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* How To Explain Voter’s Contradictory Support for Abortion and Trump?; Amy Littlefield, The Nation magazine's abortion access correspondent; Producer: Scott Harris. * Women's March Organizing first major Protest Jan 18th to Challenge Trump Regime 2.0; Tamika Middleton, Managing Director of Women's March; Producer: Scott Harris. * Protesters Disrupt FERC Hearing Highlighting the Climate Crisis Bef...

-Delhi’ India’s air quality the equivalent of 49 cigarettes daily -Storm Bert wreaks havoc on Ireland, flooding, downed trees, power outages nationwide. -U S Northwest battered by storms -Mexico’s Vanilla producers estimate they lost about 80 percent of this year's crop. -Greece, expecting 90% reduction in Chestnut crop yield -10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea -Saudi Ar...

* How Democrats' Failures Helped Traitor Trump Win Four More Years; Rachel Bitecofer, political strategist, analyst and author; Producer: Scott Harris. * Merrick Garland's Delay in Prosecuting Trump Paved the Way to Establish His Mafia Regime; Sarah Kendzior author and co-host of the Gaslit Nation weekly podcast; Producer: Scott Harris. * As Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Continues US Labor Movement Sta...

The Resistance Roundtable show interviews Branko Marcetic who discusses his recent Jacobin Magazine articles on Biden's horrific Gaza policy; and the apparent decision by the Harris campaign to keep Tim Walz off the campaign trail. Interview by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruthanne Baumgartner, Oct. 12, 2024

On the October 20, 2024 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is in conversation with Barbara Fair, LCSW, a community organizer and founding member of Stop Solitary CT. Barbara and Stop Solitary CT are currently calling for justice for J’Allen Jones, a 32 year-old community member who died in Department of Correction custody in 2018, in a horrifying and devastating situation. Barbara Fair can be r...

Leonard Aguilar, secretary-treasurer of the Texas AFL-CIO talks about the strategies and prospects for this massive organized labor body. Hosted by Michael Zweig and Richard Hill, Oct. 1, 2024

-Hurricane Milton destroys 500,000 homes at $85 billion cost -“2024 State of the Climate Report warns of Climate emergency -Antarctica's glaciers are in serious trouble -Pesticides aren't always necessary -United States continues to emit more planet-warming methane -Utah’s Great Salt Lake days may be numbered. -India unhappy with EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism tariffs -12% of Rep’s, and 59%...

Host: Duo Dickinson Wednesday October 16, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org A century of top-down architectural determination is over. Regimes of conferring worth via station and prestige have been replaced with the number of “likes” and “followers” accruing as if the entire world is one polling station. We have reached intellectual democratization, where popularity trumps insights (good or b...

* Trump, GOP Preparing to Undermine Presidential Election Results if They Lose Justin Glawe, an independent journalist, frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine Producer: Scott Harris * Under Trump Project 2025 Would Sabotage Federal Storm Forecasting and Disaster Relief Andra Watkins, a New York Times bestselling author Producer: Scott Harris * If Completed the East African Oil Pipeline Wil...

Director of Agriculture at CitySeed in New Haven which we talked about on a previous segment which you can hear in our podcasts section if you missed it. Kaitlyn is Owner of Sunset Organic farm in Naugatuck Ct. she is back to talk to me now about some of the issues farmers are facing due to some of this extraordinary weather many of us are experiencing.

Jeff Masters (Hurricane Expert, Yale Climate Connection), Kaitlyn Kimball (Director of Agriculture for Cityseed, New Haven), James Blanchfield (Wilton, Connecticut Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director)

Laura Modlin interviews Bill Lucey, Soundkeeper for the Long Island Sound with Save the Sound, about eels migrating out to the North Atlantic after decades spent in Connecticut's rivers and streams and what they encounter here. Aired October 6, 2024.

