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  • Bob Halstead Community Gardener and activist. Digging In The Dirt
    Bob Halstead is president of two community garden groups, one statewide, and one for Bridgeport: Connecticut Community Gardening Association (CCGA) and Bridgeport Community Land Trust (The Trust), respectively.
    Bob founded the community garden program in 1980 in Bridgeport and has been active in various leadership capacities in forming approximately 50 gardens about 25 that still exist in low income areas. Most gardens manage themselves and many are between are 20 to 40 years old. Bob actively now manages 6 thriving gardens one of which is a school garden at Harding High School.
    22 min
  • Between The Lines - 11/3/21 @2021 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Troubling Signs of Inaction From the January 6th Insurrection Investigation Ron Fein, Legal Director with the group Free Speech For People Producer: Scott Harris
    *The Role of the Military in the Global Climate Crisis Goes Largely Unaddressed Jodie Evans, Co-Founder Code Pink Women for Peace Producer: Melinda Tuhus
    *Biden Must Take Action to Vaccinate the Global South: No One is Safe Until We Are All Safe Ben Levenson, Deputy Director of Justice is Global Producer: Scott Harris
    29 min
  • Stanley Heller Talks Palestine Solidarity And Climate Justice
    Host Mike Merli talks with Stanley Heller of Promoting Enduring Peace, Middle East Crisis Committee, and The Struggle Video News.
    For more info on the New England Network for Justice for Palestine, and the upcoming November 29th Day of Action:
    https://www.nenjp.org/
    For more info on Promoting Enduring Peace and climate justice:
    https://pepeace.org/
    To check out the article Stan mentioned on New Politics:
    https://newpol.org/an-especially-shameful-episode-in-zionist-history/
    For other work of Stan's:
    www.thestruggle.org
    29 min
  • Live Culture 70: Environmental activism and COVID: Catching up with VozTerra Collective
    This month on Live Culture, Martha is in discussion with two members of VozTerra, an experimental sound project based in Bogotá, Colombia, which addresses the climate crisis, social justice issues, and the effects of Covid lockdown through innovative collaborative audio recordings mixing ambient noises and music. Much of it incorporates sounds of nature from the threatened and environmentally rich Van der Hammen Reserve, while the Sounds From Your Window project offers a global interactive aural glimpse of life during the lockdown.
    VozTerra is an audio project created with the purpose of raising awareness about the care of our natural ecosystems, and to open up new experiences for listening, in dialogue with global communities. VozTerra is a proud recipient of the Latinoamerica Verde Awards and features an excellent website full of audio meditations, videos, sounds, music and ways to participate and get involved. You may listen to more here: https://www.vozterra.com/
    The music albums Ventanas Volume 1, Ventanas, Volume 2, and Alteraciones, and Reserva, all from 2021, are now available on most major sound platforms for listening, with sale proceeds going to the artists who donated their talents to this project as well as an ecological tree planting initiative, and a fund to support older musicians living on the margins. There is also a wonderful video, an official selection from the AXD Short Film Festival about the Sounds from Your Windows project is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguCxdUD_WE
    VozTerra was created in November, 2019 by Lany Arévalo, Héctor Buitrago, Rafael Puyana, Diana Restrepo, and Daniel Roa, who, in collaboration with The Museum for the United Nations - UN Live, developed the multimedia web platform for this innovative and timely project. Don’t miss this conversation with two of the VozTerra Collective: Rafael Puyana and Diana Restrepo as we meet on Zoom from Sweden, Hong Kong, and Bogotá to discuss art, social justice, and the climate crisis during the time of Covid. This is environmental activism at its most creative, compelling, and inclusive. More about the The Museum for the United Nations - UN Live here: https://museumfortheun.org/about/
    Diana Maria Restrepo is a distinguished sound artist and performer. She graduated in percussion from the Paris Conservatoire and did her Masters's studies at the Sound Studies Program of the University of Arts, Berlin. Her artistic concerns point towards personal and collective memory as plastic matter and its relation to sound. She has worked in soundscape, radio, audio design, and installation. She has extensive experience managing and curating artistic and cultural projects. More about Diana can be found at www.dianarestrepo.co
    Rafael Puyana is a media artist, designer, interactive creative director, educator, and live coder. He has been exploring the intersections between art, design and technology in the digital landscape for around 15 years, for projects and companies in Colombia, Canada, United States, and Mexico. He currently supports companies and special projects with the crystallization of their ideas into prototypes and digital tangible products: applications, mobile, web, installations, and AR/VR. More about Rafael can be found at: www.rafaelpuyana.com
    Now in it's 5th Year, Live Culture is a monthly radio program about art, ideas and visual culture. For 2021 Martha has largely been focusing on art addressing the Climate Crisis and issues of Social Justice during the time of Covid.
    56 min
  • Home Page Radio - New Ways HOME
    Thursday, October 28, 2021, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org
    Host: Duo Dickinson
    The last year has seen the Real Estate Industrial Complex on Blast: Sell, Sell, Sell – a seller’s market, a housing consumer nightmare. Costs, always high in northeast grew far higher. The traditional ways of making a home, owning a home, even envisioning where a home could be were thrown out, in favor of a crazy bubble.
    The way we think of homes is not static, homes are the direct extension of us, each of us, and collectively as humanity. So there are alternatives to how we envision how we live, where we live and what we live in – our homes.
    Three guests are deeply involved in how homes are created, and can be part of Home Page this week to tell how they are working to open up the housing market, and respond to how the world has changed, and will change. Joining us is:
    Pennie Garber is a licensed architect located near Staunton, Virginia. She has owned and operated a small architectural firm for the last 20 years. She is now working with a business incubator to build a new company, a benefit corporation called Plans for Good, that can hopefully address the needs of the families she hasn’t yet met who currently don’t have the resources to own their own home.
    Susan Ingham is a licensed architect practicing in Seattle, Washington. Her firm, KASA Architecture specializes in residential design. The main focus of her work is to try to create environments with beauty. She is a founder of the Building Beauty program in Sorrento, Italy, and teaches a difference way of creating home design, a way of the place and person, not the product.
    Ben Ledbetter is an architect grew up in the South, received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Auburn University then went Harvard University, where he received a Master in Architecture degree Ben now directs the architectural studies program of the Wesleyan University Art Department, teaching architecture as well as drawing courses. Ben is part of a new program with Yale to create homes.
    55 min
  • Between The Lines - 10/27/21 @2021 Squeaky Wheel Productions. All Rights Reserved.
    *Billionaires Tax May Win Support in Congressional negotiations on Biden's Build Back Better Plan; Frank Clemente, executive director Americans for Tax Fairness; Producer: Scott Harris.
    *Joe Manchin Succeeds in Killing Key Climate Provision in Democrats' Reconciliation; Bill John Noël, senior climate campaigner with Greenpeace USA; Producer: Scott Harris.
    *Israel Designates Palestinian Human Rights Groups as Terrorists; Shelly Altman, chair of the New Haven chapter of the group Jewish Voice for Peace; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.
    29 min
  • Band Central Radio on WPKN - October '21 Show
    Host Rob Fried talks with guests John Torres from the band Colorfields and also discusses the Torres' family project at the old Acoustic in Black Rock soon to be Park City Music Hall.
    Fried also talks with Dave Sigworth, the Associate Director of Communications from the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk.
    53 min

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