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Full Circle

Full Circle – May 27, 2022 – Salute to FV API Community

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As time moves toward the end of this 2022 May, we at First Voice honor and share memories of our community who have Asian and Pacific Island roots.

Tonight we share just some of the stories our API colleagues have produced for Full Circle:     We’ll hear about:

         – A storytelling group

         – The farmworkers movement

         – John Trudell

         – Services for youth 

         – Services for the departed

All that and more plus some wonderful music.

Against the Grain

The New Right’s Origins in the Labor Battles of the 1930s

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What are the origins of modern conservatism?  The failed Goldwater campaign?  Or the Cold War era discontent of midwestern small capitalists?  Historian Kathryn Olmstead argues that it should be located even earlier, in the intense and massive labor unrest that took place in the fields of California in the 1930s.  The response by growers and … Continued

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Soda Tax! GOP Zombie Guest Worker Bill!

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California legislators had both arms twisted by the soda industry, and agreed to a 12-year moratorium on soda taxes. WHA-A-A-A-A???? PLUS: GOP immigration ‘reform’ proposals appear doomed, but They are quietly creating a massive ‘guest worker’ program to exploit and cheat immigrant workers and circumvent organized labor. With host Kris Welch.