WPKN Community Radio

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  • Sefra Alexandra -Seed Huntress Ct. NOFA Ecotype Project- Digging in the Dirt
    My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally on island nations, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success and  is now taking the lead of CT NOFA's pollinator health initiative The Ecotype Project.
    31 min
  • Sefra Alexandra -Seed Huntress Ct. NOFA Ecotype Project- Digging in the Dirt
    My guest on this episode of DITD is Sefra Alexandra. Her web site describes her as a "The Seed Huntress," …....an endurance race ethnobotanist on a perennial expedition to save the seeds of our wild + cultivated lands. She has fortified community seed banks internationally on island nations, hunted for rare endangered seeds for Seeds of Success and  is now taking the lead of CT NOFA's pollinator health initiative The Ecotype Project.
    31 min
  • Post-Election 2020: Clown Show or Coup?
    The Resistance Roundtable confronts the nerve-jangling post-election landscape: will Trump will try to steal the election or is he once again gas-lighting the American people? Guests john Nichols of the Nation Magazine, and Andy Ratto, an organizer with Rise and Resist, discuss contingencies and strategies for this very alarming period leading up to January 20.
    Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill
    57 min
  • Post-Election 2020: Clown Show or Coup?
    The Resistance Roundtable confronts the nerve-jangling post-election landscape: will Trump will try to steal the election or is he once again gas-lighting the American people? Guests john Nichols of the Nation Magazine, and Andy Ratto, an organizer with Rise and Resist, discuss contingencies and strategies for this very alarming period leading up to January 20.
    Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill
    57 min
  • Stan Heller Of Promoting Enduring Peace And Mayson Al-Misri Of The White Helmets In Syria
    Host Mike Merli interviews Stan Heller of Promoting Enduring Peace and Mayson Al-Misri, who was a White Helmet worker in Syria and is one of this year's Gandhi Peace Award honorees.
    For more information on Promoting Enduring Peace and the Gandhi Peace Awards:
    http://www.pepeace.org
    Registration for the 2020 Gandhi Peace Awards, taking place on November 21 at 1pm, is available at:
    https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_13F-jm6PS3KDXPiwhCFsJg
    For more information on Mayson al-Misri:
    https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/10/06/as-a-white-helmet-she-spent-years-saving-lives-in-war-torn-syria-now-shes-building-a-new-life-in-canada.html
    https://broadview.org/white-helmet-hero-is-haunted-by-loss-and-war-after-escaping-syria-and-settling-in-canada/
    28 min
  • Stan Heller Of Promoting Enduring Peace And Mayson Al-Misri Of The White Helmets In Syria
    Host Mike Merli interviews Stan Heller of Promoting Enduring Peace and Mayson Al-Misri, who was a White Helmet worker in Syria and is one of this year's Gandhi Peace Award honorees.
    For more information on Promoting Enduring Peace and the Gandhi Peace Awards:
    http://www.pepeace.org
    Registration for the 2020 Gandhi Peace Awards, taking place on November 21 at 1pm, is available at:
    https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_13F-jm6PS3KDXPiwhCFsJg
    For more information on Mayson al-Misri:
    https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/10/06/as-a-white-helmet-she-spent-years-saving-lives-in-war-torn-syria-now-shes-building-a-new-life-in-canada.html
    https://broadview.org/white-helmet-hero-is-haunted-by-loss-and-war-after-escaping-syria-and-settling-in-canada/
    28 min
  • Bruce Swan -- Conversation with singer / songwriter Mark Erelli
    Conversation with singer / songwriter Mark Erelli about the new record BLINDSIDED. Released in March at the start of the pandemic and an accompanying acoustic ep BLINDSIDED ACOUSTIC released in October. An open conversation about recording, marketing, and not being able to tour out a new record as well as the challenges of what the future will bring. Erelli's tenth album is a wonderful listen. Interview originally aired on Friday, October 30, 2020, on Music My Mother Would Not Like.
    38 min
  • Bruce Swan -- Conversation with singer / songwriter Mark Erelli
    Conversation with singer / songwriter Mark Erelli about the new record BLINDSIDED. Released in March at the start of the pandemic and an accompanying acoustic ep BLINDSIDED ACOUSTIC released in October. An open conversation about recording, marketing, and not being able to tour out a new record as well as the challenges of what the future will bring. Erelli's tenth album is a wonderful listen. Interview originally aired on Friday, October 30, 2020, on Music My Mother Would Not Like.
    38 min
  • What's wrong with Bridgeport's Public Schools?
    Cheryl A. Palmer, an advocate and activist and host of WPKN show "Speaking to your Spirit", talks about the problems and inequities endemic to the Bridgeport public school system and that have persisted for forty years.
    Interview by Richard Hill
    33 min
  • What's wrong with Bridgeport's Public Schools?
    Cheryl A. Palmer, an advocate and activist and host of WPKN show "Speaking to your Spirit", talks about the problems and inequities endemic to the Bridgeport public school system and that have persisted for forty years.
    Interview by Richard Hill
    33 min

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