An OC World exclusive: Interview with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
October 7, 2022
Hello Community Leaders and Friends,
You’re receiving this exclusive update because you’re a supporter of OC World’s mission to bring SoCal communities together through grassroots narratives, interviews, and short documentaries. As you know, we currently broadcast 5 p.m. Mondays on KLCS, a PBS affiliate that reaches 15.5 million households from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
Next Monday 10 October we broadcast an exclusive interview with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who last month was named by Governor Newsom to serve as the State’s Infrastructure Advisor to help leverage $120 million in federal dollars in building California’s infrastructure.
If by chance you can’t make the Monday broadcast, click here to watch Part1 of our compelling conversation with one of the country’s most prominent voices on droughts, wildfires, and the effects of Climate Change on California.
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We are proud to announce that “To Live for the Harvest” is an official selection of the 2022 OC Film Fiesta. The festival includes films from around the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Spain, Italy, India, Brazil, Portugal, Tunisia and Iran; and includes a healthy selection of films by Orange County filmmakers. This 13th OC Film Fiesta will feature in-person and virtual screenings, workshops and Q&As.
“To Live for the Harvest” was one of OC World’s inaugural episodes during Season One. (It first aired on KDOC and then re-aired during Season Two on PBS affiliate KLCS.)
Monday 10 October
An OC World Exclusive:
Interview with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who last month was named by Governor Newsom to serve as the State’s Infrastructure Advisor to help leverage $120 million in federal dollars in building California’s infrastructure.
Monday 17 October
To Live for the Harvest: COVID-19 Impact on Farmworkers
After being designated as essential “workers,” California farmworkers and their families suffered disproportionate health impacts to COVID-19. To understand why, this documentary-short explores the early history of agricultural workers treatment and their lack of protection from national labor laws, and also reveals the power of people working in collaboration.
Monday 24 October
Hope Dies Last-Alzheimer’s: The End-of-Life Disease
Someone develops Alzheimer’s disease every 66 seconds in the U.S. California, in specific, has more people with this end-of-life disease than any other state. This documentary-short focuses on those who are living this disease as they share their stories of how Alzheimer’s has affected their lives and how they find hope in these darkest of times.
Monday 31 October
Rights, Liberties, and Effective Government (Part 1)
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of University of California Berkeley School of Law, is a nationally recognized American legal scholar, and is esteemed as a verifiable constitutional law rock star. In this two-part series, Chemerinsky discusses recent Supreme Court decisions, his legal philosophy, and what matters most to him, and why.
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