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Category Archives: City Government
Air
This episode, we launch a three-part series from radio art collective, RadioSonideros called Air. Water. Earth. It was first broadcast as part of a floating radio station on the Staten Island Ferry in 2007: The FM Ferry Experiment. Also in … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, bicycling, City Government, culture in the city, economy and equality, film, Mexico, Neighborhood/Area, Pit Bulls, public health, radio, Special Series, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Uncategorized, urban environment
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¿Y, si hubo fraude? and unions try to stop Walmart in Chinatown
While most media regurgitate Calderón and the PRI’s assertions that Mexico has a president-elect, today on Hear in the City, Sara interviews investigative journalist and Enfoque Latino contributor Dolores Dorantes about what she calls “A Coup d’ Etat, Mexican … Continue reading
Posted in Chinatown, Chinese culture, City Government, community redevelopment, culture in the city, economy and equality, election coverage, labor, Mexico, Neighborhood/Area, protest, radio, street parades, work
Tagged AMLO, Chinatown, Dolores Dorantes, Elecciones En México, Enrique Peña Nieto, Felipe Calderón, Hear in the City, IFE, Los Angeles, Mexican Election, Mexico, PAN, PRI, Sara Harris, Walmart
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bells for Japan and advocates for foster children
On this week’s episode, we ring the big bell at the Nishi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles at 2:46pm in recognition and solidarity with the people of Japan who were hit by the earthquake and Tsunami last … Continue reading
Air Check: the problem beneath the park
On our last episode, we heard from residents about the history of oil fields and parkland in the Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, and Culver City Crest in South Los Angeles. On this week’s show, we hear about two … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, City Government, community redevelopment, culture in the city, Echo Park, Echo Park, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, Inglewood, local oil production, public health, public radio, Special Series, urban environment
Tagged Air Check, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Hills Conservancy, Citizen's Coalition for a Safe Environment, Community Health Councils, Echo Park Film Center, Inglewood Oilfield, Ladera Heights, Newsdesk.org, petroleum extraction, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Sunset and Alvarado, Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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eastside arts and 30 years of HIV/AIDS: 6/21/2011
Today we on Hear in the City, we visit two historic arts institutions on the east side of the Los Angeles River, and we sit in on a special session of The Infection Monologues, a theatrical celebration of life and love … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Boyle Heights, City Government, community arts, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, gender, GLBTQ life, music, public radio, Uncategorized, West Hollywood
Tagged "Infection Monologues" "Vincent Price Museum" "ELAC" "East LA College" "Alex Garner" "Neighborhood Music School" "Summer Solstice" "Hear in the City" "Jesse Lerner" "Sara Harris" "Luis Sierra Campos"
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04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series
Ciclavia 2011
Luis Sierra Campos meets up with the community outreach coordinator for Ciclavia, happening this Sunday, when the city will make seven miles of roads automobile-free for an afternoon, open only to cyclists, pedestrians, and other people moving on their own … Continue reading
03/29/2011: Education in Crisis
LAUSD School Number 13
Hear in the City visits the construction site of LAUSD School Number 13, to learn more about the New School Construction Program, was approved by voters in 2007. We talk with a young engineer at the site about the new … Continue reading
Posted in 022: 3/29/2011: Education in Crisis, City Government, community redevelopment, Crisis in Education, Cypress Park, economy and equality, education, gender, infrastructure, LAUSD, Special Series, sustainability, Uncategorized, urban environment, work
Tagged achitecture, construction, high school, new contstruction, Sara Harris, school budget, teacher shortages, voter initiatives
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03/29/2011: Education in Crisis
National Conference on Bilingual Education 2011
For the next three weeks, Hear in the City will spend time with students, teachers, administrators, and parents to talk about how we are all dealing with a serious problem in public education in Los Angeles. Today we head to … Continue reading
Posted in 022: 3/29/2011: Education in Crisis, City Government, Compton, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, LAUSD, Long Beach, Special Series, Uncategorized
Tagged bilingual education, demographic changes, LAUSD, Sara Harris, schools and parents
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3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields
Prop L
For the first time in its nearly 140 year history, the L.A. Central library stopped offering seven-day-a week hours due to sever city budget cuts. The passage of ballot measure L last week brings back services and hours. Martín Gómez, the … Continue reading
3/07/2011: “prop O” is for oil
Where is Hear in the City? We’ve been off the airwaves for two weeks now for KPFK’s fund-drive, but we’re back on Monday, March 14th with a one-hour, post-election special starting with a look at Proposition O on the March … Continue reading
