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Racism, chronic stress, & Latino men - with Dr. Luis Valdez
May 08, 2022 23:19 - 59 minutes - 70.9 MBWe spend the hour with Dr. Luis Valdez of UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences about chronic stress, health disparities, and racism. Dr. Valdez's work centers on Latino/x men, masculinity, and health.
Voices from the Street: Roe vs. Wade
May 04, 2022 00:52 - 23 minutes - 23.8 MB***SPECIAL*** We air voices from the Brattleboro street on this special Indigo Radio broadcast. Local voice their protest to the leaked supreme court document that would overturn the landmark 1973 ruling Roe vs. Wade that legalizes abortion. Thankyou to all that spoke with us.
Nueva Esperanza in Holyoke
May 02, 2022 00:24 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBWe speak with Cynthia Espinosa Marrero, the executive director of Nueva Esperanza, Inc. to learn about their work in the Holyoke, MA community and the history of Puerto Ricans in Holyoke.
REPLAY: Hands Off Yemen! Interview w/Neda Saleh
April 02, 2022 15:14 - 59 minutes - 45.4 MB8 years on, we want to remind listeners - HANDS OFF YEMEN!! Chris Lievense and Nina Kunimoto discuss Yemen's history and its implications for the current war and humanitarian crisis. They speak with Neda Saleh, Coordinator with Action Corps. She is a Yemeni-born peace activist located in northern California. She is a volunteer with the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation as well as the founder of the youth organization, Hands Off Yemen. She hopes to take her advocacy work abroad to he...
Sports And Politics
March 27, 2022 13:20 - 1 hour - 35.6 MBWe discuss how politics in sports are acceptable as long as the messages uphold the dominant narratives of militarism, masculinity, and consumerism. But politics that question the political and economic structures are seen as a disruption to the game. Not so different from the ways social justice education is deemed too "political" for our classrooms.
REPLAY: Women, Substance Abuse, & Systemic Violence: Gendered Triple Standard
March 19, 2022 18:44 - 59 minutes - 67 MBWe continue with our 2 part series on addiction with a show dedicated to women & substance use. We spend the hour with Dr. Alice Fiddian-Green - whose recent work focuses on public health and opiate use disorder amongst pregnant women and mothers. Tune in to hear about the particular stigmatization women face and expand our understanding around institutional violence that further causes suffering to women. To hear Part I on our series click here https://soundcloud.com/user-654648353/supervi...
Spark Interviews 2021
March 06, 2022 12:40 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBListen to an interview with former Spark students who share their experiences about becoming teachers during the pandemic and lessons learned during their teacher training. Spark Teacher Education Institute (Spark) is a program of the non-profit Educational Praxis. Spark currently offers a licensure program in Teaching for Social Justice in the State of Vermont. The program strives to instill an understanding of self and others in conjunction with the development of skills, knowledge, critica...
Haiti and Public Health with Dr. Paul Pierre
February 28, 2022 00:35 - 59 minutes - 67.8 MBHosts Nina and Anna spend the hour with Dr. Paul Pierre, Haitian physician and global health leader. Dr. Pierre talks with us about public health in Haiti, the late Dr. Paul Farmer, COVID, Haiti's political history, and global health infrastructure.
REPLAY: Indigo Radio Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Patrick ONeill
January 29, 2022 15:32 - 1 hour - 14.8 MBAs the war drums are beating and as New Mexico Archbishop urges nuclear disarmament, we wanted to replay this interview with Father Patrick O'Neill. Indigo radio interviewed Patrick O’Neill who is just about to serve a federal sentence for breaking in to the Kings Bay naval base in Georgia with his comrades to protest against the trident missiles. Trident missiles are housed on submarines at Kings Bay ready to be deployed to start a nuclear war. Listen to Patrick recollect the history of this...
REPLAY ~ Domestic Violence & COVID-19
December 27, 2021 19:29 - 58 minutes - 55.2 MBWe re-air a show with the local domestic crisis center - The Women's Freedom Center - here in Brattleboro. Host Anna Mullany talks with the WFC about their services, important info about the impact on those experiencing violence and the pandemic. The WFC 24-hr hotline is 802-254-6954
Hands Off Yemen! A conversation with Neda Saleh
December 19, 2021 14:04 - 59 minutes - 45.4 MBChris Lievense and Nina Kunimoto discuss Yemen's history and its implications for the current war and humanitarian crisis. They speak with Neda Saleh, Coordinator with Action Corps. She is a Yemeni-born peace activist located in northern California. She is a volunteer with the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation as well as the founder of the youth organization, Hands Off Yemen. She hopes to take her advocacy work abroad to help achieve peace and stability in Yemen.
