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KZSC News ~ 25 Jan 2018

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 26, 2018 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
KZSC News ~ 25 Jan 2018 Voices From the Santa Cruz Women's March (Max Ryan) Santa Cruz resolution on Ecuadorian oil imports (Quinn Edmonson) Possible challenge to offshore oil drilling in California (Daniel Martinez) More online at kzsc.org Max Ryan Quinn Edmonson

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KZSC News ~ 18 Jan 2018

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 19, 2018 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
KZSC News ~ 18 Jan 2018 ICE planning immigration enforcement actions in Northern California (Daniel Martinez) NAACP March in Santa Cruz on MLK Day (Daniel Wootan) Food justice commentary ahead of eco-farming Conference (Lani B) UC Santa Cruz's Long Range Development Plan aims for 28,000 ...

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KZSC Interviews: Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 18, 2018 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Chicago blues musician, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, spoke with Carol from the Test of Time. Clearwater talks about the Chicago blues scene, his Cherokee heritage, and the good fortune of his first headdress. At 83, Clearwater shows no sign of slowing down.  He's working on songs for a new album...

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Voces Criticas ~ Ashwini Tambe ~ Jan 2018

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 16, 2018 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Dr. Ashwini Tambe is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies at University of Maryland-College Park. She has recently been writing about the #metoo movement. We discussed the precursors to this public outcry about sexual harassment, abuse, and violence; what it means to survivors/victims to b...

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This Just In from Outdoors ~ 12 Jan 2018

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 13, 2018 01:32 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Headlines: Alaskan power microgrids, Meteorologist reports on climate change, a CAT scan of the Earth, New tech beams heat into space. Stories: Wildfire insurance gets expensive, hard to find; Pushback against Measure Z in Monterey; Children's climate lawsuit argued in SF court; Californians p...

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KZSC News ~ 11 Jan 2018

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 11, 2018 16:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
KZSC News ~ 11 Jan 2018 Offshore oil drilling in California possibly to be expanded (Jordan Penland) Monterey County group fights to oust oil drilling and fracking (Ty Goering) Santa Cruz County Supervisor details 2018 priorities (Daniel Wootan) More online at kzsc.org

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KZSC Interviews: Mele'uhane

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 10, 2018 06:43 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Download episode Listen in as we chat and hear music by Mele'uhane, coming from Kona, on Hawai'i island; Keikilani Lindsey, the dad, with sons Leo and Kaneala. Living the life of traveling musicians, they are on the mainland touring in support of their newest CD, Anaspond. In addition to th...

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Voces Criticas ~ NPR Carrie Kahn ~ Dec 21 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - January 01, 2018 14:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Carrie Kahn is an award-winning NPR foreign correspondent. In this interview, she discussed the challenges of reporting about natural disasters and the bravery of local journalists in Latin America who risk their lives to provide the news. She provided an update on the rebuilding efforts in Mexi...

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Voces Criticas ~ Norma Klahn Pedro Castillo ~ Dec 7 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - December 30, 2017 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Professor Emeritus Norma Klahn (Literature) and Professor Emeritus Pedro Castillo (History) are the co-founders of UC Santa Cruz's Chicano Latino Research Center (CLRC). They also served as the Center's first co-directors in the 1990s. The CLRC is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year (2017...

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Voces Criticas ~ Beth Currans ~ Dec 14 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - December 29, 2017 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Professor Beth Currans is the author of a new book called Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Activists Transform Public Space (University of Illinois Press). She is an associate professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Eastern Michigan University. We discussed her ma...

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Voces Criticas ~ Chris Zepeda Millan ~ Nov 30 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - December 03, 2017 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Chris Zepeda-Millan is the author of a new book called Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism (2017, Cambridge University Press).  Dr. Zepeda-Millan is an assistant professor in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.  We discussed his book's major findings, about...

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Voces Criticas ~ Alan Christy Gail Project ~ Nov 2 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - November 28, 2017 17:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue is a multi-year public history project involving professors and undergraduate student researchers. As the project director, UC Santa Cruz Professor Alan Christy spoke about the extent of military occupation of Okinawa today, about Charles Eugene Ga...

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This Just in from Outdoors ~ 20 October 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - November 09, 2017 22:46 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Headlines: Death toll rises in Santa Rosa fires, More mega fires expected in CA future, Increase in black carbon, CA senators introduce land protection bill, Birds illuminating playful side of animals, Gardeners fostering bee and butterfly populations, Researching maximum efficiency of wind farm...

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Voces Criticas - Juan Davila on Puerto Rico Oct 26 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - November 02, 2017 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Puerto Rico has been devastated following Hurricane Maria. Juan Carlos Davila Santiago, is a filmmaker, journalist, writer, and graduate student in the doctoral program of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He recently returned from a trip to Puerto Ri...

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This Just in from Outdoors ~ 27 October 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 28, 2017 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Headlines: Fires trigger anti-gouging rent control, Grants issued to clean up illegal cannabis grows, Sudden oak death, and more. Stories: California's wildlife agency sued over whale entanglements, climate change could make tick population grow, oil train proposal for the California coast is ...

