WPKN Community Radio

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

MAKE MUSIC DAY IS JUNE 21. Hear our interview with the organizers from the six towns in our region to be hosting Make Music Day programs this year. Organizers speak about the programs they have drawn up, using amateur and professional musicians within their communities to provide music all around town. Hear how this all works, what some highlights were from the past, and about some of the surprises and new approaches these organizers have up their sleeves this year. Guests are: Marc Alan, Norwalk Arts Commission and Factory Underground; Mark Barnhart, Dir. Economic and Community Development, Town of Fairfield; Kate Cook, Stamford Downtown; Jennifer DiLaura, Ridgefield Arts Council; Colin Healy, Arts Alliance of Stratford; and Suzanne Kachmar, Bridgeport Art Trail.

The Emotion Roadmap helps Emily understand how to change and alter her feelings and Jeanine to move on from frustration.

- Global carbon dioxide 50% higher than pre industrial age.

- World needs 10-year push to restore ecosystems to reduce carbon

- Gulf of Mexico dead zone size

- Himalayas could lose up to two thirds of its ice by 2100,

- The Manta, a giant, plastic-eating catamaran powered by renewable energy

Patrick Comins, Executive Director of the Connecticut Audubon Society, describes his organization's history and mission and talks about some of the activities being planned for the summer of 2021.

Juan Diego Mazuera Arias works on government affairs at The Century Foundation. Prior to his work at TCF, he completed a fellowship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, working first at the Aspen Institute’s Latinos and Society Program and then as a legislative fellow in the office of U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

Juan Diego was born in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia, and was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. A son of immigrants who have sacrificed and devoted their lives to allow their children to obtain the American Dream, Juan Diego comes from strong Latino roots and family values. While applying for college, he experienced the struggles associated with being an undocumented DACA recipient. After not qualifying for financial aid and paying an international rate for college applications, he decided to attend Central Piedmont Community College. In his first year, he received the Golden Door Scholarship and a full-ride scholarship at Queens University of Charlotte, where he became the first in his family to graduate from college. Juan Diego was active in campus politics and worked on several political campaigns, as a field organizer and campus organizer.

*Fragile Coalition Forms to Oust Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Philip Weiss, Senior Editor of Mondoweiss.net Producer: Scott Harris

*Case Now Before Supreme Court Could End Reproductive Rights Established in Roe V. Wade Hillary Schneller, Senior Staff Attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights Producer: Melinda Tuhus

*Progressive Coalition Pushing Biden, Congress to Protect, Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Alex Lawson, Executive Director of the group Social Security Works Producer: Scott Harris

Guy Beardsley's Small Farms Report followed by Vincent Kaye's honey bee update as we head toward the summer solstice.

Hosted by Richard Hill

Waterbury-based Alyssa Hughes on art and social justice.

Alyssa's music can be heard at:

https://soundcloud.com/mcstress/tracks

Valerie Richardson -- Radio Something

An interview with Lisa Dent, the Executive Director of New Haven's Artspace, about the exhibition "W.E.B. DuBois, Georgia, and His Data Portraits."

In 1900, sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois created a series of data visualizations for the “Exhibit of American Negroes” at that year’s Paris Exhibition. The graphs and charts center on the socioeconomic conditions facing Black Americans in the state of Georgia, tracing income, marital status, property ownership, and more for visual representation.

The portraits render this information in a uniquely modernist style, opting for a simplified and stylized approach to data visualization. Du Bois turned numbers into solid color fields, bending bar graphs and spooling figures into spirals as he did so. In these deliberate representational decisions, Du Bois merged artistic inclinations with his sociological practice.

Thursday, May 27, 2021, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Duo Dickinson

If you are older than 40, you remember the first seven years of this century. For many reasons, not the least of which was greed, the peak buying years of the Baby Boom Generation perverted the basic human need to have a home we love into a fevered housing boom, then a worldwide economic crash in 2008. In the previous 30 years there had been about three other housing bubbles, and their inevitable bursting to housing busts.

But the 2008 housing bust lasted a decade in Connecticut. Low or no growth in prices, slow construction activity, and a depressed reality that the extreme cost of Connecticut homes had topped out, perhaps forever, made for chastened expectations. Then another bust, Covid-19, ended any number of home renovations, sales, building. It was only natural that mandatory sequestration stopped many things people do every day, including thinking about our homes – new or renewed.

But a funny thing happened, we were all force fed our homes as our one place of working, learning, eating, working out, even connecting (now through our computers). Collectively many of us found that we loved our homes, but they can be improved upon. So as soon as the bonds of lock-down were loosened, a rush to revise where we live began.

The mortgage rates are still low, the houses that are up for sale (AKA “inventory”) is low – the lowest since 1963 according to the website “Meanwhile in Markets”), personal savings are up after a year of no where to spend income, and, “Voila!” a housing bubble. This means prices of everything related to homes, construction, home prices, even fixtures are exploding, and often, impossible to obtain right now.

Three Real Estate and Architecture Mavens join HOME PAGE to give us all a snap shot of where we are in a crazy moment of our hone-based lives.Leigh Whiteman Is a real estate broker and leader of The Whiteman Team at William Raveis Real Estate. She has been selling real estate up and down the Connecticut Shoreline since 1988 and has helped her clients Todd Gould has lived on the Connecticut shore his entire life. He has been a broker/manager/owner for 27 years, from a family that has been involved in Real Estate for generations, and lives the market. Martin Pedersen helped create The Common Edge Collaborative , and was Executive Editor at Metropolitan Home for 20 years, seeing many (many) Booms and Busts.