Activism

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 “Going Carbon Neutral” campaigns not only push for reduced energy usage and carbon emissions, they also strengthen community. The small town of Ashton Hayes in the UK launched the concept by conducting an audit […]

Local finance and banking alternatives can help communities and local economies, but their impacts will not be big enough to fundamentally remake the global financial system. For that, policy changes that extend beyond the local level […]

Climate Connections is a 90-second daily (M – F) module that moves climate change away from debate and focuses on how it’s impacting listeners’ lives. The features report on what diverse people and organizations are […]

  Veterans for Peace:VFP member Paul Gingrich shares his memories of Tom Lewis – artist, peace activist and one of the Catonsville 9 and his efforts since 2008 to produce a documentary on Tom Lewis […]

Puppets teach Minnesota kids about climate change One puppet show tells the story of a wasteful king and how he learns to live more sustainably. Dawn Pape Climate Connections is a 90-second program that moves […]

 Why LGBT+ folks are at higher risk of climate death than straight folks, the risks women face in disasters, and why we shouldn’t ignore silly arguments denying climate change. XR Radio uploads a half […]

In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Race Massacre. KalaLea, producer and host of the […]

Indigenous singer-songwriter Quinn Christopherson and drag queen Pattie Gonia teamed up with Yo-Yo Ma to record a song about protecting the Earth. Quinn Christopherson and Pattie Gonia Climate Connections is a 90-second  module that moves […]

Climate Connections is a 90-second daily module that moves climate change away from debate and focuses on how it’s impacting listeners’ lives. The features report on what diverse people and organizations are doing to reduce […]

Republicans in Congress are refusing to re-authorize AIDS funding abroad unless the global gag rule is incorporated into the legislation. Program goes into the origin and effects of this rule, which was at its highest […]

Restoring the Landscape: Indigenized Futures & the Land Back Movement First we share a report from Yurok country, in the Pacific Northwest. The largest dam removal in U.S. history has entered a critical phase, with […]

A warming world is pushing us off the snow cliff. Snow drought is increasing. Dry fire-filled summers with low rivers and crop loss surely follow. We talk with Lead Author Alexander Gottlieb from Dartmouth. Satellites […]

Ralph welcomes Josh Paul, the State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden Administrations policy of unconditional arms transfers to Israel in the response to the attacks of October 7th. Then, investigative reporter, […]

Nobel Peace Prize-winning ICAN’s New Exec. Director Melissa Parke – Treaty to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change and the Nuclear Energy Connection Nuclear News… from a Different Perspective Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International […]

New York Sierra Club’s Tracy Frisch talks about the “forever” chemicals known as PFAS, and why spreading sewage sludge on farmland, as recently recommended by NY Governor Hochul, is a really, really bad idea that […]

Fictional Heroes: Do they mess with our minds? Hilda Fernandez talks with Frieda Werden about our relationships with superheroines and superheroes, and how those can play a role in psychoanalysis. They discuss the special qualities […]

In this industrialized country, we have had a war on wild what we call “predators,” helicopter gunners shooting wolves to protect caribou herds in Alaska, or taking them out in Idaho to benefit elk — […]

Lost in the media circus: the Amazon – lungs of the world – is in last-stage crisis. It is boiling in record smashing heat, drought, and fire. We visit the last stand with Rhett Butler, […]

A civil liberties minute from the ACLU

A civil liberties minute from the ACLU.

A civil liberty minute from the ACLU.