Genesis of the Young Lords and impact of US race consciousness on 2nd generation Puerto Rican revolutionaries of the 1960s.

Johanna Fernndez is Associate Professor of History at Baruch College (CUNY) and
author of The Young Lords: A Radical History on the Puerto Rican counterpart of the
Black Panther Party. Her Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) lawsuit against the NYPD,
recovered the largest repository of police surveillance records in the country" over one
million NYPD surveillance files, including those of Malcolm X. She is a leading member
of the movement to bring home Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political prisoners.

Johanna Fernandez, WBAI Producer/Host
Marcos Maldonado, Editor
The executive producers of COVID, Race, and Democracy are Akua Holt, Polina Vasiliev and Steve Zeltzer

08.02.21 / Black August Special: Fros, Berets, and Leather Jackets

Author Tamara Dean presents Safer Than Childbirth, the story of a woman who "lived and died of an abortion" in the mid-1800s, just when abortion was outlawed for the first time in the United States.

Safer Than Childbirth originally appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of The American Scholar, online at theamericanscholar.org. Contributors include Jim Bindas, David Klann, Anne OConnor, and Chris Watkins.

This week's Sprouts edition is produced at KFAI in Minneapolis by Tamara Dean and David Klann.

The Sprouts theme music is Torpedoes on Tuesday by Poison Control Center

Photo by uncoolbob.  It has been cropped to fit the dimension requirements.
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05.25.22 / Safer Than Childbirth

New Year's is a great time to learn about spirit beverages. Our friends at Sips, Suds and Smokes give a thorough analysis of some scotch with one variety designed for cocktails.

First, Dr. Bill and the wizards explore Islay whiskey. Then, they try Glenmorangie, combining it with grapefruit juice to make a delight worth sipping for days. Paul John continues to release innovative products from India as they visit yet another Hindu Zodiac sign. A whisky called Scorch? Here for it. Is there a doctor in the house to enjoy this Islay scotch? Each beverage reviewed and rated.
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12.28.22 / Spirit Ideas for New Years

Noel Langley gained International attention as one of the Screen writers of The Wizard of Oz. 

Before that.. he wrote a Children's book The Land Of Green Ginger that was an overnight success. He wrote a special version JUST FOR Pacifica Radio in 1962 and read it himself..!!
Notes: Pacifica Radio talked Noel Langley into reading his classic Children's Tale in his own voice. So Noel made his way to the Pacifica studios in 1962 and gave a command performance to our listeners.

in 1965, Noel Langley wrote a special edition of this classic tale just for his live read on Pacifica Radio WBAI in 1965.

This was pressed on limited addition vinyl that same year and the Pacifica Radio Archives has several copies of this Pacifica LP release.




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From The Vault 1 Hour Version: FTV 0415 Noel Langley's The Land of Green Ginger

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

SPROUTS 

04.12.23 / Slow Looking and Visible Thinking with Claire Bown

Pacifica reporter and host Ann Garrison spoke to Michelle Witte of Sputnik Radio's "Political Misfits" about the US in Somalia, the drought and famine narrative, and South Africa's dilemma regarding Putin's visit for the BRICS conference while under indictment by the ICC.

Sputnik's "Political Misfits" on the US in Somalia and the Horn, and South Africa's ICC dilemma

Dawn Avery   " Bio (2014)
Rarely are performers as at home in Lincoln Center as they are in a Longhouse. Composer, cellist, vocalist, educator, GRAMMY and NAMA nominated performer Dawn Avery has worked with musical luminaries Luciano Pavarotti, Sting, John Cale, John Cage, and R. Carlos Nakai.  She's toured around the world playing Delta Blues with the Soldier String Quartet, Persian Funk with Sussan Deyhim/ Will Calhoun, and opera with the New York City Opera Company.  A musician specializing in sacred music from around the world, she has performed with Reza Derakshani, Ustad Sultan Khan, Humayun Khan, Glen Velez, David Darling, Karsh Kale, Joanne Shenandoah, and Baba Olatunji. 

