September 6, 2018: A re-airing of tribute episode to Honduran activist Berta Cáceres.
September 13, 2018: The Realities and Challenges Facing Santa Cruz Immigrant Families and Students
MariaElena De La Garza is currently the Executive Director of the Community Action Board (CAB) of Santa Cruz County and recipient of the 2018 UC Santa Cruz’s Tony Hill award for her work as a community leader. Paulina Moreno is the Project Director of the Thriving Immigrants Initiative a new south county CAB project coordinating legal services, policy advocacy, education and outreach, and essential services to the immigrant community. In this interview, they talk about the work of CAB, about what they see as challenges facing immigrant families and students in our county, and about this new Thriving Immigrants Initiative.
September 20, 2018: A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande
Award-winning author and UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande discusses her new memoir A Dream Called Home (2018). A Dream Called Home is her follow-up memoir to The Distance Between Us. This new memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree at UC Santa Cruz and to find her place in her new adoptive country.
September 27, 2018: Indigenous Struggles Against Extractive Capitalism
An interview with Dr. Macarena Gómez-Barris, Chair of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute about her research on the harm of extractivism on Indigenous territories in the Americas. She writes and teaches on social and cultural theory, decolonial thought, racial and extractive capitalism, social movements, queer and submerged perspectives, critical Indigenous studies, experimental film, and social / environmental transformation. She is the author of books about state violence in Chile, about indigenous struggles against extractive capitalism and more recently, about art and the pink tide in Latin America. We discussed various aspects of her research, specifically the areas focused on indigenous struggles against extractive capital.