Building a Just World with Activist Carmen Perez

Tamarindo

Tamarindo | Sonoro

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4.8 • 741 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Carmen Perez is an American activist and Chicana feminist who has worked on issues of civil rights including mass incarceration, women's rights and gender equity, violence prevention, racial healing and community policing. She is the President and CEO of The Gathering for Justice, a nonprofit founded by Harry Belafonte which is dedicated to ending child incarceration and eliminating the racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Ana Sheila Victorino guest co-hosts this episode and speaks to Carmen about her vision for a just world. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it is Also Mental Health Awareness month. Our friend Melissa Parra, Community Engagement Manager at Cancer Support Community Greater San Gabriel Valley, joins us to speak about the intersection of mental health and cancer and how she works to connect people to resources so they do not have to face cancer alone. Melissa is with Cancer Support Community, an organization that provides comprehensive services—including support groups, individual counseling, and healthy lifestyle programs such as yoga and meditation, healing through art and movement and lastly, references and referrals connecting folks to resources. We reference this study: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/18/nx-s1-5076874/report-cancer-diagnoses-survival-young-adults If you are in the Albuquerque New Mexico area this Saturday, October 5th, please go to visit the events page of NHCCNM.org and register for the Latina Equal Pay Day event. Our panel is at 11:00 am at the National Hispanic Cultural Center: https://my.nmculture.org/38061/38063 PAINT AND SIP WITH TAMARINDO OCT. 13 at 5:30pm in Los Angeles ($45) Details: https://www.union.fit/events/heartbeat-house-paint-sip Steps to sign up: Go to the link Disregard the message that says "Please contact Heartbeat House for more info" Scroll down to the bold text that reads "Have Access Code" and click on it Code is: TAMARINDO Tamarindo is a lighthearted show hosted by Brenda Gonzalez and Delsy Sandoval talking about politics, culture, and self-development. We’re here to uplift our community through powerful conversations with changemakers, creatives, and healers. Join us as we delve into discussions on race, gender, representation, and life! You can get in touch with us at www.tamarindopodcast.com Brenda Gonzalez and Delsy Sandoval are executive producers of Tamarindo podcast with production support by Karina Riveroll of Sonoro Media. Jeff Ricards produced our theme song. If you want to support our work, please rate and review our show here. SUPPORT OUR SHOW Contribute to the show: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/tamarindopodcast1 Follow Tamarindo on instagram @tamarindopodcast and on twitter at @tamarindocast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Tamarindo is co-hosted by Anna Sheila Victorino, Delcius Sandoval, and me, Brenda Gonzalez.
0:14.2	You'll hear an inspiring interview with activist Carmen Pettas, a Chicana feminist and the CEO of the Gathering for Justice.
0:22.2	Carmen has worked on an array of civil rights issues including mass incarceration,
0:26.4	gender equity, violence prevention, racial healing, and community policing.
0:31.0	October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so we invited our friend Melissa Parra to talk to us
0:36.0	about cancer support community, an organization
0:38.2	that provides comprehensive services so that people who have cancer and their family members
0:42.6	do not have to feel alone.
0:44.3	If you like what you hear on this episode, we would sincerely appreciate it if you took
0:48.2	two minutes to rate and review this podcast.
0:51.3	Your reviews truly fuel our energy so that we can keep pouring our time and
0:56.1	resources into this project. It means so much to us. So please take a minute, write us a review.
1:01.5	We would really appreciate it. Thank you. Welcome to the Marindo podcast.
1:19.4	Hosted by me, Brenda Gonzalez, a fitness coach, political nerd, and nonprofit capacity
1:24.0	builder.
1:24.8	And me, Delcy Sandoval, a Guatemalan American licensed therapist and passionate
1:29.1	creativity advocate. Together, we're here to uplift our community through powerful conversations
1:34.3	with change makers, creatives, and healers. Each week on the pod, we talk politics, culture,
1:39.3	and personal development. Listeners called Tamarino, the advocacy and self-love podcast.
1:44.5	Let's start the show.
1:53.6	Welcome to Tamarindo.
1:55.1	Hey, hey, hey.
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