Dawn   s exploration of sacred music led her to study the relationship between music and spirituality, especially in meditative practice, and career development. She has led meditation groups and spiritual music performances at the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Milan Sacred Music Festival, The Open Center in NYC and Musicales Visuales in Mexico City.  As a leader of meditation and creativity workshops, she has worked with great healers such as the Dalai Lama, Rick Jarow, Ron Young, and Hilda Charleton.  Her recordings Rapidly Approaching Ecstasy: Music for Meditation and Movement and Alchemy: Music for Meditation are available online and on cdbaby.com. 

Dawn Avery has performed at the Montreux, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Banlieu Bleu Jazz Festivals in Europe. She   s played uptown at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as in New York   s thriving downtown music stages like the Knitting Factory, La Mama and Thread Waxing Space.  Currently located in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Dawn Avery has performed at the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian   s National Museum of the American Indian, Takoma Park Folk Festival, University of Maryland   s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Montgomery College Recital Hall and Theater Arts Arena.  She has recorded world music, classical music, meditation music, and popular music on solo cds. 

Of Kanienk  ha (Mohawk) descent, Dawn   s Indian name is Ieriho:kwats and she wears the turtle clan.  Committed to Indigenous language and cultural preservation as a musician, educator and participant of Longhouse ceremonies, she leads workshops and produces projects as part of the Native Composer   s Project that began as part of Idawadadi directed by cultural specialist and Mohawk elder, Jan Kahehti:io Longboat. Dawn Avery tours with the North American Indian Cello Project, in which she premieres contemporary classical works by Native composers.  She recently completed her PhD in ethnomusicology on Native Classical composition and Indigenous methodology.  Our Fire CD won several nominations in the Indian Summer Awards, New Mexico Music Awards, and Native American Music Awards its music can be heard on two recent award-winning films: The Smithsonian   s    Always Becoming    by Nora Naranjo-Morse and    Don   t Get Sick After June: Indian Health Care    by Rich/Heape Films.  Her most recent project 50 Shades of Red features music, dance, film, and ritual. 
Dawn Avery   s compositions span from orchestral to chamber to contemporary. She has collected awards for her works from the American Dance Festival at Duke University, NYU, Meet the Composer, the Maryland Flute Association, and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County in Maryland.  Recent premieres include her cello concerto, Cante Tin   za by the Mankato Symphony in Minneapolis, and a piano suite, entitled Owen:tsia kwe:kon by world reknowned pianist Emanuele Arciuli.  Some of classical compositions can be heard on Tulpe, performed by Englewinds and Eight Strings and a Whistle.

As an educator, Dawn helps to nurture future generations of musicians as Professor of Music at Montgomery College where she also produces an annual World Arts Festival.  She was selected the 2012 United States Professor of the Year for the State of Maryland by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 

50 SHADES OF RED, Dawn   s latest recording features Down Tempo Native music, produced by Grammy winning artist Larry Mitchell with songs in both English and Mohawk, on topics about love from the sensual to the spiritual.  

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Notes: For the weeek of August 14 - 21, 2014

FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO : First Voices Indigenous Radio  August 14, 2014

In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems.

Justin Mog from WFMP-LP Louisville, KY (Forward Radio), opens the tap for a much-needed conversation with Dr. Daniel Jaffee, author of the brand new book, "Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice."

Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to groundwater extraction for bottling in rural communities, Dan Jaffee asks what this commodity's meteoric growth means for social inequality, sustainability, and the human right to water. Unbottled profiles campaigns to reclaim the tap and addresses the challenges of ending dependence on packaged water in places where safe water is not widely accessible. Clear and compelling, it assesses the prospects for the movements fighting plastic water and working to ensure water justice for all.

Dan Jaffee is an environmental and rural sociologist, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on water commodification and on social conflicts around bottled water. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.

