Building Justice

Listen in as Sacramento State Professors Wendi Yamashita and Tristan Josephson discuss Tristan's recently published book on trans migrants and U.S. immigration law and policy as a jumping off point into a larger conversation about doing academic research on immigration detention in the United States. How should academics be accountable to immigrant justice grassroots activists? What can academic research on immigration detention contribute to political and activist efforts to challenge the incarceration of immigrants? 

Find the full transcript at www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice

Listen in as Professors Arturo Baiocchi and Susanna Curry talk with the Executive Director of Wellspring Women's Center, Genelle Smith, to discuss how she deploys an explicit social justice perspective when working with unhoused women sleeping on the streets of Sacramento. Learn how social workers can, and should, pursue advocacy, resiliency, and human dignity in their daily practice with individuals facing personal crises but also multiple, and intertwined, social injustices (e.g., inequality, historical traumas, sexism, racism etc)

Find the transcript at www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice

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Listen in as 'Building Justice' podcast committee members tell you a little something about the 'Pitch your Podcast' competition.  Full details here: www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice  .  We want you to participate! 

Listen in as Political Science Professor Kristina Victor talks with Political Science Graduate Student George Harris about the impact of restrictive voter ID laws, focusing on photo ID, in the past two presidential elections in the United States.

Listen in as political science major, Mai Lam, discusses with ASI Executive Vice President, Laura De la Garza Garcia, and ASI Graduate Director, Justin Hurst the need to have the diversity of faculty be reflective of the student body, and how the lack of it affects the education process for many students. They discuss their own experiences and how it is most damaging for students who come from marginalized communities.  Transcript s2e25

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Farmworkers are perhaps the most essential workers, responsible for providing the nation’s food supply. Yet their experience of poverty, hunger, pesticide exposure, sexual assault, and illness describes an exploited population of discardable human beings. Listen in as Dr. Ann Lopez, Executive Director of Center for Farmworker Families talks with Sac State Sociology Professor Manuel Barajas about why farmworkers’ lives don't matter.  


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Listen in as Sac State Photography & Social Practice Professor Eliza Gregory leads Sac State students through a process of examining, critiquing, and building new antiracist narratives around photographs. What is an antiracist photo history? How can we locate or write one? How might reshaping our collective photographic histories help us reshape our society?


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Listen in as three Sac State undergraduates---Zoya Altabaa, Amar F., and Vasiliy Derebenskiy---discuss the devastating earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. The earthquakes killed over 50,000 people, destroyed over 84,000 buildings, received scant Western media attention, and garnered minimal financial support from powerful states. Students also describe what we can do to support Syrian and Turkish peoples during this humanitarian crisis.   

Here are links where you can support earthquake survivors.  A
Emergency Campaign-Earthquake Response Donation Link: 

https://molhamteam.com/en/campaigns/439

The White Helmet Donation Link:

https://www.whitehelmets.org/en/ 

UNHCR Donation Winter Kit:

https://give.unrefugees.org/230206emer_quake_d_3000?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=donate.unhcr.org&utm_campaign=US_PS_EN_TEQ___230206&utm_content=RF1267610&SF_onetime=7011K000002O188QAC&SF_monthly=7011K000002O18IQAS 

Listen in as Sac State Sociology Professor Heidy Sarabia talks with sociology major Maria Elena Pulido-Sepulveda about Heidy's multiple research projects with transnational activists, deportees living at the U.S.-Mexico border, and undocumented and DACAmented students-- highlighting how people find and create different ways of belonging in the context of exclusion.


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How does education transform when we center culture and other ways of knowing? Listen in as Sac State Anthropology Professor Megan Raschig talks with Desiree Rosas and Juan Gomez from the MILPA Collective about Telpochcalli, their grassroots community education program, and how it builds racial equity in this Chicanx-Indigenous context. 

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