Indigo Radio

Hosts Anna and Henry focus on the history of US concentration camps. While the current dialogue around the US run migrant concentration camps on the southern border is focused largely on the humanitarian aspect of the camps, this show will try to place these camps in a historical context. Concentration camps have been used throughout US history as an effort to silence dissent and to protect the in...

US intervention and imperial interests in Latin America - specifically in the context of Venezuela & Honduras - and the solidarity and resistance by the people. We are joined in the studio by Hector Figarella - Venezuelan-American activist, on the phone AsÎs Castellanos - Honduran sociologist & activist & Beth Geglia - anthropologist and activist working on Honduras since 2009. Our guests talk abo...

Chris and Maresa play songs of war resistance and describe some of the contradictions of the US's so-called conflict with Iran.

Fred Magdoff, a frequent contributor to Monthly Review and is the author of Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation (2017), What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism (2011), and more, Professor Emeritus of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont joins Indigo Radio in conversation on capitalism's effect on people, the central role capitalis...

The Springfield, VT Birthing Center closed early May - We air an interview with Shannon Glidden - Shannon is a resident of Charleston NH and used the birthing center for the birth of her first two children - she is now pregnant with her third, due at the end of July. We are also joined by Dr. Sally Mullany Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health (OBGYN) at the...

Why are so many people undernourished and hungry when there is enough food for all? We speak with author of "Farming While Black" and Director of Soulfire Farm, Leah Penniman about her work, then we speak with Becca Polk about her garden in Springfield, VT and what she teaches her students about their relationship to food. Finally we speak with Joe Frigo, science teacher, who gives us a ecologocal...

Today's show reviews the Stand Up! Fight Back Education conference in Brattleboro Vermont last weekend. The show also talks about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in terms of what kind of criticism and reporting on capitalism and imperialism is allowed. This is connected to the torture of Chelsea Manning and similar events wchich helped to frame the Vietnam War.

Today on Indigo Radio ~ we play an interview that Cohost Becca Polk did with our friend and comrade Vijay Prashad a few weeks ago. They discuss food sovereignty, struggles around water, US imperialist wars, and how these larger forces impact the lives of humans throughout the world. Vijay Prishad is an Indian historian, journalist, author, as well as one of the Social Research Directors at the Tri...

This is a special show produced by Guilford Central School’s 4th grade class! The episode features “Voices of the People of Guilford,” a quilt and poetry project the class worked on in collaboration with Abenaki artist and educator, Judy Dow, and Guilford poet, Verandah Porche. The episode will play interviews with working people in Guilford that were conducted and edited by fourth graders. Some o...

Christina Schiavoni, food sovereignty scholar and activist speaks to Indigo Radio about What is Food Sovereignty and examples of movements around the world including Venezuela.

Hosts Lauren and Anna give a sneak peek into a labor conference coming in November at UMass Amherst. We air the voices of Western Mass workers involved in different labor struggles. The Labor Center at UMass Amherst is sponsoring "Visions of Labor: Film and Worker Stories," a multi-faceted project that employs the power of worker stories, told through film and video, to inspire reflection and crea...

This show is about the state of housing in Brattleboro. We speak with Rhianna Kendrick from the Groundworks Collaborative to delve more deeply into vacancies, rent, ownership, and affordable housing in Brattleboro. We also look at the Short Term Rental Summit coming to Brattleboro in May. The summit is sponsored by Airbnb and hosted by the Downtown Business Alliance. What does a push for short-ter...

This is part three of our series on Venezuela. Hector Figarella, a Venezuelan, speaks to Indigo Radio about the Bolivarian Revolution and what is happening on the ground in Venezuela.

This is the second part of our feature on Venezuela. We talk about what is happening today, the politics of food and the media misrepresentation around it, and talk about Elliot Abrams.

Alejandro Velasco, NYU professor and author of "Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela, discusses the historical context of Bolivarian uprisings as connected to the current attempted coup of Venezuela by the United States.

The LA Teachers Strike: What happened? What were the teachers fighting for? How is this strike connected to larger struggles around labor and education in the US? How is this strike connected to education issues in Vermont?

Kelly Juno just came back from the U.S.-Mexico border where she volunteered on the Mexico side to support migrants. Joining Indigo Radio is Jonathan Donald Jenner, who works with the Pioneer Valley Workers Center and other organizations around Western Massachusetts. He also just returned from the border.

Today we discuss gender. As human beings, we are assigned a gender, most of the time before we are even born. The gender that we are assigned at birth has real social implications as we grow up with increasing pressure to fit into the boxes created for both men and women, girls and boys, and for what? What is the purpose of the construction of gender, how is gender enforced, how do we learn and te...

Report back from the School of America's Border Encuentro, November 16-18, in solidarity with those disappeared, murdered and imprisoned by border patrol and ICE. To learn more about US militarization and struggles along the US/Mexico border, we interviewed SOA Watch organizers Dévora Gonzalez and María Luisa.

Indigo Radio attended National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, MA, organized by United American Indians of New England. This show presents Indigenous Speakers from the 49th National Day of Mourning event, including a letter written by political prisoner Leonard Peltier, read by Indigenous Elder Bert Waters.

"What I want to say to America..They have the power to stop Saudi Arabia" - Somia Elrowmeim We spend the hour on Yemen - we are joined by activists Somia Elrowmeim and Isaac Evans-Franz in NYC to discuss the humanitarian crisis and the US backed Saudi war in Yemen. Image by Ahmed Jahaf - Yemeni graphic designer and artist

In the tradition of Armistice Day, we interviewed Kourtney Andar from Veterans for Peace to discuss soldiers resistance to imperialist wars and the militarization of society.

Indigo Radio host Mikaela Simms talks with organizers from MOCHA - a movement working to improve the health of men of color in Springfield, MA. Thanks to Hank, Lamont, and David for joining us in our Brattleboro studio and sharing with us all the work you are doing in your community.

For this show, we look at the commodification of natural resources through talking about the history of dams and the current uses of rivers for electricity. We are joined by Kathy Urfer, River Steward for the CT River Conservancy, and Joe Frigo, Science teacher and former Trout Unlimited employee.

Hosts Nik & Anna discuss privatization and mass incarceration - we will be airing interviews with Bianca Tylek from the Corrections Accountability Project at the Urban Justice Center in NYC and Nico Amador at ACLU-Vermont. We cover Vermonters move to a CoreCivic privately owned prison in Mississippi that happened early October, prison slave labor, the criminalization of the poor, and divestment.