{"id":3378,"date":"2015-09-24T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2015-10-28T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T14:08:13","slug":"ucr-candidates-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/?p=3378","title":{"rendered":"UCR Candidates In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Podcasts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Podcasts-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Podcasts\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Miller spoke against\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/794487760649123\/\">Urban Shield<\/a> at the Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, and is also one of the hosts of <a href=\"http:\/\/pcrcollective.org\/?page_id=154\">Heterotopia<\/a> music program on <a href=\"http:\/\/pcrcollective.org\/\">Mutiny Radio,<\/a> located at 87.9 FM in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3380\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SA2@citycouncil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3380\" class=\"wp-image-3380 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SA2@citycouncil-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Adams at Berkeley City Council \" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SA2@citycouncil-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SA2@citycouncil.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Adams at Berkeley City Council<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Adams spoke against Urban Shield at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ourpeacecenter.org\/event\/urban-warfare-in-our-backyard\/\">Mt. Diablo Peace &amp; Justice Center<\/a>, and spoke at the <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeley.granicus.com\/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=2824620f-5cbe-11e5-b65c-f04da2064c47\">Berkeley City Council<\/a> in support of Berkeley&#8217;s status as a Sanctuary City, and in opposition to proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/3009\">federal legislation<\/a> attacking Sanctuary Cities across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Vohrees is active in a community radio start up coalition, Radio for People (R4P). Tom has been seen putting up radio transmitters for low-power radio stations all over the West, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiofreemoscow.com\/\">Moscow Idaho<\/a>, to helping get <a href=\"http:\/\/imarad.io\/new-station-in-fraser-colorado-soft-launch-onto-the-airwaves\/\">KFFR on air in Colorado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3394\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3394\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DM-138x150.jpg\" alt=\"Don Macleay\" width=\"138\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Macleay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don Macleay is writing a memoir of his work in Nicauagua during the 80s, which is taking some time away from writing on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17083015728635699181\">blog<\/a>. \u00a0 He continues his work with as a <a href=\"http:\/\/oaklandgreens.org\/green-voices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Party<\/a> activist, and\u00a0 his decades-long commitment to supporting and volunteering in the local community.\u00a0 He recently volunteered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EastBayInnovationAcademy\">East Bay Innovation Academ<\/a>y on the Thurgood\u00a0Marshall campus in Oakland, giving a class in\u00a0 bike maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mario Fernandez is active in many campaigns, currently phone banking with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanmateolaborcouncil.org\/\">San Mateo Labor Council<\/a>, and active in the <a href=\"https:\/\/berniesanders.com\/\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> campaign. He is also involved in Occupy Oakland and BlackLivesMatters movements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Browning is currently serving on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kpfa.org\/about\/kpfa-local-station-board\/\">KPFA Local Station Board<\/a> and on several national committees of the Pacifica Foundation. To learn more about Virginia&#8217;s life-long love of radio, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/?p=3391\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Janet Kobren, one of the founding members of the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance, plugged the importance of KPFA, her UCR LSB candidacy (and the UCR 9) when she introduced one of the videos during the 9-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1438816379732126\">9-11 Truth Film Festival <\/a>held on September 10 at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland.\u00a0 Janet Kobren is currently serving on the KPFA <a href=\"https:\/\/kpfa.org\/about\/kpfa-local-station-board\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Station Board<\/a>, and also on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacifica.org\/pnb_members.php\" target=\"_blank\">Pacifica National Board<\/a>, representing UCR interests as an officer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacifica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacifica Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/so2tweets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/so2tweets-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"so2tweets\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scott Olsen continues his work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivaw.org\/scott-olsen\">Iraq Veterans Against the War<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivaw.org\/\">Iraq Veterans Against the War<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olsenvet\">tweets<\/a> about militarization of the police and in support of strong communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>T.M Scruggs is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afropop.org\/14459\/scholar-tm-scruggs\/\">anthromusicologist and musician<\/a>. \u00a0His primary research focus is on the use of music to construct social identity in the Americas, with a geographical specialty in Latin America and the Caribbean.\u00a0\u00a0 He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/tm-scruggs-luis-santoyo-and-geoff-davidian\/\">collaborated with Project Censored<\/a> to share some of the best-known labor and revolutionary ballads on May Day 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marilla Arguelles recently attended a Single-Payer Health Care conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Miller spoke against\u00a0 Urban Shield at the Alameda County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, and is also one of the hosts of Heterotopia music program on Mutiny Radio, located at 87.9 FM in San Francisco. &nbsp; &nbsp; Sharon Adams spoke against &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/?p=3378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,4,443,5],"tags":[549,388,550,52,480,64,473,548,85,474,520,475,547,132,133,476],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-basic-information","category-election_info","category-flyers-statements","tag-candidates-in-the-news","tag-don-macleay","tag-election","tag-janet-kobren","tag-jeremy-miller","tag-kpfa","tag-marilla-arguelles","tag-mario-fernandez","tag-pacifica","tag-scott-olsen","tag-sharon-adams","tag-t-m-scruggs","tag-tom-vohrees","tag-ucr","tag-united-for-community-radio","tag-virginia-browning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}