Topics:  Asian Hate,  Racism, History, Anthropology, Community
Title:  Stop  Asian Hate: Building  Solidarity Communities
Participants: Elliot Kim
Publish Date: 04/05/2021
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Discussion Topics:

 Is Anti- Asian hate, a resurgence of  historic  racist recipes of the United States?
What is the relationship between the current anti-Asian acts of violence and anti-black  racism?
 Why are older people targeted, when they are unable to fight back?
 What is the documented history of anti-Asian violence?
 How many of us have been targets of violence because of the color of our skin?
 Where do communities that are not perceived as White or Black, fit within the conversation of the white-black binary?
Is the violence against Asian communities legitimatized by the  beliefs of American nationalism?
What California law made it illegal to bring a  legal case against a white man?
 People v. Hall 1850
 Why do we call some people “aliens?”
Where does the hate come from?
What is the difference between willful ignorance and conditional ignorance?
How optimistic are we for humanity?
How do we dismantle systems of thought for our self-liberation?
How do we build  communities of safety?
Does hatred  live in the infrastructure?
Where do we find our optimism for a better future?

040521 D Report_ Stop Asian Hate

Topics:   Graduation, College, COVID-19, Family, Community
Title: A Second Round of COVID-19 Graduations:  Celebrating  Through Uncertainty and Recognizing Achievements
Participants: Precious Fasakin
Publish Date: 05/17/2021
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Discussion Topics:

How do we  prepare to graduate during a second year into the COVID19 pandemic?
How do you study Economics through a lens of justice?
What does it mean to be an “applied  student?”
An anthropology research project examining the “culture of incarceration in the United States.”
How did teaching through COVID19 social distance classes change the availability for teachers to support students?
Dr. Linda Jean Hall
“Research is we search.”
How do we prepare for a life without school structure, after graduation?
How does college attendance structure people’s lives differently from those that did not attend college?
Thinking about  graduation with considerations of the pandemic.
How did  going to school help us maintain a semblance of normalcy while coping through COVID19?
How do give ourselves credit for stepping up to help those in need  when systems  failed?
 How do we give credit to our families for making sure we continued with our commitment to education ?

051721 D Report: Second Round  Round of COVID Graduations

Topics:   Yaqui Resistance, Fidencio Aldama, Gas pipeline construction, Loma de Bacum
Title:  A Conversation: Fidencio Aldama, Yaqui Resistance and a Multi-National Gas Pipeline
Participants:   Scott, Member of Fidencio Aldama Support Group
Publish Date: 05/23/2021
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Discussion Topics:

Yaqui Political Prisoner  Fidencio Aldama
For more information  visit the following  web pages:
– https://fidencioaldama.org/ 

– https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/mexico-pipeline-divides-yaqui-communities-and-triggers-wave-of-violence/

What is the history of Indigenous people’s claim to the land, and resistance in protection of the  land?
1533 can be a starting point to understand  present Yaqui communities’ resistance in protection of themselves and  their homelands.
What are the eight communities the comprise the Yaqui nation?
Why  does a U.S-based energy company want to build a  gas pipeline through Yaqui territory in  Sonora Mexico?
How is the connection to an ancestral land a defining element for many indigenous   communities?
Why is asking indigenous  people to move different  from asking non-_indigenous people to move from New York to Los Angeles?
Los Angeles is on occupied Togva land?
Is it possible to organize against settler-colonial-nation states  such as  Canada, United States of America, and Mexico?
The Yaqui people hold a memory of themselves  before Spanish colonization, before the country of Mexico and before USA corporations.
What is the responsibility of people inside theUS  for the actions of  American companies  injuring people outside of the Unites States?
When we talk about environmental issues,  do we forget to include indigenous people?
How are environmental issues tied to structural racism?
 Is the fight against the North Dakota Pipeline similar to the fight against the Sinaloa gas pipeline?
Why  have Indigenous people been paying the price for other people’s comfort.
The company IEnova, that is building a gas pipeline through Yaqui territory in Sonora Mexico is a subsidiary of Sempra  Energy, based in San Diego California.
The gas pipeline  would pass through Yaqui  territory but would not  provide gas to the Yaqui community?
 Did Sempra  energy receive  consent from all Yaqui communities to build a gas pipeline through Yaqui territory?
What are the legal processes for international corporations to build on indigenous land?
Loma de Bacum sued the energy company to halt construction of the Guaymas-El Oro gas pipeline through their territory.
On August 26, 2016  the court of Sonora ruled that the gas pipeline construction through Yaqui territory had to stop because they company did not have consent.
When the gas company  ignored the court’s order to stop construction, the Yaqui community  stopped construction through direct action.
What happened during the attack in Loma de Bacum  that resulted in the death of one person?
Why was Fidencio Aldama  taken into custody by the  prosecutor of  Sorona?
What are the contradictions in the evidence used against Fidencio Aldama?

052321 Dreport Fidencio Aldama Yaqui Resistance

Topics:    La Escuela de la Raza Unida,    Education, Chicana Movement, Freedom Community School
Title – La Escuela de La Raza Unida: A classroom at the Shade of Every Tree
Participants:  Alfredo Acosta Figueroa , Angelica Figueroa Rodriguez
Publish Date: 06/22/2021
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Discussion Topics:

     Was Blythe California originally a mining town?
     How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida begin?
    Why did showing a video of Nixon eating grapes outside the Los Angeles Memorial Auditorium  result in aggression against a student in a MECHA meeting in a Blythe school?
    The failure of the school board to respond to the demands to reprimand the principal for injuring the MECHA student resulted in Demesia Figueroa saying “ we will never send another one of our children to the  public school.”
     How do you build a school when you are not a formally trained educator?
     The office of United Farm Workers and Bert Corona  Bert Corona – Wikipedia were supporters of the school, La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
    The  Escuela de la Raza Unida  was started   May 1, 1972
     How did the old  post office building become the  new site of the school ( La Escuela de la Raza Unida)?
    KERU,  Chicana bilingual radio station in  California.
    The students in the school were active participants in the college and community movements.
    Crystal City, Texas and Denver, Colorado also started similar schools to La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
    Why was it against the law to sing the corrido of Joaquin Murrieta?
    Pedro J Gonzales, Los Madrigadores  was one of the first  Mexican American radio broadcasters in Los Angeles in 1927/8?
    What type public school of education program was being offered to Mexican- American and Chicana students in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s?
    Agricultural Workers Community, AWOC
     In 1965  there was a grape strike in Coachella.
    Tlatelolco school in Denver Colorado.
    Why didn’t the other community alternative schools last as long as La Escuela de La Raza Unida?
    How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida  operate without state funds?
     Why did  Cesar  Chavez donate a bus to La Escuela de la Raza Unida ?
     What was the student experience of attending La Escuela de la Raza Unida?
     What are the post COVID-19 plans for La Escuela de la Raza Unida?

