Talking About California is a public affairs program produced and hosted by Cal Winslow and Loreto Rojas, focusing on issues of major historic, social and cultural importance to Mendocino County and California.
In September 2017 Loreto Rojas joined Cal Winslow to co-host “Talking about California.” Rojas teaches at Mendocino College. She is a programmer at KZYX radio, where she cohosts with Diana Coryat the podcast, “Nuestro Norte,”, a bilingual podcast which explores the histories of Latinos in Mendocino County.
2023 Chile: The Other 9/11
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the coup in Chile and the tragic end of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government. President Allende’s efforts to nationalize much of Chile’s basic industry to create an innovative, democratic mass consumer society were brought to an abrupt end on September 11, 1973, the “other 9/11.” Loreto Rojas and Cal Winslow presented an Hispanic Heritage series of three programs remembering the Chilean events and its consequences on KZYX.
Mike Gonzalez is a British historian and literary critic who was Professor of Latin American Studies in the Hispanics Department of the University of Glasgow. written widely on Latin America, especially Cuba and the Cuban Revolution.
Quique Cruz is a Chilean-born award- winning multi-instrumentalist and composer who has performed, taught and recorded Latin American music for over thirty years. In addition, he has created multimedia productions involving theater, dance and visual arts.
Walden Flores Bello is a Filipino academic who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines an international adjunct professor at Binghamton. University and a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman and executive director of regional policy think-tank Focus on the Global South.
2023 South America Today
In this four-part series, Loreto and Cal talk with scholars about the state of things in South America’s largest countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina.
Rebecca Herman is a Professor of History at UC Berkeley.
Mike Gonzalez is Professor Emeritus of Latin American studies at the University of Glasgow.
Forrest Hylton is a visiting Professor of History in the graduate school at the Universidade Federal da Bahia – (UFBA).
Aaron Tauss is the host of Counter-Hegemony, a YouTube channel about international conflicts, global capitalism, social struggles.
2020 HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
In September 2020, Cal and Loreto produced a four-part series marking Hispanic Heritage Month, “Brown Lives Matter.” Loreto Rojas is a Mendocino County educator and journalist. Cal Winslow is Director of the Mendocino Institute.
Part 1, a conversation with UCLA Professor Chris Zepeda-Millan, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Chicano and Central American Studies.
Part 2 features a conversation with Professor Alex Vitale of Brooklyn College, author of “The End of Policing” and one of the leading voices for police reform.
Part 3 features Maria Rendon, Professor of Sociology at UC Irvine. Professor Rendon is the author of “Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the integration of Second Generation Latinos.” She discusses the implication of the Black Lives Matter movement on Latino youth.
Part 4 features Professor Alvaro Huerta, Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning (URP) and Ethnic & Women’s Studies (EWS) at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Huerta talks about growing up in an East LA barrio, and connects immigration, poverty, racism, and police brutality in order to explain the relevance of the BLM movement to the Latinx community.
2019 HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
For Hispanic Heritage Month, 2019, Loreto and Cal Winslow again took up the crisis at the United States-Mexico border and the legal challenges to the Trump administration to end the ongoing human rights abuses there.
The first guest will be Rocio Rosales, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Irvine’s School of Social Sciences, about her research on immigrant detention, race and international migration. She was followed by Irene de la Cruz, UCI Irene Vera, UCI and Bardis Vakili, leady attorney for the ACLU in Southern California.
The first guest will be Rocio Rosales, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Irvine’s School of Social Sciences, about her research on immigrant detention, race and international migration.
Part 2 features Dr. Irene Vega from U.C. Irvine, who will discuss immigration politics and enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border. Dr. Vega will explore the concept of CRIMMIGRATION, the convergence of immigration and criminal law.
Part 3 features Rachel De La Cruz, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. She studies refugees and internally displaced families and communities in Central and North America.
Part 4 features Professor Diana Coryat discussing recent events in Ecuador.
2017
Porfirio Quintana is an elected chief steward and an elected executive board member of the National Union Of Healthcare Workers at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
DACA, or Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, the program that allowed certain undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors – known as Dreamers – to remain in the country and work or attend school legally, is threatened by President Trump and the Republicans in Congress. Laura Enriquez, Professor of Latino Studies at UC Irvine, explains DACA, and The Dream Act, and how it benefits communities, our society as a whole, and the urgent need to defend this legislation.
Louis DeSipio, Professor of Political Science and Chicano/Latino Studies; School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine; and Director, Center for the Study of Democracy.
Bardis Vakili is a Senior Staff Attorney, at ACLU San Diego. His primary areas of focus are immigrants rights and the rights of youth and children, and he also works on voting rights and policing issues. Vakili received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award in 2017.
Victor Clark Alfaro is a native of Tijuana. He studied social anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico City, and conducted doctoral studies in sociology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is a Professor at San Diego State University (SDSU); and Founder and Director of the Binational Center for Human Rights (in Tijuana).
LATCO The Latino Coalition
The Mendocino Institute has worked with LATCO (the Latino Coalition) to raise funds to be used as scholarships for Fort Bragg Latino students entering college or University.