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📝 Reporter Nick Wylie speaks to Emily Green in Minneapolis, MN about how their neighborhoods combat recent ICE raids with communication networks, supporting families in urgent need of housing, and more! 🏘️ ⭐️ For more information on Emily Green and the community’s efforts on the ground in Minnesota, you can visit neighborrelieffund.org 

 Mutual Aid Report airs weekly on Tuesdays on WLPN-LP Chic...

Happy almost Valloween❣️Sorry it took us a minute. The world has been chaotic, and we needed time to take care of ourselves and our loved ones. But we are back creating for the NID ghouls. We are adding “Your Monster” to our Valloween special next Saturday! NID has a new host, @paooooo.cx joining Leslie to recap Valloween and talk about @melissabarreram’s iconic role as Laura in “Your Monster,” a...

🎙️✨ ¡Bienvenidxs al 24° episodio de Boletín Migrante. En esta emisión hablaremos sobre los recursos y apoyos para personas mexicanas en Estados Unidos: qué hacer en casos de detención, emergencias legales y cómo acceder a protección consular. También compartimos información sobre programas en México para quienes se vean forzados a regresar. Nos acompaña el Cónsul Adscrito en Chicago, Gerardo Guer...

📝 On this week’s Mutual Aid Report, we speak with Chef Diana Dávila of Mi Tocaya (@mitocaya) and Ed Marszewski of Marz Brewing (@marzbrewing) about how Chicago’s restaurant community is stepping up to support immigrants and neighbors in need. From grassroots fundraising to community events like Tiger Moon and Todos Ponen (@todosponen_chicago), we explore what restaurant-led mutual aid looks like...

Valentine’s Day but make it existential. 💖❤️💖 Tomorrow on noseyAF on Lumpen, the brilliant @joeschupbach educator, leader, thinker, theatre maker joins me for a conversation on cooking, memory, care, education, grief, creativity, and the radical power of being curious about other people’s lives. A conversation about love. A conversation about care. Join us Saturday, February 14th at 2 PM CST Liv...

Feral Citizen is a short run series of conversations with western great lakes, regional ecologists, scientists, makers and activists who center Land in their interdisciplinary practice. Conversations are curated by Nance Klehm, chief ecologist and director of Social Ecologies. For our second episode, we have a very special interview with writer, visual artist, and cultural organizer, shanai_mattes...

Episode 3: A World Without Borders Part Three explores the possibility of a world without walls or national borders—examining both the promise and the challenges such a world might bring. The program is dedicated to anyone kept from the people or places they love by border walls. The poem Affirmation by Assata Shakur is read by Samantha Rodgers and Lujain Al-Saleh. With thanks to David Gallup, Pat...

📝 On this edition of The Mutual Aid Report, State Senator Robert Peters (D IL 13th District) joins us to break down the current administration’s efforts regarding SNAP reforms and what that means for Illinois residents. 🏘️ We discuss the real-world fallout of these reforms, the communities in Chicago most affected, and how the state plans to continue funding food access and protecting food safety...

In this episode I speak to London based Film Programmer Philip Ilson. Philip has been programming cinema for over 30 years and in 2004 he co-founded the London Short Film Festival - the UK’s leading short film festival. We talk about film programming, the genesis of the festival and what's in store for this year's programme - taking a deep dive into its themes through music. In these hour-long con...

🎙️✨ ¡Bienvenidxs al 22° episodio de Boletín Migrante. En este programa hablaremos de lo que está pasando en nuestras comunidades: la solidaridad de la comunidad negra frente a la violencia y la criminalización, las exigencias de rendición de cuentas en la Comisión Comunitaria para la Seguridad Pública y la Rendición de Cuentas (CCPSA) y la campaña #ApagaElOdio, con @ilehlainat de @Mijente 🔗 Escú...

Ecos de Latinoamérica | Emisión especial Echoes of Latin America | Special Broadcast Hoy tejemos este espacio de escucha colectiva gracias a todas las voces que participaron y enviaron sus audios desde distintos territorios. Gracias por compartir memorias, reflexiones, emociones y resistencias frente a la violencia imperial y el largo historial de intervencionismo en nuestra región. Esta transmisi...

Echoes of Latin America | Special Broadcast Hoy tejemos este espacio de escucha colectiva gracias a todas las voces que participaron y enviaron sus audios desde distintos territorios. Gracias por compartir memorias, reflexiones, emociones y resistencias frente a la violencia imperial y el largo historial de intervencionismo en nuestra región. Esta transmisión existe por y para ustedes. Today we we...

