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

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

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.

The purpose of prisons & the history of incarceration in Vermont

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