The Sunset Park Podcast

A quick little episode letting our listeners know what we have line up in the next couple of weeks.

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On Today's Episode we bring you the debate that took place on August 29th between the candidates running for City Council in the 38th District. The debate was hosted by The Red Hook Star Review and took place at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The candidates that participated in the debate were:
Carmen Hulbert
Sara Gonzalez
Delvis Valdez
Felix Ortiz
Carlos Menchaca
Chris Miao did not attend due to a family emergency.

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Green Party Candidate Carmen V Hulbert is running for City Council in the 38th district. Carmen sat down with Rob Aguilar for a very interesting conversation about her extensive background as a journalist with the Associated Press and her motivation in running for City Council. Carmen was the co-founder of Latinos For Bernie Sanders, her stance on things like, immigration, education, housing, healthcare and gentrification are in line with Bernie Sanders and his views on those same issues.

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Episode #18.

You have probably noticed the flags all along the fence on the 5th Avenue side of the park, they were put up by Junior Allende. Junior is our guest on this episode, he had a conversation with Rob Aguilar about what inspired him to work on this display.

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Sunset Park Native, Professional Boxer Julian Sosa is our guest on episode 17, he will be fighting on April 22nd, 2017 at the Barclay's Center. We also spoke to his father and trainer Aureliano Sosa, he gave us an insight on what it's like to train his son.

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Tony Giordano is our guest on episode #16, Tony is the founder of the very popular Sunset Parker Facebook Group with close to 10,000 members. Rob and Tony spoke about how and why the group was founded and about its influence in the community.
This is an election year, Tony made a very interesting revelation regarding the election!

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We've got a quick one for you today because there's only a day left for voting in Participatory Budgeting in District 38!

Anita Bulan spoke with Participatory Budgeting volunteer (and local teacher) Victor Nolasco at the PS 24 polling site about why PB is important in our community and how he's helping to build active residents of Sunset Park.

Carlos Menchaca has been the District 38 Council Member since 2013, and is up for reelection later this year.

Carlos spoke with Anita Bulan about issues affecting Sunset Park, including immigration, Broken Windows, homelessness, and tenancy harassment, as well as the busy September ballot.

Episode #12

On Today's episode we attended a Know Your Rights meeting at Community Board 7, the subject quickly turned to Senator Jesse Hamilton's affiliation with The Independent Democratic Conference.

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On the day of the inauguration of President Trump, the eve of the Women's March on Washington, DC, and a celebration of community and service with the Day of Volunteerism in Sunset Park, we spoke with Rovika Rajkishun.

Along with her neighbor Shanna Castillo, Rovika has been instrumental in organizing community members who want to come together to take action against the realities of a Trump presidency. With a renewed focus on allyship and connecting with existing neighborhood resources, Rovika talks about sentiment, a new world order, and fighting for those things most important to her and her family.