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Kade Young (2019-Present) Wes Martin (2017-2019) Joe Crawford (2015-2017) Alycin Bektesh (2011-2015) Chad Carrothers (2003??-2011) Jonathan Coke (1998?-1999?)

Bloomington Annexation: “Just Stop it Here”

A local “citizen-organized group” has undertaken a coordinated effort to mobilize residents across Monroe County to challenge their potential annexation by the City of Bloomington. WFHB met with Monroe County Residents Against Annexation member Margaret Clements who further elaborated on the function and role of such an organization. “That is Monroe County Residents Against Annexation (MCRAA)… they’re our grassroots effort …

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Inside Outdoors – Saturday July 17, 2021

We invite anyone who would like to be included in the program to PM us at ‘Inside Outdoors’ on Facebook, or call us in the studio at 812-323-1200 Hosts are Don Jordan, ‘Buddy Bill’ Moser, D Alan Bronnenberg, and Rich Reardin ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and Inside Outdoors executive producer is Rich Reardin WFHB executive producer is Kade Young Also, …

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July 16, 2021: Prison By Any Other Name, Part One

This week on Kite Line, we speak with prison abolitionist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. We share the first part of our discussion on their recent book, Prison by Any Other Name: Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms. The book is an in-depth look at the various “alternatives to prison” that are held up as substitutes for incarceration, but which, …

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Hola Bloomington – July 16, 2021

WFHB Hola Bloomington, Josefa Madrigal, presenta la caminata de Cosecha Indiana a la causa para que TODOS tengan las licencias de conducir. Cosecha Indiana ha caminado más de 300 millas dentro del estado de Indiana para que nuestra comunidad hispana/latinaox tengan licencias! Si se perdieron la caminata, aquí está un poco de documentación y resume de la meta que es …

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July 2021: Capital Flees- Union Busting at a Vegan Foods Factory

This week, we speak with a group of grassroots labor organizers formerly employed at No Evil Foods, a socialist-themed vegan foods company.  They describe their efforts to organize a union at the company’s Asheville manufacturing plant, and No Evil’s subsequent efforts to bust the union – leveraging the COVID crisis – and eventually outsource their work in order to close …

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Interchange – Exporting Jim Crow: Big Tobacco and Sharecropping in China

Today’s show is a repeat of “Roll Jim Crow” (April 30, 2019) about the very intentional practice of white supremacy by the corporate managers of the American Tobacco Company and how, via corporate imperialism, that same racial project found expression in countries all over the world, most notably China. Some of the topics covered are: James Duke and debunking the …

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Saturday’s Child July 10 Salem Willard

Tune in on Saturday, July 10, at 11:00 am, when WFHB’s Saturday’s Child welcomes Salem Willard of Will Holler, for a special solo performance. Willard is the primary vocalist, songwriter, and founding member of the band Will Holler, a group with a country/folk/rock fusion sound that blends a walk in the woods with the pumping rhythm of a steam engine …

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July 9, 2021: On Strike

This week, amid a spate of prisoners’ strikes, we share our monthly round up of prison disturbances for June 2021, compiled by Perilous Chronicle.  Prisoners are hunger striking across the continent, agitating for safer conditions, and pushing back against labor exploitation.  We share an excerpt of the story entitled Prisoners Strike Against Racism and Colonialism in Canada’s “New Residential Schools” …

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Inside Outdoors – Saturday July 10, 2021

We invite anyone who would like to be included in the program to PM us at ‘Inside Outdoors’ on Facebook, or call us in the studio at 812-323-1200 Hosts are Don Jordan, ‘Buddy Bill’ Moser, D Alan Bronnenberg, and Rich Reardin ‘Inside Outdoors’ engineer, host and Inside Outdoors executive producer is Rich Reardin WFHB executive producer is Kade Young

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July 1, 2021: Stick-up on Rikers Island

This week, we continue talking to David Campbell, former anti-fascist political prisoner who recently did a year on Rikers Island. In our last conversation with David, he discussed the circumstances of how he ended up in the Rikers facility- the short of it being that he was sentenced to his time after a fight with some Trump supporters in NYC. …

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