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GIFTS OF THE CROW - An Interview with Author and Ornithologist John Marzluff

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Several years ago Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein watched a crow delicately extract from a narrow paper bag a Subway sandwich that was lying in the gutter. Once the sandwich was free of its wrapper, the crow remained curbside, happily feasting on its prize. This obser... Read more

Headlines on the war on Syria, al-Hola massacre, Fukushima re-criticality, poverty in the U.S. and more

Airs at: Thu, 05/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell gives the Headlines and takes listener calls on subjects including the war on Syria, al-Hola massacre, military exercises in Jordan, Fukushima re-criticality and contamination, poverty in the U.S. and more. Read more

Headlines and listener calls with Theresa Mitchell

Airs at: Thu, 05/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Host Theresa Mitchell gives the Headlines and takes listener calls on subjects including the nuclear submarine fire in Boston Harbor, the controversy over car camping for homeless in local church parking lots, Iran/U.S. negotiations, nuclear contamination and the use of dro... Read more

Re-making the village: community building, art, and permaculture.

Airs at: Fri, 05/18/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Join ani and Lyn for a lively celebration of community and community building with Mark Lakeman and Hannah of the Village Building Convergence. This is the 12th annual VBC, and "The Roots of Regeneration" is the theme this year. Tune in to hear about the exciting neighborh... Read more

The 2nd Revolution: Dismantling Corporate Rule

Airs at: Wed, 06/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
We live "drenched in corporate culture," with our planet, our democracy, and all of us "real people" under assault. But, according to Paul Cienfuegos, "We the people are more powerful than we dare to believe," and the corporate power structure CAN be dismantled. A long-time... Read more

As Joe prepares for his annual hiatus, he and Abe survey the State of the Union.

Airs at: Tue, 06/05/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris The State of the Union is screwed. Four years into the New Depression, the economy still lags and working people suffer while the ruling class rolls in profligate wealth. Inequality grows more extreme. The wars drag on. The modern survei... Read more

THE CRASH COURSE with CHRIS MARTENS: Understanding the Interdependence of our Economy, Environment, and Energy Systems

Airs at: Mon, 06/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Chris Martenson used to be part of the 1%. Five years ago he traded his McMansion and position as Vice President of a Fortune 500 company for a much simpler life in rural western Massachusetts. Now his goal is to shed light on the limits of our present economic model of ... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 05-31-12 Can we break through polarization about climate change?

Airs at: Thu, 05/31/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Can we break through polarization about climate change? A conversation with Max and Ellen Schupbach about deep democracy Climate change remains a political lightening rod that's left those who believe and those who deny it exists locked in a stalemate that makes action by ... Read more

Positively Revolting on 05-25-12 Police infiltration of radical movements-- really?

Airs at: Fri, 05/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Police infiltration of radical movements-- really? They do that? Listen in for a lively discussion! Lyn and ani's guest will be Peg Millett, environmental activist, and member of the so-called Arizona Five.  In 1989, Peg was arrested with other Earth Firsters in a sting op... Read more

Book Mole: later novels of Wallace Stegner

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews the signifance of Wallace Stegner's wide-ranging vocation as a writer and teacher. Stegner wrote short-stories, biographies, novels, literary and environmental criticism. Stegner was a creative writing teacher to many powerful writers, such as Ken Kese... Read more