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Topics: Education, Inclusion, teaching and teaching practices. Title : Someone Who Teaches: Education and Inclusion Participants: Alejandra Publish Date: 02/22/2023 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics: Education updates? Revisiting a conversation on Education. What is the RICA exam in teaching? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Instruction_Competence_Assessment Does passing the RICA exam make us better teachers and or help with job security? How is teacher in Cleveland Ohio different from teaching in Los Angeles California? What does it mean to mentor teachers? What does inclusion mean in teaching and or classroom formats? What does it mean to be white passing in Cleveland Ohio? What happens if you don’t “ clear “ your teaching credential within five years? Why doesn’t Ohio accept the California teaching credential? What are signs of teacher burnout? How do you know when it is necessary to exit the teaching profession? How did the 2020 COVID pandemic change the teaching practice? What does going back to “ normal” mean for teachers and students? What is remote learning? What do we do if we are part of a group that do not want things to go back to the way things were before the pandemic? “Inclusion is not program. It’s a way. Its and idea of how you want to build this culture . It’s an understanding of how you are going approach a student, and a family and staff. And how you are going to support them to make a more inclusive classroom and then school and community “ What do you think about when you hear the term inclusion? Is disability a social construct? Is inclusion about resources? What happens when you go to work , but you see the system as more complicated than “they” want you to see it? Why do teacher leave the teaching profession? How did the 2020 COVID pandemic change the teaching profession? What are the disabilities that are not visible? What is emotional disturbance? How do we reference our experiences in a dissociative form to critique ourselves? How do we figure out how to be ourselves within a k-12 setting? What are the characteristics of a true educator? What does it mean to be someone who teaches, even when they don’t have an official title of a teacher?

Topics: Hopi & Dine , Semiconductor design, STEM, Indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science Title : Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers Participants: Vanesha Honani and Nicholas Rajen Publish Date: 09/07/2022 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics: What does a QA engineer do? What is the Fairchild plant project story? Native and indigenous community were naturally engineers? What is the story of Hopi women in Semiconductor manufacturing? Who is Richard Feynman? Where is California Indian Nations College? What is the relationship between semiconductor circuitry design and Navajo tapestry design? What are the different narratives about our respective communities? Have the STEM fields always been considered spaces for white men only? What is the story of indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science field? How many Native Americans participate in coding? How do we incorporate our community traditions into our professional spaces? How has the semiconductor shaped our current reality? What are the roles of women in STEM? Women have been left out of recognition from the great discoveries? What is Rosalind Franklin relation to discovery of DNA Molecule? Emmy Noether mathematician What is role of the semiconductor in our lives? How did a Fairchild’s semiconductor factory end up in the Navajo reservation? What is the relationship between the Hopi weaving design and the final semiconductor design? How do we connect the history of colonialism, Native communities, and the Fairchild’s semiconductor factory placement on a reservation to employ native women? Why did Hewlett Packard (HP) follow the Fairchild project of establishing manufacturing plants Hopi and Navajo land? Why do we need to understand the history of colonialism to understand why the Fairchild semiconductor plant was built on a Native American reservation? Were the semiconductor engineers inspired by the native American sand paintings? Why are the resources of Hopi and Navajo nations quantified and targeted by corporations? Did the semiconductor circuit design copy the Navajo rug design? When did the American Indian Movement take over the Fairchild semiconductor plant?

Topics: Indigenous Activisms, Mesoamerica, Environmentalism, Land rights Title : Alianza Mesoamericana: Voces Indígenas en Defensa de bosques y Pueblos/ MesoAmerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices in Defense of Forests and People ( Spanish and English audio) Participants: Levi Sucre, Coordinador de Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques Publish Date: 03/01/2022 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics: - Mesoamerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices in Defense of Forests and People Como nace la organizacion ( Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques)? Autoridad y derechos indígenas de proteger sus territorios ¿Quién tiene derechos legales sobre protección de territorios indígenas? ¿Cuándo los países marcaron territorios no consultaron a comunidades indígenas? Hay una defensa de la naturaleza desde la cosmovisión indígena. Derechos humas incluye el derecho a una relación completa nuestro ambiente natural. ¿Porque intentan países y corporaciones separar la definición indígena de territorios ancestrales? El mapa de Mesoamérica nos muestra que las comunidades indígenas estas donde los bosques se encuentran. Hay iniciativas de producción alternatives porque las comunidades indígenas son los primeros afectos por el cambio climático y poder defender los bosques. Las comunidades indígenas en todo el mundo comparten las mismas amenazas. Cuál es la diferencia entre ver las comunidades indígenas actuales versus comunidad indígenas romantizadas.

