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No Drilling Where We’re Living with Martha Arguello

July 16, 2020 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

Martha Arguello of Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles discusses with host Jessica Aldridge neighborhood oil drilling, the call for a 2,500 ft. health and safety buffer, and how community mobilization is addressing the climate emergency and ensuring public health and environmental protection. Martha leads the coalition Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling in Los Angeles. They work in a statewide coalition dedicated to buffers as well called Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods.

Reverend Eddie Anderson, EcoJustice Radio

The People’s Budget LA and Reimagining Public Safety

June 18, 2020 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Reverend Eddie Anderson discusses the People’s Budget Los Angeles with EcoJustice Radio host Jessica Aldridge. He defines what it means to re-imagine policing and public safety, and how to ensure reinvestment back into Black communities. The institutions that run the USA continue to benefit from the repercussions of long-standing, systemic oppression and racism. How do we reinvent and re-imagine the power structures? How do we change the economic system and fund a budget that is community-centered?

Culture, EcoJustice Radio

Know Justice, Know Peace: 21 Generations

June 11, 2020 by Jack Eidt 4 comments

Listen to Rene Mims and Jaijae Kabasa, respected elders, community leaders and musicians speak with EcoJustice Radio from The World Stage in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park. They share with host Carry Kim deep ruminations on the past 21 generations of African American enslavement, the seeds of racism, and how it continues unabated today.

Tina Calderon, Jessa Calderon, Tongva People

EcoJustice Radio

Indigenous California Legacy: Inter-Generational Wisdom on EcoJustice Radio

December 30, 2019 by Jack Eidt 6 comments

Hear Tina and Jessa Calderon, mother and daughter duo representing the Gabrielino Tongva and Ventureño Chumash Nations, share their personal experiences, stories and insights regarding growing up as indigenous women on their Native lands.

EcoJustice Radio, Environmental Health

Jesse Marquez: Public Preparedness for Threats from Refineries, Ports, and Freeways

November 27, 2019 by Jack Eidt 2 comments

Environmental Justice Activist Jesse Marquez speaks with EcoJustice Radio how communities can prepare to confront the dangers of living around five oil refineries, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and hemmed in by the truck-clogged 710 and 110 freeways.

EcoJustice Radio

How Urban Forestry Can Cool the Climate and Promote Social Equity

October 25, 2019 by Jack Eidt 3 comments

This episode of EcoJustice Radio we speak with Los Angeles’s North East Trees organization regarding the powerful effect urban forests have on the health and well-being of our communities and the climate in general. We also look into programs that are working within those communities to provide equitable solutions, green jobs, and open spaces.

Tongva Nation, Los Angeles, Gloria Arellanes

EcoJustice Radio

Sustaining the Legacy of the Tongva: Before and After “Los Angeles”

September 5, 2019 by Jack Eidt 1 comment

Grandmother Gloria Arellanes speaks on the heritage of the Tongva people, who inhabited and stewarded the area referred to as the “Los Angeles Basin” as well as the Southern Channel Islands. Grandmother Gloria offers her insights about the state of our world, youth, elderhood and the intergenerational cycle of learning, as well as how we might honor proper protocols, First Nations and all that is Sacred, amidst the backdrop of increasing urbanity, and the numerous perils now facing our environment.

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