WPKN Community Radio

WPKN Community Radio

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WPKN Community Radio episodes

  • Spotlight On Arts & Culture | April 12, 2021 | Chris Frantz: This Must Be The Place
    Hosted by David Green of The Cultural Alliance Of Fairfield County.
    In our April 2021 SPOTLIGHT, meet Chris Frántz, co-founder and drummer for Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, resident of Fairfield since 1985, and author of the recently published memoir "Remain in Love." Chris, with his wife Tina Weymouth, launched Talking Heads in 1974 with former fellow RISD art student David Byrne. In 1981 Chris and Tina created Tom Tom Club as a side project from Talking Heads, as the former group went through its ups and downs. Tom Tom Club's first album, and first single "Genius of Love," was a huge international hit, covered and sampled by many groups since.
    Based in New York, touring the world, recording in the Bahamas, Chris and Tina moved to Fairfield in 1985 and have been resident musicians since then. Chris has his own show on
    WPKN Independent Community Radio, and he and Tina record, produce, (and before COVID) tour, and appear at FTC, where the couple helped found the Emerging Artists series. "Remain in Love" is full of sharp observations of places and people as they toured and traveled the world. What is it like now to be a Fairfield resident and part of the scene right here?
    56 min
  • Voter Disenfranchisement Is Coming to a State Near You!
    The Resistance Roundtable panel focuses on two issues:
    -voter disenfranchisement on steroids with Prof. David Schultz who teaches political science at Hamline University; and
    -the legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in CT with Paul Kirtchberg, executive director of CT NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws).
    52 min
  • How Cuba's Public Health System is Beating COVID-19
    Bob Schwartz, vice president of Global Health Partners, (www.ghpartners.org) describes how the the Cuban Public Health system is keeping Cuba's COVID infection and mortality rates so low; and how their pharmaceutical sector is about to approve 3 COVID vaccines for domestic and international use and, in fact, has two more in the pipe line.
    25 min
  • The Fight to Save the Organic Standards
    The Organic Farm Stand:
    - Small Farms Report by Guy Beardsley
    - Vincent Kaye's Honey Bee Update
    - Dave Chapman of The Real Organic Project talks about the fight to save and improve the Organic standards.
    Hosts: Richard Hill and Chris Ferrio
    55 min
  • What’s Happening New Haven | April 2021
    In the first segment, William W. Ginsberg, president of the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, joins us to discuss the Stepping Forward endowment along with the organization's other proactive community projects and grants. In our second half, Dr. Suzanne Lagarde, CEO of Fair Haven Clinic, speaks to the services, providers, and locations of this community-driven non profit.
    1 hr 2 min
  • Between The Lines - 4/7/21 @2021 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Biden’s Infrastructure Plan a Good Start, but Lacks Capacity to Address the Global Climate Crisis; Natalie Mebane, 350.org U.S. Policy Director; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    *Hedge Funds Disrupt Corporate Research & Development to Combat Climate Change; Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst, Institute for New Economic Thinking; Producer: Scott Harris.
    *Campaign Launched to Recall Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp; Cheryle Renee Moses, founder, ‘Come Meet A Black Person’ org & publisher of Black Gwinnett Magazine; Producer: Scott Harris.
    29 min
  • Elle Angerame Exec. Dir. Green Village Initiative Digging in the Dirt
    My guest on this DITD is the new Executive Director of Bridgeport's Green Village Initiative Elle Angerame. Elle talks with me about the different programs GVI offers the population of Bridgeport and tells us about her hopes and aspirations for GVI working with the community. Also Rob Peck Manager of GVI's Youth Leadership program and WPKN programmer drops by.
    35 min

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