Best Victoria Jimenez Podcasts (2024)

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Metropolis Rising takes you on a journey that reveals the critical insights and imaginative power born of each guest's personal stories. Professor Nicholas De Genova engages big ideas by focusing a fine-grained lens on the formative experiences that have shaped his guests’ perspectives, exploring how their individual biographies have intersected with history and shaped how they have intervened in social and political struggles. These conversations become a record of the history of our times ...

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Lilian Jimenez: The Inspired Logic of a Rebel 51:53

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Lilian Jimenez is an attorney who advocates for greater justice and equity in public policy. She has extensive experience in direct services, community organizing, and policy advocacy, with a special focus on promoting the rights of immigrant populations and communities of color. Lili works to ensure that government, as well as non-profit programs,…

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"Once You Know, You Can't Stop": Victoria Cervantes' Lifelong Commitment to Social Justice. 1:05:32

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In this episode of Metropolis Rising, our guest is Victoria Cervantes. Vicki is a lifelong activist who first became politicized in high school in the mid-to-late-1960s during the social upheaval of the Vietnam era's civil rights and anti-war movements. Vicki has been a community and labor activist for decades in Chicago's Mexican community, where …

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Portrait of an Artist: Martin Crudo ... ¿Y Qué? 1:05:08

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In Episode 2 of Metropolis Rising, our guest is Latinx artist Martin Sorrondeguy (also known as Martin Crudo). Martin is best known as the founder, lead singer, and lyricist of the Latinx hardcore punk bank, Los Crudos, who quickly came to have an impact around the world. The lyrics of the band’s songs spoke politically to the Latinx experience in …

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The Show Goes On: Remembering Keeley, with Prison Abolitionist Maya Schenwar 55:20

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On the first episode of Metropolis Rising, our guest is Maya Schenwar. Maya is editor-in-chief of the social justice news website, TruthOut. Following the one-year anniversary of her sister Keeley’s death at the age of 29, Maya reflects on Keeley’s struggles with drug addiction, her life in and out of prison beginning when she was 14 years old, the…