April 2017

This week on Use Your Words, JJ Amaworo Wilson and Elise Stuart interview Dr Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, considered the founder of Chicano literary history.

Dr Ortego y Gasca has received several awards for his work on Chicano studies; his essay on “The Chicano Resistance” is considered a landmark text in the Chicano literary movement.  He began as a public school teacher and also taught in universities for many years.  He served in the Marines and the Air Force.  He is currently a scholar in residence at WNMU in Silver City, NM and continues to write and make outstanding contributions to the world of literature.

Use Your Words! is broadcast live on the 2nd & 4th Fridays of the month at 4:30pm and rebroadcast the following Fridays at the same time.

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Use Your Words! / Dr Felipe de Ortego y Gasca

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show, Elise Stuart can be contacted at UseYourWords@GMCR.org.

This week’s Earth Matters interview with David Miner is a blend of environmental and social issues.  Miner lived in Kent, Ohio when the Cuyahoga River caught on fire in 1968, and when four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard in 1970.  The discussion with Earth Matters co-producer Donna Stevens of the Upper Gila Watershed Alliance and David Miner takes us back to the events of the late 60s and early 70s.

Ohio National Guard / Kent State University / May 4th, 1970
“Line of National Guard personnel, walking forward, wearing gas masks, with weapons,” Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives, accessed April 29, 2017, http://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/items/show/1437

This CounterPunch article addresses a range of issues – and unanswered questions – regarding the Kent State shootings.

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Earth Matters / David Miner