Ep. 103: Environmental Justice Warriors: Little Manila Rising's Matt Holmes
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Release Date: 12/15/2021
Ep. 105: Little Manila Rising For All; Exec. Dir.Dillon Delvo with Emil Guillermo
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, talks to Emil Guillermo about how the Stockton non-profit has expanded its mission to do more and to help more people in South Stockton. From preserving Filipino American history and historic buildings, the LMR's mission now includes public health initiatives and environmental efforts in community air monitoring. Beyond that, the non-profit has its eyes on owning and developing land and projects to benefit the broader South Stockton community. Delvo said Little Manila Rising just wants to do what other groups are doing around the state,...
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Ep. 104: Asian American Filipinos' Continuing Trauma Over the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Emil Guillermo talks with Eleanor Wikstrom, an editor/writer with the Harvard Crimson, about her article on the open secret of the U.S. colonization of the Philippines and the role Harvard and higher ed elites played in educating the people on their own history from a white perspective. Wikstrom describes the impact of learning that history has had on her as a young American Filipina. Guillermo shares his story of Harvard (1970s) to show the generational impact of colonial history. More at www.amok.com
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Ep. 103: Environmental Justice Warriors: Little Manila Rising's Matt Holmes
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Little Manila Rising is a non-profit based in Stockton, Calif. focused on environmental justice. LMR fights for the people of their community to abate the pollution from the area's freeways and ports. It has begun to work with UC Merced on air monitoring. Matt Holmes, along with Dillon Delvo heads up the environmental effort. He talks to Emil Guillermo.
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Ep. 102: "Try Harder" Director Debbie Lum
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
"Try Harder" director Debbie Lum talks to Emil Guillermo about Lowell High School and the college admissions process captured in the film's profile of five students. What are AAPI going through to get to the elite colleges of their choice? Emil, a Lowell alum, compares his experiences with those of the students in the film.
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Ep.101: Little Manila Rising Goes Door-to-Door to Get Out the Vaccine; Protects the Community by Fighting Misinformation.
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Amy Portello Nelson talks with Emil Guillermo about Little Manila Risings' "Get Out the Vaccine" drive. Modeled after the "Get Out the Vote" idea, the program goes door to door to give people good information about the virus and vaccines. And it's working, vaccine rates went from the low 30 percent range to more than 50 percent in the zipcodes canvassed. Now the plan is to keep going through the end of November. But it's not easy. Some are hesitant, and one resident even pulled a gun.
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Ep. 91: Little Manila Rising's Youth: From Stockton to Stanford And Back On a Mission
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Little Manila Rising is an non-profit organization in Stockton, Calif. servicing primarily the South Stockton community. After a recent youth conference, Emil Guillermo talked with Celine Lopez, a recent Stanford graduate, who hopes to use her senior thesis in Urban Studies as a foundation for policy-making in her hometown. Celine talks about how she rediscovered her pride and self-worth as a Stocktonian at Stanford and why she wants to return to the Central Valley.
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Ep.81: How Little Manila Rising, An Environmental Justice Advocate in Stockton, CA, Makes A Difference
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
A Filipino American group called Little Manila Rising is part of a "people-powered" Green Revolution that's changing how the community gets involved in environmental justice. Recently, community members, empowered by state money through AB617, rejected a $5 million proposal from the Port of Stockton. The community stood up to the polluters. LMR's Dillon Delvo tells how and why it happened, and about how LMR transformed its mission to fight for environmental justice.
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Ep. 71: Do You Know Angelo Quinto? He's the Asian American/Filipino American George Floyd
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Angelo Quinto died after a policeman had a knee to the back of his neck for 5 minutes. Emil Amok is Emil Guillermo, journalist, commentary, performing artist reads from the column he wrote on www.aaldef.org/blog about Quinto, the need for re-thinking policing, and what this means for Asian Americans. Prof. Dan Gonzales of SF State Univ joins in to comment on this, the recent rash of anti-Asian hate incidents in the U.S., and other news. For more go to www.amok.com #angeloquinto
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Ep.70: Phil Tajitsu Nash on E.O. 9066 and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Japanese Latin Americans were left out of the redress settlement, but now they have standing to go forward to seek justice. Emil Amok Guillermo talks to Phil Tajitsu Nash, professor, lawyer, and activist about why FDR signed E.O. 9066 that incarcerated Japanese Americans in the first place. And about the case of the Japanese Latin Americans (JLAcampaignforjustice.org). Also discussed: how society allowed internment, and the solidarity movement for justice. Go to amok.com
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Ep.67: Farewell to Corky Lee-- My goodbye and my 2017 interview with Corky
Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media
Corky Lee died on Jan.27 of Covid. He was 73. Journalist and commentator Emil Amok Guillermo gives his farewell to Corky, a photojournalist who documented the Asian American experience and dedicated his life to what he called "photographic justice."
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Little Manila Rising, a community non-profit in Stockton, Calif., is taking an aggressive stand to protect its Filipino American community from environmental racism. Matt Holmes heads up the environmental effort and talks about a new project with UC Merced to make sure the air in Stockton and the valley is monitored. He also talks about the ways the pollution from the freeways and port is being mitigated. The situation is dire, Stockton has one of the worst air pollution profiles in the state, and not coincidentally, the worst asthma rates in California, as well. This is Part 4 of an ongoing look at how Little Manila Rising is evolving to serve its community and to not give up on Stockton.
This is the podcast of Emil Amok's Takeout. See the Daily Livestream at 2p Pacific on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter@emilamok. See replays at www.amok.com
INDEX
0.58: Little Manila Rising intro
3:30: Crosstown Freeway/Pollution
4:23: Matt Holmes intro
5:20: Interview begins (Starts with Dawn)
6:38: First project NPS
7:56: Launching historical park/Richmond
9:12: Air quality work
12:36: Hired by Little Manila Rising
14:43: Environmental racism
15:29: Environmental violence (Transportation planning)
17:17: Public health outcomes
18:00: Warehouse for the Bay Area/impact of trucks
21:30: Racism and advocacy
22:22: Projects
24:32: Who is responsible?
27:30: Bureaucratic Hurdles
29:00: Funding from AG’s office to monitor air pollution
29:32: Seachange in technology
30:09: Regulatory Framework only intervenes on permitting, not community harm.
31:02: Update on community air monitors
32:14: Pollution causes genetic damage
32:43: Volkswagen Settlement
34:25: Bringing science and medicine to the people with the people
37:00: The tradition of air monitoring (50 km grids, historical data)
37:44: The promise of community monitoring, granular actionable information
39:00: Inland port burns the dirtiest fuel
39:55: We know a lot when it benefits powerful people
41:10: The Port is the most amenable actor to partnering to solve the problem
42:13: CARB - California Air Resources Board
43:18: Healthy communities are designed
44:14: 85% of biomass being burned comes from Vineyards
44:41: Drive for short term profits has led to global climate instability and hyper local public health outcomes
45:27: Global climate instability is especially threatening to low income communities of color
45:44: White environmentalist movement
46:50: The importance of Dawn
49:14: Architects of CA freeways(Environmental Racism)
50:09: Problems of wealth and power
51:49: Dawn program
52:55: Sky Watch
53:25: Transformative climate communities work, Urban greening
56:18: The power of trees and nature based solutions