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This week, we are highlighting two experiences of outside solidarity with prisoners.  First, we share audio from last week’s rally in Indianapolis for clemency, including a recorded statement by Leon Benson, a longtime imprisoned organizer, as well as a speech by his son, Leon Bluitt, about the impact of growing up with an incarcerated parent. After that, we feature an …

Working in the cleaning products industry, Steve Ashkin hit upon the idea that our efforts to sanitize our home and work environments needn’t foul our global environment. Moreover, he posited that our scrubbing, scouring, and wiping liquids and utensils shouldn’t make us sick in our own homes. Many in his industry scoffed at Ashkin’s suggestions but he kept working to …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, July 29th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Max Campbell concludes his series of Bloomington annexation. You will hear from both the city and county on their respective concerns regarding annexation. That’s coming up in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have a new segment …

Unemployment benefits in Indiana have been in flux for the past few months. On Monday of last week, Indiana officials filed a second appeal asking the Indiana Court of Appeals to stay an order compelling the state to continue paying federal pandemic unemployment benefits. The appeal marks Governor Eric Holcomb’s continued efforts to halt Indiana’s participation in three federally funded, …

For today’s show we welcome two guests – returning to Interchange is Viren Murthy, associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and also joining us is Annapurna Mamidipudi who is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. They’ve co-authored a paper titled “Raga and …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 26th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Assistant News Director Jake Jacobson interviews Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton, in today’s edition of a Few Minutes with the Mayor. More coming up in the bottom half of tonight’s program. Also coming up in the next half hour, the City of Bloomington released its …

This week on Kite Line, we continue our conversation with prison abolitionist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. We share the second half 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 …

Original air date August 22, 2017. Philosopher, poet, and revolutionary, José Martí, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our cultural institutions and that what is expressed when you “express yourself” is a collective mind and so if your culture is imperial, slave-holding, and expansionist, what kind of self will you express? …

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, …

Welcome to the July edition of Civic Conversations – a monthly podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. Our guest for this month is Jennifer Haan, lead volunteer for the Indiana Chapter of Moms Demand Action. In the podcast, we cover what Moms Demand does, permit-less carry, red-flag laws  and reasonable gun …