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  • Between The Lines - 5/4/22 @2022 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Effective Ways to Fight the Republican's Culture War Peter Montgomery, Senior Fellow with People For the American Way Producer: Scott Harris
    *Extinction Rebellion Employs Civil Disobedience to Demand Govt & Business Respond to Climate Crisis Christina See, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion-New York City Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    *Elon Musk's Purchase of Twitter & the Future of Free Speech Nora Benavidez, Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights at FreePress.net Producer: Scott Harris
    29 min
  • Live Culture Episode 73: Super Cold + Scorching Hot- Florain Carle, Martha Lewis and Brahna Yassky
    This month on Live Culture the tables get turned as Yale Quantum Institute Manager Florian Carle interviews Martha Willette Lewis about her work in the exhibit The Quantum Revolution: Made In New Haven, up now at the New Haven Museum. The show features Martha's original notebook drawings and artifacts from the quantum labs at Yale University, where Martha was artist-in-residence.To find out more about The Quantum Revolution visit here https://www.newhavenmuseum.org/39692-2/
    In the second half, things shift back to normal and disentangle, as Martha interviews visual artist and writer Brahna Yassky about her new memoir Slow Dancing With Fire: A Memoir of Resilience, a story of rebuilding a new life after the previous one is suddenly and painfully destroyed. Brahna started writing this memoir thirty years after literally catching on fire, an event which altered the course of her destiny. As an emerging young painter in New York City, she lived her dream, supporting herself painting full time. At night, she attended openings, cultural events and clubs.
    In 1982, a flame burned 55% of her body, including her painting arm. She spent months in the burn unit, and the next year in physical and occupational therapy. As Brahna healed, her priorities shifted from the aspiration of art-world fame to more collaborative creative interactions. She worked as an art therapist in a hospital program for abused children, in nursing homes and in schools. She did large-scale public projects for The New York City Department of Health and joined The Guerrilla Girls, a women’s artist-activist collective, fighting injustices in the art world. She has turned her life experiences into a film and now this book.
    Slow Dancing With Fire: A Memoir of Resilience is available now through Shanti Press.
    About the Author:
    Brahna Yassky won honorable mention for the 2018 Doheny Prize from the Center for Fiction and finalist for the 2019 Brooklyn Nonfiction Prize. Her essays have been published in The Plentitudes Journal, The American Writers Review 2020 (San Fedele Press), Wired, Salon, The Independent, among others. Trained as a visual artist at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University her work has been widely exhibited, including The Bali Purnati Center, MOMA, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Hudson River Museum and The Painting Center, NYC.
    More about Brahna can be found here https://www.brahnayassky.com/
    1 hr
  • Woody Tasch - Founder Beetcoin & Slow money Digging in the Dirt
    Woody Tasch is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered Chelsea Green Press
    SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, and
    AHA!: Fake Trillions, Real Billions, Beetcoin and the Great American Do-Over (Slow Money Institute). Tasch is former chairman of Investors’ Circle, a nonprofit angel network that has facilitated more than $200 million of investments in over 300 early-stage,sustainability-promoting companies.
    He is the founder of Slow Money and most recently Beetcoin.
    47 min
  • Between The Lines - 4/27/22 @2022 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    * 70 Groups Call for End to US Complicity in Saudi-led Yemen War that's Killed Nearly 400,000; Jehan Hakim, Chair of the Yemeni Alliance Committee; Producer: Scott Harris.
    * Groups Working to Unfreeze Billions of Afghan Assets in the US to Fund Humanitarian Aid; Medea Benjamin co-founder Code Pink and advisory board member of the group Unfreeze Afghanistan; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    * GOP Openly Conspires to Steal the Next Election; Heather Digby Parton, a contributing writer to Salon.com; Producer: Scott Harris.
    29 min
  • Band Central on WPKN PODCAST April 22, 2022
    Band Central Radio on WPKN Community Radio 89.5 at noon to hear from our AMAZING guests Karen Brown VP of Development and Philanthropic Services at Fairfield County's Community Foundation 💛 Carla Miklos ED of Operation Hope of Fairfield and Eric Kalb drummer extraordinaire!✨ And as always, our host Rob Fried!✨
    51 min
  • Earth Day Show
    Interviews with key organizers of April 22 and April 23 Earth Week actions. Sena Wazer, director of Sunrise CT, and Tenaya Taylor, Executive Director of the Nonprofit Accountability Group talk about "nothing about us without us" when it comes to youth and people of color in the climate movement
    30 min

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