job requirement of District Attorneys is to represent the people in criminal matters and prosecute criminals. When the prospective D.A. is running for election against a good D.A. who actually does her job and prosecutes criminals, but the people reject her in favor of one selected by George Soros, the conditions described in the letter are what you get. Let me give you a little background on how George Soros managed to destroy Oakland, California. Oakland, like Memphis, once had a good D.A. who understood her job and did it well. Her name was Nancy O'Malley and in Memphis her name was Amy Weirich. Those two women were voted out of office and replaced by D.A.'s funded by George Soros, and who promised to usher in a new era in how the D.A.'s office responded to crime. In essence, the promise was that black people accused of crimes would only be prosecuted or held in confinement in extremely rare circumstances. The new progressive D.A.s are Pamela Price in Oakland, and Steve Mulroy in Memphis.

Did you know that downtown Oakland is built on ancient sand dunes? Or that the East Bay hills used to be honeycombed with quarries and mines? Or why Fruitvale was such a great place to plant orchards in the 1800s? These are just a few of the stories Andrew Alden explores in his new book “Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City.” (Heyday) According to Alden, Oakland has the most rock diversity of any U.S. city, and in today's episode we discuss stories below the soil. The conversation covers everything from earthquakes and volcanoes to landslides and potholes. Check out photos related to this episode at: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/from-volcanoes-to-potholes/ East Bay Yesterday can't survive without your donations. Please make a pledge to keep this show alive: www.patreon.com/eastbayyesterday This episode is supported by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. I highly recommend checking out their new podcast, “Revolutionary Care: An Oakland Story,” a series about the history of treating sickle cell anemia: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/sickle-cell

Before Cesar Chavez marched for workers rights, he took his first steps into activism in the Bay Area. In this episode, we trace the local roots of a labor icon. Then, we explore the tumultuous history of the union he founded. And, a Berkeley activist reflects on his life and career. With local music from band, Decant.

