Paseo Podcast: Sharing Puerto Rican Stories
Society & Culture
We welcome Monica Cruz. She's a labor reporter with BreakThrough News and host of the weekly podcast, On the Picket Line. She's a 3rd generation Afro-Boricua raised in New Jersey and an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. We discuss the PRO Act, a major labor legislation that could transform the lives of working class people and labor organizing, and what that means for Puerto Ricans, the wider BIPOC community and the working class as a whole.
We also talk about why it’s so hard to make a good Mofongo, where mainstream media is lacking in their reporting on labor and her labor reporting for BreakThrough news, especially what she experienced during the Amazon Warehouse unionization efforts in Alabama.
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★ About Our Guest(s) ★
BreakThrough News Website ★ https://www.breakthroughnews.org
Monica Cruz's Twitter ★ https://twitter.com/palantemami
★ Partners + Additional Credits ★
Chicago Public Library Paseo Podcast Discussion Group ★ https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/search/q=paseo%20podcast
Puerto Rican Cultural Center Website ★ https://prcc-chgo.org
CIMA ★ https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/independent-media-alliance-about-cima/Content?oid=82156315
Sounds ★ MEINL Percussion
Production Assistant, Richie Requena Twitter ★ https://twitter.com/RichieRequena
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Episode 54: The Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act
Episode 53: The Jones Act, Workers' Rights & Unionizing Your Workplace
BONUS: U.S. Rep. Chuy García on Puerto Rico Policy, The Squad & The Democratic Party's Future
Episode 52: Reporting on Puerto Rico w/ Nicole Acevedo from NBC News & NBC Latino
Episode 51: Two PRs Talking PR
Episode 50: What The IL Culturally Responsive Teaching And Leading Standards Mean For BIPOC Students
Episode 49: Leading Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School Through The Pandemic
Episode 48: Chicago’s Looming Eviction Crisis & Its Impact on the BIPOC Community
Episode 47: A Trip to London’s Puerto Rican Diaspora w/ Naomi Bonafoux
Episode 46: Latino Rebels & Representation in Media w/ Julio Ricardo Varela
Episode 45: Star Wars, Representation & How Boricuas Fit In w/ the Hosts of Triad of The Force
Episode 44: Organizing in Puerto Rico & Chicago, Attack at the Capitol & More w/ Alderwoman Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez
Episode 43: Decolonizing Wellness w/ Constanza Eliana Chinea
Episode 42: The Taste of Sugar & the Publishing Industry with Novelist Marisel Vera
Episode 41: Knowing Our Roots & Sharing Our History w/Adrián Román
Episode 40: Researcher & Filmmaker Andrew J. Padilla
Episode 39: The Puerto Rico Election 2020
Episode 38: The Puerto Rican Electorate with Erica González from #Power4PuertoRico
Episode 37: Cooking with Genesis, an 8-Year Old Boricua Chef
Episode 36: City Bureau Journalist Justin Agrelo
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