Indigo Radio

This week we have an interview with Dr. Charles Mullany, a doctor that has been working at the Maricopa County jail in Phoenix AZ for 9 years. Maricopa County is home of the self proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff," Joe Arpaio, who just this month was found guilty of criminal contempt in a racial profiling case during his time as sheriff. He served as sheriff of the jail from 1993-2016. Indigo...

This show is about the Vermont Eugenics Survey in connection with the movement to change the name of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher book award. We will be talking with Judy Dow, an Abenaki educator, and Lauren Perlstein, a school librarian, about why they support changing the name of the award. By the end of this month, Scott Murphy, the governor-appointed state librarian, will be making a decision a...

Why grow food? Why eat what we eat? Today’s show we are discussing programs that engage young people in conversations about where their food comes from and how to grow their own food. We will hear voices from the Lettuce Grow Food summer camp. We will also be joined by Dr. Roona Ray family doctor and public health specialist discussing her experience with a community garden in the Bronx that conne...

This is part two of a multi series on Puerto Rico. The first part touched on US colonialism of Puerto Rico, decolonization and resistance in Holyoke, and the debt crisis. In this part we talk more about the history of US colonialism in Puerto Rico and the diaspora in Holyoke. We interview Dr. Heyda Martinez, a professor at the University of Massachusetts' Social Justice Education Program.

Current trends in higher education around increasing part-time faculty, how this effects students and teachers, and how union-organizing can fight back. We were joined in the studio by: Cindy Polinsky - AFT VT field rep for higher education - union rep for state of VT and 25 years of experience in the labor movement. Joe Berry is the author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing adjuncts to cha...

The music has been edited out of this podcast version (available on iTunes) for copyright purposes. In 1493, Columbus stopped off in Puerto Rico and 15 years later Juan Ponce de Leon invaded it. The Spanish colonized Puerto Rico for 400 years until the Spanish lost to the United States in 1898 in the Spanish-American War. For 12 hours, Puerto Ricans had independence from Spain only to find that th...

Today, our theme is on unions: particularly, the rise of unions under capitalism, the recent teachers' union struggle in Vermont, and how unions can serve to deaden labor struggles. DUE TO COPYRIGHT ISSUES, THE MUSIC IS EDITED OUT OF THIS PODCAST.

Becca Polk and Anna Mullany joined with Rhonda Anderson who recently returned from Standing Rock. Rhonda is an area Inupiaq-Athabaskan Indigenous woman from Alaska, living in nearby Colrain, MA. Listen to our discussion about her time at Standing Rock as well as local indigenous struggles and resistance.