Transcript for 04/05/2023 Bay Native Circle 0000:00:00 Show Theme  00:01:00 Morning Star Gali  Chimi Sunwi. Good evening and welcome to Bay Native circle here on KPFA, 94.1, KFCF 88.1 in Fresno and online at kpfa.org. This is Morning Star Gali. Your host for this evening. Tonight's show is dedicated to all of you celebrating spring blessings and renewal. And enjoying this full moon evening tonight's main native circle profiles some of our community warriors, Anthony Guzman of the Native American Health Center. In Oakland is the Chief Cultural Officer. Besides his community work, he is a father and a husband and considers that his most important role in life. We will hear an interview with James Jackson, a Vietnam veteran who interviews Bruce Gali, a Wounded Knee veteran, and Standing Rock Veteran. All of our veterans are honored and respected within our communities, we will also hear from our very own Bay Native circles, Rass K Dee, a musician, and former producer for BNC. Rass is a cultural and music warrior, blending and incorporating culture into a modern medium.    01:59 James Jackson  Hello, my name is Jimmy Jackson. I live in Tuba City Arizona on the Navajo reservation…I am Kinlichini…born for salt and my maternal grandparents are Towering House and my paternal grandparents are Bitterwater and…   I recently went to visit the traveling wall of Vietnam Memorial and it was in Fort Verde, Arizona, and it was an odd experience to be amongst the Yavapai Apache people… who were forced March to San Carlos in the early, early, early times of Arizona. I went to see other veterans as well at the memorial. So that's why I went there. Bruce Gali is an Elder from Northern California, he is from the Achomawi band of the Pit River Indian Nation… And he recently traveled to Wounded Knee, South Dakota for the 50th year Memorial of the Occupation there, as well as he is a veteran of Standing Rock, North Dakota Occupation 2016 excuse me… he endured quite a bit of hardship there, Bruce?     00:03:35 Bruce Gali  Thank you, Jimmy you know, for the introduction, yes. So, the question was…How did I end up in Wounded Knee?…well you know, back in the late sixties there, you know Alcatraz was going on Also there was some land struggles in Kashia Indian reservation…also Northern California, then they had fishing rights…in Yurok country…but through all these gatherings, especially Alcatraz, there was a number of tribal peoples, tribal nations coming from around the country to do that occupation on Alcatraz and later on they had went to Pit River because we were having a land struggle with PG&E and also the United States forest service on our four corners  You know land struggles so when Wounded Knee started, the tribe had asked, or the tribal council had asked if there were volunteers to like to go over there because of the Sioux tribe had participated in Pit River at that time…so they had asked for volunteers asked for the tribal council had    had asked for volunteers, give me a second here… We had to ask for volunteers, and they asked that I go over there and not to fight the United States government but to go over there and protect the women, children, and elders. Just like the people from Alcatraz from other nations had done so…in order to return that favor.  I volunteered to go back there that time our spiritual person in Pit River country was Charlie Buckskin, chief and Raymond Lego, and a couple of the other council people Talbert Wilson, Doc Jenkins , and they had ceremony for me and they asked that I go back there and that I would be protected and that ..you know not to fight the United States government but to protect the women, children and elders, back there and that I would be able to go back there and defend the people and be able to come back and give my report of what was going on at that time back there. So, when I had gone back there, started out in Pit River and went to UC Davis, we had to a safe house there, and probably 40 people in a room and I had walked in there and asked if I could participate in going back there if they had room …like that   And so, at that time, there were 3 cars going back there and I had secured one of the seats in the vehicle and there were 21 of us that had gathered in UC Davis at that time and we all jumped in the cars and left that evening. Now that was probably the first night that it was the 27th…so probably the 28th when I arrived down there. 21 of us in three cars were packed in there like a bunch of sardines. But we were being followed, I think, through Reno, Nevada, and Colorado and then after that we ended up in Rapid City. We had gone over there, and we went to one of the Indian Centers or Indian community down in there. People started asking or saying they heard about that. There was a group coming in from California a lot of names were mentioned so we did feel that it was safe at that time  Because we wanted to go into Wounded Knee, so we left there and Other people from the community had to stay in Rapid City overnight and then the next day we had went to Porcupine …we went through Porcupine, there were 21 of us going through that there at that time.  So, we walked through the Wounded Knee, we got there probably …we left about 8 o'clock at night, we walked in when the sun was coming out, and they had a bunker over there …California…little California bunker. So other people were there from California, so a lot of people didn't know the story remains that there was about 36 of us altogether…there were all different tribes within turtle island.  But a lot of them came out from California…so you know it was kind of there were California tribal people, but there was 36 of us all together, and I remember that one evening when we were there, one of the folks that is no longer with us now, ..Charlie Steele had asked that he wanted everybody to introduce themselves, their name and what their purpose was for being there…went around in a circle…you know all 36 of us and there right after that the next day they had flesh offerings, and I went over there to see Wallace Black Elk and didn't realize at that time how strong spiritually the prayer was, and I had taken flesh offerings from Wallace Black Elk.  That second evening and he had told me the same exact word that my tribal council from Pit River that those bullets would go right through me, and I was there to protect the women children and elders and not to fight the United States government and I would be able to survive this day and bring back the message from their country back to Wounded Knee and here now today, I really understand and know that power of prayer. And the thing is going back to Wounded Knee on its 50th year anniversary, I had talked to some other people and if you really look at it when I moved back I was 23 years old, and at that time it was 1973, and I looked at it now and at this 50th anniversary and here now I'm just turning 73 years old, you know, and still surviving.  So that's what I'm trying to acknowledge to the people out there is how strong that prayer is.  You know the Creator already knew my path in life…like I said…time tells everything…and like I honor that and I like to say that now, I like to acknowledge the women that were there inside Wounded Knee, inside the bunkers, either cooking or on security or bringing in supplies and even the women that were on the outside ..you know out there gathering fresh medical supplies, clothing, you know that stuff…people haven't acknowledged that about women in their quest… and how their strength was helping us in order to be there…And hold that ground..    13:51 Jimmy: Did you see any people that you knew at the Memorial?     13:56 Bruce:  Yeah, you know there were probably about five or six of us…we were standing around …after these 50 years A lot of things that you know we weren't sure about or to confirm other things that have happened during those days in Wounded Knee and so, we were able to sit down and confirm or you know, just stand around whatever talking and conferring stuff that was going on 50 years ago…  So that was quite interesting, and I talked about the repercussions of the aftermath about killings…the women that were missing…In the mountains, a lot of people were still around on that hillside, you know, and we asked or talked about quite a few of the other people there…whether they were still alive or what they were up to. You know in this present day, it was quite interesting     15:53 Jimmy:  Do you have any last words:    15:57 Bruce:  Yeah…probably last words I'd like to say like I say… acknowledging the women , acknowledging KPFA, for giving me time to speak about this 50th year anniversary like that…I'm not too sure if I'll be able to go back again and I know and I know I'm not going to be able to be there for the 100th year anniversary and I want to give the acknowledgement, blessings for people that I honor very much that have helped me financially ..with the rooms or whatever to go back there like that…just so …I'm honored and blessed to have let me have the acknowledgement about myself being part of that back there…I had mentioned before that it wasn't about me myself or I…it was about us being back there acknowledging the people that weren't able make it because of hardships  Maybe they were taking care of grandmothers, grandpas, grandchildren …children…so on the like that…trouble with their vehicles, maybe they didn't have gas money to go there and come back…the hardships of them having to work like that…I said acknowledging the women that were part of Wounded Knee but weren't on the inside worked on the outside gathering materials like that. So, I'm honored and blessed for all that… the Facebook page is Bruce Gali ok, talk to you guys later–HO!     00:18:39 Cathy Jackson   We're speaking with Anthony Guzman of the Native American Health Centers.   Anthony, can you please introduce yourself?     00:18:46 Anthony Guzman  Sure, my name's Anthony Guzman, and I am the Chief Culture Officer of the Native American Health Center? I'vebeen working here now for, you know, 2 1/2 years, when I first started working here working at the health center, I came in as the Director of Community Wellness. Also, in August of last year, the health center created a position called Cultural Officer and they hired me to fill it and so I'm really grateful for the opportunity to serve in that position. It's a new job that's going to pop up around urban Indian organizations across the country and really one of the things that's the responsibility of that office is to insure that the traditional practices, ancestral wisdom is integrated into all aspects of the organization, and that culture doesn't become a trinket in these types of organization and that it's part of our value system and the way that we do business At the center, and so…several other organizations have one, such as Sac-Sacramento American Indian Health, Santa Clara Valley…and I think one of our partners up in Seattle…Urban Indian Health Institute are doing the same thing, so we followed suit…we saw the value in it…our leadership saw the value in it…so that's my current role…yeah, really excited about it.    01:54 Cathy Jackson  And where are you from?     01:55 Anthony Guzman  I am from Randlett, Utah. I grew up on the Ute Indian Reservation in Northeastern Utah. You know, I remember growing up out there as a kid when I just couldn't wait to get away from there, I wanted to get to the big cities and you know, I always just had this deep desire to be in the city. And now at 46 years old, I take every opportunity I get to go home, back to the middle of nowhere, high desert and ah, you know the mountain sage brush, clay sandstone hills where I grew up…it's really important to me know…to go back home and spend as much time there with my family and..  But honestly when I go home…I find myself just wanting to be alone…as a kid where I grew up you know and walking around…walking around on the high desert, along the river…and really just listening to the sounds that's ..really just nature…yeah, it sounds crazy just to talk about it now but…I remember then how badly I wanted out (chuckles)    03:10 Cathy Jackson  And before we start talking about your upcoming event at the Presidio. Can you tell the listeners why you chose to do the work that you do?     03:22 Anthony Guzman   That's an interesting question, I really… I became a social worker, I worked in the school at the University of Utah, and got a master's in social work. But before that, I went Haskell Indian Nations University, and I went to a boarding school at Anadarko, Oklahoma…and I never planned on   ever going to college, let alone being a social worker …Social workers…where I grew up…it was…social workers weren't seen as people that were there in support…help and build the community…they were kind of seen as people who took away kids and… diagnosed you…And so, I never sought out to do this work, I sure didn't think I would be in the position I was in today. I think the work called me and you know, itjust seemed like it fit and navigated my way through school and again going through school was something that I never planned on doing either…I just think that Creator had a plan for me and to be able to do what I do today is such a blessing and so…that's kind of how I answered that question…I don't know if I really chose this path…it just kind of folded in front of me.   00:21:57 (Cathy Jackson)  OK, I'm going to uh, throw in another question here before we talk about the event…ahm..  You spoke about having a son and I wanted to know what some of the differences are that you feel, or I don't know how to really phrase. How are you raising your son differently from how You were raised?    00:22:21 Anthony Guzman   That's a that's such a beautiful question. You know, I think about both sides of my family: my, my dad was born in Tiajuana and so I'm half Mexican. My father moved from Tiajuana when he was five years old to Northen California and Watsonville, CA. So, I had a large family down there. And so, his father became an orphan in Mexico City when he was a child and grew up in orphanages. And my mom… both of her parents went to boarding school establishedon my reservation…and  both of those histories impacted the way both of my parents parented, you know it was a tough love it was you know I think that even when was going up…the first time… I ever said I love you to my mom and dad, I was probably about 29 years old and, it was really Awkward for myself, it was awkward for my parents too. Like they – I remember seeing how uncomfortable my mom and dad were when I said it to them.  And I think that had a lot to do with the history of both people, the, the, the intergenerational trauma from alcohol and drugs and historical aspects of systematic oppression and colonization and both of my family …both sides. And so, a lot of my testament…to who I am as a father. I had to come through the school of social work, because I don't think that if I went to that school and learned the skill set I did… I don't know if I would be able to be the father, I am today, you know, a very active father.   I bathe  my son…you know when he was a baby…I wash, I cook, I do the dishes, feed him and cloth him…changehis diaper, I love you…to the point now– you know I've never laid a hand on my son…which was very different for me…and I tell him that I love him and he's beautiful every single day.  You know, I think one of the things that I remember that being a father now…opposed to my dad, sleep with my son, cuddle with him, read him bedtime stories and just let him know how much I appreciate and I love him every single day don't know if I Would have necessarily been.   Able to do that without the school that I went through. And the work that I've done on myself I do, I'm actively in therapy…I've been in therapy, it's one thing to do therapy with people, but some other things to know how it feels on the other side of that therapy chair. And to do my work as well. And so, I think the difference I think…my fatherhood style, my dad's …night and day…and that's nothing to say anything bad about my parents…that's what they knew…that's what their parents gave them…and their parents, I can't imagine things they went through. Being a father is the most important thing to me, and it really helps me navigate the work in the community.  So along with the question of the most important thing in my life is being a father…and a husband, you know it's the most important thing, it's the most sacred ceremony that I know that exists to me right now. The most beautiful and I'm glad to call myself a father.    00:25:36 Cathy Jackson   That was a really good answer. So, tell the listeners what obstacles you have encountered in providing the services you do– talk a little bit about the services…and um, what are some of the obstacles you encountered in providingthose services…    00:26:07 Anthony Guzman  Well you know when I think about providing services, it's-it's– I've worked my entire career in the Indian community-in the Native communities…I'm a social worker, I've worked for my own tribe for years, Friendship house ah, CRC, among various tribes, you know back home in Utah, but also worked in urban Indian organizations in Salt Lake City as well.. And I think the obstacles that we always face like…the sources of money that we get.  Not always enough money -that always can be an issue, but it's about the sources that we get that money from. So, if you're getting money from the feds, from the county, from the state…private donors…attached to that funding is always the expectations that you have…and some of those expectations aren't bad they're very important. You know, data collection, what is your data telling you? And being able to justify the work that you'redoing with sometimes that that's a double-edged sword   Sometimes it feels like it's just a bunch of obstacles and you know your heart's making sure your community's getting services that they need and wanting to see the community thrive and heal from all the disparities and trouble they've had…  However, each one of those contracts and funders, you know, sometimes those challenges in which you expect or there's a bureaucracy there. That's just the slog at times. And you know, like, you know, there's certain there's certain contracts, and you got to know your contracts and grants to say, hey, this contract, you can buy food and have a cultural celebration where you feed the people, and    and some say no… you can't do that, or they say you can't charge a traditional practitioner to this, and so I think one of the one of the obstacles to that and you know being able to have unrestricted fundings to do those types of work without having to ask or knowing all these little details of those contracts.   But I don't want to say those are bad things, you just have to be very astute in what you are doing on all those contracts, particularly when you have a lot of contracts, you just have to run through one of those and it's a lot of awareness.   So my hat goes off  to go to the organizations that you, that they know what they need and can put the money where they want to and I think sometimes that's one of the obstacles with having a lot of contracts ..there's some awesome things you can do, you have to think outside the box to fulfill those grants expectations when you have unrestricted funding to do the work that you do then that's awesome.  Hey, let's have a wonderful cultural celebration, and we bring in healers from all over and pay our relatives. What they deserve to be paid. That'salways been something that is important to me.   I remember I had– I used to hold punk rock skateboard festival on my reservation.  And I remember – You know, like you can't do that like, but that's not a substance abuse prevention– I'm like you bet it is, I had skateboard competitions, you know, punk rock, and heavy metal, you know, hip hop artist, some of which are now very well known in the country, which I'm really proud to see where they are right now. But you know, SAMSHA, IHS-Phoenix area office…  So, you know, they might not be really able to see the connection on how those types of activities are prevention activities for youth and even some of the adult folks. So, bureaucracy is definitely a challenge there. And you know, sometimes it's my colleagues. Sometimes I'm not saying anything about understanding the world in general. Sometimes we got folks that are burnt out with the work that they do and that really kind of comes through, and I'm fortunate my colleagues that we currently have right now are fantastic and they really believe in the mission of our organization to ensure that the Community gets you know, support physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. And um, so I'm really proud of that.     00:30:04 Cathy Jackson   We need to leave a few more seconds when we switch back and forth…ah.   You do have a really good staff and I'd like you to talk a little bit about them if you if you can.    00:30:16 Anthony Guzman   Sure, you know, I think I've been really blessed to, you know, come into an organization you know, that's been here doing this amazing work for  50 years doing this amazing, work  you know, With so many of our community partners out there and, you know, friendship House, IFH, CRC and these guys have been doing the work for so long I just hope that, you know, I can put a little bit of contribution into the fantastic work. That's just, you know, what happens with these organizations and then blood, sweat and tears as you well know, for so long when somebody like me with, you know, I'm 46, but still there was the whole generation of people. And I stand on the shoulders of what we did, all that work for us to do what we're doing right now.  You know Marty Waukazoo's our CEO…he has a leadership style that really allows people to meet their full potential, you know, really admire, you know, Marty and I actually worked for Helen as well at…the Friendship House and worked for Helen before I moved to the Bay Area. It was really eye-opening to see leaders like that. Everybody has challenges, you know in leadership. It's really always something that's complex and knowing and understanding that time. Marty's been great, Natalie-Natalie Aguilera…she's the chief administration officer. She herleadership is, you know, really comes through years 17 years of working here at the health center she really knows the organization and the departments. Michelle Shawnego who is a Chief People officer…really leads up a really massive department in our Human Resources…she really has to make very strong decisions and   Understand the complexities of our workforce.   That's very big and diverse you know, out of 275 employees and were close to 100 native employees but our workforce is a is a reflection of the Community that where we are at in Fruitvale and the Mission a very diversecommunity of our very diverse workforce, African American Latino relatives, people from all- Of the world, really constitute our workforce and I'm really proud to see that our workforce is as diverse as it is. So those are some of our Native Leadership.  Hat's off to Dr. Jenkins…our chief medical officer Greg Garrett, our Chief Operations Officer, Alan Wong, our Chief Financial Officer, every single one of those people contributes to every day.    operation of the Native American Health Center, you know. Let me tell you I've had some pretty tough jobs and when I came here. I think a lot of people have the same experience, the pace of which we move every single day. It's grueling and rigorous…I was just pretty blown away on how quickly I have to, you know, download information, make decisions, and move and be able to hold so much at one given time. You know, just didn't realize that I had the capacity to, to work as I'm doing now, and it definitely takes its toll on me, but I make sure that my mental health is– I stay on top of it, and so that when I go home, I can manage it and be a father, a husband and friend, to the best of my ability to some of my colleagues and. At the health center we provide mental health services, clinical, dental. We have a WIC, we have a school-based services in 11 different schools, we have a Richmond site…ah provide rental assistance in San Francisco, prevention services, substance abuse-prevention services, perinatal programming, through community wellness department, and here's ah, we do everything we can to insure that-that culture and traditional values, in an inter-tribal space is interjected in every aspect of our programming, and so again, very humbled and happy to be able to contribute to an organization that's been doing great work for so long.   00:35:03 Cathy Jackson   Thank you. Let's talk about the event that's coming up on Saturday, April 15th at the Presidio now.    00:35:11 Anthony Guzman   Yes, yes. You know, I want to say a fantastic big hat's off to Laura Cedillo who's one of the program managers at the health Center. She's always been a fantastic community organizer and done so much great work, I know I learn from Laura all the time and the way that she engages in the community, you know? So, on Saturday April 15th from 11:00 to 4:00 PM, we have the Inter-Tribal Dance Gathering, dancing is our medicine. We have our brush dancers showing up. The bird dancers, round dance songs–you know, Mike Ballenger, All Nations Singers…and just the title, “Dancing is our medicine,” is so powerful…You know as a clinician you know, you learn all these different types of interventions, you know, and cognitive behavior therapy, motivational interviewing…EMDR you know, the list goes on and often times…they take these little Elements of human beings have used historically heal,    and understand lives about people who have to function in the world.   one of the things that I always notice was that all indigenous people all around the world danced for all things they danced for healing: they danced to grieve, they dance for joy and celebration, they dance to laugh Andso… You know I think that western psychology and medicine  is finally starting to catch up at understanding ah, how you integrate movement, and song and dance into the lives of human beings…it's so crucial and important and I think the inter-national dance gathering is that, it's a demonstration to say -hey look, these ways have always supported the growth and healing and driving of people. But it's also opportunity to just come together and be in community and laugh and dance.   You know, every single one of us I think that times and you know in our lives and get caught up and our work and titles and what we do and mission and we're all out there achieving, but when we dance… All that goes away, and we become one with the people around you,    We come one with the space that you're in you can hear the trees and you can hear the birds. You can hear the ocean. We can hear the laughter of children and all that stuff goes away…and for a moment you're tapped into everything around you, and that's the way when we think about this event, that's how I envision it… That's how I feel when I hear the word dance…so get out there, shake your tailfeather, use your clapper, you know, wherever it may be…cause at the end of the day…when Indigenous people dance…it boils down to a couple of things…and some of it is…love and relationship.   00:38:40 Cathy Jackson   Well, I'm sure people will look forward to that event at the Presideo…can you give the contact information for the event and maybe some of the social media contact- I saw a flyer maybe you could talk about that.   00:39:00 Anthony Guzman   Sure, [if] you have any questions regarding the event, get a hold of Joseph Vasquez or Laura Cedillo, and you can get ahold of them at 415-417-3556 or you can e-mail at  SFCWD@nativehealth.org We also have our Instagram page I believe that is. Directions are 7 Gen 1D, Native American's Health Center Instagram page, and from there, you will be able to get connected to the rest of our social media accounts on Twitter… And Facebook…I think right now, our Instagram has a lot of good stuff there and you can follow some of the things that we are doing not only in San Francisco, but also in Oakland, and the Richmond site as well.     00:40:02 Cathy Jackson   Well, I'd Like to thank you for taking the time to speak, to Bay native circle today. Are there any last words?   00:40:11 Anthony Guzman   Yeah, you know, I think we covered a lot a lot of topics today. And I just want to thank you so much for giving us an opportunity to share a little bit about who we are and what we do at the health center…I think ah,  one of the things that I think is so important, you talked about and thank you for asking you know…as men in the community think about how important it is, that we ah, you know, we take care of our mental health…we cherish it, and when we see something that we need to you got to  make sure you talk to somebody and find the services that we need to in order for us to know as men, as fathers, as brothers as friends to all of our communities…that we take care of ourselves in that way, ..you know our women have carried us in community so, so strongly, and for so long.. But that wait can be very-that wait can wear…and so, they definitely need us I know there's men out there, doing exactly what I'm talking about.  But if you see a brother out there, and they're suffering and they're down…go over there, let them know how much you care about them, if you don't know how to give them the support that they need…don't be afraid to let them know, and normalize some of the help for mental health, it's so important…and I'm saying that as someone that has practiced that myself. You know I've found that times that I've tried to power through things, but every time I've reached out to get support…I see that my resiliency's a lot more–I bounce back quicker…and I learn something, I learn something about myself, and I stay in relation to other people, and to pass that on to other folks, too.   And I see them if they might need help, or they reach out.  So, I wanted to share a little bit about that, because I know how important that is support each other…it'ssuch a dynamic and fascinating time right now, so much going on…I'm so excited about our indigenous America right now…let's do everything we can to fulfill our dreams in community.  Again, thank you so much for the opportunity to share some thoughts, and yeah and (I think he said Wopila)     00:42:31 Cathy Jackson OK, thanks.     (Transition theme)   00:42:31 Cathy Jackson   We're here with Rass K'Dee…ah Rass please tell the listeners a little bit about yourself…and what you've been up to lately.   Rass K'Dee:  hey, how's it going, been a while since I've been on air, thank you for having me Cathy…appreciate it–big fan of your program also, back in the day…yeah, I definitely have been a listener of Bay Native Circle…um…actually host for – I think nine years I hosted?  So… It's good to be back on air with you…and just share what we've been up to. I belong to the band AudioPharmacy…my name is Rass K'Dee…been performing with Audiopharmacy-this will be our 20th year coming up next year, so we're excited to be celebrating 20 years of our work and music and cultural sharing in the bay area and beyond, and ah…yeah, we're just gearing up for a bunch of events this spring, just coming on the air to share some music, and just some vibes with the people.     44:28  Cathy Jackson:  So, tell me a little bit about this film and concert that's coming up     44:31Rass K'Dee:    Yeah, so we made a film called “Groundworks” which is, was…initially it was kind of a collaboration with Dancing Earth…this other group from Canada, Toaster Lab… another film group. We came together to kind of you know, create these short films…they were like 360 films, they were for virtual like virtual reality films? And um, for the virtual space, and um, we filmed a couple of them and through the process of filming these original films, we ended up making a feature- a full length documentary…uhm, which is not 360…just 2D space, but…it's 57 minute film, and it features bunch of California Native Voices, and cultural bearers and one of them is myself, also Canyon Sayers Roots, Bernadette Smith, and L Frank Manriquez, some of the voices that you've probably heard a lot here on KPFA in the Bay Native Circle over the years, and we asked them what kind of…what do they want to share…what are the stories that they want to share…you Canyon, you know, talked about Indian Canyon, Bernadette talked about the acorn festival, and reviving the acorn festival…myself talked about my music, and work with the Nesta Media Arts Center here in Forestville building our sustainable artists hub here in Sonoma County, and Snag magazine, our native arts and culture magazine and then L Frank talked about her work-their work, artwork, and work that they do as well.  Everyone kind of shares a little bit about their culture, and cultural piece…but yeah the film has had a lot of success, it aired on KQED last year…I think it was on…over a thousand stations, it went nationwide…so that was a good opportunity for folks to see it last November, we're just following up with some screenings here in the bay area, we're screening it at the San Francisco State…I think it's on April 12th…at SF State from Noon to 1:30 and they'll be a Q and A, and also a panel, the filmmakers won't make it this time, but some members of AudioPharmacy…some members of the Native staff and teachers at SF State will be on the panel as well and that's going to be at SF State on April 12th…um, and then we also have a concert that we're doing.  We're following up with a concert on April 19th at the McKenna theatre in at SF State, and that concert is with AudioPharmacy, my band…you know for those that aren't familiar…we're world hip hop ensemble–anywhere from five to ten of us onstage at once…but we have a pretty, pretty well-known for getting the party jumpin' in the bay area community.  But that show will be on the 19th from 7 to 8:30 and for students out there, students of SF State or students in general…the first 200 tickets are free, so definitely jump on that, and there's also some promo codes if you go to AudioPharmacy.com…you can find out more information about those.    Cathy Jackson 48:25:   Well, it sounds like you have been busy. Can you talk a little bit more about the film…and where people can see it now?    Rass K'Dee 48:34:  Yeah so if you have a KQED membership, you can watch the film, it is on KQED on the PBS stations in your city where you're tuning in from, but you can just search “Groundworks” on KQED or search Groundworks Film…you can also see the trailer, search Groundworks trailer um you can see the film trailer, but yeah, the film was really kind of evolved from like really from a question we asked you know, these tribal leaders and members you know, what issues or what things do you want to talk about, what kind of things do you want to show from your community…as opposed to approaching them with our own hatched idea of what we want to share from their culture from their community, and I think that's a little bit of a different approach…I think a lot of times us as culture bearers, community culture workers, or ceremony makers…or…yeah, so a lot of times, people come to us with projects that are kind of fully hatched, they want us to um just come on for a fifteen-minute land acknowledgement or open upthe band or sing a song you know, as artists and musicians…culture bearers…  You know, we didn't want to do that…we wanted the artist to share what they wanted to share, and what are the projects that you're excited about, and it's um, just more of a different approach, and I think that really opened up…I think…you know these artists that we're showcasing opened up them to be able to really  hone in on the projects they want the world to hear about, and that's what's most important really is  that the ones that are near and dear to their hearts…you know.    Cathy Jackson 50:20:   That's great so you're really opening up space for other people…ok well anything else you'd like to add?    Rass K'Dee 50:43  Yeah…well I'd love to see–we have a bunch of shows coming up this spring and I recommend just checking us out and I think the best way to check out our calendar for April/May is to AudioPharmacy.com…and you can see all of our dates, we have a show at the Oakland Museum on May 5th, and then we'll be in San Francisco at the Gongster's paradise event on May 6th, the day after…we just have a bunch of shows in April and May, so I'ddefinitely check out audiopharmacy.com if you want to come to one of those…come see us in the community. But yeah, we're excited for the spring…excited for the upcoming events…yeah just this new birth…time of renewal…so I'm giving thanks for you Cathy…thank you so much for having me on today.    Cathy Jackson 51:43:   Well, thank you so much and I'm sure that Falcon will pick out some music from your Radio Cafe to play…is there anything you'd like to suggest?    Rass K'Dee 51:56  We have a couple of new songs, there's a new song called “Translucent” which just came out, and the music video is coming out soon…that, it's already ready…music video, we also have a song called “Lose your Mind”…which is a really long song, you can play a portion of it…nine minute song…that one also has a music video, those are like newer songs, but anything from our catalog, you know, is great…you know audiopharmacy, we have several albums…and I know Falcon's a big fan, so he'll find something…    52:34 Cathy:  Alright thanks a lot     52:36  Audiopharmacy song…to outro    55:16 Morning Star Gali: Here's the calendar for upcoming events with audiopharmacy…On April 12th, Groundworks films screening with audiopharmacy includes a Q and A, this will be held Wednesday April 12th from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at 1600 Holloway Ave in San Francisco…for more information visit groundworksfilms.com. On April 19th, audiopharmacy is playing a live cypher at San Francisco State University…this is a free event…this will be held from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. again on April 19th.  Also, on April 19th audiopharmacy is providing a live theatre performance. This will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at 1600 Holloway Avenue in San Francisco.   For more information please visit audiopharmacy.com/events.  On Saturday April 15th from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., you're invited to the Native American Health Centers Inter-Tribal Dance Gathering, “Dancing is our Medicine” this will be held at the Presidio in San Francisco. Dance in many indigenous communities is a prayer, an offering…a balancing our physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional selves, which in turn heals and strengthens our communities.   The native American Health Centers welcomes Indigenous Communities and the greater public to enjoy healing dances by California tribes, Ohlone Hupa and Kumeyaay…round dance songs by Mike Ballenger, Kickapoo/Sac n Fox, screen printing by Smithsonian, featuring artist Calixto Robles, Zapotec, and beading with Kelly Roanhorse, Dine…and more.  Purchase delicious foods celebrating the bay area's diverse cuisines from Presidio pop up food and beverages, and vendors. Limited seating is available, please bring your own blanket or folding chair.  For more information visit Park Conservancy.org, or nativehealth.org for the latest updates.  Thank you for listening to our special edition of bay native circle…a special thank you to our engineer, Falcon-Miguel Molina, Jr. This is Morning Star Gali, you have been listening to Bay Native Circle…our producer is Janeen Antione, opening music is L. Frank, mixed with Rass K'Dee, Robert Mirabel, and Rare Tribal Mob. Thank you goes out to Mike Biggz for running the boards, and to Diane Williams for the opening prayer. We thank our musical artists, our guests, and our listening artists for your continued support. We want to give a shout out to our brother's sisters listening on the inside, especially those on death row. Thank you to Creator, to the indigenous peoples on the lands we occupy, to our ancestors…and to those yet to come…blessings (end)  The post Bay Native Circle – April 5, 2023 – Morning Star Gali Hosts. Cathy Jackson Interviews Anthony Guzman, Rass K'Dee & Jimmy Jackson Interviews Bruce Gali appeared first on KPFA.

