People's City Propaganda

People's City Council Los Angeles

A podcast about Los Angeles politics, pigs, pork chops, organizing, and the movement. All Power To The People.

  1. 09/03/2024

    LASD Gangs Googled Us w/ Cerise Castle

    For episode 19, we sat down with Cerise Castle to speak on one of her latest offerings "I wrote the history of LASD gangs. Then the sheriff's department started surveilling me". We also get some insight on how the catalyst for their surveillance "A Tradition of Violence - The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department" came to be. Other subjects discussed include what comes with being surveilled by the pigs, the 29 page dossier on Ricci Sergienko that included coverage on his college baseball career, and the power of public records act (PRA) requests. You won't want to miss this one! Cerise Castle is a LA-based journalist specializing in arts & culture, civil rights, criminal justice, and human interest stories. She wrote the first history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. She also created, produced and hosted A Tradition of Violence, a podcast detailing the history and criminal activity of deputy gangs. That reporting earned her the 2022 International Women in Media Foundation's Courage Award, the American Journalism Online Award for the Best Use of Public Records, and the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. In 2024, Castle was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.    episode credits: hosted by Jason Reedy and Ricci Sergienko follow Cerise Castle on Twitter @cerisecastle and on IG @yourmajestee follow us on twitter @pplscityprop and @pplscitycouncil  follow our host Jason Reedy @AxumSelassie  PCP theme song: Adam Smith @AdamOfTheSmiths recorded at the Robinson S.P.A.C.E twitter: @RobinsonSpaceLA IG: @therobinsonspace editing by Jason Reedy sound mixing by Phillip Kim mentions of ricci's college baseball career: 3

    1h 4m
  2. 03/15/2024

    Art & The Movement w/ Zen Sekizawa and Mario Correa

    For our 16th episode, we conversed with the powerful duo of Zen Sekizawa and Mario Correa, organizers and artists with the collective, J-Town Action and Solidarity. We cover the genesis of J-Town Action and Solidarity, their efforts to fight back against gentrification in Little Tokyo, and the role art can play within the movement.  Our candid conversation delves into the Atomic Cafe, Zen's famed family restaurant, how art undergirds Zen and Mario's organizing and what it's like being in a relationship in movement space! Zen Sekizawa has been working as a photographer, director and artist in her hometown of Los Angeles. She is a second generation Angeleno and fourth generation Japanese Amerikan. Since earning her BFA in Photography from the Art Center College of Design in 1999, Zen's practice has grown into exploring, critiquing and acting on the intersection of art, politics and community care. Mario Correa is an artist based in Los Angeles. In 2001, he received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Mario maintains a practice that encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking and woodworking. Enlisting a wide variety of techniques and materials, he moves through genres of abstraction, still life, and portraiture with an emphasis on mark making and its relationship to the body. In 2020, Mario and Zen helped establish J-Town Action and Solidarity, a grassroots collective dedicated to revolutionary organizing and building collective power in Little Tokyo. JAS has a weekly mutual event every Saturday afternoon in Little Tokyo with We the Unhoused as well as facilitating political education study groups, organizing direct actions, sweep defense support, self defense and art workshops   episode credits: hosted by Jason Reedy follow our guests Zen and Mario @JTOWNACTION follow us on twitter @pplscityprop and @pplscitycouncil  follow our host Jason Reedy @AxumSelassie  PCP theme song: Adam Smith @AdamOfTheSmiths recorded at the Robinson S.P.A.C.E @RobinsonSpaceLA editing by Jason Reedy & sound mixing by Phillip Kim mentions of Jason Bourne: too many!

    1h 20m
4.8
out of 5
25 Ratings

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A podcast about Los Angeles politics, pigs, pork chops, organizing, and the movement. All Power To The People.