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Citizen Reporter
by Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
Interviews, adventures and monologues from, for, and about this vast world of ours.
Episodes
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Matthew Dons: One Last Conversation
Today on the program we bid farewell to a wonderful human and a dear friend - Matthew Dons. No words could do justice to the caliber of person Matthew was. Over the decades we have had so many conversations but undeniably the topic that was never far from our minds was his battle with cancer. His...
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Just and UnJust Wars with Stephen Shalom
This is what AI thinks this episode was about: In this episode of Citizen Reporter, host Bicycle Mark engages in a substantial dialogue with Steve Shalom, an emeritus professor known for his deep understanding of moral philosophy, particularly as it pertains to war. As they convene in January…
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The Sanctity of the Vote
n this episode, I take you through my mail-in ballot. As people cast their ballots today, I delve into the mechanics of my mail-in ballot, which combines the alleged responsibilities of citizenship with my inconsistent knowledge on who is who on this ballot im filling out. We even look at some...
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Election Season and Algorithms
In this episode of the podcast Mark takes listeners on an introspective journey from his office nook in Haarlem, Netherlands. He kicks off the show with his self-generated AI theme song, which leads into a discussion about the intersection of technology and creativity. Mark shares his initial...
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Matthew Dons: It's Hard to Not Talk About Your Cancer
In this episode, the podcast delves into a profound exploration of memory, media, and the intricate tapestry of social issues through the lens of Matthew’s journey with cancer and the evolution of a community-focused initiative in Japan. Mark reflects on an ongoing nostalgic radio trip down…
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The Summer of 2001 Through 2024 Ears
Im in the kitchen preparing a meal for the family with just enough time to describe a little radio activity I've been working on. It involves listening back to talk radio programs from the end of the summer of 2001 and the leadup to 9/11. Hearing how people spoke and thought back then which is…
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Dark Days: A Traditional Monologue Episode
Instead of the interview style podcasts this program has been about for almost 2 decades, today we're back to the other great tradition of old school personal publishing --- the monologue.
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Janelle Ward: The Shifting Sands of Social Media
Janelle Ward and I were once eager grad students at the University of Amsterdam where we dove head first into the world of personal publishing before most of the world had any idea what this was or why it would matter. 20+ years later, we are communications professionals, somehow still sitting in...
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Matthew Dons: Making Cancer History
Matthew Dons is back! And after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer over 6 years ago; that's saying something! Today on the program we continue to follow his story of life, not after cancer, but with cancer. Including the launch of his new online course to help combat the misinformation…
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Trui Hanoulle: Women Who Dare To Move
For Trui Hanoulle it started as an interest in going places and learning about people. Over the past two decades what followed became a life’s work; to gather stories about women who dare to move even in the face of prejudice, stereotypes, and other elements of gender barriers. Today on the…
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Iuliia Skubytska: War Childhood Museum Ukraine
Today on the podcast we are joined by the Ukraine director of the War Childhood Museum, to hear about the work they do and how it is being impacted by the ongoing invasion. I’d like to also inform you that if you appreciate the unique and impactful work they are doing, they could really use your...
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On Becoming a Father and The Invasion of Ukraine
In a time of so much frustration, confusion and despair - a podcast is always appropriate. Especially when you couple that with the backdrop that this month I also became a father! So much joy on the one hand, so much struggle on the other, and then you have the incredibly unjust world taking...
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Elmine Wijnia: The Big Life Changes Conversation
Legendary blogger, writer, crtical thinker and my friend of many years — Elmine Wijnia joins me to talk about the big life changes, be in location, the insane buying of a new home, the having of a kid, and all that stuff that sometimes happens in this life. Listen in and join us as we reflect on...
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Christopher Lydon: The State of the World 2021
Once a year I have the great pleasure of spending a few days in Boston with my dear friend and audio legend Christopher Lydon. We listen to Duke Ellington, pour over audio for his next program, and find time to turn on the microphone and have our “state of the world” conversation. Having missed…
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Tara Brown and Sean Bonner: Exploring The World of NFT's
Tara Brown and Sean Bonner are some of the most creative and curious people I’ve ever known. Among the many things they are fascinated by, there are NFT’s; which coincidentally have also become something of a curiousity over the past years. Today on the podcast, to better understand NFT’s and…
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Kaustuv Pokhrel: Do Whatever You Can Wherever You Are
Kaustuv Pokhrel's path as an activist and advocate for young people has taken many interesting and unexpected turns. As the most recent lockdown in Nepal grew ever longer, we decided it was a good time to sit down and record these stories of his work as both a radio host and an organizer around...
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Matthew Dons: Reflections on Remaining Alive
Matthew Dons was told five years ago that he had less than one year to live. 5 years later, he is still living with terminal cancer. The struggle has not gotten easier yet at the same time Matthew has gained a wealth of knowledge about health care costs, cancer treatment options, humanity and I...