Episode Notes This episode comes from the Deeper Learning 2022 Conference. This is a recording of the opening keynote, in which four educators from around the country told stories of deeper learning from their own lives. Here's a little more about our four speakers: German Gallardo German Gallardo is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a B.A. from the University of California Santa Cruz and a master's from Claremont Graduate University. Before returning to education German served as an Executive Director and a non-profit consultant with a focus on the creation of healing programs for youth. As a social science educator German centers the knowledge and experiences of marginalized peoples through the use of project-based learning, inquiry-based instruction and youth participatory action research. German strives to create learning experiences that address generational trauma and community challenges, allowing students to identify and nurture their gifts and strengths to generate real world change. As a school founder German seeks to bring the founding principles that have guided his career to the families he serves. By focusing on healing generational trauma through the use of powerful educational experiences and the use of indigenous healing practices to create a school that challenges all forms of oppression and helps the community radically reimagine what is possible. German currently serves South Central Los Angeles California at Wallis Annenberg High School as a Dean of Culture. German is also developing professional development for school and developing a high school with La Junta Educativa collective. Connect with German~ gmgallardo@gmail.com Sommer Jones Sommer Jones is an alum of Longwood University, and a current graduate student in High Tech High's GSE leadership program. Over her last 15 years as an educator, Sommer has taught middle and high school English, and served as an Instructional Technology and Innovation Coach. She is currently the Dean of Student Experience for K12 CREW Academy in Hopewell, Virginia where she supports teachers and students as they engage in their core values of Community, Real-World Deeper Learning, Empathy and Equity, and Championing the Wins. Sommer believes that culture and identity work remains at the heart of deeper learning, and she is passionate about co-designing brave and liberating learning spaces where students can elevate their voice, develop emotional resilience, and experience the freedom to become their most authentic selves in our schools and our communities. Christian Martinez Christian Martinez, is an educator & poeta. Born in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico, he and his family migrated to Oakland, California in 1999 to pursue a better future. Growing up in East Oakland deeply influenced his desire to elevate in the community. Christian witnessed and experienced the social and educational inequities first hand and wanted to contribute to leveling the playing field for communities of color. In 2010, Christian commenced his career as an educator in his beloved Fruitvale community. Here, he co-founded Latitude 37.8, a unique high school that focuses on real-world project-based learning, with strong arts, multimedia, and technology integration. The focus of the school deeply aligns with Christian's creative vision. Christian developed a passion for music, recording and producing all while fostering a drive to succeed. In 2018, Christian founded Noxhegalactica Podcast & Magazine. Noxhegalactica invites all participants--the host, its guest, and listeners--to reveal our struggles and build the community we never thought we would have. Noxhegalactica aims to elevate the community. Christian's is a big fan of fashion and promoting mental health. In 2019, he took a trip to Tokyo, Japan where he was inspired to uplift and motivate people through his message. He started his own clothing brand named swimgood. Swimgood is rooted in the idea that "No matter where you are in this ocean called life , you'll be okay if you just swimgood." Haben Ghebregergish Haben Ghebregergish is an alum of the University of Chicago and a current student at the Hamline University Graduate School of Education. This year she successfully defended her thesis entitled Math Students as Changemakers in a Transforming World: How African American Girls Connect Mathematics and Social Justice in the High School Classroom During Online Learning. Haben is the Lead Facilitator at the High School for Recording Arts. Haben has the pleasure of co-facilitating social justice mathematics courses at HSRA. The student-centered and problem-driven classes allow students to take ownership of their learning by exploring topics that are important to them, including the impact of the Black Lives Movement, Billionaires in our society, and owning a business. She is passionate about learning through travel and has collaborated with colleagues and students to organize trips to Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York City. Haben is also a coach to youth advocates in two organizations. The first is Bridgemakers, a nonprofit, youth-led organization that works on issues such as education reform and economic justice for marginalized Minnesotans ages 14-25. One of Bridgemakers' most recent victories was passing a law that made high school students in Minnesota eligible for unemployment benefits. The second is Reconnect Rondo, whose mission is to revitalize the Rondo community of St. Paul, a once thriving black neighborhood that was devastated by the construction of I-94.

Tonight's guest, LaTrisha, bought a home in the town of Fruitvale, which is in East Texas. She and her husband bought their home about 11 years ago, because they wanted to live a peaceful life in the country. Not long after they moved in, though, a neighbor gave Trish an ominous warning that gave her the impression living there might turn out to be anything but the peaceful existence she and her husband had hoped for. For the 1st 7 to 8 years they were living there, the only extraordinary experiences she had involved hearing strange vocalizations, from time to time. After 7 to 8 years had gone by, however, she started to have actual encounters. Encounters with Dogmen. When she had one of her encounters, she actually touched a Dogman's butt cheek, mistaking it for a tree trunk. Eventually, she had to start locking their doors, because of the Dogmen proving that they knew how to open them. We hope you'll tune in and listen to Trish talk about encounters she and other family members have had on her property. If you'd like to check out my new Bigfoot show, called My Bigfoot Sighting, here's a link to the My Bigfoot Sighting YouTube Channel…. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_v5B0Q81aLiatYVABOEZWw/videosTo find out how to listen to Dogman Encounters commercial-free, please visit https://DogmanEncounters.com/PodcastIf you'd like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Dogman encounter and would like to speak with me about it, whether you'd like to keep your encounter confidential or be interviewed on a show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report.If you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio, please go to https://BigfootEyewitness.com and submit a report.Thanks for listening!

The Fruitvale neighborhood has one of the lowest vaccination rates and highest COVID case rates in Alameda County. Reporter Deepa Fernandes joins host Cecilia Lei to discuss an outreach program that's hoping to change that with the help of key ambassadors in the community: children of immigrants. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron Kuchirka is the Chief Economist and Founder of Climate Smart Solutions, a startup that focuses on climate risk management, positions organizations for the changing climate and the possible effects. The company helps provide meaningful solutions to society while using technology and different forms of innovative thinking.   Aaron has had the opportunity to interact and partner with different organizations like Quest Tech.    Something fascinating about Aron is that they purchased an old church to use in serving the community.   Tag along and get to hear Aaron talk about: Effects of climatic change Providing solutions to mitigate the effects. Impacts of Climatic Change Aaron explains that we have climatic impacts that have been happening forever. However, he continues to say that we are in a period where impacts such as storms or flooding hit an extreme like never before. Climate Smart Solutions provides ways to mitigate and prevent these impacts.   He gives an example of the Hailstorm that occurred in Calgary in 2020. People went through insurable damages and losses, and, unfortunately, it's still likely to occur if nothing is done to mitigate such impacts.  What Climate Solutions Does the Organization Offer? Aaron's organization finds a solution by performing risk assessments and calculating the ROI of mitigating that risk. They provide suggestions and bring along technological aspects that can solve the issue.   He further says that the company also works towards transforming waste into energy while incorporating necessary technologies. One excellent example is how to manage landfills and deal with trash. About the Church House Aaron tells us about how his family moved to Fruitvale, British Columbia, to a church property that they purchased.   He says that it has been fantastic spending time together as a family, especially during this challenging COVID period.   How do they plan to use the church? They have not yet settled on a specific idea for the church space but are currently working on building and recreating it. Aaron's Superpower Being intentional and positive and focusing on how to move forward. “Fearless forward.” Timestamps [0:26] The mission of Climate Smart Solutions [2:35] Does Climate change really matter? [4:48] Impacts of climatic change [7:28] Smart solutions [12:28] The church [15:50] Dealing with mental health [17:00] Advice to entrepreneurs Notable Quotes The sky's the limit   Focus on your problem and marry it with your passion, then go out and do it, don't talk about it too long; the execution is where it really happens. Connect with Aaron Website - http://www.climatesmartsolutions.ca/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/AaronKuchirka LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronkuchirka/  

On this episode, we talk to our new friend Jane, a Korean American public interest attorney and mother of young kids. Jane works for a local nonprofit in our neighborhood, representing Latinx clients with their immigration needs. Jane talks about entering this space with cultural humility, as well as how her own story as an immigrant and a child of immigrants bridges language and cultural gaps with the community she serves. I also loved hearing how she talks to her kids about her work and experience as a working mom during the pandemic. We also talk about what would Jane do if she wasn't an attorney, which launched us into a whole different conversation...including Jane's favorite Fruitvale taco truck. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/oaklandasianmom/message

In honor of Father's Day, we interview Oakland Asian Dad and Uncle, Albert, who shares about the pressures (and academic secrets) of growing up in Cupertino, CA and how that experience has influenced his own parenting style. Albert, who has Taiwanese/Chinese/Filipino roots, also talks about the challenges and joys of raising his three kids in the Fruitvale and offers some meaningful advice to Asian American families living in Oakland...all while befriending the Baby Tiger within him. We both were touched by the stories Albert shared, especially his insights about how our kids are truly living out what it means to form diverse friendships and live out unique and beautiful experiences that are different from our own childhoods. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/oaklandasianmom/message

Join us as we talk to a Korean American mother, Suzy, and her teenage Korean/Chinese (with Vietnam roots) daughter, Sierra, from the Fruitvale about their relationship over the years and how their "fiery" dynamic has led to much mutual love, appreciation, and admiration. For all us mothers who have young kids and wonder..."what will our relationship look like in the near future..?," this is a sweet conversation that gives us some foreshadowing of what may come. And Suzy, this is for you: #ooo!thatcroptopisalittleshort --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/oaklandasianmom/message

In Episode 34, I focus on five great films as my main loot: Ran, Dogtooth, Nomadland, Fantastic Planet, and The Whisperers. Aside from that, I still dive briefly into a bunch of other films I saw: from the streets of San Francisco to rural Ohio, from Latin America to the imaginary Kumaandra, from the birth of the Internet to behind the Internet. Check it out!Music: Tino Mendes & Yellow Paper - The HeistNomadland clip (c) Walt Disney Pictures

In this episode I'm talking with Claudia Mercado a LatinX entrepreneur and community advocate who was born in Mexico and raised in Oakland's Fruitvale district about defining the luxury cannabis market. She is the Founder and CEO of Calibueno, a licensed cannabis company in Oakland, CA. Claudia uses her passion for cannabis along with her life experience in a working-class Latino community to build a cannabis industry that is inclusive and diverse. You can learn more about Calibueno here: https://www.calibueno.co/ and follow on instagram @calibueno.co

This encore podcast was originally posted on April 4, 2019. Tommy Orange, author of the novel “There There,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. “There There” is set in and around Fruitvale and the Coliseum areas in Oakland, and looks at the lives of several Native Americans, young and old, as they converge for a giant pow-wow. The novel stretches back in time to the takeover of Alcatraz and forward to the present day, shattering stereotypes and delving into the real lives of the urban Native American. Tommy Orange was born and raised in Oakland, and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. The post Tommy Orange: “There There” appeared first on KPFA.

