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Homeless services activist Brent Adams talks about his work to keep the houseless warm in the winter, and how he came to be devoted to this cause.

A rent control discussion moderated by Talkabout guest host Dan Woo. Stacy Falls, of the Movement For Housing Justice, and Mark Primack, former Santa Cruz Mayor/Local Architect, speak about  Measure M  on the November ballot for the City of Santa Cruz. Part 2 of 2 programs on this issue.

A rent control discussion moderated by Talkabout guest host Dan Woo. Zav Hershfield, of the Movement For Housing Justice, and Keshav Kumar, speaking for Santa Cruz Together, talk about  Measure M  on the November ballot for the City of Santa Cruz. Part 1 of 2 programs on this issue.

Headlines: Ventura’s Thomas fire Story: Dan Rather addresses the AGU Fall Meeting More at newsfromoutdoors.org

Dan Woo talks with Ryan Coonerty about the Evolution of Santa Cruz and the currently proposed solutions to the housing crisis, including a $140 million housing initiative on the county ballot in November 2018.

Cannabis Club TV founder Danny Keith and your host Dan Woo dive into the rapidly changing commercial landscape of legal (and not so legal) marijuana in California!

Brown Girl Surf is an organization committed to diversifying the surf sport by training and mentoring girls of color from the Bay Area through their programs in the water (including summer camps), and programs out of the water. Marley Reynosa, Program and Events Manager and Lead Surf Instructor at Brown Girl Surf, is an avid surfer who has competed in national surf contests in her home country, the Dominican Republic. Her experiences as a female surfer in the Dominican Republic and as a Latina in the U.S. fuel her dedication to empowering women of color through outdoor recreation.

An expert in Latino and Mexican politics, Dr. Adrian Félix offers his analysis of the July 2018 Mexican Presidential election as well as the state of US-Mexico political relations. Formerly of UC Santa Cruz's Latin American and Latino Studies department, he joins the Ethnic Studies faculty of UC Riverside in Fall 2018.

An interview with writer and journalist Roberto Lovato about the current state of immigration policies and his ties to Central America. His work popularized the term “Juan Crow”, a reference to a system of surveillance and control of immigrants to the US that resonates with Jim Crow segregation laws. Affiliated with the San Francisco's Writers' Grotto, Lovato recently completed a 3-year turn as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for Latino Policy Research.

How does the self-representation of undocumented migrants become reflected in documentary film and video? Dr. Rebecca M. Schreiber, Associate Professor in the American Studies Department at University of New Mexico discusses her new book titled The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility (2018, University of Minnesota Press). She explains how Mexican and Central American migrants have depicted themselves and members of their communities since 9/11 through documentary photography, film, video, and audio projects.

Your host Dan Woo explores the decimation of the great society of California beginning in the late 1970s. Proposition 13, passed in 1978 is the root of this situation; stunting the tax base and holding the legislature's ability to mend the situation in a stranglehold the last four decades. Dan Woo grills Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association VP of Communication Susan Shelley on the impacts of the proposition which is the crowning achievement of their anti-tax prophet, Howard Jarvis....and asks why property owners deserve rights.

Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman Valentin Lopez speaks on the Amah Mutsun's efforts to derail a proposed mining project on sacred lands in the southern tip of Santa Clara County...and their wish to return to the land and practice traditional land management techniques.

How do you meet the educational needs of the "whole child" beyond what you see in the classroom alone? Dr. Rebecca London discusses an ambitious new initiative she’s a part of in the Bay Area called the Silicon Valley Regional Data Trust. This research project seeks to build a database in which school and social service partners work together to meet the needs of the whole child. Dr. London is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and Faculty Director of the Student Success Evaluation and Research Center at UCSC. Her research focuses on understanding the challenges faced by disadvantaged children and youth and the ways that communities and community organizations support young people to be healthy and successful.

Dr. Mary Thomas worked with twelve artists and independent presses for a new art exhibit titled "Emerging Visions: Creative Practice at the Nexus of Freedom and Justice" (open from April 19, 2018-June 19, 2018).  Dr. Mary Thomas is the Research Associate for the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery (Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz) and Associate Director of Development for the U.S. Latinx Art Forum.

Headlines: Stage 1 Water Restrictions in Santa Cruz, Redwoods Park in Los Gatos, UCSC Plant Field Guide, Ebikes in Santa Cruz.  Stories: Sambrailo Readycycle Plastic-alternative Berry Packaging, the People of Color Sustainability Collective at UCSC.  More at newsfromoutdoors.org

How can activists or advocates engage in storytelling as a political tool without compromising the complexity of the narrative? Dr. Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, discusses her latest book Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017) about how the power of storytelling can sometimes undermine structural changes in society.

Dr. Ann Lopez is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, CA and an emerita professor of San Jose City College where she taught courses in Biology, Environmental Science, Ecology and Botany in the Biology department. She talked about the work of the Center for Farmworker Families, the health challenges facing farmworkers as a result of pesticides used in our county, and how to provide stability for these families who make an important contribution to our local community.

Headlines: Condor Cam, West Cliff Drive Management Plan, Burn Season, Earth BioGenome Project, Perfect Lawns Create Climate Change, Chicken Waste Power.  Stories: New Parks Director Citizen Involvement, UCSC Chancellors Defend Development and Housing Plans.  More at newsfromoutdoors.org

Bristol Cave-LaCoste studies prostitution and sexual policing within immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is a Ph.D. candidate in History, with a Designated Emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies, at UC Santa Cruz. She is one of four student presenters at an April 26, 2018 public campus-sponsored event discussing her archival research on the sexual policing of migrant women.

Formed in the early 70's, the Dixie Dregs bent the genre boundaries of rock, jazz, country and classical.  Fusing unique instrumentals, the Dixie Dregs challenged the listener to expand beyond the industry standard typically fed to the masses as pop music.  This uniqueness became the demise of their marketability. However, forty one years later—as the original members of the Dregs have reunited for their Dawn of the Dregs tour—the massive response and fan support is proving that notion to be obsolete Carol from KZSC's Test of Time spoke with Steve Morse, guitarist and founding member of the Dixie Dregs about his early influences, work ethics and the band's reunion tour. Steve also talks about his career with Deep Purple, sharing his first experience as the band's guitarist and how Deep Purple and its music has retained his attention for 24 years.