Topics: College Attendance, UC Berkeley, First Generation College students, COVID and College Title : College and Community During COVID (A year later). Participants: Zion Rodriguez Aceves Publish Date: 10/14/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Conversation Topics: You can listen to the last year’s conversation here: Graduating During Covid-19 College and Schooling during time of COVID ( a year later). How did students prepare to enter college during the stress and uncertainty of a quarantine? What was your experience of first year of college, while online? Is going to college online similar to going away to college with everyone that you know? Are second-year college students attending college in-person for the first time, behind or delayed in building new communities? How did the online format become an asset by getting the college curriculum without having to leave the community of support behind? The online format allowed us to include our families into the class. What are the difficulties for technically second year-students, moving to college to attend in-person for their first year? How do we prepare to adjust to the shift from online to in-person college experiences? What happens when the university treats you as a second-year student, but it’s your first-year on campus? What are foundations acquired during the first year of college attendance? Figuring things out together. How is campus life different during COVID? Do students wear masks on college campuses? How do teachers feel about being in class with so many students? Is there a college social life during COVID? What are the different college retention factors for students? Is UC Berkely a radical school? Are colleges open to hear from new voices?

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Topics: Race, Critical Race Theory, Law, Anthropology, History Title : Critical Race Theory: Untangling the red-baiting from sincere questions and directions Participants: Elliott Kim, Public Historian, Educator, Writer Publish Date: 08/06/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org – Discussion Topics: What are questions, thoughts and directions that we carry around regarding Critical Race Theory ( CRT)? What did you think when #45 used the term Critical Race Theory? Should you be worried about a ban on teaching Critical Race theory, if you teach History, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies and or Education classes? What is Critical Race Theory? Is the present red-baiting of Critical Race Theory an updated form of 1950’s McCarthyism? How do you enforce a ban on a theory? What is the most accurate definition of Critical Race Theory? How does theory provide an understanding and or explanation to the world we inhabit? Why is the legal context important to understand Critical Race Theory? What is the institutional nature of race and racism? Where does the concept of Law come from? Why does Critical Race Theory emerge from a law school context? Did W.E.B Dubois use Critical Race Theory? How does the Law convert the arbitrary into the natural? When and how does the social construction of race become real? Was the U.S. Constitution built to uphold racial inequality? At what point have we naturalized our divides through the legal implant?

Topics: Gender, Stereotypes, Femininity, Masculinity Title : Questions of Gender: A conversation para los 2020’s Participants: Gabriel Rodriguez and Angella Montano Publish Date: 07/16/21 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: What is the difference between teaching about gender and living with gender? What is gender to you? How do we define gender? Why do we consider women as the “weaker sex?” Why do we change our behavior to fit with the expectations of different gender categories? Where does gender exist? Is Gender nature or nurture? Can we see gender being taught? Do we have to leave our family to escape gender expectations? What is hyper femininity? Is cooking considered a responsibility of women? What does it mean to be a man? Is gender based on genitals? What does it mean to be more feminine or more masculine? Can gender be severed from biology? How do hair styles become markers of gender? What is the purpose of gendering children in school? How do we treat boys differently from girls? Why do we treat girls differently from boys? Is purpose of gender for division of labor to control resources? Can we reject gender expectations?

