Tag Archives: Politics
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, MAY 10 PROGRAM # 9618 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. In the beginning, Mother’s Day was meant to be a day of activism, against slavery, for suffrage. On this holiday, outstanding activist mothers talk about how they celebrate motherhood and their experience in the movement for immigrant rights and environmental justice. Guests: Elvira Arellano, […]
Secretary Cardona on Student Debt and Teachers. Also, Help for Latino College Students.
MONDAY, MAY 9 PROGRAM # 9616 12:00 PM PT Secretary Cardona on Student Debt and Teachers. In this conversation, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona talks about the federal student loan programs and his efforts to help millions of borrowers of student loans to receive forgiveness through public service. On Teacher Appreciation Week, he also gives his […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, MAY 6 PROGRAM # 9615 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Mexican President López Obrador is sending a bill to Congress to overhaul Mexico’s electoral system, arguing that the influence of economic interests in politics must be curtailed. The constitutional reform would cut the number of members of Congress elected by party lists, reduce funding […]
The Legacy of La Malinche.
THURSDAY, MAY 5 PROGRAM # 9614 12:00 PM PT The Legacy of La Malinche. La Malinche, a Nahua woman best known for serving as interpreter and advisor for Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conqueror of the Aztec Empire, is synonymous in Mexico with treason and deceit. But Malinche was a woman who despite surviving a life […]
First Latino US Census Director.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 PROGRAM # 9612 12:00 PM PT First Latino US Census Director. This is a conversation with Robert L. Santos, who recently made history as the first Latino and first person of color to lead the US Census Bureau. A leading statistician, Santos gives his perspective on the undercount of millions of Latinos […]
Extra Edition: Stressed About Climate Change (Program Repeat.) Also, Climate Change Worsens Air Pollution.
TUESDAY, MAY 3 PROGRAM # 9610 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Stressed About Climate Change (Program Repeat.) 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 […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, MAY 3 PROGRAM # 9611 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The United States runs the largest immigration prison system in the world. Most jailed immigrants are held in for-profit prisons, without trial. Abolition advocates are asking hard questions: Does advocating for bond hearings, counsel, or more humane conditions help or hurt the cause? What […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29 PROGRAM # 9608 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. In the first major setback against President López Obrador agenda, the opposition in Congress stopped his ambitious plan for energy reform. What’s next in this debate? Also, a Mexican Senator for the state of Oaxaca talks about his efforts to include the native language […]
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 […]
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 […]
