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The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue is a multi-year public history project involving professors and undergraduate student researchers. As the project director, UC Santa Cruz Professor Alan Christy spoke about the extent of military occupation of Okinawa today, about Charles Eugene Gail (the namesake of the project) and about the extensive labor involved in creating a digital public history project. He explained the ways in which students played a key role as project collaborators. Alan Christy is an associate professor of history and provost of Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz.

Headlines: Death toll rises in Santa Rosa fires, More mega fires expected in CA future, Increase in black carbon, CA senators introduce land protection bill, Birds illuminating playful side of animals, Gardeners fostering bee and butterfly populations, Researching maximum efficiency of wind farms.  Stories: UCSC examines Santa Cruz' housing crisis, Grant Money to Clean Up Illegal Marijuana Grows, Updates on lives of Pajaro farm laborers. Plus a calendar of events and more at newsfromoutdoors.org

Puerto Rico has been devastated following Hurricane Maria. Juan Carlos Davila Santiago, is a filmmaker, journalist, writer, and graduate student in the doctoral program of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He recently returned from a trip to Puerto Rico where his family is based and where he spent most of his summer. He provided a first-hand account of what he witnessed in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. He addressed the issue of the impact of climate change on the islands and community-based recovery efforts that are not being reported by the mainstream US media.  These community-based recovery efforts include support from the following groups: Center for Popular Democracy's Hurricane María Community Recovery Fund Defend Puerto Rico Relief Fund Casa Taller Relief Fund Puerto Rico Casa Pueblo Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico Taller Salud

Headlines: Fires trigger anti-gouging rent control, Grants issued to clean up illegal cannabis grows, Sudden oak death, and more. Stories: California's wildlife agency sued over whale entanglements, climate change could make tick population grow, oil train proposal for the California coast is abandoned by Phillips 66. Plus a calendar of events and more at newsfromoutdoors.org

KZSC News ~ 2017 10 26 Rent Control Imposed following fires (Jordan Penland) Study: More fires like Napa's in California's future (Jordan Penland) Juvenile accused of murder to stand trial as an adult (Jordan Penland) Rent Control on Santa Cruz ballot (Daniel Wootan) Santa Cruz approves recreational marijuana sales (Parker Hume) Rifle discovered at Santa Cruz middle school (Alex Vareljian) Decreased punishment for intentional HIV transmission (Jordan Penland) Sudden Oak Death Syndrome adds fuel to fires (Daniel Martinez) More online at kzsc.org

Bookshop Santa Cruz, a locally owned and independent bookstore, has organized a series of events this past year as part of a new program called Words to Act On: Education, Empathy, and Action. This Fall 2017, Santa Cruz Bookshop has organized a series of events and campaign addressing the topic of immigration.  Casey Coonerty Protti is a second generation owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz and has run daily operations since 2006. We discussed the events, the history of this established family business, and about the challenges facing independent bookstores in today's market. Read a letter from Casey about why she started the program.

In this week's installment of Slug Talk, RIZ aka RSD interviews Nick Kleiber, Nicole O'Connor, Dante Capone, and Autumn Brown--four student-athletes from the UCSC Cross Country Team. Recorded live on-air 10.13.17.

KZSC News ~ 2017 10 19 Cabrillo College students hacked Fire rages in Boulder Creek Evangelist wins settlement with city of SC O'mei restaurant reopens Examining wine country fires New SCPD Chief's homeless strategy Interview with Chicano Batman Arrests at UCSC College Republicans meeting More online at kzsc.org

We report on environmental threats to the coastal zone, the 25th birthday of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary and the hepatitis A outbreak in SC County. Plus headlines, a calendar of events and more.      

We review the latest on the rash of wildfires in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties, and celebrate the reopening of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Hwy 1, destroyed after wildfires and landslides struck Big Sur. Plus headlines, a calendar of events and more.

Santa Cruz County is experiencing a major housing crisis.  Steven McKay, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, is the co-Principle investigator of a research project called "No Place Like Home" to better understand the housing crisis in the area.  Hermes Padilla is an undergraduate student who was part of the research team for "No Place Like Home" after taking Professor McKay's class. This study involved well over 1,400 surveys and interviews with local residents about how they are experiencing the local housing crisis.  They, along with the other researchers, will be discussing the findings of their study at a community event scheduled for October 19, 2017 at 7PM in downtown Santa Cruz. The event is the kick-off event to Affordable Housing week with a wide-range of county organizations and community groups.