Topics: La Escuela de la Raza Unida, Education, Chicana Movement, Freedom Community School Title – La Escuela de La Raza Unida: A classroom at the Shade of Every Tree Participants: Alfredo Acosta Figueroa , Angelica Figueroa Rodriguez Publish Date: 06/22/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: Was Blythe California originally a mining town? How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida begin? Why did showing a video of Nixon eating grapes outside the Los Angeles Memorial Auditorium result in aggression against a student in a MECHA meeting in a Blythe school? The failure of the school board to respond to the demands to reprimand the principal for injuring the MECHA student resulted in Demesia Figueroa saying “ we will never send another one of our children to the public school.” How do you build a school when you are not a formally trained educator? The office of United Farm Workers and Bert Corona Bert Corona – Wikipedia were supporters of the school, La Escuela de la Raza Unida. The Escuela de la Raza Unida was started May 1, 1972 How did the old post office building become the new site of the school ( La Escuela de la Raza Unida)? KERU, Chicana bilingual radio station in California. The students in the school were active participants in the college and community movements. Crystal City, Texas and Denver, Colorado also started similar schools to La Escuela de la Raza Unida. Why was it against the law to sing the corrido of Joaquin Murrieta? Pedro J Gonzales, Los Madrigadores was one of the first Mexican American radio broadcasters in Los Angeles in 1927/8? What type public school of education program was being offered to Mexican- American and Chicana students in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s? Agricultural Workers Community, AWOC In 1965 there was a grape strike in Coachella. Tlatelolco school in Denver Colorado. Why didn’t the other community alternative schools last as long as La Escuela de La Raza Unida? How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida operate without state funds? Why did Cesar Chavez donate a bus to La Escuela de la Raza Unida ? What was the student experience of attending La Escuela de la Raza Unida? What are the post COVID-19 plans for La Escuela de la Raza Unida?

Topics: Yaqui Resistance, Fidencio Aldama, Gas pipeline construction, Loma de Bacum Title: A Conversation: Fidencio Aldama, Yaqui Resistance and a Multi-National Gas Pipeline Participants: Scott, Member of Fidencio Aldama Support Group Publish Date: 05/23/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: Yaqui Political Prisoner Fidencio Aldama For more information visit the following web pages: – https://fidencioaldama.org/ – https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/mexico-pipeline-divides-yaqui-communities-and-triggers-wave-of-violence/ What is the history of Indigenous people’s claim to the land, and resistance in protection of the land? 1533 can be a starting point to understand present Yaqui communities’ resistance in protection of themselves and their homelands. What are the eight communities the comprise the Yaqui nation? Why does a U.S-based energy company want to build a gas pipeline through Yaqui territory in Sonora Mexico? How is the connection to an ancestral land a defining element for many indigenous communities? Why is asking indigenous people to move different from asking non-_indigenous people to move from New York to Los Angeles? Los Angeles is on occupied Togva land? Is it possible to organize against settler-colonial-nation states such as Canada, United States of America, and Mexico? The Yaqui people hold a memory of themselves before Spanish colonization, before the country of Mexico and before USA corporations. What is the responsibility of people inside theUS for the actions of American companies injuring people outside of the Unites States? When we talk about environmental issues, do we forget to include indigenous people? How are environmental issues tied to structural racism? Is the fight against the North Dakota Pipeline similar to the fight against the Sinaloa gas pipeline? Why have Indigenous people been paying the price for other people’s comfort. The company IEnova, that is building a gas pipeline through Yaqui territory in Sonora Mexico is a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, based in San Diego California. The gas pipeline would pass through Yaqui territory but would not provide gas to the Yaqui community? Did Sempra energy receive consent from all Yaqui communities to build a gas pipeline through Yaqui territory? What are the legal processes for international corporations to build on indigenous land? Loma de Bacum sued the energy company to halt construction of the Guaymas-El Oro gas pipeline through their territory. On August 26, 2016 the court of Sonora ruled that the gas pipeline construction through Yaqui territory had to stop because they company did not have consent. When the gas company ignored the court’s order to stop construction, the Yaqui community stopped construction through direct action. What happened during the attack in Loma de Bacum that resulted in the death of one person? Why was Fidencio Aldama taken into custody by the prosecutor of Sorona? What are the contradictions in the evidence used against Fidencio Aldama?

Topics: Graduation, College, COVID-19, Family, Community Title: A Second Round of COVID-19 Graduations: Celebrating Through Uncertainty and Recognizing Achievements Participants: Precious Fasakin Publish Date: 05/17/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: How do we prepare to graduate during a second year into the COVID19 pandemic? How do you study Economics through a lens of justice? What does it mean to be an “applied student?” An anthropology research project examining the “culture of incarceration in the United States.” How did teaching through COVID19 social distance classes change the availability for teachers to support students? Dr. Linda Jean Hall “Research is we search.” How do we prepare for a life without school structure, after graduation? How does college attendance structure people’s lives differently from those that did not attend college? Thinking about graduation with considerations of the pandemic. How did going to school help us maintain a semblance of normalcy while coping through COVID19? How do give ourselves credit for stepping up to help those in need when systems failed? How do we give credit to our families for making sure we continued with our commitment to education ?

