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Podcast: The economic case for a $15 minimum wage

In this episode of Who Belongs? we look at the impacts of minimum wage increases with Michael Reich, a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley.

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July 22, 2021

Podcast: How ICE uses tech to target immigrants

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Jacinta González, an organizer with Mijente, a non-profit which leads campaigns to educate and organize around issues concerning immigration, detentions and deportations.

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Podcast: Storming the Capitol and the dilemma of Trumpism

In this episode of Who Belongs?, we hear from three thinkers and members of the OBI faculty — john a. powell, Ian Haney López, and Emnet Almedom — on the situation unfolding in the wake of the Washington D.C. riots.

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December 18, 2020

Podcast: The struggle against Islamophobia in France

In this episode of Who Belongs?, we speak with two activists based in France — Yasser Louati and Houria Bouteldja — about the intensification of Islamophobia and state repression unfolding in the country following Samuel Paty's gruesome murder.

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October 15, 2020

Podcast: 'A kick in the stomach'. Ethnic studies advocates react to Newsom veto

In this episode of Who Belongs?, we speak with Lara Kiswani, Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center based in San Francisco, and Theresa Montaño, professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University...

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August 14, 2020

Podcast: Can social housing provide a solution to a looming mass eviction crisis?

In this episode of Who Belongs?, we speak with Carroll Fife, an organizer, mother, and director of the Oakland office of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, also known as ACCE. Earlier this year, she was involved in coordinating...

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August 5, 2020

Podcast: Trump attacks fair housing: What does the end of AFFH spell for integration?

Last week Trump announced he had eliminated an Obama-era fair housing rule put in place in 2015 to reverse patterns of residential segregation that have been in place for many decades. The move was widely seen as both an attack on integration and...

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July 28, 2020

Podcast: Settler colonialism, the insurrections of the 1960s, and today

In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of more than 30 books. Professor Horne has written on a spectrum of issues and events including the...

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July 2, 2020

Podcast: Can we have a future without police?

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Erin Kerrison, an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley, to discuss her thoughts on transforming social structures and imagining futures beyond police following the murder of George Floyd.

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June 22, 2020

Podcast: Why are people around the world knocking down old statues?

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Adam Hochschild, a prominent historian, journalist, and a best selling author who wrote King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, among many other books. He's also a...

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May 29, 2020

Podcast: "It's not just murder. It's terror." john a. powell on George Floyd

In this episode of Who Belongs? we’re bringing back john a. powell, our director at the O&B Institute, and professor of Law and African American studies at UC Berkeley, to talk about the ongoing events in Minneapolis following the police killing of...

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May 8, 2020

Podcast: 'Freedom v. Equality': john a. powell on the clash over shelter-in-place and its roots in slavery

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from john a. powell, a professor of Law and African American studies at UC Berkeley. He’s also the director of the Othering & Belonging Institute. In the interview professor powell offers historical context for...

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April 29, 2020

Podcast: Racism and COVID-19: The historical, political, and social foundations

In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from a three-guest panel of Berkeley faculty who provide various perspectives on the different forms of racism we’ve been witnessing since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hear about the experiences of...

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April 22, 2020

Podcast: How this Bay Area food bank is responding to a surge in demand

In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Alex Boskovich, who is the Government Relations Officer at the Alameda County Community Food Bank based in Oakland, which collects and distributes food and other resources to about 300 partner...

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April 14, 2020

Podcast: ICE raids, farmworkers, & the COVID-19 crisis

In this episode of Who Belongs? we look at the reality facing undocumented immigrants and migrant farmworkers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hear from three researchers who discuss some of their recent and upcoming articles that look at...

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March 9, 2020

Podcast: Ian Haney López on Bernie Sanders & the Race-Class Message

Click to download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Ian Haney Lopez, a professor of law here at UC Berkeley, about his new book: Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. The book...

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January 24, 2020

Podcast: Surveying Black Women Voters in Nevada

Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests, Erika Washington and Quentin Savwoir from a civic engagement group in Nevada called Make it Work - Nevada. In the interview they discuss a recent survey they...

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December 18, 2019

Podcast: 400 Years of Resistance to Slavery Initiative at UC Berkeley

Download an MP3 of this episode.In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests about a year-long initiative at UC Berkeley marking the 400th anniversary of the start to slavery in North America. The initiative includes weekly events with...

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December 2, 2019

Podcast: Alicia Garza on Identity Politics and 2020 US Presidential Election

Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Alicia Garza, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement and the principal of the Black Futures Lab, which is an organization that engages Black voters year...

