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Extra Edition: Scams of the Season. Also, No Time for the Flu.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 PROGRAM # 9456 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: Scams of the Season. Thousands of Latinos call each month the Anti-Fraud Helpline of a major advocacy organization to report potential scams. This year, advocates hear that scammers are using online shopping, shipping, gift cards, peer-to-peer applications, and charity names to steal money from […]

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Posted in Economy, Línea Abierta, Politics, Health |

Immigration Edition.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 PROGRAM # 9457 12:00 PM PDT Immigration Edition. Public defenders and scholar in court and community activists in the policy arena are waging an uphill battle to repeal two immigration laws: the illegal-entry and re-entry laws or Sections 1325 and 1326 respectively. They argue those laws are unconstitutional. Recently, a federal judge […]

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Posted in Immigration, Inmigrantes, Línea Abierta, Politics |

US-El Salvador Diplomatic Tensions. The Meaning of the Guilty Verdict. Intimate Partner Violence.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29 PROGRAM # 9455 12:00 PM PDT US-El Salvador Diplomatic Tensions. The US embassy in El Salvador announced that relations with the Salvadoran government of Nayib Bukele are now on hold after the lack of interest to improve the dialogue with the US. The highest US diplomatic representative in El Salvador is leaving […]

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Posted in Latinoamérica, Línea Abierta, Politics |

Mexico Edition.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26 PROGRAM # 9454 12:00 PM PDT Mexico Edition. This archival program features a conversation from 1996 with the then emerging political leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who later went on to become the mayor of Mexico City and the president of Mexico. In this interview with Voz Pública’s Paco Huerta, Lopez Obrador […]

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Posted in Línea Abierta, Mexico, Politics |

US Longest-Serving Political Prisoner.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25 PROGRAM # 9453 12:00 PM PDT US Longest-Serving Political Prisoner. A statue of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist imprisoned for 45 years in the US, has traveled to historic sites that are symbols of indigenous resistance. Peltier is serving two life sentences for the murder of two FBI agents during a […]

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Posted in Línea Abierta, Politics |

Extra Edition: Eva Ybarra-The Queen of the Accordion ( A Repeat).

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25 PROGRAM # 9452 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: Eva Ybarra-The Queen of the Accordion ( A Repeat). In this interview, originally aired on June 13, 1997, leading Texan conjunto figure Eva Ybarra talks about her beginnings in the music and her uphill breakthrough as a master accordionist in a field dominated by […]

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Posted in Arts & Culture, Línea Abierta |

First Ranking Alerts for Heat Waves.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 PROGRAM # 9451 12:00 PM PDT First Ranking Alerts for Heat Waves. As extreme heat waves worsen every year, causing more deaths and injuries than all other extreme weather events, California leaders are taking action to stop this “silent killer”. State leaders are proposing to establish the nation’s first ranking system for […]

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Posted in Línea Abierta, Environment |

Extra Edition: Impact of Racism on Immigrants. Migrant Housing.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 PROGRAM # 9449 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: Impact of Racism on Immigrants. Most Latino and Asian immigrants in California experienced discrimination in the workplace due to skin color or accent. Most also feel their access to legal immigration status would be threatened if they use government benefits, such as housing aid, […]

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Posted in Economy, Immigration, Inmigrantes, Línea Abierta, Politics |

Immigration Edition.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 PROGRAM # 9450 12:00 PM PDT Immigration Edition. A prominent immigrant rights activist who is facing a deportation process went back to her native Mexico after 25 years of separation from her family because of her immigration status in the US. She tells the story of her emotional reunion with her family […]

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Posted in Immigration, Inmigrantes, Línea Abierta, Politics |

On Math, Music and Social Change.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22 PROGRAM # 9448 12:00 PM PDT On Math, Music and Social Change. A Colombian mathematician and DJ who researches combinatorics, a new area of mathematics that is highly utilized in physics and computer science, was honored as an “Emerging Scholar” in the US. He teaches an innovative online math course to students […]

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Posted in Education, Youth, Línea Abierta |

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