Topics: School, Immigration, Foreign Adjustment Program, High School, Los Angeles 1950’s Title: “Foreign Adjustment Program”- A conversation on going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s Participants: Francisco Gonzalez Publish Date: 04/14/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: Going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s. Learning English in the 1950’s as a teenager. What was the “Foreign Adjustment” English language program ? The Foreign Adjustment Program included students from Russia, Germany, Peru and Mexico. Why do some students laugh at other students for not speaking English? Why did Foreign Adjustment participants from Mexico, Central and South America get called “wet backs,” but not students from Europe, if all were equally newly arrived students ? What kind of interactions occur between US-born and non-US-born students? How was the group of students in the Foreign Adjustment program treated by the school faculty and students? How do students remember the different teaching approaches, 60-plus years later ? How was the Foreign Adjustment program different from the “regular school?” How did joining the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) become one of two options (Gym/Sports or ROTC) in High school in the 1950’s? ROTC participation post World War II? What was the United States immigration policy in 1954, that deported an eleventh grader to Mexico? If you are undocumented and a teenager, at what point in our lives do we consider ourselves American or at least part of America?

Topics: Asian Hate, Racism, History, Anthropology, Community Title: Stop Asian Hate: Building Solidarity Communities Participants: Elliot Kim Publish Date: 04/05/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Discussion Topics: Is Anti- Asian hate, a resurgence of historic racist recipes of the United States? What is the relationship between the current anti-Asian acts of violence and anti-black racism? Why are older people targeted, when they are unable to fight back? What is the documented history of anti-Asian violence? How many of us have been targets of violence because of the color of our skin? Where do communities that are not perceived as White or Black, fit within the conversation of the white-black binary? Is the violence against Asian communities legitimatized by the beliefs of American nationalism? What California law made it illegal to bring a legal case against a white man? People v. Hall 1850 Why do we call some people “aliens?” Where does the hate come from? What is the difference between willful ignorance and conditional ignorance? How optimistic are we for humanity? How do we dismantle systems of thought for our self-liberation? How do we build communities of safety? Does hatred live in the infrastructure? Where do we find our optimism for a better future?

Topics: Perceptions of community. Social, political and economic safety during COVID-19 Title: Speaking of Care: When in Community, We All Count Participants: Blue Andrade Publish Date: 02 /20/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: Perspectives on community. Returning from Cuba to U.S pandemic How did Cuba respond to COVID- 19 differently from the United States? What happened to the workers when the employers stopped paying the extra $2 pay for working during the quarantine? Are we experiencing different perceptions of reality? Is the government also part of our community? What is fake concern? Is it genuine for the government to state that it cares for peoples’ safety , If the police a government official place people at risk of injury? How did the private companies become wealthier during COVID-19 while so many people were struggling? Is the United States of America a country of contradictions? Can the government trust the people? How do communities protect one another when the government does not protect the people? How has the quarantine affected the work of the communities of care? During the shutdown, we can see the transparency of the capital extraction system. Why the words socialist, radical, and activist taboo? How do we speak with full optimism of this things we want? What are the contradictions in system that requires you to play but makes it hard to play the game?

Topics: Music, Culture, Community-building Title: Music, Culture and Community in the Time of COVID Participants: Eduardo Valencia, Musician and Music Educator Publish Date: 02 /04/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: What is the role of music in community? How is music central to understanding people? How have musicians been affected by COVID-19? For many musicians there may not be a return to normal after COVID. Should musicians be considered essential workers? Why do most people assume music is a hobby? Is music a form of language? How do we support musicians during this COVID-19 shut down? How does music express community membership? How does music serve as an anchor to define community? Can music cross assumptions of cultural divides? Is music a type of language? Can music communicate across generational time? How does language serve as an archive of information? How did Richie Valens learn the song “La Bamba?” What does it mean to grid the music? What is the future of music?

Topics: January 6, 2021, DC Capital Trump Riot, Insurgency . Title: When Does a Riot Become a Coup d’état? Participants: Dave Poyer, Publish Date: 01/19/2021 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: Is the for-profit model of health care designed to address the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we make sense of what happened on January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C.? When was the last time that the capital was ran sacked? The rioting in D.C was not an accident. What were the logistics necessary to get over 66, 000 people to the US capital on January 6? At what point does a riot become an insurrection? How do political street fights move to political parties? Is the Hawaiian shirt a coded uniform for the “proud boys?” What will be the risk to the “ right of assembly” resulting from the January 6, 2021 protest that that turned into an unlawful entry into the Washington D.C. Capital? Will peaceful protests become criminalized because of the actions of the DC rioters? Is there a difference in calling the actions of the entry into the capital, an insurrection instead of coup d’état? What is the difference between legitimate and illegitimate power-grab? Why did we create funny memes of the people that entered the capital instead of taking actions of the rioters more seriously? How did information become weaponized?

