Roadblocks to Resources for the East Bay’s Latinx and Maya Mam Immigrants

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic has hit the East Bay’s Latino immigrant community disproportionately hard. And to make matters worse, many were unable to access services that were available - things like rent relief, food aid, and help with utility bills. A recent El Tímpano report, produced in collaboration with Latino USA, looks at the consequences of these obstacles as well as community solutions. We’ll discuss the report, the role of language barriers and touch on some of the unique challenges faced by Maya Guatemalans in the East Bay who speak an indigenous language called Mam. Guests: Tania Quintana, program coordinator, Education Super Highway; community organizer, researcher and writer. Madeleine Bair, journalist and founder of El Tímpano. Linda Roman, program specialist, Tech Exchange. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.6	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. When the pandemic began, the U.S. government, the state of California, and many local municipalities passed some remarkable legislation.
1:31.3	With the economy thrown into an unprecedented coma by the virus, many different and novel programs went into effect.
1:37.3	As we've chronicled on this show and in reporting across KQED, the programs weren't perfect, but they helped many people.
1:43.3	The rent relief and eviction protection programs kept people in their homes through extremely difficult times.
1:49.0	However, research and reporting from El Timpano, a local and extremely innovative news startup in the East Bay,
1:55.0	has revealed the cracks in the system that many Latin American immigrants fell through.
1:59.0	We'll talk about those problems, as well as how organizers have tried to solve them. That's all coming up.
2:08.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Nobody likes navigating a big bureaucratic system, even it could really help you out
2:19.5	through a difficult time. But what if that system isn't in the language you're most comfortable in
2:24.5	or requires documentation that you may not have? Over the course of the pandemic, the team at
2:29.9	El-impanos has been talking with the Spanish-speaking subscribers of their news and information
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