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. Craig Lubow is the executive producer.
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March 19, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Kansas City, Missouri, Police sued for violating the 1868 Fourteenth Amendment
Three local Black Americans filed suit March 11 against Missouri Governor Parson, Attorney General Bailey, Secretary of State Ashcroft and the Kansas City, Missouri Board of Police Commissioners for failing to provide equal protection under Missouri law to residents of Kansas City. The suit notes that Chapter 84 of Missouri statutes denies local control of the Kansas City Police Department, a practice that dates from 1861 after Lincoln became President but before the attack on Ft. Sumter. The plaintiffs claim that this practice denies them and others equal protection under the law, promised by the 1868 Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Read MoreMarch 12, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
How political polarization in the US is damaging our courts
Attorney and University of Kansas Professor Karl Brooks describes how political polarization in the US is damaging our courts and what you might want to do about it.
ListenMarch 5, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Income tax should be as easy as a credit card bill
Income tax preparation could be as easy as a credit card bill for the vast majority of taxpayers. In most advanced industrialized democracies, people get draft tax returns from the government, which they can file or revise.
ListenFebruary 27, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Kevin Martin, Dave Pack, and the PeaceWorks Kansas City Annual Meeting March 3.
The public is invited to the annual meeting of PeaceWorks Kansas City March 3 (Sunday) 2-4 PM at Simpson House, 4509 Walnut, Kansas City, MO, 64111. This episode of Radio Active Magazine features an interview with Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action, and Dave Pack, Treasurer of PeaceWorks Kansas City, the local affiliate of Peace Action.
ListenFebruary 20, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Eyyup Esen, the Dialogue Institute, and Advocates of Silenced Turkey
Eyyup Esen discusses the Kansas branch of the Dialogue Institute of the Southwest and Advocates of Silenced Turkey with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.
ListenFebruary 13, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Suellentrop’s Pax Christi anti-nuke pilgrimage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ann Suellentrop and Ray Matsumiya discuss an anti-nuke pilgrimage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, March 3-16.
ListenFebruary 6, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Mike Kelly on Johnson County and KC Regional Climate Plan
On Feb. 6, 6 p.m., RadioActive Magazine interviews Mike Kelly, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, Johnson County, Ks., on that county's efforts to address our climate crisis.
ListenJanuary 30, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Current concerns of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas
Karen Leve and Kunyu Ching of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas discuss the issues that concern them the most currently.
ListenJanuary 23, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Social genocide of the Hizmet people by the current Erdogan government of Turkey
Kari O'Rourke discusses her recent doctoral dissertation describing, "Turkic educators and students breaking their silence: An oral history of a tangled web of political power" with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. Kari got her PhD in "Educational Leadership, Policy, and Foundations and Curriculum and Instruction" from UMKC in 2023 for her work describing "The social genocide of the Hizmet people by the Erdoğan regime" in Turkey today.
ListenJanuary 16, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war
Moussa Elbayoumy, Yara Salamed, and Mubarak Awad discuss calls for a ceasefire in the current Israel-Hamas war. Moussa is an MD and chair of the board of the Kansas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Kansas). Yara is studying Law at UMKC and is President of Students for Justice in Palestine there. Mubarak is a Palestinian born in Jerusalem in 1943. He founded the Palestinian Centre for the Study of Nonviolence in 1983 and was expelled from Palestine in 1988 during the First Intifada for organizing nonviolent protests against mistreatment of Palestinians by Israeli military and settlers. Back in the US, he founded Nonviolence International in 1989. Moussa, Yara and Mubarak are calling for a ceasefire in the current Israel-Gaza war.
ListenJanuary 9, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
New Frontier Museum of the United States Army at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas
Trooper John "JR" Bruce, President, and George Pettigrew, Executive Vice President of the Alexander/Madison Chapter, Kansas City Buffalo Soldiers and 9th & 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association, join Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves to discuss their work to create a new "Frontier Museum" at Fort Leavenworth to honor all those who served in those units stationed at and out of Fort Leavenworth in the nineteenth century development of the Western US. This includes the famed 10th Cavalry Regiment, all Black with White officers, first raised at Fort Leavenworth on September 21, 1866, as a result of the Army Reorganization Act of 1866 passed by Congress. These soldiers fell under the command of Colonel Benjamin Grierson who remained their commander for the next 20 years.
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