KUCI: Ask A Leader

We mark a somber 17th anniversary of the 9/11 with voices reminding us of what’s been and continues to be at risk in this nation of ours. First, Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the LA Black Lives Matter, breaks down the persistent structural barriers that deprive African Americans of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the second segment Nuha Eshaq, lets sink in the huge divide that current immigration policy poses for her Yemenese family, friends, and colleagues; the travel ban amidst a violent proxy war.

Jorge Hermosillo of the OC Communities Organized for Responsible Development (OCCORD), puts on the map and your calendar their yuge Citizenship Fair in Anaheim on Sept 29th; an opportunity for all to assist applicants to become naturalized citizens. The Fair is here before we know it! Details about training to prepare for the big event and the big event itself are available at: https://www.occord.org/volunteer. OCCORD is located 13252 Garden Grove Blvd. Suite 204, in Garden Grove. In the second segment (min 37:43) Diana Cavanaugh returns to talk about the Assistance League of Irvine’s Sept 12, Igniting Potential, a collaborative giving day, as well as ongoing fundraising efforts, toward meeting the needs of not-so-affluent households in Irvine. The 24 hour event is available online at: https://igniting-potential.funraise.org/. The Assistance League of Irvine, for donations or boutique purchases is located at 2452 Alton Parkway, 949-789-5020. Doors are open Wed. Thur. Sat 10-3; and Fridays 10-5:30 p.m.

John Laird, Governor Brown’s appointment as California Secretary for Natural Resources, takes up the California’s 4th Climate Change Assessment with menacing trends that the state stares down; this in advance of the Global Climate Action Summit to be held Sept. 12-14th in San Francisco. Details are available at: http://resources.ca.gov/climate/safeguarding/research/ In the second segment (min 16:10), Robin Ganahl, Orange County Organizer for the Climate Action Campaign, presents a trove of municipal activity right here in Irvine and around Orange and San Diego Counties. Upcoming events to plug into are available at: https://occleanpower.org/

Greenpeace is engaging the public to raise Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate change leadership game in time for next month’s Global Climate Action Summit hosted in San Francisco. Covering that is Greenpeace Senior Climate Campaigner/attorney, Naomi Ages. Assignments related to "Brown's Last Chance Campaign" are regularly posted by texting 877-877 and typing CLIMATE; news posted at: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/. In the second segment (min 17:53), Jane Stoever, Director of UCI’s Law School Domestic Violence Clinic, and co-director of the Initiative to End Family Violence; and Julie Marzouk, formerly of Chapman University Law School and now a consultant; ponder the intersection of domestic violence and the WH immigration policy dealing with family separation. Information on how to get involved is available at: 949-824-9660 or 949-824-7916 https://www.law.uci.edu/academics/real-life-learning/clinics/domestic-violence.htm.

The show offers a warm anteater welcome to our brand new dean of UCI School of Humanities Tyrus Miller; let us listen to him make the case(s) for a more perfect union the Humanities way. Then, keeping the civilization theme going in the second segment (min 38:35), is Craig Tyrl, artistic director of Wayward Artist productions, presenting his inestimable theater in beautiful downtown Santa Ana, 125 North Broadway. Information about the upcoming performances as well as their Kickstarter campaigns is available at: http://www.thewaywardartist.org/.

In advance of his 8-19-18 appearance at the Pacific Amphitheater at the Orange County Fair, Ziggy Marley talks about his music, music he listens to, and where it all fits in these times.

Ada Briceno, co-president of UNITE-HERE Local 11, a hotel and resort workers' union - is joined by two women employed in the hospitality sector in Anaheim: June Mekker, a Disney Dining phone operator, a hotel concierge services worker, and a Union shop steward; and Veronica Chavez, a Disney housekeeper and a union organizer. They cover: Anaheim's recently adopted City Council districts, the new minimum wage ordinance that has qualified for the Anaheim City general election ballot this 11-2018, and the rigors of extending hospitality to hotel guests.

The marine scene is not so much water water every where but not a drop to drink-no, it’s more like plastic plastic everywhere . . . talking about this e x p a n s i v e l y will be Katie Allen, Executive Director of Algalita Marine Research. In the second segment (min 27:38), Scott Lee, engineering researcher at UCI’s Advanced Power and Energy Program, walks us through the feat his colleagues and he achieved, pulling the UCI campus off the grid. We look under APEP’s hood and around at UCI's Microgrid.