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April 7th 2017: El Salvador Mining Ban

Laura Embree-Lowry, the program director for CISPES, joins us to discuss the historic mining ban in El Salvador. She’ll explain how El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban all metallic mining nationwide and about the activists whom risked their lives to fight for social and environmental justice. Learn more at cispes.org/

March 31st 2017: Latinos in Podcasting

Commercial terrestrial radio has almost become the exclusive home of racist, anti-Latino radio programs. So this week, we speak with Brenda Gonzalez, the host of the Tamarindo podcast, about the importance of diversity and having Latino voices heard in the podcasting world. You can learn more about the Tamarindo podcast via Twitter @TamarindoCast