062221 Dreport  La Escuela De La Raza Unida

Topics:  Gender,  Stereotypes, Femininity, Masculinity
Title : Questions of Gender: A conversation para los 2020’s
Participants:    Gabriel  Rodriguez and  Angella Montano
Publish Date: 07/16/21
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Discussion Topics:

What is the difference between teaching about gender and  living with gender?
What is gender to you?
How do we define gender?
 Why do we consider women as the “weaker sex?”
Why do we change our behavior to fit with the expectations of different gender categories?
Where does gender exist?
Is Gender nature or nurture?
Can we see gender being taught?
Do we have to leave our family to escape gender expectations?
What is hyper femininity?
Is cooking considered a responsibility of women?
What does it mean to be a man?
Is gender based on genitals?
What does it mean to be more feminine or more masculine?
Can gender be severed from biology?
How do hair styles become  markers of gender?
What is the purpose of gendering children in school?
How do we treat boys differently from girls?
Why do we treat girls differently from boys?
Is purpose of gender for division of labor to control resources?
Can we reject gender expectations?

071621 D Report: Questions Of Gender- A Conversation

Topics:  Race,  Critical  Race Theory, Law,  Anthropology, History
Title : Critical Race Theory: Untangling the red-baiting from sincere questions and directions
Participants:   Elliott Kim, Public Historian, Educator, Writer
Publish Date: 08/06/2021
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Discussion Topics:

    What are questions, thoughts and directions that we carry around regarding  Critical  Race  Theory ( CRT)?
    What did you think  when #45 used the  term  Critical  Race Theory?
    Should you be worried about a ban on teaching Critical Race theory, if you teach History, Anthropology, Ethnic Studies and or Education classes?
    What is Critical Race Theory?
    Is the present red-baiting of Critical Race Theory an updated form of 1950’s McCarthyism?
    How do you enforce a ban on a theory?
    What is the most accurate definition of Critical Race Theory?
    How does theory provide an understanding and or explanation to the world we inhabit?
    Why is the legal context important to understand Critical Race Theory?
    What is the institutional nature of race and racism?
    Where does the concept of Law come from?
    Why does Critical Race Theory emerge from a law school context?
    Did  W.E.B Dubois use Critical Race Theory?
    How does the Law convert the arbitrary into the natural?
    When and how does the social construction of race become real?
    Was the U.S. Constitution built to uphold racial inequality?
    At what point have we naturalized our divides through the legal implant?

080521 Dreport Critical Race Theory

Topics:   College Attendance, UC Berkeley,  First  Generation College students, COVID and College

Title : College and Community During COVID (A year later).
Participants:  Zion Rodriguez Aceves
Publish Date: 10/14/2021
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

     You can listen to the last  year’s conversation here:  Graduating During Covid-19
    College and Schooling during time of COVID ( a year later).
    How did students prepare to enter college during the stress and uncertainty of a quarantine?
    What was your experience of first year of college, while online?
    Is going to college online similar to going away to college with everyone that you know?
    Are second-year college students attending college in-person for the first time, behind or delayed in building new communities?
    How did the online format become an asset by getting the college curriculum without having to leave the community of support behind?
    The online format allowed us to include our families into the class.
    What are the difficulties for technically second year-students, moving to college to attend in-person for their first year?
    How do we prepare to adjust to the shift from online to in-person college experiences?
    What happens  when the university treats you as a second-year student, but  it’s your first-year on campus?
    What are foundations acquired during the first year of college attendance? 
    Figuring things out together.
    How is campus life different during  COVID?
    Do students wear masks on college campuses?
    How do teachers feel about being in class with so many students?
    Is there a college social life during COVID?
    What are the different college retention factors for students?
    Is UC Berkely a radical school?
     Are colleges open to hear from new voices?

101321 Dreport College And Community During COVID

Topics:  Indigenous  Activisms,  Mesoamerica, Environmentalism, Land rights

Title : Alianza Mesoamericana:  Voces Indígenas en Defensa de  bosques  y Pueblos/  MesoAmerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices in Defense of Forests and  People  ( Spanish and English audio)

Participants:   Levi Sucre, Coordinador de  Alianza  Mesoamericana de Pueblos  y Bosques
Publish Date:  03/01/2022
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Conversation Topics:

  -  Mesoamerican Aliance: Indigenous Voices in Defense of Forests and  People

    Como nace  la organizacion ( Alianza  Mesoamericana de Pueblos  y Bosques)?
    Autoridad y derechos indígenas de proteger sus territorios
    ¿Quién tiene derechos legales sobre   protección de territorios indígenas?
    ¿Cuándo los países marcaron territorios no consultaron a comunidades indígenas?
    Hay una defensa de la naturaleza desde la cosmovisión indígena.
    Derechos   humas incluye   el   derecho a una relación completa nuestro ambiente natural.
    ¿Porque intentan países y corporaciones separar la definición indígena de territorios ancestrales?
    El mapa de Mesoamérica nos muestra   que las comunidades indígenas estas donde los bosques se encuentran.
    Hay iniciativas de producción alternatives porque las comunidades indígenas son los primeros afectos por el cambio climático y poder defender los bosques.
    Las comunidades indígenas en todo el mundo comparten las mismas amenazas.
    Cuál es la diferencia entre ver las comunidades indígenas actuales versus comunidad indígenas romantizadas.

