Monthly Archives: April 2011

4/19/2011: holding council

On this installment of Hear in the City, we experience the Native American tradition of council in a non-traditional setting: a high school classroom just east of the Greyhound station in one of L.A.’s oldest schoolhouses, Metropolitan High where student … Continue reading →

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4/12/2011: Urban Innovations and La Batalla de Chile

Patricio Guzmán in Los Angeles: Hear in the City arts editor Jesse Lerner remembers an unprecidented documentary shot in the city of Santiago by Chilean exile Patricio Guzmán who will be visiting Los Angeles later this month for a retrospective … Continue reading →

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4/12/2011: Urban Innovations and La Batalla de Chile

Forage City: On Hear in the City, we have regular conversations with people who are working to restore food justice to the urban food system. This week host Sara Harris interviews Asiya Wadud, founder of Forage Oakland. Asiya Wadud is a … Continue reading →

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4/12/2011: Urban Innovations and La Batalla de Chile

CicLAvia: Los Angeles is home to 3 and a half million people,  2 and half million automobiles on six and half thousand miles of public streets. Seven of those miles were automobile free this past Sunday, open only to cyclists, … Continue reading →

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04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series

Environmental Essay

  Host Sara Harris shares her point of view on recent responses from government and industry to environmental disasters.

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04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series

Teacher Educational Program at UCLA

Continuing our Education in Crisis series, Hear in the City visits an innovative graduate program UCLA IMPACT: Urban Teacher Residency, to talk with Dr. Annamarie Francois.  She sees a new movement of teacher apprenticeship as one solution to the problem … Continue reading →

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04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series

Ciclavia 2011

Luis Sierra Campos meets up with the community outreach coordinator for Ciclavia, happening this Sunday, when the city will make seven miles of roads automobile-free for an afternoon, open only to cyclists, pedestrians, and other people moving on their own … Continue reading →

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04/05/11: Ciclavia & Education in Crisis Series

Malick Sidibé

Hear in the City arts editor, Jesse Lerner, heads over to M and B Arts Gallery in West Hollywood, where an exhibit featuring the work of famed Malian photographer Malik Sidibé is on display through until the end of the … Continue reading →

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03/29/2011: Education in Crisis

LAUSD School Number 13

Hear in the  City visits the construction site of LAUSD School Number 13, to learn more about the New School Construction Program, was approved by voters in 2007.  We talk with a young engineer at the site about the new … Continue reading →

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03/29/2011: Education in Crisis

National Conference on Bilingual Education 2011

For the next three weeks, Hear in the City will spend time with students, teachers, administrators, and parents to talk about how we are all dealing with a serious problem in public education in Los Angeles.  Today we head to … Continue reading →

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