s2e24 California Culture with Josiah Luis Alderete & Joe Talaugon
Medicine for Nightmares & Memoir
SHOW NOTES
s2e24
July 18, 2024
Tony Robles talks with JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, poet and operator of Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore in SF, and JOE TALAUGON, author of the memoir Mestizo Through My Eyes. Alderete shares his poem “Somos” and some choice words about banning books. Martha shares a garden update and thoughts on native wisdom.
HOSTS: Martha Cinader, Tony Robles. GUESTS: Josiah Luis Alderete, Joe Talaugon. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray.
GUESTS
Josiah Luis Alderete
Poet
Co-owner, Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery
Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho, Spanglish speaking poeta who has been an active part of la Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years. He was a founding member of outspoken word group “The Molotov Mouths” and is the curator and host of the long running monthly Chicano/Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl which happens the 3rd Thursday of every month in el Zoom mundo. Josiah’s book of poems, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos is being released this year from Black Freighter Press. Photo by Michelle Kilfeather (cropped).
Joe R. Talaugon Sr.
Author
Joe Talaugon is a 91-year-old gentleman who lives in the Central Coast of California. Joe is a member of the Santa Ynez Chumash Indian Tribe and his wife Margie is of Filipino descent, as her parents immigrated from the Philippines in the 1920s. Joe and Margie became activists in the community in the late 1960s, as they realized at that time much of the injustices presented in the civil rights movement were exactly what they personally faced during their younger years and to date. At 91 years old, Joe and his family continues to initiate and participate in both community activities and many conferences addressing the racial and economic issues of today.
FEATURED BOOKS
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Josiah Luis Alderete – Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos
The poems in “Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos” hold space inside a colonized time and place we can still recognize as San Francisco. Spanglish antepasado recuerdos and palabras of our neighborhood memories, the pocho American Dream stuffed into Donaldo Trump pinatas with the conejo en la luna looking down on us are spoken in three…
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Joe R. Talaugon Sr. – Mestizo Through My Eyes
This book is about a man who grew up during a time when life in California was very hard, even though as a child he had no clue of the struggles his father and mother were going through. All he knew at that time was that he lived in an old house somewhere out on a farm…
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EVENTS
Listen & Be Heard Open Mic
Resumes September 2024
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Broadcast Live on WLBH.org! Listen & Be Heard began as an open mic, and we are looking forward to reviving it in yet another form. It has always been a unique event, more like a jam, on the east coast, on the west coast, and now, here in the South, we intend to keep the improvisation and cross pollination between words and music ongoing.
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BANNED BOOKS
We invite you to share your voice
on the banning of books
in schools and libraries in the USA.
PEN America reported ‘While the movement to ban books is driven by a vocal minority demanding censorship, a 2022 poll conducted by The American Library Association found that over 70% of parents oppose book banning leaving many public school districts in a bind. We invite you to share your voice on the banning of books in schools and libraries in the USA.
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Ongoing discussion
Climate Resilience with Laura Lengnick & Meredith Leigh
Climate change is the concern of every writer because it is the concern of every person. Every season, we meet with Laura Lengnick, Meredith Leigh and friends to discuss everything related to agricultural and climate resilience.
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