KZSC News ~ 2017 10 12 Wildfires raze urban California areas (Tyler Harris & Keith Rozendal) Monterey Peninsula Pushes For Public Water Company (Matt) Arrests Weapon filled music video (Charlotte) The Fight Against Chloropyrifos (Samantha Rocinos) Peak Monarch Watching Season (Olivia Joyce) Carmel Moves To Ban Plastic Straws (Matthew Sandoval) Pfeifer Big Sur Bridge To Reopen (Maelin Rose) Fourteen Llamas Rescued By Monterey Zoo (Sandra Cortez) Police presence at Homeless Camp riles debate in Santa Cruz (Daniel Wootan) More online at kzsc.org

An interview with Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCSC and the Director of The Culture & Achievement Collaborative. She is a first generation college student and now faculty member who helped launch UCSC's First Generation Initiative to raise the visibility of the First Generation community at UCSC.  We discussed the cultural challenges facing First Generation students. Being a native of Phoenix, we also talked about her reaction to the presidential pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaoi of Phoenix.

An interview with Dr. Christine Shearer of Coalswarm about the coal industry and global warming.  Coalswarm is a conglomerate which tracks coal projects around the world. Dr. Shearer discussed how these coal projects are affecting the climate, the myths purported by the current administration about "clean coal," and her vision for the future of the environmental justice movement. Dr. Shearer discussed the most egregious coal projects happening in parts of Asia and about the urgent need to garner a renewed commitment to addressing global climate change.

An interview with Professor Zeus Leonardo of UC Berkeley's Education Department. We discussed his research on race and pedagogy, about the challenges facing public education today, and about the differences between white privilege and white supremacy as a framework to discuss whiteness. We also discussed the events happening in the city of Berkeley and at UC Berkeley by right-wing groups seeking to disrupt the city, specifically discussing the enormous financial burden to provide security for these speakers.

We report on air quality in the Santa Cruz Mountains and what some locals are doing to help. Plus an interview with an independent Native American journalist, environmental news headlines, a calendar of events and more.

Originally aired on Talkabout, August 16. 2017. Mairo Kuntze interviews comic book shop owner and musician Joe Ferrara, who tells stories of working with "The Lost Boys" cast, as well as being acquainted with artists before they became famous such as Adam Scott and Juice Newton.

An interview with Dr. Shearer of Coalswarm to discuss the effects of climate change on the village of Kivalina, located in a remote area of Alaska. Dr. Shearer is the author of Kivalina: A Climate Change Story (2011, Haymarket Press). Dr. Shearer discusses how climate change is forcibly displacing this community that has agreed to a community relocation over 20 years ago. However, no federal resources are available to facilitate this relocation. Dr. Shearer also addresses a lawsuit filed by the village of Kivalina against 24 fossil fuel companies, which was recently dismissed.

An interview with Peter Esmonde, long-time volunteer with the Prisoners Literature Project.  The Prisoners Literature Project is an all volunteer, grassroots, non-profit organization that has sent books to prisoners in 49 states.  We discussed how the PLP started, about the history of the books-to-prisoners movement, and the arbitrary regulations PLP navigates in trying to get books to prisoners. We also discussed the rights of incarcerated people to an education and what receiving books means to them.

An interview with Dr. Rebecca Hernandez Rosser, Director of UC Santa Cruz's American Indian Resource Center, about a range of issues facing indigenous communities in the United States, including lack of access to opportunities for higher education. She addressed the health struggles, both physical and mental, facing Native communities and other communities of color and about the food justice movement. She spoke about the People of Color Sustainability Initiative, which is a project out of the UCSC American Indian Resource Center committed to broadening the discourse of sustainability. Dr. Rosser also discussed indigenous cultural representations through art, including the challenges facing Native artists within an art market that has a limited image of who makes up indigenous communities.  we also discussed the  troubling statistics regarding the incarceration rate of Native peoples, and her plans for the upcoming academic year with the center.