WPKN Community Radio
1,870 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWPKN is a nonprofit, freeform, community radio station (arts organization) that is more than 50 years old. The vision of WPKN is to build community, a loyal and growing audience, and an engaged and educated citizenry by providing the highest quality of free-form programming that broadcasts entertainment, music, news, thoughts, sounds, ideas and event listings that support free speech, diversity, and the interests of the local and global communities WPKN serves. Our radio frequency of 89.5-FM (Bridgeport)includes a coverage map of 1.5 million people in Farfield, New Haven and Litchfield counties in Connecticut and Suffolk county (The North Fork and Hamptons) in New York. WPKN also maintains an on-demand streaming and archive of WPKN programming as well as our WPKN PODCASTS that focus on 22+ 'talk-oriented' community, cultural and news programs. We also feature an expanding list of interviews with music personalities and artists from all over the world.
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Episodes
Between The Lines - 2/21/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
February 21, 2024 15:46 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* As Ukraine War Enters 3rd Year, It’s Time to Stop the Killing Melvin Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, former CIA analyst Producer: Scott Harris * Veterans for Peace Demands Biden Stop Sending Weapons to Israel, Investigate Violation of US Law Mike Ferner, national director, Veterans for Peace; Matthew Hoh, associate director, Eisenhower Media Network Producer: Scott Harris * Coalition Proposes Federal Legislation to Clean Up Zombie Coal Mines’ Environmental...
GaiaGram #195 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
February 21, 2024 15:46 - 4 minutes - 4.07 MB-New Zealand has ruled in favor of indigenous leaders lawsuit against polluters -Local governments are banning green energy projects faster than building them -Lake Powell still in danger of new “deadpool” low levels -National Academy of Sciences,wants a new hurricane category 6 storm rating -Horse shoe Crabs are in jeopardy due to recent human activities -17 million pounds of plastic trash removed from the Pacific Ocean
Organic Farm Stand -- Feb. 1. 2024 -- The Tulips in Winter
February 20, 2024 05:59 - 54 minutes - 41.7 MBSpecial Guest Miranda Gould, who owns the New Petal Flower Farm (https://newpetalflowerfarm.com) in Monroe, CT, talks about how she grows organic tulips during the winter by "forcing" them in her basement. Hosts: Richard Hill, Laura Modlin and Steve Munno.
Organic Farm Stand -- Feb. 15, 2024 -- Native Plants Rule!
February 20, 2024 00:41 - 51 minutes - 38.9 MBJames Sirch, Education Director at the Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT, discusses the numerous pros of native plants and urges us to grow them from seeds and avoid mistaking them for pesky weeds. Hosts: Richard Hill, Laura Modlin and Steve Munno
Resistance Roundtable -- Feb. 10, 2024 -- Gaza Carnage Continues
February 15, 2024 19:37 - 51 minutes - 52.3 MBHenry Lowendorf, chair of the New Haven Peace Council and longtime peace and social justice activist, speaks about the continuing brutal Israeli massacre taking place in Gaza. Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill.
Between The Lines - 2/14/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
February 14, 2024 15:28 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB*Biden's Ineffectual Response to Israel's Ongoing Carnage in Gaza War Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies Producer: Scott Harris. * One Year After East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment Residents Still Seeking Help on Heath Impacts Hilary Flint co-founder of the group, Unity Council for the East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment Producer: Melinda Tuhus. *SCOTUS Hearing on Colorado's Removal of Trump from State Ballot Ignores His Role as Insurrectionist Amira Mat...
GaiaGram #194 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
February 14, 2024 14:31 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MB-Climate scientist Michael E. Mann wins more than $1mn in damages in defamation case -20% of the world’s migrating animals could be extinct due to human activities -The EU on rejects a plan to cut back reliance on pesticides in agriculture -The Oil Industry Knew About Its Role in Climate Change since 1954 -Devastating wildfires tear across large parts of Chile leaving widespread destruction -The U.S. announces new funding for electric vehicle charging stations -Louisia...
Roishetta Ozane -- (temporary?) victory in the Gulf South
February 12, 2024 12:01 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBI speak with Roishetta Ozane, one of the leaders of the effort to stop the build-out of LNG (liquefied natural gas) export terminals in Louisiana and Texas.