In part 1 of 2 episodes, MK sits down with educators Dr. Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price, Belinda Bellinger, & Lisa Kelly as they explore the questions: What has this pandemic unveiled? What are the silver linings or unveilings we want to keep moving forward? & What kind of world do we want to build after? Awo Okaikor M. Aryee-Price, Ed.D. is an anti-racist teacher-organizer and teacher educator who organizes from an anti-racist de/colonial Black feminist lens. She is one of the co-founders of MapSO Freedom School and a founding steering committee member for the National Black Lives Matter at School, a Black-led organizing group of educators, parents, and community organizers committed to transforming schooling for Black and Brown students in the nation currently referred to as “The United States of America.” As a former classroom teacher, teacher-leader, and now, teacher educator, Okaikor is committed to undoing and unlearning the systems and structures that hinders all of us from being able to access our full human-selves. Okaikor is also a core trainer and organizer for the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond– an anti-racist organization committed to Undoing Racism. Okaikor’s dissertation research explored the dehumanizing impact of Eurocentrism and racism on Black educatorhood and Black studenthood, and what we can do to rehumanize ourselves and our learning environments. Most importantly, Okaikor is the mother of two amazing children, Saige Ayikailey and Kaeden Nii Ayikundzra and partner to Keith L. Price. Belinda Bellinger is jubilant about youth empowerment, community organizing, performance theater/spoken word, and healing work. She is known for creating instructional spaces where students are seen, heard, and encouraged to be their authentic self. Over the last 15+ years, she has worked with Bay Area young people in many formations, from tutor to organizer. Before becoming a classroom teacher, she did community organizing, developing young people into social justice warriors who fought for Ethnic Studies, cleaner bathrooms, more counselors and less cops, and youth employment. She began her teaching career as an English teacher at KIPP Bayview Academy, and is currently the 7th grade Social Studies teacher at Summit: Tamalpais in Richmond, CA. Lisa Kelly, an Afrolatina runner and rugby player from Sacramento, CA, is a 9 year teaching veteran. She is currently teaching in the Oakland Unified School District in a Fruitvale public school, and loves teaching English and English Language Development from an Ethnic Studies perspective and framework. Lisa has taught in Berkeley and has now been in Oakland for three years. Lisa loves playing rugby for the Berkeley All Blues, reading, hiking and spending time with her partner and two cats.

This episode of On the Fly by tablehopper is with Reem Assil, the chef and owner of Reem’s California, both in Oakland’s Fruitvale and now in San Francisco, which opened just days before the stay-at-home order in March. It’s already hard enough to open a new restaurant—in this case, San Francisco’s first Arab bakery—but Reem and her team have managed to adjust and persevere during the many challenges of these past six months. I’ve wanted to speak with her on the podcast about a multitude of things, from what it’s like to launch a restaurant in the first month of a pandemic, to the many adjustments they’ve had to make along the way, to hearing about her experience working with initiatives like SF New Deal. It took a little time for an even bigger reason for me to interview her to be revealed, and that is to talk about the future of restaurants, especially after these six months of upheaval, reckoning, and the growing desire to seek racially just, sustainable, and equitable business models—which is crucial since some of the most marginalized people in our society make up a large part of the restaurant industry workforce.Reem is well-known as an activist, and worked for a decade as a community and labor organizer prior to starting her career in food. She has always cared deeply about her workers, and workplace culture, and how her business relates to the community at large, and now she is exploring how to build a worker-owned model that will fit her many criteria, and the specific needs of her workers, and what does leadership look like in a collective structure. At the heart of it all, Reem’s was launched to be an expression of Arab hospitality, and she talks about how they try to do it through take-out and Friday night meal kits. We also take a walk through the pastry case, and just wait until you hear about the workers’ wreath (take a look at @tablehopper on Instagram for the goods, but trust me, you really need to enjoy it in person, not just with your eyes and ears). Reem’s California: www.reemscalifornia.com (Instagram: @reemscalifornia); 2901 Mission St., SF; 3301 E. 12th St. #133, Oakland.Additional links:New Yorker video: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/video-dept/a-san-francisco-baker-on-what-hospitality-looks-like-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic SF New Deal: https://sfnewdeal.org If you’re a Bay Area business or individual and want to be featured in On the Fly, please fill out the form at bit.ly/ontheflyguest.Support the show (http://www.venmo.com/Marcia-Gagliardi)

COVID-19 rates are skyrocketing in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, as low-income immigrants risk infection to go to work. We look at Fruitvale’s infection rate and the community organizations trying to help. Then, Oakland artist Paul Lewin talks about Afrofuturistic art and what it means to him. And, we hear a local poet reading from her new collection, " Rift Zone ."

Michael Muscadine was born and raised in East Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, where his family goes back several generations. Muscadine says that's where his grandfather, John Melendrez, instilled in him the idea of community oriented social activism.  Now Muscadine works as a life coach at the Fruitvale-based nonprofit, CURYJ, which stands for Communities United For Restorative Youth Justice. Muscadine works directly with young folks-- many of whom have had run-ins with the justice system-- to assure that they have resources like food and housing. Muscadine also works at a community garden in the same neighborhood where he works and lives. Through gardening, and his work at CURYJ, he's literally planting seeds in the same place he has deep roots.

The gang decided it was time to mix up the PFR Weekly template a touch, and to do so they are embarking on a three-part series dissecting and discussing the films of director Ryan Coogler. Coogler has directed three feature films, and so this episode and the next two will each focus on one of those directorial efforts to allow a deep dive on one of the most exciting directors working today. This episode starts the arc with a look at Coogler's devastatingly beautiful directorial debut, Fruitvale Station (2013). Fruitvale Station focuses on Oscar Grant III's (Michael B. Jordan) last day alive before his murder at the hands of BART Police Officers on New Year's Day 2009. In depicting this real life tragedy, Coogler pulls no punches in displaying the monstrous actions of those officers, but he also spends the majority of the film outlining Grant's humanity and what he meant to the people around him. Jane, Nathan, and Devin start by considering how Coogler's early life and education led him to this project, and then analyze the fully-formed directorial style on display in Fruitvale, and the many heartbreaking parallels between Grant's story and the stories of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the countless other Black Americans killed by police. If you have a suggestion for a film or topic for the show, get in touch! Follow and message us on Instagram at @portland_film_review or FaceBook at Portland Film Review, or send us an email at pfrweekly@gmail.com. Plus, if you like what you hear, make sure to follow and review us wherever you get your podcasts.

In our 5th installment of the ANTAD Podcast, Nimer and myself, Warren, took the time to show our gratitude for the inventors of the Lithium ion battery--John B Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin,M Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton Universityand Akira Yoshino of Meijo University.We talked about the new feature of the Google maps "detailed guidance navigation" intended for eyes-free navigation that debuted on Thursday, October 10 during "World sight day."Some Japanese lady demonstrated the new feature at the following Youtube URl's in both English and Japanese:English URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMoCmvpHgo&feature=youtu.beJapanese url:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pNyHs-aKA&feature=youtu.beThis feature is only available in the U.S. and Japan for the time being.Nimer demonstrated a couple apps from a developer known as "In Pocket software" that show you what your phone is up to and the internals of your Android phone. This is by way of the "phone information" found at:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inpocketsoftware.andInfoand then the one that shows you the phone signal found at the following URL:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inpocketsoftware.phoneSignalProWe ventured into a territory that would probably leave me, Warren, having some nightmares!Yes, we compared some apps on the Fruitvale (iOS) device and on Android.I happened to be the one that showed the Fruitvale side of things!The Session closed with the answering of mail we got from a listener.As always, we appreciate hearing from you and to send us your questions concerns or suggestions, please, send those to:antadpodcast@gmail.com--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anatadpodcast/messageSupport the show (https://www.pod.fan/blind-tech-guys)★ Support this podcast ★

This week, we reflect on the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, we discuss the challenges of being black in America and how those challenges have been highlighted in films such as Do The Right Thing (1989) and Fruitvale Station (2013). To help end racial injustice, please donate to: For George Floyd. For Breonna Taylor. For Ahmaud Arbery.  NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.   If you cannot donate: Black Lives Matter. Visit Movement for Black Lives for additional ways you can help the cause. Here are some Anti-Racism Resources. Connect with leaders building grass root campaigns - Click here. Campaign Zero - Research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America.

Nesse episódio Soju, Moana Raquel e Silas Guilherme falam sobre as principais produções de Babu Santana e aproveitam para analisar a vida de Tim Maia em seu filme biográfico estrelado pelo ator. E, para acrescentar, discutem um pouco sobre a negritude no cinema. Será que você conhece a face artística de Babu Santana? Créditos: Trilha Sonora de Cidade de Deus e Tim Maia, música Downtown de BenSound. Recomendações: A Negação do Brasil (Documentário), Telecineplay (App), Spcineplay (site), Mila Marinho (cantora), Pompoko - Estúdio Ghibli (filme), Harriet (filme), Fruitvale station - a última parada (filme), Sorry to bother you (filme). [4:23] - Cidade de Deus [17:32] - Uma Onda no Ar [21:34] - Café com Canela [24:13] - Estômago [26:39] - Tim Maia [1:01:28] - Recomendações

0:08 – Leilani Farha, is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing. 0:34 – KPFA Audio Documentary: Evicted Oakland's unhoused face untold cycles of displacement (Read and listen to the original story here) Earlier this year, KPFA brought you a documentary on day to day life in a homeless community in Oakland near Home Depot in Fruitvale called The Community of Grace. That was a community that – at the time – was more or less self-organized: the people there set rules, enforced them, choose who to let move in, and who to turn away.  This past October, the city carried out a “clean and clear” operation, stating that the trash and debris in the community posed a fire danger. Residents were allowed to move back – but only after the shelters and tiny houses that many lived in were demolished, leaving them in more immediately precarious situations. Earlier, the city announced that it intends to close that area and evict the residents living there by the end of the year. As of the date of this recording, the residents still aren't sure of when that will happen. The city did not respond to KPFA's questions on when that would take place. So we decided to explore the story of what happens when unhoused people get evicted. And that meant telling the story of a different encampment, one that didn't get to organize itself, because it consisted of people flooding in from other evictions. Reporter Lucy Kang got to know three women living there, and followed them through what came next. 1:08 – Dani McClain – for the hour – an award winning writer, journalist and author of the recent book We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood. The post UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, Leilani Farha on the global housing crisis; Plus Evicted: Oakland's unhoused people face untold cycles of displacement (rebroadcast) appeared first on KPFA.

In the late fifties, the U.S. government promised Native Americans good jobs and stable housing if they left reservations for urban centers, including Oakland. Those promises were never realized. But something else happened, too. Instead of assimilating into cities like the federal government wanted, native people built solidarity, preserved traditions, and continued to create culture — both within their communities and between other indigenous ones. One of the ways that solidarity takes shape is at Oakland’s Indigenous Red Market, which happens on the first Sunday of every month in Fruitvale. Guest: Marisol Medina-Cadena, Reporter for KQED News You can read more of Marisol's story on the Indigenous Red Market here, and check out more info about the market on their Facebook page. Subscribe to The Bay to hear more local Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, NPR One or via Alexa.

An East Oakland community is still grieving over a hit-and-run accident and a laundromat is honoring the victims by pushing to make their streets safer for pedestrians. Then, if you live in East Oakland, where can you get fresh produce with a WIC voucher? And, a tech reporter goes deep into her troubling family history.

Many Mexican-Americans growing up during the 1950s and ’60s had no awareness of Día de los Muertos. Due to the pressures of assimilation, relatively few Chicano families celebrated this ancient tradition, which combines elements of Christian and indigenous rituals. A new exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California, ¡El Movimiento Vivo! Chicano Roots of El Día de los Muertos, celebrates the resurrection of this holiday in the Fruitvale district and throughout California. As the Museum celebrates the 25th anniversary of its Día de los Muertos ceremonies, this episode explores connections between the rise of the Chicano Power movement and surging interest in Day of the Dead. Listen now to hear Fruitvale History Project co-founder Annette Oropeza and Latino mental health pioneer Roberto Vargas share memories of how they came to embrace Día de los Muertos, their concerns about its growing mainstream recognition, and much more. See photos and more here: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/it-wasnt-part-of-my-childhood/ Do you want more East Bay Yesterday? Please donate to help keep this show alive: www.patreon.com/eastbayyesterday

Once upon a time in Chatsworth,  A group of friends who work in post production gathered together and mur....... just kidding! Gathered together and recorded a PODCAST talking about the BRAND NEW film - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood! They also stayed gathered to talk about a not-so-new film called Fruitvale Station. Which was suggested to the group by the one and only Ricardo!  So, did this group of friends stay a group of friends? Or is this the end.... friends. Find out on this brand new episode of IN-OUT-DELETE!  

Before ‘Wakanda Forever!’ made over a billion dollars, and before Rocky emerged out of the shadows promising this fight may actually be “my final fight kid”, Ryan Coogler wrote and directed his very first film, Fruitvale station, that premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize. It follows 22 year old Oscar Grant’s final day before being tragically shot by police on New Years Day, 2009. The pod are big fans of Coogler, and dove straight into the immensely deep level of craft and storytelling that make this excellent debut. So if you haven’t seen it, then pause re-watching emotional Rocky moments from Creed, and get ready for a great directorial debut. We also cover two shorts in our shorts of the week! The First Men by Stacey Richter and (our pod favourite) Lifehack by Will Dennis. We also shine a light on Cooglers first short, Locks, which is well worth a watch. We also need to clarify, we definitely are not sponsored by Mubi. Just so you know. But Mubi, if you’re reading this, throw us some love for us and our listeners. Please. That is all.   Links to both shorts, and Locks by Ryan Coogler. Locks directed by Ryan Coogler. The First Men directed by Benjamin Kegan based on a short story by Stacey Richter  Lifehack directed by Will Dennis    Thanks for listening, enjoy.  (Mubi, DM us and we’ll chat)

Tommy Orange, author of the novel “There There,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. “There There” is set in and around Fruitvale and the Coliseum areas in Oakland, and looks at the lives of several Native Americans, young and old, as they converge for a giant pow-wow. The novel stretches back in time to the takeover of Alcatraz and forward to the present day, shattering stereotypes and delving into the real lives of the urban Native American. Tommy Orange was born and raised in Oakland, and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. The post Tommy Orange: “There There” appeared first on KPFA.

Hi listeners, this is Tubalon detector with Jacek Golański season one: winter in California In this recording, you will hear the interview with the tubalon whom I met in the first week of my travels in CaliforniaChristopher is a kind animal rights activist from Berkeley,I detected him during the weekly Awakin Circles in Fruitvale, Oakland.http://www.awakin.org/local/city/oaklandIf you are in that part of the planet, do yourself a favor and join this gathering of attentive silence.We recorded this interview on our second day of knowing each other in Christopher's and his roommate's kitchen.Enjoy.fishgoat@gmail.com

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New Year's Eve 2008 started off as a normal day. Oscar celebrated his mother's birthday with her and the family before he and his girlfriend got ready to go out with their friends to ring in the new year in San Francisco. Making their way back home on the BART, a fight broke out which led to police being called immediately to the scene. Onlookers filmed this horrible event which became viral and sparked outrage throughout the country. Send in your Stranger Danger stories to ItsAboutDamnCrime@gmail.com or head to ItsAboutDamnCrime.comFacebook, Facebook Group & Instagram- It's About Damn CrimeTwitter & Snapchat- IADCpodcast

On this episode, we talk to some of the prominent Black-owned business owners in the Bay to figure out how they've maintained their presence and survived through the storms. Keba Konte, founder of Red Bay Coffee, founded his coffee business in 2014 from his garage in Oakland. His ethically sourced coffee is quickly becoming a Bay Area mainstay, and his beautiful brewery in Fruitvale hosts some of the dopest events in the Bay. Chaney Turner was homeless when she began launching her business. Nowadays, she's the founder of a few successful ventures, including Town Biz and People's Dispensary. She's a true testament of how perseverance can get you closer to your goals. Tamirra Dyson got the funds for her NOLA-inspired vegan restaurant, Souley Vegan, just 20 minutes before she was supposed to meet her landlord to sign the lease!

