2011

Fighting for Our Freedom Tour stops in Oakland, Sept. 27-October 1, 2011 and features: Dorothy Pinkney and her husband Rev. Pinkney, who is President of the Benton Harbor NAACP and has been singled out for political attack because of his years of outspoken criticism of the takeover of his local City government by the Whirlpool Corporation. The Pinkneys, special guests for WEAP's Teach-In & Dialogue on September 27th, recently conducted this interview in which they discussed their own work and its relation to WEAP. You can listen to the entire radio program here.

2010

The tragedy of the Oscar Grant BART shooting and the subsequent trial incited a great deal of fervor and introspection. On July 13, Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott spoke to the causes and consequences of the case on KPFK's Beautiful Struggle. You can listen to the entire radio program here.

WEAP was recently cited for an article on the MENDing Poverty Conference on June 16. You can find the piece here.

In honor of May Day, WEAP ally and member of CHAM Deliverance Ministry Sandy Perry inviewed Cesar Juarez, a leading organize for San Jose's May 1st "March for America." You can read the interview here.

Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott was asked to contribute an article concerning the recent health care legislation to KALW's 'Crosscurrent.' You can find the article here: Why the new health insurance law is so short sighted.

Immediately following the passage of the health care insurance reform law, WEAP was sought out for comment on our perspective. On March 23rd, Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott appeared on KPFK's Beautiful Struggle to share her thoughts on the new law and its implications. You can listen to the entire of the radio program here.

On March 1st, Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott joined Don Peck, Managing Editor of the Atlantic Monthly Magazine, on KALW Radio's Your Talk to discuss the effects of long-term unemployment. You can find the discussion here.

The National Radio Project, on February 15th, held an on-air discussion with WEAP Associate Director Annie Flores. Titled 'Redefining Human Rights: The Case for Food, Health Care and Housing,' this round table discussion covered rights as they are seen in the US as they relate to good, health care, and housing. Other guests included Max Rameau, founder of Take Back the Land, and Sheren D'Souza, Director of the California Food and Justice Coalition. You can find the entire radio program here.

2009

On November 30th, Ethel Long-Scott once again joined Your Call San Francisco Bay Area Public Radio, discussing whether or not the budget crisis in California is creating a movement for fundamental change. She is joined by Blondell Rice, a San Francisco home care worker, and Reuben Caneda, a UC Berkeley student. You can find a podcast recording of the radio show here.

On October 19th, Ethel Long-Scott joined the hosts of Your Call San Francisco Bay Area Public Radio to discuss the future of public housing and the economic crisis. Fellow guests includeTiffany Gardner, the director of the Human Right to Housing Program at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, and Robbie Clark, organizer with Just Cause Oakland. A podcast recording of the radio show can be found here.

In response to Obama's health reform speech to Congress, Black Commentator interviewed Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott, amongst others, on Sempember 10th. This collection of audio analysis can be found here.

On May 21, WEAP's Ethel Long-Scott appeared on a public affairs program on Free Radio Santa Cruz to discuss how single payer, universal health care could help solve both the economic and health care crises.

"Ethel Long Scott to Give UCSC Talk on Health Care as a Human Right," Sentinel Staff Report, Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 12, 2009.

"Building a Health Justice Movement," by Nicole Martin from WEAP's IJES, Rochester Indymedia, May 12, 2009.

"Ethel Long-Scott to Give UCSC Talk on Health Care as a Human Right," a Sentinel Staff Report, Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 12, 2009.

WEAP recently took a mini-tour of Rochester, New York, in which WEAP's Executive Director, Ethel Long-Scott, spoke on two local radio stations about poverty elimination and health justice from a local and national perspective.  You can listen to both here, which originally aired on April 21st and April 22nd respectively: the WDKX radio's "Wake Up Club" and WXXI radio's "1370 Connetction with Bob Smith".

On March 8, 2009, WEAP's Ethel Long-Scott joined feminist historian Ruth Rosen, environmental activist Terry Tempest Williams, and reproductive health advisor Thilde Knudsen as guests on KPFA's "Sunday Sedition- International Women's Day Special" with host Andrea Lewis.  Listen to the show here. 

