Sprouts is a weekly collaborative program that showcases local stories produced by community radio stations and grassroots media groups around the world. The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio and offered free to all radio stations.

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Claire Bown teaches people how to connect more with art. Her guide "How to Look at Art (Slowly)" is a rich compendium of curiosity practices.

Claire's professional focus is museums, but she'd be the first to tell you: the skills she shares are useful anywhere...

"As adults, we don't spend too long in observation. We tend to want to jump straight in to interpreting and what we think. It's actually quite useful for us to take a step back, and just dwell in observation for a little bit, because those details that we notice will help fuel our curiosity."
~ Claire Bown  

Photo used with permission of Claire Bown

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04.12.23 / Slow Looking and Visible Thinking with Claire Bown

Encore Presentation

Before becoming Mayor of her hometown of Viroqua, Wisconsin in 2018, Karen Mischel spent 17 years in the Merchant Marines followed by her current occupation as an organic farm inspector.

Mischel shares:

- Lessons learned in communication from working on the ship;
- The challenges of managing a rural community with new and old residents;
- Why hard conversations are important and non-violent communication is the key in her community;
- Her work on banning herbicide spraying on public places in Viroqua and on leased public agricultural land;
- Her focus on prioritizing clean water, healthy soil, organic farming, and community health;
- Why educating people in the community should be a political responsibility. 

Photo by Marco Verch
https://foto.wuestenigel.com/earth-on-fertile-soil-saving-environment-earth-day-conservation-world-concept/

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04.10.24 / Why Hard Conversations are Important and Making a Stand for Healthy Soil

Women tell a new story about money.

The women of An Economy of Our Own ask a simple question: What would happen if the free and low-paid labor provided by women were actually measured in our economy?

Photo of Rickey Gard Diamond, author of Screwnomics, used with her permission.

04.17.24 / An Economy of Our Own

As Monday, April 22nd, marked the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover, Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley called for the National Guard to be sent to Columbia University.

This was in response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the Columbia campus as well as other campuses around the country, protesting Israel's bombing of Gaza.

Protests on college campuses have a long history in the U.S. As we approach May 4th, the anniversary of the infamous Kent State killings in 1970, when the National Guard was brought in to quell protests on a college campus, we bring you a re-broadcast of Lawrence Reichard's Sprouts show, Kent State Remembered.

CC Photograph of Kent State shootings 
https://nara.getarchive.net/media/photograph-of-campus-scene-during-shootings-at-kent-state-university-24cde4

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04.24.24 / Kent State Remembered

What are the factors to consider when young transgender people want to medically transition?

These questions are posed in a climate of uproar about bathrooms and locker rooms and investigations into parents who provide medical care to their trans kids.

There's a lot of misinformation out there about exactly what medical care is for trans kids, so we consider transgender youth who want to start medical transition at a relatively early age.

Of course, parents often worry that their children may be too young to know what they really want and that medical transition may include surgery and other medical treatments that can be difficult or impossible to undo.

To answer some of these questions, OutCaster Lauren talks with Dr. John Steever, a physician, and Dr. Matthew Oransky, a psychologist. Both doctors work at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and help young transgender people with transitioning.

Photo / Ted Eytan / Capital TransPride Washington / flickr / photo is cropped 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/taedc/34635190032/

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05.01.24 / Medical Transition for Trans Youth - part 1

Each year, hundreds of thousands of adults over the age of 60 are abused, neglected, or financially exploited. This mistreatment is elder abuse and can have serious physical and emotional effects on older adults.

Host Cheryl Beversdorf talks with Michela Monday, LCSW, and Omotayo Daniels, LICSW, LCSW, Human Services Clinicians, Adult Protective Services, Arlington Department of Human Services, about examples of abuse, neglect, and exploitation among older adults and the role of Adult Protective Services in helping victims.

Produced and hosted by Cheryl Beversdorf.  Editing by Steve Lack.

Photo by Gerd Altmann / Pixabay /
https://pixabay.com/photos/woman-old-retirement-home-dementia-65675/

05.08.24 / Elder Abuse - part 1

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04.12.23 / Slow Looking and Visible Thinking with Claire Bown

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