California State Assemblymember Gail Pellerin - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (5/19/2023)
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Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, discusses the State Legislatures's "suspense file," how the state is handling a potential $32 billion budget shortfall, and the nitty-gritty of how a bill moves through committees. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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California State Senator John Laird - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (5/5/2023)
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John Laird, California State Senator, on collaborating with other state governments, a recent bill with the Sierra Conservancy, and how bills are named. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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Author Tina Baine - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (3/31/2023)
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Tina Baine, author of AROMASTORY: The Overlooked History Of An Underdog Town, on her journalism background, local land grants, and the 12-year process of writing AROMASTORY (which, according to Baine, was not unlike childbirth). Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange and Kaos.
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Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (3/10/2023)
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Fred Keeley, mayor of Santa Cruz, discusses his personal history in Santa Cruz, pay issues in local government, and the city's various housing expansion efforts (most notably south of Laurel). Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange and "Kalamity Kyle" Keller.
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California State Senator John Laird - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (3/3/2023)
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John Laird, California State Senator, on the pitfalls of corporate fundraising, UCSC on-campus housing, and recent environmental issues in the Sierra Nevada. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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Santa Cruz County OR3 Director Dave Reid - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (2/24/2023)
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Dave Reid -- Director of the Santa Cruz County Office of Response, Recovery, and Resilience -- discuss the office's founding, their response to recent winter storms, and what a public works official can and can't control. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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Central Coast Community Energy (3CE) - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (3/8/2024)
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Griffin Boyle and Gine Johnson from Central Coast Community Energy 3CE discuss their efforts to re-direct profits locally, the function and importance of heat pumps, and 3CE's Electrify Your Home program. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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Yuji Tojo Percussionist Jim Greiner - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (2/17/2023)
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Jim Greiner, percussionist for local band Yuji Tojo, on layering electric guitar tracks, musical influences, and the "business" part of the "music business." Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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California State Assemblymember Gail Pellerin - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (2/17/2023)
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Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, speaks on the recent deadline for "gutting and amending" bills, how her office writes bills, and "new Assembly smell." Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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Former Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (2/10/2023)
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Don Lane, former mayor of Santa Cruz, discusses his recent Lookout Santa Cruz op-ed entitled "Eight things you know about homelessness that are wrong." Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange and Kaos.
info_outlineGina Dent is an activist, author and associate professor of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dent discusses the movement to abolish police and prisons and efforts to create community health and safety without systems of coercion and punishment.
“Visualizing Abolition” is a year-long series featuring artists, activists, scholars and lawyers struggling for prison abolition. Presented by the Institute for Arts and Sciences at UCSC, the events run from October 20 to May 19, 2021 and are, “designed to examine the ways people see and understand issues of mass incarceration, detention, and policing in the United States and abroad, challenging the prevailing social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote.”
“Abolition. Feminism. Now” is the forthcoming book by Gina Dent, Angela Davis, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie, scheduled for release by Haymarket Books on March 2, 2021.
This interview was conducted by John Malkin and was originally broadcast on “Transformation Highway” on October 16, 2020 on KZSC 88.1 FM, kzsc.org.