* US Media Sanitizes US Role in Israel's Savage War in Gaza and Lebanon; Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org; Producer: Scott Harris. * Corporate Media is 'Sanewashing' Trump's Obvious Cognitive Decline; Parker Malloy, publisher of the Present Age newsletter, fmr editor-at-large w Media Matters 4 America; Producer: Scott Harris. * As Hurricanes Ravage the Southeast US, Fossil Fuel’s Dest...

-UK set to stop producing any electricity from burning coal -90% of the planet’s soil is being degraded -Extinction of hundreds of bird species Threatens other systems -24 percent of plastic waste comes from just five companies: -Africa’s ecosystem threatened by climate change -Home insurance companies pulling out of risky states. -Connecticut sees first human case of new tick-borne disease

Friday October 4, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org Host: Peggy Nelson Part 1: Hot Spots – events in our area. Part 2: Director and actor Mike Boland discussing his film “Yo, Andrea”. Part 3: A conversation with Bridgeport artist Julia Contacessi Part 4: A tribute to Gavin Creel

* Israel’s Series of Assassinations, Lebanon Invasion Puts Middle East on Brink of Regional War; John Feffer Director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies; Producer: Scott Harris. * As Netanyahu Addresses UN General Assembly, Americans Protest Israel’s Genocide in Gaza; Gregory Daly a participant in a NYC protest against Benjamin Netanyahu on Sept. 26th; Producer: Melinda...

-Hurricane Helene Devastation -Vienna reduced impact of flooding caused by Storm Boris -Italy and Switzerland have redrawn their shared border -Germany embraces "balkonkraftwerk", or balcony solar -Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative was launched- -How much warmer is the Earth going to get?

On the September 29, 2024 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is in conversation with Barbara Fair, LCSW, a community activist and founding member of Stop Solitary CT. Stop Solitary CT will be holding a press conference TOMORROW, September 30, 2024, at 9am at the Legislative Office Building - Room 1-B (300 Capitol Avenue in Hartford). This press conference will be addressing ongoing violations o...

Dave Chapman, co-director of The Real Organic Project (realorganic project.org) discusses the Sept. 28 conference in Hudson NY, Real Organic; A World Movement which will feature a roster of speakers on the major issues confronting the organic movement today. Hosted by: Richard Hill, Diane Lauricella and Steve Munno

Friday September 27, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org Host: Peggy Nelson Part 1: Hot Spots – events in our area. Part 2: Deborah Burke, Creative Director of the Town Players of New Canaan, discussing the 2024-2025 Season of Plays. Part 3: Charles Rosenay discussing The Haunted Trolley presentation of “Final Stop: Murder On the Rails.” Part 4: Hamish Lutris discussing his book “Earth Ascendan...

Hosts: Andrew Ross and Bonna Sue Burtt Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5FM www.wpkn.org Guest Julia DiCola the Executive Director of Our TransLife A discussion about the climate of what it is to be a political target during the 2024 campaign especially when candidates are making spurious comments about trans people and how organizations like Our TransLife help the trans and non-bina...

My guests this show are Lindley Dixon of the Real Organic Project. Linley serves as a Farmer representative and Co-Director of the Real Organic Project. Then Louise Washer a founder of the Pollinator Pathway joins me to tell us the latest news on the neonicotinoid pesticides problem Finally Gloria Frazee of Rewild Long Island makes her monthly visit to talk about….Rewilds fall programs and how lon...

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-Record 2024 Central European floods -Multiple wildfires raging across northern Portugal -North Carolina saw historic rainfall -Vast areas of the Brazil on fire -Atlantic hurricane season poses increased risks -California’s closes plastic bag waste loophole -In Norway electric vehicles surpass gas automobiles -Gen Z & millennial workers back sustainability priorities

-Typhoon Yagi most powerful typhoon to hit Asia this year. -Severe drought in Cuba -Antarctic sea ice has been exceptionally below average -The lead ammunition poisonous to scavenging animals -Critical shortfall in pollination affecting world’s food crops, -EPA gives $4B in funding for clean energy projects -EV sales have not fallen, cooled, or slowed -New solar-charging Truck bed Power System