Indigo Radio

Indigo Radio spoke with Fred Magdoff to discuss COVID 19 and the response in the US! Fred Magdoff is Emeritus Professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. Recent books include What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (written with John Bellamy Foster) and Creating an Ecological Society (written with Chris Williams).

On this show, cohosts Caridad and Becca discuss how mutual aid organizing should be part of the long term struggle in our attempts to transform the world so that all people have what they need to live healthy and happy lives. We interviewed Jax Padilla about mutual aid organizing in Western Mass and Janaki Natarajan, co-direct of Spark Teacher Education Institute.

Today we spend the hour with Vickie, the director of the Women's Freedom Center in Windham County and Donna, the legal advocate at the center. We talk about the impact of COVID-19 on those experiencing abuse in the homes. The WFC 24 hour hotline is 802-254-6954

Today we are talking about Mutual Aid in the Era of COVID 19 - How can we work towards solidarity not charity! We interviewed Story from Western Mass Community Mutual Aid network and Eva from Out in the Open, an organization based in Brattleboro working to connect rural LGBTQ people to build community, visibility, knowledge and power. This will be part 1 of a series in which we will continue to ad...

In this show from 3/15/20, Henry and Amar dive into how capitalism is in crisis and how the coronavirus is exposing its systemic failures. We get into the contradiction between socialism for big business and individualism for the masses, the failure of the private health care system and the botched US response to the coronavirus, among other topics.

Music influences our daily lives; join Indigo Radio for a conversation around anti-war music and its influence in the US. From the Vietnam War to recent threats against Iran, ordinary people have resisted the US government's draft, perpetual war, and the maiming of innocent lives here and abroad.

On Mondays in March Brattleboro Solidarity will be facilitating a study group on Iran. We will learn about Iran’s history and culture, U.S.-Iranian relations, and how to resist war against Iran. What do you think of when you think of Iran? Khomeini? Hostages? Oppressed women in chadors? Too often, in the U.S. media events in Iran are ahistorical and decontextualized. These tropes about Iran that a...

Storytelling through Hip-Hop music (Music show) We’re listening today from artists and activists and thinking about the experiences lived by people here in the US though Hip-Hop (it’s roots in Folk Spirituals, Jazz, and Blues to its early incarnations, to artists today) And thinking for ourselves about what kind of world is possible?

Indigo Radio interviews Ambedkar Pindiga, researcher of Tricontinental Institute of Social Research, on their recently released dossier, “Peoples Polyclinics: The Initiative of the Telegu Communist Movement”. You can read the dossier here - https://www.thetricontinental.org/dossier-25-polyclinics/

On any given night there are over 500,000 people homeless in the U.S. and historically high housing rents make it so over 50% of people struggle to pay their rents in this country. We air highlights from the Homeless Vigil in Brattleboro this past week and an interview with David Dunwell of Springfield No One Leaves working on housing issues in Springfield, MA. Join us for an hour on housing and h...

Host Mikaela Simms is joined by Bessie Jones, mother, long time educator and director of Sow Well Tots, and Julie Cunningham, mother, grandmother and Executive Director of Families First to talk about their experiences of being a black women living in the Northeast and raising children in this area.

Nik, Anna, and Josh discuss the decade and some of the defining protest movements that took place during 2010-2019. From the Occupy Movement, to Standing Rock, #blacklivesmatter, gun violence, youth action, and whistleblowers, this decade people continued to take to the streets and resist increasing police repression and state violence. We discuss how to continue connecting our struggles and what...

Indigo Radio host Becca Polk talks to UMass, Amherst history professor Kevin Young about the coup and current crisis in Bolivia, plus connections to US imperialism. Professor Kevin Young’s main research and teaching interests are in modern Latin America. His 2017 book - Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia traces the history of Bolivian struggles over mineral...

Today we discuss the IMF and austerity measures as mechanisms for the wealthy to capture for massive profits while the people are left to struggle amongst themselves in an ever divided and polarizing climate. People across the globe have come together in recent weeks - protesting all demanding change to existing economic, political, and social systems.

This week on Indigo Radio Henry and Josh are discussing pollution from the military industrial complex and the connected issue of Nuclear waste storage's impact on Indigenous Peoples living under US occupation.

The three economically most powerful countries, Japan, Germany and the United States, with the United States leading also as the global military threat, are the three countries that continue to censor history while flying the banner of justice, equity and rights. Our focus today will be on Japan and the United States. Reiko Maejima, PhD candidate in Ancient Oriental Philology. Her thesis is “polit...

Today we discuss the human made climate crises and youth organizing for climate justice. We heard from two middle school students, and learned more about the profits behind climate destruction. We end with an Indigo Radio special "people power on the rise, now it's time to organize!"

We spend the hour with James Douglas and Matty Whelan - talking about the homeless revolution, organizing in Brattleboro, poverty, and criminalization.

We will be talking about the challenges of building community in our schools and if that is possible in a world that encourages competition and divisions. We will speak with a student about their organizing efforts in Montpelier and to teachers about their thoughts on classroom community and school structures that either support or go against the schools we want for our children.

Teachers unions have been a powerful force for change. With strikes across the nation addressing teaching conditions and student learning and living conditions, we discuss Vermont teachers. Healthcare discussions and ongoing bargaining between the state and the VT-NEA continues to pit teachers against other workers. We know that everyone must have healthcare and stand in solidarity with workers ac...

We commemorate the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We spoke with Reiko Kato, Professor of Intercultural Communication, Pedagogy, Contemporary Social Issues, and Diversity, Inclusion and Equity at Kyushu Institute of Technology (Institute of Liberal Arts), Japan about how the bombings are remembered in Japan and how to maintain the collective memory as Hibakusha are dying. We also talk about...

Voices from today's rally and protest outside the Municipal Center in Brattleboro, VT. Organized by Homeless Place in Brattleboro - a group working to improve the lives of those experiencing homelessness in and around Brattleboro.

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...

Northampton Teachers Work to Rule and the Possibilities For Our Unions by Indigo Radio

We spend the hour on Supervised Injection Sites, harm reduction & addiction. We air an interview with Carrie Stefanson from Vancouver Coastal Health about Insite - the supervised injection site in Vancouver operating since 2003. We also discuss the ongoing discussion in Windham Co. around opioid-related deaths, poverty, and the conditions of people's lives that lead to addiction.