Cronicas De La Raza 29 December 2009 - KPFA FM

Tonight's the last program of year and we celebrate it with a News Round Up of the major Latino stories of 2009 as well as News Headlines from the Americas. We include a special highlight on Cuban eye doctors doing healing work in Bolivia, and the poetry of prize-winning Cuban poet Pablo Armando Fernandez. We cruise through the Streets of Aztlan with musica and a calendar of upcoming events. ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

Live on the air - Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org/streams/kpfa_64k.m3u

Hear the webcast:
  (available immediately after broadcast)
Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles - Tuesday, December 29, 2009


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http://www.LaRazaChronicles.org

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37

Cronicas De La Raza 22 December 2009 - KPFA FM

Tonight's program leaves the solstice darkness to begin moving again towards the light. We bring you News Headlines from the Americas, the word about education budget cuts fro the Streets of Aztlan, domestic workers in San Francisco organizing for equal treatment, and a discussion graffiti art in Bogota, Colombia. We celebrate our survival with musica, poetry and a calendar of upcoming events.

Produced by Nina Serrano, Vanessa Bohm, Emiliano Echeverria Carmen Andrea Rivera, Clay "C'Tone" Leander, Ventura "Mr. Chuch" Longoria and Julieta Kusnir.

Live on the air - Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org/streams/kpfa_64k.m3u

Hear the webcast:
  (available immediately after broadcast)
Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles - Tuesday, December 22, 2009


Hear previous broadcasts of La Raza Chronicles :
http://www.LaRazaChronicles.org

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37

Radio Promo: Arsenio Rodriguez Annual Broadcast Tribute December 26, 2009

RETURNING THIS WEEK: Saturday, December 26th!

This week, Radio Cuba Canta presents our 22nd Anniversary Broadcast Tribute to the 'Father of Salsa'", El Ciego Maravilloso", Arsenio Rodriguez!

Radio promo for Arsenio Rodriguez broadcast tribute:
Promo for Radio Cuba Canta - December 26, 2009 - Mp3

Broadcast veteran and Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria will present gems his rare and vintage collection of Arsenio Rodriguez' recordings throughout his career from Cuba to the United States.

Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "C'Ton" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores

Live Broadcast:
Saturday December 26, 2009 - 9pm Pacific
(12 Midnight Eastern)
KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay & Northern California -
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

On the web at: www.kpfa.org

Broadcast archive available immediately after broadcast.

Hear the promotion with Arsenio's music for Saturday's broadcast::
Promo for Radio Cuba Canta - December 26, 2009 - Mp3


More program info:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=14315


Cuba Canta broadcasts monthly on KPFA-FM during Con Sabor, a weekly program featuring the best in Salsa, Latin Jazz and Afro-Caribbean music hosted by executive producer Luis Medina.

Interview con David Calzado; Charanga Habanera en San Francisco - Dec.22

Luis Medina of KPFA FM's Con Sabor presents an exclusive interview with David Calzado, bandleader of Charanga Habanera regarding their musical journey from Cuba to the world; and of their new US tour including the upcoming live performance at Cafe Cocomo's in San Francisco.

The program will feature music from Charanga Habanera, along with other great new releases, as well as a Ticket Giveaway to Charanga Habanera, and other performances.

'Con Sabor' broadcasts Saturday 9pm Pacific in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California (12 midnight Eastern). For more information about the upcoming program and others, visit: www.kpfa.org

Con Sabor is produced and hosted by Luis Medina

Live Broadcast:
Saturday December 19, 2009 - 9pm Pacific
    (12 Midnight Eastern)
KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay & Northern California -
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

REPLAY FROM THE KPFA ARCHIVE
Mp3 / iTunes Podcast:
   Con Sabor - December 19, 2009
 (available immediately after broadcast)


Articles and videos featuring Charanga Habanera and their U.S. tour:

CNN: "Cuba Music Exchange":
Feature segment on Charanga Habanera 2009 US Tour:
CNN.com/video/


Clip of Charanga Habanera from the feature film "Popular!"
More info: www.popular-documentary.com
(Courtesy of Jennifer Paz, Producer)

Cronicas De La Raza 15 December 2009 - KPFA FM

Tonight we experience one of the almost-earliest sunset of the year and our hopes look to the coming new year. You'll hear News Headlines from the Americas and an interview with Jim Schultz of the Democracy Center about Latin American involvement in the Copenhagen Climate Change conference   (see link).

Our guest Cito Hernandez will discuss the effects of holiday stress on Latino immigrants and everyone. You'll hear the word on the Streets of Aztlan, a poem to la Virgen de Guadalupe, and the Music and views of La Orquesta La Moderna Tradición with a ticket give-away, and hot tips on upcoming New Year celebration events.


Orquesta La Moderna Tradición

Produced by Nina Serrano, Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andrea Rivera, Clay "C'Tone" Leander, Ventura "Mr. Chuch" Longoria and Julieta Kusnir.

Live on the air - Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org/streams/kpfa_64k.m3u

Hear the webcast:
  (available immediately after broadcast)
Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles - Tuesday, December 15, 2009


Hear previous broadcasts of La Raza Chronicles :
http://www.LaRazaChronicles.org

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37

A Visit to the Cemetery of Glaciers

On December 15, 2009, La Raza Chronicles' Vanessa Bohm interviews Jim Schultz of the Democracy Center

Listen to the program (live or podcast):
www.LaRazaChronicles.org

Attached below are recent articles by Jim Schultz and Jessica Aguirre published to the Democracy Center blog, with video, entitled: "A Visit to the Cemetery of Glaciers".

