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Extra Edition: Dolores Huerta: Sí Se Puede! (Program Repeat.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 28 PROGRAM # 9606 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Dolores Huerta: Sí Se Puede! (Program Repeat.) Legendary labor and civil rights champion Dolores Huerta turns 92. In this conversation, she reflects on her life journey, since her early childhood in New Mexico, to teaching farmworkers’ children in California, to becoming a lifetime community […]
Virtual Tool to Fight Covid Misinformation.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28 PROGRAM # 9607 12:00 PM PT Virtual Tool to Fight Covid Misinformation. As part of its SMARTER plan, California’s public health agency is now using a new virtual assistance platform on WhatsApp in both Spanish and English to offer reliable information especially to Latinos. The updates include the latest on vaccine safety, […]
Librotraficantes of Banned Books. Also, Firebrand Activist, Scholar Armando Navarro Remembered.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 PROGRAM # 9605 12:00 PM PT Librotraficantes of Banned Books. When Arizona officials banned Mexican American Studies and literature, cultural activists from Texas responded by organizing a caravan of “librotraficantes” to smuggle books into Arizona. Ten years later this week, they remember the anniversary with rallies in several cities under the banner […]
Extra Edition: Vaccines for Kids (Program Repeat.) Also, Latina Workers Hit Hardest by the Pandemic.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26 PROGRAM # 9603 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Vaccines for Kids (Program Repeat.) COVID-19 vaccines are now available to children ages 5 and up in the U.S. A leading public health physician shares facts about California’s vaccination campaign for kids and answers common questions from parents. Why do kids need Covid-19 vaccines? […]
Elena Poniatowska (Program Repeat).
TUESDAY, APRIL 26 PROGRAM # 9604 12:00 PM PT Elena Poniatowska (Program Repeat.) This is a conversation with the well-known Mexican journalist and writer Elena Poniatowska about her new novel “Dos veces única,” in which she tells about the life and times of diva Lupe Marín, the second wife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera. Marín […]
Stressed About Climate Change. Also, Climate Change Worsens Air Pollution.
MONDAY, APRIL 25 PROGRAM # 9602 12:00 PM PT Stressed About Climate Change. Gripped by anxiety about the future of children and grandchildren or the trauma of those displaced by wildfires or storms, a majority of Latinos say they are anxious about how climate change will affect future generations. Surveys show Latinos worry more than […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22 PROGRAM # 9601 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, a human rights pioneer and champion for the disappeared in Mexico, passed away this week at the age of 95. This program includes archival interviews featuring Ibarra’s testimony on the forced disappearance of her son Jesús, her decades-long quest to […]
Extra Edition: “Mexamerica.” (Program Repeat) Also, “Silence of Spanish Florida.”
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 PROGRAM # 9599 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: “Mexamerica.” (Program Repeat) Countering the current rhetoric in the US, which casts Mexicans as criminals and job stealers, a “Mexamerican” journalist published a collection of her stories, interviews, and essays with Mexican artists, scientists, businesspeople and political leaders to give a different outlook of […]
Mass Shootings. Also, War in Ukraine.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 PROGRAM # 9600 12:00 PM PT Mass Shootings. A mass shooting that left six people dead in Sacramento renewed the debate on gun violence, with some calling to restrict early prison release and others demanding tougher gun restrictions. State legislators are working on gun control measures, including a bill that would let […]
Speaking Indigenous Languages in Times of Emergency.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 PROGRAM # 9598 12:00 PM PT Speaking Indigenous Languages in Times of Emergency. Mexican indigenous migrants have been among the worst hit by the heat, fire and smoke of the extreme wildfires that have devastated California’s rural areas. Many spent weeks saving summer crops from the fires and in the absence of […]
Noticias
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- "The Path Forward": Palestinian and Israeli Activists Working Toward Peace Featured in New Film October 7, 2024
- Israeli Peace Activist Maoz Inon Lost His Parents on October 7. He's Calling for an End to War & Occupation. October 7, 2024
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