The California Table

By: Betty Yee
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  • California State Controller Betty Yee launched her new podcast, The California Table — a new monthly series featuring community voices often missing at institutional policy or funding decision-making tables. Yee's debut podcast episode “On the High-Road: Righting the Restaurant Industry" features a must-hear discussion with Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Jayaraman, an outspoken leader in exposing the vulnerability of restaurant workers — pre- and post-COVID-19 — joins Betty to discuss the history of tipped-wage work and reimagining the restaurant industry as it emerges from the economic devastation of the pandemic. The California Table airs the first Monday of each month and features Californians making a difference by tackling difficult issues with individual and collective action. Paid for by Betty Yee for Treasurer 2026 (FPPC ID #1417532).
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Episodes
  • Overcoming the Plague of Gun Violence in Our Communities

    Overcoming the Plague of Gun Violence in Our Communities
    Mar 17 2021
    Last year — 2020 — by all accounts was a very deadly year with respect to lives lost to gun shootings. Although media attention focuses by and large on mass shootings, we must not lose sight of the lives lost daily from unintentional shootings, domestic gun violence, gun suicides, and more. Overlaying the COVID-19 pandemic atop the ongoing plague of gun violence punctuates the persistent racial and economic inequities in education, health care, jobs, and housing primarily in our Black and Brown communities — demanding urgent and multi-pronged strategies to keep our neighbors safe and to foster healing and health. Season 2, Episode 3 of The California Table features two leaders of these strategies: Shannon Watts, Founder of Moms Demand Action, the largest national grassroots movement fighting to protect people against gun violence; and DeVone Boggan, CEO of Advance Peace, positively engaging active firearms offenders with healing-centered programs. To learn more or to become involved in the work of these organizations: For Moms Demand Action, text "Ready" to 644433 For Advance Peace, visit advancepeace.org Listen and learn about the collective work to end gun violence.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Environmental Activism on the Ground

    Environmental Activism on the Ground
    Feb 15 2021

    February is Black History Month, when the Pan-African flag will be displayed prominently. The flag also signifies Black Liberation, its colors emblematic of the struggle and connection to the homeland: the bloodshed for liberation (red), the affirmation of people and descendants of Black Africa (black), and the land of abundant resources (green).

    The march continues for attaining full liberation and justice for Black Americans. In Season 2, Episode 2 of The California Table — "Environmental Activism on the Ground" — features the work of Faye Wilson Kennedy and Nailah Pope-Harden with the Red, Black and Green Environmental Justice Coalition in Sacramento. Faye and Nailah share their thoughts about what environmental justice looks like for disproportionately affected communities, informed by their daily lived experiences.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Building on Community Assets to Address COVID-19

    Building on Community Assets to Address COVID-19
    Feb 2 2021
    For under-served communities bearing the brunt of California's growing inequality, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the burdens of daily life. The inequities in health care, jobs, housing, and education for communities of color have come into sharper focus with the COVID crisis and the attendant recession. Episode 1, Season 2 of The California Table — "Building on Community Assets to Address COVID-19" — brings focus to these inequities in the LatinX community while also highlighting the assets and resilience of the community built from experience in meeting challenge after challenge. Poncho Guevara, Executive Director of Sacred Heart Community Service in San Jose speaks about the work of this community action agency in Silicon Valley to address housing instability, food insecurity, health needs, and more — and the inspiration and hope emanating from the community networks that necessarily form to take care of one another.
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    1 hr and 1 min

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