Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Dr. Ada Wilkinson-Lee and Maria Federcico-Brummer are part of the Dolores Huerta Celebración Planning Committee. They discussed “Celebrando la Mujer: Noche de Resistencia: 4th Annual Dolores Huerta Awards” which took place on April 20th at YWCA Southern Arizona.

A highlight of the event is an award presentation to the 2017 Dolores Huerta Celebración awardees.

Isabel Garcia, Derechos Humanos— Si Se Puede Legacy Award;

Nelda Ruiz, Tierra Y Libertad Organization— Mujer En La Lucha Award;

Zaira Livier, UA Student & LUPE organizer– Consuelo Aguilar Esperanza Award.

The Dolores Huerta Celebración Planning Committee is part of the Arizona César E. Chávez Holiday Coalition whose goal is to mobilize Arizona, and eventually the nation, to honor the life and legacy of César E. Chávez with a holiday every March 31st.

The Committee and Coalition honor the legacies of Cesar E. Chávez and Dolores Huerta, specifically around labor and social justice issues at the annual Cesar E. Chavez March and Dolores Huerta Celebración.

Recorded and produced by Amanda Shauger.

The pumping of ground water to irrigate corn, alfalfa, cotton, pecan trees and pistachio trees in the Sulphur Springs Valley…

Growing Native- Black Swallowtail The scientific name of the black swallowtail is Papilio polyxenes. Papilio is Latin for butterfly and…

There is only one species of Marah in Arizona, but there seven species in North America and all in are found in the west and down into Baja.

I certainly opened a can of worms, at least for myself, when I started reading about Forestiera species. I had…

Sycamores are the genus Platanus, which was the old Greek name for the tree that is the species Platanus  orientalis.…

March really is the month of change around all of us in the borderlands of southern Arizona. How fun to…

Inca doves are found all along the borderlands and southward into Mexico. The common name should probably be Aztec dove,…

Rose M. Lopez, Linda B. Green, Anna Ochoa O’Leary, and Maggy Zanger in Studio 2a for International Women’s Day.

In a special one hour round table discussion for International Women’s Day Maggy Zanger, Rose M. Lopez, Linda Green, and Anna Ochoa O’Leary spoke about domestic issues in the US and in southern Arizona and along the US Mexico border. Topics include forced migration, violence against women, reproductive rights, and the heightened vulnerabilities of indigenous women and all women of color. The panel concluded by talking about the future. What can people in Tucson do to stand up to expected regressive and harmful policies coming from the current administration?

Panel Moderator Maggy Zanger is University of Arizona Journalism Professor of Practice. Her teaching and research focuses on international journalism, the Middle East and Islamic world, US-Mexico Border; media coverage of conflict and humanitarian crises; Iraq, Egypt, Kurdistan; media development; and community journalism. She is affiliated faculty and serves on the Governing Board of the UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Panelists:

Rose M. Lopez is President and CEO of Intermountain Centers for Human Development, a Tucson-based non-profit that offers many programs and services throughout southern Arizona who are dealing with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and other challenges. She is a member of the Tohono O’Odham nation, our neighbors to the east and south of Tucson, and is also a veteran.

Linda B. Green is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and former Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research centers on women, migration and violence particularly among indigenous peoples in the Americas. Linda Green has, and still, conducts field research in rural Guatemala, along the US-Mexico border and in rural Alaska.

Anna Ochoa O’Leary is the Department Head of the Mexican American Studies Department at the University of Arizona. She has published many research articles in both English and Spanish on migration and gender, including “Women at the Intersection: Immigration Enforcement and Transnational Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” which traces migrant women’s encounters with immigration enforcement agents. She was also editor of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of Their Experiences.

 

Engineered and recorded by Austin Holman. Produced by Amanda Shauger. Originally broadcast on Sunday, March 5th. Rebroadcast on Wednesday, March 8th.

Monkey flowers are in the Figwort Family (Scrophulariaceae). The species I’m jabbering about in this show is called seep monkey…