KYWS Community Conversations 92.9FM West Sacramento

Ibrahim and Abdullah discuss their home country of Sudan, Sudanese history, gold mining and the ongoing genocide in Darfur carried out by the RSF militia.

"The Sudanese Association of Greater Sacramento (SAGS) is committed to promoting cultural understanding and community integration. Our goal is to help our members achieve their full potential by connecting them with educational and employment opportunities, and providing them with access to resources to make their transition to the United States smoother. We also organize social events and cultural activities to bring the Sudanese community together.

At SAGS, we are dedicated to empowering our members and creating a safe and welcoming environment for everyone. Whether you are new to Sacramento or have been here for years, we invite you to join us and become part of the SAGS family."

SacSAGS.com
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Shane & Anthony discuss their experiences commemorating Black August

Hayla V is an independent musical artist from Sacramento. Check out more of their music below:

haylav - Listen on YouTube, Spotify - Linktree
‎Hayla V. - Apple Music
Instagram: @haylav.official 
TikTok: @haylavtiktok
Email: Haylav.2022@gmail.com

"Judith and Chanowk run Yisrael Farms, which started as a half acre urban farm nestled in the heart of Sacramento and has now grown to multiple locations. Their farm is a sustainable community resource, a story of love, perseverance, and reverence for the earth’s rhythms.

Their neighborhood is a historically working-class area now battling food apartheid, poverty, and gentrification. It’s a familiar story for communities of color. The Yisraels decided to flip the narrative. In ten years, these city slickers transformed their yard into a half-acre farm, fed hundreds of people, taught thousands more and have found that the answers are in the soil."

YisraelFamilyFarmShop.net

For more information, contact our guests at the links below:

Charles Ware (@oakpark_homeless_project) on Instagram

Keke Brown - A Crowned Life Coaching

The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. APTP began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee.



Contact APTP Sac at:
sacramento@antipoliceterrorproject.org 


Facebook@AntiPoliceTerrorProjectSac


Instagram@aptpsac

Big Stay announces his community resource fair for youth taking place this weekend (4/27) in South Sacramento and details the struggles that youth are currently facing as they grow up in the capital city.

Hakim of Masjid al-Fatimah talks about Quds Day, Ramadan and Eid

Masjid Al-Fatimah – Welcome to Our Islamic Center

"JUSTICE 4 ANTONIO THOMAS"

Local community organizations put forth the following demands drafted in support of the Thomas family:

1. The family of Antonio Thomas deserves to see all UNEDITED video of the incident that led to his comatose state. For purposes of accountability and transparency, these videos need to be made public, as the greater Sacramento community deserves an opportunity to challenge the treatment and care of our community members while in custody.
2. Release the names of all officers and/or inmates involved in and assigned to the area where Antonio was found unresponsive.
3. If deputies were involved in this incident, we expect them to be removed from assignment at the Sacramento County Jail and terminated from the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department.
4. Creation of a community-led commission to oversee reports of Jail misconduct and abuse, with the power to recommend and administer consequences to all deputies and/or staff involved in any incidences of misconduct, abuse and murder.

Antonio Thomas should have been housed according to his documented mental health condition despite the fact it is debatable whether he should have gone to jail in the first place. Instead, the county demonstrated once again its inability to safely and securely house those in their custody."

Decarcerate Sacramento works to prevent jail expansions, decrease jail populations, and shift county funds away from policing and incarceration towards community-based systems of care that promote community safety and health.












Learn more at: DecarcerateSac.org

The Washington Neighborhood Center is a Historic Chicano Cultural Center with over 70 years serving the Indigenous, Chicano, and POC communities. Offering programs in the arts, education, wellness, culture, and an overall emphasis on youth development, the Center continues to serve as a refuge for the historically marginalized.

Learn more at: WashingtonNeighborhoodCenter.org

President of LCLAA, Desiree Rojas continues her discussion about human rights, migration and the events unfolding around Sacramento and the country

Desirée Rojas, Labor Organizer and President of Labor Council for Latin American Advancement speaks about the recent press conference held in Sacramento calling for a recognition of farmworker human rights and an end to attacks on migrants

Sparkle of All N Together shares about the need for youth programs and services in Oak Park and beyond

Jenna Abu Hasna of Addameer gives information about Palestinian prisoners

"ADDAMEER (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association is a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution that works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. Established in 1991 by a group of activists interested in human rights, the center offers free legal aid to political prisoners, advocates their rights at the national and international level, and works to end torture and other violations of prisoners' rights through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns."

