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Jun 16, 2023 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
How Does a Community Save Itself? twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
We’re live at the 13th annual Zócalo Book Prize event, “How Does a Community Save Itself?” Join us as we celebrate Michelle Wilde Anderson (@MWildeAnderson), and discuss her winning book “The Fight to Save the Town” with @CoCoSouthLA’s Alberto Retana.
Jun 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1. Did you know? Zócalo has NINE finalists for the upcoming @LAPressClub’s 65th Annual Southern California #journalism awards on June 25! 🎉 To celebrate, we’ll be highlighting them over the next week. View 🧵to read about them:
@LAPressClub 2. In @LAPressClub’s FAITH/SPIRITUAL REPORTING category, we have “Keeping the Kids’ Faith” by religion journalist Jim Hinch (@JimKHinch), who considers the support kids need to survive—and even thrive—during struggles such as the COVID-19 pandemic. zps.la/3UCv74S
"Each day, I summon the words they need to survive this plague, and cling to my dough."
Telephonic Tagalog interpreter @marivisoliven translates conversations between doctors and Filipino patients—while stress baking, she writes in our latest #WhereIGo: zps.la/3azHeL8
In the last year, the uptick of COVID-related calls led Soliven to bake so much that her stand mixer broke down.
What Do We Do Now? We’re live with @JacksonYale national security law scholar @AshaRangappa_ and NYT national security reporter @julianbarnes to discuss: pscp.tv/ThePublicSquar…@julianbarnes covers our nation’s intelligence agencies for the @nytimes. He called into the virtual green room to chat about why the whoopie pie belongs to Maine, his COVID guilty pleasure, and life (and death) as an amateur chicken farmer: zps.la/32CZEGT
Nov 4, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
This election season, we’ve been focusing on stories that bring perspective to the state of American democracy. From takes on India to El Salvador, Machiavelli to “American Horror Story,” these pieces offer a fresh lens on tonight.
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Last Tuesday, @joemmathews processed how “peculiar and personal” the stakes of this election are for him—in that the results may determine which of his two old friends ends up on the U.S. Supreme Court:
Americans may be used to knowing the results of a presidential race by bedtime on Election Day, but that’s not the norm in many nations.
Author @sandipr explains how India’s election “schedule” works—and what America can learn from it on this day:
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In India, there is no such thing as Election Day. “Democracy, unlike candy, does not come out of a vending machine delivering instant gratification,” Roy contends.
It took 11 million election officials over a month to conduct the 7 phases of India’s 2019 general election.
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Nov 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
When author and editor Elaine Elinson heard Trump Jr. urge supporters to “join the Army for Trump’s election security operation” and “help us watch them,” her mind went back to 1994, when she was an election observer in El Salvador.
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That March, after a 12-year civil war left more than 75,000 dead or disappeared, Salvadorans headed to the polls for the first democratic election in a generation. Elinson, then a @ACLU_NorCal staffer, was one of hundreds of international observers sent by the United Nations.
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Jun 11, 2020 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Today we published two stories about the experience of “distance learning.”
One is from Alizé Basulto Ibarra, a senior about to graduate from Coalinga High School. One is from Brian Crosby, a retiring English/journalism teacher at Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale.
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At the start of spring semester, everything was going according to plan for class president Alizé. She’d been accepted to her dream school, UCLA.
But then the pandemic hit, and “school just ended in the middle of the sentence.”
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May 20, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
TONIGHT at 5 PM PDT, Pulitzer Prize winner David W. Blight will interview fellow historian @william_sturkey, winner of Zócalo’s 10th annual Book Prize for “Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White.”
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Here’s a look back at the last time Blight visited Zócalo.
In an event titled “What Does the Life of Frederick Douglass Tell Us About America?”, Blight discussed his biography of #FrederickDouglass with author/comedian Baratunde Thurston.
