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Guest host Christina Aanestad talks about new legislation making California the first state in the nation to provide a guaranteed income to former foster youth and low-income pregnant women, then talks about indigenous fire management and cultural practices.

California lawmakers unanimously approved legislation for a $35 million guaranteed income program, making it the first state in the nation to do so.  Former foster care youth, aging out of the system and low-income pregnant women will be eligible for the monthly stipend, with no limits on how the money is spent.

Andrea Amavisca, @AndreaAmavisca, is a Legislative Aide to State Senator Dave Cortese and the lead staffer on SB 739, The Universal Basic Income for Transition Age Foster Youth Act. Language of Cortese’s legislation was included in the final trailer bill, that passed unanimously funding the state guaranteed income program.

Melanie Jimenez Perez, Program Manager, for Santa Clara County’s pilot guaranteed income program for youth existing foster care.

To learn about the dozens of jurisdictions, cities and counties moving forward with guaranteed income programs, visit Mayors for a Guaranteed Income.

As wildfires spread across the western United States in another unprecedented fire season, indigenous populations are advocating to practice traditional fire management that they say could slow down the intensity of wildfire seasons.

Elizabeth Azzuz is a member of the Yurok Tribe, from the village of Weitchpec, and is a decedent of the Karuk Tribe from the village of Katamiin in Somes Bar, CA.  She is a gatherer of basket materials, traditional foods, and medicines, and a co/lead in the Training Exchange program with the Cultural Fire Management Council and the Nature Conservancy’s Training Exchange program, put on twice a year in Yurok territory, through it’s Fire Learning Network . CFMC is also co/creators of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network.

Don Hankins is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico and Field Director for the California State University Chico Ecological Reserves.  Part Miwok, he is internationally recognized for his work on Indigenous fire. He serves as an advisor to the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network, is co-lead to the Intertribal Indigenous Stewardship Project, and has been appointed to the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force.

To learn more about impediments to indigenous traditional and cultural burning and prescribed fire in California, view the Good Fire Report.

Photo by Landon Parenteau on Unsplash.

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The Sunday Show first hour looks at the situation in Haiti after President Jovenal Moise’s assassination July 7th with guests:

Jocelyn Gay, a radio show host based in New York, originally from Haiti.  Shows include “Contradiction” and “Radio Amazone” on Haitian and global politics and “Koze Fanm” and “Ledikasyon Fanm” on women’s issues.

Franciscka Lucien, Executive Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, which promotes accountability and human rights in the country with its Haiti-based partner, the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux.

The Haiti Action Committee is holding a fundraiser for Haiti grassroots groups July 24th.

The Sunday Show second hour looks at COVID-19 and the spread of the Delta Variant across the country with Dr. Stuart Ray, Infectious Diseases expert at Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking, treating and researching the coronavirus.  Dr. Ray is a physician and scientist at Johns Hopkins, and he’s a professor of its division of infectious diseases.

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Guest host Christina Aanestad talks about the push to decriminalize psychedelics in California and how to raise a feminist boy for a 4th of July special.

A bill to legalize psychedelics for those over the age of 21 is making its way through the California legislature.  SB 519 has passed the Senate and is moving through the Assembly. It’s got an unlikely group of supporters: veterans.  An average of 18 veterans commit suicide each day.  A movement is brewing to help them access psychedelic treatment for healing the traumas of war, the Heroic Hearts Project.  The clinical studies are overwhelmingly clear that psychedelics like psyilocybin, L.S.D., iboga, and M.D.M.A. are effective at treating conditions like end-of-life anxiety, depression, and trauma.  To talk about the bill and psychedelic research are guests: Scott Weiner, San Francisco State Senator and author of SB519; Jared Reinhart, an Integration Coach with the Heroic Hearts Project; and Ismail Ali Lourido, acting Director and Counsel for Policy & Advocacy at MAPS-the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.  A listener recommended Field Trip Health for people seeking psychedelic treatment.

The rise of the #metoo movement, and startling figures that 1 in every 5 females experience some kind of sexual assault or rape in her lifetime-90% of the perpetrators being men, Dr. Bobbi Wegner set out to define what raising feminist boys looks like in her new book, “Raising Feminist Boys: How to Talk with Your Child About Gender, Consent & Empathy.”  Dr. Wegner is a clinical psychologist, lecturer at Harvard University, and co-founder of Groops, an online mental wellness platform, that has a Groop for parents raising feminist boys.  To learn more about implicit bias and your implicit bias, try Harvard University’s free implicit bias test.  To learn more about teaching empathy, visit Harvard University’s Making Caring Common Project.

Photo by Ripley on Unsplash.

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In honor of Pride, we look at an ancient LGBTQ ritual and inclusive culture.  In the first hour, guest host Christina Aanestad speaks with internationally known poet and cultural theorist, Judy Grahn, author of the new book, “Eruptions of Inanna: Justice Gender and Erotic Power.”  Using the ancient texts written by Enheduanna, a high priestess in prebiblical Sumerian times, Grahn poetically describes an ancient culture that included trans, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in spiritual leadership and its cosmology.  She also draws connections between Sumerian texts and stories later adapted in the bible.

The era of climate change has renewed a clarion call to protect the remaining 2nd and old growth redwood forests from logging. In the second hour, guest host Christina Aanestad speaks with an activist, an educator, and a scientist working to protect Jackson State Demonstration Forest in Mendocino County, Ca from state logging plans.  Michelle McMillian is with the Mama Tree Network, a group of activists working to protect 50,000 acres of redwood trees from logging. They’re documenting the forest destruction on social media.  Chad Swimmer is an educator and president of Mendocino Trail Stewards, a coalition of people opposed to logging plans.  John Obrien lives near the forest and is a climate scientist and fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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In the first hour, “The Potomac Puddle” with John Nichols.

In the second hour, “Liberals on My Mind” Thomas Frank.     

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In the first hour, “Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are” with Jenny Pizer.

In the second hour, “The Bro Match in Geneva” with Anthony D’Agostino.

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In the first hour, “Ban the Bomb” with Jacqueline Cabasso.

In the second hour, “The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Billions,” with Chuck Collins.

photo: Jason Leung via Unsplash

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In the first hour, “Critical Race Theorizing” with Bill Fletcher Jr.  

In the second hour,  with Karen J. Greenberg.

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In the first hour, “Does the Democratic Party Have a Soul?” with John Nichols.

In the second hour, “The Nakba Is Now”  with Saree Makdisi.      

photo: Joshua Sukoff via Unsplash

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In the first hour, “The Grand Old Cult” with Sasha Abramsky.

In the second hour, “Rescue on the Way” with Bill Sokol.

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