Tune in this Sunday at 2pm when my guests will be Haley Pham and Khaled Simon of Sublime Hospitality! The couple behind Taco Sublime, Patty Please, and Buttermilk! WLPN-LP 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio #dishwithdavid #lumpenradiochicago #lumpenradio

Awesome talking with you, Diana Dávila! Listen to Dish with David this afternoon at 2pm on Lumpen Radio WLPN-LP 105.5 FM and learn more about Todos Ponen, Una Noche de Pueblos y Platillos at Ramova Theater!

Today on noseyAF live! Happy New Year! First conversation of 2026 My friend of 10+ years, Deirdre Fox (@deirdre_fox_art) , a Chicago artist turning plastic consumer packaging into drawings, fiber works, and installations that ask us to slow down and reconsider what we throw away. We talk about materials, environmental awareness, and making work that lives in the tension between permanence and disp...

🎙️✨ ¡Episodio #20! En esta ocasión presentaremos la segunda parte de un episodio especial, grabado durante la Sazonblea 2025 de Mijente, realizada en la ciudad de Chicago del 16 al 19 de octubre. @conmijente En esta edición escucharás entrevistas y testimonios de participantes de distintas partes del país que trabajan junto a nuestras comunidades por la búsqueda de la justicia social (@familiatql...

Part One explores how borders evolve within cultures, land, minds, and schools, and is dedicated to children navigating borders that don’t make sense. Featured readings include Affirmation by Assata Shakur (read by Samantha Rodgers and Lujain Al-Saleh), excerpts from Margaret Atwood read by Margot Brier, and Mending Wall by Robert Frost read by Jeff Shephard and Taravajri. Thanks to Shelly Romalis...

Part One explores redlining, racial covenants, and other racist legal practices that have sustained segregation, focusing on Chicago while recognizing their nationwide impact. Featured conversations include Ghian Foreman, President and CEO of the Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative, and journalist Natalie Y. Moore, author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregati...

🎙️ Final noseyAF conversation of the year Tomorrow, I’m joined by Lawrence Nalls of Forty Photography on Lumpen Radio for a conversation about legacy, fatherhood, and photography as storytelling and service. I’m also approaching a major milestone — nearly 100 conversations on noseyAF. Almost 100 moments of curiosity, care, and community. Ending the year with someone who embodies legacy and values...

Secrets from the audio’s closet of the Mex Files. A selection of multilingual poetry, sound art, secret collaborations and magical spells, from special guests like: Matte de Blasio, Regina Müller, Todd Brown, Cherlynn Zhang and Delia Zafiro. Tonight with our special guest host Indigo June directly from La Pocha Nostra Headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Screaming as art. Rage as care.
Whitney Bradshaw (@thewhitneybradshaw joins us to talk OUTCRY her ongoing social practice project where womxn, non-binary, and genderqueer people gather for collective scream sessions that center healing, resistance, and radical empathy. Through these sessions and the resulting photographs, OUTCRY creates space to be loud, take up space, and transform rage into pers...

Perceptions of the Real is an exploration of what swims beneath our consciousness and how it surfaces through writing. Hosts Sarah Conway and Eli Ramirez are joined by a guest who produces a piece of writing live on-air. Together we will detangle the question of why we make what we make. --- Airs: Every 2nd and 4th Saturday @ 11AM

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This week's guest Diamond Sharp discusses her poetry c...

🎙️✨¡Bienvenidxs al 19° episodio de Boletín Migrante. En este show fue grabado durante la Sazonblea 2025 de Mijente, realizada en la ciudad de Chicago, del 16 al 19 Octubre. 🐜 🐜 @conmijente ✊🏽Escucharás una serie de entrevistas y testimonios de participantes de varias partes de este país que han trabajado junto a nuestras comunidades en la lucha por la justicia y la defensa frente a las políti...

Join us for three talks this episode! In this episode we have Dr Jarrod Dortch (@jarroddortch) Resident Artist from Big Car Collaborative from Indianapolis, IN. Taylor Jo (@zaagi.idiwin) Independent Artist from White Earth Nation, MN. And lastly, a short but sweet talk with Dana Trickey an Independent Artist from Waubun, MN. he MdW Itasca Gathering was designed around the open studio and open spac...