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THE WOMEN’S HOUR with Patricia Law Thurs 1pm, Sat noon, Sun 6pm

CAP TO COLA with VICTORIA TURNER

Patricia is in conversation with Victoria Turner today in Ms. Turner’s role as the FOUNDER and DIRECTOR of SHAC- Senior Housing Advisory Council.

SHAC is partnered with the SENIOR RESIDENTS COUNCIL, a subset of San Diego United Communities, a grassroots coalition of San Diego residents, neighborhood groups, and community advocates focused on local city governance, neighborhood preservation and pushing back against density developments and city parking fees

Ms. Turner and Patricia discuss CAP TO COLA. Ms. Turner and her organization’s 2026 focus is to keep elderly residents in their low-income apartment housing by CAPPING annual senior rent increases to the annual Cost of Living increase. What is going on now is seniors can be financially evicted from publicly-supported “so called affordable housing” when developers can increase the rent three times more than seniors’ social security.

The goal of CAP TO COLA is legislation to limit developer profits on publicly supported affordable senior buildings by capping the annual rent increase to COLA, instead of up to 10% as allowed by California law.

In summary, the public has given a great deal of money, land and resources to developers to create so called affordable housing (also known as low income housing) specifically for seniors. Once an elderly person has qualified and moved into that building, one year later, the rent can be increased as much as ten percent, at the same time that the senior’s income increases merely 2.8%. The math doesn’t work. It is easy to see that when your rent increases three times more than your income increases, you will soon be evicted.

Ms. Turner’s history of advocacy in the public sector includes, among other accomplishments, successfully shepherding County Bill 10668 to establish the Urban Agricultural Incentive Zone in San Diego County. San Diego MTS Community Advisory Committee created a position specifically for her, where she advocated for two years for better ridership experiences on our public transit system via busses and trolleys. Most recently, in 2026, Ms. Turner established the very first monthly, ongoing FREE SENIOR FOOD BOX distribution location at Waterfront Park next to the County Administration Building.

Ms. Turner’s success system relies on FIRST focusing on working within the existing public and government systems to network, advocate and establish programs benefitting our neighbors. When the people in the existing system fail, the mission then becomes rallying the public to replace the inadequate employees.

To that end, SHAC has aligned themselves with SDUC- San Diego United Communities. SDUC is an effective San Diego grassroots organization created by the wonderful Margaret Verrissimo. SDUC connects passionate citizens and their local groups with other groups for mutual support on the public stage.

If YOU are a senior living in *ANY* AFFORDABLE APARTMENT BUILDING in Southern California, please contact Ms. Turner by visiting www.SanDiegoUnitedCommunities.com

Sat 2pm, Wed 7pm

A Voice for and About Veterans

Tune in at .2pm PDT to hear the best of Friendly Fire 2017-2022. Hear from veterans who have fought against almost insurmountable odds to regain their place in society after serving, and then suffering, with challenges both physical and psychological. As always, it’s been my privilege to bring you their stories.

With Mike Aguirre And Co-host Arthur Aguirre LIVE Sat 11am

“LET THEM STEAL CAKE!”  CONTINUING CUTS TO SNAP ASSISTANCE AFFECTING MILLIONS OF CHILDRN AND FAMILIES, INCLUDING MILITARY FAMILIES

GUESTS GINA PLATA-NINO, DIRECTOR OF SNAP POLICY AND ADVOCACY, AND ATTORNEY  JONI HALPERN

The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) is the nation’s leading anti-hunger advocacy organization. For more than 56 years, FRAC has improved the nutrition, health, and well-being of people struggling against poverty-related hunger in the United States through advocacy, partnerships, and by advancing bold and equitable policy solutions. 

Gina Plata-Nino serves as Director of SNAP Policy and Advocacy. Previously, she served as a Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition and Agriculture in the Biden-Harris Administration’s Domestic Policy Council, where she helped lead the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. In this role, she worked with federal agencies and private stakeholders to advance the goal of ending hunger and diet-related diseases by 2030. At FRAC, Plata-Nino collaborates with the SNAP team to improve the program’s reach and effectiveness for low-income households. She leads legislative and technical support efforts for national, state, and community organizations, as well as government agencies and nonprofits, to strengthen SNAP access, benefits, and customer service.

