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Mark Kastel is co-founder of The Cornucopia Institute, a farm policy research group based in Wisconsin that promotes organic farming. The Cornucopia Institute exists to provide consumers with accurate information about where their food comes from, and how it is produced. The US Food and Drug Administration has been co-opted by the appointment of industry lobbyists and others who value profit over maintaining a truly organic standard for foods labeled as organic. Mark and Baruch discuss the state of farming, what “organic” really means, agricultural policy and it’s effects.

This episode is the first in a 3-part series of Paradigms episodes focusing on soil, soil health, and the effects of soil health (or distress) on human health, nutrition, and on the climate.

Music by: Peter Gabriel, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sonny Landreth, Phish, TR Ritchie, Kim Lenz, and Little Feat.

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Vin Venezia asked for guitar lessons at the age of 8. Since then Vin has been playing and composing Jazz guitar, touring internationally, and now finally releasing his own CD Fifth and Adams. This debut album is w good listen, and Venezia has promised to record another one this year!

Ally Boghun is a reporter for Rewire.News who has recently written an article about the anti-choice movement within the Democratic Party.

Related Articles:

• Dispatch From Netroots: You Don’t Need to Compromise on Abortion to Win, Progressives Say

• UPDATE: August 13, 2018 – Missouri Democrats Just Voted to Remove Anti-Choice Language From State Platform

Music by: Vin Venezia

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Jeremiah Abiah spoke with Baruch about his life, his music, and his latest project Abiah sings Nina which is a tribute to and a celebration of Nina Simone. The music is powerful, and Abiah’s relationship with the music is equally powerful.

Jeremiah Abiah is a teacher as well as a gifted singer and arranger, currently teaching at Berklee College of Music, which is so fortunate for the students there!

Baruch and Abiah discuss the music, it’s role in society, and more, and we’ll be listening to tracks from “Abiah sings Nina” as well as other of Abiah’s recordings.

As Abiah says in the interview, his voice can have an other-worldly quality.

Music by Auguste Greene, Abiah, and Anita Baker.

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Martin Cradick is the founder of Global Music Exchange, an organization that records endangered music and brings royalties back to the musician communities, and so much more.

Martin shares stories of his experience, going back decades, visiting the Baka people in the forest of Cameroon, playing music with them, bringing tribe’s people to England…fascinating heartwarming accounts of human connection through music.

For the Baka, music is an important part of life.  The music they play is the ancestral music of humanity.  You’ll feel it when you hear it.

Music by: Outback, Baka Beyond,  Baka Gbiné, and Martin Cradick and the Baka of Gbiné.

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Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton Architect,  Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, Visiting Professor of Architecture at Parsons School of Art and Design, and more. Dr. Sutton has just published a book When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story About Race In America’s Cities And Universities about the student uprising that occurred at Columbia University’s School of Architecture in 1968 and in the changes regarding race  within the Ivy League/7 Sisters educational establishment.. The book is completely relevant to what’s happening in the US in 2018 regarding race relations, racism, and where we want to go as a society. Dr. Sutton is fascinating to listen to, and her stories are all quite unexpected. Dr. Sutton’s new book is e\riveting, and relevant today because of the inspired social change the book documents, which is so needed today.

Music by: Simone Daclon Trio, The Mitchell Ruff Duo, Aretha Franklin, Sly & The Family Stone, Isaac Hayes, and Soul Science Lab.

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