GaiaGram #193 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
February 07, 2024 23:38 - 4 minutes - 4.16 MBGrowing "climate crisis" is fundamentally a human behavioral crisis European countries technological advances, won't limit global heating to 1.5°. Greenlandic mainland is rising faster than sea levels United States’ planet-overheating gas emissions dropped by 1.9% in 2023 Saudi Aramco call off plans to expand its oil output, First-ever white rhinoceros pregnancy using in vitro fertilization. United States Postal Service to install electric vehicle charging stations nationwide
Between The Lines - 2/7/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
February 07, 2024 15:10 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* Preventing a Wider Middle East War linked to Ending Israel's Brutal War in Gaza; Medea Benjamin, Co-founder Code Pink Women For Peace; Producer: Scott Harris. * Biden Pause on Approving LNG Export Terminals, Won’t Solve Frontline Communities’ Health Hazards; Roishetta Ozane is the founder and CEO of the Vessel Project in southwestern Louisiana; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * GOP and Far Right Forces Provoking National Emergency at Southern Border; Justin Akers Chacón, author and Professor of U...
The Heating Crisis At Success Village Apartments
February 06, 2024 19:53 - 25 minutes - 27 MBOn the February 4, 2024 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is joined by Jose Sandoz, Board Member and 4.5-year resident of Success Village Apartments. Jose discusses the heating crisis at Success Village currently affecting 924 families in Bridgeport and Stratford, and the ways in which he and others have been organizing to try to bring heat back to residents.
Jeff Masters Meteorologist - Atmospheric rivers
February 06, 2024 15:07 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBI welcome back to DITD Jeff Masters of the Yale Climate Connection. Jeff, worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. He has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan. In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground weather channel. On Monday Jan 22nd , a relatively weak atmospheric river, along with favorable winds in the mid-to-upper atmosphere, combined to deliver a deluge to San Diego, with the city seeing 2.73 inches of rain...
GaiaGram #192 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
January 31, 2024 23:39 - 4 minutes - 3.96 MB-Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state Nightmare weather events -Maine record-breaking weather extremes bring disruption, destruction -San Diego has record rains and flash flooding caused by an atmospheric river -Climate change is having a “catastrophic impact” on migratory species, -The courts halt spraying of streptomycin on citrus crops across the US -New Jersey Plans two new offshore wind farms -White House halts all new licenses for LNG export terminals
Jan. 29, 2024 - Counterpoint
January 31, 2024 16:25 - 1 hour - 80.5 MB* International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Acts of Genocide in Gaza War; Robert L. Herbst, is a civil rights lawyer in New York; Producer: Scott Harris. * Fighting to Reform U.S. Mass Incarceration from Inside the System; Nneka Jones Tapia, managing dir. of justice initiatives at Chicago Beyond, former warden of Chicago’s Cook County Jail; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * Argentina’s Unions Respond to President Milei’s Extremist Program with General Strike; Pablo Pryluka, Doctoral ...
Spotlight on Arts and Culture — Discussion with Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim
January 26, 2024 16:56 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBErika K. Wesley, the Executive Director of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County, sits down for a conversation with Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim. They discuss Bridgeport's numerous cultural initiatives and growing status as a city where many artists and other creative professionals choose to live. This interview marks the beginning of a 2024 series in which Erika plans to connect with the mayors of Fairfield's urban communities.
Home Page Radio – Don’t Trash The HOME
January 25, 2024 18:27 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBThursday, January 25, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org Host: Duo Dickinson We are in the time of Tear Downs, Again. And yet feel good, virtue signalling, of 8,000 square foot “Green” homes and $80,000 electric cars simultaneously tell us we are being good stewards of our world. The oxymoron of a new millennium’s religion of “sustainability” and the never ending growth in size and cost of the American Home has always been part of our culture. It is so basic as to be be cliche: “It if ...
Between The Lines - 1/17/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
January 24, 2024 17:40 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBJason Stanley: If Re-Elected, Trump Vows Fascist Regime from Day One Morgan Fox: Although Federal Agencies Recommend Changes to Marijuana Classification, Major Reforms Unlikely Carrie Baker: U.S. Courts Uphold States’ Extremist Abortion Laws Endangering Lives Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary • Somalia attempts to nullify Ethiopia’s Red Sea port plan • Most states don't warn about "forever chemicals" in fish • Los Angeles landlords forcing rent-stabilized dwellers out
Between The Lines - 1/24/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
January 24, 2024 17:04 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBFormer UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain” Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis • NYPD faces backlash as it pla...
Between The Lines - 1/24/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
January 24, 2024 17:04 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBFormer UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Now Killed 25,000 Palestinians Climate Defiance organizer Maxwell Downing: Direct Action Climate Group Targets Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin as “Climate Super Villain” Stand Up America's Tishan Weerasooriya: Supreme Court Poised to Decimate Federal Regulations on Pollution, Climate, Public Health Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary • 4 ways to ease Cuba's humanitarian crisis • NYPD faces backlash as it pla...