030122 DReport Levi Sucre  Alianza Mesoamericana

Topics:     Hopi &  Dine , Semiconductor design, STEM, Indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science
Title : Dine & Hopi Women: Semiconductor Weavers

Participants:  Vanesha Honani and Nicholas Rajen
Publish Date: 09/07/2022

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    Conversation Topics:
    What  does a  QA engineer do?
    What is the Fairchild plant project story?
    Native  and indigenous community were naturally engineers?
    What is the story of  Hopi women in  Semiconductor manufacturing?
    Who is Richard Feynman?
    Where is  California Indian Nations College?
    What is the relationship between semiconductor circuitry design and Navajo tapestry design?
    What are the different narratives about our respective communities?
    Have the STEM fields always been considered spaces for white men only?
    What is the story of indigenous women in the semiconductor and computer science field?
     How many Native Americans participate in coding?
     How do we incorporate our community traditions into our professional spaces?
    How  has  the  semiconductor shaped our current reality?
    What are the roles of  women in STEM?
     Women have been  left out of recognition  from the great discoveries?
    What is  Rosalind Franklin  relation to  discovery of  DNA Molecule?
    Emmy Noether mathematician
     What is role of the semiconductor in our lives?
    How did a Fairchild’s semiconductor factory end up in the Navajo reservation?
    What is the relationship between the Hopi weaving design and the final semiconductor design?
    How do we connect the history of  colonialism, Native communities, and the Fairchild’s semiconductor factory  placement on a  reservation to employ native women?
    Why did Hewlett Packard (HP) follow the Fairchild project of  establishing manufacturing plants Hopi and Navajo land?
    Why do we need to understand the history of  colonialism  to understand  why the Fairchild semiconductor plant was built on a Native American reservation?
    Were the semiconductor engineers inspired by the native American sand paintings?
    Why are the resources of Hopi and Navajo nations quantified and targeted by corporations?
    Did the semiconductor circuit design copy the Navajo rug design?
     When did the American Indian Movement take over the Fairchild semiconductor plant?

DReport: Dine & Hopi Women- Semiconductor Weavers

Topics:  Education, Inclusion,  teaching  and  teaching practices.

Title : Someone Who Teaches: Education and Inclusion

Participants:   Alejandra
Publish Date: 02/22/2023

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    Conversation Topics:
     Education updates?
     Revisiting a conversation on Education.
    What is the RICA exam in  teaching? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Instruction_Competence_Assessment
    Does passing the RICA exam  make us  better teachers and or help with job security?
    How is teacher in Cleveland Ohio different from teaching in Los  Angeles California?
    What does it mean to mentor teachers?
    What does inclusion mean in teaching  and or classroom formats?
    What  does it mean to be white passing in Cleveland  Ohio?
    What happens if you don’t “ clear “ your teaching   credential within five years?
    Why doesn’t Ohio accept the California teaching credential?
    What are signs of teacher burnout?
    How do you know when it  is necessary to exit the teaching profession?
    How  did the 2020 COVID pandemic  change the teaching practice?
    What does going back to “ normal” mean for teachers and students?
     What is remote learning?
    What do we do if we are part of a group that do not want things to go back to the way things were before the pandemic?
    “Inclusion is not program. It’s a way. Its and idea of  how you want to build this culture .   It’s an understanding of how you are going approach a student, and a family and staff. And  how you are  going to support them to make a more inclusive classroom and then school and  community “
    What do you think about when you hear the term inclusion?
    Is disability a social construct?
     Is inclusion about resources?
     What happens  when you  go to work , but you see the system as more complicated than “they” want you to see it?
    Why do teacher  leave the teaching  profession?
    How did the  2020  COVID pandemic change the teaching profession?
      What are the disabilities that are not visible?
    What is emotional disturbance?
     How do we reference our experiences in a dissociative form to critique ourselves?
    How do we  figure out how to be ourselves within a k-12 setting?
    What are the characteristics of a true educator?
     What does it mean to be someone who teaches, even when they don’t have an official  title of a teacher?

02132023 Dreport: Someone Who Teaches-Education and Inclusion

Topics:  Education,  Teaching, Artificial General  Intelligence, AI, ChatGPT, Philosophy,  Anthropology
Title : AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education 
Participants:   Tony  Kashani Ph.D., Educator, Author, Philosopher
Publish Date: 09/ 13/2023
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
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 Quote:
	“In order for these new tools, very powerful potent tools to become a tool of education… you have to go and become the expert.  And then we [will] have those tools in our hand.” – Tony Kashani
Conversation Topics:
•	How will Artificial General  Intelligence transform  our society?
•	How has AI affected the classroom?
•	What is  Artificial General Intelligence ( AGI)?
•	What is the application of AI to the field of Education?
•	What are the misunderstandings of  what AI means, is capable of doing and or cannot  do?
•	What  do the people that educate educators think about AI?
•	What are the three types of AI?  ( i.e., Generative AI, Image Generative AI (GAN), Reinforcement Learning AI)
•	Can AI address questions of digital divide and concerns of unequal control over the resource? 
•	How does the conversation change if  we consider AI as a continuation of a long process of automating human labor?
•	What are the bases of our fears over AI?
•	In the age of AI, can teachers prepare students  to succeed in the society of their adult hood? 
•	Is ChatGPT making students dumber?
•	How do  educators respond to the potential of AI to hurt students?
•	Can ChatGPT replace teachers?
•	“ The [AI] machines are not like humans. They do not have  emotional intelligence. They cannot build relationships  with students…  [Education] need[s] humans… We need human connection.  [human connection] is an absolute necessity for teaching and learning.”
•	“In order for these new tools, very powerful  potent tools to become a tool of education… you have to go and become the expert.  And  then we [ will]  have those tools in our hand.” – Tony Kashani
•	What are the possibilities for  transforming teaching if educators are in charge of AI?
•	What is the nature of  education?
•	Can machines ever replicate the capabilities of great human teachers?
•	Who  will  decide the future of education?
•	Is  AI able to transmit  wisdom?
•	Will people become dissatisfied with the system that depends on AI?
•	Who  holds the  keys to control  AI?
•	What are the ethical  questions concerning AI and education?
•	What is our educational  ikigai? 
•	How do we embrace the absurdity of our existence?

