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Lance Knobel, Co-Founder of Berkeleyside, discusses what's happening in Berkeley in 2013 and how coverage of the local news scene has grown over the past year.
Hosts Jesse Townley and Lars Skjerping discuss the past week's local Berkeley election results.
Filmmaker, Artist, and Journalist, Jonathan Riley discusses the upcoming release of his documentary film, "Occupy the Bay". Recorded live 08-16-12 at KALX 90.7 FM
Release party is: August 31, 6:00 pm
25th Street Collective
477 25th st
Oakland, CA 94612
Trailer: http://youtu.be/xvcPrS5kTjM
Soapbox Derby: http://informationradio.info
KALX - KALX.org
Lance Knobel, Co-Founder of Berkeleyside, discusses the growth of the site over the past year, previews the Local Business Forum 2012: Startup Berkeley, and Berkeleyside's 2012 Resolutions.
Bo Laanan of the Occupy Berkeley movement joined us on Soapbox Derby to discuss the eviction of campers at Civic Center Park on December 22, 2011, as well as the future of the movement in the coming year. Occupy Wall St. West - Cracking the Corporate Piggy Bank Friday, January 20th, 2012 Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco http://www.occupywallstwest.org Links: http://www.occupyberkeley.org facebook.com/occupyberkeley
Liz and Bo Peter Laanen speak about recent developments concerning Occupy Berkeley.
Ezra Rapport, Executive Director of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), discusses the Sustainable Communities Strategy and describes how planning takes place at a regional level.
Lois Uttley, Co-Founder of [Raising Women's Voices](http://www.raisingwomensvoices.net/), discusses the recent recommendation by the Institute of Medicine that contraceptives by covered by health plans.
David Snyder of the [Berkeley Public Library Foundation](http://www.bplf.org) speaks about the effort to [renovate Berkeley's branch libraries](http://facebook.com/NewLibrariesNow).
Meric Long of The Dodos talks about what influences his song-writing process, the band's new line-up and the making of the new album No Color.
Lance Knobel, co-founder of [Berkeleyside](http://berkeleyside.com), discusses the progress of the site, the state of the news industry and gives the score of [Berkeleyside's 2010 Resolutions](http://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/12/31/how-did-berkeley-do-on-those-2010-resolutions/).
Berkeley Chamber of Commerce CEOs Polly Armstrong and John DeClercq discuss their shared position, the local business climate and current projects in West Berkeley and Downtown, including the Berkeley Startup Cluster. [Length: 25:34]
KUSF Music Director Irwin Swirnoff discusses the recent announcement by USF that the current KUSF will be moving to an online-only format and that the call letters 90.3 will be used by a Southern California non-commercial classical station. [Length: 25:45]
State Senator Loni Hancock discusses California state propositions on the ballot November 2, 2010, including the importance of Proposition 25.
**Post-Election Wrap Up Roundtable** Hosts Lars Skjerping, Lee Cressey and Loretta Gaines discuss the week's California primary election.
California Propositions on June 8th Ballot
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 is election day. We discuss the five California state propositions. These are: Prop 13: Limits taxes on Seismic Retrofitting Prop 14: Elections. Increases right to participate in primary elections. Top two Vote getters from the June primary will face off in the November general election. Prop 15: California Fair Elections. Public Funding for Candidates for Secretary of State. Candidates will be able finance their campaign with public funds. Private entities cannot "buy" a candidate. Leverages fees on lobbyists. Prop 16: 2/3rds Voter Approval before local governments can provide electricity from local sources...instead of PG&E. Campaign solely funded by PG&E. Prop 17: Auto Insurance companies base their prices on a drivers history of insurance coverage...not their history of driver safety. Paid for by Mercury auto insurance. Soapbox Derby talks about the impacts each of these props will have on our state, as well as who is funding it. Prop 16 & 17 are funded by corporations and have outspent the opposition by 100 to 1 (Prop 16) and 10 to 1 (Prop 17). Voter Information Links: Secretary of State - http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/ Ballotpedia - http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_2010_ballot_propositions League of Womens Voters - http://www.cavotes.org/vote/ballot-measures Article on Props 16 & 17 - http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-business-props-20100605,0,7858605.story
Earth Day with Shana Lazerow, Staff Attorney for Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
The first earth day was on April 22, 1970. It was spearheaded by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, who in 1963, was troubled that the environment was a non-issue in the politics of the country. Seven years later after much political wrangling, Earth Day was unveiled to an American populace that finally had a forum to express its concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes, and air. Today, climate change has become a looming threat to the world at large. Industrialized nations tried to tackle this issue at the Climate talks in Copenhagen last December, with no real success. In response, the Peoples Climate Summit is taking place in Cochabamba, Bolivia, as a response to the failure of the Copenhagen talks. It is disproportionately the nations that have contributed the least amount of climate damage, that have suffered the worst. This can also be mirrored on a local scale as our working-class communities here in the bay area, tend to suffer the most environmental damage, such as the neighborhoods who loom beneath the spector of the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Tonight we will be talking with Shana Lazerow who is the staff attorney for Oakland based organization, Communities for a Better Environment. Their mission is to achieve environmental health and justice by building grassroots power in and with communities of color and working-class communities. There organization is putting on an event this Saturday called, “Love Yo Mama Earth Day in East Oakland." The theme this year: "Green is Good for the Hood." Guest: Shana Lazerow, Staff Attorney, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) "East Oakland suffers alot more of the environmental impacts of the Bay Area than the Bay Area as a whole or even Alameda County as a whole." - Lazerow "This [event] is a celebration; people know they are suffering from the pollution that goes on. We want people to come together to feel empowered with and in their community, to really make a change." - Lazerow Links: Communities for a Better Environment - http://www.cbecal.org 2nd Segment: We also talked with Robbie Clarke, of the Oakland-based organization, Just Cause. They are organizing a rally/protest in the SF Financial District to hold Wells Fargo accountable. The demands are to create jobs; keep families in their homes; rebuild our neighborhoods; stop predatory lending and reclaim our democracy. Links: Just Cause - http://www.cjcc.org Soapbox Derby is Produced by: Jesse Townley, Lars Skjerping, Marshall Stax Engineer: Lee Cressey Host: Loretta Gaines, Lee Cressey http://informationradio.info [email protected]