Dis/ability Series Part 2: Dis/ability, carceral logic, and averegarianism
December 13, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBKyra Swain, special educator in Vermont, and Sara Velia Nino, PhD candidate and education policy advocate join Indigo Radio to speak about dis/ability in the context of broader social structures such as carceral logic and system design. Check out our first episode in this series "Dis/ability in India, US, and Schools": https://soundcloud.com/user-654648353/disability-in-india-us-and-schools
In Conversation with Greg Mingo
December 06, 2021 18:14 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBIndigo hosts Anna and Nik air our interview with Greg Mingo. Greg was incarcerated for 40 years for a crime he didn't commit. He was granted clemency by Cuomo in August and was home in September. Greg shares his experience and his thoughts on teaching, health, hope, and more. Find out more at freegregmingo.com Photo by Laurel Golio
National Day of Mourning 2021
November 28, 2021 21:27 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBOn today's show we play excerpts from Indigenous speakers this year's National Day of Mourning in Plymouth MA -- Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of N...
Rick Winston: The Red Scare in the Green Mountains
November 21, 2021 22:28 - 59 minutes - 68.5 MBIndigo hosts Anna and Josh spend the hour with Rick Winston, author of Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era. We talk with Rick about Hollywood Blacklist, surveillance of teachers, the importance of knowing history, and connections to today - Rick was one of the co-founders of Montpelier’s Savoy Theater and Green Mountain Film Festival. He has lectured widely on film history for the Vermont Humanities Council and currently teaches film through the Montpelier Senior Ac...
Fridays for Future
November 14, 2021 20:14 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBListen to an interview with Ellen Kelly and Anne Rodriguez, a high schooler and university student who are part of Fridays for Future in Donostia Spain. #FridaysForFuture is a youth organized movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. Ellen and Anne discuss why they organize for a better world that includes put...
Fridays For Future
November 14, 2021 20:08 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBListen to an interview with Ellen Kelly and Anne Rodriguez, a high schooler and university student who are part of Fridays for Future in Donostia Spain. #FridaysForFuture is a youth organized movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. Ellen and Anne describe why they are organizing for a better world which incl...
Dis/ability in India, US, and Schools
November 08, 2021 00:31 - 59 minutes - 71.3 MBIndigo Radio interviews Latha Patipandla Mallika and Kyra Swain about questioning the dominant concept of dis/ability. Latha is a visually impaired international student who arrived in Boston to start a PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Kyra teaches special education in Vermont. Check out Sam Schafer's work at http://www.schafers.co.uk/portfolio/blindness/
Indigo Radio About Face Episode
November 04, 2021 15:10 - 45 minutes - 29.3 MBPatrice and Nik interview Ksenia Voropaeva on her work with About Face - a group of post-9/11 US war veterans who work against militarism at home and abroad, support social movements here in the US, and urge young people to think twice before they enter the military. Check out: aboutfaceveterans.org for more information!
2016 Interview with Mariame Kaba on Violence Against Women
October 03, 2021 19:10 - 57 minutes - 64.9 MBListen to our interview with Mariame Kaba back in 2016 -- Kaba is a long-time organizer, educator, author, and prison abolitionist. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She also published a children’s book titled “Missing Daddy” and her current book, We Do This Til We ...
Mariam Kaba 2016 Interview on Violence Against Women
October 03, 2021 00:11 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBHosts Anna Mullany and Maresa Nielson interviewed Mariam Kaba in 2016.
REPLAY: Haiti 2016 & Imperialism
September 27, 2021 17:06 - 57 minutes - 71.8 MBReplay from 2016 after the Hurricane in Haiti Photo from Haitian Revolution
REPLAY: A Letter from Birmingham Jail
September 18, 2021 23:49 - 59 minutes - 46.5 MBSpark Teacher Education Institute faculty and alum join with NMH Upward Bound to read Dr. King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail" - with introductory commentary from Indigo hosts Anna Mullany & Derek Johnson. King's letter was originally published June 12, 1963
#BLM Palestinian Indigenous Solidarity
September 12, 2021 06:10 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBOld yet new: an early Indigo Radio show from October 2016. Chris and Lauren discuss the solidarity between Black Lives Matter, Palestine, and Standing Rock. Chris and Lauren reflect on the stories and histories that were not taught or told to them. They speak with Professor Yakov Rabkin of the University of Montreal who they met at the World Social Forum.
Final Palestine Hiroshima Solidarity - Indigo Radio
August 20, 2021 15:51 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBPalestine and Hiroshima are more connected that we might think! Listen to Brattleboro Solidarity's Palestine and Hiroshima event, commemorating the 76th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb by US forces. Professor Reiko Kato, Reverend Michael Yoshii, and Executive Director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center Lara Kiswani join us to describe the importance of international solidarity work!
