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This week, we share the final part of a conversation about Rikers Island between Bella Bravo and Jarrod Shanahan. Shanahan is a writer, activist, and professor of Criminal Justice based in Chicago. He has previously appeared on Kite Line to discuss mass incarceration and the George Floyd rebellion. We are speaking again today about his new book Captives: How Rikers …

She begins her second year leading one of the nation’s premier repositories of film and video. Alicia Kozma has studied, researched, written, and taught about films and other media since she was a teenager. She has focused on labor in media — who works in movies and TV and what their working conditions are — as well as gender both …

This month, we begin sharing an ambitious two-part interview with Doug, a life-long deserter, commune-dweller, and bioregionalist organizer currently living in western Canada.  Doug is interviewed by his nephew, a contributor to a militant network of communes in the region. Doug shares invaluable recollections on the experience of living underground and in exile in Canada and Sweden, while refusing US …

Willie Nelson – A Beautiful Time Andrew Bird – Inside Problems Lyle Lovett – 12th of June Schmetterling – Zwie África Negra – Antologia, Vol. 1 Toro y Moi – MAHAL Oumou Sangaré – Timbuktu Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island Lettuce – Unify Caesar Frazier – Tenacity / As We Speak Cristina Vane – Make Myself Me Again John Doe …

This week, Bella Bravo speaks with Jarrod Shanahan, a writer, activist, and professor of Criminal Justice based in Chicago. Shanahan has been on previous episodes, discussing mass incarceration and the George Floyd rebellion. We are speaking today about his new book Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage. Captives recounts the last seventy years of New York politics …

On Friday June 10th, concerned Southern Indiana residents met to discuss how to protect the Hoosier National Forest from a logging and burning project the Forest Service announced back in October 2021. The group, Save the Hoosier National Forest, opposes the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project, and wants to make sure the forest is protected for future generations and to help …

It has been 50 years since Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination from schools and educational programs receiving federal funding, was passed. Now that the landmark legislation has been around for half a century, it begs the question: where are things now? In the year 2022, women’s collegiate athletics are still looking for equal funding and …

John Doe – Fables in a Foreign Land Schmetterling – Zwie Caesar Frazier – Tenacity / As We Speak Cristina Vane – Make Myself Me Again George Is Lord – My Sweet George África Negra – Antologia, Vol. 1 Angel Olsen – Big Time Oumou Sangaré – Timbuktu Willie Nelson – A Beautiful Time Toro y Moi – MAHAL Sofi …

On May 25th, 2022, Rearview Rhonda joined us for a Local Live in-studio interview and performance. We discussed the history of the band, their EP studio release, and upcoming plans. Songs: Ready To Go Earworm Toxic Domestication Time Bomb Turn Up The Radio Credits: Engineers: Kirsten Payton, Ilze Akerbergs, and Chama Henry Host: Abby Noroozi Post-Production: Kirsten Payton

Interview with Maru Moro Villalpando of La Resistencia, a project that organizes against the Northwest Detention Center. In this conversation, Maru passes a kite along on behalf of immigrants housed in the facility. As they point out, facilities like this are “black boxes” where extra effort must be taken to shed light on conditions inside. Maru discusses some of the …