This is California: The Battle of 187
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 675 ratingsIn 1994 an anti-immigrant ballot initiative rocked the state of California. It turned the state into the progressive beacon it is today, but also paved the way for Donald Trump to be elected president. The Battle of 187 is hosted by award-winning reporter Gustavo Arellano and is a collaboration between the Los Angeles Times and Futuro Studios. This is California features thought-provoking, sound-rich stories about California and the West; this is our first installment.
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Introducing "Foretold"
May 18, 2023 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.85 MB"Foretold" is the newest podcast from the L.A. Times, and we're sharing a preview of the first episode with you here today. In the fall of 2019, reporter Faith E. Pinho received a tip from a woman named Paulina Stevens. Paulina claimed she had grown up in an insular Romani community in California, where she was raised to be a wife, mother and fortuneteller — until she decided to break away. That first call unraveled a story spanning multiple continents, hundreds of years, and complex metap...
Introducing "The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times," hosted by Gustavo Arellano
May 24, 2021 08:00 - 3 minutes - 3.95 MB“The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times” is a new podcast hosted by columnist Gustavo Arellano along with reporters from the L.A. Times’ diverse newsroom. Every weekday, the show takes listeners beyond the headlines, with our West Coast outlook on the world. News, entertainment, the environment, immigration, politics, the criminal justice system, the social safety net, food and culture — “The Times” exists at the epicenter of it all. Through interviews and original stories, “The Times” is...
Introducing California City, presented by LAist Studios
July 20, 2020 08:30 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBCalifornia City is out now! California City is a new investigative podcast series from LAist Studios. Deep in the Mojave Desert, there is a little town with a big name and a bizarre history: California City. For decades, real estate developers have sold a dream here: if you buy land now, you’ll be rich one day. Thousands of people bought this dream. Many were young couples and hard-working immigrants looking to build a better future. But much of the land they bought is nearly wor...
L.A. Times presents It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders
May 26, 2020 08:00 - 3 minutes - 2.93 MBFrom the LA Times team behind This Is California -- as well as Dirty John, Man In The Window and Chasing Cosby -- comes “It Was Simple: The Betty Broderick Murders.” This fascinating new true-crime podcast follows the case of Betty Broderick, who thought she had a perfect life. Until her husband left. Five years later, Betty killed him and his new wife. Thirty years later, we still can’t look away. From the Los Angeles Times and host Patt Morrison, this is “It Was Simple: The Betty...
L.A. Times presents Coronavirus in California
April 30, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBFrom the host of This is California: The Battle of 187, comes Coronavirus in California: Stories from the Front Lines, an essential new podcast from the Los Angeles Times hosted by Gustavo Arellano. Every weekday, the podcast gives listeners dispatches from Californians who are in the thick of this pandemic. We hear from medical workers struggling to care for people who’ve fallen ill. We talk to renters and teachers, farmworkers and athletes, from Crescent City to Chula Vista. And w...
Gustavo Arellano's new podcast "Coronavirus in California"
April 30, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBFrom the host of This is California: The Battle of 187, comes Coronavirus in California: Stories from the Front Lines, an essential new podcast from the Los Angeles Times hosted by Gustavo Arellano. Every weekday, the podcast gives listeners dispatches from Californians who are in the thick of this pandemic. We hear from medical workers struggling to care for people who’ve fallen ill. We talk to renters and teachers, farmworkers and athletes, from Crescent City to Chula Vista. And w...
Bonus Episode: Re-Pete
November 12, 2019 08:00 - 55 minutes - 52.6 MBIf you’ve listened to the first three parts of this podcast, you know former California governor Pete Wilson played a big role in setting the stage for Proposition 187. We tried to arrange an interview with him for months. And the day The Battle of 187 got released, we finally got a date on the calendar. So here’s a special bonus episode of our podcast, in which host Gustavo Arellano asks Wilson questions that have been bothering him forever. Like, who created that crazy “They Keep Coming” a...
Ep. 3: Thank You, Pete Wilson
October 29, 2019 19:42 - 22 minutes - 22.2 MBJust one day after the 1994 election, federal and state lawsuits are filed claiming 187 is unconstitutional. And though 187 finally dies for good in 1999, Latinos in California never forget it. Prop 187 inspired more Latinos than ever before to register to vote and to run for office in California. Now, 25 years after 187 passed, the Golden State's bluer than indigo. Host Gustavo Arellano ends our series with a last lingering question: Given President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, w...
Ep. 2: Save Our State
October 29, 2019 19:41 - 25 minutes - 27.1 MBIn June 1994, 187 gets enough signatures to qualify for the California ballot. Proponents get support for the ballot measure through a new tagline: Save Our State. Latinos see 187 as an existential threat, so they organize school walk-outs and a march in Downtown Los Angeles. But undecided voters see the Mexican flags waved at the march as an invasion come to life. In November 1994, 187 passes and Governor Pete Wilson is reelected. Produced in collaboration with Futuro Studios. To learn mor...
Ep. 1: They Keep Coming
October 29, 2019 19:38 - 21 minutes - 21.6 MBHost Gustavo Arellano learns how Prop 187 was born 25 years ago, and talks to the pair of Orange County political consultants who helped write it. We learn what California looked like in 1993 and how the then governor of California, Pete Wilson, attached himself to Prop 187. Issues around immigration are beginning to set the tone for a huge political debate in California. Produced in collaboration with Futuro Studios. To learn more, go to latimes.com/thisiscalifornia.
Introducing This is California: The Battle of 187
October 17, 2019 21:35 - 2 minutes - 4.13 MBThis is California: The Battle of 187 premieres on October 29th. It is produced by the Los Angeles Times and Futuro Studios.