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November 13, 2019

Podcast: Mobilizing Hard-to-Count Populations for Census 2020

Download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Michael Gomez Daly, the director of the Inland Empowerment coalition, and Sky Allen, who is the coalition's census coordinator, about their efforts to mobilize people in...

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November 5, 2019

Podcast: Journalist Lawrence Lanahan on Crossing Baltimore's Racial Divide

Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs?, we hear from journalist and author Lawrence Lanahan, from Baltimore, about his new book called The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. The...

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September 19, 2019

Podcast: Voter Suppression in Georgia, with Robert Greenwald and Carol Anderson

Download an MP3 of this interview.This episode of Who Belongs? is another installment of our Civic Engagement Narrative Change project series, with project researcher Josh Clark interviewing two guests: The first is Robert Greenwald, an award-winning...

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July 29, 2019

Podcast: Artist Christine Wong Yap on her Places of Belonging Project

In this episode of Who Belongs? host Sara Grossman interviews Christine Wong Yap, who became the Haas Institute's first Artist in Residence in the fall of 2018, about her "Places of Belonging" project, which was recently featured in a KQED report.

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June 17, 2019

Podcast: Prof. Agata Lisiak on Migration and Gentrification in Europe

Download an MP3 of this interview here.In this episode of Who Belongs? Sara Grossman speaks with Agata Lisiak, a professor of migration studies at Bard College Berlin, about her work on Eastern European migration to the Western Europe, the...

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May 10, 2019

Podcast: Engaging Asian Pacific Islanders, with Luisa Blue of the SEIU

Download an MP3 of this interview here.In this episode of Who Belongs, we talk to Luisa Blue, who is the Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and an expert on Asian Pacific Islander civic engagement issues...

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May 8, 2019

Podcast: Targeted Universalism, with john a. powell

Download an MP3 of this episode here.In this episode we hear from john a. powell, who is our director, and a professor of law and African American Studies here at UC Berkeley. In the interview we discuss a brand new primer we’ve just published on the...

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April 29, 2019

Podcast: The Role of Family in Prisoner Reentry, with Prof. David Harding

Download an MP3 of this episode here.In this episode of Who Belongs? we talk with Professor David Harding, UC Berkeley sociologist and member of the Haas Institute's Economic Disparities faculty research cluster, about a new book he co-authored...

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April 3, 2019

Podcast: The Stakes for the 2020 Census with Michael Omi and Stephen Menendian

In this episode of Who Belongs? we discuss the topic of the US Census with Professor Michael Omi, who is an affiliated faculty member of our Institute, author of Racial Formation in the United States, and one of only a handful of experts on the US Census.

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March 5, 2019

Podcast: Abandonment in Detroit with Peter Hammer and Amina Kirk

Download an MP3 of this episode here.In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Peter Hammer and Amina Kirk, who have been working in a variety of capacities for equitable development and racial justice in Detroit for many years.Peter is a...

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January 30, 2019

Podcast: Desmond Meade on the Victory to Regain Voting Rights in Florida

In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Desmond Meade, a prominent organizer and president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which led a successful campaign to repeal a Jim Crow-era law that had banned people with felony convictions from voting.

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December 18, 2018

Podcast: Hilary Hoynes on the Benefits and Limitations of Food Stamps (SNAP)

Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? Marc Abizeid talks to economist Hilary Hoynes about government assistance programs, including nutrition programs like SNAP, which is also known as food stamps, in addressing poverty...

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December 12, 2018

Podcast: Racial Justice Activism in Europe with Emilia Roig

Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs?, Sara Grossman interviews Emilia Roig of the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ) in Berlin, Germany. Originally from France, Emilia is the founder and director of CIJ, a nonprofit...

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October 29, 2018

Podcast: Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness with Elsadig Elsheikh and Nadia Barhoum

In this episode of Who Belongs? Elsadig Elsheikh and Nadia Barhoum discuss their new project that serves as a monitor to examine the power, influence and reach of agri-business corporations and their role in the global food crisis.

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October 9, 2018

Podcast: Nicole Montojo and Steve Barton on Rent Control

Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? we interview Nicole Montojo and Steve Barton, who recently co-authored a new research brief on the housing affordability crisis in California, called "Opening the Door for Rent Control...

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September 26, 2018

Podcast: Gordon Whitman Breaks Down Community Organizing

Download an MP3 of this interview.In this first episode of Who Belongs?, we talked to Gordon Whitman, who is the deputy director of Faith In Action, formerly known as PICO, which is a national network of faith-based organizations working to build...