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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: Places Sound Takes You
Picture it: You meet someone new who introduces themselves to you. You proceed to start a conversation, but this person's voice sounds exactly like that of a childhood friend. In that moment, although you're supposed to be listening to the conversation, you're also thinking back to those days and...
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Madge Weinstein: Cancelled Friendships and Thus and So
Legendary podcaster and esteemed political commentator Madge Weinstein returns to the program to update the gentle audience on what life is like when there are vaccines for covid but people somehow still manage to make each other sick.
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Bilal Ghalib: Building Deeper Relationships
Beyond the loss, the distance, and the isolation brought on by the global pandemic, Bilal Ghalib has found creative and effective ways to keep learning; about himself, his loved ones, and humans in general. He also has never stopped experimenting with ways of connecting with people or tapping…
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David Brightbill: Floridians Behaving Badly and other Vaccine Stories
When the global pandemic broke out, Davey Brightbill was struggling to make it home to his cooperative community in Florida. In the months that followed he faced a personal health scare and the more well known shortages of PPE among first responders in his region and across the country. Now over…
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Madhavan Pillai: Decolonizing Photography in India
Back in the winter of 2016, Madhavan Pillai welcomed me with open arms and warm conversations in the mountainous tranquility of Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India. He was new to the city and we talked about the kinds of projects in art and photography that he hoped to make a reality for the community. 4…
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Vin from Jersey: The Chaos of Certification Day
When you’re conerned about the state of the legislative and executive branch following a horrendous attack on congress - call Vin from Jersey, he’ll straighten us all out.
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Alexander Rendeiro: Being a Teenager in Corona Times
In the spirit of celebrating the holidays and spending time, virtually, with your loved ones, this holiday edition of CTRP features an interview with my nephew: Alexander Rendeiro. Since we can't be together in person, he joins me from New Jersey to discuss what his year has been like as a high...
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Michael Schaap:The Impact of Election 2020
Michael Schaap is a documentary maker, a voice over artist, and an arm-chair historian who I have had the pleasure of knowing for almost two decades. For the past four years he has been watching in frustration and sadness as the US and the rest of the world, walk down a dangerous path not unlike...
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Shafiur Rahman: Rohingya Refugees in Covid Times
Over the past 4 years documentary film maker Shafiur Rahman has been regularly back and forth from his home in the UK to the Rohingya Refugee camps in Bangladesh. Until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Now 10 months into this global crisis on top of an already nightmarish situation for millions of...
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John Aravosis: Things You Never Thought Would Happen in America
John Aravosis has been fighting for a better country and a better world for over 30 years. As a journalist and a commentator, despite all his experience, he says there has never been anything as confounding and threatening as the current president of the United States. Scary times in America. Yet...
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Noni Shakur: A Time Without Hugs in South Africa
South Africa is not a place where keeping a distance from one another matches the traditions of how communities have survived and thrived for generations. But since March of this year, the nation has lived with restrictions, lockdowns, closures and limits of social activities familiar to many...
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Tim from Radio Clash: The Sounds of a Pandemic
The longest running mashup podcast in the world started in London under the name Radio Clash where to this day Tim sits behind the mic. A member of the original podcasters generation, he has seen trends emerge and disappear, crises, change, the good the bad… the odd.. all of it. And then came...
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Cornelius Kibelka: Politicizing a Virus in Brazil
Cornelius Kibelka somehow got on the last flight from Europe to Brazil before they closed the border earlier this year. Upon arrival he was greeted by a São Paulo under lockdown, and a nation deeply divided about how to deal with a virus along political lines. Today on the podcast he tells us…
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Ruud Elmendorp: East Africa in Corona Times
Before there was youtube, twitter, or any other major platform for sharing video content, Ruud Elmendorp was producing content from the continent of Africa for the internet. His focus, then and now: everyday life. With the onset of the global pandemic, Ruud is where he has been for the past two...
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Lorena de la Parra: Corona Mode in Mexico City
Mexico City is big, heavily populated, exciting, dangerous, and poluted thanks in part to all of the above. Along came a pandemic. Today on the podcast Lorena de la Parra takes us through her daily life and what she sees happening in CDMX, from the price of masks to the phenomenon that is...
