SideBar: Optimism In Action - Conversations with Lawyers & Leaders Inspiring Positive Change

About SideBar: Optimism In Action - Conversations with Lawyers & Leaders Inspiring Positive Change

Season three of SideBar: Optimism in Action features nonprofit leaders, advocates, and community members who represent extraordinary work that is improving the humanitarian, public policy, and charitable needs of our local, national, and global communities. We are very excited to join the digital programming of KAZU 90.3. KAZU is the NPR affiliate for the Monterey, Salinas, and Santa Cruz region. We release new episodes on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month.

Publisher

SideBarMedia LLC

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Oct 2022

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

97 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   We Are the Power to Win the Future with Gary Lucks

   Community organizer Gary Lucks explains how engagement, experience, hope, and urgency are the tools that will defend and preserve our democracy.

2. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Is There an Optimistic View for Democracy this Election with Bill Monning

   The 2026 November midterm election will not only be a selection of individual candidates, it will serve as a referendum on our democratic process. As voters, we may be faced with illegal or unconstitutional disruption of the voting process, efforts to disenfranchise eligible voters, and threats of federal intervention at state polling places that could include the use of armed federal officers. SideBar: Optimism in Action welcomes former State Senate Majority Leader Bill Monning to our discussion of the importance of our individual roles in protecting and sustaining our democratic process this November.

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Democracy - On the Outbound or the Rebound with Madiba Dennie and Lawrence Goldstone

   November 2026 will direct the future of our American democracy. Did we see this coming in 2024? Revisit our November 2024 discussion with Madiba Dennie and Lawrence Goldstone. Thoughtful, insightful, and uncannily prescient.

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