7 Time Space Shuttle Astronaut, & Rocket Engine Designer Dr Franklin Chang Diaz discuses his Space Shuttle experiences, NASA mission of Diplomacy, & Rocket Engine Design Development that will Revolutionize Human Space travel.

The Farm Stand features:

--small farms report by Guy and Janelle Beardsley

--monthly honey bee update with Vincent Kaye

--report on health food store operations during Covid-19

Hosts: Richard Hill and Chris Ferrio

*90,000 Deaths & Whistleblower Testimony Confirm Trump's Catastrophic Failure in Coronavirus Response Marge Baker, Executive Vice President for Policy and Program with People For the American Way Producer: Scott Harris

* Documents Reveal ALEC's Role in Pushing State Governments to Reopen While the Coronavirus Still Rages. David Armiak with the Center for Media and Democracy. Producer: Melinda Tuhus

* Cong. Action Required Now to Ensure Mail-In-Ballots are Safe Pandemic Option for Nov. Election Sylvia Albert, Director of the Voting & Elections program with Common Cause Producer: Scott Harris

Host: Steve di Costanzo, GM of nonprofit, community radio WPKN 89.5-FM (Bridgeport)

WPKN’s GM, Steve di Costanzo will be on with his GM Report to the Listeners today from 12noon to 1pm. His guests on Zoom will include:

Martha Willette Lewis, artist and WPKN programmer (Flux Capacitor and Live Culture talk about her daily Covid-19 installation ‘QuarantineCineGrams’; Suzanne Kachmar, Director of City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport Pride and Bridgeport Art Trail and artist Iyaba Ibo Mandingo.

Liz Fisher, Co-Director, Managing Director; Tom Griggs, Co-Director, Director of Development of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven

Peter Van Heerden, Executive Director and and Lori Jones, Director of Programming and Audience Development at the Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University.

Khadijah Muhammad is a Urban farmer in Bridgeport Connecticut. She talks with me about the struggles to foster her passion of growing healthy food and educating her community to the advantages of gorwing and eating your own food.

17 year-old Farah Najjari of West Haven, and 18 year-old Mariam Khan of Hamden, share their journeys into activism and organizing as Muslim women, and high school students.

Farah and Mariam organize with CT Period to fight period poverty and get menstrual products to communities and schools across Connecticut.

If you're in need of menstrual products, want more information, or would like to donate money or products to support their work, Farah, Mariam, and the rest of the CT Period team can be reached at:

https://www.instagram.com/period.ct/

https://www.facebook.com/farah.elein

TheWarOfTheWorldsPODCAST - 5:16:20, 8.19 AM by WPKN Community Radio

The Resistance panel interviews John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies (https://ips-dc.org/foreign-policy-in-focus/), about his recent article "What does COVID-19 mean for the future of capitalism?."

Panelists: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill

My guest on this segment of DITD is Organic Certification Inspector, ethnobotanist and educator, Mark Cohen....... Mark, lives in Southern Ohio at Far Valley Farm a 30 year old intentional community he helped co-found....... he grows a wide range of crops, seeds,honey, mushrooms and medicinals. Mark also founded the agroforestry Research in Belize where he lived for 25 winters, practicing and teaching tropical permaculture. Mark not only is an expert in these areas he lives it.

Hosted by David Green of The Cultural Alliance Of Fairfield County.

Reopening & Reimagining our Cultural Institutions is a panel discussion among leaders of five Fairfield County institutions about their thoughts and plans for re-opening and re-imagining their operations after the COVID-19 restrictions and fears. Join Laurence Caso, Executive Director of The Klein, Bridgeport, Russell Jones, President and CEO, The Stamford Symphony, Jason Patlis, President & CEO, The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Sandra Pelletier, owner, The Sorelle Gallery, New Canaan, and Robert Wolterstorff, The Susan E. Lynch Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of The Bruce Museum. What has been the impact of COVID-19 on their operations? How have they pivoted to deal with the current situation? What are their plans for reopening and how has their new virtual programming affecting their ideas about future programming? Tune in to hear their current thinking.