Award 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.

REPLAY: Poetry and Resistance

Indigo 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

Government Censorship in U.S. schools & more

Keyvan Chemirani & Pandit Anindo Chatterjee - Battements Au Coeur De l'Orient

Indigo host Chris and Anna talk poetry, teaching, hope, and struggle. Chris shares some of the work that he is doing with his students at Springfield High School in Springfield, Vermont. 

Poems:
Pablo Neruda "United Fruit Company"
https://genius.com/Pablo-neruda-the-united-fruit-company-annotated
Article: "From Guernica to Gaza"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/25/from-guernica-to-gaza/

Songs:
Marvin Gaye: "Inner City Blues"
LowKey: Instrumental Palestine
Newsies Musical

An hour with Chris Lievense: Teacher, Indigo Host, and Spark Faculty

SPOTIFY   https://open.spotify.com/album/0OqxpvynW1XrOB40d2sGsL

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Today we are talking about Mutual Aid in the Era of COVID 19 - How can we work towards solidarity not charity! We  interviewed Story from Western Mass Community Mutual Aid network and Eva from Out in the Open, an organization based in Brattleboro working to connect rural LGBTQ people to build community, visibility, knowledge and power. 

This will be part 1 of a series in which we will continue to add more as stories of mutual aid organizing emerge in this time of crisis.

An hour with Chris Lievense: Teacher, Indigo Host, and Spark Faculty

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