Shasta College's Umoja Program Works to Continue Juneteenth's Legacy of Freedom Discussing Juneteenth, Umoja's Jerry Brown said the day still lacks needed recognition, especially in Shasta County.
News "The Art Hunger", Art for All People, Opens Tonight Velazquez is developing something unique. “This is not a collective,” he says, “It’s not a group of people, it’s not a club." Instead, he is working to create an accessible community around art, that benefits both artists and the community.
News Distribution Events Demonstrate Solidarity With Shasta County Farm Workers Farm worker families were full of thanks for the provision of goods and services, Casia says, but at the end of the day it was hard to determine who felt more grateful, those giving out supplies or those receiving them.
How We Got Here The real story is how we are ready to trust and follow our hot emotions rather than our cool intellect in our quest to find our core identity in our political tribe and defend it with our lives, if necessary, regardless of the cost.
Progress for Pride in Shasta County Today the Shasta County Board of Supervisors officially named June as LGBTQ and Pride month. The adoption of the proclamation is significant in Shasta County, where the journey towards LGBTQ+ inclusion has been slow.
Opinion Why Don’t We Care about Care Work? Care work is infrastructure on par with highways, trains, and airports. And for too long, this essential public service has remained invisible, unvalued, and ignored — because it is largely done by women.
Opinion In the End It Is the Questions that Will Save Us Powerful questions have been behind social innovations of all types: from Impossible Burgers to marriage equality. Below all such inquiry lies our grappling with the kind of society we want to have. Engaging in this process is fundamental to a functioning democracy.
News One Year Ago,Today: How George Floyd's Murder Galvanized Community Organizing in Shasta County The June protest was only the beginning. Community organizing mushroomed in Shasta County in the months that followed, even though local progressive organizers were met by a related surge in the activity of self-described “militias” and related groups.
News "Birds On a Wire" Flock to Turtle Bay to Encourage Public Health Precautions Text plaques placed alongside the birds describe striking connections between bird behaviors and COVID-influenced human behavioral changes.
News: Patriot Movement Homeland Security Issues Terrorism Advisory Bulletin With Implications for Shasta County "The update has important implications for Shasta County, where both online and in-person violent speech and threats against local government officials and other county residents has occurred over the past year."
How We Work Deepening the Stories True news journalism requires a rigorous assessment of authoritative claims, a healthy skepticism of power, and the inclusion of marginalized voices whose lived experiences shed light on the realities of our social challenges.
Feature Story Wolfpack Clubhouse Expands LGBTQ+ Community Offerings The group has evolved from a small cohort of close friends to a non-profit community organization with around 200 active participants, Carson says. They focus on women, she says, but their special events and youth activities are open to all genders.
Opinion Journeying Towards Equity With Resilience Photo by Jon Tyson / Unsplash Sharon Brisolara holds a masters in Human Service Administration and a PhD in Program Evaluation and Planning, with concentrations in Rural Sociology and Women’s
News Chauvin Verdict Stirs Contrasting Reactions From Local Social Justice and Multicultural Groups Gali says statements that call for community peace without standing against brutality could be interpreted as attempts to point fingers at active and vocal organizers for social justice.
News The Whole Earth and Watershed Festival Returns, Virtually Peggy Rebol says climate change is affecting all aspects of our lives and should push us to look at changing local policies. Climate affects our local community through drought and wildfire, she said, “so anything we can do to mitigate or adapt to these realities will benefit us.”
News Redding Nurses Raise Their Voices for Expanded Health Care Access The California Nurses Association is sponsoring CalCare. They say AB 1400 is needed to provide comprehensive healthcare to the more than 3 million Californians who remain uninsured as well as those who are under-insured or face high co-pays or deductibles.
News United Nations Biodiversity Project Highlights Local Winnemem Wintu Project The U.N. featured the Winnemem Wintu in part due to the work of Niria Garcia, a 28-year-old Xicana graduate student at Columbia University and human rights advocate, climate justice advocate, educator and storyteller. She recently received the 2020 United Nations Young Champion of the Earth award.
Opinion Our Children Are Watching Us Three weeks after the Carr Fire devastated Redding, 4,000 miles away in Stockholm, Sweden, a small 15-year-old girl named Greta skipped school.
News: Bethel Church Bethel Shares Statement Opposing the Equality Act “The Equality Act seeks to create equality by erasing gender, but God created them male and female and said that it is good,” reads one slide, with four accompanying Bible verse references. Another reads, “real equality celebrates the differences between men and women and empowers them both.”
Feature Story The North State's Most Powerful Climate Action Group Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight At the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, held this year on the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, Thomas will be be making a clear statement: the programs of Shasta Living Streets are essential to addressing the climate crisis.
News: Local Government Redding Tourism Contract—Final Three Vary Widely in Relevant Experience Concerns about fairness have likely arisen due to disparities in how some recent contract renewals appear to have been handled by the Council.
Opinion Missing the "Public" In this Public Health Crisis Our focus on “me” versus “we” created the perfect playground for this virus. A culture that fights COVID-19 with “personal responsibility” doesn’t work. Addressing a structural problem by relying on individuals is doomed to fail.
News: Community Events Event to Honor César Chávez Will Support Local Farm Workers While some farm workers prefer to stay in the shadows, Casia says, she hopes the Cesar Chavez Day donations help them to feel supported and welcomed in the community.
Opinion Time to Wake Up It has always been ignorance of climate change that is our true enemy, not our changing climate.
News: Accountability Nick Patterson, One More Missing Indigenous Man American Indians and Alaskan Natives are 2.5 times as likely to experience violent crimes and at least two times more likely to experience rape or sexual assault crimes as compared to all other races. And when they go missing or are murdered, answers are often scarce.
