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Indigo Radio
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Indigo Radio is a project of the Spark Teacher Education Institute based out of Southern VT. We are a group of educators [seeking to learn through engaging with others in our community and throughout the world. We are both in the classrooms and on the streets. Find us at indigo.radio on Instagram and Facebook or download a previous show on Soundcloud and Apple ItunesIndigo is now broadcasting out of Southern VT, W. Mass, Atlanta, Seattle, and Morocco.
Episodes
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AI and the University with McKinney Simpson guest host
Indigo radio has its first Appalachian State University guest host, McKinney Simpson. McKinney is a senior at App State majoring in Public Health. She spends the hour discussing the impact and proliferation of AI on campus, student thoughts, and the adverse health and environmental impacts of AI.
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High Country Mutual Aid - Boone, NC
Indigo Boone host Anna talks with Red and Eli from High Country Mutual Aid out of Boone, NC. High Country Mutual Aid is a grassroots community movement, based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, funded entirely by public donor support. We are an ever evolving group, comprised…
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The Revolution will not be Televised - Socialism Conference 2025
In today’s show, Chris Lievense, high school social studies teacher in Vermont and Kelly Junno 3rd grade teacher in Western Massachusetts, and Spark faculty, share with us their insights from the 2025 Socialism conference in Chicago and how those lessons are applicable to their work as K-16...
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Learning From Vandana Shiva
Host Becca sits down with Dax who recently return from working and learning in India at Vandana Shiva's project Navdana. We discuss the historical and current work of agriculture. Navdana began as an example and teaching farm, showing that a farm without chemicals can exist. We also discuss on of...
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"The City is giving us Lemons but y'all are my Lemonade" --Dr. Ari Brazier for the hour!
Indigo host Anna sits down with Dr. Ari Brazier, community organizer & educator in Atlanta - Ari talks with us all about the #stopcopcity movement here in ATL, race, education, their work with ParentLab, children, abolition, and more! *Photo of Remix, provided by Dr. Ari Instagram accounts to...
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Summer of Resistance ~ Atlanta, GA
Indigo host Anna sits down with Jasmine Burnett and Aja Arnold, organizers with Mainline ATL to talk about the upcoming Summer of Resistance here in Atlanta, learnings from past movements, organizing, and more. "Through this campaign—which will include a series of rallies, demonstrations,...
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"We Invite You To Struggle With Us": Emory Press Conf; Gaza Encampment
On the morning of April 25th, 2024 students at Emory University began their Gaza Encampment in the national movement to end the genocide and for academic institutions to divest from Israeli apartheid. Listen to the speeches of these brave students along with Rev Keyanna Jones as they peacefully...
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FreeHerVT: Part II on Vermont & Carceral Systems
Hosts Anna & Chris sit down with Jayna Ahsaf & Jonathan Elwell of FreeHerVT. This show is Part II of our look at Vermont and prisons - from the historical context of VT carceral systems to today's campaign to stop new prison construction. Jayna Ahsaf is the lead field organizer for FreeHerVT and...
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The purpose of prisons & the history of incarceration in Vermont
Part I of a two-part show on Vermont and incarceration. Hosts Chris and Anna spend the hour with Jonathan Elwell, organizer with the FreeHerVT campaign. In Part I, Jonathan speaks with us about the purpose of prisons, the history of incarceration and surveillance in Vermont, and the…
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Students for Socialism @ Emory
Host Anna sits down with Emory University students Bella and Zach Hammond, two leading organizers with Students for Socialism @ Emory. Bella and Zach talk about what influences shaped their political thoughts, organizing at Emory (and beyond!), media role, and hopes they have. Info on GILEE...
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Poetry, Palestine, Resistance: Nora and Emily Khilfeh
In a recent interview on Democracy Now, director of “Unseen” Set Hernandez quoted Ursula Le Guin: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now. … We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a...
