Radio Active Magazine

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 Pat Riehle interviews Jessica Podhola, Director Of Governmental Affairs, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 3.  We'll discuss the PRO Act pending in Congress, the state of today's Labor movement and Right To Work Legislation looming in the Missouri Legislature.

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.

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.

Host Itto Outini interviews delegates and members of the Refugee Congress, a nonpartisan advocacy organization built and led by refugees, asylum-seekers, and other vulnerable migrants, focusing especially on delegates from Kansas, and Missouri.

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 […]

Radio Active host Bill Clause interviews Itto Outini. For much of her young life, Itto Outini, 31 years old,  a native of Morocco, was homeless, illiterate -- and blind. Today she is a Fulbright scholar and social activist...and the new KKFI volunteer. Itto Outini introduces herself: I have learned how to navigate the sighted world as a blind woman, fluently speaking 3 languages and becoming a mot...

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...