WPKN Community Radio

Host: Rob Fried, Founder of Band Central

Heather LaTorra: Heather leads Marrakech in New Haven. She started there as a college intern 35 years ago, was offered an entry-level job upon graduation in 1986 (from Southern CT State Univ, BS, MS) and then was named president and CEO in 2014. She is known for her positive, can do attitude. Marrakech employs more than 750 of the most talented, caring and dedicated people and supports more than 1,200 Connecticut residents with disabilities or who face other barriers.

Scott White: Scott White is a guitarist, singer and songwriter and a founding member of the band Hazzard County. Scott has played in a number of Band Central’s Benefit concerts.

Juanita James: Juanita is President & CEO of Fairfield County’s Community Foundation. Formerly, she was Pitney Bowes’ Chief Marketing & Communications Officer.

She earned a master’s degree in Business Policy from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. She also holds Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Mitchell College and Fairfield University, and an Honorary Associate Degree in Humane Letters from Housatonic Community College.

She recently announced her retirement from FCCF on October 1, so we are glad to have her here to share reflections on her time in local philanthropy.

* Overturning Roe v. Wade: American Women Now 2nd Class Citizens; Marjorie Cohn, prof. emerita Thomas Jefferson School of Law, past pres. National Lawyers Guild; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Supreme Court’s “Originalists” on path to overturn FDR New Deal & Warren Court Precedents; Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

* Universal Healthcare Could Have Prevented 300,000+ US COVID Deaths; James G. Kah, MD, emeritus professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Univ Cal SF; Producer: Scott Harris.

Economist and labor historian Michael Zweig talks about the Expanding Labor's Power webinar that he hosted earlier this month. The zoom session included representatives from seven union locals around the country all of whom were seeking ways to connect with different national and international social and environmental justice silos.

Interview by Richard Hill

My guest today on DITD is Arthur Davis a Director, researcher and Portable Toilet coordinator at the Rich Earth Institute in Brattleboro Vermont. The Rich Earth Institute engages in research, education and technological innovation to advance the use of human waste as a resource. Arthur directs Rich Earth Institute's Urine Nutrient Reclamation Program, which is a community-scale urine recycling program. In this role, Arthur helps get urine from the point of collection, through the treatment process, and finally to farms to use as fertilizer.

The Resistance panel welcomes Henry Lowendorf, co-chair of the Greater New Haven Peace Council for a discussion about the hearings by the January 6 Commission and also on the mass movement against gun violence inspired by the recent horrific gun massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde.

Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill

-Emergency cuts to western water use

-Chile's major reservoir has dried up

-Russia has world's largest methane leak

-glo-bal tomato production to declines due to drought

-Fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices

U.S largest floating solar farm built at Ft. Bragg

This month on Live Culture, Martha is delighted to be in conversation with artist Suzanne Anker about her exhibit After Eden, up now at The Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven CT. Suzanne is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Concerned with genetics, climate change, species extinction and toxic degradation, she calls attention to the beauty of life and the “necessity for enlightened thinking about nature’s ‘tangled bank’.”

Anker is a pioneer in Bio Art, focusing on the alteration of nature, in both the natural world and the scientific lab. This exhibition marks the debut of After Eden, Anker’s most recent body of work, comprising a series of photographs and collages constructed over the last two years. Anker frequently works with botanical specimens, medical museum artifacts, laboratory apparatus, microscopic images and geological specimens. She works across mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights. All of the exhibition images represent botanical specimens she has grown – from flowers to ferns to trees. Employing traditional "cut and paste" techniques of twentieth-century collage, she creates imaginary specimens that one day may be possible to exist. Ceramic sculptures made from deep sea sponges appear as asteroids making the connection between how little we know about the oceans and outer space. Other featured works refer to genetics, the origin of life and synthetic biology.

The show was organized by Gallery Director Debbie Hesse and included a public talk as a part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven.

see more here: https://elycenter.org/

& here: http://suzanneanker.com/

Suzanne's radio project the BioBlurbs on Clocktower radio are available here: https://clocktower.org/series/the-bio-blurb-show

Suzanne Anker: After Eden

June 5 – July 17, 2022

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art

51 Trumbull Street New Haven, CT 06510

* Republicans & Christian Nationalists Embrace January 6th Insurrection and Political Violence Wajahat Ali, a Daily Beast columnist, public speaker and author Producer: Scott Harris

* Colombians Elect Gustavo Petro the Nation's First Leftist President Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research Producer: Scott Harris

* Meteorologist Turned Congressional Candidate Addresses Climate Change Eric Sorensen, retired TV meteorologist, now Congressional Candidate Producer: Melinda Tuhus

The Psychedelic Furs’ Richard Butler visits WPKN to talk about the release of their 8th album ‘Made of Rain’ and a 40+ year career as an outstanding musician, lyricist, singer and painter - a PURE special.

(photo courtesy of Tom Sheehan)

-Yellowstone national Park floods and closes

-The U.S. West is drying out due to climate-driven changes

-Dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is growing

-Three oil companies cancel leases in Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife Refuge

- Weather Floods Miami Streets

-Indonesia will start moving its capital city due to sea rise

Electric aircraft flies 1,219 nm. In a test run