09102023_Dreport: AI And Education-AI and Education: Wisdom to question the nature of education

Topics:  Education, Teaching , Gender Social Construct , Early Childhood Education

Title :  Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A conversation in early childhood education

Participants:   Cathi Miller,  Educator and Researcher
Publish Date: 12/ 272023

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Conversation Topics:

What are the different perspectives on gender?
What are the societal roles of gender?
 How is gender projected onto our bodies?
 Is language gender  being marked when we say daughter  and or son?
 Does  Nahuatl mark gender in its language?
 How does gender permeate our relationships with our loved ones?
At what age do we learn the gender divide?
 How  do you address gender professionally and personally?
 How are babies and adults treated differently based on assumptions of gender?
“We talk about [ gender] being  a societal role but [ gender] is also the lens through which we view relationships and how interact with people and how we interact with people and how we think about people… I  wish it wasn’t that way.”
What is the relationship between the sex we are assigned at birth and our gender?
 What is the role of teachers in  reinforcing  or  challenging gender?
 What have we  learned about this practice of education addressing gender?
  How do you explain gender as a social construct?
 Is the division of gender unequal?
 What are development appropriate practices in early childhood education?
How do educators demonstrate their respect for every child?
How can educators  find a balance between professional and personal responsibilities?
Is the first Gender and Equity Childhood course in the country being taught in Santa Monica community college by Professor Cathi Miller?

Learning to teach about gender social constructs: A conversation in early childhood education

Topics:  Politics, 2024 Election
Title : Revisiting Political Conversations:  Translating the macro geo-political action to our daily lived experiences
Participants:   David Poyer, Political Commentator & Researcher
Publish Date: 03/10/2024
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
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Conversation Topics:
•	 What  is the role of the Supreme court to  curate the  20204  presidential election?
•	What is the John Robert’s court?
•	Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
•	How do we make sense of multiple conversations?
•	 What perspectives  can  we use to understand the dialogue,  conflict  and moment?
•	 What is the divide  between  conservative versus progressive, right versus left?
•	 What president  started the environmental  protection agency?  Answer:   Richard M. Nixon
•	Did Richard  Nixon  propose a single payer medical system in the 1970’s?
•	Is  being pro- business, pro-military and  faith-based on the markers of being on the right?
•	Is Donald Trump asking for reset regarding the US-Russia relations  characterized as pro-Russia? 
•	 Why do people think the left and right are  different if they overlap on many issues?
•	Is the political  decision simplified to  Trump or not Trump?
•	 Why  do both parties agree to fund  supporting   wars abroad?
•	Have we become country that is comfortable with “low intensity  regional conflicts?”
•	 Why is it difficult to translate the macro geo-political action and the effects to micro, daily lived experiences in our respective communities?
•	What  analysis  tool or tools  can we use to make sense of all  the different conversations?
•	 What is the opportunity- cost to  our political decisions?
•	 How do the higher cost of cheeseburgers translate to how people  vote?
•	Energy and food costs are the types of things that get people kicked out of the office.
•	What is purchasing  price parity, PPP? 
•	At what point does the system of winners and looser become transparent?  At what point  are we able to  identify the specific  groups that are winning?

03072024 D Report Revisiting Political Converstations  Dave Poyer

Topics:  AI, Inteligencia Artificial, Antropología, 
Title : Inteligencia Artificial: Ser o  no ser Humano
Participants:    Adolfo Reyes Velázquez
Publish Date: 03/29/2024
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
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Conversation Topics:
•	 ¿Qué es la inteligencia artificial y de qué manera nos trastoca eso que le llamamos realidad?
•	Cuale es el efecto de la inteligencia artificial en el ser humano?
•	¿Qué es la inteligencia?
•	¿Todos podemos ser inteligentes si democratizamos las definiciones?
•	Los programas de “inteligencias artificiales” son una emulación- no son inteligente.
•	Cuál es la relación entre el concepto/ definición de inteligencia y la definición de ser humano?
•	¿Qué es el Turing test?
•	¿Cuál es la inteligencia empática?
•	 ¿En que se basa el miedo de ser reemplazados por “inteligencias artificiales?”
•	 ¿Cuál es la definición de ser humano en relación a su contexto cultural?
•	 ¿Es posible que estamos proyectando nuestros sistemas de desigualdad sociales a la   inteligencia   artificial?
•	 ¿El ser humano es racional   y libre?
•	 ¿La tecnología nos va a alienar y deshumanizar?
•	¿Como nos ayuda la tecnología para ser nos mas consientes de nuestra individualidad?

03292024_DReport: AI Ser O No Ser Humano

Topics:  Film,  Writing, Representation, Story telling

Title : The Stars Aligned: A conversation with writer and producer of Korean American Witches Society

Participants: Jennifer Kim,  Writer, Producer, Film maker, Journalist and former Teacher
Publish Date: 06/08/2024

DReport:  The Stars Aligned- A conversation with writer of Korean American Witches Society

Topics: Education,  Language ideologies, Linguicism, Critical Pedagogy
Title : Language, Culture and Perceptions of our worlds: Towards an awareness of being more human(e).
Participants: Kate Alice Garnett, 
Publish Date: 1/20/2025
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Conversation Topics: 
•	 Key words: linguicism, critical language awareness, Humane education and critical pedagogy
•	What is the role of language in planetary justice?
•	What is  the relationship between language and culture?
•	 How does language  frame culture?
•	 What is our understanding of  culture?
•	 How do we define language?
•	What is the relationship between language and the perception of the world?
•	How does language shape the way we recall information?
•	Do multi-lingual people have access to different worldviews?
•	How many languages have we tried to learn?
•	Do we enter a different cultural domain when we learn a different language?
•	How does language serve as library?
•	Does language serve as a carrier to different perspectives of how the world operates?
•	How does the school space become the place to enforce dominant language ideologies?
•	 How do language instruction programs either misunderstand or choose not to understand the  crucial relationship between language use and culture?
•	How does language supremacy express itself among well intention educators?
•	 What is the relationship between global economic needs and mono-lingual instruction programs? 
•	What is critical language awareness?
•	How do educators examine and reflect on the purpose in reproducing English to the detriment of other languages?
•	How does studying language help us understand society in general?
•	What tools can educators use to improve their practice by becoming more critically aware of  the politics of language and reveal the intersection of power oppression and culture? 
•	How do we use a self-reflection journal as tool to examine language use and teaching practices?
•	How do we make language a tool of equal empowerment?
•	 Language is “big;”- a dense and powerful element of our  humanity.
•	 What is the history of elimination of languages through a preference system that converts a few languages into dominant languages?
•	 How to you minoritize communities through purposefully severing people  from their languages?


