Activist Radio show

Activist Radio

Summary: Activist Radio is a weekly program broadcast on WVKR, 91.3 in Poughkeepsie, NY. We play music, interview those interested in local peace and justice issues, and take call-ins.

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Podcasts:

 Activist Radio Sep. 13 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:55

What if white Americans 150 years later risked their lives to stop the oppression of Black people? What if we marched up to the halls of our racist criminal justice system and just freed all those Black people still in chains?

 Activist Radio Sep. 6 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:59

In Mein Kampf Hitler praises America as the one state in the world that has made progress in excluding certain races from naturalization.

 Activist Radio Aug. 30 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:57

We see how very few these desegregation efforts were when we look here in the Hudson Valley. Inner city schools are still mostly black while the surrounding suburbs are almost all white.

 Activist Radio Aug. 23 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:03

Fifty years after their execution, Massachusetts officially declared that the trial and execution were unjust and cleared Sacco and Vanzetti of any wrongdoing.

 Activist Radio Aug 7 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:58

The song carried with it all the mockery and repudiation of the 1960s towards militarism, conformity, and the mindlessness of the Vietnam War.

 Activist Radio Aug 9 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:01

How the courage of one man to resist and unjust war can influence others. Would the Pentagon Papers have ever been released without the brave stand of Franz Jagerstatter?

 Activist Radio Aug 2 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:00

By the end of the high tech slaughter, Israel had killed over 550 Palestinian children and destroyed much of the support services in Gaza. Today, about two million people remain cut off from the rest of the world.

 Activist Radio Jul. 26 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:02

The Kerner Commission report said the cause of the unrest lay in years of systematic discrimination against the black population of Cambridge. When will America heal its long term discrimination against Black people?

 Activist Radio Jul. 19 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:58

Will women and men be able to come together to protect the rights of women in the fascist era of Donald Trump? It will take a radical movement, like the one started by the Declaration of Sentiments so long ago.

 Activist Radio Jul. 12 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:56

Nixon was no match to our current president in terms of high crimes and misdemeanors.

 Activist Radio Jul. 5 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:00

YThe strike nevertheless ultimately led to widespread unionization and the granting of fundamental rights and protections to all U.S. workers, unionized or not.

 Activist Radio Jun. 28 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:01

They were both captured, imprisoned and executed shortly after. The paramilitary units of World War I veterans had taken control of the country.

 Activist Radio Jun. 21 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:59

The Molly Maguires were hanged, but the real killers were the mine owner, Franklin Gowen, and Pinkerton Detective Agency.

 Activist Radio Jun. 14 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:59

Where is the NYT now when it comes to ending apartheid in Israel and Palestine? When will our newspaper of record finally drop its pro-Israel propaganda and simply do the right thing?

 Activist Radio Jun. 7 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:59

On June 7 a year later, a young man named Mohandas Gandhi, in his very first act of civil disobedience, refused to obey racial segregation rules on a South African train and was forcibly thrown off at the town of Pietermaritzburg.

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