Voces For Change
This weekly, bilingual podcast highlights unsung heroes, mostly Hispanic, who are making a difference in their local communities across the United States and Puerto Rico, as volunteers, entrepreneurs, researchers, or advocates for social justice, racial equity, and social change.
Podcasting since 2020 • 20 episodes
Voces For Change
Latest Episodes
Latinos helped Biden win, now advocacy groups want him to name a few in his Cabinet
Latinos were key to president-elect Joe Biden´s victory, even in places like Arizona and Nevada. However, there won´t be a honeymoon period and his progressive agenda likely hinge on whether or not Democrats capture Senate control in a ru...
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Episode 20
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30:19
Go out and vote: your life may depend on it, says immigrant rights activist and cancer survivor, Adela De La Torre
On the eve of Election Day, more than 93 million people have already voted, either in person or by mail, but millions more will come out on Tuesday, November 3rd.In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed the lives of close to...
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Episode 19
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21:59
More than 2 million immigrants risk deportation next year. Meet Yanira Arias, an activist trying to stop that.
In this episode, Salvadoran TPS holder, Yanira Arias, an activist with Chicago-based Alianza Américas, discusses the risks of deportation roughly 2.2 million immigrants face next year, including herself, if the next president does not offer the...
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Episode 18
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26:36
Epidemiologist Oscar Franco discusses the progress and hurdles in the ongoing battle against COVID-19
In a wide-ranging phone interview in Spanish, Dr. Oscar Franco, prolific author and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard´s School of Health, discusses the progress and hurdles in the ongoing battle against COVID-19, in light of Presiden...
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Episode 17
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21:01
A whistleblower alleges unauthorized hysterectomies in ICE detention
ICE has already faced lawsuits and allegations of medical neglect, abuse, and unsafe confinement conditions. A new whistleblower complaint, now under DHS investigation, claims that many migrant detainees at an ICE facility in Ocilla (Georgia) h...
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Episode 16
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21:32