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

Listen 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 Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, was published by Haymarket Press in February 2021 and was a New York Times Bestseller.

2016 Interview with Mariame Kaba on Violence Against Women

All new show this Sunday with host Anna and her Clark undergraduate students in the What is Public Health? course. Students discuss the issue of menstrual inequity at Clark University in Worcester, MA. From the students: "We chose to discuss menstrual equity because of its lack of visibility and the taboo around menstruation. We certainly learnt a lot from our discussion, and we hope you do too!"

Free Flow: Menstrual Equity with Clark Students

Indigo host Anna Mullany talks with Noa Isabella & Frank Osten, both health justice organizers with Out in the Open. They talk with us about the HEART program, rural health, & what we can all learn in supporting our LGBTQ+ community members in VT. 
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The HEART (Health Equity and Access for Rural TLGBQ+) Program aims to address common healthcare barriers faced by TLGBQ+ (Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer) people in Vermont

with original music by Noa Isabella!

Love Sung

HEART - Out in the Open with Noa Isabella & Frank Osten

Today our society has developed through conquering lands and peoples, destroying our relationships with one another and the land in order to exploit and consume. We see ourselves above nature rather than a part of nature. Permaculture, rooted in the knowledge generated by indigenous communities worldwide, is a return back to earth based practices that encourage actions based on the rules of nature to enhance living systems and promote abundance. Listen to the track to hear more about permaculture and Greening the Desert in Jordan.

Discussions on Permaculture

In the first of our series on the Atlanta Forest Defenders and Weelaunee Forest, we talk with a climate activist and forest defender about their time in the Weelaunee Forest during the March 2023 week of protest and action. J talks about the urgency of solidarity, resistance to Cop City, the beauty of Weelaunee Forest, and hope for all of our futures.
Photo Credit: by a Forest Defender, sketch of the living room in Weelaunee

Weelaunee Forest Series: Conversation with Climate Activist & Forest Defender, J

Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
According to the Costs of War Project at Brown University, U.S. wars since the September 11th attacks have cost over $8 trillion. A separate report by the group estimates 4.6 million people have died since 9/11 as a result of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia. And over the past 16 months, Congress has approved more than $113 billion for Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.
This Sunday, we replay our show on how young people are targeted by the military and highlight 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.

Replay - Memorial Day weekend, Counter-Recruitment

We spend the hour talking about the life a Tina Turner though her music. As the first black person and women on the cover of Rolling Stones, Tina continued to strive despite the obstacles. Listen now to learn more and enjoy the tunes!

Tina Turner Through Music

Indigo Radio interviewed Fred Magdoff, former Professor of Plant and Soil Science at University of Vermont. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years.  We discussed the importance of soil, how soil is alive, how human activities have impacted our soils, and what we can do to care for our soils. Fred helps us to make connections between environmental, social, political, and economic aspects in order to build an environmentally sound and economically just society. Find Fred’s book Building Soils for Better Crops online for free https://www.sare.org/resources/building-soils-for-better-crops/.

It’s Soil, Not Dirt! w/ Fred Magdoff

Indigo Radio spoke with 4 educators in our back-to-school special. We discussed what is happening in students' and teachers' lives within and outside of schools, what their work looks like beyond the classroom, what gives them strength to meet the challenges facing, and more.

Back To School Special

On November 14, 2023 public health workers against Cop City held a rally outside of the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting held in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. Listen to the voices from the rally.  CopCity is a public health issue & Atlanta is one of the most well-funded PDs in the country. 
From Atlanta to Palestine - militarization has got to go!
Song played - Matt Rivers: "So Grows the Flame (The Ballad of Tortuguita)"
Speakers:
1) Rita Valenti - Project South
2) Devin Franklin - Southern Center for Human Rights
3) Dominique Grant - Women on the Rise
4) Felipe
5) Omid
6) Dr. Katie Huffling - Alliances of Nurses for a Health Environment
7) Devin Barrington Ward -Black Futurists Group, Community Org
8) Dr. Mark Spencer -- introductions to Felipe, Omid, and Devin

"There Will Be Justice in this Town" - Voices from #StopCopCity at APHA

Indigo hosts Anna & Josh spend the hour with Reverend Keyanna Jones. Rev. Jones, born and raised in Atlanta, GA, is a community activist and organizer.  She talks with us about the #stopcopcity movement in Atlanta, the history of the Weelaunee forest, policing, the GILEE program & militarism, the connections between Gaza and Atlanta, and necessary international solidarity.
Songs:
The Revolution Can Not be Televised - Gil Scott Heron
So Grows the Flame - Matt Rivers
Fight the Power - Public Enemy

From Palestine to Atlanta: Occupation is a Crime ~ An hour with Rev. Keyanna Jones

Indigo host Anna Mullany interviews Dr. Alyasah “Ali” Sewell of Emory University. Dr. Sewell is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory and Founder and Director of The Race and Policing Project. Advancing quantitative approaches to racism studies, they assess empirical links between the political economy of race and racial health(care) disparities using policing and housing policy data.
In Part I, we learn about Dr. Sewell's current work on housing and firearm epidemic in Atlanta, gentrification, housing & health, and their thoughts on Cop City and the surrounding areas. 
Part II will air in a few weeks!