Dear Readers

This week in Copenhagen representatives from 192 nations have gathered to discuss the future of our small and imperiled planet.

The crisis of global climate change lingers over most of us in gauzy and unseen ways that make it easy to still ignore. Easy for us to still live in ways that turn up our planet’s temperature more each year. Easy for us to let our governments act as if tinkering and rhetoric is all that is needed. Easy for us to pretend that radical action is not needed now. Easy for us to still believe that a global environmental crisis is the stuff of Hollywood disaster movies and not current reality.

So now we welcome you to reality. We welcome you to the Andean highlands where the planet’s crisis is not tomorrow – it’s now.

Bolivia’s glaciers are melting. Vast mountaintops of ice older than the human race have disappeared and are disappearing. If you want a preview of what is happening to our planet don’t go to a multiplex, look to Mount Chacaltaya, look to Mount Illimani.

That’s what two members of the Democracy Center team did in late November. Anders Vang Nielsen (from Denmark) and Jessica Aguirre (from the U.S.) traveled to the melting slopes to talk with the people who live in the shadow of monumental environmental loss, video camera in hand.

The result is the short film above. Please take seven minutes and watch it. Please listen to what the people of these Andean slopes have to say. Please send a link to this page and video to your friends and family. Please take in the full measure of the disaster underway across our fragile planet. And then decide, as we all must, what you will do to take action now.

Jim Shultz


A Visit to the Cemetery of Glaciers

Written by Jessica Aguirre

When we arrived at the community of Khapi after a lurching three-hour truck ride along tortuously pitted dirt roads, it felt like stepping into a church. The central field of the village stretched out like a velvet carpet between a border of humble houses. The green vein that snaked down from Mount Illimani – a gash of verdant agriculture in the harsh rock mountainous landscape - culminated here before giving way again to dark crags that pointed to the sky and to the awesome Illimani that stood like some omnipresent sovereign or a stalagmite to god.

After a week of trudging up and down the vertical streets of La Paz, rushing from interview to presentation in the rain, the arrival to Khapi seemed incongruously calm. Set against the expansive panorama of the distant mountains, a small central building squatted at the edge of the village in front of which a community meeting was taking place as we roared up. The village men sat in a circle on meager wooden benches in from of the building, garmented in used American clothes and colorful hand-woven accessories. They seemed unimpressed by our arrival and continued speaking in low measured voices until they were ready to address our appearance, some forty minutes later.

We were introduced to Don Alivio, Don Max, and Don Severino: three community leaders who have had experience speaking to foreigners about climate change. Khapi has received a moderate amount of attention in international media as a terrifyingly stark example of the water shortages that could become common with global warming. The three men were patient in explaining to us the changes to their environmental, but their tone was urgent. They are anxious to see the results of their openness, of their advocacy.

Their anxiousness is not unfounded. Earlier in the week we had gone up to Chacaltaya to get some footage of a dead glacier. The trek was eerie: the mountain was frigidly cold and swirling clouds covered the landscape and whipped around our group. We rounded a point, and our guide tersely motioned toward a dip; “that’s where the glacier used to be,” he remarked. Looking out at jagged brown rock at the tiny dirty patches of snow (where three years ago skiers would have been speeding past), I felt like I was looking at a cemetery.

To be in the presence of landscape so staggering is to feel humbled in a holy way.

When Felix and Javier at CONOMAQ explained to us that the mountains were Achachillas, it didn’t require knowledge of Aymara to understand what they meant. Or to understand that climate change is about much more than physical survival.

[Note: If you would like to publish this video on your own Web site we gratefully encourage you to do so. You can find the YouTube post and embedding information here.]

Cronicas De La Raza 08 December 2009 - KPFA FM

Tonight's program includes musica, News Headlines from the Americas and a discussion of El Salvador's emerging historical memory project with Carlos Mauricio of the "Stop the Impunity" project in El Salvador. From the Streets of Aztlan we'll learn about the education hikes in Watsonville and we'll speak with Aurora Castellanos, a San Francisco youth organizer about the World Bridges program visit to Guatemala. We'll bring you laughter and smiles with comedian Bill Santiago to fortify you against the darkness of winter.

Produced by Nina Serrano, Julieta Kusnir, Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andrea Rivera, Clay "C'Tone" Leander, Ventura Longoria and Emiliano Echeverria.

Live on the air - Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org/streams/kpfa_64k.m3u

Hear the webcast:
  (available immediately after broadcast)
Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles - Tuesday, December 8, 2009


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http://www.LaRazaChronicles.org

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37

Cronicas De La Raza 01 December 2009 - KPFA FM

Tonight's program includes interviews and songs from this year's upcoming Encuentro del Canto Popular with a concert ticket give-away. We'll hear News Headlines from the Americas with a focus on Honduras and welcome our guest, Joel Aguiar, the new director of the Day Laborer Program of the La Raza Centro Legal. We'll stroll down the Streets of Azltan and catch up on the latest events on the La Raza Community Calendar. Listen and enjoy.

Produced by Carmen Andrea Rivera, Vanessa Bohm, Julieta Kusnir, Clay "C-Tone" Leander, Ventura "Mr. Chuch" Longoria, and Nina Serrano.

Live on the air - Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org

Hear the webcast:
(available immediately after broadcast)
Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles - Tuesday, December 1, 2009


Hear previous broadcasts of La Raza Chronicles :
http://www.LaRazaChronicles.org

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37