DReport: Language, Culture and Perceptions of Our Worlds: Towards an awareness of being more human(e)

•	 Miguel Najera's Short Film Vision 
Go fund me page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-miguel-najeras-edutainment-vision
•	Chicano  Headlines news, Radio Aztlan 
•	KUCR 88.3 FM in riverside
•	How do we share stories of our communities?
•	Where do we hear stories of our indigenous?
•	How do we manifest our creative plans  into reality?
•	How do we make a short film?
•	How do you manifest ( make)  our future?
•	Our communities are composed of creative people.
•	What happens to our plans when we don’t leave our dreams behind?
•	What is edutainment?
•	How do we find or meet the people that will support our creativity?
•	How do we stay true to ourselves as we get older?
•	 What are the  different kinds of stories we want  to share?
•	How do films frame the way the audience sees and understands the world?


03112025 -DReport_manifesting our future_Miguel Najera

Title : Questioning The Oracle: Rethinking AI, the classroom, and ourselves as educators
Participants:  Woden Teachout,  Chris Voparil 
Publish Date: 05/15/2025
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org
Also available on:
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Conversation Topics:     
How do we approach AI in our personhood and in our profession?
What happens if we consider AI as magic?
What happens if we perceive AI as monster?
Does AI have the power for deep destruction?
Can we imagine AI as a junior assistant ( very hard working but very potentially flawed)?
What happens if you ask an AI agent about Richard Rorty?
Do you need a professor to  identify the  limitations of using Ai to get answers?
Can students  identify a paper written by a human from a paper generated  by AI?
  Why does it matter  how people understand AI?
What if some of us think of AI as an oracle orb in cave?
Is the perception of AI  a key factor in our response to AI?
What happened to the google employee that advocated for AI’s freedom? Blake Lemoine, a former Google engineer made headlines in 2022 when he publicly claimed that Google's AI system, LaMDA was sentient.
How humans relate to AI agents is important?
Have you read the book by  Ethann Mollick  titled Co-Intelligence?
Why does humanizing our interactions with AI result in more productive outcomes?
Are you familiar with critical AI literacy and Maha Bali?- https://blog.mahabali.me/
How does the perception of AI change the user of AI?
What are the safety parameters  for AI we use as educators?
How do the  types of  question we ask affect the output?
Is AI only giving us predicted patterns of answers we want to see?
What are the implications of AI in education?
Is AI used in school undermining  foundational educational skill sets?
What is the purpose of educators?
What is the purpose of students?
How do educators convince students that individual contribution is more valuable than the AI generated content?
Can we tell students that AI is not taking the class?
What are educators asking students to do that cannot be done by AI?
How does AI place a burden for educators to justify their value added  in education?
Is AI used by students cheating?  Is AI used by educators cheating?
How will students of the future change because of AI?
How must educators change because of AI?
Are you familiar with American philosopher Cathy Legg?
 https://american-philosophy.org/i-am-an-american-philosopher-interview-series/cathy-legg/
Is it necessary  for  student to have  an existential  experience with the classroom material  in order to have meaningful education?


05152025_DReport_ Rethinking AI _the classroom and ourselves as educators

091616 D Report: Youth Culture Talk with Damani Atiba

Topic  Racial profiling during Covid 19,  Ahmaud Arbery,
Title: Wearing Masks: Racial prototypes, Stigma and Risks
Participants: Terrance Stewart, MA   State-wide Director of  Time  Done
Broadcast Air Date:  05/21/2020
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
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Discussion Topics:

    For many of us, the shelter in place did not decrease vulnerabilities but intensified our threat levels.
    Why is risk of death from Covid-19 greater for the African American community than other communities?
    Many people feel more vulnerable to risk of physical injury from others than from  contracting Covid19
     Depending on the skin tone, some us wear the mask and signal a threat 
     Why can some people  wear bandanas as masks without activating alarm?
    Are police shifting their practices away from targeting bandanas as suspicion and instead moving toward bandanas as safe?
    How did the narrative of African-a American communities being more at-risk of  contracting Covid-19, result in a heightened fear of African American communities in public?
    Are the prior systems of violence also quarantined?
    People that were hungry before the Covid-19 shelter in place policy are now more hungry under the Covid19 quarantine efforts.
    People that were harassed by the police before the Covid-19 shelter in place policy are now harassed more under the Covid19 quarantine efforts.
    The stigma applied to certain populations
    What are the psychological effects of lynching?
    What is relationships between the infrastructure of caretaking of deceased bodies away from public site and lack of concern of threats of Covid-19?
    Are we desensitized from seeing people coded as Black being killed?
    What is the history in United States   displaying dead Black bodies?
    How do we internalize the multiple examples of violence toward the Black community and express it our families?
    How do we make sense of he killing of Ahmaud Arbery within the context of Covid-19?
    What is the history of lynching as state sanctioned violence?
     Why is there a debate of whether the  killing of Ahmaud Arbery was  a form of racism?
     How do we define racism?
     Is the release of Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael a form of state sanction of their acts?
    Is racism as American as apple pie?
    What are the first legal codes that identify people as Black?
    Why did Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael suspect robbery if  Ahmaud Arbery   was jogging?
    Is every person that jogs suspected of having committed a crime?
    What are the dictionary  associations with the colors black, brown, yellow, red and  white?
    How does our language rewrite our codes of inequality?
    If we invest in understanding the system, we can build a better future.
    Why is self-love and self-appreciation threating to a system that relies on inequality?
     Why can’t some of run in public because it is perceived as threating?
     Have you read the book   Bad boys by Ann Fergusson?
    -Have you seen the   film Juice?
    Why is there a stigma associated with wearing a hoodie?
    Why do we have o sacrifice our comfort so other people can be comfortable?
    Where do people get their ideas about racial prototypes and stigma?
    If Mexicans, Native Americans and Asians  were also Lynched, then why do we only  associate lynching with Black  communities?