Hosted by Cassandra Dallet, The Badass Bookworm continues her conversation with author Rohan DaCosta, artist Harriet Poznansky, and a drop-in from poet Abe Becker, talking about falling for hip-hop.

Hosted by Cassandra Dallet, The Badass Bookworm sits down with Rohan DaCosta, author of "The Edge of Fruitvale" and visual artist Harriet Poznansky to talk about their upcoming multimedia project "Trap Trauma and Transformation".

Chris Kent of Fruitvale, BC has made a life and a career out of the pursuit of simplicity. Having recently gone out on his own launching Left of Center designs, he’s hoping that formula will be the key to having fun and making money. Hang your shingle and go out on your own helping others turn their ideas into reality, and solving people’s needs with beautifully simple solutions? You can do that here!  

In the second episode, Battle Brothers Lucas, Cody, Matt and George talk current hobby progress, including an update from Matt on his person paint journey of his Valiant Knight Dominus. We recap a recently played game, and adjusting the practice format to support Lucas becoming a more tactical general at the table. We look at our road to some upcoming ITC events, including our own first organized event the Battle Brothers Border Bash in Fruitvale, BC, Canada. The Bros wrap up the conversation discussing Making Tournaments Great Again, looking at how individually we strive to ensure the competitive experience is enjoyable for all.

Old paint, old pipes and demolition dust often are sources of toxic lead. It’s a poison known to cause neurological damage in children. For adults, new science shows lead exposure increases the risk of heart disease. Reveal investigates the lurking threat from the dust of urban demolitions to the wilds of Wyoming. This episode was originally broadcast March 31, 2018. In Detroit, dust is a particular concern. Because of the population drop, the city is tearing down tens of thousands of empty homes. Contractors are supposed to follow strict protocols on  demolitions, but when those rules are not enforced, lead dust can drift around the neighborhood, poisoning children in unsuspecting families. Reporter Eilís O'Neill explores the impact. Next, we go to the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, California, where the rate of kids with high lead levels in their blood was greater than in Flint, Michigan, during the height of the water crisis there. Reporters Angela Johnston and Marissa Ortega-Welch of KALW in San Francisco explain how high housing costs and lead exposure are connected and introduce us to public health nurse Diep Tran, who says lead poisoning puts enormous stress on families. “I've seen parents go into shock,” Tran says. “Most of them are anxious. Some feel guilty and go into denial, which is not good for the child, because parents in denial don't want to work with us. How can the child recover if we don't help the family?” She says her only option sometimes is to advise families to move to a homeless shelter to escape exposure to lead. Paul Flory could not escape. He grew up in Idaho’s Silver Valley, a longtime mining area that’s now a lead-laced Superfund site. Host Al Letson talks with him about going to school next door to a smelter and the struggles he’s had after his childhood lead poisoning was recorded – and then largely ignored. Finally, we discover how tiny fragments of lead bullets hurt hunters’ unintended targets: eagles, condors and other scavenging wildlife. We trace lead dust from game guts to eagle brains in Wyoming. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.

Old paint, old pipes and demolition dust often are sources of toxic lead. It’s a poison known to cause neurological damage in children. For adults, new science shows lead exposure increases the risk of heart disease. Reveal investigates the lurking threat from the dust of urban demolitions to the wilds of Wyoming. This episode was originally broadcast March 31, 2018. In Detroit, dust is a particular concern. Because of the population drop, the city is tearing down tens of thousands of empty homes. Contractors are supposed to follow strict protocols on  demolitions, but when those rules are not enforced, lead dust can drift around the neighborhood, poisoning children in unsuspecting families. Reporter Eilís O'Neill explores the impact. Next, we go to the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, California, where the rate of kids with high lead levels in their blood was greater than in Flint, Michigan, during the height of the water crisis there. Reporters Angela Johnston and Marissa Ortega-Welch of KALW in San Francisco explain how high housing costs and lead exposure are connected and introduce us to public health nurse Diep Tran, who says lead poisoning puts enormous stress on families. “I've seen parents go into shock,” Tran says. “Most of them are anxious. Some feel guilty and go into denial, which is not good for the child, because parents in denial don't want to work with us. How can the child recover if we don't help the family?” She says her only option sometimes is to advise families to move to a homeless shelter to escape exposure to lead. Paul Flory could not escape. He grew up in Idaho’s Silver Valley, a longtime mining area that’s now a lead-laced Superfund site. Host Al Letson talks with him about going to school next door to a smelter and the struggles he’s had after his childhood lead poisoning was recorded – and then largely ignored. Finally, we discover how tiny fragments of lead bullets hurt hunters’ unintended targets: eagles, condors and other scavenging wildlife. We trace lead dust from game guts to eagle brains in Wyoming. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.

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In this episode I speak about watching a few movies; Black Panther, Wonder, The Shape of Water & Fruitvale Station.   The Spun Today Podcast is a Podcast that is anchored in Writing & Random Rants, but unlimited in scope. Give it a whirl.   Links referenced in this episode:   Fill out my Spun Today Questionnaire if you’re passionate about your craft. I’ll share your insight and motivation on the Podcast: http://www.spuntoday.com/questionnaire/   Check out my Book: Make Way for You – Tips for getting out of your own way http://www.spuntoday.com/books/ (e-Book & Paperback are now available).   Shop on Amazon using this link, to support the Podcast: http://www.amazon.com//ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?&tag=sputod0c-20&camp=216797&creative=446321&linkCode=ur1&adid=104DDN7SG8A2HXW52TFB&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spuntoday.com%2Fcontact%2F   Shop on iTunes using this link, to support the Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTop?genreId=38&id=27820&popId=42&uo=10   Shop at the Spun Today store for Mugs, T-Shirts and more: https://viralstyle.com/store/spuntoday/tonyortiz   Outro Song #1: Huellas – Joe Vasconcellos Outro Song #2: No Podras – Cristian Castro   SpunToday Logo by: http://pcepeda.com/ Sound effects are credited to: http://www.freesfx.co.uk   Listen on: iTunes, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Google Play and YouTube

Richie Adams is an award-winning filmmaker who cut his teeth as a title designer (’Babel,’ ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith,’ ‘Water for Elephants’) first under the mentorship of legendary title designer, Richard Greenberg (’Alien,’ ‘Untouchables,’ ‘The Matrix’), and for the past 12 years, under his own company banner, Louisiana-based River Road Creative. As a title designer, Adams has worked with many of the great players in the motion picture industry, including Alejandro González Iñárritu and Doug Liman, as well as newcomers like Ryan Coogler, for whom Adams designed/produced the titles and special graphic sequences (cell phone sequences) for Coogler’s Sundance Grand Dramatic winning ‘Fruitvale,” and later Coogler’s follow up hit, ‘Creed.’ After several years in Los Angeles, Richie returned to hometown, Baton Rouge, LA, to form River Road Creative, a boutique live-action studio where he continues to deliver design and related services for film and television as well as directing/producing commercials, which have garnered awards and accolades at most major award competitions, including an EMMY® nomination. As a film director, Richie’s recent narrative feature ‘Of Mind and Music,’ starring Joaquim De Almeida, Aunjanue Ellis and 2017 Oscar-Nominated Ruth Negga, played the 2014/2015 film festival circuit earning numerous audience and juried awards, as well as a nomination for the Best New Director Award for Adams at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

This short film was produced by the Glassbreaker Films team at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Glassbreaker Films is an all-female group of filmmakers working to promote gender parity in investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking. In the early hours of 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant was fatally shot by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at the Fruitvale station in Oakland, California. The shooting was captured on cellphone video and made headlines nationwide, leading to a national conversation about police brutality. The officer who shot Grant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 11 months in prison out of a two-year sentence. In the following years, as more police killings made the news, Grant’s mother, Wanda Johnson, decided to turn her pain and grief into a purpose. With Grant’s uncle, Cephus Johnson, she established The Oscar Grant Foundation, which led to a movement made up of mothers like her, whose sons were killed by police. She gathers with these women to help them find justice and ensure that their children are not forgotten. The number of members continues to grow steadily every year. Watch the rest of The Aftermath series at: revealnews.org/theaftermath

This short film was produced by the Glassbreaker Films team at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Glassbreaker Films is an all-female group of filmmakers working to promote gender parity in investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking. In the early hours of 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant was fatally shot by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at the Fruitvale station in Oakland, California. The shooting was captured on cellphone video and made headlines nationwide, leading to a national conversation about police brutality. The officer who shot Grant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 11 months in prison out of a two-year sentence. In the following years, as more police killings made the news, Grant’s mother, Wanda Johnson, decided to turn her pain and grief into a purpose. With Grant’s uncle, Cephus Johnson, she established The Oscar Grant Foundation, which led to a movement made up of mothers like her, whose sons were killed by police. She gathers with these women to help them find justice and ensure that their children are not forgotten. The number of members continues to grow steadily every year. Watch the rest of The Aftermath series at: revealnews.org/theaftermath

Every weekend, while most people are sound asleep, Enrique Soriano is up well before the crack of dawn, prepping food that he will sell that day. Such is life when you operate one of the most popular food trucks in Oakland. For 20 years, Enrique's family has owned and operated Tacos Los Michoacanos, which specializes in authentic Mexican food. But this is no run of the mill taco truck. Enrique's specialties include a pair of signature soups: birria and menudo. So please join me in welcoming our guest today, Enrique Soriano. Location: Corner of International Blvd and 35th Ave in Fruitvale   Introduction Operating the truck, purchased by parents Used to own clothing shop Getting involved in the family business/ current involvement Trying the food Carne de res salsa verde/ beef in green salsa Typical day Early morning prep routine Menudo prep Spices Running a food truck Family crew Done when the food is gone Hangover cure food Verde Sauce Just like mom used to make it Parents Immigrated to US in the 80slessons learned from Mom- failure, worrying about failure Confidence in business/ innovating it Pork Rib Salsa Roja Grow own peppers Advertising Girlfriend Jasmine handles marketing Used to move around more Started doing catering Moving to vegan dishes Lots of options, next phase of the menu Birria Beef dish, better with goat meat Age of the animal matters Takes two and a half to three hours to cook Only on weekends More hours and pop-ups coming in January Chicken with Mole Sauce How its made Getting creative/ testing different recipes Same customers for years, from Vallejo to LA Wrap up

We speak with Reem Assil, who was a community organizer for ten years before deciding that her true passion is food.  Reem started Reem's California, an Arab street corner bakery in Oakland's Fruitvale district, with the help of several community initiatives including the Women's Initiative for Self-Employment, La Cocina and ICA Fund Good Jobs. And in the second half of the show, I discuss writing mysteries that emphasize the sense of a place, with fellow mystery authors Michelle Cox and J.L. Doucette.  Cox's wildly successful Henrietta & Inspector Howard series is set in Chicago during the 1930s. Doucette's acclaimed debut novel Last Seen utilizes the harsh landscape of rural Wyoming to create a taut psychological thriller. The post Culture and change: Reem's journey from organizer to entrepreneur; Writing place-based mysteries appeared first on KPFA.

Michelle Kuo taught English at an alternative school in the Arkansas Delta for two years. After teaching, she attended Harvard Law School as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and worked legal aid at a nonprofit for Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, on a Skadden Fellowship, with a focus on tenants' and workers' rights. She has volunteered as a teacher at the Prison University Project and clerked for a federal appeals court judge in the Ninth Circuit. Currently she teaches courses on race, law, and society at the American University in Paris.

(2013) Biography, Drama - R - 1hr 25min Where to Watch: Netflix Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Melanie Diaz, Octavia Spencer Director: Ryan Coogler Topic: "Day in the Life Movies" Intro | 0:00 Fruitvale Station | 5:05 Ratings/Reviews | 11:36 "Day in the Life Movies" | 16:58 Movie to Avoid | 21:56 There is something great about a "day in the life movie" done well. Fruitvale Station is Exhibit A. Based on a true story leading up to the events involving Oscar Grant, Fruitvale Station is by no means a feel-good story. However, it accomplishes the very difficult task of creatively telling a story of one day in a man's life who is trying to make constructive decisions to rebuild himself. Fruitvale does this in an interesting and heartfelt way. We aim to help you "Take Back Movie Night" and we think this one will help you do exactly that this week! Also, what is your favorite example of a "day in the life" movie?

Women are slowly picking up a drug that prevents HIV.A memorial to help Oakland's Fruitvale community grieve the Ghost Ship fire.A waterway tour of a little-known island in Contra Costa County.

While any strong that vibrates at 261.62 Hz, you’ll hear a middle C. In the easiest of terms, the voicebox of all of these instruments that determines what that tone sounds like, lies primarily in the wood. The density, and flexibility of the wood affects its resonance. the sound is echoed inside guitar body and the characteristics of the wood affect the sound that is distributed outwards. If you knew all of that, and you’ve spent your entire career working with wood in the forestry industry, you’d likely end up discovering that some of the trees that grow in abundance in the West Kootenay match the characteristics for the soundboard. These specific mountain side sentinels, standing amongst our forest just happen to be perfect for making great sounding guitars from. Graham Heim of Fruitvale, BC figured this out while working in the logging industry for much of his career. He tested it out and his company Kootenay Tonewood has since supplied soundboards to major guitar companies around the world as well as specialty craft builders. The next time you ear picks up the changes in air pressure we call music coming from an acoustic guitar. If you follow its sweet sounds back to their vibrating wood source, there’s a strong chance that wood previously stood on a Kootenay hillside.

On Dec. 2, 36 people were killed when a fire broke out during an electronic music show in a warehouse known as the Ghost Ship in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood.  Oakland's arts and music community rallied in the wake of the tragedy, hosting benefits for families who lost loved ones, as well as attempting to protect other live-work spaces in a city with skyrocketing rents.  Music from this episode was either performed or mixed by Johnny Igaz, a victim of the Ghost Ship fire. You can hear more of his music at https://soundcloud.com/nacktmusic.  This podcast is made possible thanks to our supporters on Patreon.

Erin Lim and I wrestled skype to get an incredibly layered, entertaining, informative, and life changing, yes, life changing discussion about the gamut of working in around the creative arts, making stuff, having family stuff and dealing with it as best you can, and what makes a good podcast! (I think we passed.) Listen up for a particularly cool section regarding filmmaker Ryan Coogler. Very excited and grateful for this excellent chat. Subscribe to the Bitchtalk Podcast on iTunes now! @BitchTalkPod on twitter. Follow Erin Lim on twitter and instagram @ubhick (UrbanBaseballChick.)

We’re back! This podcast was recorded a few weeks before the Oscars (in the midst of a diversity controversy that, just like any valid, nuanced controversy, became grist from the media-driven “culture war” mill rather than a topic for authentic dialogue and reconciliation) and immediately after having watched, “Fruitvale Station.” So…it’s kind of heavy. I really like this conversation.  It’s real, it’s gritty, it gets mildly heated, passions run…well my passions ran a bit high, and there’s plenty of humor and levity to balance the rest. We had a lovely “half and half” cocktail of sorts using Samuel Smith’s Organic Chocolate Stout, Lindemans Kriek, and Wigle Pomander Orange Bitters.  Uh…so much yum. Your musical selection for today?  “Bonita Applebaum” by the incomparable Tribe Called Quest. We present to you, “Fruitvale.”    

