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Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
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August 22, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Sprouts • Aug. 22, 2019
Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
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Sprouts • Aug. 29, 2019
Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
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August 15, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
The Stonewall Uprising, 50 Years Later – Part 3 of 3
On this program, we pick up the story in the 1990s, as new drugs were being released that transformed HIV/AIDS from an almost universally fatal disease to a chronic but manageable condition. We continue through the fight for marriage equality, talk about Stonewall's role in the context of the LGBTQ rights movement, and consider just how much work still lies ahead for the movement.
ListenAugust 8, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Memorial Day Action at the Kansas City Weapons Plant, Part 2
On Memorial Day, 2019, Peaceworks KC held its 9th annual witness at the Kansas City Weapons plant. There was a die-in and collective civil disobedience. In part one we hear the die-in, in which the names of those who have suffered early deaths due to toxic exposure from working at the old weapons plant or other agencies housed at the Bannister Federal Complex.
ListenAugust 1, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Memorial Day Action at the Kansas City Weapons Plant Part 1
On Memorial Day, 2019, Peaceworks KC held its 9th annual witness at the Kansas City Weapons plant. There was a die-in and collective civil disobedience. In part one we hear the die-in, in which the names of those who have suffered early deaths due to toxic exposure from working at the old weapons plant or other agencies housed at the Bannister Federal Complex.
ListenJuly 25, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
9 Little Girls: Indian Mission Schools and Family Separation
Three of the "9 Little Girls" who grew up in St. Paul's Catholic Mission Boarding School for Indian children on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, describe physical, sexual, and mental abuses they remember being subjected to.
Read MoreJuly 18, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Earth Renewal 101
Ayana and March Young, producers of Unlearn & Rewild, deliver a mixed bag of conversations with leading thinkers in the movement for ecological sanity and moving beyond the dominant paradigm.
Read MoreJuly 11, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
OutCasting 0062 – The Stonewall Uprising, 50 Years Later – Part 2
This summer, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings. This episode begins with the activism that sprang up after the uprising and continues through the 1980s, a time when AIDS dominated LGBTQ activism.
Read MoreJuly 4, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Learning Integrity Among Mapuche Community Pilla Mahuiza
Producer, writer and host Raleigh Burleigh recounts a recent journey, renewing established connections in Chile and Argentina with the goal of learning about the Mapuche, a proud indigenous nation of the Southern Cone of South America.
Read MoreJune 27, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
The Sundance as Told By Chief Golden Light Eagle
Yankton Sioux Chief Golden Light Eagle describes the Sundance, held at the Summer Solstice, one of the seven sacred Sioux traditional rites described by Black Elk in the book "The Sacred Pipe."
Read MoreJune 20, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Re-Remembering Prince
This week we are revisiting a 2016 Sprouts show for the birthday of the virtuoso musician Prince, born on June 7th 1958. It's a celebration of the life of Prince, in the wake of his April 21 death that year.
Read MoreJune 13, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
OutCasting 0061 -The Stonewall Uprising, 50 years Later – Part 1 of a Series
In June 2019, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings, and we want to reflect on how we've gotten to where we are today with LGBTQ rights in the United States.
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