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Having Conversations With People You Don’t Agree With

Manu Meel, Co-founder of Bridge USA speaks with KBCS about why it’s important to try to have conversations, and most importantly, to listen each other in times like this. 

Producers: Lucy Braginski and Yuko Kodama Special thanks to Sapan Parekh

Photo: Manu Meel

On the Block

On the Block is an event to celebrate local artists in visual art, music, street-wear and food every second Sunday of the month through October.  KBCS’s Yuko Kodama spoke with Julie Chang Schulman, Co-founder of Forever Safe Spaces, and is one of the Co-organizers of a coalition of artists who present the event held in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on 11th Ave and between East Pike and East Pine from 11 am to 7 pm. 

 Chang Schulman describes the foundations and mission of the event and coalition.

Producer: Yuko Kodama

Indigenous Milk Medicine Week

 
Indigenous Milk Medicine Week is August 8th thru 14th this year.  It’s a part of a series of observances celebrating breastfeeding during the month of August.  Camie Goldhammer is a Social Worker, Lactation Consultant and Founder of the Native American Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington.  She shares this year’s theme for Indigenous Milk Medicine Week. 
 
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Gratitude Gatherings

Gratitude gatherings are held for urban trees in the Seattle area. It’s to honor these elder plants, and to resist the aggressive removal of urban trees for building development.

KBCS’s Martha Baskin has this story. 

Producers: Martha Baskin and David Guenther at Jackstraw Productions

Photo: Meegan McKiernan and Martha Baskin

Protectors of Luma, the Western Red Cedar

 
On Friday, July 14th, a group of concerned community members rallied around a western red cedar named Luma in Seattle’s Wedgewood neighborhood.  They hope to preserve the tree since aggressive development activity in Seattle has led to increased loss of large trees in the city.  The developer, Legacy Group Capital has a permit to take down the tree within the next 60 days.
 
KBCS’s Martha Baskin spoke with Droplet, one of the advocates for the tree, and Yuko Kodama spoke with Sandy Shettler of The Last 6,000.
 
Martha Baskin will be working on another story on Luma next week. 
 
Producer: Yuko Kodama, Martha Baskin
Photo: Courtesy of Droplet advocates
 
 
 

Asian and Black Communities

 
Brian Park is a Korean American artist and software developer.  He read this poem he penned on May 28th, during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.  The reading was at Valley and Mountain fellowship’s Set Us Free From Fear event featuring Dr. Cornel West with an address on Table Turning: The Prophetic Tradition in a time of NeoFascism.
 

Cornel West in Seattle

Dr. Cornel West spoke at the Rainier Arts Center on May 28th as part of the Valley and Mountain fellowship sponsored Set Us Free from Fear series.   You can listen to his address on The Prophetic Tradition in the Time of Neo Fascism.

Bridging the Divide Through Music

Miriam Oomen is a musician (fiddle player), teaches music and plays in old-time bands.  She hails from Eugene, Oregon and was at Bellevue College as a speaker at a Bellevue College event, Voices United: A Week of Campus-Wide and Civic Conversation.  It provides the opportunity to discuss why and how to have conversations about difficult or complex topics.  Oomen describes how music has bridged the divide for her.

The Future of US-China Relations

Governor Gary Locke, who serves as Interim President at Bellevue College spoke on campus about the future of US-China relations on May 16th. 

Governor Locke served as Washington State Governor from 1997-2005.  He served as the 36th US Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011 and as ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014. 

The event was hosted by Bellevue College Business Leadership Community and the Asian Pacific Islander Student Association.

Special thanks to Bellevue College Digital Media Arts Department for the recording.

 

Guatemala Citizen Action

Title 42 expired just one week ago today.  Biden’s new policy requires most migrants to prove they were denied asylum in a country they passed through en-route to the United States. Since Title 42 ended, the ACLU has sued the Biden administration to attempt to block new restrictions for asylum seekers.    Meanwhile, immigrants and asylum seekers are arriving at the border by the thousands each day. The conditions they flee are not going away. 

Accion Ciudadana is the Guatemalan Chapter of Transparency International, an organization that investigates and challenges governmental corruption.  Accion Ciudadana’s Executive Director Manfredo Marroquin and an investigator for the organization, Cesar Vega were in Seattle earlier this month, hosted by the organization, Global Visionaries. Marroquin and Vega talk about the role of the US in encouraging the current corruption in Guatemala. 

Producer: Yuko Kodama Special thanks to Joaquin Uy for help with the story. 

Photo: Accion Ciudadana