Denise and Johnny talk about loss and grief.

In this edition of Radio Curious we honor and pay tribute to folk singer Ronnie Gilbert, who died on June 6, 2015 at the age of 88. She is well known for her powerful contralto voice as a member of the Weavers, the extraordinarily popular folk music quartet that in 1950s and 1960s. She also had careers as an actor and a psychologist. From the Radio Curious archives, recorded in September 1996, Ronnie Gilbert describes her introduction to music and dance, how the Weavers came together; their blacklist experience; her thoughts about turning 70 years old when this program was recorded in 1996; and her friendship and work with Holly Near. We conclude with Holly Near recalling her friendship with Ronnie Gilbert. The books Ronnie Gilbert recommends are “The Moors Last Sigh” by Salman Rushdie, “Making Movies” by Sidney Lumet and “Eyewitness: A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Union” by Vladimir Pozner.

In the first half of the episode, we discuss 5 tactics MAGA uses to avoid healthy discourse in conversations and ways you can identify and steer the conversation in a healthier direction. In the second half of the episode, we discuss an essay by Stacy Muhammad entitled ‘The Politics of Consequence’ and connect Hollywood’s influence on culture to the division we are seeing in American life today.

Upstart Radio's Midwalk is a short stroll through the theater of the mind.

A Limburger Lounge spotlight delving into a world from a bygone era and you might be glad it's gone after you come back from it, Ukelele's make fun teaching instruments, and a Celebrity Slip up with a song about smiling, which celebs know how to do far too well, much like used car salesmen in this case.

On December 6, 2023, an Israel airstrike murdered Refaat Alareer, a poet, writer, editor and teacher. This show is a memorial to his life and work. We present an interview with Refaat Alareer and Laila El-Haddad, co-editors of “Gaza Unsilenced. Written in the aftermath of the 2014 Israeli pogrom. Many of their statements bear directly on the situation today. In an excerpt from the talk “Revolution, Nothing Less,” Bob Avakian speaks to the importance of Internationalism, The Whole World Comes First.

Without a Rational Strategy Trump’s Iran War Continues with No End in Sight; US–Israel to Integrate their Military Budgets To Shield Funding from Congressional Opposition; New IPS Progressive Blueprint: 'Forging a Democracy that Works for All'

If you’re a parent trying to decide where your child should go to school, you’d prefer to have a choice, right? After all, everyone likes to have options. But the appealing rhetoric of school choice is being used by the right-wing to undermine and underfund public schools, while allocating public subsidies to wealthy families. Today on Sea Change Radio we are talking about school vouchers. Currently, eighteen states have a universal private school choice program, and more are likely on the way. But the expansion of the school voucher system has been made with minimal oversight and has led to waste, fraud, and abuse. The cost to public education is tremendous, as public revenue that would otherwise support public schools (which still educate roughly 90 percent of American students) is redirected to private, religious, and largely unregulated institutions. Our guest this week is ProPublica reporter Jennifer Smith Richards who is here to tell us what she has learned about the damaging effects of school vouchers across the country. We look at the history of the concept in the US, examine issues of abuse and discrimination in Arkansas and Florida, and discuss the very powerful messaging tool embedded in the term “school choice.”

The time has come for Libyans to close ranks, and become again a sovereign state serving all its people.

# 1 Spain won the world cup and sidelined the Trump show; soccer is a people's sport, no supersized players and real grass. #2 The ICC is a pseudo-court serving Western interests.

The Appalachian Bluegrass Music Hour with Danny Hensley. A weekly program featuring the latest in Bluegrass Music track distribution by record labels such as Pinecastle, Billy Blue, Compass, Mountain Home Music, Mountain Fever Records, Turnberry Records, Sound Biscuit, Gravy Records, Sugar Hill, Rebel Records, Rounder Records and music distribution sources such as Get it Played and Airplay Direct.

We mark our 2000th episode. Pete Hegseth gets trolled by U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, The Rainbow Rewinds to Judy Grahn, Vito Russo and Reverend Troy Perry and Lucia Chappelle gives advice from a 2000 episode old lesbian. In newswrap France's new rights watchdog is no friend to queer people or women, while the trans position of the U.K.'s new government is questionable and a gay German politician falls to surrogacy hypocrisy. In the U.S., the House declines to make Trump's transgender military ban permanent, but advances other anti-trans measures, and a Seattle judge keeps a historic LGBTQ+ beach nude, but curbs the bad behavior.

