Students Support Weighted Pupil Proposal
Text and photos by Jesus Hernandez, VoiceWaves. Students from all over California gather in Sacramento to support Governor Jerry Brown’s Weighted Pupil Proposal. Photo by Jesus Hernandez. The California budget is probably the last thing on a high school student’s mind. If they were more aware of the current situation though, they’d probably be as [...]
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Shelter Brings Hope to Homeless in Long Beach
The following report was written as part of a special reporting project through the Senior Journalism Seminar at CSULB, where students in Professor Gwen Shaffer‘s class have been blogging and reporting on a range of local issues. For the purposes of the reporting project, which is a partnership with VoiceWaves, Long Beach was divided into [...]
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Community Voices: Jose Landino
Jose Landino is a Long Beach hotel worker. He tells VoiceWaves Journalist Wendy Lopez what a healthy Long Beach looks like to him.
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Working Towards A Living Wage
Nikole Cababa, Video still by VoiceWaves. Nikole Cababa is a community organizer with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. Born and raised in Long Beach, she is an active member of the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community, which is working to pass a living wage initiative here in [...]
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The Affordable Care Act
What’s Changing and When
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. The law puts in place comprehensive health insurance reforms that will roll out over four years and beyond, with most changes taking place by 2014. Others have already begun. Use this timeline to learn about what’s changing and when. Read more at Healthcare.gov [...]
Education
Stanford Grad Reflects on Year Since Graduating
By Edgardo Cervano-Soto Edgardo Cervano-Soto, 22, is a Richmond and San Pablo raised writer and film-maker. He is a regular reporter for the Richmond Pulse, and has participated in KPFA’s News Apprenticeship Program. In 2010 and in partnership with Proyecto Poderoso and CRLA, he created an oral history interview series of LGBTQ Latino farm workers in the [...]
Health
The Weight of the Nation
Bringing together the nation’s leading research institutions, THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION is a presentation of HBO and the Institute of Medicine (IOM), in association with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. The [...]
MultiMedia
“Stop & Think” PSA FOR YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Every year kids become victims of homicide. An epidemic that is killing a large number of youths. And we can help. This is a PSA produced by Miami World Cinema Center and Panzou, an organization made to help troubled teens and guide them away from violence and drugs. The actors in the video are not [...]
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Beyond Long Beach
Bike Bakersfield Uses Event To Outreach
By LUZ PEÑA/South Kern Sol BAKERFIELD – Bike Bakersfield will host a two day-event to get families on their bikes. Bike Bakersfield is an organization in Bakersfield that promotes safe routes to school and riding bikes as a form a transportation to get your daily exercise while helping your environment. Patrick Orozco, Safe Routes [...]
The Road to S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Watch this video from Youth Empowerment Studios to learn how young people are working together to keep kids in school. Keep your eyes open for the video’s interactive content The kNOw The kNOw has been empowering Fresno youth to share their views through media since 2006.
Coachella Unincorporated Reporters and Parents Mixed on Gay Marriage
Coachella Unincorporated reporters share their reflections on President Barack Obama’s recent announcement in support of gay marriage. Their responses are mixed, although as a group they are accepting of gay marriage. They also share how their personal views on this issue are different or similar to those of their parents. President Obama has been an icon [...]
Obama’s Speech Gives LGBTQ Community Hope
By ANDRES GARCIA/South Kern Sol BAKERSFIELD – Local LGBTQ community is left a little uncertain after United States President Barrack Obama announced of his support for same Sex Marriage. “I believe that discrimination because of someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity reencountered to who we are a people,” said Obama “It’s a violation of the [...]