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Palestine Students
Listen to high school students in Vermont share their thoughts about what is happening in Gaza. C
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No to Artwashing Genocide! ~ Voices from the Street
On Sunday, March 10th ATLradicalart held a rally outside the High Museum in Atlanta, GA. Their rally was to say No Artwashing Israeli Apartheid! They ask: "How does Empire use Art against the people and to cover up complicity in genocide?" Listen to the voices from outside on the streets!...
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"Victory Outside of Empire" : Palestinian Resistance & Our Collective Freedom
We spend the hour with Umaymah Mohammad - Palestinian, organizer, and current MD/PhD student at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Umaymah speaks with us about her own history, rejecting the silence of the university in not protecting the safety of those students who have been targeted by racist,...
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Part II: In conversation with Dr. Alyasah A. Sewell
Part II in of our conversation with Dr. Sewell. Dr. Sewell is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA and also the founder and director of the Race and Policing Project. In part II, Dr. Sewell speaks on race in Atlanta, policing and adverse health, "carceral grief,"...
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An hour with Chris Lievense: Teacher, Indigo Host, and Spark Faculty
Indigo host Chris and Anna talk poetry, teaching, hope, and struggle. Chris shares some of the work that he is doing with his students at Springfield High School in Springfield, Vermont. Poems: Pablo Neruda "United Fruit Company" https://genius.com/Pablo-neruda-the-united-fruit-company-annotated...
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"Breaking the Glass:" Poetry & Conversation with Spark Faculty, Alum, & Indigo Hosts
On the heels of MLK Day we air our annual poetry and conversation show with Spark faculty, alum, and Indigo hosts. We read poems that speak to the moment as we look forward to 2024. With poems by: Derek Johnson -- D.C. teacher & Spark alum Reads: "Climate Justice and Food Sovereignty Now!" by...
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Dr. Alyasah A. Sewell, Emory University Part I of 2
Indigo host Anna Mullany interviews Dr. Alyasah “Ali” Sewell of Emory University. Dr. Sewell is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory and Founder and Director of The Race and Policing Project. Advancing quantitative approaches to racism studies, they assess empirical links between the…
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From Palestine to Atlanta: Occupation is a Crime ~ An hour with Rev. Keyanna Jones
Indigo hosts Anna & Josh spend the hour with Reverend Keyanna Jones. Rev. Jones, born and raised in Atlanta, GA, is a community activist and organizer. She talks with us about the #stopcopcity movement in Atlanta, the history of the Weelaunee forest, policing, the GILEE program & militarism, the...
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"There Will Be Justice in this Town" - Voices from #StopCopCity at APHA
On November 14, 2023 public health workers against Cop City held a rally outside of the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting held in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. Listen to the voices from the rally. CopCity is a public health issue & Atlanta is one of the...
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Back To School Special
Indigo Radio spoke with 4 educators in our back-to-school special. We discussed what is happening in students' and teachers' lives within and outside of schools, what their work looks like beyond the classroom, what gives them strength to meet the challenges facing, and more.
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It’s Soil, Not Dirt! w/ Fred Magdoff
Indigo Radio interviewed Fred Magdoff, former Professor of Plant and Soil Science at University of Vermont. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. We discussed the importance of soil, how soil is alive, how human activities have...
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Tina Turner Through Music
We spend the hour talking about the life a Tina Turner though her music. As the first black person and women on the cover of Rolling Stones, Tina continued to strive despite the obstacles. Listen now to learn more and enjoy the tunes!
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Replay - Memorial Day weekend, Counter-Recruitment
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces According to the Costs of War Project at Brown University, U.S. wars since the September 11th attacks have cost over $8...
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Weelaunee Forest Series: Conversation with Climate Activist & Forest Defender, J
In the first of our series on the Atlanta Forest Defenders and Weelaunee Forest, we talk with a climate activist and forest defender about their time in the Weelaunee Forest during the March 2023 week of protest and action. J talks about the urgency of solidarity, resistance to Cop City, the…
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Discussions on Permaculture
Today our society has developed through conquering lands and peoples, destroying our relationships with one another and the land in order to exploit and consume. We see ourselves above nature rather than a part of nature. Permaculture, rooted in the knowledge generated by indigenous communities...
