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Schedule grid
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In
Focus — in-depth local news and public affairs discussion
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Recovery Talk — discussion about recovery from illness, trauma, and
more
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Democracy Now — daily national and international newsmagazine
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Free Speech Radio News — daily national and international
newsmagazine
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This Way Out — international gay and lesbian newsmagazine
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Making Contact — national and international public affairs
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Alternative Radio — national and international public affairs
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CounterSpin — media critique
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Sprouts
(Pacifica) — radio from the grassroots — a wide variety of programs from
community radio stations and independent producers
local public affairs
In
Focus
In Focus, an
in-depth discussion program on local news and public affairs, is hosted
by WDFH veterans Jane Botticelli and Vinny Cohan with
guest reporter Gary Cahill, editor and publisher of The
Gazette, based in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
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Listen online now at
On-Demand Audio (new editions are typically posted every Tuesday
evening or Wednesday).
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Subscribe to
podcast (free) — enter this address in your podcatching software
to have your computer automatically download each news episode:
http://wdfh.org/infocus.xml
More podcasting info...
In Focus this
week:
Monday evening, August 30 — 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Wednesday morning,
September 1 — 7:30-8:00 a.m.
hosted this
week by Jane Botticelli
A public information meeting was held last Thursday
regarding the fate of the Town of Ossining
Police Department — whether it will merge
with the County Police or Village of Ossining Police Department in
order to save costs. Before the Town
Board votes on either proposal, there will be another public meeting
in September.
Croton Harmon High School will not be using a School
Resource Officer (police officer) present
daily in the school, according to a recent vote by the Croton Harmon
School Board.
Eleanor Perry, a long-time volunteer with the
Veteran's Administration in Montrose, was
honored with a ceremony and proclamations by many public officials at
recent clambake held on the grounds of Sing Sing prison.
On Tuesday, September 7, at 8:00 p.m.
at the Municipal Building on Grand Street in Croton, there will
be a public hearing regarding the proposal to permit bowhunting at
three sites in Croton, with a view toward
reducing the population of white tailed deer.
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health
Recovery Talk
Recovery Talk,
hosted by veteran journalist Robyn Leary, is WDFH's pioneering
half-hour program dedicated to resilience in recovery. The show
focuses on health and medical topics, new science technologies, advances
in trauma research, public policy, addiction treatment, recovery
advocacy, veterans' affairs, family courts, anti-violent-crime
strategies, domestic violence resources, and more.
Recovery Talk
this week:
Tuesday evening, August 31 — 6:30-7:00 p.m.
Saturday morning, September 4 — 9:30-10:00 a.m.
The wisdom of harm reduction in addiction recovery
(encore presentation)
On this week's edition of Recovery Talk:
Raymond P. was a street drug user and abuser and an alcoholic. In the
1980s, he got clean for ten years with the
help of a harm reduction community-based agency but then relapsed.
On this edition of Recovery Talk, Robyn Leary and
Raymond P. discuss his difficulties in addiction-recovery, his
relapse, and why harm reduction is so important to the recovery
movement.
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daily newsmagazines
Democracy Now!
Free Speech Radio News
Tune in Monday
through Friday for news, interviews, and analysis — Democracy
Now! in the morning and again at noon, Free
Speech Radio News in the evening.
Democracy Now!
Monday-Friday mornings —
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Monday-Friday afternoons —
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Free Speech Radio News
Monday-Friday afternoons — 4:00-4:30 p.m.
Monday-Friday
evenings — 6:00-6:30 p.m.
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weekly
gay/lesbian newsmagazine
This Way Out
This Way Out is the
award-winning internationally distributed gay and lesbian radio
newsmagazine program. The half-hour program leads off each
week with a brief summary of some of the major news events in or
affecting the lesbian and gay communities, compiled from a variety of
publications and broadcasts around the world, and continues with more
in-depth reports and features. More info at
ThisWayOut.org.
This Way Out
this week:
Tuesday afternoon, August 31 — 1:30-2:00 p.m.
Saturday morning,
September 4 — 11:30 am-12:00 p.m.
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Fond memories of liberated lesbian Val
Eastwood's coffee shop in uptight 1950s Australia;
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saluting
Deborah Sampson, the first woman to serve as a man in the U.S. Army in
a "Rainbow Minute";
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a U.S. appeals
court leaves California couples waiting at the altar;
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Mexico City
married couples gain adoption rights;
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the U.K.'s
Catholic Care adoption agency loses its bid to discriminate;
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German
partners win inheritance tax breaks;
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and court
action shields a DADT discharge-threatened top gun.
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public affairs documentaries
Making Contact
"An international radio program that links people,
vital ideas, and important information."
Making Contact, produced by
National Radio Project, is an award-winning half-hour weekly
magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on over 180
radio stations in the USA, Canada and South Africa.
Making Contact is committed to in-depth
critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news. Showcasing
voices and perspectives rarely heard in mainstream media, Making
Contact focuses on the human realities of politics and the
connections between local and global events, emphasizing positive and
creative ways to solve problems.
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In-depth reports on political
and social issues, trends and events, contributed by journalists from
around the globe.
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Ordinary people talk about
how public policy affects their daily lives, families and communities.
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Speeches by social activists and advocates share a
vision of a better world.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Agriculture/Food ■
Civil Liberties ■
Global Political Economy ■
Education ■
Environment ■
Gay/Lesbian ■
Healthcare ■ Human
Rights ■ Indigenous
Peoples ■ Labor
■ Latin America
■ Media
■ Middle East
■ Military/War/Peace
■ Nuclear
■ Political Activism
■ Prison/Police
■ Race
■ Social Justice
■ US Foreign Policy
■ US Domestic
Politics ■ Welfare
■ Women
■ Youth
Making Contact
this week:
Monday afternoon, August 30 — 1:30-2:00 p.m.