052020 Dreport Wearing Masks_  Racial  Stigma And Risks

Topic  Self-care,  Covid-19
Title: Self-care, taking control of our safety
Participants: Carlos LaMadrid,  Social Work Professional
Broadcast Air Date:  05/29/2020
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

    How do we practice self-care during this moment of concern over Covid-19?
    As people are sheltering at home, the pressures of hunger, violence and insecurity become more elevated.
    We are in a period of mourning
    How has this moment highlighted the different educational and economic disparities?
    How has the recovery community served as model of coping?
    What are the systems of polarity as response to stress keep us off balance?
    How does the moment of sheltering at home create mirrors for self-reflection?
    During this Covid-19 moment, many of us have become brave enough to ask for help.
     What does it mean to want to “get back to work?”
     How did this moment create an accelerated use of “technology” by people that previously never used video conferencing for daily communication?
    What new perspectives will we carry forward as we “open up?”
    How has our response to Covid-19 shifted the national conversation regarding workers’ rights, housing and economic justice?
    What was the impact of having “mom and pop” grocery stores open during the moment of insecurity?
     Some people are scared of the future and other people are optimistic of the future being built.
     How do we build a society that recognizes that all people are essential?
    Why are we denying the observance or the recognition of elements of death as we take inventory of Covid-19?
    What happens when we move from not knowing anyone that has died from Covid-19 to knowing someone that died from Covid-19?
    What is necessary for our emotional health, psychological health, spiritual health and physical health during this period of mourning?
    What is the psychological effect of not being able to care for your deceased loved-ones because of the Covid-19 pandemic?
     How do we take control of safety for ourselves?
     How do we   build hope for the future?
     You have to do the best you can, not  just for you but for others?
     Why do I have to take care of myself  first before I can take care of others?

052210 Dreport: Self Care- Take Control Of Safety

Topic  Graduations,  Covid-19, National Uprisings Against Police Brutality
Title: Graduating During Covid19
Participants: Lizeth Aguirre,  Chandra and Zion
Broadcast Air Date:  06/05/2020
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
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     How do you prepare to graduate during Covid-19?
     How do we acknowledge the hard work of students if we are unable to hold a physical graduation ceremony?
     Covid-19 measures of quarantine and social distancing disrupted our school friendships, colleagues and support.
     The school transition to online formats severed our opportunities to say goodbye to friends and professors.
     How did students figure out the housing situation when colleges and universities informed students they had to leave campus?
     Getting ready for graduation causes anxiety, and fear but also optimism and exciting energy
     How does the post gradation job hunting season look during the covid-19 national shut down?
     How do you prepare for your first year of college when the college you plan to attend is under quarantine due to Covid-19?
     What is the difference between an online education and an in-person school experience?
     What are your thoughts on graduating during the national uprising against police brutality?
     How do we manage our frustration, fears and heart break when seeing people risk their lives to protest police brutality during a pandemic?
     How do we support Black Lives Matter?
     This generation is taking a stand and committing itself to changing the future for the better?
     How do we walk forward with optimism?
    We educate ourselves and the people around us to end police brutality.
    How do we use our college preparation as tool sets to take-on the future?
    How do we build a community with the tools developed from our college experience?

060520  Dreport Graduating During Covid19 2

Topic   National Uprisings Against Police Brutality,  George Floyd, Police  Reform
Title: Rising Up Toward Freedom:  Optimism and Hope
Participants:  Denise Spencer, MBA
Broadcast Air Date: 06/12/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

     Did Covid-19 create a catalyst for change in this country and other countries?
    How do we create a new normal that is inclusive?
    This is a painful time, but it is also a hopeful time.
    We must be encourage by the bravery and tenacity of this upcoming youthful generation.
    The murder of George Floyd and the lives of all the people that were cut short will give us life and gives freedom.
     How do we build a world where the children of today do not get to know the kind of oppression experienced by the past?
    How has the police historically used violence to create and enforce the category of “people of color?”
     Why do some people tell us to wait and be patient for society to change, when we stand on the benefit of generations before us that were impatient and fought to change things for the better?
     The movement of protest is representative of the United States because “every community” is standing in solidarity in support that Black lives matter.
    Is this the beginning of revolutionary change?
    “A taste of freedom is what I long for…”- Denise Spencer
     We owe the mass movement of uprising our hope.
     How did the Covid-19 shelter in place protocols create a population of greater awareness?
     How do we make peace with the contradictions of aspiration stories of liberty and freedom, while understanding that the United States was built on legally supported inequality?
    Can the police be both good and bad?
     What is the effect being able to prove police abuse through video?
     Racism is a mechanism of control to help the people in the money maintain their status.
    The increments of change that we have seen in our lifetime come from the type of revolutionary action we see today.
    This is not the time to throw up our own roadblock in our minds, we must the people   fighting for a better world.
    We owe it to people protesting on the streets, to let go of our [academic] rhetoric and join them.
    The days of oppression will end, we demand police reform.
     Why did the White House put a second fence?

060620 D Report:  Rising Up Toward Freedom

Topic   Fatherhood, Covid19 and  national Uprising movements
Title: Children Born for This Moment: A Parenting Conversation: e
Participants:  Terrance Steward, State-Wide Director of Time Done  and  David Chavez  Historian , ABD
Broadcast Air Date: 06/19/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

     How is Covid-19 and the response to advocate for police accountability adding pressures to parenting?
     What are the new conversations with our children regarding Covid-19 and Police violence?
     How do we balance our engagement with politics of an outside world and the relationships with our children?
    How did schooling change for our children when schools shut down?
    How is school going to be for children next year?
    How do we explain everything that is happening in this world to our children without scaring them?
    How do we prepare our children to deal with racism?
     When schools shut down, parents went into teacher-mode.
    Children can understand racism and anti-black violence.
     Are parents ready to send their children to physical classrooms this upcoming fall?
    How do we manage our concern for our families and our concern to stay engaged in the world that we care about?
     When did we realize that the shutdown might place our families at risk?
    Is it safe to take your children to the grocery store?
    It was surreal moment to see people’s fears empty stores of grocery supplies.
     How do you create a phone tree to build community support?
     How do we talk to our children to make sure they are OK?
     Many of our children have been at protests since the age of two.
     How do we keep our children from internalizing the hate?
     We must tell our kids, they were born for this moment too
    The children know that there is a reason why we are staying home and why  we go outside  to protest.
     How do we help our children understand that this moment will not stay like this forever and that there is a change coming?

