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This week Vermont Gov. Phil Scott vetoed a bill aimed at stemming the state’s overdose crisis. The bill was a way to explore supervised consumption or injection sites. Those sites would allow people to consume drugs under medical supervision to prevent an overdose. Scott says this is not the right strategy for Vermont. 💥REPLAY 💥 We replay our show on Supervised Injection Sites, harm reduction &...

Poems and discussion with local BUHS student Z'aira Pacheco & hosts Mikaela Simms, Nina Kunimoto, Sergio Arroyo, and Anna Mullany. Today's show is dedicated to all the children/students around the world who have lost their lives to gun violence. We link mass shootings here in the U.S. to U.S. militarism and violence around the world.

We speak with Dr. Aline Gubrium and Dr. Elizabeth Salerno Valdez of UMass Amherst School of Public Health & Health Sciences who work to improve outcomes and reduce inequities in sexual and reproductive health among adolescents - Join us to hear about comprehensive sexuality education and reproductive justice. *Photo Credit: by J - taken as part of the STRIVE Youth Participatory Action Research Fal...

We spend the hour with Dr. Luis Valdez of UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences about chronic stress, health disparities, and racism. Dr. Valdez's work centers on Latino/x men, masculinity, and health.

***SPECIAL*** We air voices from the Brattleboro street on this special Indigo Radio broadcast. Local voice their protest to the leaked supreme court document that would overturn the landmark 1973 ruling Roe vs. Wade that legalizes abortion. Thankyou to all that spoke with us.

We speak with Cynthia Espinosa Marrero, the executive director of Nueva Esperanza, Inc. to learn about their work in the Holyoke, MA community and the history of Puerto Ricans in Holyoke.

8 years on, we want to remind listeners - HANDS OFF YEMEN!! Chris Lievense and Nina Kunimoto discuss Yemen's history and its implications for the current war and humanitarian crisis. They speak with Neda Saleh, Coordinator​ with Action Corps. She is a Yemeni-born peace activist located in northern California. She is a volunteer with the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation as well as the fou...

We discuss how politics in sports are acceptable as long as the messages uphold the dominant narratives of militarism, masculinity, and consumerism. But politics that question the political and economic structures are seen as a disruption to the game. Not so different from the ways social justice education is deemed too "political" for our classrooms.

We continue with our 2 part series on addiction with a show dedicated to women & substance use. We spend the hour with Dr. Alice Fiddian-Green - whose recent work focuses on public health and opiate use disorder amongst pregnant women and mothers. Tune in to hear about the particular stigmatization women face and expand our understanding around institutional violence that further causes suffering...

Listen to an interview with former Spark students who share their experiences about becoming teachers during the pandemic and lessons learned during their teacher training. Spark Teacher Education Institute (Spark) is a program of the non-profit Educational Praxis. Spark currently offers a licensure program in Teaching for Social Justice in the State of Vermont. The program strives to instill an u...

Hosts Nina and Anna spend the hour with Dr. Paul Pierre, Haitian physician and global health leader. Dr. Pierre talks with us about public health in Haiti, the late Dr. Paul Farmer, COVID, Haiti's political history, and global health infrastructure.

As the war drums are beating and as New Mexico Archbishop urges nuclear disarmament, we wanted to replay this interview with Father Patrick O'Neill. Indigo radio interviewed Patrick O’Neill who is just about to serve a federal sentence for breaking in to the Kings Bay naval base in Georgia with his comrades to protest against the trident missiles. Trident missiles are housed on submarines at Kings...

We re-air a show with the local domestic crisis center - The Women's Freedom Center - here in Brattleboro. Host Anna Mullany talks with the WFC about their services, important info about the impact on those experiencing violence and the pandemic. The WFC 24-hr hotline is 802-254-6954

Chris Lievense and Nina Kunimoto discuss Yemen's history and its implications for the current war and humanitarian crisis. They speak with Neda Saleh, Coordinator​ with Action Corps. She is a Yemeni-born peace activist located in northern California. She is a volunteer with the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation as well as the founder of the youth organization, Hands Off Yemen. She hopes t...

Kyra Swain, special educator in Vermont, and Sara Velia Nino, PhD candidate and education policy advocate join Indigo Radio to speak about dis/ability in the context of broader social structures such as carceral logic and system design. Check out our first episode in this series "Dis/ability in India, US, and Schools": https://soundcloud.com/user-654648353/disability-in-india-us-and-schools

Indigo hosts Anna and Nik air our interview with Greg Mingo. Greg was incarcerated for 40 years for a crime he didn't commit. He was granted clemency by Cuomo in August and was home in September. Greg shares his experience and his thoughts on teaching, health, hope, and more. Find out more at freegregmingo.com Photo by Laurel Golio

On today's show we play excerpts from Indigenous speakers this year's National Day of Mourning in Plymouth MA -- Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a remind...

Indigo hosts Anna and Josh spend the hour with Rick Winston, author of Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era. We talk with Rick about Hollywood Blacklist, surveillance of teachers, the importance of knowing history, and connections to today - Rick was one of the co-founders of Montpelier’s Savoy Theater and Green Mountain Film Festival. He has lectured widely on film histor...

Listen to an interview with Ellen Kelly and Anne Rodriguez, a high schooler and university student who are part of Fridays for Future in Donostia Spain. #FridaysForFuture is a youth organized movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on...

Listen to an interview with Ellen Kelly and Anne Rodriguez, a high schooler and university student who are part of Fridays for Future in Donostia Spain. #FridaysForFuture is a youth organized movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on...

Indigo Radio interviews Latha Patipandla Mallika and Kyra Swain about questioning the dominant concept of dis/ability. Latha is a visually impaired international student who arrived in Boston to start a PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Kyra teaches special education in Vermont. Check out Sam Schafer's work at http://www.schafers.co.uk/portfolio/blindness/

Patrice and Nik interview Ksenia Voropaeva on her work with About Face - a group of post-9/11 US war veterans who work against militarism at home and abroad, support social movements here in the US, and urge young people to think twice before they enter the military. Check out: aboutfaceveterans.org for more information!

Listen to our interview with Mariame Kaba back in 2016 -- Kaba is a long-time organizer, educator, author, and prison abolitionist. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She...

Replay from 2016 after the Hurricane in Haiti Photo from Haitian Revolution

Spark Teacher Education Institute faculty and alum join with NMH Upward Bound to read Dr. King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail" - with introductory commentary from Indigo hosts Anna Mullany & Derek Johnson. King's letter was originally published June 12, 1963