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Oct 22
by Angela in Identity, Radio & Audio 0 comments

NPR: Getting Latinos Outdoors

Eduardo’s favorite stretch of woods is the winding road of pines and majestic sequoias at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park in California. He fell in love with the outdoors when he was a kid, traveling every summer to his family’s farm in Jalisco, Mexico, and going camping in Yosemite.
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Aug 27
by Angela in Radio & Audio, World 0 comments tags: American cars, Orsa, raggare, Rättvik, rockabilly

PRI’s The World: Why Swedes Love Classic American Cars

Ulf Witasp, 46, was just a kid when he started obsessing over “mopars” – that's American muscle cars outfitted with Chrysler’s special line of motor parts. “When I was 10, there was illegal street racing in my town, Rättvik,” he said. “It was a ‘68 Hemi ‘cuda, which is very, very rare. And the other car was a ‘71 Charger RT. Both mopars. So, then I became a mopar man.”
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Oct 18
by Angela in Activism, Radio & Audio 0 comments tags: jazz music, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, the Fillmore, Western Addition A-1, Western Addition A-2

Rewriting Fillmore’s Redevelopment History

In San Francisco's Fillmore District, some high-density housing is going up. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency is building 32 units of affordable townhomes and flats as part of the historic jazz district's revitalization. Lucky applicants will be selected on Oct. 19. But some of those applicants were displaced from this now trendy part of town when the district went through redevelopment back in the 60s. And they are supposed to have a head start.
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Nov 17
by Angela in Activism, Business, Radio & Audio, World 0 comments tags: international day of protest against big box chain stores, kpfa radio, walmart

Protesting Big-Box Stores and Other Stories for KPFA News

An internship at 94.1 FM KPFA Radio News in 2007 resulted in stories about The National Day of Action Against Big Box Chain Stores, The United Nations' UNiTE to End Violence Against Women Day, a nationwide rally against global warming and a San Francisco protest against U.S. government support for what some Pakistani Americans are calling a military dictatorship in the South Asia country.
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