Raju Rajan of ReWild Long Island
January 22, 2024 21:43 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBMy guest now is Raju Rajan. Raju describes himself as a technologist with a strong communitarian ethic. Raju is one of the founders of ReWild Long Island and currently serves as Board President. Raju is an avid gardener and amateur tree-enthusiast, he also owns and manages a small agroforest in India dedicated to rewilding and permaculture. ReWild Long Island is accepting applications from community groups to join their ReWild LI Gardens program.
Joe Magazzi Green Earth Ag & Turf Webinar
January 22, 2024 21:34 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBI'd like to welcome in here to digging in the dirt, my friend Joe Magazzi, president of Green Earth Ag And Turf a company that is a leader in wholesale distribution of organic products for plants, trees and turf with thirteen years of experience and expertise in the green industries. Their motto is All we do are organics. He's here to talk about his First annual Green Earth Ag & Turf Webinar dedicated to teaching more natural and organic application programs and promoting sustainability.
GaiaGram #189 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
January 22, 2024 18:53 - 4 minutes - 4.18 MB-EPA will have 1 Billion to clean-up the Great Lakes -U.S. plans to conserve and steward old-growth forests on national forests -Miami septic tanks leaking Nutrients and fecal bacteria -California to enforce laws on over-pumping of groundwater -The Bering snow crab season will be closed for 2023-2024 -Egyptian government approves incentives for green hydrogen projects -It's official 2023 was Earth’s warmest year in a century and a half
GaiaGram #191 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
January 22, 2024 18:46 - 4 minutes - 4.16 MB-Blinken says Healthy soil is increasingly an issue of national security -Federal rule will force crack down on methane gas emissions -One of the largest coal plants to be be replaced by the nation’s biggest solar farm -Kashmir India’s mountains having snowless winter -India to achieve 65 percent of its power capacity from non- fossil-fuel sources -US Department of Defense will install rooftop solar on the Pentagon
Mahmoud Abbas Shares His Story And Discusses Bridgeport's Ceasefire Resolution Campaign
January 22, 2024 00:29 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBThe January 21, 2024 episode of Mic Check was a re-broadcast of host Mike Merli's January 1 interview with Mahmoud Abbas, a Palestinian activist based right here in Connecticut. Mahmoud shares his story, and speaks as an organizer with Bridgeport for Ceasefire, a diverse and inclusive grassroots campaign, led by local Palestinians and Muslims, that organized for a Ceasefire Resolution at the municipal level here in Bridgeport. The resolution was conceived by, and put forth by, City Council...
Monthly Labor Report #5 -- January, 2024 -- Year End Review and 2024 Forecast
January 20, 2024 01:56 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBMichael Zweig, economist, labor historian and author of the just released book "Race, Class and Gender -- Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism," discusses the momentous labor action in 2023 and offers his forecast for labor in 2024. Interview by Richard Hill
Resistance Roundtable -- Jan. 13, 2024 -- How do we win in 2024?
January 20, 2024 01:32 - 48 minutes - 48.7 MBThe Resistance panel interviews India Walton, the Black woman who rocked the political establishment in Buffalo, NY, when she beat the centrist mayor in that city's primary. She is currently an activist and writer with Roots Action (www.rootsaction.org), a progressive advocacy and action group. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill
Organic Farm Stand -- The American Leaf Blower Massacre
January 16, 2024 02:50 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBSpecial guests, Louise Lasher and Lisa Shanahan, discuss how they successfully passed an ordinance restricting the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in Norwalk, CT. Panel: Steve Munno, Laura Modlin and Richard Hill
GaiaGram #190 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
January 15, 2024 14:40 - 4 minutes - 4.11 MB-Storm brings record coastal flooding in Maine -Reduced snowpack in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere -Iranians accusing its Neighbor Turkey Of Stealing Rain Clouds, -A quarter of humanity living under drought in 2022 and 2023 -Bottled water has 10 to 100 times more bits of plastic than - previously estimated -A battery system has replaced Hawaii’s very last coal power plant.
Between The Lines - 1/10/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
January 10, 2024 15:55 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* South Africa Files International Court of Justice Case Accusing Israel of Genocide in Gaza Robert L. Herbst, is a human rights lawyer in New York Producer: Scott Harris * Protest at US Holocaust Museum Demands Response to Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza Michael Beer, Director of Nonviolence International Producer: Melinda Tuhus * Two States Rule Insurrectionist Donald Trump Ineligible to Appear on 2024 Ballot Nikhel Sus, Senior Counsel, Dir. Strategic Litigation, Citizens for Responsibility a...