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11.08.23 / The Consequences of Bottled Water

*Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. continues to ramp up his hard-line propaganda supporting the Israeli states genocide against the Palestinian people. Polina Vasiliev and Freddy Libertad provide analysis.
*On December 28th, police arrested 14 activists for blocking traffic into Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California to protest the shipment of weapons to Israel. Steve Zeltzer reports.
*Even before October 7, the majority of Israeli-Jewish citizens favored the relocation of Palestinians from Gaza. Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein says bribing other countries to take in Palestinians is a decades-old Israeli policy.
*The international rise of fascism is now manifest in the government of Javier Milei in Argentina. Puerto Rican Labor researcher Ricardo Ortiz spoke with Steve Zeltzer about this looming confrontation.

Host: Ann Garrison
Produced by the CRD Collective

12.31.23 / RFK Jr Defends Gaza Genocide; Israel Weapons; Palestinians Relocated; Argentina Fascism

In our heated national conversation about transgender youth, one major stakeholder's voice has been largely silent: transgender elders. Sandy Stone is now known as the founder of Transgender Studies, a performance artist, a noted recording engineer. But she first stepped away from her parents home as a confused boy, unsure of why her inner self didnt match external expectations.

This episode shows how Sandy navigated a world in which the word "transgender" wasn't even coined yet, and sheds light on the experiences and needs of today's transgender youth. She explains, "I really became a person, a human being, when I became a woman."

Photo used with permission of Sandy Stone

Pacifica Network - Sprouts

01.10.24 / A View from A Transgender Elder

Today we look at the state of Iowa, land of agriculture, through a less than common lens... through wildness.

Iowa farmers and environmentalists gathered last November in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Drake University campus for the Iowa Nature Summit. We were at the conference with a grant from BeWild BeWild, a group who describe themselves as a loosely-knit group of volunteers with a passion for wild things. They asked us to interview conference goers about the concept of wildness, when approaching environmentalism in Iowa.

Produced and Hosted by Ursula Ruedenberg & Stephanie Schubert
Photo by Ursula Ruedenberg

01.17.24 / Is There a Place for Wildness in Iowa?

Favorite homespun stories from Eddie Holahan in a live recorded show in Viroqua, WI (10.07.23) called The View From Here.

The View From Here is a weekly five minute essay about this funny, desperate, beautiful life. If Confucious and Andy Rooney co-authored a radio broadcast, it would sound like The View From Here.

What was it like to stand next to those magnificent Ocean Liners of the 50s and 60s? Which composer's birthday did Eddie's brother celebrate every year? How much can it really snow in the midwest? And how can a grandfather give a unicorn to his granddaughter?

Eddie Holahan began writing and reading The View in 2010 after a long career inventing toys and games. He was born and raised in New York City and currently resides, happily, in Southwest Wisconsin.

The View From Here is an independent production originating in the studios of WDRT, Viroqua. The stage show was a fundraiser for WDRT Viroqua, WI.

Photo from WDRT Promotion

01.24.24 / The View From Here Stage Show

Psychotherapist and clinical psychologist Narendra Keval observes that racism demands certainty-- the opposite of curiosity. His is a thoughtful call for cultivating social spaces for curiosity and exercising our capacity to think under fire.

"Curiosity can be quite a treacherous journey. And what I'm interested in, particularly, is what are the moments when one might retreat again from discovery." ~ Narendra Keval

Photo used with permission of Narendra Keval

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01.31.24 / Curiosity & Racist Mindsets with Narendra Keval

*A year after the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, thousands of residents in the area are suffering illnesses. Chris Albright is fighting for healthcare to save his life and is calling on President Biden to invoke the Stafford Act and declare East Palestine a mass casualty incident site, allowing all residents and all workers involved to get healthcare.
He spoke to Pacifica's Steve Zeltzer.
*Maximillian Alvarez (The Real News Network) speaks about the struggle of East Palestine residents and workers to protect their healthcare, community, and jobs.
*Pacifica reporter Thomas O'Rourke has a follow up on COVID 19 vaccine injuries. This supplements an earlier interview of Dr. Peter McCullough from the January 22nd 2024 episode of Capitalism, Race, & Democracy.
*The international Labor Education Project on the AFL-CIO recently held a panel on the AFL-CIO, Zionism, Imperialism and South Africa. Durban trade union organizer and labor researcher David Hemson talked about the Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center, which represents the majority of Israel's trade unionists.

