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WPKN Community Radio

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  • Between The Lines - 10/19/22 @2022 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    * After Last January 6th House Committee Hearing Trump Continues to Escape Accountability; Sarah Kendzior author and co-host of the Gaslit Nation weekly podcast; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Republicans Propose Policies That Would Weaken or End Social Security and Medicare; Linda Benesch, Communications Director with Social Security Works; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Volunteers Provide Assistance to Asylum Seekers Used as Political Props by GOP Governors; Kate Sugarman, MD, is a family physician in Washington, DC; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • GaiaGram # 124 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
    -Hurricane Ian water could stay above flood stage through Thanksgiving
    -shrinking Mississippi River causes logjam due to low water
    -Heatwaves will cause human life in certain world regions to be unsustainable
    - Coalinga, Calif. Projected to run out of water by end of 2022
    - 65,000 salmon have died before they could spawn
    - company is "growing" water that's suitable for drinking & agriculture
    -World Bank urged to expand investments in clean energy
    5 min
  • Between The Lines - 10/12/22 @2022 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    * Meet Italy's neo-Fascist Prime Minister-Elect Giorgia Meloni; Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale University; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Supreme Court Poised to Legalize Election Theft, Further Erode Democracy; Marjorie Cohn, prof. emerita Thomas Jefferson School of Law, past pres. National Lawyers Guild; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Amid Rising Temperatures Caused by Climate Change Farm Workers Union Fights for Safety Regulations; Edgar Franks, political director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • GaiaGram # 123 - Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
    Florida homeowners losses estimates as much as $47 billion
    megadrought causing heavy pumping depleting underground aquifers
    China is sweltering through a record-breaking heatwave
    Global carbon emissions from power plants headed for a record high
    Natural gas’s dominance as power-plant fuel in the US is fading
    Planet-warming methane estimated 80 million metric tons a year
    50% of world population emitted 12% of global emissions top 10% emitted 48% of total three most prevalent myths about tackling climate change are false
    5 min
  • Westernwatergirl on TikTok -Teal Lehto
    My guest today is a young woman who is very concerned about climate change and the water crisis in the west, in particular and elsewhere generally and it appears so are many others, because she has over 45,000 Followers. Teal Lehto who posts TikToks about serious stuff, in a surprisingly hip and engaging manner in rapid fire delivery to get all the facts in … in just minutes . Using humor and a bit of salty language to reach her young viewers.
    27 min
  • Park City Compost Principals Thomas Iezin & Andrew Tyrrell
    My guests on this segment are Thomas Iezin Marketing Communications, and Assistant Operations Manager of the Park City Compost Initiative And Andrew Tyrrell, the Operations Manager for Park City Compost Initiative where they want to create a non-profit commercial composting site for Bridgeport and the surrounding cities and towns. Andrew Is a Master's Composter.
    Park City Compost started composting their neighbor's food scraps in 2019 and it now has over 100 participants from which they collect weekly food scraps, create compost with it and give it back to the community. They have diverted more than 30,000 pounds of food waste and spread 15 cubic yards of compost throughout Bridgeport.
    12 min
  • GaiaGram #122 Environmental Headlines from around a planet in crisis.
    -Hurricane Ian wrecks havoc
    -Historic heat waves that roasted the U.S. and Europe warms oceans
    -U.N. secretary general urges tax on the profits of fossil fuel firms,
    -Supreme Court to rule on EPA’s power to enforce the Clean Water Act
    -Amazon Reaching tipping point for transition to degraded savanna
    -Forever chemicals found in all water
    -Air Force drone first-of-a-kind test flight with a new kind of fuel
    -Walmart fortune earmarks Billion dollars to sustainable mission-related investments
    5 min
  • Between The Lines - 10/5/22 @2022 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    * As Ukraine War intensifies, New Poll Finds Americans Want US to Pursue Talks to End the Conflict; George Beebe, Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Polls Get it Wrong in Brazil’s First Round Presidential Election; Maria Luisa Mendonça, Director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights in Brazil; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Climate Groups Defeat Joe Manchin's Fossil Fuel Friendly "Dirty Deal" Legislation; Drew Hudson, political consultant with several grassroots climate organizations; Producer: Scott Harris.
    29 min

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