Writer/director Tim Robbins’ Harlequino: On to Freedom at the Actors’ Gang is a messy, boisterous show whose message about personal freedom and self-determination comes through simply and clearly.
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How do Californians see themselves and their state in this strange and dangerous historical moment? Capital & Main explores this question through the words of 10 Californians from very different racial, economic and geographic backgrounds.
A video by Marco Amador capturing the optimism of Californians in a time of uncertainty.
Today we hear from 10 Californians who were interviewed by Sasha Abramsky and who articulate what it means to live in the Golden State at a time when the basic foundations of community life and personal happiness are threatened by a toxic political climate.
She specializes in Japanese history and is a seventh-generation Californian. He is a pioneering expert in the field of computational linguistics and a first-generation Californian, a migrant from St. Louis.
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Will Scott is president of the African-American Farmers of California. He spoke in the living room of his ranch house just outside Fresno.
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Justino Mora is a DREAMER and cofounder of undocumedia.org.
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Lydia Avila is a young Boyle Heights-based community organizer with California Calls, an alliance of 31 social justice organizations across the state that conducts voter-engagement campaigns.
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Evan Minton, a one-time staffer at the Capitol in Sacramento, recently transitioned from female to male. He is currently co-chair of the state Democratic Party’s LGBT Caucus.
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Chukou Thao is president of the National Hmong American Farmers, an association based on the outskirts of Fresno, in California’s Central Valley.