02.25.24 / E. Palestine, Ohio Workers' Illnesses; Doctors Testify on mRNA Vax ; Zionism in S. Africa

With Good Reason's Jamal Millner speaks with musicians (David McCormick & Ernie Jackson) about the great but little known Black musicians and composers in early America. These musicians include the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, otherwise known as the Scott Family Band or the fiddlers of Monticello, and gifted musician, abolitionist, and freemason Justin Holland.

Sound clips are included.

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02.07.24 / Black and Fine

Encore Presentation for Black History Month

During WWII, the glamorous lighthearted entertainer, Josephine Baker, worked as a spy for the French Resistance, while hiding in plain sight.

Ursula Ruedenberg talks with author Christopher Klein about Josephine Baker's humble beginnings to superstardom, and her unexpected turn in aiding the war effort against the Nazis.

Josephine Baker photo public domain
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37001233@N07/7289905846

Sprouts - Pacifica Network

02.14.24 / Josephine Baker: The Spy Who Hid in Plain Sight

Encore Presentation for Black History Month

This episode features an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's speech: "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?"

Pacifica's Steve Zeltzer speaks with retired Secretary Treasurer of ILWU Local 10 Clarence Thomas. Thomas spoke about Dr. Kings relationship with the ILWU and his impact on the struggle of workers today.

He also spoke about how Dr. King was perceived before his death, and how he connected militarism, capitalism, and racism.  

Produced and hosted by Akua Holt of KPFT

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02.21.24 / The Radical Side of MLK

Part 23 (FINAL in the series): Right-wing myths and the dismantling of the separation between church and state.

Is it "indoctrination" when schools teach kids about LGBTQ issues? How do we respond when parents and schools seek to censor what's discussed in schools in the name of "protecting" children?

In this edition, we explore the myths pushed by right-wing politicians -- the people who are actually abusing children through their anti-LGBTQ policies. We also talk about what to do when the courts undermine equality and the separation of church and state.

Joining us to delve into this issue is Jennifer C. Pizer. Jenny is the Senior Counsel and Director of Law and Policy for Lambda Legal, the country's oldest and largest legal organization seeking full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT people and everyone living with HIV.

Drag Queen Storytime with Meesha Perú 
Photo by Multnomah County Library https://www.flickr.com/photos/multnomahcountylibrary/31190681758

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02.27.24 / Religious Liberty vs LGBTQ Equality - part 23

What is a sustainable diet for people and the environment? Salwa Khan explores this question with Senior Food and Agriculture Policy Specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity Mark Rifkin.

Compared to meat-based diets, plant-based diets are significantly less harmful to the environment in terms of greenhouse gases produced, and air, soil and water pollution, and use far fewer natural resources such as soil and water. With the worlds population growing every day, there is simply no way our planet can sustain an increased demand for meat.

Plant-based diets are also far healthier, considering the many diet-related diseases prevalent in the United States. 

From Mothering Earth / Producer and Host - Salwa Khan

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03.06.24 / A Sustainable Diet

Maria Stephan describes how you can more effectively advance a multi-racial democracy.

Stephan has collaborated with Erica Chenoweth in seminal research comparing the relative effectiveness of violence and nonviolence. They found that nonviolence on average advanced democracy, win or lose, while violence doesn't.

Their 2011 book on "Why Civil Resistance Works" won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association in 2012 as the best book published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year on government, politics, or international affairs.

Not coincidentally, Chenoweth is now the Frank
Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and Academic Dean for Faculty Engagement at Harvard in recognition of the value of their work.

Stephan was interviewed by Spencer Graves with the Forum Committee of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City.

Creative Commons photo of Gandhi
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03.13.24 / The Effectiveness of Non-Violence

Reporting from the Iowa Nature Summit in Des Moines, Iowa: This conference took place at Drake University in October of 2023, a gathering of farmers and environmentalists throughout the state of Iowa.

We were at the conference with a grant from the BeWild ReWild program, a group of Iowans with a passion for wildness whose motto is Big River Connectivity.

What does Big River Connectivity mean? The BeWild ReWild program is specifically talking about the connections in the Mississippi watershed, rivers, wetlands, natural areas and the people who care about them.

