Episodios

  • Respecting and Protecting our Seniors with Christine Winge

    Respecting and Protecting our Seniors with Christine Winge
    Apr 15 2025
    Meals on Wheels does more than just provide home delivery of healthy food for Seniors. President Christine Winge reminds us that maintaining human connection is a critical and essential part of physical and mental health as we grow older and risk becoming more isolated.
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    24 m
  • The Moral Call to Protect Children with Beth Wilbur

    The Moral Call to Protect Children with Beth Wilbur
    Apr 1 2025
    After a long career in the corporate world, Beth Wilbur decided she would serve children as the Executive Director of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Monterey County. She discusses the incredible work that CASA volunteers do to support children in the foster care system and how they change lives through their efforts. She describes her motivation as a moral call to protect children.
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    30 m
  • Where do You Go When the Taxman Calls? with Lisa Sperow

    Where do You Go When the Taxman Calls? with Lisa Sperow
    Mar 18 2025
    Lisa Sperow is the Executive Director of the Cal Poly Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. The clinic provides free representation to low-income taxpayers in disputes with the IRS. Many of the clinic’s clients have nowhere else to seek help when they receive frightening notices from the IRS. It is even more alarming for taxpayers who do not speak English and who are completely unfamiliar with the process and documents necessary to respond to government claims, even if the claims are in error. As Lisa says, “this program helps ensure the fairness and integrity of the tax system by educating low-income taxpayers about their rights and responsibilities and by ensuring that their individual rights are protected.”
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    35 m
  • Empowering Young People to Reach Their Potential with Cathy Sakimura

    Empowering Young People to Reach Their Potential with Cathy Sakimura
    Mar 4 2025
    Cathy Sakimura has spent her entire professional life empowering young people, first as a youth organizer, then as the Deputy Director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and now as Executive Director of Legal Services for Children (LSC) in San Francisco. In this episode, Cathy describes why she has dedicated her life to serving children and families, how she manages the challenges, and what each of us can make a difference in a child’s life, including donating money to LSC because it lost its federal funding that allowed it to serve immigrant children in detention. https://secure.everyaction.com/cVYzZjzhqkC12TIE2v3q7A2
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    32 m
  • Partnering to Protect Human Rights by Protecting Our Planet with Brad Adams

    Partnering to Protect Human Rights by Protecting Our Planet with Brad Adams
    Feb 18 2025
    Brad Adams and Climate Rights International believe that progress on climate change cannot succeed without protecting human rights – and the fight for human rights cannot succeed without protecting our planet against climate change. Brad and CRI work in partnership with local and international groups, activists, and affected communities to demand justice and accountability from powerful interests.
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    30 m
  • Pro Bono Passion Perseveres Pre- and Post-Pandemic with Fawaz Bham

    Pro Bono Passion Perseveres Pre- and Post-Pandemic with Fawaz Bham
    Feb 4 2025
    Providing pro bono service to small businesses in Dallas, Texas not only persevered through the pandemic - it expanded. The innovative program developed by attorney Fawaz Bham coordinated more than 40 law firms and community organizations through a transition from in-person to remote clinics to sustain a program that has served over 25,000 clients. Bham's efforts were recognized by the 2024 American Bar Association's Pro Bono Publico Award for exceptional volunteer public service.
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    31 m
  • Advocating for Native American Rights, A 50+ Year Journey Still Underway with John Echohawk

    Advocating for Native American Rights, A 50+ Year Journey Still Underway with John Echohawk
    Jan 21 2025
    John Echohawk has served as Executive Director of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) since 1977. Under John's inspired and continuing leadership, NARF has successfully asserted and defended the most important rights of Indians and tribes in hundreds of major cases, and has achieved significant results in such critical areas as tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, natural resource protection, voting rights, and Indian education.
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    23 m
  • Dream.org Sets the Tone for Optimism in Action with CEO Nisha Anand

    Dream.org Sets the Tone for Optimism in Action with CEO Nisha Anand
    Jan 7 2025
    Nisha Anand, the Chief Executive Officer of Dream.org, joins SideBar to discuss how she builds bridges across political divides to find real solutions. Nisha employs the “radical act of finding common ground” with unlikely allies while still staying true to her progressive values. She provides a hopeful message that collaboration can achieve change and overcome polarization and political divides.
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    32 m
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