Joni Halpern has been an attorney representing low-income clients for 30 years.  Her area of practice is administrative law, working with clients of all ages who need help from SSI, SSDI, SNAP, CalWORKs, and other public benefits programs.  She worked as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties.  In the process of investigating a county practice of searching the home of every innocent applicant for public assistance, she founded a nonprofit grassroots organization helping families on public assistance who were struggling to reach self-sufficiency.  The Supportive Parents Information Network (SPIN) operated for 14 years and was well-known for its robust, successful advocacy on behalf of low-income women and children.  Ms. Halpern now works as a consulting attorney for the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA).  Before becoming a lawyer, she was an award-winning community journalist.

Food Research & Action Center

Mon 8am, Wed 3pm, Sat 7pm

Sitting In for Susan this week is Kary Lynn Vail in conversation with

TODD BLAKESLEY

Todd Blakesley has worked in every strata of theater from administrative to creative: Managing Director of Bowery/Blackfriars Theatre and Women’s Repertory Theatre (which he co-founded). Dramaturge for Playwrights Project and ATHE. Artistic Director for the Actors Alliance Festival. Co-Creator with Write Out Loud of Twainfest, a free literary festival now in its 11th year. He served as Festival Coordinator for the San Diego International Fringe Festival from its founding (2013-17). His work as an actor, producer, director or playwright has been seen in California, Washington, Florida, Minnesota, New York and throughout the Canadian Fringe. Co-founder of Theatre Research & Development, Inc. and Artistic Director of its Crystal Palace Theatre (1971-76) where he developed his own brand of totally immersive theatre: blending actors and audience in to the same ethereal situation. Todd is a recipient of a 2015 Creative Catalyst Grant to develop his ninth immersive play.

He has been nominated by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for Best New Play (Cigars & Stripes” T:R&D – 1984); Outstanding Featured Performance (“Eurydice” Moxie Theatre – 2010); Outstanding Solo Performance as Truman Capote (“Tru” Diversionary Theatre – 2014).

WRITE OUT LOUD PRESENTS

AMERICAN LITERARY HEROES

Part of the Celebrating America 250 Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes funded by the NEA.

AMERICAN LITERARY HEROES, presented from mid-March through September 2026, is a unique program highlighting four iconic American writers who have left a lasting impact on the social consciousness of the United States, and across the globe.

Actors will bring Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau to life in libraries, schools, museums and other community venues across San Diego County, using selections of their works and bits of their lives.

WALT WHTMAN, whose focus on the common man and his break from poetic structures caused him to be known as “the father of free verse.”

Todd was commissioned to write a 45 minute piece on Whitman and to perform it at schools, libraries, community organizations throughout the spring and summer.

He organized the piece as a introduction to Whitman, covering his poetic themes (the body, the soul, nature, sexuality, democracy, technological innovation, the Civil War). Exploring his poetry style as a break from old world European rhyme and meter. The outcry against the perceived obscenity of his work.

TALK OF THE TOWN *LIVE* with Mike Aguirre Sat 11am

MASS SURVEILLANCE AND DEMOCRACY

GUESTS: SETH HALL WITH TRUST SAN DIEGO COALITION AND MEMBERS OF STUDENTS’ CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

STUDENTS’ CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (SCLU) is a dedicated, student-led nonprofit based in San Diego, California. Our mission is to champion civil liberties by creating spaces for young people to meaningfully organize and amplify the concerns of our communities.

Alongside our sister organization, the Youth Action Network, comprising members across UC San Diego, City College, Mesa College, SDSU, and high schools across San Diego County, our vision is grounded in democratic renewal: a nonpartisan rebuilding of civic life so that every San Diegan can participate meaningfully and hold power accountable.

So far, we’ve secured major victories in disability rights advocacy, including a new Disability Resource Center for UC San Diego students. We also work extensively in protecting immigrant communities, connecting 400+ businesses across San Diego for community mutual aid and protection. We train youth to become durable civic leaders not in the future, but right now.

TRUST SD COALITION The Transparent and Responsible Use of Surveillance Technology San Diego (TRUST SD) Coalition was originally formed to address the widespread and secretive use, installation, and acquisition of the Smart Streetlights technology that is being deployed all over San Diego County. TRUST SD is made up of 30 local community organizations that represent various sectors of our communities.

