Soles of Survivors

Youth Radio Health Manager Tuere Anderson forward this to The Flow today:
We Need Your Old Shoes
Soles of Survivors
We need 1582 pairs of shoes to represent the number of sexual assault survivors in Oakland with open cases. Please bring women’s, children’s and men’s shoes to
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BAY AREA WOMEN AGAINST RAPE
470 27TH STREET, OAKLAND
OR CALL FOR PICKUP 510-430-1298
All [...]

University of Barack Obama- Deconstructed

Yesterday we posted a report by Youth Radio L.A.’s Jordan Monroe where he describes the scene on the University of California, Los Angeles campus:
On February 5, the University of California Los Angeles became the University of Barack Obama. I went to the campus and stood on a corner like a political panhandler asking by-passers for [...]

That Writer’s Strike? Its still goin’ on…

Throughout the Hollywood writer’s strike one reporter has been on top of the story more than any other, Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily. She’s been the compass by which the rest of the media has navigated the treacherous L.A. waters.
Today she reports that with the WGA member’s meeting looming, the deal between writers and [...]

On Air This Weekend

KCBS will put Youth Radio’s Nico Savidge on the air this weekend with a shorter version of the “Fringe Canidates” piece we blogged about yesterday.
Listeners in the SF Bay Area can keep an ear out this Sunday for Nico, while the rest of us should just jump to yesterday’s post for the Savidgely unexpurgated version.

San Francisco: Watchu Lookin’ At?

[Original Airdate: Feb 7th, 2008 on KQED-FM, San Francisco]
Orlando Campbell lives in the city of San Francisco California, where government officials have installed surveillance cameras to try and lower the city’s crime rates. Officials have also decided to ban “suspected gang members” from neighborhoods known for violence, using the kind of “gang injunctions” used in [...]