Tony Vacca is a percussionist/spoken word artist with a global world view. His energy and talent are very alive! You will love listening to what he has to say and to his music.

Recent projects: Bideew Bou Bess • Truth, A new opera based on the life of Sojourner Truth

Duane Peterson, President/Co-Director VPIRG Energy talks about the Entergy vs. State of Vermont court case in process.

Music by: Tony Vacca, Tony Vacca and the World Rhythms Ensemble, Bideew Bou Bess, John Hall, The Doobie Brothers with John Hall and James Taylor.

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Lisa Sokolov is a singer, composer, and teacher. Lisa talks about Embodied Voice Work which she founded and teaches at NYU, music, and meaningful conversations with oneself.

Dennis Lind-Beery will be exhibiting The Alaska On Edge Collection at The Perfect Pear Café in Bradford, Vermont starting October 2, 2011.

Music by: Lisa Sokolov, and Charles Lloyd.

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Prophet Ashanti, a Nanny Maroon Bush Doctor talks about Jamaican roots tonic, and his recent experience with trying to get a visa to visit the US.

Kenny Dunbar, a Jamaican American, talks about his Jamaican family and his experience bringing his son to the US.

Music by: P.M.P. Band, The Uprising Roots, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Ziggy Marley, Alpha Blondy, Irie Maffia, Keneisha, and Black Uhuru.

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Tree sitting comes to coal country! Two tree sitters join Paradigms this week, Squirrel and Becks, to talk about their experiences with The Ramps Campaign in West Virginia.

Paradox Pollack also joins us to discuss his role as one of the producers of the upcoming film The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the ethics in the story, how those ethics are being lived in the process of making the movie, along with fun creative ways that people can participate in bringing the message of the film into manifestation.

Music by: Leon Russell, The Steph Pappas Experience, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, The Woods Tea Co., Patrick Dodd, Eva Cassidy, The Del McCoury Band, Superstring Theory, The American Natives, Kevin Locke, and Stevie Wonder.

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PMP Band returns to Paradigms for a live show featuring music from their newest CD “Life…What A Miracle.” PMP Band is a Burlington Vermont based reggae band offering up good vibrations and loving sounds.

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Susan Davis joins us to discuss policies and practices of the Canadian government in relation to First Nation people.

Julie Marion, a Mi’kmaq woman, talks about what happened to Grandmother Mary Whiteduck and how the Anishinabe Council of Elders is responding.

Hidden from History • Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

Starhawk talks about her novel The Fifth Sacred Thing and the process of making the book into a film.

Music by: Blackfire, Annie Humphrey, John Trudell, Gaia Consort, and Ozomatli.

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In early June 11 2011 150 people started a 50 mile march to Blair Mountain, West Virginia. By June 11 there were over 1000 marchers, among them Roger Benham action medic, Anthropologist Harvard Ayers, Barbara Rasmussen an historian, and Mari-Lynn Evans a documentary filmmaker.

Films: Coal Country • Matewan

Links: Keeper of the Mountains Foundation • Friends of Blair Mountain

Music by: Louise Mosrie, Sarah Gunning, Alice Gerrard, Emmylou Harris, Kate Wolf, Sammy Walker, Michael Penn, Hazel Dickens, Jay Clark, Mile Post 20, and Ned Van Go.

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Angella Gibbons, founder of Earth Walk Vermont talks about wilderness education, community and more.

Find a wilderness school near you! Wilderness Awareness School

Music by: Paul Winter, Jon Anderson, Tracy Chapman, Jimmy Cliff, The Beatles, Deep Forest, Steve Winwood, Derrik Jordan, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, Stone Poneys, Sly & The Family Stone, and Laura Nyro.

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Layah Jane, singer songwriter dancer and homeopathic practitioner, discusses life, art, and activism.  Check out her new CD Honey.

Music by: Layah Jane, Bruce Cockburn, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

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