Dr. Alyasah A. Sewell, Emory University Part I of 2

On the heels of MLK Day we air our annual poetry and conversation show with Spark faculty, alum, and Indigo hosts.  We read poems that speak to the moment as we look forward to 2024. 
With poems by:
Derek Johnson -- D.C. teacher & Spark alum
Reads: "Climate Justice and Food Sovereignty Now!" by Elizabeth Mpofu

Katie Behan -- RI teacher & Spark alum
Reads: "All of us or None" by Bertolt Brecht

Josh Wyman - Spark faculty, W. Mass
Reads: "The Prison Cell" by Mahmoud Darwish

Patrice Strifert - Spark faculty & Keene state professor, NH
Reads: "Refugee God" by Mahmoud Darwish and an original poem

Kyra Swain - Spark alum and Vermont education, VT
Shares an original poem

Dr. Janaki Natarajan - Spark founder
Shares an original poem

SONGS:
1) Nina Simone, Why? (The King of Love is Dead)
2) Public Enemy, By the Time I get to Arizona

"Breaking the Glass:" Poetry & Conversation with Spark Faculty, Alum, & Indigo Hosts

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

Part II in of our conversation with Dr. Sewell.  Dr. Sewell is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA and also the founder and director of the Race and Policing Project. In part II, Dr. Sewell speaks on race in Atlanta, policing and adverse health, "carceral grief," and teaching. 

Listen to Part I
https://on.soundcloud.com/3Khfp


Dr. Sewell: 
https://sociology.emory.edu/people/bios/Sewell-Alyasah%20A..html
https://www.abigailasewell.com/index.html

Part II: In conversation with Dr. Alyasah A. Sewell

We spend the hour with Umaymah Mohammad - Palestinian, organizer, and current MD/PhD student at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Umaymah speaks with us about her own history, rejecting the silence of the university in not protecting the safety of those students who have been targeted by racist, anti-Palestinian, xenophobic, and Islamophobic harassment , international solidarity, and what she calls "victory outside of empire."  

Read Umaymah's Open Letter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WveLfyzyxalsmLg6SdKQ0O7oeLjqcbv/view

Read here: an Open Letter to Emory Jan 24, 2024 by a coalition of community and civil rights organizations, writing on behalf of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students and students perceived to be Palestinian or Muslim at Emory University.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/open-letter-on-the-anti-palestinian-and-islamophobic-environment-at-emory-university/

"Victory Outside of Empire" : Palestinian Resistance & Our Collective Freedom

On Sunday, March 10th ATLradicalart held a rally outside the High Museum in Atlanta, GA. Their rally was to say No Artwashing Israeli Apartheid! They ask: "How does Empire use Art against the people and to cover up complicity in genocide?" Listen to the voices from outside on the streets!
Songs/Speakers in order:
1) Song and chant - Priscilla Gay Smith
2) Opening with Rozina Shivaz Gilani 
3) Umaymah Mohammad
4) Song by Emmanuel Lockett
5) Andrea Ornelas - Gaza Monologue
6) Nushrat Nur
7) Poem by Keara Skates
8) Gaza Monologue
9) Cristy York
10) Libre Sankara - Gaza Monologue
11) Song by Divina Salam

No to Artwashing Genocide! ~ Voices from the Street

Listen to high school students in Vermont share their thoughts about  what is happening in Gaza. C

Palestine Students

In a recent interview on Democracy Now, director of “Unseen” Set Hernandez quoted Ursula Le Guin: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now. … We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.” In this episode we invited Emily and Nora Khilfeh, two Palestinian students: Emily is  graduate student of writing at Arizona State University and she shares her poetry in our show today, Nora is a student at Edmonds College in Seattle. Both students share their experiences as Palestinian college students, their visits to their family home in Palestine, and poetry that speaks truth to power.

Song #1: Lowkey - Long Live Palestine ft Frankie Boyle, Maverick Sabre (Part 3) [Music Video] | GRM Daily (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEFrv-Xwtw)

Song #2: Ramallah Underground - Sijen ib Sijen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlRVdbMZSJk)

Poetry, Palestine, Resistance: Nora and Emily Khilfeh

Host Anna sits down with Emory University students Bella and Zach Hammond, two leading organizers with Students for Socialism @ Emory. Bella and Zach talk about what influences shaped their political thoughts, organizing at Emory (and beyond!), media role, and hopes they have.  

