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March 26, 2021: The Struggle for the Eurma C Hayes, Part Two

Our show this week returns with the second part of a conversation between Kite Line’s Micol Seigel and three members of the Carbondale, Illinois community:  Chastity, Kim, and Nick. They speak about the ongoing struggle for the use of the Eurma C Hayes Community center. Originally opened by the city as a space for youth, the city later defunded the …

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Interchange – Paul Robeson: An Essential American

We open the show with “The Purest Kind of Guy,” performed by Paul Robeson, a song from Marc Blitzstein’s 1941 opera No For An Answer which concerns the life and fate of members of a social club of Greek-American waiters, hotel-workers, restaurant-workers, chefs, laundresses, chambermaids, taxi-drivers, who are out-of-work. In 1958, Blitzstein was subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. House …

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Hola Bloomington – January 22, 2021

Hosts, Carlos Bakota and Josefa Madrigal, speak with Professor Dr. Francisco Vázquez about a variety of topics and historical movements that have helped shaped our Latino community. Professor Vázquez also discusses the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on Latinx/Hispanic community and steps that can be taken to ensure continuity for all that have been effected. Locutores, Carlos Bakota y …

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January 8, 2021: Built on a House of Cards – Environmental Justice and Incarceration

This week, we share an urgent statement from the Free Alabama Movement about their ongoing hunger strike and economic blackout. Afterwards, we speak with David Pellow, Fabiana Lake, and Camber Wilson, who recently coauthored a report on ‘Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails Around the World,’  via the Prison Environmental Justice Project.  Environmental justice is an even more important …

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November 27, 2020: Careless With People’s Lives- Violence & Neglect in Florida

For our episode this week, we share more from Florida Prisoner Solidarity. Recently, they told us about the drastic retaliatory measures prisoners were being subjected to in the Florida Department of Corrections. These punishments were often given as a response for prisoners advocating for themselves in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. This week, they continue to shine a light …

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November 20, 2020: Punished for Self-Preservation

This week, share an update sent to us from Michelle Freeman about her husband, Vernell. Michelle’s impassioned plea on behalf of her partner is both urgent and inspiring, and we will continue to air messages from her in the future, as Vernell’s situation evolves. You can hear our episode about Vernell here. Afterwards, we speak to two people from Florida …

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Interchange – Stalking the Middle Class with David Roediger

Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. Our conversation with historian David Roediger took place about a month ago on October 14th and in between then and now fell November 3rd, Election Day in the U.S., and we have a new President-Elect – Joe …

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Interchange – The Negative Example of Clint Eastwood (Repeat of “Mixed Nuts”)

It’s Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and you’re listening to Interchange on WFHB. Okay, so, this is a repeat airing of a program that appeared BTD or Before The Donald, in what seems decades ago, August of 2015. Tonight, while we chew our nails and continually refresh our favorite likely partisan election results site on our phones, we can …

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Interchange – Concentrating Caliban: A Fund Drive Anthology

The deeply racist Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner once wrote in his 1951 novel, Requiem for a Nun, that the past isn’t dead, it’s not even past. In that same book Faulkner has the “nun,” which carries the meaning of prostitute in Shakespeare’s time, a Black drug addict named Nancy, offer that salvation comes from suffering. And though this is …

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Hola Bloomington – October 9, 2020

En Hola Bloomington, Josefa Madrigal, entrevisto a invitad@s Brenda Espinoza del Caucus Latino Democrático IN-9, está Dyna Martinez del Caucus IN LatinX a nivel estatal y a Robinson de Jesus-Romero, el secretario de la Asociación de Estudiantes Latinos Graduados (LGSA). Ell@s comparten información sobre el VOTO LATINO y la manera que nos impacta. Lo importante que es hacer una decisión …

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