WPKN Community Radio

Thursday, September 23, 2021, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Duo Dickinson

We all have to rest our heads somewhere. As universal as eating or sleeping, having a place is part of being human. But around New York City the cost of having a place to live is more than some can afford. A basic requirement to live, having a home, has to be met or people live in mortal danger. What is our common space – roads, parks, greens become places where people must live.

Some people work to create places to live, even in a housing boom that raises prices and costs. The number of people who need safety where they live is always there, even when these costs go up – and right now they are. There are many scenarios of how the homes that should provide safety actually endanger who must live there. Those who are living on the street or in dangerous decaying homes simply need safe harbor. Those whose income is too small even the most modest market rate rental need assistance. Those whose income is too small to save a deposit and pay for a traditional mortgage are desperate to have a place that they own.

On Home Page we present those who have “walked the talk” of making places for those who are not part of the crazy market rate housing booms and busts that flood places like Connecticut and New York. Bill Casey has been the Director of Habitat of Greater New Haven for almost 30 years, where that organization has created over 100 owned homes: mostly new, some rehabilitated, but all strategically located to build neighborhoods. Rose Noonan and others created the Housing Action Council in Westchester County, New York almost 40 years ago, and her intrepid group has helped create funding for hundreds of projects that house thousands of people – some formerly homeless, others with limited income, others in workforce housing that simply cannot afford to work near where they are needed to work. Steve Grathwohl has worked with a variety of organizations in Fairfield County, Connecticut as both a professional and a volunteer to re-envision blighted and deteriorating places that otherwise cannot justify private development and secure the vision and finding to make safe affordable homes.

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* Unhinged Trump Drove Top US General to Take Steps to Prevent Nuclear War; Tom Collina, Director of Policy with the Ploughshares Fund; Producer: Scott Harris.

* Occupy Wall Street 10 Years Later: Lessons Learned on Inclusion and Intersectionality; Heather McKee Hurwitz, author of "Are We the 99%? The Occupy Movement, Feminism & Intersectionality;" Producer: Scott Harris.

* School Resource Officers Aren’t the Answer to School Safety; Dave Cruz-Bustamante of the Community First Coalition in CT; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

-California wildfires are being “supercharged”

-2.6 million acres of grassland plowed up

-jet stream shifting due to climate change

-millions six could be forced to move midcentury.

-environmental activists were killed in 2020

-Biden calls for major clean energy investments

Max Cisneros discusses the work of Connecticut Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement.

For more info on Connecticut Familia:

CTFamilia on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/connecticutfamilia

CTFamilia on Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/connecticutfamilia/

For more info on the national Familia:

https://familiatqlm.org/

For more info on the End Trans Detention campaign:

https://www.endtransdetention.org/

Interview with Grammy award winning jazz vocalist, Gregory Porter on listener supported, community radio, WPKN 89.5 FM.

* January 6th Insurrectionists and GOP Allies Pose Clear and Present Danger to Democracy Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Producer: Scott Harris

* Right-Wing Protests with Firearms Justin Wagner, Everytown for Gun Safety's Director of Investigations Producer: Melinda Tuhus

* After 20 Years of Pressure Biden Declassifies 9/11 FBI Report Re: Saudi Connections Kristen Breitweiser, 9/11 Widow, Co-founder September 11 Advocates Producer: Scott Harris

* January 6th Insurrectionists and GOP Allies Pose Clear and Present Danger to Democracy Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Producer: Scott Harris

* Right-Wing Protests with Firearms Justin Wagner, Everytown for Gun Safety's Director of Investigations Producer: Melinda Tuhus

* After 20 Years of Pressure Biden Declassifies 9/11 FBI Report Re: Saudi Connections Kristen Breitweiser, 9/11 Widow, Co-founder September 11 Advocates Producer: Scott Harris

A discussion with artist/curator Richard Klein about his new project The Understory. You can see some of the images from the exhibition on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/richardklein67/

The exhibition is taking place at the Icehouse in Sharon, Connecticut, and it opens on September 25, 2021.

https://www.k2kozik.com/icehouse-project-space

Hosted by David Green of The Cultural Alliance Of Fairfield County.

This month we turn to thinking about how the history of our communities is made – and re-made. Our histories are long intricately interwoven tapestries of people coming from many places, settling, making families, starting businesses or working for others, taking part in social and religious groups, shaping the community and creating culture.

But which stories get told, which strands in the tapestry get the focus and who decides?

Our guests are two museum directors and a co-founder of an Indigenous educational initiative: Ramin Ganeshram is executive director of the Westport Museum for History and Culture, Diane Jellerette is executive director of the Norwalk Historical Society and Museum, and endawnis Spears is a co-founder of the Akomawt Educational Initiative, dedicated to furthering knowledge of Native America in schools, museums and other public spaces.

-Droughts are the leading cause of worlds deaths

-Sea-level rise not just coastal

-Climate change will significantly alter flooding patterns

-California’s transition to 100% zero-emission cars moved up to 2030

-Increasing land cover diversity in agricultural is beneficial