D Report

By Daniel

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May 23, 2021 A Conversation: Fidencio Aldama, Yaqui Resistance and a Multi-National Gas Pipeline
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
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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?

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38min
May 16, 2021A Second Round of COVID-19 Graduations: Celebrating Through Uncertainty and Recognizing Achievements
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
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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 ?
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33min
April 14, 2021“Foreign Adjustment Program”- A conversation on going to school in Los Angeles in the 1950’s
Topics: School, Immigration, Foreign Adjustment Program, High School, Los Angles 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
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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?
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31min
April 05, 2021Stop Anti-Asian Hate: Building Solidarity Communities
Topics: Asian Hate, Racism, History, Anthropology, Community
Title: Stop Asian Hate: Building Solidarity Communities
Participants: Elliot Kim -Historian, Educator, Community Organizer, Actor and Writer
Publish Date: 04/05/2021
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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?
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41min
March 10, 2021 Acknowledging Indigenous Science
Topic: Indigenous Science, Decolonial Theory, Plant Pathology
Participants: Natalie Solares, Master’s degree in Plant Pathology , UC Riverside
Broadcast Air Date: 10/25/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
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Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.
Discussion Topics:
– What is plant pathology?
– Botrytis cinereal is grey rot?
-What careers are available in plant pathology?
-Are humans creating the plant diseases?
-How did the potato get to Ireland?
-How do we navigate the different knowledge systems as we move through graduate work?
– How does western science take advantage of past and present indigenous knowledge?
-Can indigenous work to domesticate plants be protected from being co-opted by university researchers?
-What does it mean to question “Western science?
–Sin maize no hay paise.
– How do we change current science authorship to reflect local traditional science communities as the rightful authors of their respective knowledge?
-Greg Cajete, University of New Mexico
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants ( 2015)
-How do we credit indigenous knowledge into the present academic template?
-How do we build the spaces of empowerment?
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43min
February 20, 2021Speaking of Care: When in Community, We All Count
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
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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?
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43min
February 04, 2021Music, Culture and Community in the Time of COVID
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
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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?
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32min
January 19, 2021When Does a Riot Become a Coup d’état?
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
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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?
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1h 6min
December 17, 2020Online Teaching and Learning Under COVID19: Adjusting to the moment.
Topics: Education, Students , COVID 19, Zoom fatigue
Title: Online Teaching and Learning Under COVID19: Adjusting to the moment.
Participants: Precious Fasakin
Publish Date: 12/17/20
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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?
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45min
December 07, 2020 Mining the Past to Build Social Memory
Topic: Archaeology, Anthropology, Maya, Social Memory
Participants: Ryan Mongelluzo PhD, Associate Professor San Diego Mesa College
Broadcast Air Date: 11/08/19
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org
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Segment produced in KUCR, the radio station of the University California in Riverside.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are the sole responsibility of the respective speakers and do not represent the endorsed position of the UC Regents, UC Riverside or KUCR.
Discussion Topics:
– Is our understanding of the past based movies?
– Where in Guatemala do we find Ucanal?
-How do you conduct photogrammetry with drones?
-How long does it take archaeologists to map a site?
-What new maps of Maya sites are generated via Lidar archaeometry?
-When were 30 or 40,000 people living in site of Ucanal?
-How do physical features of sites demonstrate significance of power arrangements?
-How does the past inform the present?
-Is social memory a practice of purposefully forgetting and purposefully remembering?
-How does the work of archaeology become appropriated by countries for the purpose of nationalism?
-Is it accurate to frame the Maya of 800 years ago as Mexican or Guatemalan nationals?
– How are our collective fictional narratives based on someone else’s perception of reality?
-What evidence can we use to reconstruct yesterday?
-Why do we speak so concretely about the past, if accuracy of context gets weaker the further we go into the past?
-How do we challenge the present by looking at the past?
-Can we see social inequality in the archaeological record?
– Why is it a problem for archaeologists to see themselves reflected what is being excavated?
-Does the concept of citizenship apply to membership formats of the past Maya classic city-states?
– Why don’t we see native American iconography in the United States of America flag?
-How does the nation-state of Mexico mirror the nation-state of USA, as both products of the colonial encounter?
-Is the modern nation-state trying to forget the indigenous Maya?
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44min

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