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Building Justice Trailer |
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Student Homelessness at Sac State and Beyond---an Educational Emergency |
Listen in as two Sac State Students share their experiences and perspectives on student homelessness at Sac State. Transcript S2e1 |
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From Being Unhoused to Earning a Master's Degree: a Sac State alumna's story. |
Listen in as Criminal Justice Professor Danielle Slakoff talks with M.A. recipient and first-generation Latina student Erica Amaya. Erica describes her experiences with being unhoused, graduate school, and her Master's thesis work on media portrayals of intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Transcript S2e2 |
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Never too Late: Returning to College in Later Life. |
Listen in as Gerontology Professor Catheryn Koss, JD, PhD talks with two non-traditionally aged students, Darryl E. Lambert (alumni) and Faye Kayo (current student). They share their experiences of being undergraduate students at Sacramento State. Transcript S2e3 |
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The Poor People's Campaign (PPC), Sacramento Chapter. |
Listen in as Political Science Professor Monicka Tutschka talks with Sac State Alumna and PPC member Brenda-Joyce Newman, M.A. and Brother Carter, California State Co-Chair of the PPC about the organization's mission, their activism within it, and various PPC proposals serving to ensure the most vulnerable have reliable and continuous access to basic needs.TranscriptS2e4 |
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Ana Castillo: Writing, Empowerment and Social Justice. |
Listen in as World Languages and Literatures Professor Brenda Romero talks with Chicanx author Ana Castillo about her life, writing, and commitment to empowerment and social justice. Transcript S2e5 |
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Defending Justice: A Conversation with Mano Raju, SF Public Defender |
Listen in to a conversation between Ethnic Studies Professor Dr. Marie Mallare, S.J.D and San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju. They discuss what makes a good public defender and what it takes to be an effective advocate for minoritized groups.They also discuss the legacy of Jeff Adachi, a Sacramento native on how he has shaped th SF Public Defender's office. Transcript S2e6. |
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The struggle to meet basic needs in Sacramento's underserved Black communities. |
Listen in as Sac State alumna and CRISJ affiliate Brenda-Joyce Newman, M.A. talks with Zuri K. Colbert, founder of Community Lead Advocacy Program (CLAP), a Sacramento grass-roots organization formed to address the lack of equity, resources, and representation within marginalized Sacramento communities. Transcript S2e7 |
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No New Sac Jail--We Need Treatment, Not Trauma |
Listen in as Decarcerate Sacramento Co-Founder Liz Blum and Licensed Psychologist and Sac State alumna Dr. Corrine McIntosh Sako talk with Professor Monicka Tutschka about the criminalization of mental illness and how a $500 million dollar mental health jail annex is NOT the answer to improving our community's health. Transcript s2e8 |
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Centering Indigenous Student Voices: Decolonizing Academia and Our Future. |
Listen in as Sac State undergrads Alejandra Lopez, Elizabeth Meza, Rosalba Gomez Bautista, Mariaelena Pulido, and Lilian Wee discuss why the University should recognize and support identifying indigenous students and their communities. They also talk about decolonizing academia, and how indigenous students foster intersectional fields of study. Transcript s2e9 |
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Incarceration, Education, & Reentry |
Listen in as Dr. M.L. Mallare interviews Sac State Sociology student, Moon Martinez on his 30+ year journey within the CA prison system. Other guests: Dr. Emma Hughes, Ph.D CSU Fresno, Criminology.Transcript s2e10 |
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California Assemblymember Kevin McCarty on Civic Engagement and California Public Policy |
Listen in as California Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D6) speaks with Professors Chris Towler and Kristina Flores Victor about education policy, police and criminal justice reform, environmental protection, and how students can begin a career of public service. Transcript S2e11 |
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Direct Democracy and Social Justice |
Listen in as Professors Mark Brown and Ted Lascher discuss the ballot initiative process in the USA, focusing on the impact on minority rights and other social justice topics. Transcript s2e12 |
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Organizing with Sacramento's Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) |
Listen in as Margot Rinaldo, co-chair of Sacramento's DSA (and a Sac State alumna) talks with Political Science Professor Monicka Tutschka about the importance of organizing and the challenges progressive political organizations like the DSA face in the city of Sacramento. Transcript S2e13 |
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Women's and LGBTQ+'s rights: Where do we go from here? |
Listen in as Sac State Political Science-Journalism major Mackenzie Norton interviews CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California Jodi Hicks and Sac State Pride Center Program Coordinator Trahn Pham about the fight for women's and LGBTQ+'s rights to abortion and reproductive healthcare. Transcript S2e14 |
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Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and her path to City Council |
Listen in as Sac State Ethnic Studies Professor Maria Vargas and Criminal Justice Professor Danielle Slakoff interview Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela. This conversation serves as a follow-up to the March 2022 on-campus event focused on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls across the Americas, in which Katie served as the keynote. She will discuss how and why she became an advocate on this issue, and her path to city council. Transcript s2e15 |
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The Battle for Clean Water in California's Rural Farmworker Communities. |
Listen in as United Latinos Community Organizer Richard Falcōn talks with Janaki Anagha from the Community Water Center about the way rural farmworker communities are disproportionately impacted by polluted water, and their efforts to change water laws to provide clean water accessibility. Transcript s2e16
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Local and Transnational Feminist Activism in Iran. |
Listen in as Sac State Political Science Professor Sahar Razavi talks with University of Colorado-Boulder Professor A. Marie Ranjbar about the challenges Iranian women face as they engage in local and global activism around issues of gender equity. The conversation also touches on the ways that even supporters of feminist causes sometimes reinforce the obstacles Iranians face in their struggles for justice. Transcript s2e17 |
