Tag Archives: Activism

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 43.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is “Driving the Peace Train.” And perhaps unsurprisingly our opening song tonight is Richie Havens’ version of Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train.” And while this song asks us to ride the peace train, our show today asserts the need for engineers of peace. Our GUEST today, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:10 — 39.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the late 60s, one man imagined creating a place that would radically undermine the societal values of his time—an alternative space that subverted color lines, gender norms, and war. That man was Fred Rogers and that place was Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Our opening song is, of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:09 — 58.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreJoin anchors JP and Sarah as they interview Elbe Lieb and Kris Roehling, facilitators for the group QueerTalk. QueerTalk is a space that is for discussing and learning about issues that affect both individual members of the queer community, but also for the community as a whole. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:45 — 26.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe begin our show with updates on the National Prison Strike, and then devote the entire episode to Marius Mason, a friend and former Bloomington resident currently serving a 22 year sentence for acts of ecological defense. We hear messages from people to and about Marius, listen …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:04 — 4.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of Activate!, we interview a few of the organizers of the Black Lives Matter Rally that took place in Bloomington earlier in 2016. Zoe and Peyton talk about how they were influenced by BLM rallies in other cities, and how that led them to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 12:00 — 11.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWFHB reporters were at the Courthouse Square in downtown Bloomington this weekend covering what turned out to be one of the largest political rallies the city has seen in recent years. The Black Lives Matter rally was organized following the recent police killings of Alton Sterling in …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:19 — 52.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDrawing on his research into the 1970s Stop Killer Cop Campaigns and the 1980s National Black United Front, Komozi Woodard will connect the dots of resistance to violent whiteness yesterday, today and tomorrow. Komozi Woodard is the author of A Nation Within a Nation and editor of …