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Sheroics

Sheroics

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What does it take to fight today's battles for social change? From the minds at OZY comes a new podcast about women creating transformational change in their communities. Hosted by author, advocate, and iconic former Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulín Cruz, each episode of Sheroics introduces you to an activist, public servant, or citizen working to make her corner of the planet a better place, and celebrates the stories of brave women who have responded to the injustices that life throws at them by finding the strength to fight back and forge new paths forward.Copyright 2022, All rights reserved Ciencias Sociales Política y Gobierno
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  • A Family Legacy Continues

    A Family Legacy Continues
    Jan 18 2023

    Camila Chavez, executive director of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, is the daughter of the iconic American labor leader Dolores Huerta, who—alongside Camila's father Richard Chavez, and her uncle, the legendary Cesar Chavez—has improved the lives of millions of American workers through relentless activism, advocacy, and love.

    Resources:

    Dolores Huerta Foundation
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    32 m
  • Making a Better World Inevitable - Jess Morales Rocketto

    Making a Better World Inevitable - Jess Morales Rocketto
    Jan 11 2023

    Jess Morales Rocketto is a community organizer who has been on the front lines of several battles in her life. She has advocated for the rights of domestic workers as Political Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Helped to reunite families on the border as the Chair of Families Belong Together. She has fought for women's rights, voting rights, immigrants' rights, and so much more.

    Jess believes that a better world is not only possible, it is inevitable. And her latest effort in pursuit of that better world might prove to be her biggest triumph yet.
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    40 m
  • Mission to Save The Mission

    Mission to Save The Mission
    Jan 4 2023
    When COVID hit, longtime activist Valerie Tulier-Laiwa knew her neighborhood would be greatly affected. With the help of several childhood friends, she jumped into action to meet the needs of the Latino community and beyond. Transcript: Valerie Tulier Laiwa: What you see here are like I said, the manifestations of about three or four of our committees. The Latino Task Force has a range of services that we provide. C. Yulin Cruz: T his is Valerie Tulier Laiwa, one of the leaders of the Latino Task Force. During the early days of Covid 19 pandemic, the group came together to provide their community with essential services like testing, vaccines and food. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: Everything we see here is related to a hub, so that testing and vaccine hub, food hub, resource hub, which we'll see upstairs. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: That's chef Julio. C. Yulin Cruz: Valerie took us through the group's headquarters on Alabama Street, in the Mission District of San Francisco. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: Here they sort the food. So I wanna be very clear about this. We call this a Mission Food hub. We don't call it a food pantry. We don't call it a food bank, but bless the food pantry and bless the food bank. Nothing's wrong with that, but there's a stigma attached to those words. C. Yulin Cruz: Valerie has been serving the Latino community in the Mission for decades. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: Go ahead, pick that up. Up. Pick this up. See? C. Yulin Cruz: She loves her people and she knows them inside and out. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: So we give people culturally appropriate food. We give them arroz, we give them beans and they have a choice too. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: We give three types of beans. Cause not everybody's, not everybody who's Latino is Mexican and eat pinto beans, right? So we offer black beans, red beans, and pinto beans and rice. C. Yulin Cruz: She also knows how to get the best out of each one of them. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: So the women, it's really funny cuz you have volunteers, they have tables set up and they're, we buy these huge bags of beans and rice and they would bag them. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: And if you try to help them, they'll tell you no, this is my area I'm bagging. And so we say okay. So they take it very serious and many of the people who volunteer at the food hub are actually people who were in our food line for so they became that. So let's come on over here and that's why I say again, is food up. C. Yulin Cruz: I'm Yulin Cruz. In this episode of Sheroics we are talking with Valerie Tulier Laiwa about what it takes to preserve and protect a community besieged by sickness and hardship. Valerie and the Latino Task Force are showing how deep community roots, organized leadership and love can transform lives and create a platform for support that is more potent and more capable than any governmental agency. News Clip: The breaking news, stay at home. That is the order tonight from four state governors as the Coronavirus Pandemic spreads. New York, California, Illinois, and Connecticut, all ordering non-essential employees to stay home. Those orders cover 75 million people across the United States, Valerie Tulier Laiwa: So I remember March 20. I remember that we had a very abrupt shelter in place order from the mayor of San Francisco. She said, beginning tomorrow, everything shut down. Completely shut down. And I remember where I work at, there was a huge event that was supposed to happen. I'm like, oh my God, can't we just shut down on Monday? Valerie Tulier Laiwa: Can't we just get through this Saturday event? But it was like no. C. Yulin Cruz: It was soon clear to Valerie and other leaders in San Francisco's mission district that the citywide shutdown was just the beginning. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: The Mission is very strong in terms of, of movements in terms of community organizing around different issues. So we all knew each other. We were all oh, okay, you're handling that, you're handling housing, you're doing this. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: But we all grew up so we all knew each other. What the pandemic did, the shelter in place it immediately, completely like a magnet. We all came together, all of us, and I was on the phone, the very first week of shelter in place with two or three people saying, what are we gonna do? Valerie Tulier Laiwa: What are we gonna do? We've gotta do something. And we knew instinctively. Intuitively that it was gonna hit Latinos very hard. We just knew it without any data. News Clip: New numbers from the State Health Department show Covid 19 is taking a far greater toll on California's Latino population than on any other group. C. Yulin Cruz: Across San Francisco, hospitals were filling up with people sick with the coronavirus. The overwhelming majority of them were Latino. Valerie Tulier Laiwa: There is a pattern that happens in poor communities. So you know when something bad happens, it really happens bad to poor communities. Like when 2008, when...
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    29 m
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