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HEART - Out in the Open with Noa Isabella & Frank Osten
Indigo host Anna Mullany talks with Noa Isabella & Frank Osten, both health justice organizers with Out in the Open. They talk with us about the HEART program, rural health, & what we can all learn in supporting our LGBTQ+ community members in VT. 💜💜💜💜💜 The HEART (Health Equity and Access…
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Nepal: Conversation on Climate & Health
To commemorate Earth Day 2023, we spend the hour on Nepal -- Nepal is considered the 4th most vulnerable country in terms of climate-related disasters. Today we speak to two graduate students from Nepal - Prakriti Shresthra & Chhimi Sherpa, who are both working toward their Master's degree in the...
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Free Flow: Menstrual Equity with Clark Students
All new show this Sunday with host Anna and her Clark undergraduate students in the What is Public Health? course. Students discuss the issue of menstrual inequity at Clark University in Worcester, MA. From the students: "We chose to discuss menstrual equity because of its lack of visibility and...
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Leticia Gonzalez - rurality, family farms, and women's movements in Argentina
We spend the hour with Leticia Gonzalez, a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Clark University in Worcester, MA in the International Development, Community and Environment department. Leticia is working on her Ph.D looking at rural women and family farms in Latin America. She talks with Indigo about...
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Clark University undergrads talk all about Sexual Assault and College
This week, Indigo host Anna Mullany passes the show over to her undergraduate students at Clark University in Worcester MA where she is currently teaching. A group of her public health students created a show - "Let's Talk About It: Sexual Assault at Clark" - this show tackles the very real issue...
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Vermont Workers Center
Indigo Radio interviewed Ellen Schwartz, Sheila Adams, and Grace Beninson of the Vermont Worker's Center. They talk to us about their ongoing political education and health care issues as a front to also work on issues of poverty, race, food access, and social justice.
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Whose Water?
Humans are depleting and polluting the remaining clean water on our earth, already causing severe problems for many. Who owns the water and what happens when our water is privatized? are just some of the questions that asked by our hosts, broadcasting from Morocco!
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Vermont State U downgrades sports teams - student perspective & social analysis
Today’s show is about the recent unilateral decision by the soon to be Vermont State University to downgrade NVU Johnson’s sports teams from NCAA to USCAA, and downgrading Randolph and Williston sports teams to clubs, and to digitize the library system. We’ll start out with looking at how changes...
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Indigo reads "Beyond Vietnam" 1967 Dr. MLK Jr.
Join us to hear Dr. MLK Jr.'s 1967 Speech "Beyond Vietnam" - read by Indigo hosts, Spark Teacher Institute faculty and Spark alum Nina Kunimoto, Kyra Swain, Anna Mullany, Kelly Junno, Patrice Strifert, and Katie Behan
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Los Angeles Teacher Strike and Organizing with Ryan Emerson
Indigo Radio was in conversation with Ryan Emerson, a labor organizer and political activist currently working as the Government and Labor Affairs Manager at Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 99, which represents over 30,000 education support staff across Los Angeles County. We...
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World Cup, Analysis of the World
In this show, we discuss some of the hidden layers of politics within sports around the world. Specifically, we discuss the 2022 World Cup and how we can analyze the world through sports entertainment. We interview two Moroccans about their thoughts on the Moroccan team's performance in the World...
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REPLAY: Sports And Politics
We discuss how politics in sports are acceptable as long as the messages uphold the dominant narratives of militarism, masculinity, and consumerism. But politics that question the political and economic structures are seen as a disruption to the game. Not so different from the ways social justice...