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Vice Mayor and City Councilmember Eric Guerra on his experiences as a working class, first generation college student at Sacramento State. |
Listen in as Vice Mayor and City Councilmember (D6) Eric Guerra talks with Sac State Political Science Professors Kristina Flores Victor and Monicka Tutschka about how he made the most of his college experience, and what we can do to improve conditions for working class and first generation students on campus. Transcript s2e18 |
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Vice Mayor and City Councilmember Eric Guerra on economic development, housing, homelessness, and uplifing the working class. |
Listen in as Eric Guerra talks with Sac State Political Science Professors Monicka Tutschka and Kristina Flores Victor about economic development and displacement, the root causes of Sacramento's housing problems, how we can secure dignity for our unhoused neighbors, and the need to provide housing for every income bracket. Transcript s2e19 |
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Telpochcalli: Racial Equity in Education with MILPA |
How does education transform when we center culture and other ways of knowing? Listen in as Sac State Anthropology Professor Megan Raschig talks with Desiree Rosas and Juan Gomez from the MILPA Collective about Telpochcalli, their grassroots community education program, and how it builds racial equity in this Chicanx-Indigenous context. Transcript s2e20 |
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Belonging in the context of exclusion. |
Listen in as Sac State Sociology Professor Heidy Sarabia talks with sociology major Maria Elena Pulido-Sepulveda about Heidy's multiple research projects with transnational activists, deportees living at the U.S.-Mexico border, and undocumented and DACAmented students-- highlighting how people find and create different ways of belonging in the context of exclusion. Transcript s2e21 |
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The Catastrophic Earthquakes in Syria and Turkey |
Listen in as three Sac State undergraduates---Zoya Altabaa, Amar F., and Vasiliy Derebenskiy---discuss the devastating earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. The earthquakes killed over 50,000 people, destroyed over 84,000 buildings, received scant Western media attention, and garnered minimal financial support from powerful states. Students also describe what we can do to support Syrian and Turkish peoples during this humanitarian crisis. Transcript s2e22 |
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Building antiracist photo histories and how they help us reshape our society. |
Listen in as Sac State Photography & Social Practice Professor Eliza Gregory leads Sac State students through a process of examining, critiquing, and building new antiracist narratives around photographs. What is an antiracist photo history? How can we locate or write one? How might reshaping our collective photographic histories help us reshape our society? Transcript s2e23 |
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Why don't Farmworkers' Lives Matter? |
Farmworkers are perhaps the most essential workers, responsible for providing the nation’s food supply. Yet their experience of poverty, hunger, pesticide exposure, sexual assault, and illness describes an exploited population of discardable human beings. Listen in as Dr. Ann Lopez, Executive Director of Center for Farmworker Families talks with Sac State Sociology Professor Manuel Barajas about why farmworkers’ lives don't matter. Transcript s2e24 |
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Matching the Diversity of the Educated to the Educators |
Listen in as political science major, Mai Lam, discusses with ASI Executive Vice President, Laura De la Garza Garcia, and ASI Graduate Director, Justin Hurst the need to have the diversity of faculty be reflective of the student body, and how the lack of it affects the education process for many students. They discuss their own experiences and how it is most damaging for students who come from marginalized communities. Transcript s2e25 |
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The Impact of Voter Suppression Laws in the United States. |
Listen in as Political Science Professor Kristina Victor talks with Political Science Graduate Student George Harris about the impact of restrictive voter ID laws, focusing on photo ID, in the past two presidential elections in the United States. Transcript s2e26 |
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Announcing the 'Pitch your Podcast' Competition |
Listen in as members of the 'Building Justice' podcast committee spend a couple minutes inviting you to enter the 'Pitch your Podcast' competition. |
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Social Work as Social Justice: Working with Unhoused Women |
Listen in as Professors Arturo Baiocchi and Susanna Curry talk with the Executive Director of Wellspring Women's Center, Genelle Smith, to discuss how she deploys an explicit social justice perspective when working with unhoused women sleeping on the streets of Sacramento. Learn how social workers can, and should, pursue advocacy, resiliency, and human dignity in their daily practice with individuals facing personal crises but also multiple, and intertwined, social injustices (e.g., inequality, historical traumas, sexism, racism etc). Transcript S2e28 |
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Challenging immigration detention: academic research and community organizing |
Listen in as Sac State Professors Wendi Yamashita and Tristan Josephson discuss Tristan's recently published book on trans migrants and U.S. immigration law and policy as a jumping off point into a larger conversation about doing academic research on immigration detention in the United States. How should academics be accountable to immigrant justice grassroots activists? What can academic research on immigration detention contribute to political and activist efforts to challenge the incarceration of immigrants? Transcript S2e29 |
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Mutual Aid: Meeting Social Crises with Community Care. |
Listen in as Sacramento's Democratic Socialist of America co-chair and Sac State alumna Margot Rinaldo talks with community organizer Paul Andrews about the role of mutual aid in meeting community needs when systems of governance fail to effectively serve our most vulnerable neighbors. Transcript S2e30 |
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Why are there Cops on Campus? The History of Campus Police. |
As incidents of violent police encounters in communities and on campuses have increased, so have demands for alternatives to campus policing. Reimagining campus safety is one step towards that change. Listen in as Alexa Sardina, a Sac State Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice and faculty rights co-chair of CFA’s Sacramento Chapter, speaks with Dr. Eddie Cole, a professor of Higher Education and History at UCLA, about the history of and alternatives to campus policing. Transcript S2e31 |