May 5, 2024--Voices from the MMIW/MMIP Day of Awareness in Ukiah; Don Hess on the Redwood Valley Gas Station; Fort Bragg's Alleyway Art Project with Lia Morsell.

Content warning: rape, sex and drug trafficking, violence, sexual abuse of children.

Links
Alleyway Art Project: https://fortbraggalleywayart.org/
Redemption House:  https://redemptionhouseofthebayarea.org/
Grassroots Institute: https://www.grassroots-institute.org/

Musician Holly Near in Conversation; Kevin Collins of the Utility Wildfire Prevention Task Force about PG&E's Enhanced Vegetation Management, with Richard Gienger.

To buy tickets to see Holly Near in concert at Ukiah's SPACE Theater on May 11, visit https://www.spaceperformingarts.org/notes-blog/holly-near-fundraiser-for-space-scholarship-program

To find out more about PG&E and efforts to finally regulate their lawless tree-cutting around power lines, go to https://endpowerlinefires.com/

Performance Artist Ross Travis talks about his new show "Where Do We Go From Here?" touring Mendocino, Lake, Colusa and Glenn Counties starting May 12; Citizens for Healing works to change the name of Kelseyville, featuring Pomo Elder Clayton Duncan.

Ross Travis's website: https://rosstravis.com/

Watch a public talk by Dr. John Parker "The Kelsey Brothers; A California Disaster, "about the two Native American Massacres in Lake County and what lead up to them, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ylHq8H600 

Veteran Local Journalist Mike Geniella on the imminent demise of Ukiah's historic Palace Hotel and the felony case against County Auditor Chamise Cubbison; Bear Lincoln trial remembered with archival footage on the 29th Anniversary of the shootout in Round Valley.

Eel River News--Scott Greacen from Friends of the Eel River on Dam Removal at the Potter Valley Project; Perry Lincoln and Michelle Merrifield from the Kinest'e Coalition working toward tribal consultation on the Great Redwood Trail planning process.

Judi Bari Remembered, Kinest'e Coalition Speaks at Great Redwood Trail Agency Meeting, and Potter Valley Prepares for Dam Removal 

November 13, 2023--This episode of Unmanageable is a rebroadcast of a program first aired on KMUD Redwood Community Radio in Garberville California on October 31st. It features voices from the First Wailaki Cultural Burn in Southern Humboldt in 150 years, which happened at the So Hum Community Park on Thursday, October 19th. I was honored to be on site with the cultural burn crew, and my tape recorder, and I am pleased to share with you the incredible day that Indigenous fire returned to Southern Humboldt.

For more information about Native Health in Native Hands, Kinest'e cultural revitalization, and their ongoing local events, visit: https://www.nativehealthinnativehands.org/

To hear more from KMUD, listen live here: https://kmud.org/

You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email to [email protected]. 

July 20, 2023--Episode 5 features a recording of Dr. Lyla June and Desirae Harp performing at an extraordinary event on Food Sovereignty organized by the local nonprofit Native Health in Native Hands, a native led, native run 501c3 nonprofit, created by Kinest'e people.

The ancestral homelands of the Kinest'e, now called Wailaki, are in Northern Mendocino, Southern Humboldt, and Southwestern Trinity counties. 

Episode 5 begins with excerpts of Lyla and Desi’s powerful original music and poetry. In the second half of the episode, Dr. Lyla June gives a talk called “Architects of Abundance,” based on her PhD research into Indigenous land use and food systems. Then Desirae Harp explores how Language and the Land Shape Each Other Over Time.

For more information about Native Health in Native Hands, Kinest'e cultural revitalization, and their ongoing local events, visit: https://www.nativehealthinnativehands.org/

You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email to [email protected]. 

April 18, 2023--Episode 4 is a conversation with Art Harwood of Harwood Forest Products in Branscomb, and Co-Founder of the Redwood Forest Foundation (RFFI), about the past, present and future of forestry in Mendocino County, recorded in Ukiah on November 10, 2021.

For more information about RFFI, or to get involved with the Usal Redwood Forest, visit: https://www.rffi.org/

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February 17, 2023--Episode 3 explores the ongoing disaster at the Creekside RV Park north of Willits, where a low-income community is being displaced after winter storms washed out the only vehicle access in or out of the park.

For more information please visit United Disaster Relief of Northern California https://udrnc.org/

You can make a financial contribution to keep this podcast going via paypal here: https://paypal.me/rootiepuppy?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

If you’d like to be in touch with questions, comments, or story ideas, please send me an email at [email protected].