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Indigo Radio Interviews Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll on Political Prisoners
Indigo Radio's Mikaela Simms and Nina Kunimoto was in conversation with Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll a faculty member in the Department of Black & Latinx Studies at Baruch College (CUNY). His teaching and research interests revolve around African-centered theory & methodology, with an emphasis on...
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Depression amongst college students with Clark University undergrads
Guest hosts - Clark University students Gelian Rosa, Emma Cheyney, Aiman Khan, and Erin McInerney host this week's Indigo Radio. They are students in Indigo host Anna Mullany's "What is Public Health?" course at Clark in Worcester, MA. They share their learnings on depression amongst college...
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In conversation with Jeff Noh, Clark University
Indigo host Anna interviews Jeff Noh, writer & Visiting Professor in the English department at Clark University, Worcester, MA. Jeff talks with us about how history and global political forces shape us, reads an excerpt from his upcoming novel, gives insight into what the incorporation of...
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Martín Espada - In the Studio
We welcome Martín Espada into the studio today to read from his award-winning book of poetry, Floaters. Espada has won the 2018 Ruth Lilly Prize in poetry and was a 2021 National Book Award winner for poetry. Martín talks with us about Puerto Rico, the legacy of his father, Frank Espada…
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REPLAY ~ About Face: Veterans Against the War
Indigo hosts Patrice and Nik interview Ksenia Voropaeva on her work with About Face - a group of post-9/11 US war veterans who work against militarism at home and abroad, support social movements here in the US, and urge young people to think twice before they enter the military. Check out:...
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Dr. Bharat Rathod: Caste as a Protected Category in the Anti-discriminatory Framework
Bharat Rathod has a doctorate degree in International Education from University of Massachusetts Amherst and his research interest comprises caste, higher education in India and diversity, equity and inclusion framework. His book, Dalit Academic Experiences: Stories of Caste, Stigma and Exclusion...
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Reproductive Justice Part 4: Beyond "Choice"
Dr. Olya Clark and Dr. Anna Mullany, both professors in public health, are in conversation with Indigo Radio. They help us re-frame reproductive health not as a matter of choices, which depending on your social location you may or may not have, but within larger social forces. They also connect…
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In conversation with Perpetual Hayfron on doula work and Black women's health
Indigo Radio interviewed Perpetual Hayfron on doula work, its entanglements in enslavement and medicalization, and Black women's health. Perpetual is a Certified Full Spectrum Doula & Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is also a creative and beautiful human being.
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In Remembrance of George Jackson: Interview with poet-scholar Dr. Keith Jones
50 years ago on Aug 7 police assassinated Jonathan Jackson for trying to free his brother George Jackson who was murdered on this day, August 21, 1971 by police guards. In remembrance of their murders and Black August, we interviewed Dr. Keith Jones, poet and professor of Africana Studies at…
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Part 2: Women and Gender Studies Program at Keene State College with Karen Cangialosi
Part 1, we talked to youth about how the overturning of Roe v Wade impacts them. In this second part, we speak with Dr. Karen Cangialosi about the elimination of the Women and Gender Studies Program as a major at Keene State College in New Hampshire. We also discuss the dangers of historical...
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Intimate Partner Violence - rural areas
Last week the body of Mary Anderson, 23, of Harvard, Mass., was found in Brattleboro, VT. Today we re-air our show on IPV in rural areas with Indigo host Anna along with 5 of her UMass undergraduate public health students.
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Overturning of Roe v Wade: Youth Voices
Mikaela Simms and Kyra Swain invite youth voices to talk about what the overturning of Roe v Wade means to them and their lives.
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Indigo Radio is a project of the Spark Teacher Education Institute based out of Southern VT. We are a group of educators [seeking to learn through engaging with others in our community and throughout the world. We are both in the classrooms and on the streets. Find us at indigo.radio on Instagram and Facebook or download a previous show on Soundcloud and Apple ItunesIndigo is now broadcasting out of Southern VT, W. Mass, Atlanta, Seattle, and Morocco.
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