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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.

An interview with Karla Vasquez, founder of SalviSoul, a cookbook project documenting the stories of Salvadoran women, their recipes and Salvadoran food ways. Karla is a food justice advocate, a food historian and a proponent for healthy food accessibility in low-income communities. 

Headlines: Poetry reading in Chadwick Garden; golf ball pollution art Story: The Nature Corps Volunteer Weekend in Big Sur More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

**Please note this interview covers a sensitive topic and may not be suitable for all listeners.** Since October 2018, KZSC and the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz have been teaching journalism classes in Watsonville, California at the Digital NEST. This special episode is co-produced by three Watsonville High School students from the class: Nance Rodriguez, Dafne Martinez, and Casey Martinez. Their audio-video project included an important interview with Jaqueline Mendoza, a local sexual assault survivor. This interview took place on May 9, 2019 on the rooftop of the Digital NEST.

Making the Chinese Mexican author tills the historical context of nationalism...exploring discrimination both aimed at, and stemming from, Mexico over the past century.

Dr. Rebecca Hernandez (Mexican-American and Mescalero Apache) is the Director of the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) at UC Santa Cruz and Rennea Howell (member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma) is an AIRC student intern. They discuss the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and their collective efforts to raise awareness on this serious issue.

Alberto Ledesma, an Assistant Dean for Diversity at U.C. Berkeley, was brought undocumented to Oakland, California at eight years old. He graduated U.C. Berkeley three times over and has held faculty positions at Cal State University, Monterey Bay, and U.C. Berkeley. In this interview, he discusses his book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life (The Ohio State University Press, 2017).

Sandra Soto is an Associate Professor or Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona (UofA). She discusses the charges brought against three UofA students for protesting a campus presentation on March 19, 2019 by armed Border Patrol agents. The students are known as #TheArizona3.

Slug Support rep Mariah Lyons tells Dan Woo and DJ Peach where to find help surviving as a student. Also UPTE union rep Bill Spencer talks UC technical worker strike status. Also, UC election measure info!