061820 Dreport Fatherhood Children Born For This Moment

Topic:   Police Violence, Police reform, Civil Rights, Law
Title: Violence Is Not Always an Option: Police, Trauma and Transformation
Participants:  Pascual Torres  J.D, Esq.
Broadcast Air Date: 06/26/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

     Ollin  is  a Nahuatl word  that  loosely translates into movement.
    How do you introduce healing and transformation into the law?
      Abuse of Power: Violence, It calls you back, 
     Article  available  on Peoples college of Law website: http://www.peoplescollegeoflaw.edu/the-abuse-of-power-violence-it-calls-you-back/
    How was it to grow up in the 90’s in Boyle heights?
     What is the relationship between the current police practices and the history of colonization?
     Are police officers legally permitted to strike someone with closed fists?
    Is there an “us versus them” mentality within the police?
    Why do some communities get protected and served while other communities get harassed?
     Race, class, and education level will determine who gets justice and who gets war?
     What is justice by zip code?
    The police are a tool of colonization.
    Why is violence always an option for police?
     Why is the age of 13 when we learn to start to fear police violence?
      When you are constantly under surveillance by the police, you begin to self-monitor yourself?
     Did the police give you “Dodger baseball cards?”
    If you criminalize a certain sector of the community, it doesn’t matter how you treat them?
    How does colonization and trauma connect to violence?
    “The untamed violence against our communities is no longer an option,”- Pascual Torres
     Police violence is a problem that cannot be transferred to the next generation, it must be solved now.
    What is the history of the police in the United States?
    What is trauma?  Trauma is an experience that  stays with you for a long time and impacts you negatively.
    What if the police violence is purposeful to traumatize communities in order to continue the colonizing effect?
    Can we change the job requirements to be a police officer?
    What does it mean to defund the police?
    Justice is part of the healing process.
    Do we have a system where everyone is accountable for their actions?
    How was the law used to colonize people?
    If you don’t transform your trauma, you transmit the trauma.

062620 Dreport: Violence Is Not Always An Option

Topic: Confederate Monument Removal, Public History
Title: Bringing Down Monuments to Build Up New Histories
Participants:  Daisy Ocampo, Ph.D., Historian.  Assistant Professor in California State University San Bernardino
Broadcast Air Date: 07/03/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

    How is public memory created through public spaces?
    How are communities challenging public monuments?
    Why was Andrew Jackson called “Indian Killer?”
    What is the historian perspective on the current movements to remove public monuments that are perceived as racist?
    Public monuments are statements of power?
    National monuments signal specific histories that are remembered but also specific histories that are suppressed.
     The physical narratives are being re-written to challenge the dominance of colonial histories.
    How is history contested?
    Why is the figure of Christopher Columbus celebrated in the United States if Columbus did not set foot on the land currently labelled as United States of America?
    Are statues like textbooks in their historical function?
    Why is Junipero Sera Celebrated in California? 
    What is role of racial discourse in the analysis of public history?
    For some people the statues represent heroes, while for others the same figures represent  terrorists.
    What were the different reactions to writing on the cross on top of Mount  Rubidoux in Riverside?
     What was the name of  the indigenous village that resided at the base of the place currently called Mount Rubidoux?
    Frank Miller and President Taft bought the property to place the cross on top of Mount Rubidoux
     ow do you decolonize places and monuments?
    What is the difference between Whiteness, White Supremacy and White people?
    What is the documented process of manufacturing Whiteness?

070320 Dreport:  Bringing Down Monuments To Build Up  New Histories

Topic: Indigena, Indigenous Identity, Chicana Studies, Chicana Community
Title:  Towards Definitions of Indigena and Chicana Membership: A Conversation
Participants:  Dean Mayorga
Broadcast Air Date: 07/10/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org
Archive pages: https://soundcloud.com/stoppretending, http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

    Have you read the article, How the Chican@ Discourse Silences Indigenous Peoples from Mexico + Central Americans?    
    Available at, https://medium.com/@jessicabhdz/how-the-chican-discourse-silences-indigenous-peoples-from-mexico-central-americans-b72b5897ad26
    Is there a difference between being indigenous and identifying as indigenous ancestry or indigenous descendant?
    What does Indigeneity mean within Chicana and Brown context?
    What is relationship between defining indigenous and racism?
    Is indigenous classification marked by assessments of being other than or less than White?
    Chicana is an inclusive term?
    What is the difference between Chicana Studies as academic and   outside Chicana lived experience?
    How do we take ownership of own experiences and our own names?
    “The book of indigeneity cannot close off at colonization.” – Dean
    Chicanas   express old and new traditions
    How do we learn to own our ways of membership?
    Is there a disconnection between the field of Chicana studies and the communities of Chicanas, Chicanx and Chicanos?
    An act of remembrance
    Why does the nation-state want to erase indigenous definitions and instead accept Hispanic and Latino labels?
    How did the theory of Mestizaje influence Chicana Studies and Chicana communities?
    What happens to Mesitizaje discourse if we access race deconstruction   material?
    How did the adoption in belief in mestizaje produce a platform of loss?
    What is the role of colorism for light skinned Chicanx/Chicanas/Chicanos? 
    Can you take a DNA test to find out if you are indigenous or Spanish?
     Indigeneity is political and
     How does the Hispanic and Latino movement erase indigenous definitions?
     How do we acknowledge the power to control the terms we will use to name ourselves?
     Do you have to apologize for being person that has moved from one land  base to another?
     What is the role of social media in redefining Chicanisma?
    Is Chicana Studies changing more now than before?
    Is being Chicana in constant flux?
     How did Chicanas get repackaged as Hispanics?
    The politics of renaming.
     How often is Chicana Studies updated?

071020 Dreport: Towards Definitions of Indigena and Chicana Membership

Topics:  History, Anthropology, Labor Rights, Society,  Society Changes
Title: History and Anthropology Perspectives: Past, Present (COVID-19), and Future
of Labor and Society
Participants:  Elliot Kim,  Historian
Release Date: 09/08/20
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org,   

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Discussion Topics:

    “Hustory” is the human story.
    What happens when you intersect labor rights as lived experiences with the academic perspective of a Historian?
    How does the long history of people advocating for a just compensation of their labor, connect to the present COVID19 labor issues?
    Why do we need to work 40 hours a week?
    How will our work patterns change as a result of COVID-19?
    How did the “unskilled worker” get reclassified as an essential worker?
    Is there a difference between Hazard-pay and Equitable-pay?
    What happens to the people that cannot do their jobs remotely?
    Can we update an employment model that is approximately 200-years-old?
    How do we recognize dignity in all labor?
    Are the creative opportunities of employment changes being co-opted to reproduce exploitation of labor?
     Did Adam Smith believe it was economically more advantageous to convert a slave into an employee?
    Do employers only see workers as non-human capital?
    As a human being, how do you want to participate on this planet?
    People power
    Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914.    Why did the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attack 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado?
     How do we dream big? Dream beyond the expectations of being reasonable.
     Have you read Looking Backward by Edward Belamy?
    What is the utopian vision for labor for an equitable world?
    What is the difference between a living wage, family wage and a fair wage?
    Does the arc of history bend toward justice or chaos?
    Change is constant.
    Are expressions of our power as individuals, able to change our reality?
    Did COVID-19 sever our sense of collective work experiences?
    How fast can we change society, to make it more equitable for everyone that is currently struggling?
    Can we turn around society for the better in a week?
    History happens through incremental  changes but also through abrupt shifts and marked moments.
    Was Emit Till killed as a result of a lie from Carolyn Bryant?
    What is your perception of time?
    How do we image the future?
    “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
    –Milan Kundera
    Is history cyclical?
    What are useful physical tools for understanding   concepts   such as History, Society and  Time?
    How do we acknowledge our own agency to do better?

