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The Path to Inner Peace

Airs at: Sun, 12/11/2022 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Have you ever wondered about how the concept of karma operates? Subhash Jain is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The University of Iowa. He was born in India into a family that practiced Jainism, and he continued to do so after ... Read more

Leonard Peltier: Walk to Justice --- Murder-Cartel-State of Indigenous Peoples in Southern Mexico

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  American Indian Airwaves
  Part: 1 The Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice, organized by the American Indian Movements Grand Governing Council (AIMGGC), began on September 1st, 2022, from Minneapolis, and concluded 1,100 miles later, on November 13th, 2022, in Washington D.C. with approximately 2,000 ... Read more

Annihilating Caste Systems

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  For The Wild
  This week, Ayana is joined by a Dalit American civil rights activist. The Dalit, formerly known as "untouchables", are the people considered to be the lowest stratum of the castes in India.  Thenmozi Soundararajan, in a profound conversation detailing the wounds of cast... Read more

O Heavenly Grid: The Burning Question

Airs at: Thu, 12/01/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Our opening prayer O Heaveny Grid is from the Firesign Theatre - dedicated to the late and deceased COP27 climate conference held in Egypt this month. Katrin Ganswindt from the German enviromental group Urgewald reports oil, gas, and coal companies have announced expansi... Read more

Your Inner Tree

Airs at: Wed, 11/30/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  Declining biodiversity is a problem as fraught as climate change. Loss of habitat, monoculture crops, and the damming of waterways all lead to massive species extinction. They tear at life's delicate web, and threaten a balance established by four billion years of evolut... Read more

Society of the Sports Spectacle, with Jules Boykoff

Airs at: Wed, 11/30/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    With the global mega-event, football (aka soccer)'s World Cup, in full swing, we take the opportunity to have as today's guest, Jules Boycoff, local author who has written widely on the business and politics of sport. A one-time member of the U.S. men's under-23 natio... Read more

The End of the World as We Know It

Airs at: Wed, 11/23/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Different generations have very different perspectives on how the world looks and feels. A global climate crisis, dysfunctional government and media, too many choices, changing perspectives on race, religion and sexuality. Is it the end of the world as we know it, or has... Read more

Climate Change in an Island Nation / Climate Talk vs. Climate Action

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Project Censored
  Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's program. While the COP27 climate conference was underway, she spoke with Khadeeja Naseem, a cabinet minister from the Maldive Islands; the Maldives are one of the countries most endangered by sea-level rise. Their conversation included... Read more

How To Handle COP27: Despair, Panic & Cunning

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Earth Riot Radio
  The investor class is not just callous and probably criminal. They seem to have no idea what Justice means. The nations and tribal people of the global south, struggling with drought, floods, fires, mudslides, sea-rise, aka Climate Chaos... are in Egypt calling out to t... Read more

War and Pestilence

Airs at: Wed, 11/23/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Pestilence and War. Professor Jennifer J. Carroll, PhD, MPH, a medical anthropologist, research scientist, and subject matter expert on substance use and public health, speaks about the Global Impacts of War and Covid-19. Read more