Also on January 8, WEAP Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott appeared on "Make it Plain" as part of Black Commentator Day on Sirius radio talking about Single Payer Health Care and how it relates to poverty elimination and the current economic crisis.  Listen to the show here.

In an on-going series on Single-Payer Health Care, the Black Commentator included an article by Ethel Long-Scott. Originally published January 8, 2009, you can find Universal Single-Payer Not-For-Profit Health Care for All: A Step Toward Eliminating Poverty here.

Los Angeles' KPFK Pacifica Radio featured WEAP Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott, along with representatives from SEIU and the California Nurses Association, on their "Beautiful Struggle" program to discuss community organizing in the time of Obama.  You can download the January 6, 2009 show here.

2008

"Unleashing the Potential," by Ethel Long-Scott from WEAP, 8th Day Center for Justice's Centerings, Winter 2008 (page 8).

WEAP Executive Director, Ethel Long-Scott, spoke in support of SEIU and working people at the Oakland City Council meeting on September 30, 2008.  Click here to view Long-Scott and hundreds of union members speaking out against proposed cuts to city services and city service jobs on ABC channel 7’s television coverage of this event.

"Outside the Convention: Truth Testimony, Violence, Rudeness and Inconvenience," by Charles Hallman, Twin Cities: Daily Planet, September 11, 2008.

On Uprising, a popular daily radio program produced by KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, WEAP Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott was a featured guest "Dissecting Obama's Historic Speech" on August 29, 2008.  Listen to the show here.  Earlier in the year, Long-Scott also wrote an editorial, "Justice- It's in the Details", on Obama's Race Speech in the Black Commentator, which you can read here (Note: This article does not necessarily represent WEAP's perspective).

On July 23rd, WEAP Executive Director, Ethel Long-Scott, appeared on KQED's "Forum with Michael Krasney", along with congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Rutgers University's Eileen Applebaum, in order to talk about a recent congressional report that shows difficult economic times are forcing women out of the workplace.  You can listen to the show by clicking here.  A few days later on July 29th, Ethel appeared on San Francisco's KALW's "Your Call" to discuss this same report.

On July 7th, WEAP's Nicole Martin and STRONG's Jael Myrick appeared on Berkeley's KPFA 94.1's "About Health" show with host Joy Moore to promote WEAP's July 16th Dialogue and Teach-In on "Health Care: A Human Right" and to talk about health care as an economic issue.  You can listen to the show here.  It is an hour long show, in which WEAP is represented in the second half.  To skip easily to the second half of the show, simply try the two 'other ways to listen' offered.

In mid-May, WEAP Executive Director Ethel Long-Scott was a featured guest on one of the first of the new issue-oriented GRITtv shows hosted by in-depth interviewer Laura Flanders. The show advertised the subject as “bottom-up approaches to fighting poverty with two acclaimed grassroots activists for economic justice,” Ethel and New York’s Ana Maria Archila.  Its ad noted that “these organizations do not ‘manage’ poverty, but rather challenge it by mobilizing the least economically fortunate to take power within their communities . . .”  You can watch this 15-minute segment on the Web.  Just go to http://blip.tv/file/906558.

Just a few days later, Ethel was interviewed about universal health care on the “Politics Plus” program on New York City’s WLIB 1190 AM radio.  The radio host, Mark Riley, got in touch with Ethel after reading one of her columns on the need for health care that leaves nobody out.  The columns ran on the website blackcommentator.com.

"Working for Health Justice & Economic Security!," by Ethel Long-Scott from WEAP, The Black Commentator, March 15, 2008.

"Stop Gambling with your Health- Build a Health Justice Movement," by Ethel Long-Scott from WEAP, The Black Commentator, March 10, 2008.

"Now is the Time for Health Care as a Human Right," by Ethel Long-Scott from WEAP, Minority Education & Employment Newspaper (MEENA), February 2008 (page 3).