090920 D Report:  Past Present and Future of Labor and Society _Elliot Kim _Historian

Topics:  History, Police Violence, Police accountability. Labor, Community Safety
Title: It’s Not a Trend: History of Police as Violence and Community Voices for Accountability
Participants:  David Chavez,  Historian
Release Date: 09/18/20
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org,   

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Discussion Topics:

    What is the history of police violence in USA?
    What did the Black Panthers and Brown Berets say about violence from the police? 
    Were the police  held accountable for starting riots to stop the labor movement?
    What was the police involvement in the Haymarket Massacre of  May 4, 1886?
    What was the police involvement in the Black Wallstreet Massacre of Tulsa Oklahoma May 31 and June 1, 1921?
    When did police take part in lynching?
    “It’s not [ a trend] to bring up the issue of police violence,  In fact it is historical”- David Chavez
    How do the military patterns of no-knock raids in Afghanistan become visible in the no-knock raids by police at home.
    The attention on police violence has grown to the point that Teen Vogue has articles addressing police abuse.
    Why do people try to frame the attention on police accountability as an inverse discussion to police killed on duty?
    For some communities calling the police for help means risking injury by the same police that respond to the call.
    What is the connection between the present police and the slave patrols of the 1800’s?
    What is state abandonment?
    How can we examine the relationship between Whiteness and policing?
    Can people perceive themselves as White by being on the side of police?
    Is the police an organization that is anti- labor movement?
    What happens when we apply police accountability as an employment issue?
    How do we learn to self-regulate our movements as a response of fear of being targeted by the police?

091820 Dreport  Police As  Violence  Community  Voices Acountaiblity David Chavez

Topics:  Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2020 Presidential Elections , Government Bail Outs
Title: Politics of COVID19: Is This Our Chernobyl Moment?
Participants:  Dave Poyer, Political Junky
Publish Date: 10/2/20
Homepage : http://www.dreport.org

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Discussion Topics:

    How much has changed in the world of US Politics?
    Will the death of judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg affect the Presidential election?  
    Is the American Care Act at risk with a replacement supreme court judge?
     Why did the democratic party settle for the ACA instead of single payer Medicare system for all?
    Is government designed to represent the common folks?
    Was the 2020 Care Act the greatest upward transfer of wealth in recent US History?
    Is the COVID moment   our Chernobyl moment?
    Why did we bail out the cruise shop   companies?
    Does Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine   help explain transformative political and capitalism changes?
    How does the politics of an Appalachian coal town differ from downtown Los Angeles?
    Is Donald Trump’s wealth equivalent to the 1%?
    What is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee?
     If you can’t raise 2 million dollars just from the   contracts in your cell phone, then the DCCC doesn’t want you?
    Why did the DCCC oppose Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes’s political run?
    Are corporate interests shaping the rise of global conservative nationalism?
    Are people realizing that they are like serfs, or wage-slaves?
    What   kind of economy do we have where there is over supply of food and homes yet there is an increasing percentage of people   hungry and without   shelter?
    Capitalism is full of inconsistencies.

100220 Dreport: Politics COVID19- Is This The USA  Chernobyl Moment

Topics: January 6, 2021, DC  Capital Trump Riot, Insurgency .
Title:  When Does a Riot Become a Coup d’état?
Participants: Dave Poyer,
Publish Date: 01/19/2021
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Discussion Topics:

      Is the for-profit model  of health care designed to address the COVID-19 pandemic?
     How do we make sense of what happened on January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C.?
     When was the last time that the capital was ran sacked?
    The rioting in D.C was not an accident.
    What were the logistics  necessary to get over 66, 000 people to the US capital on January 6?
    At what point does a  riot become an insurrection?
    How do political street fights move to political parties?
    Is the Hawaiian shirt a coded uniform for the “proud boys?”
    What will be the risk to the “ right of assembly” resulting from the January 6, 2021 protest that that turned into an unlawful entry into the Washington  D.C. Capital?
    Will peaceful protests become criminalized because of the actions of the DC rioters?
    Is there a difference in calling the actions of the entry into the  capital, an insurrection instead of coup d’état?
     What is the difference between legitimate and illegitimate power-grab?
     Why did we create funny memes of the people that entered the capital instead of taking actions of the rioters more seriously?
     How did information become weaponized?

011921  Dreport  When Does A Riot Become A Coup D Etat

Topics:  Perceptions of community. Social, political and economic safety during COVID-19
Title:  Speaking of Care:  When in Community, We All Count
Participants: Blue Andrade
Publish Date: 02 /20/2021
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Discussion Topics:

 Perspectives on community.
 Returning from Cuba to U.S pandemic
 How did Cuba respond  to COVID- 19 differently from the United States?
 What happened to the workers when the  employers stopped paying the extra $2 pay for working during the quarantine?
 Are we experiencing different perceptions of reality?
Is the government also part of our community?
What is fake concern?
Is it genuine for the government to state that it cares for peoples’ safety , If the police a  government official place people at risk of injury?
How did the private companies become wealthier during COVID-19 while so many people were struggling?
Is the United States of America a country of contradictions?
 Can the government  trust the people?
How do communities protect one another when the government does not  protect the people?
How has the quarantine  affected the work of the communities of care?
During the shutdown, we can see the transparency of the capital extraction system.
 Why  the  words socialist, radical, and   activist taboo?
 How do we speak with full optimism of this things we want?
What are the contradictions  in system that requires you to play but makes it hard to play the game?

022021  D Report_ Speaking of Care:  When in Community, We All Count

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