This week on the Thursday Night Special, we are proud to bring you the entirety of legendary rocker Graham Nash's keynote address at the 2014 Folk Alliance Conference, held here in Kansas City at the Westin Crown Center in February. Nash gave his speech in front of a packed audience...
On this week's installment of WINGS, Beverly Bell explains the movement for food sovereignty and its relationships as opposing the globalized food system and supportive of indigenous and local agricultural models - with a special emphasis on the pivotal roles of women. Featured speakers/guests: Beverly Bell, coordinator of the Other Worlds movement....
Cesar Chavez has made it to the big screen. Millions of people are now learning about the legendary farmworker organizer. But where did Chavez get his organizing philosophies? This week on Making Contact, Paul Ingles and Carol Boss of Peacetalks radio take us down The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez, through...
On this edition of Sprouts, we rerun of a documentary commemorating the life of Cesar Chavez, American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who organized the famous grape boycott of the 1970s, and, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. Chavez is also famous for popularizing...
Mary O’Halloran, media consultant and panelist on KCPT’s Ruckus, is our presenter. Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio was elected Pope in March, 2013. What has happened during his first year? How is he seeking to change the Catholic Church? Is the Church ready for a break with tradition or reform of the...
This week on Interfaith Voices: Struggling with the Legacy of Rios Montt Efrain Rios Montt ruled Guatemala from 1982 to 1983 as their first Evangelical Christian President. During his short time in office, thousands of indigenous Mayans were killed as part of that country's civil war against guerillas and their supporters. Today, Guatemala is...
A steady stream of reports on the deterioration of the environment is issued. There is a brief flurry of media coverage. The corporate-funded climate change deniers make counter claims. We wake briefly to the crisis, then most of us lapse into a couch potato stupor. Neoliberal dogma and an almost...
On this installment of Art of the Song, acclaimed Canadian musician Loreena McKennitt is the featured artist. About the musician: Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes....
