WPKN Community Radio

WPKN Community Radio

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WPKN Community Radio episodes

  • Between The Lines - 2/2/22 @2022 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Escalation of Rhetoric in Ukraine Crisis Risks Conflict; Nicolai Petro, Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island; Producer: Scott Harris.
    *Pres. Biden's Historic Pledge to Nominate a Black Woman to Supreme Court; Marge Baker, Executive VP for Policy and Program with the group People For the American Way; Producer: Scott Harris.
    *Mountain Valley Pipeline Opponents Encouraged (Buoyed) as Federal Court Vacates Critical Permits; Russell Chisholm, co-chair of the Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights, or POWHR Coalition; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • Reverend D. Stanley Lord And The Greater Bridgeport NAACP
    Host Mike Merli in conversation with Reverend D. Stanley Lord, President of the Greater Bridgeport NAACP. The conversation includes discussion of COVID testing and vaccination in Bridgeport; environmental justice; policing; the injustices of Jayson Negron, Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Rawls; and upcoming Black History Month events.
    For more info on the Greater Bridgeport NAACP:
    https://www.facebook.com/gbtpnaacp/
    https://bridgeportnaacp.org/
    27 min
  • Black Rock Social PODCAST on WPKN
    Owner Mark Turocy has over 30 years of restaurant industry experience, from the west coast where he created California's The Comedy Store's first food program, to the east, in Connecticut, where he was General Manager of Rizzuto's in Westport and Atelier Florian in New Haven
    WPKN Co-hosts: Bonna-Sue Burt and Andrew Ross
    1 hr
  • True Stories Of Nelson Mandela & Marcus Garvey - Two Great Black Visionaries
    On this edition of What's Your Point? are stories of Nelson Mandela, and Marcus Garvey.
    Nelson Mandela, the Black African freedom fighter who later became President of a democratic South Africa spent twenty seven years of his life in prision in his native land because of his hatred, and fight against the racist Apartheid system in his homeland. Many would have given up and renounced their opposition to the dreaded Apartheid system for their release from prison. Nelson Mandela stuck with the fight. While he was in prison, his then wife Winnie Mandela led the charge on the outside of that prison's walls for her husband's release, and the lifting of the wicked racist system of Apartheid.
    Marcus Garvey, the first Natonal Hero of Jamaica, was a great Pan-Africanist and visionary. He encouraged Black people to leave the West and repatriate to the Mother Land, Africa. During his time in the United States, Garvey had millions of followers. He taught Black people to love themselves.
    Listen to this presentation narrated by Garnett Ankle interspersed with relevant roots reggae songs.
    55 min
  • Home Page Radio - BRAND Home
    Thursday, January 27, 2022, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org
    Host: Duo Dickinson
    The successor architectural firm to that created by the deceased designer Zaha Hadid has paid $16,000,000 to use her name. https://archinect.com/news/article/150294705/zaha-hadid-architects-has-paid-almost-16million-to-keep-founder-s-name
    When a design is made – of a home, or anything else – when does the designer mean more than the actual act of creation itself? When the “Brand” becomes more important than the human. That is especially true when the human is dead. “Branding” is an new/old mantra: Old in advertising, newly powerful in the internet age when it comes to design, when “key words” and “rankings” begat work.
    Homes have been “Branded, too. They have been “typed” since Big Real Estate started selling homes after World War 2 – “Colonial”, “Contemporary, “Arts & Crafts”, Victorian, now “Net-Zero”. The commodification of the human is, well, dehumanizing. What is more human than the home? When we “Brand” them, we dehumanize the home.
    Style over substance reduces the joys of creative effervescence into type and pattern. Name over style reduces product to “Brand” perhaps the most hideous outcome ever derived from the illicit mating of ego and aesthetics – profit over humanity..
    When “Who” is creating becomes a “Brand” it no longer matters “How” or “Why”: “What you did is “Who” you are…
    So buying a name, a “Brand” simply extends inhumanity beyond the grave. Architecture is no different from Nike: the juggernaut of the “Brand” is immortal, as long as you pay for it. Let us discuss this on HOME PAGE this week.
    Joining us is one of the creators and editor of the Common Edge Collaborative and former Executive Editor at Metropolitan Home Magazine, Martin Pedersen, Boston Architect Jeremiah Eck, writer and co-founder of The Congress of Residential Architecture, and Rhode Island architect David Andreozzi who was the director of the AIA’s Custom Residential Architect Network.
    53 min
  • Between The Lines - 1/26/22 @2022 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Effort Underway to Challenge Insurrectionist's Right to Run for Public Office; Ben Horton, a legal fellow with the group Free Speech for People; Producer: Scott Harris
    *Taxing Extreme Global Wealth Could Lift 2.3 billion People out of Poverty; Chuck Collins, dir. of the program on Inequality & the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies; Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    *Koch Network Funds War on COVID Public Health Measures; Alex Kotch, an investigative reporter with the Center for Media and Democracy; Producer: Scott Harris
    29 min

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