RadioACTive 11.15.23

  • November 15, 2023
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No small nuke plant? HEAL Utah and the IEEFA weigh in. Plus, Comunidades Unidas and its Immigrant People's Agenda for SL County.

Tonight's show features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!

What does the UAMPS decision to terminate its small-scale nuclear power plant plan mean? RadioACTive talks to Lexi Tuddenham of HEAL Utah and David Schlissel of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, which examines issues related to energy markets, trends, and policies.

Earlier this month, Comunidades Unidas launched a Salt Lake County Immigrant People's Agenda, a list of 10 concerns that if addressed has the ability to alter the conditions that shape the lived experiences of the county's immigrant population.  RadioACTive spoke with Xochitl Juarez, Brianna Puga and Brian Martinez of Comunidads Unidas about the plan's top 10 areas of concern:

  1. The need to create protections for undocumented workers, a sector of our community that experiences disproportionally high workplace abuse rates; centering folks across all fields but with particular attention to day laborers and domestic workers

  2. Ending the collaboration between county jails across Utah and ICE.

  3. Launching a voter engagement campaign to teach Latinx youth how to exercise their right to vote.

  4. Implementing a Know Your Rights campaign to educate people on interacting with law enforcement and ICE.

  5. Increasing health screening and care services for uninsured individuals with particular attention to areas like Wendover.

  6. Initiating a large-scale workers' rights campaign to inform undocumented workers about their rights and how to report violations.

  7. A program that can connect newly arrived asylum seekers with immediate food, housing, employment, and legal services.

  8. The need to strengthen protections for tenants and restrict the building of “luxury” developments that are gentrifying historically affordable communities like Rosepark, Glendale, Magna, and West Valley City.

  9. A program to help first-generation/undocumented and DACAmented middle school and high school students  and their parents create a path toward higher education.

  10. Building a high school in Glendale.

Want to learn more about the 2006 Dignity March in SLC? Read: Mestizo Coffeehouse hosts photo exhibit of historic 2006 march for immigration reform (City Weekly, Sept. 4, 2023)

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Questions, comments, or suggestions for the show? Email radioactive@krcl.org. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

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