Have you ever actually seen a map of the Mississippi Watershed? It's huge, covering 40% of the continental United States, which really brings the vision of Big River Connectivity to life.

We start today's show with a conversation about a documentary film sponsored by the BeWild ReWild program. The film is called Moved by Waters, produced by the Emmy award winning Fourth Wall Films and was featured at the conference. 

Photo by Ken Lund / Photo cropped due to size requirements
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/3939485153

03.20.24 / The Mississippi Watershed: Connecting Water and People

Reporting from the Iowa Nature Summit in Des Moines, Iowa: This conference took place at Drake University in October of 2023, a gathering of farmers and environmentalists throughout the state of Iowa.

We were at the conference with a grant from the BeWild ReWild program, a group of Iowans with a passion for wildness whose motto is Big River Connectivity.

What does Big River Connectivity mean? The BeWild ReWild program is specifically talking about the connections in the Mississippi watershed, rivers, wetlands, natural areas and the people who care about them.

Have you ever actually seen a map of the Mississippi Watershed? It's huge, covering 40% of the continental United States, which really brings the vision of Big River Connectivity to life.

We start today's show with a conversation about a documentary film sponsored by the BeWild ReWild program. The film is called Moved by Waters, produced by the Emmy award winning Fourth Wall Films and was featured at the conference.

neuron image by Fotis Boboias
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fbobolas/3822222947

03.27.24 / Why Neuroscience Matters, with Ilya Monosov

The Rev. Martin Luther King's messages about the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism, as well as about being awake, remain as relevant as ever.

Scholar activist Dr. Mtagnlise Sanyika, who worked with King, says we must continue to build social justice movements.

Produced by Akua Holt and Fahima Seck

Editing by Esther Iverem , and Polina Vasiliev

Special thanks to Capitalism, Race, & Democracy

Sprouts theme music, Torpedoes on Tuesday, by Poison Control Center
 
CC: Image of Dr. King Montgomery arrest 1958 / Charles Moore
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Pacifica Network: Sprouts

04.03.24 / BEYOND THE DREAM: MLK's Triple Evils of Racism, Poverty and Militarism

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/

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.

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04.24.24 / Kent State Remembered

"Squad" member Summer Lee wins her primary with a pro-peace platform, Biden signs huge foreign aid bills " including support for Ukraine and Israel, and the Arizona House repeals an abortion ban as California moves to welcome Arizona doctors.

04.25.24 / "Squad" Member Summer Lee Wins Her Primary

Speaker Johnson accuses demonstrating students of getting support from Hamas. TikTok says itll challenge the ban. And the Supreme Court dives into the gray area between abortion and pregnancy healthcare, and into former President Trumps broad immunity claims

04.26.24 / Speaker Johnson Accuses Demonstrating Students of Getting Support from Hamas

Ukraine receives much-needed U.S. aid, though its just getting started. Protesting college students are up in arms about pro-Israel stances. And, end-of-life care advocates stand up for minors' gender-affirming care in Montana.

04.29.24 / Ukraine Receives Much-Needed U.S. Aid

*Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered around the world on his 70th birthday to call for his release from prison. We hear from Julia Wright, Jamal Jr., and more.
*Bilal Sunni Ali, former political prisoner and musician, talks to JR Valrey of the Block Report about the campaign to free and exonerate Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly H. Rap Brown.
*The struggle to free American Indian Movement elder Leonard Peltier continues.
*Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still locked up in Britains Belmarsh prison, facing possible extradition for exposing US war crimes.

Host/Producer: Akua Holt
Contributions from Jacquelyn Battise, JR Valrey, and Polina Vasiliev

04.29.24 / Free All Political Prisoners: Abu-Jamal, Peltier, Al-Amin, & Julian Assange

Big Pharma uses red meat rhetoric in a fight over drug costs. A school shooting mother opposes guns for teachers. Campus protests against the Gaza war continue, and activists decry the killing of reporters there.

