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Articles by Ryan Flaco Rising
Opinion: San Diego is increasing surveillance without supporting evidence
San Diego is on a dangerous path towards a surveillance state, marked by an alarming . In Hillcrest, the city’s LGBTQ+ district, the is unsupported by evidence and represents an assault on constitutional rights. This is deeply problematic for a community already disproportionately impacted by police criminalization and contact.
Unsafe on Campus
Ryan Flaco Rising is a member of the Underground Scholars Initiative (USI), which supports formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students within the University of California system. In this interview conducted by the editors of Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence, he discusses his own experiences and observations of the effect that pervasive campus policing has on formerly incarcerated students.
Opinion: Addiction, abuse, prison — I survived them all
Rising is an undergraduate student at UC Santa Barbara majoring in sociology with a minor in education. He was raised in San Ysidro and now lives in Santa Barbara. Instead of preparing for my college major like most students do, I took a different route in life and chose the hardest road possible to get to where I am today. My whole life has been a huge research project full of experiences that one can only imagine.
1907 - Permaculture Action Network with Ryan Rising and Leah Song
Today’s guests are Ryan Rising, of Permaculture Action Network, and Leah Song, of Rising Appalachia, who join me to talk about how they use the work on-stage and off to organize communities to participate in a permaculture action day. How they blend permaculture and activism with music and merriment. https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Episode1907.mp3 Click here to download the episode.
Remove barriers for those with convictions who have served their time
I still remember the day I was released from prison. After serving seven years at California State Prison-Sacramento, I was told that, finally, my time had come. As I stood on the precipice of freedom and redemption, with just one final electronic gate separating me from the outside world, a loud voice over the prison’s intercom system announced that I had served my debt to society and that I was free to go.
Remove barriers for those with convictions who have served their time: Guest commentary
I still remember the day I was released from prison. After serving seven years at California State Prison-Sacramento, I was told that, finally, my time had come. As I stood on the precipice of freedom and redemption, with just one final electronic gate separating me from the outside world, a loud voice over the prison’s intercom system announced that I had served my debt to society and that I was free to go.
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