ABOUT OUT GUESTS___

Seth Hall is a career technologist and lives in the neighborhood of Allied Gardens, helping operate the TRUST SD Coalition which has advocated for the Transparent and Responsible Use of Surveillance Technology in San Diego since 2019. He is co-founder of the community group San Diego Privacy, which focuses on how San Diegans can use and protect privacy in their daily lives. You can contact Seth at seth@sandiegoprivacy.org.

https://sandiegotrust.org/index.html

Dannie Zhu (She/Her) is the Director of Organizing | Students’ Civil Liberties Union

https://sclusd.org/

EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE with Editor, Investigative Journalist Miriam Raftery and the East County Magazine News Team

Fri 5pm, St 8am, Mon 5pm, Tues 9am

Award-winning editor and journalist Miriam Raftery and her award-winning magazine East County Magazine focus on news and events of their area. Miriam and her news team also report news of the larger San Diego and national and international news that may affect East County.

East County Magazine has up-to-date information on wildfire and emergency news.

ABOUT EAST COUNTY MAGAZINE

East County Magazine is your community media. We reflect the public’s interest, not special interests.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to provide in-depth news and events coverage for the inland areas in San Diego County, reflecting the broad diversity of people and issues in our region, particularly those under-represented in other media. As nonprofit media, we reflect the public interest—not special interests, with a strong commitment to covering social justice issues, diverse and mulicultural voices, community concerns, environmental/land use issues, and nonpartisan political stories in our region’s urban, rural, mountain and desert communities. We also celebrate our region’s attractions and rich cultural heritage, with special sections such as Visit East County, People Power, Tribal Beat, Refugee Voices, Arts and Music, and more.

East County Magazine also founded and operates East County Wildfire & Emergency Alerts, keeping people safe and informed throughout San Diego County via e-mail and Twitter alerts. In addition we produce the East County Magazine radio show on KNSJ 89.1 FM.

https://eastcountymagazine.org/

https://eastcountymagazine.org/wildfire-and-emergency…

Storytelling for Social Change

Fri 4:30 pm

For the past decade Re:Work, the UCLA Labor Center podcast, has elevated stories of work to humanize and break down economic and racial justice issues. Each episode centers the life story of a worker or activist — with a focus on people of the global majority — through curated interviews punctuated with host reflections, music, and archival tape that draw listeners to a particular time, place, and feeling. It is produced by Veena Hampapur and Saba Waheed.

Each episode centers the life story of a worker or activist through curated interviews punctuated by host reflections, music, and archival tape — immersing listeners in a particular time, place, and feeling.

Re:Work also trains community partners and students in multimedia story production and includes curriculum and educational tools.

Fri 8am, Tues 7pm

Thoughtful conversations and a good way to start the day! STOP & TALK dives deep into the themes of purpose and opportunity, guided by the insights of leaders in the arts and culture, health, philanthropy, finance, and innovation fields. Together, we celebrated local achievements and envisioned what’s possible in San Diego County.

https://www.prebysfdn.org/

Wed 7pm, Sat 2pm

MATTHEW HOH

Tune in to Friendly Fire to hear former U.S. Marine captain and State Department official MATTHEW HOH speak about the situation in Ukraine. Matt, a combat veteran in Iraq, and a diplomat in Afghanistan is now a Senior Advisor at the Eisenhower Media Network, and has brought his expertise to the UN Security Council in 2024 over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Don’t miss Matt’s insights about the “escalation ladder” that both sides of the war continue to climb, perhaps leading to unforeseen consequences for Europe and the world.

WOMEN’S HOUR with Patricia Law Wed 5pm

UNSEEN: THE LOAD WOMEN CARRY

Guest Tammy Schwinegruber

Tammy Schwinegruber is the founder of Royal Retreatments™ and a speaker and educator focused on emotional load, nervous system maintenance, and the pressures women often normalize while continuing to function at a high level. After recognizing how much stress she had normalized in her own life, Tammy became passionate about changing the way we think about restoration—not as something we earn after burnout, but as part of maintaining our wellbeing along the way.

Through private immersive experiences, public education, and community wellness initiatives, her work explores the invisible responsibilities women carry, why we often postpone our own restoration, and how creating space for recovery can help us become more present in the lives we’re working so hard to hold together.

Want to know how much emotional load you may be carrying? Take the complimentary Emotional Load Index™, a brief self-assessment designed to help you recognize the pressures you may have normalized and better understand your current emotional load.

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