Raza World Visions—A Public Affairs & Cultural Arts Radio Show

Raza World Visions radio show features the second part of a 2-part interview with Professor Roberto Cintli Rodriguez. Raised in East LA, Roberto is an activist, journalist, educator, and researcher. A survivor of a 1979 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s attack for photographing their abuse, Rodriguez has been a tireless witness against oppression. The interview focuses on an initiative to document Customs and Border Patrol Agent murders of immigrants, and includes discussion of broader histories of state violence in the US. The shows include special Matutinos, or morning briefings, on seminal police and military killings of Jose Campos Torres and Ezequiel Hernandez in Texas, with spoken word and music by poet Gil Scott Heron and musicians Chicano Batman, Zach De La Rocha, Los Tigres del Norte, and more!

Raza World Visions radio show features the first part in a 2-part interview with Professor Roberto Cintli Rodriguez. Raised in East LA, Roberto is an activist, journalist, educator, and researcher. A survivor of a 1979 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s attack for photographing their abuse, Rodriguez has been a tireless witness against oppression. The interview focuses on an initiative to document Customs and Border Patrol Agent murders of immigrants, and includes discussion of broader histories of state violence in the US. The shows include special Matutinos, or morning briefings, on seminal police and military killings of Jose Campos Torres and Ezequiel Hernandez in Texas, with spoken word and music by poet Gil Scott Heron and musicians Chicano Batman, Zach De La Rocha, Los Tigres del Norte, and more!

Raza World Visions radio show features a program dedicated to Raza Barrio Music related to the 3-part feature on Raza and the Carceral Apparatus. This show includes songs about police brutality, immigration pogroms against Raza, and the broader Carceral Apparatus by Kid Frost, Aztlán Underground, Piñata Protest, Serio, LaLa Romero, Almas Fronterizas, El Chicano, Rubén Ramos, and more!

Raza World Visions radio show features the third episode of a 3-part series on Raza and the Carceral Apparatus. The 3rd episode focuses on the broader carceral apparatus, particularly gang labeling and the child welfare system, and its detrimental impact on women and children of color. This week’s show features a special guest Katherine Maldonado. Originally from south Central Los Angeles, she received a BS from UCLA, MS from UC Riverside, and currently is a doctoral candidate at the UCSB. She shares insights on the heteropatriarchal gendered nature of the broader network of carceral systems and agencies, and their targeting of and detrimental impact on poor women and children.

Raza World Visions radio show features the second episode of a 3-part series on Raza and the Carceral Apparatus. This episode focuses on US political prisoners, and prisoner intellectuals and revolutionaries, particularly Chicanx and Puerto Ricans. This week’s show features a special guest Clinton Terrell, a former farmworker and formerly incarcerated person who graduate from the University of California at Berkeley and is now a University of California Santa Barbara Doctoral Candidate. He shares insights on the de facto political nature of US prisons, and the complex intersecting dimensions of “common” vis-à-vis political prisoners.

Raza World Visions radio show features the first episode of a 3-part series on Raza and the Carceral Apparatus. The 1st episode focuses on the history of prisons in the US and their role in the development of racial capitalism and the US empire. Each show features special guests such as formerly incarcerated activists intellectuals and people involved in past anti-carceral efforts.

Raza World Visions radio show features an all music show dedicated to Barrio Cruisin’ Jams, old school style with modern variations, to cap its two-part feature on the barrio (4/15/21 & 4/22/21). Featured bands include Sunny Ozuna and the Royal Jesters, Conjunto Aztlán, Las Cafeteras, Grito Serpentino, Lil Rob, Krudas Cubensi, Lighter Shade of Brown, Randy Garibay and Cats Don’t Sleep, Sexto Sol, Third Root, and more!

Raza World Visions radio show features an interview with Julissa Peña, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Immigrant Legal Defense Center. The child of immigrants, Julissa was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, and is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In this third part of the Raza World Visions 3-Part Series on the Barrio, she will discuss the critical state of immigrant precarity, immigration system injustices, lessons for activists and organizers, and ways to volunteer in this humanitarian organization.

Raza World Visions radio show features an interview, discussion, and poetry reading with Jonathan Gómez, PhD. Originally from the City Terrace barrio in East Los Angeles, Jonathan attended East Los Angeles College and UC Santa Cruz, and received a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in Black and Chicanx Studies from UC Santa Barbara. He currently is an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Jonathan is an organic barrio intellectual and grassroots organizer, activist, and poet. He opens the second part of the Raza World Visions 3-Part Series on The Barrio, and discusses barrio class stratifications, the carceral apparatus surrounding barrios, and internal colonialism, with a featured poetry reading shouting out "¡Chále, eses, we fight back!"

Raza World Visions radio show opens the first part of the Thematic Series on The Barrio. This inaugural show focuses on the political history of barrio formations, with special attention to the economic role of underdeveloped barrios and barrio surplus and proletarian labor in relation to the broader economy of capitalism. This show also features a Matutino, or morning news briefing on important evens in world revolutionary history, focusing on the complex racial dimensions Mendez v. Westminster legal case that challenged the legal segregation of Mexican American children in schools, which anticipated the Brown v. Board of Education several years later.