This week’s show featured youth voices talking about the important issues facing the New Mexico legislature. Generation Justice member Jonquilyn Hill reported on the KIDS COUNT report that ranked New Mexico last in the nation for child well being. Cuidando Los Niños and Representative Rick Miera brought this story to life. SouthWest Organizing Project activists...
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1.19.14 Honoring Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. [Radio] – Generation Justice
This episode we honored the work and life of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Youth from Generation Justice picked their favorite quotes and discussed what they meant to them. We also heard from Arturo Castillo who discussed his admiration for MLK through the lens of his parents struggles as immigrants. Music Featured:“Speech on Fun Town”...
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1.12.14 Spirituality and Social Justice Pt. 4 – Rev. John D. Hill [Radio] – Generation Justice
In the last of Lucia Martinez’s discussions on spirituality and social justice, she talks with Reverend John D. Hill of Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church in Albuquerque. He discusses the history of Grant Chapel, and the A.M.E. church as a whole, connecting its founding as a rejection of discrimination to social justice work today. He also...