The Forum

In this week’s edition, we will hear about three aspects of climate change. Dr. Michael Mann, an American climate scientist explains why extreme weather is more common. Dr. Sarah Chadburn, from the University of Leeds in the UK, will discuss fast thawing permafrost and its implications. Finally, Professor Marissa Landrigan traces her relationships with food […]

In this episode, Brooke Palmer, a Kansas City native, reflects on how diversity positively affected her education. She then hosts a panel discussion about several contemporary topics with a diverse group of high school students who are friends and appreciate their diversity. These teens, Carmen, Sanaa, Mion and Jude, are part of a larger group […]

While COVID-19 and Voting Rights are eclipsing most of the news, problems still exist in other areas.  Among those problems is the upsurge in immigrants and asylum seekers coming across the U.S.’s southern border with Mexico. Primarily from Central and South America, these people are rushing to the USA in unprecedented numbers. In this episode, […]

Kevin O’Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer follow up last week’s show by talking about the importance of saying the word, “NO” in maintaining your mental and emotional health. This is part two of a two part series.  The first part, “Discover Your True Self and True Freedom” was aired on the July 29 edition of […]

Kevin O’Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer ask five critical questions to help you discover your true self and so find true freedom.  This show is part one of a two part series.  The second part, “The Importance of Saying “NO” will be aired next week on the August 5 edition of the All Souls Forum. […]

Meg Fowler, Resource Center Coordinator at  Kansas Suicide Prevention HQ (KSPHQ) will discuss the rise in suicides in America since 1999.  She will also describe how to recognize warning signs of suicidal behavior and how to prevent and intervene. In the course of her presentation, Ms. Fowler will mention several resources — websites, hotlines, etc.  […]

Podcast Host Stephanie Van Hook and University of Mary Washington Professor P. Anand Rao discuss the connection between Gandhi and the civil rights movement and how it ties into the legacy of CORE co-founder James Farmer. Nonviolence Radio is a 60-minute program featuring news about nonviolence culture and movements around the world. The show also includes […]

All Souls Forum is on hiatus until after Labor Day. This week, we present a climate change podcast from Radio Ecoshock entitled, “Climate in a Fiery World.” Harvard’s Dr. Loretta Mickley has discoveries about how fiery this planet is. Do wildfires and those far-flung clouds of smoke heat or cool the planet? Then another awful […]

All Souls Forum is on hiatus until after Labor Day. This week, we present the Juneteenth Special presentation of “Let’s Talk About Race” from KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR. Juneteenth, the African American celebration of emancipation has been thrust into the spotlight this year after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud […]

  Dr. Gina Lane of William Jewell College and Dr. Matthew Harris of Park University will speak about how language is used in politics to campaign and popularize ideas and legislation. They will focus on the metaphors that shape our political world and the implications of the language used.

John Fish Kurmann manages a Community Recycling Center, Green Events and Litter Abatement Programs for Bridging the Gap.  Involved in recycling for 25+ years, he will follow up on Neil Seldman’s Forum (May 6, 2021) with a local perspective on the recycling crisis and how to help fix it.

Burdett Loomis, an educator and political observer, will discuss the accomplishments of the Biden/Harris administration. Traditionally, the first 100 days of a presidency have been a measure of effectiveness of newly elected officials.

After decades of scrambling to organize world governments to act collectively to ameliorate multiple, global climate crises, governments again plan to work together to affect global environmental problems.  Via President Joe Biden, the United States is again involved in Paris Climate Agreement talks.   Robin Martinez, who spoke with the Forum during the 2016 Dakota […]

One of the annual traditions for the All Souls Forum has been a movie-themed Forum on the day of the Academy Awards ceremony.  In the last year we have missed seeing movies in theaters and many of us have filled our hours at home by streaming movies and other content. One of the favorite venues […]

Neil Seldman will speak about finding end-uses for materials separated from the waste stream, and the urgency of developing these business opportunities as China is refusing to continue taking portions of the waste stream line plastics. As outlets for these materials disappear, we may be forced to send them to landfills.

Originally, Bryce Reeder, Assistant Political Science Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia was to speak about the macro elements of the Paris Climate Accord; however, due to an emergency, Dr. Reeder was unable to make the presentation. In place of the discussion of the Paris Climate Accord and to celebrate Earth Day 2021, the All […]

Lawyer Stacy Shaw rose as a leader of Kansas City’s racial uprising after the killing of George Floyd that rallied thousands, black & white, to a renewed call to action. Shaw looks at what was accomplished, where we’ve fallen short, and what needs to happen now.

Through a crisis-laden winter, KC Tenants shut down Jackson County’s Housing Court with protests against evictions and is carrying on a #CancelRent campaign in a fight for Kansas City’s most vulnerable communities exposed by the inequitable pain of the pandemic. With Tara Raghuveer, KC Tenants Director.

Stan Slaughter, Education and Garden Specialist with Missouri Organic Recycling, is a former award winning science teacher and has long been a force in the local gardening movement.  Stan, however, is best known for the scores of songs he has written about the environment and about gardening.  He has produced six albums to date. Stan […]

Lee Gum and Craig Hewett of the Kansas City chapter of Extinction Rebellion spoke August 21 at Jacobs Well Church, 42nd and Wyoming in Kansas City, Missouri.  This episode is excerpted from that presentation. The event had two main themes: a review of the peer-reviewed climate science that suggests that humanity may be careening toward […]

Lee Gum and Craig Hewett of the Kansas City chapter of Extinction Rebellion spoke August 21 at Jacobs Well Church, 42nd and Wyoming in Kansas City, Missouri.  This episode is excerpted from that presentation. The event had two main themes: a review of the peer-reviewed climate science that suggests that humanity may be careening toward […]

Peaceworks KC held its annual commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Sunday at Loose Park. KKFI was on hand to record. This year marks the 74th anniversary of the two tragedies.

We remember when Farm Aid came to Kansas in 2011, with a press conference featuring Jim Hightower, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, as well as local movers and shakers in the agricultural movement.

Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear sounded the alarm recently about large amounts of dangerous nuclear waste passing through Kansas City unless we work to stop it. Peaceworks KC sponsored Kamps speech March 21 at the Rime Buddhist Center in KCMO.  Tonight on the Forum, KKFI will play Kamps’s presentation.  Kamps said legislation is being discussed […]

Peaceworks KC held it’s annual Memorial Day vigil at the Kansas City weapons plant. There was a die-in memory of those who died due to contaminants at the old weapons plant at Bannister Federal Complex, and seventeen activists were arrested for trespassing. KKFI was on hand to record the proceedings. The illustrious group of 17 […]