kzsc_Bushwhacker's_California State Senator (ret) Bill Monning_20250228

When we spoke in November (on Santa Cruz Voice) Bill said that the Country was in bad shape? Now? "It's gotten worse!"; in Compton, the school buses are all electric, helping combate greenhouse gas and climate change - incremental gains are happenning...but this administration, with "Drill, baby! Drill!"; what question would a retired state senator have for a current college student? "What a great opportunity! What are students doing today to help make the world better?" Dylan's answer: protests and demonstrations, passion; U.C. Santa Cruz was built during the administration of Governor Ronald Reagan, and was designed to *not* have a central plaza that could be the focus of protests like U.C. Berkeley...but they didn't realize that by building the campus inside the city limits, lowering the voting age to 18, and allowing students to vote where they went to school, they would create "The People's Republic of Santa Cruz"!; deep dive into meaningful change ahead of the mid-term elections: resistance taking shape! Economic boycots! Courts ruling! We need to humanize the impact of the administration's actions; the unparalleled and unprecedented actions of Elon Musk; A. Phillip Randolph quote: "Justice is never given. It is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship."; Measure Z and the victory of local struggle over Big Soda; if all politics local, how can we apply this to the national chaos? "Draw on your relationships, and continue the struggle!"