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EPISODE 98 – TELL THEM EVERYTHING NOW, WITH NAHSHON DION
For our 98th installment (originally recorded May 29th, 2022), Nahshon and I discuss yours truly’s roots in Los Angeles, the L.A. mayor’s race, the L.A. County Sheriff’s office, and even Acapulco restaurant. Nahshon Dion is a multi-talented, award-winning creative nonfiction writer, teaching artist, creative director, executive producer, and arts patron from Pasadena, California. She hosts TRANSBRATIONS, a YouTube show, whose next guest, on June 21st, features Writer and Professor Elmaz Abinader, co-founder of Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA).
*It was Toni Morrison–not Angela Davis–in a conversation with Angela Davis, who noted the abundance of libraries in the United States per capita compared to the rest of ‘the West’s’ states and nations.*
*Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was authored by Mike Davis and Jon Weiner–not Weinstein–in 2020.
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IT’S GETTING GRITTIER IN LOS ANGELES
Nearly two years since the beginning of the great quarantine, unemployment in the L.A.-Long Beach-Glendale area is at 7.8%, at least as of October 2021, down from 10.3% in June 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the number is surely higher, especially given L.A.’s “informal” economy, or the city’s undocumented communities who number at just under a million people but are unlikely to be reflected accordingly in the BLS’s data-gathering. The BLS report also doesn’t count people who are underemployed, or working less hours than they’d like or need to, nor those who sought work unsuccessfully in the last year and exited or “vanished” from the work-force as a result. Yet even placing these discrepancies aside for a moment, 7.8% is still at least 390,000 people of “working age” in the county without a stable or practical income this holiday season. Keep them close in mind this winter season, Los Angeles.
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EPISODE 78 – MALA MUÑOZ, LOCATORA RADIO
In our 78th episode, we hop on a call with Mala Muñoz, one-half of the Locatora Radio Podcast! We discuss the origins of their special duo, as well as the challenges involved with being self-starters in an industry which still makes little room for Latinx women and culture. Mala also talks with us about her special relationship with her Grandma and their roots in none other than L.A.’s San Gabriel Valley; yours truly also fans out given that Locatora Radio Productions was a major inspiration for J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast during a special seminar Mala and Diosa held at Cahuenga Public Library in 2018. Learn more about Muñoz at locatoraradio.com, and follow her latest at the new Marijanuera podcast.
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WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD – LOS SHIRTS
Who Is Your Neighborhood – Shirt
During purchase, in the “Instructions to Merchant” section, please specify your shirt size. Style-heavy t-shirts with images from This Side of Hoover, Jimbo Times, and designs provided by Nathan Ward (In Passing LA). Proceeds support a new arts and education project at Quien Es Tu Vecindario, the first non-profit organization by yours truly for East Hollywood. Small – 1 Medium – 2 Large – 2 XL – 2
$25.00
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