(air date December 23, 2008)

Dixie Horning, Executive Director, UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, and Brian Auerbach, the center’s communications coordinator will be dicussing the recent Helathcare Reform Forum with Carlina Hanson, Executive Director of Women’s Community Clinic. The forum is being promoted by the Obama transition team as a way of engaging iedas for healthcare reform at the grassroots level.

Women’s Community Clinic website:

http://www.womenscommunityclinic.org/

http://wahtblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-health-care-reform-discussion.html

The views expressed on this program are those of the speakers and do not represent the views of UCSF.

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The Eco Smith gives a year-end review of the remediation efforts at the Shipyard in Bayview-Hunters Point, the Navy’s Restoration Advisory Board and the many challenges facing the community, enviromentalists, and activists in their struggles with the Navy, Lennar, redevelopment and the stadium plans for the San Francisco 49ers.

Audio produced, edited and posted by Roland Washington.

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Dr. Brian Sims interviews Kevin Annett about the film “Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada’s Genocide”.

Kevin Annett aka Eagle Strong Voice is a Canadian writer and former minister of the United Church of Canada. He has authored two books about Canadian aboriginals: Love and Death in the Valley and Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust.

Audio produced, edited and posted by Roland Washington.

You can view “Unrepentant” on the Hidden From History website.

website:

http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197

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(air date December 9, 2008)

Brian Auerbach, Patricia Norman, director of the Run 4 Fun program, Emily Roth, pediatric resident from UCSF and Marco Ortiz site coordinator Western Addition Beacon Center discuss R4F, childhood obesity and ways to empower both children and parents in combating childhood obesity.

The views expressed on this program are those of the speakers and do not represent the views of UCSF.

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The Eco Smith gives an overview on the current status on San Francisco’s biodiesel recycling efforts past, present and future.

Audio produced, edited and posted by Roland Washington.

website:

http://greendepotsf.org/
http://www.biofuelrecycling.org/
http://www.beyondchron.org/depts/Arts_Entertainment_3
http://edoctorsmith.com/
http://wastesolutionsgroup.com
http://citygrazing.com

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( air date November 25, 2008)

Dixie Horning, Executive Director, UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, and Brian Auerbach, the center’s communications coordinator talk about the signs and symptoms of depression and the effects of overeating during the holiday season.

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Dr. Brian Sims talks about Television and it’s role in Hip Hop with  Emmy Award winning Producer, Writer and HipHop Journalist P. Frank Williams.

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October 15th, 2008

The Co-host of the Worker Justice Talk, David J. Kordsmeier, interviews Ashwini Narayanan, GM at Microplace.com. They discuss the world of Microfinance and the unique investment products for socially responsible economic development, offered by Microplace. Listen to podcast_no_83_justicefoundorg online, or on iTunes.

Ashwini Narayanan is the General Manager of MicroPlace, a social business focused on alleviating poverty through investments in Microfinance.
Ashwini was one of the early members of the MicroPlace team and has spent the last two years translating the vision of MicroPlace into reality. She has over 10 years of experience in designing, building and managing products in the e-commerce and payment industries. Before joining MicroPlace, Ashwini worked at PayPal as Director of Financial Services for North America. Prior to PayPal, Ashwini was Sr. Director of product strategy at CyberSource before which she managed InfoSpace’s product portfolio focused on merchant ecommerce products and payment processing platforms.

Ashwini has an undergraduate degree in Physics, a diploma in computer science and an MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Ashwini is an avid reader and swimmer and dabbles in an eclectic range of activities outside work that have recently included yoga, dancing, piano and courses in psychology and philosophy.

https://www.microplace.com/

http://www.mcenterprises.org/about/casestudies/

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007470.html

http://www.grameen-info.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=108