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

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

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

Stop The Sweeps Santa Cruz: Activists Discuss Resistance Against Closing San Lorenzo Park     Human rights activist Abbi Samuels, and unhoused activist Hannah, discuss resistance against the Santa Cruz city manager’s Dec. 17, 2020 executive order to close San Lorenzo Park, currently the site of a homeless encampment of about 200 people. There are currently no beds available in local shelters.     Abbi Samuels explains that she contacted Gail Newel, health director of Santa Cruz County, about the park eviction and Newel said that if the public health department had been contacted she would have advised against moving the homeless encampment out of the park because it violates CDC guidelines that recognize that dispersing encampments during the pandemic may lead to a spreading of the Covid-19 virus.    These interviews with Abbi and Hannah were recorded on Sunday, December 20, 2020 and originally broadcast on Thursday, December 24th on “Transformation Highway” with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM at the University

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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