sparkplug podcast

LaTisha Lawson and Lisa Chang, grassroots from Oak Park, discuss neighborhood organizing with co-host Cadelba Lomeli-Loibl.  Along with Sharon Hunter, LaTisha and Lisa are producing a local TV show, "What's Really Cooking", funded by the First 5 grants. The TV show will bring together mothers and grandparents in the neighborhood to share their stories, food, and culture. 

How can women in a small community effect policy? How can women empower each other to create change through friendship and families?  How are class, patriarchy, and sexism related to a cooking show? A hopeful conversation about grassroots connections in Oak Park.  Recorded 23 June 2006.

Interview with Martha Garcia, a Native Latina activist and the lead organizer for Americans for Freedom in West Sacramento. We talked about the history of the gang injunction in West Sacramento, how this civil injunction effects youth, families and culture, and the grassroots movement against the gang injunction. How do anti-gang measure tie into Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, and big money?? Listen to find out more.... Interviewed by co-host Danielle Fodor on 2 June 2006.