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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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podcast (free) enter this address in your podcatching software
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In Focus
airing
Monday evening, June 29 6:30-7:00 pm
Wednesday morning, July 1
7:30-8:00 am
hosted this week by Vinny Cohan
The first phase of the $2.5 million project to reduce
flooding at the Croton-Harmon Metro North parking lot is expected to
be completed later this week, freeing the approximately 600 spaces
that have been unavailable during the construction work.
These spaces will be gravel-surfaced
for 2-3 months to allow for proper settling, and then surfaced with
asphalt in the final phase of work.
Ossining Town Justice Francesca Connolly has been
nominated by Governor Paterson to fill a vacancy on the New York State
Supreme Court. Justice Connolly's
nomination will require confirmation by the State Senate.
New York State Supreme Court Justices
are elected to 14-year terms, and Justice Connolly has indicated her
intention to run for election in November.
The Croton-on-Hudson
Village Board of Trustees will review the suitability of the location
of its new Wednesday Farmers Market at South Riverside Avenue and
Municipal Place. Traffic in and around
the location has required the deployment of police personnel and
created an unplanned cost burden for the Village.
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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
airing
Tuesday evening, June 30 6:30-7:00 pm
Saturday morning, July 4 9:30-10:00 am
Chemical dependency treatment in the
LGBT community
Stepping Stone of San Diego is
nationally recognized as a model treatment center for the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.
On this edition of Recovery Talk,
Robyn Leary talks with John de Miranda, Chief Executive Officer of
Stepping Stone, San Diego, about the special challenges associated
with providing chemical dependency treatment to these too often
stigmatized communities.
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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 am
Monday-Friday afternoons
12:00-1:00 pm
Free Speech Radio News
Monday-Friday evenings 6:00-6:30 pm
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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
airing
Tuesday afternoon, June 30 1:30-2:00 pm
Saturday morning, July 4
11:30 am-12:00 pm
hosted this week by Greg Gordon and
produced with Lucia Chappelle
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Obama's DOMA drama yields mini-benefits
and lingering discontent
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violent
attacks follow Sao Paulo's mammoth Pride march,
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Pride empowers
politics in Rome, Warsaw, Zagreb, and the US
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dismay over Lithuania's
"no promo homo" law
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Filipino cross-dressers face lashings
in Riyadh
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the Queen honors Alan Cumming with an
OBE
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exploring diverse bisexualities in "The
Art of Being Straight"
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and more global LGBT news.
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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
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Top: GRID Alternatives, Richmond BUILD,
and Solar Richmond installing solar panels.
Bottom: Woman worker affiliated with WAGES, an organization that set
up eco-friendly cleaning cooperatives
Source: Top: www.gridalternatives.org
Bottom: WAGES |
Making Contact
airing
Monday afternoon, June 29 1:00-1:30 pm
Saturday morning, July 4 10:00-10:30 am
The Greening of America: A
New Deal for Everyone?
From the Tennessee Valley Authority to the federal
theatre project, Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s dramatically
altered Americas infrastructure in lasting ways. Now
President Obama wants a New Deal too only
this one is green. Obama plans to create
more than 2½ million green jobs over the
next two years. But will these jobs be as
plentiful and equitable as the new administration will have us
believe? On this edition, we look at the
greening of America. Is it really a new
deal for everyone?
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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 airing
Monday afternoon, June 29 1:00-1:30 pm
Saturday morning, July 4
10:00-10:30 am
This week on CounterSpin: Events
in Iran continue to unfold with protesters still in the street in what
seemed to begin as a rejection of the re-election of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. Has it become something
more now? And how are the press corps
not famously nuanced on Iran
handling events? We'll hear from David
Barsamian, founder and director of
Alternative
Radio, heard here on WDFH, and co-author of the book
Targeting Iran.
Also on the show: The UN
Human Rights Council's report on racism in the US, released this
month, fell on deaf ears in the US media, despite the fact that it was
done at the invitation of the US government. We'll
talk to Chandra Bhatnagar, staff attorney at the ACLU's Human Rights
Program, about the UN report and its
noteworthy if not newsworthy findings.
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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."
Noam Chomsky
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Alternative Radio airing
Wednesday afternoon,
July 1 1:00-2:00 pm
Saturday afternoon, July 4 12:00-1:00 pm
Satya Sivaraman Human
Rights in India: Binayak Sen (interview)
Touted as an emerging superpower and the world's
largest democracy, India is a very complex country with enormous
internal problems such as desperate economic inequality, hunger,
racism, casteism, and religious bigotry.
There are pogroms of Christians in Orissa
and Muslims in Gujarat.
Not surprisingly, the oppressed are fighting back.
There is a series of mini-wars and
rebellions going in many parts of India. Human
Rights Watch notes "a pattern of denial of justice" and holds New
Delhi accountable for its "failure to protect women, children, and
marginalized groups such as Dalits, tribal groups and religious
minorities. Indian security forces are
responsible for extrajudicial killings and arbitrary detention."
In Kashmir alone, tens of thousands have
been killed.
This week's edition of
Alternative Radio looks at the case of Dr. Binayak Sen.
It is in many ways a microcosm of the serious issues facing
India.
Satya Sivaraman is an independent journalist,
filmmaker and human rights activist based in New Delhi.
He is the author of Asia Sees America
and other Rants.
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parenting
and children
The Parent's Journal
The Parent's Journal
with Bobbi Conner, a national radio program for parents.
TPJ
airing
Tuesday afternoon, June 30 1:00-1:30 pm
Saturday morning, July 4
11:00-11:30 am
Making a special quilt for your
new baby
Meg Cox, vice president of the nonprofit Alliance
for American Quilts and author of The Book of New Family
Traditions and The Quilters Catalogue.
Nurturing creative preschoolers
Susan Striker, founder of Young at Art and author of
Young at Art: Teaching Toddlers Self-Expression, Problem Solving
Skills and an Appreciation for Art.
Parent's Notes Tips
Advice from real moms and dads that really works!
The toll-free number for questions
and comments about The Parent's Journal
is 1-800-648-9817 or find out more online at
parentsjournal.com.
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