Renowned biologist Sandra Steingraber has made fighting environmentally induced cancers her lifes work. Steingraber’s book, Living Downstream, has been turned into a movie chronicling a year in her life trying to create a world free of cancer causing toxics.  On this edition, we hear excerpts of the documentary film, Living Downstream.

Special thanks to The People’s Picture Company for allowing us to excerpt the film ‘Living Downstream’.
 
Featuring:
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal
Investigation of Cancer and the Environment.

Music:
Sunchyme by Dario G
Recurring by Bonobo

For More Information:
Living Downstream 

Living Downstream Home Video DVD 

Sandra Steingraber

Dangers of Fracking 

Food and Water Watch 

About Air Toxics-EPA 

Blacksmith Institute

Articles, reports, etc.
A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber

Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States

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At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in the classroom is to blame, keeping students from concentrating on their classes. On this edition we’ll hear excerpts from Russell Long’s film “Room to Breathe” which takes us to a middle school in San Francisco, California, that began teaching mindfulness in the hopes of giving students the skills they need to focus on learning.

Featuring: Ling Busch, guidance counselor at Marina Middle School; Megan
Cowan, mindfulness teacher, students and teachers at Marina Middle School
in San Francisco.

For More Information:

Mindful Schools

Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness

Reproducing Social Inequality through School Security

“Mindfulness” meditation being used in hospitals and schools

In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind

The Garrison Institute

UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

Books:

Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness: A Guide for Anyone Who Teaches
Anything

The Mindful Child

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Have you ever wanted to run your own radio station? Well, this October, the government agency responsible for administering America’s airwaves, is giving you and your neighbors…the opportunity to create your own low-power FM radio station. It could result in hundreds or thousands of new radio stations across the US, and could radically change the countries’ media landscape. On this edition we visit current LPFM stations, communities hopeful to have their own frequency soon, and find out how you can get involved.

Special Thanks to The Prometheus Radio Project for some audio used in this show.

Featuring:

Domingo Jacinto & Rolando Salas,*WCIW DJ’s; Cam Tu Nguyen, Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association community organizer; Brandy Doyle, Prometheus Radio Project Policy Director; Autumn Labbe-Renault, Davis Media Access Executive Director; Jeff Shaw, Davis Media Access Production Manager; Roots & Emmett Brady, KDRT Programmers, Albert Sykes. Young People’s Project Director of Policy and Advocacy; Tracy Rosenberg, Common Frequency Board member; John Friedman, Southern Development Foundation President, Arlene Sweeting, WSLR Station Manager.

 For More Information:  

FCC on Low Power FM Radio 

Prometheus Radio Project 

Common Frequency

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association

Young People’s Project

KOCZ

WSLR

KDRT

Davis Media Access

Insect News Network

Articles:

Don’t Touch That Dial! Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again

$19.5k Seattle grant helps Hollow Earth radio reach for Low Power FM license

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The struggles of undocumented youth in the US often fly under the radar of the mainstream media. But with the tools of creative expression and the power of social media, a new generation of young immigrants is making sure their voices are heard. On this edition, young undocumented artists speak their truth, as the world listens.

Special thanks to the Left Tilt Fund and the Berwick-Degel Family Foundation.

Featuring: Homero Rosas, Deanne Palaganas, Marsh Youth Theater performers; Maija Arriaga, high school student; Gary Soto, playwright; Emily Klion, Marsh Youth Theater Director; Laura Chavez, college counselor; Julio Salgado, visual artist; Jesus Iñiguez, musican and writer; Yosimar Reyes, poet.

For More Information:

“Undocumented & Awkward”

“Legalities of Being”

Jesus Iñiguez/ESL

Dreamers Adrift

Dream Activist

Culture Strike

Aspire Dreamers

Vosimar Reyes

Gary Soto

The Marsh Youth Theater

Undocunation

Undocuqueers

Julio Salgado

Articles:

Undocumented Youth Pay Tribute to the Original Dreamers

Queer Undocumented Youth Set the Record Straight

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The official Day to Commemorate Agent Orange is August 10th and marks the
start of the US military’s decade of massive chemical warfare in Vietnam in 1961.

On this edition: combat, chemicals, and corporations. We’ll look at the multigenerational legacy of Agent Orange — a toxic defoliant used by the United States military in the jungles of Vietnam.
 

Featuring:

Ngo Thanh Nahn, co-coordinator Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and
Responsibility Campaign; Fred Wilcox scholar and author: Waiting for An For

More Information:

Vietnam Reporting Project

 Out of Bounds Radio Show Fred Wilcox interview December 2011

The Tale of An Phuc House

Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange

http://catalog.sevenstories.com/products/waiting-for-an-army

Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign  

Agent Orange Record

www.agentorangerecord.com/home/

Remedying the Effects of Agent Orange  

The plaintiffs of a class-action lawsuit argued that Monsanto had polluted their community by burning waste from the production of Agent Orange.

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The alternatives to prison are few and far between. And after serving time, the options for getting back on your feet are even worse. Finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible task. On this edition, Women building their own support network after being released from prison. We’ll hear “A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad” a documentary by Chris-Moore Backman.

Featuring:
Susan Burton, A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project Executive Director and Founder; Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness author; Alika Savage, Yolanda Brown, Renee Levi, Maisha Bailey, Sabrayiah DeMoss, Samantha Jenkins, A New Way of Life residents.

More information:

A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project

The Sentencing Project

Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples Movement

Critical Resistance

Michelle Alexander-The New Jim Crow

Bringing Down the New Jim Crow

Articles & Videos:

Some Thoughts On Mercy, by Ross Gay

The Run On Sentence: Eddie Ellis on Life After Prison

“Susan” – a 20+ minute documentary about Susan Burton and A New Way of Life

Michelle Alexander, speech at Riverside Church

Combating Mass Incarceration – The Facts

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