Visit Addameer.orgto learn more about how to get involved

"Computers 4 Kids represents a thriving partnership where Commerce, Community, Education and Technology come together to meet the needs of disenfranchised individuals of the greater Sacramento region.
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Our goal is to provide our clients with the valuable tools, resources, and supplies they need in order to continue to be productive and successful in their lives."

Visit c4kCA.org to donate a used computer or get more information about Computers 4 Kids

"The traditional Maidu boundaries were roughly from Mount Lassen and Honey Lake on the north to the Cosumnes River on the south, and from the Sacramento River on the west to the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the east. Early ethnographers divided this vast territory into three major areas based on certain language differences. These areas are the Northern or Mountain Maidu, mostly of Plumas County; the Northwestern or Concow-Maidu of Butte County and parts of Yuba and Sutter Counties; and the Southern Maidu or Nisenan, generally south of the Yuba River and extending to the Miwok lands.
 
Earliest contact with Europeans would have occurred during the twenty years while California was part of the Spanish holding and fur trappers constantly explored the Northstate’s waterways. There is a persistent story of a Spanish document, dated 1542 or 1559, being found in the hollow of an oak tree on the Middle Fork. However, the earliest recorded Concow contact was with Gabriel Moraga in 1800. Trapping greatly increased in the 1820’s and 1830’s. Many strange diseases were introduced and along with the many killings and massacres of Indian villages, the California Indians declined from 310,000 to 20,000 during the years 1700 to 1900.

When gold was discovered in 1848, many foreigners swarmed into Concow territory, and the Indians had to get out of the way. As gold fever wore off, these intruders began appropriating more lands for timber, agricultural and commercial ventures, particularly railroading. The U.S government negotiated treaties with tribes, promising many benefits in exchange for the homelands, but none were ever honored, and the Native Americans were left landless and homeless. Reservations were established and the Concows were forcibly moved out of their ancestral homes. Many died or were killed along the way to these distant, hostile places. For example, one group of 461 Concows left Chico on September 4, 1863, but only 277 survived the two-week trip to Round Valley."

https://www.mooretownrancheria-nsn.gov/Tribal-History/

Learn more by visiting the California State Indian Museum next to Sutter's Fort in Downtown Sacramento: https://www.sacmuseums.org/museums/state-indian-museum

"The traditional Maidu boundaries were roughly from Mount Lassen and Honey Lake on the north to the Cosumnes River on the south, and from the Sacramento River on the west to the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the east. Early ethnographers divided this vast territory into three major areas based on certain language differences. These areas are the Northern or Mountain Maidu, mostly of Plumas County; the Northwestern or Concow-Maidu of Butte County and parts of Yuba and Sutter Counties; and the Southern Maidu or Nisenan, generally south of the Yuba River and extending to the Miwok lands.
 
Earliest contact with Europeans would have occurred during the twenty years while California was part of the Spanish holding and fur trappers constantly explored the Northstate’s waterways. There is a persistent story of a Spanish document, dated 1542 or 1559, being found in the hollow of an oak tree on the Middle Fork. However, the earliest recorded Concow contact was with Gabriel Moraga in 1800. Trapping greatly increased in the 1820’s and 1830’s. Many strange diseases were introduced and along with the many killings and massacres of Indian villages, the California Indians declined from 310,000 to 20,000 during the years 1700 to 1900.

When gold was discovered in 1848, many foreigners swarmed into Concow territory, and the Indians had to get out of the way. As gold fever wore off, these intruders began appropriating more lands for timber, agricultural and commercial ventures, particularly railroading. The U.S government negotiated treaties with tribes, promising many benefits in exchange for the homelands, but none were ever honored, and the Native Americans were left landless and homeless. Reservations were established and the Concows were forcibly moved out of their ancestral homes. Many died or were killed along the way to these distant, hostile places. For example, one group of 461 Concows left Chico on September 4, 1863, but only 277 survived the two-week trip to Round Valley."

https://www.mooretownrancheria-nsn.gov/Tribal-History/

Learn more by visiting the California State Indian Museum next to Sutter's Fort in Downtown Sacramento: https://www.sacmuseums.org/museums/state-indian-museum

"The Washington Neighborhood Center is a Historic Chicano Cultural Center with over 70 years serving the Indigenous, Chicano, and POC communities. Offering programs in the arts, education, wellness, culture, and an overall emphasis on youth development, the Center continues to serve as a refuge for the historically marginalized."

Website: WashingtonNeighborhoodCenter.org
On Instagram: @thecenter916

Hear women from around Sacramento share their reflections on March 8th's International Women's Day at the Sacramento Area Peace Action office in March 2024. 

"...on March 8, 1908, women workers in the needle trades marched through New York City's Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions, and demand women's suffrage. Beginning in 1910, March 8 became annually observed as International Women's Day."