Outspoken

Joy Silver has been an outspoken proponent of change in the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Why should the residents of one of the Top 10 largest counties in the nation be represented any longer by a former member of the white supremacist group Oath Keepers, and one who is not committed to an oath he swore to keep the public safe when he has ignored pandemic safety measures and he picks and chooses which laws he will enforce? Retired Sheriff’s Captain Michael Lujan, who has served for 31 years, has stepped up to challenge incumbent Chad Bianco. On this episode, he answers many burning questions including his views on mandates, insurrectionists, and building trust in the community on Outspoken with Joy Silver.

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A lot of people talk about how States, Municipalities, Counties and the Federal Government need to work harder and be smarter when it comes to the responsibility of handling citizen's money levied through taxation of all sorts. But, who is actually qualified to perform the multitude of tasks associated with the top administrator when it comes to collecting and disbursing those funds and managing the abundance of agencies in a state that qualifies as the world's fifth largest economy? That would be the Controller of the Great State of California. Malia Cohen has experience at the Municipal and State level of guiding policies and practices by agencies entrusted with this responsibility and she is running in 2022 as the Democratic candidate for State Controller. She talks about what she will bring to this position with Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken.

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Will Rollins was driven to pursue the Congressional seat in the newly-redrawn California District 41 this November. An accomplished federal prosecutor, Rollins was dramatically affected by seeing insurrectionists running rampant with firearms and other tools of anarchy on the steps, an in the offices and chambers of the United State House of Representatives and the United States Senate on January 6, 2021. On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, we’ll find out why Mr. Rollins should go to Washington. He makes his case to the people of the Coachella Valley and surrounding communities that encompass the new 41st District on why he is the right person at such a critical time to help get the nation back on track.

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, the spotlight turns to a pioneer in the LGBTQ Community. Director Emeritus of the UCLA LGBT Center, Author, Historian and Playwright Dr. Ronnie Sanlo talks about her accomplishments in inspiration, activism, and preservation of the community’s history, and how as a newly-christened graduate with a Doctorate, she founded the first Lavender Graduation at the University of Michigan and today there are as many of 800 campuses hosting these events that show their LGBTQ students just how much they value their academic accomplishments and their diversity. Learn about how this came about in 1994 as well as many other fascinating things from Dr. Sanlo’s storied life and career.

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The Honorable Burke Strunsky has long been committed to fair justice in Riverside County, California. A co-founder of the Humanity of Justice Foundation in 2009, he has previously been a Senior District Attorney for Riverside County. In 2016, he was elected to the bench as a Superior Court Judge. In January 2022, he announced that he will run against incumbent Riverside County D.A. Mike Hestrin, who he says is bought and paid for by police unions, and who has overseen the bloating of the prosecutor's office budget by tens of millions of dollars. Judge Strunsky talks with Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken about what sets him apart from Hestrin and how he will restore law and order, and fiscal responsibility, to the law and order machine in Riverside County. Lo and behold, the rogue Sheriff is NOT the county's top law enforcement officer.

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On this episode of Outspoken with Joy Silver, author and journalist Meredith Jordan is our guest. She’s written two books about the movie industry, with the second one set for release April 15, 2022.

Her next project is called Press or Media, and she makes the case for nationally credentialing journalists. Our conversation focuses on the difference between media and press, the Fairness Doctrine, and how to bring TRUTH back to the People.

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Sweet Baby Jai is the co-founder of the Palm Springs Women's Jazz Festival. She visits with Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken about the monumental part that both Billie Holliday, with her song Strange Fruit, and Nina Simone, with her Mississippi Goddam, played in bringing about awareness, activism, and social change through their music. They also explore what women in jazz are doing today along those same lines.

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Writer & Editor Allison Gaines, who co-founded the Writers and Editors of Color organization, pays a return visit to Outspoken with Joy Silver. She is pursuing her PhD in Psychology and she writes about race, women history and politics.

The focus of this conversation is to discuss the failure of the Voting Rights Act, Martin Luther King’s message as well as Malcolm X’s message, the history and the strategies of the White Power‘s activities of suppression, what would be considered a BIG WIN - and what we need to do to overcome our gravest challenge to Democracy since Reconstruction in this country.

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Dr. Walter Blumenfeld, an instructor in the Social Justice Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, joins Joy Silver on this episode of Outspoken on the heels of the hostage-taking incident at a Jewish Temple in Colleyville, Texas. The discuss the growing acts of Antisemitism, Q-Anon Jewish Conspiracy Theories, and Christian beliefs through the ages regarding Jewish people. Dr. Blumenfeld also discusses antisemitism as racism.

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Dr. Regina Lark is the co-author of Emotional Labor: Why A Woman's Work Is Never Done and What To Do About It. On this edition of Outspoken, she talks with Joy Silver about the radically overlooked gender burden that women cary, and what stands in the way of gender parity. The long, slow progress of women in all classes, cultures, and ethnicities is further complicated by this issue, and is hindering the advancement of humanity and Dr. Lark helps us understand why.

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