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Radio Active Magazine
A locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis.
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The Team
Graves was raised on a farm in Cheyenne County, KS, four miles from Nebraska and 26 from Colorado. He serves on multiple committees and is an Associate Programmer with Radio Active Magazine.
Susan was born on a dark and stormy night in Detroit, MI, when Detroit was a great city. She is a family therapist, filmmaker and and a contributor to Radio Active Magazine, interviewing really interesting people. She says life is like an empty canvas: Every day she gets up and paints it in a beautiful way.
A locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis.
Recent Episodes
June 11, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Citizens’ Climate Lobby: The Carbon Tax and Dividend Proposal
RadioActive guests Stephen Melton and Eslun Tucker, activist volunteers with Citizens' Climate Lobby, will discuss the CCL proposal to tax carbon and distribute the carbon tax funds to all American families.
ListenJune 4, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Radio Active Magazine • June 4, 2019
A locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis.
ListenMay 28, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Refugee Farmers in Kansas City
Lynn Marie Norris will talk to people from New Roots, a program conducted by Cultivate KC, in partnership with Catholic Charities of NE Kansas, to provide a 4-year farm training business incubation program to help refugees start and operate independent vegetable farms that provide healthy, organic, local produce to feed Kansas City.
ListenMay 28, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
PeaceWorks Trespassed on KC nuclear bomb plant
Some 17 people associated with PeaceWorks-Kansas City trespassed on Memorial Day on the Kansas City National Security Campus that makes most of the non-nuclear components for the vast majority of the nuclear weapons in the US inventory. These 17 people were arrested and issued individual citations requiring them to appear July 11 at 9 AM in Kansas City Municipal Court.
Read MoreMay 21, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Radio Active Magazine • May 21, 2019
A locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis.
Read MoreMay 14, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Analyzing the Climate Change Movement
Host David Mitchell interviews psycho-metricist Connie Campbell on the psychological dynamics of climate change advocacy, examining the question, "Why are some people so resistant to fact based scientific evidence?"
ListenMay 7, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Juvenile Justice Reform in Kansas
Mike Fonkert of Kansas Appleseed joins host Craig Lubow to discuss Juvenile Reform in Kansas. Their discussion will include Senate Bill 367, which passed in 2016, and what is still needed to achieve the reform envisioned by that bill.
Read MoreApril 30, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Challenges of Providing Organic Local Food Despite Climate Change
Lynn Marie Norris will talk to people from Cultivate KC about the benefits of local food, why Cultivate KC supports urban farmers, and the importance of building up our local food system in relation to resilience to climate change. Guests will include:
• Katherine Kelly – Cultivate KC’s executive director and co-founder, and a farmer herself.
• Mark Gawron – The manager of Cultivate KC’s farms and food systems.
• And finally, Dan Krull – The manager of Cultivate KC’s Westport Commons Farm, and a Soil Food Web expert, science and biology enthusiast and herpetologist.
April 23, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Deportation Defense Legal Network
Bob Grove of the Deportation Defense Legal Network (DDLN) will be interviewed by Radio Active host Susan Sarachek.
ListenApril 16, 2019 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
KC area politician on IT for the National League of Cities and Extinction Rebellion
This episode of Radio Active Magazine will feature a discussion with David Neal, who currently serves on the City Council of Merriam, KS as well as the the Information Technology Committee of the National League of Cities.
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