Topics: Education, Students , COVID 19, Zoom fatigue Title: Teaching and Learning Under COVID19: Adjusting to the moment. Participants: Precious Fasakin Publish Date: 12/17/20 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: What is the student perspective to remote learning in response to COVID19? How do teachers feel about teaching during COVID19? How do we go to college under COVID 19? How did “zoom” change the way we decompress from school time? Why did school expectations change from insecurity]at start of the shut down to the present high demands? What was lost in the transition from in-person education to online classes? Can Educators acknowledge that this school moment is not normal? How are the roles of teachers and students changed under a COVID19 education? What does school look like when we put students first, people first, and community first? How are teachers supposed to ask students to turn in work , when they might have had a death in the family as result of COVID19? Why do educators second-guess themselves in their ability to teach appropriately and effectively under COVID19? Can we be open about our vulnerability as students or teachers? Maybe our fatigue is not with learning but more specifically we are tired of being on the computer? What is screen fatigue? Why are some students struggle with the online format, while other students are succeeding? Can we adjust to this emergency by accessing opportunity to adjust for greater potential? How do we take inventory of the things that did not work while teaching online ? What are some successes of online teaching? This pandemic has forced us to imagine better futures. How has teaching ton online instruction changed the physical university model? This pandemic has highlighted the importance the support of office administrator, technical , registrar and maintenance in keeping the university system running. The reliance on video classrooms has forced a reveal that did not exist before. Is asking students to turn on their cameras and unwarranted invitation to their homes? Why do most teachers have a bookshelf in the background of their videos?

Topics: Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2020 Presidential Elections , Government Bail Outs Title: Politics of COVID19: Is This Our Chernobyl Moment? Participants: Dave Poyer, Political Junky Publish Date: 10/2/20 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: How much has changed in the world of US Politics? Will the death of judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg affect the Presidential election? Is the American Care Act at risk with a replacement supreme court judge? Why did the democratic party settle for the ACA instead of single payer Medicare system for all? Is government designed to represent the common folks? Was the 2020 Care Act the greatest upward transfer of wealth in recent US History? Is the COVID moment our Chernobyl moment? Why did we bail out the cruise shop companies? Does Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine help explain transformative political and capitalism changes? How does the politics of an Appalachian coal town differ from downtown Los Angeles? Is Donald Trump’s wealth equivalent to the 1%? What is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee? If you can’t raise 2 million dollars just from the contracts in your cell phone, then the DCCC doesn’t want you? Why did the DCCC oppose Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes’s political run? Are corporate interests shaping the rise of global conservative nationalism? Are people realizing that they are like serfs, or wage-slaves? What kind of economy do we have where there is over supply of food and homes yet there is an increasing percentage of people hungry and without shelter? Capitalism is full of inconsistencies.

Topics: History, Police Violence, Police accountability. Labor, Community Safety Title: It’s Not a Trend: History of Police as Violence and Community Voices for Accountability Participants: David Chavez, Historian Release Date: 09/18/20 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org, Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: What is the history of police violence in USA? What did the Black Panthers and Brown Berets say about violence from the police? Were the police held accountable for starting riots to stop the labor movement? What was the police involvement in the Haymarket Massacre of May 4, 1886? What was the police involvement in the Black Wallstreet Massacre of Tulsa Oklahoma May 31 and June 1, 1921? When did police take part in lynching? “It’s not [ a trend] to bring up the issue of police violence, In fact it is historical”- David Chavez How do the military patterns of no-knock raids in Afghanistan become visible in the no-knock raids by police at home. The attention on police violence has grown to the point that Teen Vogue has articles addressing police abuse. Why do people try to frame the attention on police accountability as an inverse discussion to police killed on duty? For some communities calling the police for help means risking injury by the same police that respond to the call. What is the connection between the present police and the slave patrols of the 1800’s? What is state abandonment? How can we examine the relationship between Whiteness and policing? Can people perceive themselves as White by being on the side of police? Is the police an organization that is anti- labor movement? What happens when we apply police accountability as an employment issue? How do we learn to self-regulate our movements as a response of fear of being targeted by the police?

