The New Americans

Confronting Big Tobacco and the fight to save lives!!! Dr. Stan Glantz

Dr. Glantz conducts research on a wide range of topics ranging from the health effects of e-cigarettes and secondhand smoke (with particular emphasis on the cardiovascular system) to the efficacy of different tobacco control policies. As the tobacco landscape has changed, Dr. Glantz' work has expanded to include cannabis policy, because of the interactions between tobacco and cannabis. Dr. Glantz is Principal Investigator for the $40 million 10 year Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) that was first funded in September 2013 and renewed for another 5 years in 2018 as part of a first-of-its-kind tobacco science regulatory program by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health He is author or coauthor of numerous publications on tobacco control, including secondhand smoke, e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products as well as cannabis policy. He has also contributed to research on how the sugar industry has worked to shape the scientific understanding of the effects of sugar consumption. Working with the UCSF Library, he has taken the lead in making over 90 million pages of previously secret tobacco industry documents available to the entire world via the internet through the UCSF Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library. More recently, he has worked with the Library and other colleagues to expand collections on the food (sugar), chemical, fossil fuel and pharma industries. This effort has help create a whole new area of scientific investigation based on tobacco industry documents. He served for 10 years as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and is an academic editor for PLOS One. He has been a member of the California State Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants since 1986. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) in 2005. He has traveled widely and lectured on scientific and policy issues related to e-cigarettes, clean indoor air, smoking in the movies, and effective tobacco and cannabis control strategies. His work has attracted considerable attention from the tobacco industry, which has sued the University of California (unsuccessfully) twice in an effort to stop Prof. Glantz' work.

Jose Schools the Principal

In our first podcast, Abraham and Jose discuss a student walkout at Sunnyside High School on Nov 4th, 1998 and how it went down. Jose discusses the centripetal force of MEChA that galvanized the blooming of a student conscious to upset the power dynamic. The students began organizing, feeling empowered, and ultimately walked out with a mission to inform the public by practicing direct democracy.  In the latter half of the episode, Abraham describes a quirky part of his Mexican-American heritage: he was named after a great grand-father, whom he recently learned met an unusual fate in Rural Mexico.   We finish off by explaining the source of this podcast's name, "The New Americans."  THE NEW AMERICANS | The New Yorker [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/03/25/the-new-americans]

Royal Chicano Air Force RCAF Rudy Cuellar

Rudy Cuellar is a founding member of the Sacramento-based artist collective, the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), along with Jose Montoya, Esteban Villa, Juanishi Orosco, Max Garcia, Louie The Foot Gonzalez, and Ricardo Favela. The RCAF represents a major part of California's history, in particular, the Chicana/o/x civil rights and labor organizing movement of the United Farm Workers. RCAF is internationally recognized for its mural paintings, poster art production, individual artistic contributions, community activism, and its outrageous humor. RCAF has maintained a three-decades long history of engaging communities to express their Chicano culture, history and struggle for equal rights. Rudy just received honors from the Smithsonian showing 10 of his works. Rudy is currently working on silver art creating bolo ties, silver rings, and other objects at times combining metals like copper, brass and silver. About the artwork on the episode description from the Smithsonian website ABOUT THIS ARTWORK Some civil rights–era activists and artists used their artwork to express skepticism at the 1976 Bicentennial, feeling its celebrations of liberty at odds with the historical experiences of many U.S. citizens. Cuellar, a member of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) art collective, shows a young man gagged by a padlock that reads “Made in USA.” His work is taken from a 1954/68 print by Adolfo Mexiac, who created the image to protest U.S. intervention in Guatemala and Mexican state violence. Surprisingly, Cuellar’s print also announces an art exhibition, showing how the RCAF creatively integrated their critical statements into their work. https://youtu.be/BWybYfyfRK4

A Conversation with Lil Milagro Henriquez about Apocalyptic Climate Resiliency and the creation of the Mycelium Youth Network

Lil Milagro Henriquez, M.A., is a native New Orleanian, whose family survived Hurricane Katrina, and a 17-year veteran of social and environmental justice activism. Determined to be a catalyst for change, Henriquez resolved to fill the critical gap in education and community development for Oakland youth using her own expertise in disaster preparation and response, youth education, and leadership as well as the expertise of colleagues in complementary fields. In 2017, she founded Mycelium Youth Network, an educational nonprofit designed to integrate place-based ancestral knowledge with hands-on holistic S.T.E.A.M. (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math) programming in order to prepare her community’s youth for a climate-challenged future. Mycelium Youth Network was named one of a handful organizations focusing on youth climate preparedness on the West Coast. As Executive Director, Henriquez is leading the way in youth climate resilience and mitigation work. Henriquez has worked on a myriad of social justice issues, including access to higher education for low-income people and communities of color, food sovereignty, environmental racism, union democracy and labor organizing, among many others. In 2010, she received a graduate degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology. She reached ABD (All But Dissertation) status for our PhD in Systematic Theology from the Graduate Theological Union. Lil, Keep up the great work, and thank you for all you that you do!!!  HOME | mycelium (myceliumyouthnetwork.org) [https://www.myceliumyouthnetwork.org/] Donate here: Donate Today | Mycelium Youth Network [https://www.myceliumyouthnetwork.org/donate] Media: Articles | Mycelium Youth Network [https://www.myceliumyouthnetwork.org/articles] Ted Talk: Lil Milagro Henriquez: How to Engage Youth In Climate Resilient Education | TED Talk [https://www.ted.com/talks/lil_milagro_henriquez_how_to_engage_youth_in_climate_resilient_education]

From Argentina to America, Federico Garcia's "Gusto Gaucho" Argentine Pastry Cuisine

Federico Garcia is from Mendoza, Argentina (land of Malbec wine). Federico emigrated to the United States in 2014, as an industrial engineer by training, his skills and passion were realized in baking. After perfecting empanadas, Federico moved on to pastries. Federico's belief is that farm to fork has allowed for him to create great food which taste even better and delivers to palate. Federico is winner of the calling all dreamers 2021 and hopes to reach the American market to introduce Argentine pastry cuisine.      Picture by downtown sac To Order:  https://gustogaucho.com/ https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2022/02/22/gusto-gaucho-calling-all-dreamers.html https://www.godowntownsac.com/experience/meet-the-2021-calling-all-dreamers-winner-gusto-gaucho/ If you travel to Argentina check out Essenza Pastelería | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/watch/EssenzaPasteleria/] or @essenza.pasteleria