04.30.24 / Big Pharma Uses Red Meat Rhetoric In a Fight Over Drug Costs

House Democrats say they'll vote to table a motion to remove Speaker Johnson, former President Trump faces financial penalties and the threat of jail time for violating a gag order, and efforts to lower the voting age gain momentum nationwide.

05.01.24 / House Democrats Say They'll Vote to Table a Motion to Remove Speaker Johnson

Journalists Alya Shandra and Bohdan Ben describe what happened on the ground during the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity. They participated in this historic grassroots rebellion in 2014; one of the most successful grassroots revolts in modern times. As a result. the then-president fled the country, leading to the formation of the Ukrainian government we know, today. 

Shandra and Ben and Bohdan frame Euromaidan  as the pivotal moment when Ukrainian society irreversibly turned away from Russia towards the West and integrated participatory citizenship into its culture, enabling Ukrainians to fight the current war.

Alya Shandra and Bohdan Ben are from Euromaidan Press, an online English-language independent newspaper based in Ukraine, founded by volunteer activists during the Euromaidan protests.

This is the second of a two-part conversation. Produced by Ursula Ruedenberg.

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05.01.24 / Conclusion to the  Revolution of Dignity : The Euromaidan Story Part Two

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 
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05.01.24 / Medical Transition for Trans Youth - part 1

Campus Gaza protests continue, and an Arab-American mayor says voters are watching. The Arizona senate votes to repeal the state's 1864 abortion ban. And a Pennsylvania voting rights advocate says dispelling misinformation is a full-time job.

05.02.24 / Campus Gaza Protests Continue

President Biden defends dissent but says "order must prevail" on campus, former President Trump wont commit to accepting the 2024 election results, and Nebraska lawmakers circumvent a ballot measure repealing private school vouchers.

05.03.24 / President Biden Defends Dissent but Says "Order Must Prevail"

This program features the collected speeches of voting rights activist, Fannie Loy Hamer mixed by Terabu Betsuri in 1989 celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pacifica Radio. Includes excerpts from a 1965 interview by Colin Edwards in Berkeley, the documentary "The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer," a speech at the Vietnam Moratorium rally at U.C. Berkeley, and from "Profiles of Movement Activists II : Voices of the Civil Rights Movement."

From The Vault 1 Hour Version: FTV 457 Fannie Lou Hamer collected speeches

Humans have always used drugs, but current level of drug abuse could indicate a bigger problem that we're driving people into addiction. What's the connection between the increase in chronic diseases, mental illness and drug addiction in our society today? On this edition, Dr. Gabor Mate talks about the relationship between mind and body health - and what the rise of capitalism has done to destroy both. 

Special thanks to KPFA in Berkeley, CA. 
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Making Contact: Capitalism Makes Us Crazy: Dr Gabor Mate on Illness & Addiction

Pacifica's Ann Garrison spoke to investigative journalist Max Blumenthal, founding editor of the website "The Grayzone | Investigative Journalism on Empire" about the January 6 Capitol riot in Washington DC. Blumenthal said that the majority of those who actually forced their way into the Capitol Building were ex-military, ex-cops, or even current cops doing what they'd been trained to do.

Max Blumenthal: Breach of Capitol Security Was Like a Military Mission

One year ago Rwandan gospel singer Kizito Mihigo tried to flee Rwanda by crossing its southern border into Burundi. He had already spent four years in prison for recording a song in which he dared to say that the Rwandan Genocide was a tragedy for both Hutu and Tutsi people,
that each group massacred members of the other, and, that only mutual compassion and forgiveness could lead to true reconciliation.

Rwandan Police apprehended Mihigo at the Rwandan/Burundian border on February 13, 2020. Four days later they reported that he had committed suicide by hanging in a jail cell.  Kizito was a devout Catholic, and few believe that he committed suicide.

He was remembered in masses on four continents this week.  

Thanks to journalist and documentary filmmaker Benedict Moran for use of the recorded phone conversation between Kizito Mihigo and Ruhumuza Mbonyumutwa posted to his Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/393001139.  The conversation will be included in a documentary film about Kizito Mihigo now in progress.

Slain Rwandan Gospel Singer Kizito Mihigo Remembered in Masses around the World

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