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Tony Pierce: How LA Handles a Pandemic
Tony Pierce talks to people for a living. They tell him about how life is these days, what jobs they do, what challenges they face, and probably much more. As a longtime resident of LA and blogger extraordinaire, who better to hear from during a pandemic to learn how life is for Angelinos. Today…
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Leanne Kubicz: The Kansas City Covid Story
During this time of Corona around the world, there are some stories you hear over and over; political manuvering, some scientific explanations, the occasional story about a medical worker in a well known metropolitan area. Then there are the stories you will rarely hear: about cities with less…
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Fiona Krakenbürger: Fermenting in Berlin & Corona Concerns
Fiona Krakenbürger knows her home town of Berlin under normal circumstances and now knows it during Covid19 times. Whats the difference? Today on the podcast we get into Berlin over the past weeks as well as uncovering what has been going on in DC over the past months (for her). Along the way we...
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Dilip D'Souza: Corona Times Mumbai and Other Mathematical Equations
If you told me while I was visiting Mumbai some years ago, that in 2020 a city of 20 million people would have deserted streets and closed restaurants, I would have argued that such a thing is simply not possible. Yet here we are. Mumbai, like the rest of India, is self-isolating and battening…
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Maasai Women: Creators of Culture, Keepers of Knowledge
If you want to talk about decolonizing museums and other knowledge institutions in this world then you need to speak with those who preserve, produce, and pass on culture. In the fascinating and complex case of the Maasai and their engagement with museums in the UK, it is women who play an...
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Jay Dedman: Rural America in Pandemic Times
Jay Dedman joins me on the podcast today from his home in Western Virginia, where land is plentiful and incomes are on average a bit lower than in the big city. What is happening in rural America during this global emegency, what does he see and what can we decipher when comparing countries,...
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Matthew Dons: Tracking Corona Virus From Japan
As someone living with terminal cancer, Matthew Dons is not one who would panic in the face of a global pandemic. From his home in Tokyo he joins us on the podcast today to talk about what is happening in Japan, but also what it is like to be a person with a compromised immune system in the midst...
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Decolonizing Museums: The Maasai & Oxford
Almost three years ago Samwel Nangiria paid a visit the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. While there he was presented with objects gathered from his culture around 100 years ago. To his shock the collection included items that would normally never have made it into a museum or out of the hands of...
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Driving the Garden State Parkway South
Still retracing my audio steps from the recent United States visit, this time on the Garden State Parkway, looking out at all the cars and development and whathaveyou. Listen in as I simultaneously dodge dead deer while giving a socio-political analysis on the state of the states.
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The Maasai people: A Struggle for Land and Justice
The Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania have a long tradition of living in harmony with nature. However, for the past century they have also seen their land and way of life targetted by encroaching intiatives related to nation-building, development, tourism, mining, etc. As a new decade begins…
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Christopher Lydon: What 2019 Tells Us About 2020
Somehow the end of a year (and a decade this time) doesn't feel right if I don't find myself at the dinner table in Boston sitting across from Christopher Lydon. The voice of the world's first podcast, he's been my north star ever since I started this thing long before itunes had podcasts or NPR...
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Identity in South Africa: A Roundtable Discussion
Identity. Land. Displacement. Trauma. History. Struggle. Fear. Anger. Future. Environment. Income. Danger. Knowledge. Loss. Curiousity. Safety. These are a few of the words that came to mind listening back to this very special round table discussion recorded in South Africa with 3 South African...
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Jillo Katelo: Empowering Indigenous Communities in Northern Kenya
There is a force referred to as development that has arrived in Northern Kenya. It brings highways, wind farms, pipelines, cables, standardized education, and new towns where the government wants people to live and work. What it also brings is pollution, inequality, disappearing cultures and...
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Voices 4 Change: Indigenous Activists and Friends in Africa
This month I had the great honor of being present at the Video 4 Change gathering in South Africa. This meeting brought together indigenous activists from different parts of the continent, as well as allies and friends from the rest of the world. The topic: the struggle for indigenous rights in a...
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Madge Weinstein: There Aren't Enough True Crime Podcasts
My esteemed colleague and media icon Madge Weinstein returns to the podcast today to dissect the podcast hype. As one of the first podcasts ever to exist in the history of the world, you will rarely hear from a visionary with the extensive experience and self-loathing that Madge brings. We also...
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Joana Ponder: Empowering, Reconnecting, and other Passion Projects
Joana Ponder has an approach to life that I greatly admire. She’s also a fun person to speak with. For these reasons and more I invited her to the kitchen table for a conversation about what she’s busy with when it comes to how we see ourselves and approach life through good times and bad.
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Wim Kruiswijk: Finding Messages in Bottles
For decades Wim Kruiswijk has lived on the Dutch coast walking the beach before people arrive and after they have left. His treasure: messages in bottles. Over the years he has collected thousands, and turned beach combing into meaninful friendships. He’s also become extremely knowledgeable about...
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Reflections in Rwanda
A podcast episode recorded from eastern Rwanda on a fine March evening in 2019. Special thanks to my Mikme recorder and the good people at Mikme for their creation and support.
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Interviews, adventures and monologues from, for, and about this vast world of ours.
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