AshEL Eldridge, founder of Urban Farmacy and Oakland–based food justice activist and community organizer, discusses the connections between climate, food, and health.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. You're listening to method to the madness of biweekly public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. I'm Lisa Keefer and today I'm interviewing ash l Eldridge, the founder and co-director of Urban Pharmacy, the wellness entrepreneurship and education organization that provides personalized food production programs for schools, businesses and communities. [00:00:30] As Shell is an Oakland based food justice activist and community organizer connecting the dots between climate, food and health. Welcome to the program Ash Shell. First of all on to you about urban pharmacy. Tell me what urban pharmacy is and what's going on with that. Speaker 2:Yeah, well urban pharmacy is a wellness entrepreneurship and education organization. Essentially we operate in schools and in the community to produce food grind systems for the community or for [00:01:00] the school, for the school. We do the curriculum with them, um, around mindfulness, stem education, the job repairing this career preparedness stuff. But in the community we are looking vertically at creating some opportunities for people to do value added products. What grows in their community in general, where are you located? Where, I mean we're project Earth Island Institute. So we here in Berkeley and in that sense, but we have projects from in Oakland. Y'all start projects in Sacramento. And when did you start this? Ask Years? So I had an organization called SOS juice started in 2012 system ID system juices. We did [00:01:30] discount juice cleanses. So we'll probably have juices, smoothies, elixirs tonics at farmer's markets where low income youth in Oakland. And um, that sort of branched out into a deeper awareness around how the community healing and killing product and entrepreneurship and the community. And I created urban pharmacy, um, back in 2014. Speaker 1:Well let's go back to SOS juice because I was reading that you are working with some high schools in Oakland, I believe around climate change issues and health issues. It wasn't enough and it led you to think about doing [00:02:00] something else. Speaker 2:Yeah, well I was working at Alliance for climate education, a great organization, National Organization. I'm inspiring activating young people around climate change, doing presentations around the country. And um, I was doing, you know, was northern California, um, media and leadership manager for that. And then what I realized I was going in, I was doing a presentation, I was getting inspiring young people. We were setting up groups in the schools, young, you know, young folks who are getting leadership skills on how to create and organizing our school around, you know, recycling or whatever they wanted to focus [00:02:30] on. And I started focusing on food climate and health in general. Um, just based on the personal stuff that I was doing, SOS juice simultaneously, they work in the ace and then so essentially I saw that the, the deeper impact that needed in communities specifically like a, like black and brown communities, low income communities was the energy of the SOS juice, which involved more like a, like a spiritual aspect as well. And also a need to look at deeper traumas and seeing how those internal workings were creating an external world [00:03:00] and was looking at that as a form of activism and also wanted to set up some sense of self empowerment in looking at what type of solutions we can create. And in that sense as well, Speaker 1:didn't the Trayvon Martin thing kind of trigger that too? At that time. Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean it was, I mean it was a lot of things going on. That was, um, in a, I remember Fruitvale station came out, which was talking about Oscar grant and that film came out I think the same time. And Aaron in Oakland, like the week after it at day or something, actually, the verdict came down around a Trayvon Martin Zimmerman case. So in the movie theater, literally people [00:03:30] were bawling and crying. And it was like the most intense movie out I seen, which is, you know, we want to do a lot of multimedia stuff too because the media really, really hits, hits home. But from that moment I was like, wow, it'd be opportunity to be here. It's actually utilized this, you know, my training is in transpersonal psychology. So I was training at a second in shamanism and healing arts in general. So my view was like, wow, this created a cathartic moment opportunity for, for deeper healing, which is, um, what I saw when I was in the schools. Speaker 2:You know, a, [00:04:00] we give people information but um, it's sorta topical. You know, when you look at some of the deeper, you know, working. So you know, from that moment I was like, you know what, we gotta do a event focused on, you know, Trayvon Shama and reconciliation. So I did SOS juice, Savannah United roots. We, here's what we're doing. Our events are events that in Oakland 2071, telegraph your native roots and um, had a community come together and you had a process and in dialogue and people who are on Diet dyads had ceremony around and passed out juices [00:04:30] that we prayed over that actually had some drops in it from a group that I work with called flora alive. They have a trauma releasing flowers like high-frequency flowers. Speaker 1:Like what kind of flowers and medicinal, Speaker 2:I forget exactly this. It's like a formula of a bunch of different flowers, like amazing flowers. [inaudible] this guy, he finds flowers in sacred places like the Andes, all these different places he collects them. And the way he makes it is really different. It takes more like the energetic essence versus he doesn't cut them. So sometimes you find it that cut or or things like that. So you make sure they have [00:05:00] the whole energy field of the plant. And what it does and what I've seen personally in myself and also in the community is that it removes like actually some emotional blockages, just the the flower. So really we were looking at, so sadly the whole thing is like looking at plants as ally, looking at an allies for humanity as we go through this transition and shift of awakening. And you know, so urban pharmacy came out of that as well. It was like, okay, well economics, we definitely economics and economic empowerment but we also need, this is sorta like this wellness aspect, [00:05:30] this health aspect and come prescriptions, right? Yeah. So we, we look at it like everything is holistic. It's holistic healing. So I mean financial healing, yeah, the community is really important. But also just ability to look at some of the things that that block ourselves from, you know, fully being fully self expressed and fully actualized in the world. So that's to me that that was something just as important because, Speaker 1:well it makes sense because the injustices caused stress on body and then if you're eating crappy food [00:06:00] on top of that, then you're, you're never going to get rid of, be able to get rid of the toxins that are, the stress is causing. Correct. I mean, you are what you eat. Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly. I work with that this organization called soul shop and they do anti bullying and stuff in, in schools. Really powerful what they're doing because they're seeing that, you know, everyone has a lot of stuff in their balloon and how do we lease that balloon? Right. So in that sense, the same thing's happening in Baltimore on the same thing's happening in every one. Speaker 1:I feel like there's a ground swell. Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. People need to up that. I mean, on both [00:06:30] ends, like there's, so you'd be sent of domestic abuse offenses in the country are by police officers. So there's some trauma they're dealing with, right? They have this over aggression as well. So on all ends of and ending when people are like, you know, crying out for it. You mean in protest? Since it's the same thing, it's like, wow, they don't want to be heard. People want to be hurting. Like, wow, how is this not being accounted for? How are people not recognizing this pain? Speaker 1:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness of biweekly [00:07:00] public fair show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. Today I'm interviewing as Shell Eldridge, a founder and co-director of urban pharmacy. He's an Oakland based food justice activists and community organizer connecting the dots between climate, food and health. Speaker 2:You ever been pharmacy? Is this a smallest that they're looking at? Okay, well let's look at the assets and the community first and foremost. In terms of like the, the plant, like we look at, you know, the allies of the plants [00:07:30] and then the food and then the medicines and herbs and things like that let and also the people where I'm in. Castlemont high school, Sustainable Urban Design Academy, Suta and Castlemont. So we actually transformed a gun range into a hydroponics garden, goes the guns to gardens campaign you have over there, Tim. Um, Eric's over there with urban pharmacy. He's over there is rocking out. So they actually getting design build skills, stem skills. Folks are saying like, Hey, you know, I didn't, I don't do math. And they're doing, you [00:08:00] know, advanced calculus, you know, to create and design the hydroponics. What do you grow? Right. Well, right now is this, cause we just started, we started with them. Speaker 2:We just go on like simple things that you'd probably fast like a Rugala. That's something you just, some people can get a sense like, oh, this can grow and this can happen, but we plan on expanding it into different medicinals, native plants, um, something for, uh, specialty crops, culinary herbs, things like that. If, what for the hydroponics. Um, but also we're in the k through five school right now in West Oakland that has an afterschool garden program. So [00:08:30] we, we're doing that to working with the little ones around mindfulness and things like that. So we just, we just, it was sort of just, you know, prototyping, getting our feet wet in there and then developing some curriculum and the next steps for us are making sure that curriculum is tight, making sure it all tied in terms of getting people's certifications that they need, food handles, car, whatever he needs to actually do that. Speaker 2:We want to get that part settled. And then the next thing is this, these shipping containers, we were excited about transforming shipping. Actually it's a storage containers and culinary kitchens. Oh excellent. [00:09:00] So such that they come Mobi Monica cooperative exercise and the community were folks who if you're growing, whatever you're growing in your backyard, we can sort of harvest that and glean from the community, especially after some of these laws are changing and shifting foraging, foraging. Right. And I'm working within a system and in that sense, and also some of the laws are changing around what can be forged and what type of property. You can sort of get stuff to go for comers, but we're grabbing that stuff and then saying, hey, west process, all that stuff in his food hack space where we can make our tinctures [00:09:30] are our juices, are our, you know, our jams, our butters, all that, whatever that is in this particular space. And that's the community can take ownership of that. Speaker 3:So they're learning about soil too, right? Like you know, if the soil is not clean, the produce isn't going to be clean and yeah, that's, yeah, Speaker 2:Ralph was, so that whole permaculture, the education is a holistic education in itself because it has to do with the self, like in, in our soils, essentially we do this, it's three parts. One is the nonprofit part [00:10:00] or find an institute. So we're in the schools and we doing education and Amy doing the build and be doing the curriculum I mindfulness in, in nutrition education. Then the second part essentially was just, is this more like the LLC, that business part, which then she does consulting, bringing into all the folks I know who do installation of Aquaponics, hydroponic soil base to sort of find some stuff you do in the schools. Wherever we can we can put them at. And essentially we utilizing actual space, you know, green space, creating greenhouses at locations and having conversations with lot of different companies. Even Speaker 3:are you working [00:10:30] with cities too? Because there's a lot of empty lots that could be great growth spaces. Right. Speaker 2:One thing I just created in sac is that there's a huge opportunity in Sacramento. There's a a guy, I'm really great guy, the uh, Yisrael farms up there and he has maybe like half acre sort of compound, if you will, on his property. And it's his family. His family lived there and he, he was just like, Yo, if I can't get mom able to grow food, they make, you know, value added products as well. You know, so [00:11:00] our, our focus, you know, so the nonprofit aspect, the, the LLC aspect and also the cooperative aspect for the communities. It's really looking at this, this value added product space. I've done that with SOS juice and in a Eric Hagar with um, farm x a hydroponic, our business he has out in Richmond is done at as well. So we're looking at, it's the whole ecosystem of urban agriculture and seeing how we can come in and adding value to the whole thing. And I think it looks like, you know, these value added [00:11:30] products in actually bringing in all the, the resource that foraging, all that stuff is out there, needs to be accounted for and actually redistribute it or sold even instead of wasting instead of wasting. So that's the, that's what we're looking at on pharmacy. So we're looking at, you know, making medicines and making food for the community, but also looking at, Speaker 3:I mean is there a place people can go that would Speaker 2:be amazing. I mean I think that's like some steps down. I mean one thing I will stopped when I stopped doing SLS, I'm just doing the deliveries for SOS. Did you stop it at farmer's market and I just doing deliveries, I was like, [00:12:00] well we just need a brick and mortar space. Right. And I was thinking, wow, we need this, this urban pharmacy cafe, you know, type of thing. Speaker 3:But that is something on your radar? Yes, Speaker 2:definitely on the radar. Definitely on the radar. Yeah. Speaker 3:Yeah. I read that you, you would camp out yourself in front of fast food places and sell your SOS juice. Is that a correct story there when you were starting out with, they sort of like a guerrilla like, hey, you don't need to eat that stuff. You need to eat this stuff. Speaker 2:Right. Well it w w this saw like we just camped out like you got occupied in McDonald's. It [00:12:30] was more like, um, you know, we would just out in the neighborhood, I mean, and then when you're out in the neighborhood and in West Oakland or you know, different places, right across the street, there's a KFC or right across the street there's a liquor store or whatever it is, shelling, um, you know, flaming hot Cheetos or whatever that is. So we sort of just had the music pumping and we were just giving people food. You're giving people, did you serve any juice to people? That's the, that was the most fun actually being you done. I mean, he started just giving direct one thing. We chose the Jews [00:13:00] because it's just the, it's immediate. You have, did you actually experience it right then and there you experienced the difference as well. So, yeah. So that's what we did in any medium. People had different reactions to it, but it was, it's all like sort of disruptive but very fun and very enrolling for people. Speaker 3:So going even back a little bit farther, you've worked with Van Jones, you are green for all fellow. What does that mean when you're agreeing for all fellow? Speaker 2:Yeah, well th like back in 2008, um, I was a part of the, the public launch of green for a, with Allie star. She was [00:13:30] the campaign, the event chair and um, a bunch of great group of people. We're, it was a transition from Ella Baker Center to create this new organization because van was sort of transitioning to this like green space and looking at green jobs and putting that meme into the national nomenclature. So I was really super inspired and we know, we said we created this national event in Memphis on April 4th Martin Luther Kings, a commendment of assassination date. That time it was a 40th that that was a public and ourselves event spotlight organizer for that. [00:14:00] And then eventually it was organized for that. The innovation came back and me an event spotlight organizer for before the 2008 presidential elections. So did I want just stuff around the country, just look into different communities and really just looking at what was actually happening on the ground and bringing the stakeholders together to have an event, bringing those folks together and to see what can happen after that. Speaker 2:So just organizing basically around green jobs and for the communities and look different, different places. From there I sort of stepped away, but then it was this whole [inaudible] green frog fellowship [00:14:30] organization, not organization, but group that was being formulated from people all around the country. Amazing people who were starting green initiatives in our communities but needing more support or felt siloed or felt like, wow, they don't even want to talking about this. Making these connections between economics, climate change, environmental justice, you know, trying to figure out to put those pieces together. And in, so from that point the green foul fellowship came to birth and we had meetings with Ben actually when we did [00:15:00] the artists story telling things like this. And he talked about, you know, it's just not a narrative. And then really like how do you actually go out and row your community? And actually actually enroll the stakeholders to actually create this shift that we need to have happening. So we've got a lot of training on how to organize it, how to create solutions, Speaker 1:how can you get people even interested in climate change if they don't have jobs. Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean one thing when SOS we were excited about was, you know how we did SOS shadows out of juice bars or whatever popping up. But we did it solo. We did solar power. [00:15:30] In order to to talk about that conversation, you talk about solar power and talk about what we were doing as Wes you, you had to have awareness of our climate change. We talked about, we had localized food, organic food. That's a very big conversation in terms of climate. We actually are a VI veganic organization, SOS that directly relates to climate change. You know, so a lot of stuff we were just doing, we just cute it in and just framed it in such a way that while this is sort of a trend sort of thing, but [00:16:00] also this economic viability in this, but also it adjusts these issue and there's some money like you can make at the end of the day around it. So it was just being creative. Speaker 1:What are some of your challenges in, in the communities you go into? Speaker 2:For example, can, the first time I s we, we, a lot of this started, I remember I was working with people's grocery like years ago. It was going door to door and I'm selling the grub boxes and I was doing the $24 boxes if we you that outside of West Oakland. But in West Oak you can get a 12 bucks organic produce. And I remember once at a door and I was like, wow, this [00:16:30] guy was like, yeah, I see you trying to do some good, but you know, I ain't really gonna eat that. You know, I, you know, I, I got to go down to corner. I get my chicken wings and my whatever, whatever. Right. He was being real. He was like, yeah, I'm not not gonna eat it. Don't even waste your time. Right. What sold me was like, wow, that needs to be a little more education. Speaker 2:That's how I got into more education and I was like wow, they sent me education around the case for it. But all of a sudden needs to be more like sort of detoxification and more like healing [00:17:00] like mentally and just sort of more like self awareness work needs to happen. So dealing with the self needs to be a focal point. Same thing that I went to, I was working on Ace, I was working, I was in a school once school in Vallejo, I was leaving school and my phone got stolen in a school. So I'm trying to say it was a really hard day cause I'm trying to talk to him about everything I was talking about. Climate is the hardest audience that had had and the teachers weren't caring and the students were in caring and it was one of those moments, it's like what am I doing? Speaker 2:Why am I doing this? This isn't insane. Like I can't [00:17:30] even have this come in. I had to step three steps back to the view. None. What am I counting? It was just like, so what's going on with you? What's going on at home? Like talk like this. Let's see how we can, in a 45 minutes that I have, we can have another conversation about why we can't even focus right now. I'm like, what's underneath all that? So what I saw, I was, wow, okay, we need to have a deeper conversation. So a lot of this came out of that, you know, came out of, of looking at not feeling fulfilled at ever enabled to deliver [00:18:00] the real education that was needed, that makes the long lasting shifts and changes that we need on this, on this planet. And especially in these communities. So Speaker 3:you're from Chicago originally. How did you make your way out to California? Speaker 2:From Chicago? I went to University of Rochester. I got, you know, some scholarship money and you're gonna need Musu Rochester, upstate New York. And I graduated from there for double major in music management. I created a major actually in music management. They didn't have that at the time. And then, um, psychology and then a minor in creative writing. I was upstate New York and I have a lot of friends from New York who was going [00:18:30] to school there. So I ended up going to New York right after that, just for a short spell. Did some music, make this album a solo stereo. And I was like, wow, I want to go out west. I want to stay you this transpersonal psychology. I was looking at this spiritual psychology stuff. I was like, that's the next step I want to go in. I had a choice, either work with my uncle in Jersey or go to California. Speaker 2:So I picked up everything and I went to California and went to the check out CIS and then I checked out instead of transpersonal psychology. So I just went to ITP. And where is that? In Palo Alto. And then so I ended up getting, I think it's called Sophia University [00:19:00] and I had a name, had a name change, but then I'm getting really into like indigenous wisdom, shamanism, sound healing, vibrational therapy, that whole world dow is, I'm like really deep into that space. And simultaneously I was touring, I was doing work with wisdom at a time hip hop reggae band. I was also doing, Speaker 3:yeah, when did Earth amplified happen? This is your four piece. Is it still going on your four piece band? Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, it's still going on. This was when I was going around the country working at green frog and I was a musician and I noticed that what was really [00:19:30] bringing these communities together was the food and the music. Right. And is this essential part of organizing to be able to have that skill. It was a skill. I noticed the how's like wow, can I actually people come together with this and let's figure out how to budget that into our organizing such day are always included. And also I was working at rd and action. Um, Abby started David's Sonia if you know them on an action on revolution. So I was always looking at art in activism, right. And looking at the power, art and music to to create change and get people enrolled and get people listening. From that point I was like, wow, we need to have like an official gree [00:20:00] hip hop album. Speaker 2:There's no album that's like all the tracks are dealing with. The whole album was jelly with this conversation. Like socially conscious is socially conscious and super like, yeah, we're going to talk about climate change. You're going to talk about food deserts, all this stuff. GMOs are that. We're going to talk about that in the music. You know, it was going back and forth to New York. I was in New York a punch. Um, some in Baltimore actually I made accord a lot of that in Baltimore. And so you it show, yeah. So dimension again, you know, earth amplified. The album came out. Then I met my crew and he was like, wow, that should be the name of the whole group. Speaker 3:Yeah. You had a video [00:20:30] that went viral all over the world. Food fight. And we're going to listen to that. What year was that? This is like 2010 yeah. Speaker 4:Let's see. Property [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:21:00] bombs. [inaudible] guys speak to control [inaudible]. Speaker 5:That's what that feeds them. It's the same way. Now what that and that got [inaudible] until you could shop the same way. [inaudible] [00:21:30] from DDTS PCB. That'd be cornering the hood. Getting KFC make these tracks beat like red bull is the pulpit. So Cat pee kick a like causing genes being get the [inaudible] xe GMO ms gene to the SOPs to gangs. The street sign sold with Rambo. Roundup with Amo would have known [00:22:00] you. Dot Dot, dot. BTC audits in [inaudible] the same way as what? That pin that got us [inaudible] but Diana, don't you get dropped the same way [00:22:30] they shoot? You made you look at the labels on the food that you cook. Just say no to the cocoa box. Do we do Google [inaudible] see Mikey got his, he built corn trucks. Does that contain Speaker 2:right? And also I had done this plastic state of mind, which has, and we also went viral with Benzoni Ono was working with him and that it has like 900,000 views or something that's around plastic pollution. Yeah. Speaker 3:And what are you still doing it now? Speaker 2:Yeah, we're still, yeah, check me out. [inaudible] amplify.com you can definitely SOS juice at Gmail and hit me up. We definitely come [00:23:00] out and perform. Speaker 3:You've played with bands like Sinai Bassnectar Blackalicious yeah. And Michael Franti. Yes. Speaker 2:So I think different situations like you know, on tour with wisdom, we opened up for Fran t or if amplified opened up for Blackalicious bass neck to actually do music with him in the studio and perform with him. So we've got a show coming up May 29th and red rocks in Denver actually in Colorado, also performed with Dogan Lights. I started working with them maybe eight months ago. [00:23:30] Yeah. I sort of tried to get out there and do some music a lot because it's, it's just really so full. But Yeah, Zion eyes on the album on earth amplified album killer police and blue tangs on the album. Speaker 3:So this music is all about the, it's kind of backs up what you're doing at urban, isn't it? It's that same idea of educating people. Speaker 2:Yes. Education. But it's also, you gotta be dope, you know, it's dope. So I mean I might, I may break away and just do some love songs, but it just seems there's a lot of topics [inaudible] Speaker 3:I heard you do a beautiful Japanese [00:24:00] champ spoken word piece. I would love for you to do something right now. Yes. Give us an example of your spoken word. Speaker 2:Yeah. So that might sooner got though, just to say that that's from a [inaudible] and that's an indigenous Japanese channel that it's really about like the purification of humanity. Yeah. So this is, again, this is the motto. Nobody got thought. This is out through Suki, my Cottey group. Gooby g sue [inaudible] coming to you. Come on somebody he knew. Ed Moody g come with [inaudible] [00:24:30] buttons. ITTO it don't know him. You and your Komatsu Son [inaudible] how do you do it all? Come on the [inaudible]. How did he geo me music? Eat the money they committed Chicora you mean gave receipt the money Tomo too. Cause then she'll catch any cash more MTSU [inaudible] memory to me. Sickie I e to my 8 million [inaudible] you and [00:25:00] me can mean memory to me. Sicky high. He to my gum N***a to my EEG high. He Montse Gum N***a to my age. [inaudible] Speaker 3:what is the message there? What are you saying? Speaker 2:Essentially it's, it's calling upon an infancy. Small particles at a universe to come together is actually a also forgiveness and it's like, you know, please forgive me for, I tried my trespasses, you know, forgiving myself for, to be humanity, for any impurities that we've incurred. And may we please bring in [00:25:30] the age of light? Can you please bring in and welcome the age of, of, of spiritual enlightenment. Speaker 3:How do your students respond to this? Do they must love it? Speaker 2:It depends on what I do. I don't want to say do depends on who I'm talking to and what I'm doing. Um, this other chat indigenous chance I do too from different cultures and I work on Peruvian. Speaker 3:Do you do any native American? Yeah. Cause they need some work. I mean I was just reading in the paper today is terrible amount of suicide. Teenagers, Speaker 2:yeah. A lot of the native community [00:26:00] and has there's that gone on as you know, it's a lot of um, you know, just to, you know, just uh, what folks have been through. Um, and this country, a lot of that sort of manifest in a generation. It's usually innovations and illnesses and also, you know, the isolation and disconnection from these indigenous practices and healing practices, you know, creates a lot of uh, just illness in general. So, but yeah, there's a lot of people working in these areas and chanting and praying. I didn't actually, [00:26:30] we worked up in Alaska with some, the indigenous, I'm asking you do, um, Alaska environmental action network and really amazing. We taught people how to make beats, you know, there would have been their songs and doing the songs to it. And you know there's other is awakening as a tribe called red that is doing some stuff like that. Amazing where you know, audio pharmacy doing a lot of amazing work with indigenous communities, medicine for the people you know, so there's a lot of folks out there. They're doing it with the music and doing the culture and bringing a culture as medicine. Speaker 3:[00:27:00] You were going to do a spoken word piece as well. Yeah. Speaker 2:Welcome everyone to the event horizon. The one in the mirror when we open up the eyes, when one rapes one souls, one thinks unfolds dotted from one second get blown off the mountain. No air for one moment that left off the island. The tone is silence. The tone is Zion Uno newest fee without a fee. One holographic spear wonder. Wow. War Warrior PA's everywhere. One don't zone out. We scaled out galactic [00:27:30] to let the phone home and crop circle the masses under the Buddha tree with Islamics and baptists you add the IME verse. Remember Moon is the practice six four grade isometric vector metric yet got lives on leg, leg, arm, head. A lot is symmetrically reflected. At a single fast spin at a on a half his ribs. One, one world, one invoice, one one choice, one movement, one one people will play together. [00:28:00] We for remember one [inaudible] one one [inaudible]. Speaker 3:I would think all these students and young people would really respond to that kind of invitation almost to think about other things. Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been in best way is really just to go and do a project, a music video or do actual like song writing process, you know. So we do that too. We work with young people around [inaudible]. Speaker 3:Is that at the a alliance for climate education or, Speaker 2:and then at roots does more like the estimate. Bruce has [00:28:30] hacked the hood. They have UFC youth entrepreneurship organization at music studios there. Speaker 3:And you're working there too. You're doing so much [inaudible] Speaker 2:one of the founders there but I'm not actually working in everyday life type of thing. But I'm saying like I've went in there for workshops there so I do a lot of, I go here and go there. Speaker 3:Well, I think your work is important. And I, I, it's nice to meet an activist from Oakland. And I understand you had a, was that your aunt was a, was a black panther back in the day. Yeah. So it's kind of running in the blood, that kind of activism for community. Speaker 2:Yeah, my [00:29:00] family Emmy with as a, you know, black panthers or just pictures. They are all about, you know, the strong individuals who you, they either pray or they protest. You know, I think what's happening now though is we're moving more into like this prayer space. My, my aunt is doing more stuff in, in preschools now. She's in a Montessori school in Atlanta and she's working, doing juicing with young people and she's in this whole tip of, of actually working with the little ones. And I think that's a really powerful form of activism. Like really taking care of my mothers and really taking care of my babies. [00:29:30] I mean, what happens in these formative years is a real, um, impact on the world that we have tomorrow. So, Speaker 3:yeah. Well, I wanted to just, if you can repeat for the audience how they to get hold of you about Speaker 1:urban pharmacy. What's your website and yeah. Speaker 2:Yeah, so to get a hold of us urban pharmacy for workshops, education, food system installations, go to ww dot the urban pharmacy dot. O R g e n s t h e f a r [00:30:00] m a c y.org pharmacy that got fun for music. Just ww.earth amplify.com and again, all this is on Facebook and other social media as well, but definitely check us out. Speaker 1:All right, I shall thank you for being on the program. You've been listening to method to the madness, a biweekly public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. If you have questions or comments [00:30:30] about the show, go to the Calex website, find method to the madness and drop us an email. You can also find the link there for past programs. Tune in again in two weeks at the same time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  Hello and welcome back to robinlofton.com where we are remembering history and we’re making history.  Today, we are continuing with our wiki history podcast series about marches and protests. March seems like the perfect month for this interesting topic.    America is legendary for its famous marches and protests.  From the furtive Boston Tea Party to the legendary March on Washington and beyond, the United States is a country of marching and protesting. With its diverse citizenry and constitutionally protected speech, people feel free to take to the streets, wave a sign, hold hands, and shout, march, sit or even lay down.   In the first podcast, we discussed two famous marches: the March from Selma to Montgomery (or the bloody Sunday march), about which a recent biopic film was recently released. I just saw it and think that it was a fantastic film that portrayed the problem (voting rights for African Americans), the marches and the players in a fair and realistic light. Then, of course, we discussed the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Dr. Martin Luther King made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.  These mega-marches are remembered for several reasons and they are now a part of U.S. (and perhaps world) history. I hope that you have already heard that podcast but, if not, then feel free to go back and listen to it. I also mentioned several books and DVDs that are worth reading or watching and that are available at robinlofton.com.   The marches in today’s podcast have a slightly different flavor than the Selma March and the March on Washington.  And that is where we are beginning today.   Remember I mentioned that today’s podcast would focus on marches in a particular city. I did not tell you the name of the city but I gave you a hint: this city has been called a “hotbed of radical activism.”  Did you guess which city that I was talking about?   Oakland, California!         The city of Oakland has hosted and continues to host many marches—some organized, some not.  Sometimes these demonstrations turned violent but most marches only involved people who are peacefully expressing their dissatisfaction with a particular issue or event.    Yes, Oakland has been coined a “hotbed of radical activism.” Example: Oakland was home to the Black Panthers who were active from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. The Black Panthers organized grassroots activities in the African American community to educate the community, particularly African American children, fight police brutality, promote civil and political rights, and to proclaim frustration with community leaders, courts, or law enforcement.  At that time, the Black Panther Party would follow police patrols to witness police activity such as brutality, distribute breakfasts to school children, and offer self-defense courses. In recent years, other groups have taken the helm and continued Oakland’s “radical” activism through speech making, marching, and rallying. The Black Panthers have stepped aside and other groups are taking the helm.   One particular year was particularly interesting: 2013.   The summer of 2013 was a “hot” season of community activism in Oakland and around the country. At the time of the 50 anniversary of the March on Washington (August 28, 1963), Oakland remained at the forefront of the grassroots movement toward equality, justice, and fairness.   Four marches in Oakland are notable in the summer of 2013:   1.    Zimmerman Verdict Marches   Reason for March: Justice for Trayvon Martin   In 2012, George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman, killed 17-year old Trayvon Martin. On July 13, 2013, Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges, including the 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. Marches and protests erupted throughout the country expressing outrage over the quick and perceived unjust verdict. In Oakland, people took to the streets to express their anger, frustration, and disillusionment with the criminal justice system.   For nearly one week, people demonstrated in Oakland to demand justice for Trayvon Martin and his family. More than 750 people of all backgrounds protested and marched their way through Oakland. Interstate highway, I-880, was temporarily shut down. Most of the marches and protests were peaceful but noticeable.   However, some protesters vandalized Oakland businesses and scuffled with police.  Many people asserted that these “fringe” activists did not represent the majority of Oaklanders or the African American community.     Still, Oakland lived up to its reputation as a strong and powerful player on the marches and protests front. Its broad-based group of political activists made a strong showing of support for justice for Trayvon Martin and opposing racism in the criminal justice system.   2.    Twelve-Man March   Reason for March: Bring awareness to the dangers of racial profiling   A small, but equally important, march was organized in Oakland on July 19, 2013.   During this march, twelve African American men marched to Oakland’s city hall.  All the men wore business attire: suit, tie, dress shoes, etc. All the African American men presented as businessmen.  They peacefully marched to city hall holding signs condemning racial profiling and the negative portrayal of African American men in the media.    In speeches at Frank Ogawa Hall, the protesters cited the killing of Trayvon Martin and Alan Blueford. Both were African American, young, and unarmed when they were killed by law enforcement.  No one was convicted in either killing.  Racial profiling was asserted to be the cause that identified these young men as dangerous though unsupported by the evidence.                 3.    Oscar Grant Marches   Reason for Demonstration: Justice for Oscar Grant   On January 1, 2009, 22-year old Oscar Grant was killed by BART police officer, Johannes Mehserle, at Oakland’s Fruitvale BART station. He served 11 months for the killing.   There were several marches in the weeks following Oscar Grant’s killing as well as during subsequent court hearings and trial. On January 7, 2009, more than 250 people marched at the Fruitvale station.  Other marches were held at San Francisco’s Embarcadero station. Another similar march was organized on January 30. Both marches were organized to memorialize Oscar Grant and the other victims of police brutality. Protesters were also criticizing BART’s investigation of the killing as inadequate and cursory.   The Oscar Grant marches were described as both peaceful and organized as well as rowdy and raucous. Some of the marches involved protesters carrying signs and chanting for change. Other protesters turned violent and destroyed property, primarily in Oakland’s Broadway and 14th street district. Trashcans were thrown, cars were burned, and windows were broken by groups of self-described “anarchists”. Grant’s family held a press conference to call for calm and peace as a tribute to their deceased son.  Mayor Ron Dellums joined the Grant family’s plea. Still, most of the protests by Oaklanders were peaceful and focused on remembering and providing justice for Oscar Grant and his family.   Similar marches were held for Alan Blueford, Ezell Ford and others killed by law enforcement in Oakland.                   4.    Occupy Oakland Marches   Reason for Demonstrations: Bring awareness to social and economic inequality and keep public services open in Oakland.   The Occupy movement holds demonstrations and marches throughout the United States and in 81 other countries worldwide.  There is an Occupy movement office located in nearly every major American city. Oakland is no exception and, in fact, the Occupy movement has been very active in the city of Oakland.   The Occupy Oakland movement supports solidarity with the worldwide Occupy Movement and its opposition to the economic and social inequality that exists worldwide. Specific to Oakland, the Occupy Movement also opposes gang injunctions, youth curfews, and the closures of libraries and schools in Oakland.   The first demonstration was held on October 10, 2011 attended by approximately 300 people. Direct action by Occupy Oakland protesters included rallies, marches and speeches. Several dozen people also set up tents at the Frank Ogawa plaza in front of Oakland’s city hall building. This first Occupy Oakland demonstration lasted fifteen days and attracted 2,500 people. Demonstrations have included clergy, union members, and students.     A second demonstration was held on October 26, 2011, which was attended by 3,000 protesters. It was a peaceful protest.   Subsequent demonstrations and rallies have been organized throughout Oakland, including by Lake Merritt and the Oakland Public Library. Downtown Oakland has been a focus area for the movement. On January 28, 2013 the Occupy Movement organized a “move-in” day on which it occupied an abandoned building and converted it into a social center.    Local government’s response to the Occupy Oakland movement was positive and supportive. In the beginning, many local politicians supported the movement’s goals and actions to clean up the city and keep local services open and available to the community. Several local politicians attended and spoke at rallies organized by Occupy Oakland.   However, law enforcement has, at times, been characterized as aggressive and violent toward the protesters. Tents have been torn down, barricades set up around the demonstrators, and numerous arrests have been made.  Oaklanders responded that the police reaction was overly aggressive, violent, and chaotic. Still, the Oakland Occupy movement continues and is gaining support.   And Oakland has had many more marches in support of Eric Garner who died when officers placed a choke-hold on him.  In this particular march, people chanted “I can’t breathe!”   Oakland was also host to a march to protest the killing of Michael Brown. People marched with their hands up, to commemorate Michael Brown’s position with a police office in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed him.       Because of the strong atmosphere of civil protest and involvement, Oakland has a long history of African Americans in government. Congresswoman Barbara Lee is a powerful representative in Oakland who works tirelessly to eradicate poverty, extend unemployment assistance for long-term unemployed persons ensure adequate health care as a human right.  She was also one of the few representatives to question authorizing military force in Syria. There is a fantastic blog post about the great work of Barbara Lee on robinlofton.com. Ronald Dellums is another long-standing Congressional representative for the people of Oakland. He was an important figure is supporting peoples’ park in Berkeley and challenging the Vietnam War.    Oakland also has an impressive list of Black mayors.  In 1977, Oakland elected its first Black mayor, Lionel Wilson who served for three terms after which Elihu Harris took the helm. After serving in Congress, Ron Dellums returned to Oakland and was elected mayor in 2007.         Many people mistakenly believe that the Berkeley is “THE place” for civil dissent.  However, Oakland with its diverse and strongly opinionated population is at the forefront of a movement in which the community demands a just, fair, and safe society.  Perhaps the next March on Washington will be held in Oakland.   Well, this concludes our wiki history podcast about marches that occurred in that “hotbed of radical activism” known as Oakland, California. I hope that you enjoyed it and learned a little something about this great but sometimes overlooked city. I have a lot of respect for the city for many reasons. Yes, it is the city where I was born. But it is a strong, multicultural hotbed of free speech and free thought with a strong ethical foundation.  Marches are an important part of this city’s history and everyone is included in demanding a “more perfect union.”   In the final wiki history podcast on Marches, we will examine why we march, the importance of marches.  In this final podcast in the marches series, I will discuss Dr. Martin Luther King’s views on marches, why they are important and how they can create change.  Be prepared for interesting insights and a few surprises. And, as always, I would like to hear your views about whether you think that marches are important. Or are they just a waste of time and energy?  Everyone has a right to their opinion and you’re free to share them at robinlofton.com soon to be rememberinghistory.com.   And please remember that for every time that someone listens to these podcasts in March, I will donate $1 to the Association for the Study of African American Life & History. Founded by Carter G. Woodson—the father of Black History month—this organization works tirelessly to keep African American history alive and respected around the world. Feel free to visit them at asalh.org.   And feel free to visit robinlofton.com or rememberinghistory.com. I hope to hear your comments and marching experiences.  And I hope that that you will join me for the next marches podcast where we are remembering history and we’re making it.   Bye for now!