The Long Island Sound Lobster Trap Project
January 09, 2024 15:14 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBMy guests today are all doing great things for the Long Island sound. Dr. Sarah Crosby, who is a marine ecologist trained in conservation science with extensive experience in coastal and marine ecosystems. Kat Cuzco of the Lobster trap team has worked as a marine science educator at Project Oceanology since 2019. At Project O. She also works on the Lobster Trap Recovery and Assessment Partnership (L-TRAP). Also Bill Lucey, a sound keeper for Save The Sound. We are here to discuss the pro...
Between The Lines - 1/3/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
January 03, 2024 15:53 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* Physician Relates the Horror Palestinians Face in Gaza as Israel-Hamas War Continues into 2024; Dr. Dana Elborno, MD, OBGYN, Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology physician practicing in Illinois; Producer: Scott Harris. * Group Challenging America's Undemocratic Electoral College System Gaining Support; Christopher Pearson, Secretary of the group National Popular Vote, former Vermont legislator; Producer: Scott Harris. * CT’s Clean Slate Law Seals Criminal Records of People Convicted of Mi...
GaiaGram #188 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
January 02, 2024 23:01 - 4 minutes - 4.02 MB-EXIM approved nearly $1 billion in fossil fuel lending -New York just became the first state to restrict seeds coated with bee-killing pesticides. -a declaration signed to boost health-related climate finance -San Mateo sea-level rise planners propose building an off-shore tidal lagoon -Chile believed to have a tree that survived for more than 5,000 years
Resistance Roundtable -- Dec. 9, 2023 -- Academia Sustains a Mortal Wound; will it survive?
December 30, 2023 23:39 - 50 minutes - 49 MBDr. Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors, discusses the onslaught against freedom of speech and inquiry in Florida and academia, in general. Luke Savage, staff reporter with Jacobin Magazine, offers his perspective on how the corporate media is—and should be—covering the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill
GaiaGram #187 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
December 28, 2023 22:43 - 4 minutes - 4.11 MB-The electric vehicle market is in good health, with record sales -Colorado River’s water supply drops substantially due to low snow -The Northeast and N. California, risk of extreme flash rainstorms - 60% of insects struggling to keep up with the plants they rely on -half” of the whales and dolphins over the past five years contained PCBs, -Stanford Natural Capital Project, answering questions Ct about nature friendly development.
Between The Lines - 12/27/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
December 27, 2023 20:37 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* If Re-elected Trump Vows to Impose a Fascist Regime, But Are Americans Listening?; Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer at Salon and author; Producer: Scott Harris. * A Bipartisan ‘Fiscal Commission,’ The GOP's Latest Threat to Cut Social Security, Medicare Benefits Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works; Producer: Scott Harris. * After 30 Years of Organizing Yale Grad Student Union Local 33 Wins First Contract; Sasha Tabachnikova, PhD candidate in immunobiology, & ...
Astronaut Eileen Collins & Author Jonathan Ward NEAF 2023
December 24, 2023 05:13 - 57 minutes - 65.9 MBRecorded at the 2023 Northeast Astro Forum, the first woman to command & pilot a U.S. Space Shuttle, Eileen Collins & Author Jonathan Ward discuss their book “Through The Glass Ceiling To The Stars” with many of Eileen’s experiences as a Test & Space Shuttle Pilot… and the future of space exploration.
Michelle Thaller - The lives & Deaths of Stars... & Mysteries of The Universe
December 24, 2023 04:48 - 53 minutes - 60.9 MBDr MIchelle Thaller, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Astronomer Discusses how stars are born & die ...And mysteries of the Universe including Dark Matter, Dark Energy, & Space Time
Between The Lines - 12/20/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
December 20, 2023 15:03 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* Biden Has The Power to Stop Israel's Carnage in Gaza; Samer Badawi is a Palestinian-American writer and a contributor to +972 Magazine; Producer: Scott Harris. * COP 28 Showcase for False Solutions Fails to Make Urgently Needed Progress Addressing Climate Crisis; Fletcher Harper, executive director of the multi-faith international climate organization GreenFaith; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * New Book Examines the Issues of Class, Race, Gender and the Injuries of Capitalism; Michael Zweig, P...
GaiaGram #186 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
December 19, 2023 21:08 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MB-Nearly $7 trillion of public and private finance each year directly harms nature -Rising sea levels threaten to drown Pacific island nations, -Greek village Metamorfosi relocating their entire community due to flood waters -Canary Islands, El Hierro is the first yo function for 28 days using only wind and water power. -More than 1,000 abandoned lobster traps have been removed from Long Island Sound -General Mills, Walmart, and Sam’s Club collaborate on adoption of reg...
