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Public education is on the top of everyone's minds today! Especially in Los Angeles where the teachers' strike has everyone talking about school finances and the need to make it rain on schools. We continue our conversation on the importance of public education for our communities - a topic that is critical to our survival and incredibly political. Our guest is Dr. Manuel Pastor who knows everything there is to know about California's politics, race, demographics and social justice movements! Dr. Pastor breaks down California's defunding of public education and the subsequent fall of LAUSD from one of the best school districts in the nation to one that is on the brink of financial insolvency. A reality that is knocking on the doors of many districts across the state! ABOUT OUR GUEST Dr. Manuel Pastor is a Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He currently directs the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at USC and USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Dr. Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC. Dr. Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities. He is the author of a number of books on social and economic justice topics. We recommend you check out this title: 1. State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future ABOUT THE SERIES Public education is incredibly important for our communities - it's also incredibly controversial. We kick off our next series to dissect the history of public education and the fight for education justice. The series, entitled "Nature of The Threat", will explore various issues impacting the quality of education that children are receiving - quality that is inconsistent, inequitable, and outright unjust in some neighborhoods. We will discuss school reform efforts, school funding, teacher quality, teacher strike, charters, and that delicious coffee cake they used to serve in the school cafeteria. Send us questions you want us to explore by emailing us at thehooddigest@gmail.com or slide in our DMs on IG: @hooddigest, Twitter: @hooddigest Love, The Grand Supreme Chapin & Profesora Panamena

This week we're joined by Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, and Director of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). We chat about a broad range of topics including the Environmental Justice Screening Method and how that research was turned into California environmental policy. The importance of community organizing in getting agreement for legislation, his new book The State of Resistance, as well as his views on rent control as public policy.   This episode was first aired at Rail~Volution.org

TOPICIntertwined Crises in America IN THIS EPISODE [2:48] Manuel talks about his background and motivation [4:05] Spatial, political and intellectual segregation in America [5:57] Manuel talks about the three big crises in the US [9:23] Diverse, Dynamic Epistemic Communities [11:58] Examples of where these communities have come together [17:02] The key to economic growth [23:28] One change that would lead to better communities [24:08] One action listeners can take to build a better future [24:17] What does the world look like 30 years from now? GUESTDr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC), where he also serves as the Director of USC’s http://dornsife.usc.edu/pere (Program for Environmental and Regional Equity) (PERE) and Co-Director of USC’s http://dornsife.usc.edu/csii (Center for the Study on Immigration Integration). He is the author of multiple books, including most recently, http://growingtogethermetro.org/ (Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America’s Metro Areas), which he co-authored with Chris Benner from UC Santa Cruz. TAKEAWAY QUOTES“We are in a place where people don’t agree on the basic facts. An epistemic communities are about creating opportunities for people to know together so they can grow together. The thing that we sort of left out in this book is that it’s important for them to be diverse and dynamic. You can’t be surrounded simply by like-minded or like-raced people. You need to make sure that who is at the table is coming from different sectors, different communities, et cetera to be able to understand what it is that weaves us together and where our mutual interests lie.” “It’s basically a nerd fest. We consider ourselves to be nerds for social justice and we did this for a couple of different reasons. Essentially, it was born when Angela Glover Blackwell and I—she’s the head of PolicyLink—were at a meeting at the White House and we realized that while we had pretty good ideas about what to do, few people were paying attention because we didn’t have the kind of data that we needed behind the ideas. This created a way to sort of democratize data.” “Making sure that people understand that there is more than one leverage point; that we need to move the needle on multiple things at the same time; that we need to make sure that people are reentering from the criminal justice system successfully; that we are dealing with immigration reform. We are dealing with gender inequality. We need to get away from the idea that there is a silver bullet for our problems.” RESOURCEShttp://infiniteearthacademy.com/podcast/affordable-housing-and-employment-patterns-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area/ (Infinite Earth Radio Ep. 011 Affordable Housing and Employment Patterns in the San Francisco Bay Area with Dr. Chris Benner) http://dornsife.usc.edu/PERE (USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE)) http://dornsife.usc.edu/CSII (USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII)) http://NationalEquityAtlas.org (National Equity Atlas Tool) http://www.lgc.org/ (Local Government Commission) THANKS FOR LISTENING Thanks so much for joining us. Have some feedback or an idea you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave an honest review for Infinite Earth Radio on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are super helpful and greatly appreciated as it helps us expose this show to a wider audience – plus, we read each and every one of them!

Keynote Address: Making Climate Change Policy Work Conference Introduction of Speaker:  Cheryl Brown, UC Berkeley Labor Center Speaker: Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at U.S.C.’s Center for Sustainable Cities and as Co-Director of U.S.C.'s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.

Keynote Address: Making Climate Change Policy Work Conference Introduction of Speaker:  Cheryl Brown, UC Berkeley Labor Center Speaker: Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at U.S.C.’s Center for Sustainable Cities and as Co-Director of U.S.C.'s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.