WPKN Community Radio

WPKN Community Radio

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  • GaiaGram #190 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    -Storm brings record coastal flooding in Maine
    -Reduced snowpack in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere
    -Iranians accusing its Neighbor Turkey Of Stealing Rain Clouds,
    -A quarter of humanity living under drought in 2022 and 2023
    -Bottled water has 10 to 100 times more bits of plastic than -
    previously estimated
    -A battery system has replaced Hawaii’s very last coal power plant.
    5 min
  • Between The Lines - 1/10/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * South Africa Files International Court of Justice Case Accusing Israel of Genocide in Gaza Robert L. Herbst, is a human rights lawyer in New York Producer: Scott Harris
    * Protest at US Holocaust Museum Demands Response to Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza Michael Beer, Director of Nonviolence International Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    * Two States Rule Insurrectionist Donald Trump Ineligible to Appear on 2024 Ballot Nikhel Sus, Senior Counsel, Dir. Strategic Litigation, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Producer: Scott Harris
    29 min
  • The Long Island Sound Lobster Trap Project
    My guests today are all doing great things for the Long Island sound. Dr. Sarah Crosby, who is a marine ecologist trained in
    conservation science with extensive experience in coastal and marine ecosystems. Kat Cuzco of the Lobster trap team has worked as a marine science educator at Project Oceanology since 2019. At Project O. She also works on the Lobster Trap Recovery and Assessment Partnership (L-TRAP). Also Bill Lucey, a sound keeper for Save The Sound. We are here to discuss the problem of 10’s of thousands of Abandoned lobster traps in Long Island Sound.
    32 min
  • Between The Lines - 1/3/24 ©2024 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * Physician Relates the Horror Palestinians Face in Gaza as Israel-Hamas War Continues into 2024; Dr. Dana Elborno, MD, OBGYN, Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology physician practicing in Illinois; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Group Challenging America's Undemocratic Electoral College System Gaining Support; Christopher Pearson, Secretary of the group National Popular Vote, former Vermont legislator; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * CT’s Clean Slate Law Seals Criminal Records of People Convicted of Misdemeanors & Some Felonies; Rodney Moore, Phil Kent and Helen Caraballo Speakers at Clean Slate Law Press Conference; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • GaiaGram #188 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    -EXIM approved nearly $1 billion in fossil fuel lending
    -New York just became the first state to restrict seeds coated
    with bee-killing pesticides.
    -a declaration signed to boost health-related climate finance
    -San Mateo sea-level rise planners propose building an off-shore
    tidal lagoon
    -Chile believed to have a tree that survived for more than 5,000
    years
    5 min
  • Resistance Roundtable -- Dec. 9, 2023 -- Academia Sustains a Mortal Wound; will it survive?
    Dr. Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors, discusses the onslaught against freedom of speech and inquiry in Florida and academia, in general.
    Luke Savage, staff reporter with Jacobin Magazine, offers his perspective on how the corporate media is—and should be—covering the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
    Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill
    51 min
  • GaiaGram #187 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis
    -The electric vehicle market is in good health, with record sales
    -Colorado River’s water supply drops substantially due to low
    snow
    -The Northeast and N. California, risk of extreme flash rainstorms
    - 60% of insects struggling to keep up with the plants they rely on
    -half” of the whales and dolphins over the past five years contained PCBs,
    -Stanford Natural Capital Project, answering questions Ct about
    nature friendly development.
    5 min
  • Between The Lines - 12/27/23 ©2023 Squeaky Wheel Productions, Inc.
    * If Re-elected Trump Vows to Impose a Fascist Regime, But Are Americans Listening?; Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer at Salon and author; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * A Bipartisan ‘Fiscal Commission,’ The GOP's Latest Threat to Cut Social Security, Medicare Benefits Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * After 30 Years of Organizing Yale Grad Student Union Local 33 Wins First Contract; Sasha Tabachnikova, PhD candidate in immunobiology, & member of the union bargaining committee; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • Astronaut Eileen Collins & Author Jonathan Ward NEAF 2023
    Recorded at the 2023 Northeast Astro Forum, the first woman to command & pilot a U.S. Space Shuttle, Eileen Collins & Author Jonathan Ward discuss their book “Through The Glass Ceiling To The Stars” with many of Eileen’s experiences as a Test & Space Shuttle Pilot… and the future of space exploration.
    58 min

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