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This podcast tracks the audio archives for the “Urban Connections” show. Urban Connections conducts guest interviews covering issues affecting our local, national, international and global communities from a Black perspective.

Food Fight! Local Greater Kansas City Food Activists March Against Monsanto 2014

Jill Valentine and her 9 yr old son Tristan; Angela Cooper and her 17 year old daughter Keyleigh Coper and 9 year old son, Bobby Toska, and Eric King. Today’s Guests are local KC community members turned activists out of concern for their and their children’s health. Food Fight! All Lives Matter. Purpose is...

05/31/2014

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Dr. Lori Blankinship, ND, discusses “Food As Medicine” with co-host Sharon Valleau

Dr. Lori Blankinship returns to discuss Food As Medicine . Dr. Blankinship, is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. She attended National College of Naturopathic Medicine, in Portland, Oregon, one of the world’s leading institutions in Naturopathic medicine. Dr. Blankinship received most of her clinical training in under-served communities, including rotations at Outside-In...

05/23/2014

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Mathew Forstater, Professor of UMKC Economics & Black Studies

Mathew Forstater is Professor of Economics and Black Studies and Director, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Department of Economics, University of Missouri —Kansas City. Forstater previously was a Visiting Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College (1997-1999) and taught at Bard and Gettysburg College (1992-1997),...

05/10/2014

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Alexis Baden-Myer, Political Director, Organic Consumers Association

Food Fight! continues with Alexis Baden-Mayer; lawyer and activist who has worked in Washington, DC, as the political director of the Organic Consumers Association since 2005. She has contributed to some of the organizations most successful projects, including the Millions Against Monsanto campaign. The group's lobbying arm, the Organic Consumers Fund, has been...

04/26/2014

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Jasmine Jones, Miss Black Missouri USA 2014 discusses her mission and journey

Jasmine Jones, Miss Black Missouri USA 2014 discusses her journey as she vies for the title of Miss Black USA 2014 Jasmine's platform is Fostering the Foster "It is my goal to provide education and awareness of foster care. This cause has opened my eyes to the lives of children in foster...

04/19/2014

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Interview with John Peck, ED, Family Farm Defenders

Family Farm Defenders is a national grassroots organization with members in all 50 states. It is our belief that healthy safe accessible food is a basic human right and that all communities should be able to control their own food/farm system. Mission It is our belief that healthy safe accessible food is...

04/12/2014

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