ListenUP Vermont - Teen voices
August 08, 2021 23:26 - 58 minutes - 68.4 MBHosts Mikaela and Anna talk with Silas Brubaker & Amar Vargas -- two VT teens of the cast of Listen Up! -- a musical amplifying VT teen voices. Join us for the hour to hear from Silas and Amar. The show is playing in Putney August 10th and 11th. Find out more https://www.listenupvt.org/about
Interview with Gaza Poets Society
July 18, 2021 20:36 - 55 minutes - 59.9 MBIndigo Radio interviewed Mohammed Moussa of Gaza Poets Society and Gaza Guy podcast to share with us his poetry and what inspires him as an artist. Nina Kunimoto, the host, shares other poetry that inspires resistance and change.
Interview with Yoav Elinevsky
July 04, 2021 13:31 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBYoav Elinevsky is an Israeli-American activist and abolitionist. In this interview, he discusses his time in the Israeli military, how Israel fits in a global imperialist system, and resistance.
Youth Speak! Pandemic, Lessons, Hopes
June 20, 2021 17:52 - 59 minutes - 44.2 MBWe spent the hour in conversation with 4 middle schoolers in Springfield Vermont about life during the pandemic, lessons learned and hopes for the future. They are part of Youth in Action, a group committed to learning about ourselves and our world. Projects include MLK SpeakOut, Community Gardens, and creating videos to teach their peers about racism. We will continue to meet throughout the summer for Art in the Park and continue finding ways to educate ourselves and others!
Theater of the Oppressed, Patriarchy, & Femicide
June 13, 2021 21:32 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBIndigo host Anna Mullany is joined in the studio with Lu ~ an artist, healer and educator from Argentina, member of the international net of Theatre of the Oppressed called “Magdalenas”. Lu has also been working with Theatre of the Oppressed and social clowning for 8 years in Central and South America. We discuss theater as a catalyst for change and the struggle against global femicide. **Photo from NY Icarus Project*
Replay: Jews In Solidarity With Palestine
June 05, 2021 23:49 - 56 minutes - 69.2 MBIn this show, we discussed Jewish solidarity with Palestine. Mel Motel, Jewish Brattleboro community member, educator and activist, as well as Joe Levine, UMASS professor of Philosophy and organizer with Western Mass Jewish Voice for Peace. Listen as they share experiences growing up Jewish and how thoughts and actions have been shaped by new experiences. They now stand in solidarity with Palestine.
Replay ~ Voices from the Street, Protest Against Police Brutality
May 29, 2021 18:38 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBOn the anniversary week of the brutal murder of George Floyd, we re-air our Voices from the Streets from the rally against police brutality and for Black lives - organized by Bratttleboro Solidarity and the Tenants Union of Brattleboro last May. **Artwork by Palestinian artist Walid Ayyoub who painted a mural of George Floyd on Israel’s annexation wall in the West Bank.
Voices from Gaza: A Rebroadcast from Pacifica Radio
May 23, 2021 18:51 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBWe rebroadcast an interview from Pacifica Radio in San Fransisco to Gaza. In the midst of the onslaught of bombing during Israel's last assault on Gaza, we hear from Neveen, a 33 year old woman and mother of 3 children living in Gaza city.
Intimate Partner Violence & Rurality: In conversation with UMass Undergraduates
May 16, 2021 19:03 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBIndigo host Anna in conversation with 5 of her UMASS Amherst Public Health undergraduates) ~ talk about their learnings this semester around the nuances of intimate partner violence, ethnographic research, the toll abuse and social stigmatization have on women's overall wellbeing, and thoughts on how we must do better. Big thanks to our 5 college students guests: Aimee Styklunas, Siobhan O'Reilly, Liz Chao, Suepriya Adhikari and Jackie Raguso.
Government Censorship in U.S. schools & more
May 09, 2021 21:14 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBIndigo hosts Kelly and Olivia discuss the proposed legislation across several states that bans discussion of racism, sexism, and other “divisive” topics in schools. We talk with a veteran New Hampshire social studies teacher as well as two high school students doing work around consent education. We also discuss related legislation that criminalizes protest and that aims to reverse gains made by social movements in recent years
REPLAY ~ Visions of Labor
May 02, 2021 16:18 - 57 minutes - 69.3 MBHosts Lauren and Anna air the voices of Western Mass workers involved in different labor struggles. The Labor Center at UMass Amherst back in 2019 held a conference: "Visions of Labor: Film and Worker Stories," a multi-faceted project that employs the power of worker stories, told through film and video, to inspire reflection and creative action. #internationalwomensday2021 #WorkersOfTheWorldUnite
Counter Recruitment
April 28, 2021 13:07 - 59 minutes - 29.6 MBIn this show, we discuss how young people are targeted by the military and the amazing work that is being done to counter that recruitment. We will hear from Amanda Jordan-Starks about the work of Project YANO based in San Diego and Joanne Sheehan from the War Resisters League. By 2012, 45% of all military members sent to Afghanistan and Iraq had returned with physical and mental disabilities. How can we work for a world, where our young people are not being funneled into the military to be ...
