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Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, talks to Emil Guillermo about how the Stockton non-profit has expanded its mission to do more and to help more people in South Stockton. From preserving Filipino American history and historic buildings, the LMR's mission now includes public health initiatives and environmental efforts in community air monitoring. Beyond that, the non-profit has its eyes on owning and developing land and projects to benefit the broader South Stockton community. Delvo said Little Manila Rising just wants to do what other groups are doing around the state, go beyond marginalization to have a say in the future development of their community by accessing power and funds previously denied them.
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In California, 2022 brings new requirements for ethnic studies at the community college and high school levels. It could become a model for schools around the country. It's too late for one Oakland student who has since graduated and gone to Harvard. But even there, Eleanor V.Wikstrom has found learning about her Filipino history has not been easy. There are no Tagalog or Pilipino language classes taught there. And Filipino American history is an afterthought, despite the role the U.S. played in the colonization of the country. In her recent essay in the Harvard Crimson, Wikstrom wrote about the part Harvard played in the Philippines. She went deep into the stacks at the Pusey Library and uncovered some of the open secrets about how Harvard and American higher ed elites played a role in giving Filipinos not only English, but their own history in a textbook written from a white academic perspective.  Wikstrom's journey of discovery reminded me of my own experience 40 years ago as a young Filipino American at Harvard, trying to put together the history we were never meant to see.
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See Eleanor Wikstrom's article in the Harvard Crimson.

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Little Manila Rising, a community non-profit in Stockton, Calif., is taking an aggressive stand to protect its Filipino American community from environmental racism. Matt Holmes heads up the environmental effort and talks about a new project with UC Merced to make sure the air in Stockton and the valley is monitored. He also talks about the ways the pollution from the freeways and port is being mitigated. The situation is dire, Stockton has one of the worst air pollution profiles in the state, and not coincidentally, the worst asthma rates in California, as well. This is Part 4 of an ongoing look at how Little Manila Rising is evolving to serve its community and to not give up on Stockton.
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INDEX
0.58: Little Manila Rising intro
3:30: Crosstown Freeway/Pollution
4:23: Matt Holmes intro
5:20: Interview begins (Starts with Dawn)
6:38: First project NPS
7:56: Launching historical park/Richmond
9:12: Air quality work
12:36: Hired by Little Manila Rising
14:43: Environmental racism
15:29: Environmental violence (Transportation planning)
17:17: Public health outcomes
18:00: Warehouse for the Bay Area/impact of trucks
21:30: Racism and advocacy
22:22: Projects
24:32: Who is responsible?
27:30: Bureaucratic Hurdles 
29:00: Funding  from AG’s office to monitor air pollution
29:32: Seachange in technology
30:09: Regulatory Framework only  intervenes on permitting, not community harm.
31:02: Update on community air monitors
32:14: Pollution causes genetic damage
32:43: Volkswagen Settlement
34:25: Bringing science and medicine to the people with the people
37:00: The tradition of air monitoring (50 km grids, historical data)
37:44: The promise of community monitoring, granular actionable information
39:00: Inland port burns the dirtiest fuel
39:55: We know a lot when it benefits powerful people
41:10: The Port is the most amenable actor to partnering to solve the problem
42:13: CARB - California Air Resources Board
43:18: Healthy communities are designed
44:14: 85% of biomass being burned comes from Vineyards
44:41: Drive for short term profits has led to global climate instability and hyper local public health outcomes
45:27: Global climate instability is especially threatening to low income communities of color
45:44: White environmentalist movement
46:50: The importance of Dawn
49:14: Architects of CA freeways(Environmental Racism)
50:09: Problems of wealth and power
51:49: Dawn program
52:55: Sky Watch
53:25: Transformative climate communities work, Urban greening
56:18: The power of trees and nature based solutions
 

"Try Harder" director Debbie Lum talks to Emil Guillermo about Lowell High School and the college admissions process captured in the film's profile of five students of diverse backgrounds.
What are AAPI going through to get to the elite colleges of their choice? And how are their parents dealing with it?
Is it possible that the African American parent wins the "Tiger Mom" competition? 
And what of the white student who knows he has no chance to compete?
Everyone wants to go to an elite college but no one ever asks if it's a right fit. The kids grow up as the film progresses. When it's over, you'll want to know why some got in, and others didn't. 
Emil, a Lowell alum, also compares his experiences with those of the students in the film.
Find out where the film is showing at www.tryharderfilm.com

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Amy Portello Nelson talks with Emil Guillermo about Little Manila Rising's "Get Out the Vaccine" drive. Modeled after the "Get Out the Vote" idea, the program goes door to door to give people good information about the virus and vaccines. And it's working, vaccine rates went from the low 30 percent range to more than 50 percent in the zipcodes canvassed. Now the plan is to keep going through the end of November. But it's not easy. Some are hesitant, and one resident even pulled a gun. But it's important work that Little Manila Rising is committed to doing. It's part of the evolution of Little Manila Rising, going from an educational and cultural focus to environmental and social justice issues to public health. And sometimes being all of those things as the community's needs change.
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Little Manila Rising is an non-profit organization in Stockton, Calif. servicing primarily the South Stockton community. After a recent youth conference produced by Little Manila youth,  Emil Guillermo talked with Celine Lopez, a newly-minted Stanford graduate, who hopes to use her senior thesis in Urban Studies as a foundation for policy-making in her hometown. Celine talks about how she rediscovered her pride and self-worth as a Stocktonian at Stanford and how that fueled her desire to return to the Central Valley.
She talks about how she wants to reverse the brain drain, and help restore the day when Stockton seemed to be the hub of life.
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