Ralph Baskin Photographer/WPKN staffer The experience of going solar on your house
December 19, 2023 17:03 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBMy guest on DITD today is Ralph Baskin. Ralph is a Retired IT cost consultant turned photographer who moved to CT from NY over 40 years ago where he lives in, and has improved, a small 1890's Victorian farmhouse. Ralph and I have found common ground with our views on the environment and have had many conversations about solar which I have dabbled with and Ralph has had a lot of experience, having adding a solar system to his own home. Besides my intention to always feature local guests and ...
GaiaGram #185 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
December 19, 2023 16:51 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MB-200 countries make global pact for “transitioning away from fossil fuels” 200 researchers, sounds the alarm on climate tipping points— - rising ocean temperatures are causing hurricanes to gain strength -N Y’s South Fork Wind first utility-scale offshore wind farm to generate power in the US
Between The Lines - 12/13/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
December 13, 2023 16:01 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* Protecting Free Speech on Campus as Israel-Hamas War Stokes Antisemitism, Islamophobia; Will Creeley, Legal Director with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE); Producer: Scott Harris. * Republicans Tie Support for Israel, Ukraine Aid to Imposing New Draconian Immigration Laws; Kica Matos, President of the National Immigration Law Center; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * Too Little Too Late at the UN COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai; Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s...
Organic Farm Stand -- December 7, 2023 -- When a Meteor Struck Easton!
December 11, 2023 20:25 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBThe Farm Stand speaks with Frank Pagliaro, an historian and researcher, who describes the first documented meteor to strike North America on Dec. 14, 1807. Hosted by Richard Hill, Laura Modlin and Steve Munno.
Voices from Indigenous National Day of Mourning
December 09, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBI recorded several speakers from the 54th National Day of Mourning at Plymouth, MA on Thanksgiving Day, 2023, including the co-chair of United American Indians of New England, a Palestinian, and an 82-year-old survivor of Canada's Indian residential schools (prisons)
GaiaGram #184 - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
December 06, 2023 21:36 - 4 minutes - 4.16 MB-COP28 president says "no science" for a phase out of fossil fuels. -Gore says oil industry is way more effective at capturing politicians than emissions. -4 out of 5 people agree that it’s essential to do “whatever it takes” to limit climate change -Solar capacity has grown faster in US electrical generation than all other energy sources -Airbus will have fleet of ocean vessels with wind-assisted propulsion -coal-producing West Virginia school system is going solar,
Between The Lines - 12/6/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
December 06, 2023 15:16 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* Biden Pays High Price for Embrace of Israel's Deadly Gaza Attack; Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; Producer: Scott Harris. * The Struggle for Palestinian Rights & Self Determination Embraced by Indigenous Activists; Salma Abu Ayyash, a Palestinian American engineer, educator, and social justice activist Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * The Dark, Violent Legacy of Henry Kissinger; Peter Kornbluh, Dir. Cuba & Chile Documentation Projects at the Na...
Monthly Labor Report -- Edition #4 -- Dec. 2023
December 03, 2023 23:22 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBEconomist and labor historian Michael Zweig discusses the nexus between capitalism and fascism and in the process provides a more cogent definition of the F word than is now in common use in the corporate media. Interview by Richard Hill, Nov. 27, 2023
Between The Lines - 11/29/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
November 29, 2023 15:38 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB* After Gaza Humanitarian Pause, Hostage/Prisoner Release, Activists Push for Permanent Ceasefire; Hassan El-Tayyab, leg. dir. Middle East Policy, Advocacy Organizer w Friends Committee on National Legislation; Producer: Scott Harris. * Federal Appeals Court Ruling Further Erodes 1965 Voting Rights Act and US Democracy; Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis professor of Law at Harvard University; Producer: Scott Harris. * Canadian Indian School Survivor Shares her story at Annual ‘Natio...
A conversation with artist Kim Weston about her project "Sweetgrass: Dancing with My Ancestors"
November 29, 2023 06:02 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBValerie Richardson is joined in the studio by photographer Kim Weston and Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, director of the Housatonic Museum of Art. Kim's exhibition Sweetgrass: Dancing with My Ancestors opens at the Museum on November 29, 2023
Band Central Radio - Eric DiBerardino
November 28, 2023 21:43 - 15 minutes - 7.1 MBWPKN Studios - Interview with Eric DiBerardino