Info on GILEE
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/atlanta-mayor-rejects-demand-end-israel-police-training

Songs:
1) "Change Tomorrow" by DAM
2) "Yama" by Gitkin
3) "Me Gustan Los Estudiantes" by Mercedes Sosa

Students for Socialism @ Emory

Part I of a two-part show on Vermont and incarceration. Hosts Chris and Anna spend the hour with Jonathan Elwell, organizer with the FreeHerVT campaign.  In Part I, Jonathan speaks with us about the purpose of prisons, the history of incarceration and surveillance in Vermont, and the criminalization of the poor. 
Part II will air next week and will focus on the FreeHerVT campaign with Jayna Ahsaf and Jonathan.
Songs:
1) Tom Waits: "Fish in the Jailhouse"
2) Warren Zevon: "Prison Grove"
3) Felice Brothers: "Rockafeller Drug Laws"
4) Public Enemy: "Black Steel"
Photo: VT State Prison, Windsor 1907
show notes:

FreeHer:  https://www.freehercampaign.org/vermont
FreeHer zine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11hILxjEcUBBU8KcjJOqxIqg9zTc-8ut3/view

Books: 
Tip of the Spear - Orisanmi Burton
Golden Gulag - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

The purpose of prisons & the history of incarceration in Vermont

Hosts Anna & Chris sit down with Jayna Ahsaf & Jonathan Elwell of FreeHerVT. This show is Part II of our look at Vermont and prisons - from the historical context of VT carceral systems to today's campaign to stop new prison construction. Jayna Ahsaf is the lead field organizer for FreeHerVT and Jonathan an organizer. We talk with them about the FreeHerVT campaign, women in prison, criminalization of certain populations, & abolition.
 
You can find Part I here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/oT6SmwM8e6F6iPhJ8

Songs:
1) Loretta Lynn "Women's Prison"
2) Wanda Jackson "Tennessee Women's Prison"
3) Lightnin Hopkins "Jailhouse Blues"

Show notes:
- National website: https://www.nationalcouncil.us

- FreeHer Zine: drive.google.com/file/d/11hILxjEc…qg9zTc-8ut3/view

- VT’s website: https://www.nationalcouncil.us/vermont

- VT Landing page (more info & links):
http://the-council.us/freehervt

-  Jonathan's article: https://www.rakevt.org/2024/01/04/behind-the-smoke-and-mirrors-the-true-story-of-prin/

- Mariame Kaba’s zine:
https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/what-about-the-rapists

FreeHerVT: Part II on Vermont & Carceral Systems

On the morning of April 25th, 2024 students at Emory University began their Gaza Encampment in the national movement to end the genocide and for academic institutions to divest from Israeli apartheid. Listen to the speeches of these brave students along with Rev Keyanna Jones as they peacefully speak out; and continue to center what they are fighting for. Minutes later they were met with violent repression from the Atlanta PD, GA state patrol, and Emory police. 

Student Op-Ed
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/we-are-occupying-emory-university-to-demand-immediate-divestment-from-israel-and-cop-city/

"We Invite You To Struggle With Us": Emory Press Conf; Gaza Encampment

This week we have an interview with Dr. Charles Mullany, a doctor that has been working at the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix AZ for 9 years. Maricopa County is home of the self proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff," Joe Arpaio, who just this month was found guilty of criminal contempt in a racial profiling case during his time as sheriff. He served as sheriff of the jail from 1993-2016.
Indigo's Radio's Anna Mullany conducted the interview with Dr. Mullany on a recent trip to AZ - she'll also will be sharing her own learnings within the jail and conversations she had with mental health staff working there.

Inside the Maricopa County Jail, Phoenix AZ

Discussion around Honduras, history of US intervention, and the current political crisis happening.  
Indigo host Henry talks with Honduran educator Asis Castellanos and professor Adrienne Pine at American University and author of the book Working Hard, Drinking: On Violence and Survival in Honduras

Honduras & history of US intervention

The Springfield, VT Birthing Center closed early May - We air an interview with Shannon Glidden - Shannon is a resident of Charleston NH and used the birthing center for the birth of her first two children - she is now pregnant with her third, due at the end of July.

We are also joined by Dr. Sally Mullany Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health (OBGYN) at the Univ of MN. Dr. Mullany is the Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program in the Department of OB/GYN and Women’s Health.

Rural Birthing Clinics and Reproductive Health

Indigo Radio interviews Ambedkar Pindiga, researcher of Tricontinental Institute of Social Research, on their recently released dossier, “Peoples Polyclinics: The Initiative of the Telegu Communist Movement”.

You can read the dossier here -
https://www.thetricontinental.org/dossier-25-polyclinics/

People's Polyclinics in India

Welcome to Indigo Radio's second ever show for kids. In this show, Kelly and Maresa explore the science of viruses, public health and mutual aid. The show is in three parts that you can listen to altogether or one at a time. We hope that you share the show with the kids in your life and that you use it to talk and learn together!

Viruses, Public Health, and Mutual Aid - Indigo Radio for Kids

Hosts 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.

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