In Episode 146 of See You Next Wednesday, Casey and Dan chose Force Majeure and Obvious Child as their winning movies, respectively. Find out what Dan thought of the abortion-themed romantic-comedy starring Jenny Slate, and hear what Casey has to say about what the former says about modern masculinity. Then, speaking of rom-coms, Greg sits at home and suffers through the Adam Sandler flick Just Go With It. Does he go for it? You'll have to hit play to find out. But first, after a major surprise announcement, everyone plays catch-up with such movies as Pitch Perfect, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Draft Day, Whiplash... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Its getting Hot in the Band Room once again as we play a mix from DJ MC Kolinz who is not DJ MC. Fantast Football is examined along with more 'same names'. We get serious with some Gun talk, Fruitvale, and military support. Tony Romo, college playoffs and Tiddy Time wrap things up. Enjoy!! #BandRoom www.DJMCTV.com

Ash, Dan, Rob and Becky tackle a busy week of independent releases. We review the indie-drama The Dirties, tweviews arrive in the shape of Fruitvale Station, Cheap Thrills and I Declare War before our main review of 22 Jump Street. Oh yeah, there's also a brand new game and details of how to win a bumper box of flicktalking prizes at the end of 2014.!

Fruitvale Station's snub at the Oscars, Ambivalence on Venezuela, and CBS's Survivor is BACK! What’s up folks! This week Evan and Mando get into the long delayed discussion of Fruitvale Station (the movie) and Michael B Jordan’s performance in it. We also dish on recent events in Venezuela and our ambivalence about it. Finally, at the 34:15 min mark, we get into the first two episodes of CBS’s Survivor! We get into our yearlong Survivor Fantasy league, J’Tia’s competence, LJ’s roids, our belief in Brice coming back, and more! — PTR

You found episode 32! We've been busy as ever but always have time to watch a few movies and discuss our thoughts. This week we start looking back at 2013 and talk about some notable indie movies that you all should check out if you haven't already! IN THEATERS Her - Her? THEME MOVIES The Way Way Back - All the way back to the good ol' days at the water park. Fruitvale Station - Oscar snub. The Spectacular Now - The Spectacular Later too! In a World - full of promise, two girls are disappointed. E-mail us at flickyeahpodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter @flickyeahcast, like us on facebook at facebook.com/flickyeahpodcast, and subscribe/write a review on iTunes! Intro music by Andre Kennedy. Like him on facebook and check him out on SoundCloud! Peace, love, and movies.

Cephus Johnson, Uncle of Oscar Grant whose unjustifjied murder by a law enforcement officer was the basis for the popular movie Fruitvale, will join SNR for a conversation about his nephew's life, death, and the Oscar Grant Foundation.

Cephus Johnson, Uncle of Oscar Grant whose unjustifjied murder by a law enforcement officer was the basis for the popular movie Fruitvale, will join SNR for a conversation about his nephew's life, death, and the Oscar Grant Foundation.

Mig äger ingen, Fruitvale Station, Schimpansen och Familjetrippen står på dagordningen när Saman Bakhtiari och Roger Wilson rapporterar från filmvisningarna på Malmö Filmdagar.

It's Sunday, August 18th, 2013 and Erik, Peter and Richard discuss The Butler, category placement and Judi Dench's clitoris. 

Special guest Niki Schwartz-Wright joins the guys to discuss "Fruitvale Station". They then grab some 40's and check out John Singleton's "Boyz in the Hood" to see if it holds up. Four crackers discuss two films about the young black experience in America... sounds about right. 

The new film Fruitvale Station purports to tell the true story of Oscar Grant, a young black man who was shot bu a BART police officer near Oakland on New Year's Day in 2009. The accidental shooting sparked riots and made major news in black and leftist media. Does the film get the story right? Lee Stranahan explains the real background of the story and the myth that's built up around it; it's a potent reminder of the rift between black and white America and the dangers that it can cause.

This week on the InSession Film Podcast: Extra Film segment we review Ryan Coogler's debut film, Fruitvale Station and the awesome independent film, Drinking Buddies starring Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson.

In this podcast, recorded July 29th, Erik, Kenneth and Benjamin discuss their current Oscar predictions in the top 8 categories as well as reveal the July results of the AwardsWatch forums polls. Opening/Closing music by BoxCat Games. 

Diggin through the old mixes again and came across this guy! Lots of great old vinyl here. It's funny listening back to what you were doing 11 years ago. Gets a bit wobbly at places- makes me cringe a little. Anywho, hope you enjoy!!

It's now or never... The Four Eyes Filmcast is a movie based, comedic, podcast where we bring you early reviews of soon to come films as well as have themed discussions centering around film. We are a completely uncensored podcast, listener discretion is advised. SUBSCRIBE TO US! http://www.youtube.com/user/thefourey... Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/TheFourEyesF... Send us email! foureyesfilmcast@gmail.com

Haroula Rose stops by to talk about what makes someone a writer or artist, touring and making music, the Sundance experience, and leaving bowls of water all over a hotel room.

It’s the sixteenth episode of our intimate sit-down with some of Hollywood’s well-known actors and rising stars that just so happen to also be close friends with On The List host, Brett Gursky.  Today’s first guest Michael B. Jordan (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Chronicle) talks all about his new movie “Fruitvale”, which was a big hit at Sundance 2013 and won both the Audience … Continued

Oakland's Fruitvale and San Antonio neighborhoods: We take a look at a corner store on Foothill Boulevard, a funeral home that's playing a vital role in the community, and we take a ride on Oakland's bus line 1.

The final program in our series on Oakland's Fruitvale and San Antonio neighborhoods, produced by KALW News and Mills College in Oakland. We take a look at a corner store on Foothill Boulevard, a funeral home that's playing a vital role in the community, and we take a ride on Oakland's bus line 1.

Part 2 of our special on Oakland's San Antonio and Fruitvale neighborhoods. Today we hear from a dynamic principle at Roosevelt Middle School, look at a successful charter school, and take a tour of a community garden in San Antonio Park.

A special Crosscurrents on Oakland's Fruitvale and San Antonio neighborhoods: mobile food vendors, Street Level's service to day laborers, and The Unity Council's work in low- to middle-income families. Produced by Mills College in Oakland.

This morning we will have a tribute to William B. Lawsha "Prince Lasha," September 10, 1929 to December 12, 2008. Prince Lasha was born in 1929 in Fort Worth, Texas and went to school with Ornette Coleman. In1947, the two of them started playing saxophone in a school band (which also produced great musicians like Charles Moffett and King Curtis). They worked with Harold Land and Red Connors before going their separate ways. He lived in New York, Oakland, Germany, Italy, and France where he had the honor, he says, of playing with many great musicians such as Sonny Simmons who worked with Prince for six years; Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins recorded together—in fact he wrote “Music Matador that Eric Dolphy made famous. Wanda's Picks concludes with an excerpt of Matador (from …A True Story). When he made his transition last month, Prince was working on releasing a new CD on his label Birdseye Records, called “Baritone Madness.” I hope we'll see this CD in the near future. It features Woody Shaw, Ron Carter, Odean Pope and Eddie Gale. Prince Lasha Jr. said there's another release coming out in a few weeks and he'll tell us about it this morning. Perhaps I can get the producer, Prince Jr., to come on the air to talk about the project. We will be joined this special 1 1/2 hour tribute by Prince's friends and family, including Odean Pope, Eddie Gale, Sonny Simmons, Chuck Fishman, Oluyemi Thomas, Destiny Muhammad, Leon Williams, Anthony Foster, and sons: Anthony, William and Prince. Wanda's Picks concludes with an interview with Kelly Whalen, co-director of Tulia, TX, a film about a small town's search for justice in the midst of blatant police misconduct in an attempt to rid the town of drug trafficking. The ITVS film is premiering at the San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, near Civic Center BART. Lanier Pruitt, our beloved friend and colleague died suddenly. His funeral is today, Friday, Jan. 23, 12 Noon, at Cooper Mortuary, 1580 Fruitvale