Saturday morning, September 4 — 10:30-11:00 a.m.
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Cleaning the BP
oil spill
Photo credit:
Chris Wilkins/AFP/Getty Images |
Beyond BP: A Future Without
Oil
BP’s Macondo well seems to be capped, and we
can all breathe a sigh of relief… or can we? Many
blame BP or the U.S.
government for the lack of oversight of the well and the efficiency of
the response to the leak.
But there’s a larger issue at hand —
our society’s continued use of oil. Even
George W. Bush said we were addicted, and that was in 2006.
On this edition, we go to the Gulf Coast
to hear why, despite the dangerous and deadly consequences, locals
aren’t ready to turn their back on the oil industry. What
does that mean for the rest of us as we pursue a future free of fossil
fuels?
Featuring:
Antonia Juhasz, Global Exchange’s
Chevron Program director and author of The Tyranny of Oil: the
World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do To Stop It;
Carla Perez, Movement Generation Justice & Ecology
Project Program coordinator; Lulu DarDar and Scotti, BP
cleanup workers; Albert Naquin, Isle de Jean Charles
Band of Biloxi-Chitimachas Tribal Chief; Terry Labouche, R.J.
Molinair & Clairece Fralou, Gulf Coast residents;
Robert Gorman, Catholic Charities Houma-Thibodaux Executive
Director; Aaron Viles, Gulf Restoration Network
Campaign Director.
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media critique
Drawing on an
international network of experts, analysts, and artists, CounterSpin
dissects news coverage of a wide range of issues and current events.
In addition to providing an antidote to the tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum
reporting that dominates mainstream media, CounterSpin exposes
and highlights biased and inaccurate news, censored stories, press/state
cronyism, disinformation, propaganda and spin control, interference by
sponsors and owners, media mergers, gaffes and goofs by America's
leading TV pundits, sexist and racist media assumptions, the corporate
takeover of public TV, attacks on free speech in music, entertainment,
and news industries — tough, independent journalism that cuts against
the media grain. CounterSpin is produced by FAIR —
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
More information about
CounterSpin and FAIR is available at
FAIR.org.
CounterSpin this
week:
Monday afternoon, August 30 — 1:00-1:30 p.m.
Saturday morning,
September 4 — 10:00-10:30 a.m.
This week on CounterSpin:
The WikiLeaks Afghan War Diaries prompted waves of media
coverage, though much of that amounted to 'move on, there's nothing to
see here.' But digging into the
documents might reveal more about the Afghan War than we knew
— like the existence of something
called Task Force 373, set up to capture or kill specific Al Qaeda or
Taliban figures. What does it really
do, though, and where does it fit in with what know about U.S. war
policy? Journalist Pratap Chatterjee
will join us to talk about that.
Also on CounterSpin this week:
A few years ago, many would've said Google
and Verizon would be very strange bedfellows. What
does it mean that the two have huddled up to come up with a plan for
internet regulation? Can that possibly
be a good thing for the web’s current relatively non-discriminatory
access? We’ll learn the concerns and
the state of play from Free Press’ campaign director Timothy Karr.
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public affairs
Alternative Radio
Alternative
Radio
is a weekly one-hour public affairs program
providing information, analyses, and
views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
Established in 1986, AR is dedicated to the
founding principles of public broadcasting, which urge that programming
serve as "a forum for controversy and debate," be diverse and "provide a
voice for groups that may otherwise be unheard." The project is entirely
independent, sustained solely by individuals who buy transcripts and
tapes of programs.
More information about
Alternative Radio, including information about purchasing copies
of AR programs, is available at
alternativeradio.org.
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"AR
is sometimes taken to stand for 'alternative radio.'
A better reading would be 'authentic'
or 'autonomous radio,' free from constraints of concentrated
power, state or private, responsive to needs and concerns of the
communities it reaches and open to their participation."
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Alternative Radio this
week:
Wednesday afternoon,
September 1 — 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Saturday afternoon, September 4 — 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Richard Grossman —
Revoking Corporate Charters (lecture)
Corporations, corporations.
From ExxonMobil to Wal-Mart,
they dominate society and politics. Over
the last 100 years, corporations have
accrued enormous economic power and legal standing. A
corporation is licensed to do business. These
licenses are called charters. In
theory, when a corporation violates its charter,
the charter can be revoked.
That used to happen but not any more.
And now corporate power has gotten a
big boost. On Jan. 21, 2010, the
Supreme Court, in Citizen's United v.
Federal Election Commission, ruled that there are no limitations
on campaign contributions by both domestic and foreign corporations.
Noam Chomsky calls the decision
"a dark day in the history of U.S.
democracy, and its decline." The ruling, The
New York Times says, "strikes
at the heart of democracy" by having
"paved the way for corporations to use their
vast treasuries to overwhelm elections."
Richard Grossman, co-founder of the Program on Corporations, Law
and
Democracy, is an independent researcher and writer focusing on
governance, law, corporations, and organizing strategies.
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public affairs
Sprouts
Sprouts —
radio from the grassroots — is a weekly
Pacifica program produced in collaboration
with community radio stations and independent producers across the
country.
Sprouts this week:
Tuesday, August 31 — 1:00-1:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 4 — 11:00-11:30 a.m.
Education Dumbing
Us Down
The modern system of compulsory schooling
was imported from Prussia by U.S. industrialists to create a compliant
workforce. It supplanted an American
educational tradition that produced leaders like Franklin and Lincoln
as well as a highly literate population.
This edition of Sprouts is from the
monthly series History Counts produced by MDR Productions, Inc.
History Counts originates at Pacifica affiliate WPKN 89.5 FM,
Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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