Topics: History, Anthropology, Labor Rights, Society, Society Changes Title: History and Anthropology Perspectives: Past, Present (COVID-19), and Future of Labor and Society Participants: Elliot Kim, Historian Release Date: 09/08/20 Homepage : http://www.dreport.org, Also available on: AnchorFM, iTunes, RadioPublic, Spotify, Soundclound Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: “Hustory” is the human story. What happens when you intersect labor rights as lived experiences with the academic perspective of a Historian? How does the long history of people advocating for a just compensation of their labor, connect to the present COVID19 labor issues? Why do we need to work 40 hours a week? How will our work patterns change as a result of COVID-19? How did the “unskilled worker” get reclassified as an essential worker? Is there a difference between Hazard-pay and Equitable-pay? What happens to the people that cannot do their jobs remotely? Can we update an employment model that is approximately 200-years-old? How do we recognize dignity in all labor? Are the creative opportunities of employment changes being co-opted to reproduce exploitation of labor? Did Adam Smith believe it was economically more advantageous to convert a slave into an employee? Do employers only see workers as non-human capital? As a human being, how do you want to participate on this planet? People power Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914. Why did the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attack 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado? How do we dream big? Dream beyond the expectations of being reasonable. Have you read Looking Backward by Edward Belamy? What is the utopian vision for labor for an equitable world? What is the difference between a living wage, family wage and a fair wage? Does the arc of history bend toward justice or chaos? Change is constant. Are expressions of our power as individuals, able to change our reality? Did COVID-19 sever our sense of collective work experiences? How fast can we change society, to make it more equitable for everyone that is currently struggling? Can we turn around society for the better in a week? History happens through incremental changes but also through abrupt shifts and marked moments. Was Emit Till killed as a result of a lie from Carolyn Bryant? What is your perception of time? How do we image the future? “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” –Milan Kundera Is history cyclical? What are useful physical tools for understanding concepts such as History, Society and Time? How do we acknowledge our own agency to do better?

Topic: Cultivo Nepantla, Mycelium, Cancun, Mushrooms, Sustainable Future, Title: Cultivo Nepantla:Working with Mycelium, Knowledge and Community. Participants: Susie Sanchez Valenzuela and Alfonso Enrique Valenzuela, Founders of Cultivo Nepantla Release Date: 08/20/20 Time: 5:15 PM (PST) Homepage : http://www.dreport.org, Additional sites to listen: https://anchor.fm/dreport, https://www.breaker.audio/d-report, https://overcast.fm/itunes1515004846/d-report, https://radiopublic.com/d-report-WdVVJM, https://open.spotify.com/show/63B5tR8WQPYJ6PtzEQhdBu, https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, Send comments about this segment to: comments@dreport.org Discussion Topics: Find out about Cultivo Nepanta on: –Instagram.com/cultivo_nepantal –facebook.com/ cultivo- nepantla –youtube.com- Clean Cancun-Sustainable Urban Mushroom Farm Can you move from Riverside to Cancun Mexico to get change in perspective? What happens when you ask, “who are we?,” “where do we come from?” How do we explain our move to leave the United states when older generations risked so much to enter the United States? Would our movements be more free-flowing, if national borders did not exist? Did the grand-parents of our grand-parents have the same life questions that we have today? What are some things that you cannot take with you when you move from the United States to Mexico? What does it mean to be “Mexican- American” in Mexico? How do we acknowledge that our past experiences are preparation for this time we are now living? Can we accept starting from zero as a necessary experience of growth? How do we convert non-assets in the United States into assets in Mexico? How did COVID-19 affect the tourist industry in Cancun? COVID-19 shut down global economies but also created new opportunities? What does the term Nepantla mean? Nepantla means, occupying the spaces in-between. Creating a bridge with people, knowledge and community. How does the mushroom connect our world in endless ways? What is the circular economy? This moment is asking for something new. What can we learn from mushrooms? Mycelium connects our natural world. Can Mycelium be used to breakdown cardboard? What are the rules for how resources are produced, distributed and consumed in the local economy? What are the many possibilities for Cultivo Nepantla? Can we convert waste into food? Follow Cultivo Nepantla on social Media. What is the funding campaign to support the growth of Cultivo Nepantla? How did COVID-19 transform how we look but cannot transform what we care about? Creating a network of knowledge and support. How are we preparing for the future after COVID-19? Support Cultivo Nepantla by donating ,