Radio Active Magazine

This week’s edition of RadioActive Magazine will feature Daniel Griffith, Associate Director of Law & Policy of Secure Democracy discussing voting and election legislative issues.  We will explore the anti-democratic trends sweeping our country, including a discussion on the recently completed and partisan review in Arizona.  It was called an “audit” by the politicians who authorized it, but […]

Host Pat Riehle talks with Daniel Brazzell, Executive Director of Team Fidelis.  The mission of Team Fidelis is to prevent suicide among service members and families by raising awareness, providing a bridge of HOPE and building camaraderie. This episode includes only the first half of the interview with Brazzell.  The second half of this episode […]

Sunrise Movement KC representatives Raymond Forstater and Ryan Dickey discusses their current concerns and activities with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.

This is a rebroadcast of the first half of a one-hour special on "Black Voices, White Allies", which originally aired 2020-07-21.  Click here for the full hour.   RadioActive Magazine founder […] The post Clause on racial justice appeared first on KKFI .

Radio Active Magazine host Spencer Graves talks with three people from MORE2:  their executive director, Lora McDonald, and community organizers, Ricee Cade and Cautia Wadood.  MORE2 is Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equality, pronounced “MORE-squared” and sometimes written with the “2” as a superscript. Cautia is working primarily on improving healthcare for MORE2 supporters in Missou...

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features a discussion of a petition to bring ranked choice voting to Kansas City, Missouri, organized in part by Better Ballot KC.  Host Spencer Graves talks with Chris Verbrugge about this petition drive.  They hope to collect at least 7,000 signatures by November 15. Wikipedia has several articles that relate to […]

Charles Carney is walking the 253 miles from McConnell Air Force Base four miles southeast of the central business district of Wichita to the Kansas City National Security Campus on Botts […] The post Charles Carney's Peace Walk appeared first on KKFI .

Hilary Cohen Singer, Executive Director of Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) of Kansas City, discusses their program and what they are doing with refugees, especially now following the official US withdrawal […] The post Jewish Vocational Service and refugees in Kansas City appeared first on KKFI .

Kyle Mohr joins Joe Ballegeer to discuss how unemployment is understood in the United States. Kyle is a PhD student in economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, a […] The post How unemployment is understood in the US appeared first on KKFI .

Public health expert Doug Samuelson, economist Joe Ballegeer, and Radio Active Magazine host Spencer Graves discuss "Externalities, public goods, and contagious diseases".  Major conclusions from this discussion include the following: […] The post Externalities, public goods, and contagious diseases appeared first on KKFI .

Lori Glenski, Clinical Director Substance Use Disorder Services for ReDiscover talks with Radio Active Magazine host Pat Riehle.  They offer a 24-hour crisis line and other mental health services through […] The post ReDiscover Mental Health Services in Kansas City appeared first on KKFI .

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features excerpts of a remembrance event Sunday, 2021-08-08, of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, seventy-six years earlier, August 6 and 9.  PeaceWorks Kansas City has been organizing similar remembrance events since roughly 2012. This year’s commemoration included the following: Ms. Hiroko Komiya, Vice President, International Pea...

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features an interview with Tony Rothert, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri.  The discussion may include the following: 1. Barriers to voting:  The ACLU of Missouri has sued to protect voting rights in multiple cases (school boards, motor voter, limited IDs accepted) involving many issues […]

On Aug. 3, RadioActive Magazine host, Dave Mitchell, will interview Senator Jim Hendren of the Arkansas legislature, founder of Common Ground Arkansas, along with the Executive Director, Ms. Misty Orpin.  […] The post Common Ground Arkansas: A Voice for Bipartisan Cooperation appeared first on KKFI .

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features Craig Lubow interviewing Sharon Brett, the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas about their concerns and current litigation.  Ms. Brett formerly served on the Law faculty at Harvard and as a trial attorney at the Civil Rights division of the US Department of […]

Rohan Grey joins Joe Ballegeer to discuss cryptocurrencies and the future of money. Rohan’s research focuses on the legal design and regulation of money and finance, including digital fiat currency, as well as broader issues of law and political economy. He is the research director of Digital Fiat Currency Institute and a consultant to the UN International Telecommunications Union’s Focus Group on...

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features an interview with Kansas City structural engineer Ralph Jones, who describes what he thinks residents of Kansas and Missouri should do if they see something that looks to them like a possible safety problem with a structure, e.g., building or bridge.  Jones is President of Structural Engineering Associates […]

This episode of Radio Active Magazine discusses two issues: First, infectious disease expert Doug Samuelson says that we ar in a race between vaccination and mutation.  Everyone who can safely take a vaccine has a civic responsibility to protect not only themselves but their family, neighbors and people they don’t know by getting vaccinated. Second, […]

Radio Active regular Spencer Graves is scheduled to talk this week regarding his proposals for an “International Conflict Observatory” which is a collection of activities to improve human understanding of conflict and thereby facilitate less violent and more constructive management of major conflicts.  He is interviewed by Radio Active Magazine leader Craig Lubow.   Image […]

Host Pat Riehle interviews Janessa Riehle, the Logistics & Volunteer Coordinator for the Community Volunteer Coordination Core on the KC Hotel Initiative.  The KC Hotel Initiative is the City of […] The post The KC Hotel Initiative to Alleviate Houselessness appeared first on KKFI .

Andrei Stoica, Brynn Fitzsimmons, and Nyonu Branch-Watkins of Independent Media Association (IMA, independentmedia.us) describe their efforts to support citizen journalists creating well-researched, contextualized stories that matter deeply to their communities. IMA believes freedom of press means equipping everyday people to tell stories that help us all get free. They work with volunteers and co...

Join host, Bob Grove, and Director, Matt Wechsler, to discuss Right To Harm, the award-winning agricultural documentary.  

On June 1, 2021, RadioActive Magazine, with host Dave Mitchell, will interview Denise Lieberman, Director of the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition and Representative Yolanda Young of the Missouri legislature from District 22 here in Kansas City.  Significant focus will be on the myth of widespread voter fraud in the Nov., 2020 election, giving birth to […]

Host Spencer Graves will interview Joe Ballegeer and Mathew Forstater from the Economics Department of the University of Missouri at Kansas City about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)  and the post-pandemic economy. MMT is a school of economic thought that insists that any country with its own sovereign currency, like the United States, should NOT worry about a […]

Host Itto Outini interviews Haley, a white American born in the US, whose parents and family members are unhappy with her decision to marry a brown immigrant human rights advocate from South America. Haley shares challenges she has faced with her family over breaking their social norms and ideology.