Hosted by David Green of The Cultural Alliance Of Fairfield County. This month we celebrate INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY – a transformation of what we have known as Columbus Day – by exploring the histories and living cultures of native tribes in our area. What traditions, stories and practices are still alive? What can we learn from native cultures’ sense of time and of the land? Learn about the work of the Institute for Native American Studies, and about the specific cultural practices of the Schaghticoke and Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nations. Hear about the decade-long archeological dig and research on the site of the last battle of The Pequot War in Southport and how cultural institutions can help relate native cultures to the general public today. Our guests are: Darlene Kascak, a member of the Schaghticoke Nation, and a Storyteller and Educator at the Institute for American Indian Studies, in Washington, CT; Shoran Waupatukuay Piper, Clan Mother and Tribal Leader, of the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nation, and author of the recent book, Red Road; Chelsea Garth, Curator at Fairfield Museum & History Center, and Janet Evelyn, executive director of Norwalk International Cultural Exchange (NICE) and the newly appointed Coastal Fairfield County Folk & Traditional Arts Community Impact Coordinator.

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Spotlight On Arts & Culture | October 11, 2021 | Celebrating Indigenous People’s Day

The Resistance panel interviews Nation Magazine correspondent John Nichols about what strategies the Dems can use to pass the progressive Build Back Better Act being blocked by two conservative Democratic senators. Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill

Can the Dems save the Build Back Better Act?

Sandra Levinson, exec. director of the Center for Cuban Studies, reports on Cuba's ambitious plan to vaccinate children as young as 2 years old and to bring the level of adult vaccination above 90% by the end of 2021. Interview by Richard Hill

Cuba's plan to vaccinate 2-year olds

Guy Beardsley's Small Farm Report Vincent Kaye's Honey Bee update Katy Poole with the fall harvest report from Massaro Farm in Woodbridge. Host: Richard Hill

It's honey bee Thursday!

* Unlimited, Unaccountable Money in Politics is killing Biden's Human Infrastructure Bill; Tiffany Muller, President & Executive Director End Citizens United; Producer: Scott Harris. * Investigation Exposes Systematic Deceptive Marketing by Six Major European Fossil Fuel Companies; Silvia Pastorelli, a climate & energy campaigner with the Greenpeace European Unit; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * Facebook Users Union's #FireZuck Campaign Demands Change; Tracy Rosenberg Executive Director of Media Alliance; Producer: Scott Harris.

Between The Lines - 10/13/21 @2021 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.

-The ozone layer hole is bigger -Record temp reading in Northern Hemisphere -South Pole has coldest winter on record -Humanity will have to adapt to the new normal -23 species declared extinct -invasive species disrupt the environment Google cracks down on false climate change claims

GaiaGram #72 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

*Progressives Win Round One in Infrastructure Showdown; William Rivers Pitt, senior editor and lead columnist with Truthout.org; Producer: Scott Harris. *Banks’ Immoral Investment in Fracking Leading to Climate Catastrophe; Tony Ingraffea, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. *Investigation Exposes CIA Plot to Kidnap or Kill Wikileaks' Founder Julian Assange; Kevin Gosztola, managing editor of the news website ShadowProof.com; Producer: Scott Harris.

Between The Lines - 10/6/21 @2021 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.

My next guest on Digging in the dirt is my colleague of many years Binnie Klein. Binnie is a long time programmer here at WPKN hosting the show “A minature World". She is an author who wrote the book, “Blows to the head”: How boxing changed my mind and produced an audio memoir called “Ten Days in Newark" which is about 1st love, 1st heart break and the radical politics of the 1960's. Now she has a new indie music project and has released a single called "Orchard" from a project called “In these Trees".

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Host: Rob Fried Marvin McNeil is an educator, musician, founder of The Funky Dawgz brass band and a board member of SpreadMusicNow.org.

Podcast: Marvin McNeill on Band Central Radio

Band Central Radio Podcast: Tracy Flood from Clasp

Host: Rob Fried Guests: Marvin McNeill- musician, teacher, band founder of The Funky Dawgz Tracy Flood, ED of the nonprofit CLASP.

Band Central Radio on WPKN

Global farm subsidies “harmful” extreme sea levels will become more common top 11 cities most likely to disappear by 2100 Hundreds of birds fatally collided into skyscrapers in NY Congress to investigate oil industry disinformation Indigenous Organizations call for Amazon international protection Harvard University says it will end its investments in fossil fuels

GaiaGram #71 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.

* It's Past Time to Address the Global COVID Vaccination Shortfall Crisis; Peter Maybarduk, Director of Public Citizens Global Access to Medicines Program; Producer: Scott Harris. * Indian Schools Tool of Genocide Committed Against Indigenous Peoples of North America; Sikowis Nobiss, founder of the Great Plains Action Society; Producer: Melinda Tuhus. * US Border Patrol's Brutalization of Haitian Refugees Part of Long History of Racist Immigration Policy; Jemima Pierre, Associate Prof. Dept. of African American Studies, Dept. Anthropology UCLA; Producer: Scott Harris.

Thursday, September 23, 2021, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org Host: Duo Dickinson We all have to rest our heads somewhere. As universal as eating or sleeping, having a place is part of being human. But around New York City the cost of having a place to live is more than some can afford. A basic requirement to live, having a home, has to be met or people live in mortal danger. What is our common space – roads, parks, greens become places where people must live. Some people work to create places to live, even in a housing boom that raises prices and costs. The number of people who need safety where they live is always there, even when these costs go up – and right now they are. There are many scenarios of how the homes that should provide safety actually endanger who must live there. Those who are living on the street or in dangerous decaying homes simply need safe harbor. Those whose income is too small even the most modest market rate rental need assistance. Those whose income is too small to save a deposit and pay for a traditional mortgage are desperate to have a place that they own. On Home Page we present those who have “walked the talk” of making places for those who are not part of the crazy market rate housing booms and busts that flood places like Connecticut and New York. Bill Casey has been the Director of Habitat of Greater New Haven for almost 30 years, where that organization has created over 100 owned homes: mostly new, some rehabilitated, but all strategically located to build neighborhoods. Rose Noonan and others created the Housing Action Council in Westchester County, New York almost 40 years ago, and her intrepid group has helped create funding for hundreds of projects that house thousands of people – some formerly homeless, others with limited income, others in workforce housing that simply cannot afford to work near where they are needed to work. Steve Grathwohl has worked with a variety of organizations in Fairfield County, Connecticut as both a professional and a volunteer to re-envision blighted and deteriorating places that otherwise cannot justify private development and secure the vision and finding to make safe affordable homes. JOIN US!

Home Page Radio - HOME for Everyone

* Unhinged Trump Drove Top US General to Take Steps to Prevent Nuclear War; Tom Collina, Director of Policy with the Ploughshares Fund; Producer: Scott Harris. * Occupy Wall Street 10 Years Later: Lessons Learned on Inclusion and Intersectionality; Heather McKee Hurwitz, author of "Are We the 99%? The Occupy Movement, Feminism & Intersectionality;" Producer: Scott Harris. * School Resource Officers Aren’t the Answer to School Safety; Dave Cruz-Bustamante of the Community First Coalition in CT; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

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