Departures | KCET
"Departures" is KCET's multidisciplinary media studio for community engagement, creative placemaking and social advocacy. Through partnerships and collaborations, we empower communities to change their narrative, highlighting local cultural assets and fostering engagement and rejuvenation. We provide a framework to deploy, distribute, aggregate and network these stories with a set of tools that provide concrete social action and impact.
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Departures
Fresno youth share why it is important to vote and the engagement they want to see in their communities.
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More than 250 young people work together and help design a new skate park in Fresno where the community can bond.
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Students from Del Norte and adjacent tribal lands talk about their experiences in the school system and how they would change it to make it better for Native American students.
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Residents and experts discuss the issue of underage drinking in Del Norte and adjacent tribal lands.
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Collaborator and friend James Daichendt remembers Ed Fuentes, a longtime advocate of the arts, who passed away this week.
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An exploration of the rich history and culture of the San Gabriel Mountains and its eponymous river.
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Trend-setting entrepreneurs versus “illegal” street vendors is a confusing dichotomy that has become the center of many conversations.
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One-third of the unaccompanied minors flooding the southwest border are girls, many escaping sexual violence in Central America, and arriving in the U.S. pregnant or with young children and are left to navigate a precarious health care system.
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It took decades, but now California farmworkers will get the pay they deserve. The California Senate passed AB 1066 earlier this month, a bill introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez that will create new rules for overtime pay for farmworkers.
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Since 2014, nearly 40,000 unaccompanied minors have entered the U.S. each year to escape the widespread violence in Central America. On their harrowing journeys, these children commonly become victims of sexual assault, robbery, and forced labor.
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710 Corridor
This is part of a series examining the 710 Corridor and its impact in the surrounding communities, produced in partnership with the California Endowment.
The I-710 Corridor Project, considered the largest infrastructure project in the nation, is a modernization of the freeway stretching from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the 60 Freeway. With the expanding global economy and growing impact of truck traffic on an aging freeway system, the need to improve existing infrastructure is crucial. The 710 freeway is the backbone of Southern California commerce, as trucks travel from the ports to warehouses, rail yards, and intermodal transportation centers to distribute goods across the country.
Once named the Los Angeles River Freeway, the 710 Freeway extends the length of the river, through 15 cities and unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Communities along the 18-mile stretch are already heavily impacted by the congestion, with asthma rates twice the normal, and cancer risk rates 20 times higher than the federal average according to the California Air Resources Board. Plans to improve the infrastructure range from improving its current state, to expanding lanes from 8 to 16 with dedicated lanes for truck traffic.
While planners are seeking community engagement throughout the planning process, community organizations are also taking it upon themselves to ensure that their voices are heard.The I-710 Corridor Project, considered the largest infrastructure project in the nation, is a modernization of the freeway stretching from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the 60 Freeway. While planners are seeking community engagement throug...
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How Bell Gardens is Banking on Bicycle Club Casino's Luxury Hotel
Though the extravagant casino stands in great contrast to the surrounding working class communities, its relationship to the city is complicated
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Worth Gold: Feminism and Leadership at the Miss Bell Gardens Pageant
Despite dwindling numbers, the Miss Bell Gardens pageant cultivates leadership from woman to woman.
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The Time is Now for Chicas Rockeras in Southeast L.A.
The first-ever rock camp in Huntington Park hosted over 26 children ages 8-17, for a week of band practice and workshops that focused on local social and environmental issues to build critical thinking skills.
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City of Commerce Sightseeing with Author Stephen Gutierrez
In his writings, the people and places of southeast Los Angeles -- his eternal backyard -- come through with heat and lyric: the bare truth of the everyday.
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