Radio Active Magazine

Host Itto Outini interviews Mekiya Walters, a male American, and Asya Ozkizilcik, a female from Turkey, to explore similarities and differences in how people in different cultures express emotions in different situations.  Mekiya is a fiction writer with a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in writing from the University of Arkansas.  Asya is currently serving as a Post […]

Join host, Bob Grove, and Missouri State Organizing Committee Chair, Steve Mann, to discuss the formation of a new U.S. political party called the People’s Party.

Every two years, the United Nations selects 17 Youth Leaders from across the globe to engage youth with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. In 2020, a Kansas City musician was selected to be the only U.N. Youth Leader from the United States. Join host, Bob Grove, as he speaks with rising star, AY Young.

Host Itto Outini interviews individuals at Alphapointe, a leading organization serving and empowering blind and visually impaired persons at their headquarters at 7501 Prospect, Kansas City, Missouri.

This episode of Radio Active Magazine discusse two superficially unrelated issues: 1. The Clean Missouri campaign is looking for volunteers to “Join the Coalition” in the fight for fair maps in Missouri: In early 2018 Republican Representative Hannah Kelly said, “The Clean Missouri initiative, if passed, will be devastating to Missouri Republicans.” Republicans now hold […]

On Feb. 16, 6 p.m., RadioActive Magazine, with host, Dave Mitchell, will interview Sami Aaron, founder of The Resilient Activist, and Dr. Barbara Gilbert, psychologist.  Primary focus will be on pre-stress trauma suffered by climate scientists, journalists, activists, with suggestions for how to develop long term resilience.  Events and trainings are available at:  theresilientactivist.org

Prominent activists from the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) in the desert Southwest (Albuquerque, NM) join PeaceWorks – Kansas City board members Kristin Scheer and Ann Suellentrop to discuss continuing problems with contamination due to uranium mining in the U.S., as well as the Churchrock tailings dam failure July 15, 1979, which created […]

Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, discusses his recommendations for changes in governmental policy towards media to improve the functioning of democracy. This includes recommending citizen-directed subsidies for media, documented in his 2016 book on Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the […]

This episode features a discussion with Andrew Bergerson and Carrie Stevens with Our Revolution.  Bergerson is President of Our Revolution – Kansas City, Missouri.  Stevens is Executive Director of Our Revolution – Kansas, (which also has a Facebook page).  Our Revolution – Kansas is working to build county chapters throughout the state.  Both organizations are affiliated with the […]

Internationally-known activists will join PeaceWorks-Kansas City board members Kristin Scheer and Ann Suellentrop to discuss this historic Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which activists believe is the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons. Ray Acheson is the director of the Reaching Critical Will project of the Women’s International League for Peace and […]

The Wyandotte County, Kansas District Attorney’s office has asked the Vera Institute of Justice to help them understand and address racial inequities in the local criminal legal system. As part of their work, they have looked at data from the local jail and D.A. Dupree’s office to measure and describe racial disparities in the system. […]

Spencer Graves and Tom Crane discuss efforts to improve the quality and quantity of volunteer journalism with training and editorial assistance by a professional journalist.  Current plans consider this as a collaboration between Friends of Community Media and KKFI.   THE PROBLEM:  Progress on every substantive issue facing humanity today is blocked, because every countermeasure threatens […]

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features a discussion among four journalists representing local news outlets in Kansas City.  Each will describe their particular foci and why they think people in Kansas City should value the news they report.  This includes highlighting at least one of their most important recent stories. Kelsey Ryan discusses TheBeacon.media, […]

This episode of Thursday Night Special focuses on the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (2020 HR 7640 ), the issues involved, and how it tries to address them.  It offers tax credits for local media, their subscribers and advertisers. We invite comments about this from candidates to represent parts of the greater Kansas City area in the US Congress and others.  Dean Baker, a co-founder of the Ce...

What have public health authorities locally, nationally, and internationally done well in managing the current public health crisis, and what could be improved to help us manage this current pandemic and similar problems in the future? This episode of Radio Active Magazine features a discussion on these and related issues with Professor Edward Ellerbeck, Chair […]

Host Craig Lubow talks to Mark Dupree and Kristiane Bryant about issues facing the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s office.  Dupree is the current District Attorney and Bryant is challenging him in the 2020 election.

Author and activist John Dear discussed “Living The Nonviolent Life,” 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Saturday, March 7, at Whitfield Center, Avila University, 11901 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO, and “The Nonviolent Path as Illuminated by Jesus,” 2-4:00 p.m., Sunday, March 8, at Community of Christ Temple, 1001 W. Walnut, Independence, MO.  This episode of Radio Active […]

Ron Farmer, vice-president of Ches, joins host Pat Riehle to talk about housing affordability options. CHES, Inc. is a HUD Certified, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, housing counseling, financial empowerment organization, based on the belief that our clients’ needs are of the utmost importance. They are dedicated to empowering low to moderate income individuals and families with the […]

Host Tom Huffman talks to his guest from KC For Safe Streets, an organization that addresses road safety issues, including pedestrian and bicyclists deaths. Kansas City has one of the highest injury and fatality rates in the country. ADA issues for road way and sidewalk design for disabled persons is included in the discussion.

Mayor Quinton Lucas joins host Pat Riehle to talk about his State of the City speech and his vision and priorities for 2020. The post Interview with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas appeared first on KKFI .

Pat Riehle talks to guests from Unbound. “With your support, our program empowers sponsored individuals and their families with tools to achieve self-sufficiency. Local staff members work with sponsored families on how to best use their benefits to achieve personal and family goals.” Unbound is an non-profit international company, founded and headquartered in Kansas City.

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features a half-hour March 1 reenactment of a 4-hour trial November 1, 2019, of fifteen activists with PeaceWorks Kansas City for trespassing on the Kansas City National Security Campus on the previous Memorial Day, May 27, 2019.  This National Security Campus makes or procures 85 percent of the non-nuclear […]

Host Dave Mitchell interviewed Zach Pistora, Sierra Club lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club. Their focus was on the Kansas energy sector, including the very recent announcement that Holcomb 2, a massive addition to that coal plant in S.W. Kansas, that investors were pulling their funding for it. This move was viewed as a victory […]

Richard Mabion joins host Craig Lubow to talk about the NAACP and Environmental Justice on the first part of the show. Julie Burkhart, CEO and founder of Trust Women, joins us on the second part to talk about pending legislation in the Kansas House and Senate that would effect reproductive rights and would put the […]

On January 3rd, eleven days before this broadcast, a US drone strike killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and four others near the international airport of Bagdad, Iraq. The next day, at least two rallies were held in Kansas City to protest this extra-judicial execution, one at noon and another at 3 PM.  This episode […]