California on the Ballot: Highlights from Season One
Our theme for California on the Ballot: Season One (October 2020-April 2021) is barriers to voting – what obstacles have defined the voter experience in California history? How has California worked to increase voter access? What work is left to do? We’ll talk with groups whose relationship to the ballot has a complicated history, including DACA recipients, incarcerated citizens, and Indigenous communities across California.
Zócalo in Bakersfield: How Much For That Presidency In the Window?
Money has been a hot topic in the 2012 election—from how the campaigns are being financed post-Citizens United to the 99 percent and the national debt and Mitt Romney’s offshore […]
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder-in-Residence of PolicyLink
“We are living in the nation’s future … in California, people of color are deciding the fate of the nation.”
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Poet, Dancer, Playwright
“What are the things that lead us to aspire to something greater?”
Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California
“What humanities teaches you is that we are all of the human collective and that we all have a story.”
George Takei, Actor, Author, Director, Activist
“Part of resilience is finding joy, finding beauty, finding love.”
Governor Jerry Brown
“The humanities are ways or windows into what it is to be human.”
Betty Reid Soskin, U.S. National Park Service Ranger
“It’s through the humanities that one learns empathy … access that great attribute which is empathy.”
Tracy Fullerton, Game Designer
“It has become increasingly important for us to question how and why we do things.”
Richard Louv, Author & Journalist
“If truth has a future in America, we must support the humanities…”