Indigo Radio

Josh does an interview with Bliss and Patrick from the Tenants Union of Brattleboro on housing and rent ordinance proposals.

Hosts Nina and Maresa discuss the social, political, and economic implications of mathematics and how math can be used for human liberation. Jariela Cruz, math coach in Holyoke, MA invites us to critically understand math and gives concrete examples of how she integrates social justice content into her math lessons for middle grades and secondary grades.

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 Bay ready to be deployed to start a nuclear war. Listen to Patrick recollect the history of this movement and why he is willing to go to prison to p...

Artis C. Street is a transformational coach and a math educator in a Boston Public School and at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He talks to us about BPS's new initiative to dismantle racism in the curriculum with transformational coaches working with teachers. And he discusses math and social justice pedagogically, especially as he teaches students of color.

Join hosts Mikala Simms and Cory Sorenson in conversation with Joe Keady and Mike Szostak from Brattleboro Union High School talk about white supremacy, rising white nationalist groups and racism.

This week's shows commemorates Indigenous People's Day - October 12th, 2020. We are joined for the hour by UMass, Amherst first-year students to talk about their learnings on Indigenous health, political-economic-social origins of illness, abolishing columbus day, and the meaning of solidarity -- in conversation with their teacher, Indigo Radio host, Anna Mullany. Big thanks to UMass, Amherst stud...

In this episode our interviewees told stories of resistance: one of an enslaved person on the Virginia plantations, another about Freedom Summer, and a third about the water protectors of Standing Rock. Kelly and Maresa make connections among these three stories and to the conditions of today.

Spark Teacher Education Institute led a professional development, Teaching in Solidarity with Black Lives. This requires more than just methods or adding a social justice lesson. Teachers need to investigate and challenge white supremacy in their pedagogy and curricula to move the center to more equitable thinking and practices. On this show we aired interviews with participants about what they ar...

The Equal Justice Initiative (August 2020) reports that the coronavirus infects incarcerated people at a rate more than five times higher than the nation's overall rate.  The death rate of inmates being at 39 deaths per 100,000 in comparison to the national rate of 29 deaths per 100,000, meaning nearly 160,000 incarcerated people and staff have been infected with coronavirus, and at least 1,002 ha...

What are the implications of reopening schools in a country that has 25% of the worlds coronavirus cases but only 4% of the world’s population? Do we feel that our society as a whole is striving to keep everyone safe? On this episode, we talked to educators in Vermont who are working to ensure we have a safe and just reopening to schools. Working to base our understanding on science, we discussed...

Indigo hosts Chris and Henry focus on the relationship between capitalism, patriarchy, and violence. With special guest Anna Mullany, we will look at how capitalist development and gender inequality go hand in hand and ideas for teaching about this.

Indigo Radio hosts Nina, Derek, Anna, & Chris commemorate Black August and the legacy of George Jackson by reading letters by George, written while imprisoned at San Quentin [from his book Soledad Brother]. Jackson's words still ring true today and can inspire us to read, organize, and act. George was assassinated August 21, 1971.

Indigo Radio speaks with Manolo de los Santos and Subin Dennis, two of the co-authors of the study CoronaShock and Socialism released by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Listen to learn more about how socialist states – in particular Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Kerala (India) – have been able to handle the virus more effectively despite harsh attacks by the far-right and by US impe...

Welcome to Indigo Radio's second ever show for kids. In this show, Kelly and Maresa explore the science of viruses, public health and mutual aid. The show is in three parts that you can listen to altogether or one at a time. We hope that you share the show with the kids in your life and that you use it to talk and learn together!

Indigo Radio aired an episode from the podcast In the Company of Black Women. In this episode co-hosts Mikaela Simms and Bessie Jones are in conversation with Eric Jackson of Black Yield Farm. https://www.instagram.com/inthecompanyofblackwomen https://soundcloud.com/bessie-mikaela https://www.blackyieldinstitute.org/

Dr. David Stovall is professor of Educational Studies and African American Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption; and co-author of Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools: The Impact of Charters on Public Education. He speaks to us about the uprisings in Chicago after the murder...

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

Welcome to Indigo Radio's first every show for kids! If you can believe it, quarantine and social-distancing have been going on for over three months! In this show, Kelly and Maresa talk about all the learning do be done during this time outside of school. We explore how communities are taking care of each other, what is an essential worker, and what kids can do and learn during this time.

High schoolers organized a protest in Springfield Vermont on June 5th to join with thousands across the country to demand that Black Lives Matter and justice for the families of black people killed by the police. Today we aired speeches from students, parents and teachers and dedicate this show to the youth leading the way to build a world in which all people have what they need and are liberated.

We air voices from streets - last Sunday's action in Brattleboro and Tuesdays Youth-led rally. We also play music from the Black Lives Matter movement. Photo Credit: David Shaw. #brattleborosolidarityBLM

REPLAY-MOCHA Springfield MA, Men's Health by Indigo Radio

Indigo Radio extended special on Epidemiology 101 with Dr. Luke Mullany. Luke has worked in the field of public health for over 20 years - he is a long-time Professor of International Health at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and 2015 recipient of the JHU Global Achievement Award. He works currently as a Senior Scientist in the Applied Physics Lab at John Hopkins. Luke joins us...

Spend the hour listening to some of your favorite area Spark educators read poetry and talk about teaching - poems include Assata Shakur, Nikki Giovanni, Bertolt Brecht, Maya Angelou, June Jordan, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, and an original from Dr. Janaki Natarajan, co-director of Spark Teacher Training Institute.

Part II of our show with undergraduate Public Health majors at UMass, Amherst. Students speak out about how the pandemic has impacted their lives, challenges they face, racism, media, what is needed for public health, and more! Includes interview with Anna, Indigo host and instructor in the Public Health department at UMass, Amherst

Indigo host Anna talks with her college students about the impact of the pandemic on their lives. Part I of a two part show with UMass, Amherst Public Health students. Part II will air Sunday April 26th.