Navy Veteran Speaks Out Against War
April 18, 2021 14:22 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBListen to an interview with co host Nina Kunimoto and Liam Noble, former Navy enlistee who shares his experiences as a soldier and how he became politically engaged in the struggle against war. Next weeks show will be about counter recruitment and what young people should know before joining the military and some practical steps to resist recruitment in schools.
REPLAY: Poetry and Resistance
April 05, 2021 11:11 - 59 minutes - 66.6 MBAward winning poets Martin Espada and Lauren Marie Schmidt in the studio! Espada, is the 2018 Ruth Lilly Award winner - one of the most prestigious awards given to an American poet, Espada is the first Latino poet to win the award. Espada and Schmidt talk about their work, teaching, and how to use poetry to critically examine and talk about the world.
The VT Debt Collective with Jonathan Elwell
March 28, 2021 23:12 - 57 minutes - 50.9 MBJonathan Elwell from the VT Debt Collective joins hosts Nik and Anna to discuss the collective's national efforts, what's happening in VT, and the impacts of privatization on our lives. Find out more: https://debtcollective.org/
Prison By Any Other Name
March 14, 2021 17:47 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBWe spend the hour with Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar to talk about their book Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms. Vikki Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance and Maya Schenwar is editor-in-chief of Truthout and a writer focused on prison-related topics.
REPLAY Children's Play and the Construction of Gender
March 07, 2021 15:25 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBToday we replay a show where we discussed gender. As human beings, we are assigned a gender, most of the time before we are even born. The gender that we are assigned at birth has real social implications as we grow up with increasing pressure to fit into the boxes created for both men and women, girls and boys, and for what? What is the purpose of the construction of gender, how is gender enforced, how do we learn and teach about gender in order to build a better world? We spoke with, Afsane...
Carceral Psychiatry, Survival, & a path toward Humane Care
February 28, 2021 18:57 - 57 minutes - 53 MBWe are joined by psychiatric survivor and abolitionist Malaika Puffer for the hour. Hosts Anna & Josh talk with Malaika about "carceral psychiatry"; the proposed 16 bed "residential facility" for Vermont; and community care and humane alternatives.
REBROADCAST: Yemen
January 24, 2021 13:21 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBAnti-war, Yemeni and humanitarian activists from all over the world are coming together for an international day of action on January 25th 2021. Vermonters are proud of Sen. Bernie Sanders' leadership to stop US participation in the illegal war in Yemen, and under a Biden Administration we can finally stop backing this devastating war. But we need to show Bernie that this is something Vermonters care about and want him to keep fighting for. Today we will rebroadcast a show that gives the war ...
Indigo Radio interviews Northeast Antifa.mp3
January 10, 2021 16:50 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBIndigo Radio interviews Northeast Antifa.mp3 by Indigo Radio
Covid-19 and Schools: Sheila Braun, Data Scientist speaks to SWAC
January 03, 2021 00:09 - 59 minutes - 34.2 MBCovid-19 and Schools: Sheila Braun, Data Scientist speaks to SWAC by Indigo Radio
US Media
December 26, 2020 22:40 - 1 hour - 55 MBHow do we analyze and evaluate the media? What is the state of the media in our country currently? What would we like the media to be? Listen to a conversation with media educator Tim Sutton where we discuss these topics and more.
Women Locked Up: Conversation on violence, organizing, & necessary change
December 20, 2020 18:29 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBIndigo host Anna Mullany spends the hour with Ashley Messier from the Women's Justice and Freedom Initiative and Karen Tronsgard-Scott of the VT Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Ashley and Karen talk about the conditions and abuses at Chittenden correctional facility - the only women's facility in the state; abolition vs reform; intimate partner violence; restorative justice; and how community can get involved to make change.
Tenants Union of Brattleboro interview
November 29, 2020 16:07 - 49 minutes - 27.9 MBJosh does an interview with Bliss and Patrick from the Tenants Union of Brattleboro on housing and rent ordinance proposals.
Math + Social Justice Part 2: Teaching Math As If People Mattered - an interview with Jariela Cruz
November 14, 2020 03:09 - 1 hour - 37.4 MBHosts Nina and Maresa discuss the social, political, and economic implications of mathematics and how math can be used for human liberation. Jariela Cruz, math coach in Holyoke, MA invites us to critically understand math and gives concrete examples of how she integrates social justice content into her math lessons for middle grades and secondary grades.