November 21, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

LGBTQ Refugees Fleeing to Safety – part 1 of 3

OutCaster Lucas talks these issues with Bruce Knotts, a longtime international LGBTQ advocate. Bruce was a U.S. diplomat for more than 20 years before retiring from the State Department. Shortly thereafter, he accepted his current position of Director of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office.

November 14, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

Anne Waldman: The Antithesis Reality

Naropa University's Anne Waldman honors her vow to poetry. She performed a charismatic inaugural poem for Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the first gay Governor of Colorado. She makes art out of speaking truth to power like few poets in America.

November 7, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

Halloween Special: Loving Fear

Since she was 5 years old, "haunter" Anna Somch has been one of a subgroup of people who make a lifestyle out of staffing haunted houses. She describes how haunted houses are run from the staffs' perspectives, why this is her passion, and why it is good for people to go to haunted houses and get scared.

October 31, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

Danger For The Uncontacted People of the Rainforest

Representatives of indigenous groups protecting the "Uncontacted People," indigenous people living in the Brazilian Rainforest have come to the USA to ask Amercians to understand that these protected people in protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon are endangered, as the rainforest is being attacked by agi-industry, mining, and the current president of Brazil.

October 24, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

Frederick Douglass in Rochester

Carvin Eison, RCTV's General Manager and award-winning filmmaker and videographer, explains the legacy of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, NY, the famous statue erected in his honor, and current celebrations being organized in honor of his 200th birthday.

Ghislaine Radegonde-Eison, Program Manager of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at University of Rochester, describes educational institutions in Rochester honoring the city's activist legacy and a message recently delivered by Frederick Douglass' descendant.

October 17, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

OutCasting 0064 – NYS GENDA

This past January, New York State enacted GENDA, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act. Though the bill had passed the Democratically-controlled New York State Assembly many times, there weren't enough votes in favor in the State Senate, and the bill stalled for years. Then came the "blue wave" election of 2018, when Democrats won a majority in the State Senate; within days of the beginning of the new session, GENDA was passed by both houses and signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

October 10, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

Los Alamos National Labs Expansion

Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group speaks on the proposed expansion of Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) into a Plutonium Pit Factory.

October 3, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

Youth & Truth on Addiction

Students of the Klamath Trinity Joint Unified School District from grades 7 to 12 volunteered their opinions, insights and feelings as witnesses to addiction in and around their community of Hoopa, CA.

September 26, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

A Balanced Breakfast for a Balanced Planet

A scientific report reveals that cereal companies can make a positive impact on the environment (and profit) by supporting sustainable agriculture. At the end, a segment entitled "Sidelining Science" gives an alert to the need to protect wildlife from the Trump administration.

September 19, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs

9/11 Families

9/11 families work with each other to break the cycle of violence. This is a shortened re-broadcast of this week's edition of Peace Talks Radio.