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KZSC News ~ 2017 10 26

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 28, 2017 04:57 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
KZSC News ~ 2017 10 26 Rent Control Imposed following fires (Jordan Penland) Study: More fires like Napa's in California's future (Jordan Penland) Juvenile accused of murder to stand trial as an adult (Jordan Penland) Rent Control on Santa Cruz ballot (Daniel Wootan) Santa Cruz appr...

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Voces Criticas ~ Bookshop Santa Cruz & Words to Act On ~ Oct 19 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 28, 2017 03:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Bookshop Santa Cruz, a locally owned and independent bookstore, has organized a series of events this past year as part of a new program called Words to Act On: Education, Empathy, and Action. This Fall 2017, Santa Cruz Bookshop has organized a series of events and campaign addressing the topic ...

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KZSC Slug Talk 10.13.17 UCSC Cross Country

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 21, 2017 01:37 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this week's installment of Slug Talk, RIZ aka RSD interviews Nick Kleiber, Nicole O'Connor, Dante Capone, and Autumn Brown--four student-athletes from the UCSC Cross Country Team. Recorded live on-air 10.13.17.

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KZSC News ~ 2017 10 19

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 19, 2017 21:02 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
KZSC News ~ 2017 10 19 Cabrillo College students hacked Fire rages in Boulder Creek Evangelist wins settlement with city of SC O'mei restaurant reopens Examining wine country fires New SCPD Chief's homeless strategy Interview with Chicano Batman Arrests at UCSC College Repub...

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This Just In From Outdoors - 15 September 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 16, 2017 18:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
We report on environmental threats to the coastal zone, the 25th birthday of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary and the hepatitis A outbreak in SC County. Plus headlines, a calendar of events and more.      

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This Just In From Outdoors - 13 October 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 16, 2017 16:27 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
We review the latest on the rash of wildfires in Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties, and celebrate the reopening of the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Hwy 1, destroyed after wildfires and landslides struck Big Sur. Plus headlines, a calendar of events and more.

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Voces Criticas ~ No Place Like Home ~ Oct 12 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 13, 2017 19:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Santa Cruz County is experiencing a major housing crisis.  Steven McKay, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, is the co-Principle investigator of a research project called "No Place Like Home" to better understand the housing crisis in the area.  Hermes Padilla is an undergraduate ...

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KZSC News ~ 2017 10 12

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 12, 2017 20:02 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
KZSC News ~ 2017 10 12 Wildfires raze urban California areas (Tyler Harris & Keith Rozendal) Monterey Peninsula Pushes For Public Water Company (Matt) Arrests Weapon filled music video (Charlotte) The Fight Against Chloropyrifos (Samantha Rocinos) Peak Monarch Watching Season (Olivia Jo...

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Voces Criticas ~ Rebecca Covarrubias & #FirstGeneration ~ Sept 28 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 12, 2017 05:06 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
An interview with Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCSC and the Director of The Culture & Achievement Collaborative. She is a first generation college student and now faculty member who helped launch UCSC's First Generation Initiative to raise the visibility of the F...

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Voces Criticas ~ Coal Industry & Global Warming ~ Oct 5 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 12, 2017 02:31 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
An interview with Dr. Christine Shearer of Coalswarm about the coal industry and global warming.  Coalswarm is a conglomerate which tracks coal projects around the world. Dr. Shearer discussed how these coal projects are affecting the climate, the myths purported by the current administration ab...

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Voces Criticas ~ Democratizing Education ~ Sept 21 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 12, 2017 01:56 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
An interview with Professor Zeus Leonardo of UC Berkeley's Education Department. We discussed his research on race and pedagogy, about the challenges facing public education today, and about the differences between white privilege and white supremacy as a framework to discuss whiteness. We also ...

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This Just In From Outdoors - 6 Oct 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 07, 2017 00:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
We report on air quality in the Santa Cruz Mountains and what some locals are doing to help. Plus an interview with an independent Native American journalist, environmental news headlines, a calendar of events and more.

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Talkabout ~ Comic book shop owner, Joe Ferrara

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 02, 2017 17:50 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Originally aired on Talkabout, August 16. 2017. Mairo Kuntze interviews comic book shop owner and musician Joe Ferrara, who tells stories of working with "The Lost Boys" cast, as well as being acquainted with artists before they became famous such as Adam Scott and Juice Newton.

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Voces Criticas ~ Kivalina (Alaska) & Climate Displacement ~ Sept 14 2017

KZSC Santa Cruz - October 02, 2017 03:51 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
An interview with Dr. Shearer of Coalswarm to discuss the effects of climate change on the village of Kivalina, located in a remote area of Alaska. Dr. Shearer is the author of Kivalina: A Climate Change Story (2011, Haymarket Press). Dr. Shearer discusses how climate change is forcibly displaci...

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Prisoners and the Right to Books

KZSC Santa Cruz - September 08, 2017 19:29 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratings
An interview with Peter Esmonde, long-time volunteer with the Prisoners Literature Project.  The Prisoners Literature Project is an all volunteer, grassroots, non-profit organization that has sent books to prisoners in 49 states.  We discussed how the PLP started, about the history of the books-...

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