6/1 Questions - Haleh Mawson
1. De La Torre says that "claiming a Chicana identity was a political choice for" women in 1970s-80s community public radio (184). Does she mean that the act of publicly voicing, on air, one's Chicana identity was a form of activism? If so, how?
2. She also says that only >7% and <7% of radio licenses are held by people of color and women respectively (which probably means some infinitesimal percentage for women of color), roughly the same as back in the 70s. To her, this means we need "to learn from and implement [their] tactics today," but if things haven't changed much, it doesn't feel like the Chicana feminist takeover of the airwaves was all that successful back in the 70s (188). We do have the same goal as the 70s feministas. Is it best to repeat their tactics? Or should we modify them?
3. From the two Crosscut articles, it sounds like the biggest problem is not a lack of supporting organizations and programs, but a lack of support for the supporters, as it were. Seattle has a "$5 million fund for rental assistance" that offers aid to undocumented immigrants, meaning there's local government support, and the list of non-profits and community groups that offer aid is pretty long (Fowler, April 2020). Grassroots aid is common, it's just that there isn't enough to give. Does that sound like a fair assessment of the limits of American mutual aid? And if so, is there anything we can do to help the situation without involving a federal government that, frankly, I would not trust to boil water on a gas stove unsupervised?
Everybody stay safe,
- Haleh
2. She also says that only >7% and <7% of radio licenses are held by people of color and women respectively (which probably means some infinitesimal percentage for women of color), roughly the same as back in the 70s. To her, this means we need "to learn from and implement [their] tactics today," but if things haven't changed much, it doesn't feel like the Chicana feminist takeover of the airwaves was all that successful back in the 70s (188). We do have the same goal as the 70s feministas. Is it best to repeat their tactics? Or should we modify them?
3. From the two Crosscut articles, it sounds like the biggest problem is not a lack of supporting organizations and programs, but a lack of support for the supporters, as it were. Seattle has a "$5 million fund for rental assistance" that offers aid to undocumented immigrants, meaning there's local government support, and the list of non-profits and community groups that offer aid is pretty long (Fowler, April 2020). Grassroots aid is common, it's just that there isn't enough to give. Does that sound like a fair assessment of the limits of American mutual aid? And if so, is there anything we can do to help the situation without involving a federal government that, frankly, I would not trust to boil water on a gas stove unsupervised?
Everybody stay safe,
- Haleh
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