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News Now: Black Lives STILL Matter, Remembering Naya Rivera, & Roger Gitlin’s Post Accountability

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Last Wednesday’s News Now is the second to be created under the management of Redwood Voice’s Persephone Rose—yours truly, the one writing this very article. As we’ve started to create content at an alarmingly quick pace compared to what we’ve produced before with far higher quality than we’ve seen in the past, I will begin employing a new posting system that covers all of our social media domains whenever new content is created in order to achieve the widest reach. That will include, after being posted to our YouTube Channel or right here on our website, going to our Facebook Page, Instagram, & Twitter. And of course, if you would like to know when we post videos the very second we post them, we recommend subscribing to our channel!

Part of this entails advertising KFUG Community Radio’s News Now, a co-production between KFUG, the Wild Rivers Outpost, and Redwood Voice.

The July 15th, 2020 airing of News Now features the following stories:

  • 02:10 – The COVID-19 Update you’ve come to expect from your favorite bi-weekly newscast, including the reclosure of California and what that applies to. Even though we’re not on the list of 29 monitored counties, we will still be affected. Here’s what you need to know.
  • 04:00 – DNUSD Considerations regarding plans for how to make this school year work in the midst of the pandemic.
  • 08:50 – A Redwood Voice Original Segment: Black Lives STILL Matter, even if you’re not seeing it a lot in mainstream media. Here’s what you can do to support the movement. Redwood Voice is also interested in amplifying Black voices in our community.
  • 14:08 – The Nick & Lisa Rail Fund seeds $100 million for a new performing arts center.
  • 16:22 – Yurok Tribe Press Release: Governor Gavin Newsom names Yurok education director Jim McQuillen to the State Board of Education.
  • 19:55 – Yurok Tribe Press Release: Using COVID-19 federal relief dollars for an emergency operations center.
  • 22:11 – A Redwood Voice Original Segment: Roger Gitlin recently made a Facebook post quoting and supporting a speech that incited hate, according to the Redwood Voice team and many members of the community. This RV Segment is to hold accountability to him, and further to act as a sneak preview of a longer form story in the future.
  • 31:48 – A Redwood Voice Original Segment: Avi Critz speaks out to remember Naya Rivera, and tells his personal experience about how it has led to his realization of the effects of constant media barrage, and how we should all step back every once and while to take care of ourselves.
  • 36:48 – The Redwood Voicecast #2 is out. Persephone breaks down what happened. Maybe it’ll intrigue you into taking a listen?

Listen for yourself right here!