WPKN Community Radio

WPKN Community Radio

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WPKN Community Radio episodes

  • Chabaso Bakers - CEO Charlie Negaro Jr. & Communications Director Reed Immer - Digging in the Dirt
    Kevin's guests on Digging in the Dirt this episode are the CEO Of Chabaso Charlie Negaro Jr. and Communications Director Chabaso Reed Immer. Chabaso, by it's own description sells Long-fermentation, high-hydration, no-shortcuts bread throughout the East and increasingly in markets nationwide.   They will be here to talk about helping  groups and new businesses get their food products to market through CT. Food Launchpad.
    28 min
  • Stanley Heller On Climate Justice, Anti - Racist Curriculum, And Israel
    Stanley Heller is an independent journalist and longtime activist here in Connecticut. He’s involved with Middle East Crisis Committee, Promoting Enduring Peace, and The Struggle Video News. Recently, he has embarked on a new online newspaper called The West Haven Call.
    Stan speaks about the upcoming February 27th car caravan and virtual rally to Stop The Killingly Power Plant, anti-racist curriculum, and Israel.
    For more info on the Feb 27th Stop The Killingly Power Plant car caravan and virtual rally:
    https://www.facebook.com/events/252684079691705/
    For Stan's suggestions on The West Haven Call for anti-racist curriculum:
    https://westhavencall.com/schools
    For more info on the IHRA definition of anti-semitism:
    https://www.972mag.com/antisemitism-israel-jews-ihra/
    27 min
  • Between The Lines - 2/17/21 @2021 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Investigation Concludes There's a 'Smoking Gun' Connecting Trump to Capitol Insurrection Greg Palast investigative reporter and author Producer: Scott Harris
    *Coalition Presses Biden to Make Good on his Pledge to Close Guantanamo US Military Prison Aliya Hussain, an advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights Producer: Scott Harris
    *The Legal and Activist Campaign to Shut Down the Dakota Access Pipeline Jan Hasselman, staff attorney Earthjustice Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    29 min
  • David Green Interview w/Bridgeport Artist Claude Desir, Jr. - Solo Show at City Lights Gallery
    WPKN Independent Community Radio- GM REPORT TO the LISTENERS
    GM: Steve di Costanzo
    CiTY LiGhTs Gallery thanks WPKN Listener Community and David Green for the broadcast of the Spotlight on the Arts with artists Claude Desir Jr., Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, Gerlad Moore and executive director Suzanne Kachmar. They discuss Claude’s first solo exhibit and the content of his work.
    The mission of this exhibit is to present the art of Claude Desir Jr. and offer a platform for a young Black man’s perspective, who reclaims derogatory Jim Crow imagery and stereotypes. His is a mixture of kindness and strength, wisdom and resilience, youthful creativity and playfulness, frustration and rage.
    26 min
  • Spotlight On Arts & Culture | February 8, 2021 | Going Beyond Black History Month
    Hosted by David Green of The Cultural Alliance Of Fairfield County.
    This program welcomes members from a number of our local cultural institutions to find out how they celebrate Black History Month, what it means to them, how especially after the year of Black Lives Matter we can use it to examine more deeply the hidden racism of our society and institutions and how, in celebrating this month of Black history and culture, we also need to move beyond it to recognize the diversity of American culture as deeply as we can across all 12 months of the year.
    57 min
  • Black History Month Celebrations: Freed Slaves, Frederick Douglass & Booker T. Washington In Focus
    This being Black History Month, and Black Music Month; on this episode of the show, host Garnett Ankle features two great Black American men. Listen as Garnett narrates the life and time of freed slave, abolitionist, and statesman Frederick Douglass. Douglass was a remarkable man who spoke with United States President, Abraham Lincoln about the plight of Black people and the need to abolish slavery.
    Booker T. Washington, another great American Black man who was born a slave and went on to establish his own university.
    Celebrate Black History Month by listening this podcast and learn more about two great Black American men who made a difference.
    55 min

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