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September 10, 2021: The Attica Commune

Three years ago on Kite Line, we aired an episode about the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. This week, September 9th to September 13th, will mark fifty years between us and the event. We share this piece again today, with updated contributions from its author, analyzing the growing challenges to our collective survival, both inside and outside the prisons.  What …

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September 10, 2021- Hola Bloomingon

On this program you will hear from Carlos Bakota and Francisco Vazquez as they discuss the issues that are directly affecting the Latinos/Hispanics.  They provide us with their latest update on DACA, Border Crisis, Unaccompanied children, census data and Latino voting, covid19 vaccine and much more! En este programa, escuchará a Carlos Bakota y Francisco Vázquez mientras discuten los problemas …

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Samantha Power & Pete Buttigieg

Both are high-ranking members of the Biden Administration and both have visited Bloomington on a number of occasions. Power, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, is now head of the US Agency for International Development. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana and a 2020 presidential candidate, is the current Secretary of Transportation in the Biden cabinet. …

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Interchange – Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus

Today we engage with a masterpiece…literally: scholar Steve Volan’s Master’s thesis, Gownsburg: The Campus as Municipal Phenomenon. Volan has also been a City Council member in Bloomington, Indiana since 2004. In Gownsburg, the politician and the geographer seek common ground in order to describe what the University does well – but more importantly, to help us see how far afield …

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Bring It On! – September 6, 2021: Defending Democracy

Today’s show is a rebroadcast from September 28, 2020. On Wednesday, September 30, 2020, and Thursday, October 1, 2020, IU’s Department of History presented three events designed to bring together IU and the greater Bloomington community in a conversation focused on race, white supremacy, and voter suppression. 2020’s speaker for the virtual town hall meeting on Thursday, October 1, from …

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Inside Outdoors – Saturday September 4, 2021

We are recording the show via Zoom because of an issue due to COVID 19 that happened in August. We hope to return to the studio sometime soon! Hosts: Don Jordan, ‘Buddy Bill’ Moser, Rich Reardin, and D Alan Bronnenberg ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and Inside Outdoors executive producer is Rich Reardin WFHB executive producer is Kade Young

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Hola Bloomington – September 3, 2021

Locutora, Minerva Sosa, entrevista a José Toledo sobre el documental Sin Libertad: Inmigrantes Latinos en una ciudad del Medio Oeste, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtxQ… Comparte con nosotros sus planes para la continuación del segundo documental.  Canción de fondo “Sueños Alcanzar” https://youtu.be/fxrB5jbkdhA por Sandro León (Perú).   Host, Minerva Sosa, interviews José Toledo about the documentary Unfreedom: Latino Immigrants in a Midwest Town, …

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September 3, 2021: We Are Human Beings- Words From an Attica Rebel

This month, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, a high point of the prisoners’ movement of the 1960s and 70s.  On September 9th, 1971, prisoners revolted, building on their own organizing and local grievances, as well as responding to the assassination of George Jackson by guards at Soledad Prison in California.  Right now, marking both events …

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Eco Report – September 2, 2021

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HEADLINES The Indiana Environmental Reporter says a pair of Purdue University professors have been appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s newly reconstituted Scientific Advisory Board. —Norm Holy In a story originated by WFYI, city officials from Bloomington, Carmel, and West Lafayette — and other Indiana lawmakers — sent a letter to Duke Energy urging the utility to make a …

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Interchange – The Mask of the Public Good: What the University Costs Communities

The Checkerboard Lounge permanently closed its doors in 2015 – but these doors were not those of the storied blues shrine that had stood on 43rd Street since 1972. The demise of this cultural mainstay opens Davarian Baldwin’s new book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universites Are Plundering Our Cities. In 2003 the University of Chicago put …

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