This is an updated archival program in memory of Cecile Pineda Cecile Pineda had come to the Unitarian Universalists Fellowship Hall in Berkeley on Hiroshima Day 2014 to support Harvey Wasserman. He campaigns to prevent the opening of nuclear power plants - to limit their operation - or to close them down. Cecile Pineda had just finished her novel: Devil’s Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step, that the Nation’s John Nichols called: “An astonishing anatomy of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster..." Cecile Pineda died at home on August 11, 2022. Her friends and students miss her voice, her humor, her deep scientific knowledge and her rebellion - all inside her art of writing. This replay of her appearance, along with Harvey Wasserman, has an eerily contemporary cast. In April of 2026, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approval of Diablo Canyon Power Plant’s operating license renewals, completing the federal licensing process that California initiated in 2022 under Senate Bill 846 to keep the plant online through 2030. Harvey Wasserman, still active today, continues his campaigns opposing nuclear solution to expanding power needs. DATE: I recorded this event on August 6, 2014.

Features US political science scholar, lesbian and feminist activist Dr. Jean Hardisty, founder of Political Research Associates, addressing the US National Women's Studies Association in the year 2000. Her 1999 book Mobilizing Resentment analyzed what fuels right-wing movements, including diversely-organized movements of right-wing women. Includes analysis of how racism has been restructured by the US right (a concept reaching its apotheosis during this Trump administration). Hardisty died in 2025. Her analysis, more apt than ever, lives on. 

IF YOU AIR THE SHOW PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL TO LET ME KNOW! EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca The Mix Sessions is a journey through hypnotic rhythms and soulful deep house groove. Featuring slush, atmospheric textures. TRACKLIST 01. Nina Simone - See Line Woman (Masters At Work Remix) 02. Lazylife - Recline 03. Emancipator - Siren (Tor Remix) 04. Shirley Horn - Return To Paradise (Mark De Clive-Lowe Remix) 05. Tom Tom Club - Love to Love You Baby (Tom Novy & Purfo Remix) 06. Body Language - Can't Hang On 07. River Tiber - Waves 08. Dos Palos - Tear It Down 09. Lum - Respira 10. Sable Blanc - Finesse 11. Jacques Greene - On Your Side

IF YOU AIR THE SHOW PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL TO LET ME KNOW! EVERGREEN. Contact: sean@armedia.ca Trip Hop Radio is a sonic escape into a world of dreamy beats and introspective melodies, featuring an eclectic blend of trip hop, chillout, and downtempo grooves. Updated weekly. TRACKLIST 01. Nina Simone - See Line Woman (Masters At Work Remix) 02. Lazylife - Recline 03. Emancipator - Siren (Tor Remix) 04. Shirley Horn - Return To Paradise (Mark De Clive-Lowe Remix) 05. Tom Tom Club - Love to Love You Baby (Tom Novy & Purfo Remix) 06. Body Language - Can't Hang On 07. River Tiber - Waves 08. Dos Palos - Tear It Down 09. Lum - Respira 10. Sable Blanc - Finesse 11. Jacques Greene - On Your Side

1. Grown Man - Idasa Tariq 2. Introducing - Tha Lepht 3. Time - Actual Proof 4. Independent Ladies - J.I. 5. Cloud Kickin' - Ivy Sole 6. About My Love For Hip Hop, part 2 - Shadowstar Boxer 7. Summerland - Moka Only 8. Super Crush - Rel McCoy 9. Atlantis - Blu & Nottz 10. Beej-N-Dem, Pt. 2 - J Dilla ft. Beej 11. Verbal Glock - Illy Funkstaz (Da Youngsta's) 12. Preem - Noveliss ft. DJ Soko 13. The Source - Brous One ft. El Da Sensei and Damu The Fudgemunk 14. Steady Slangin - Wise Intelligent 15. Defeat Stress - Chillman 16. Mr. Smith - LL Cool J 17. Perfect Match - Cella Dwellas 18. Watch dem ****** - Nas 19. Daylight - Kasey Andre 20. Back in Time - Magicxbeats

Humans are blowing up oil, gas and each other. The Northern Hemisphere breaks out in more record heat rashes. German scientist Anders Levermann warns we are entering a time of climate free-fall. (new) Trump cronies try to drill in Greenland. Dr. Patrick Bigger on climate costs of war (replay). Outside my studio - a stinking smudge of American wildfire smoke and extreme heat in dried out land. End-Times that never end, this week on Radio Ecoshock.