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  • OutCasting — giving voice to LGBTQ youth and the issues they face.  Thursday evening at 6:30, Saturday afternoon at 1:00.
    Available in ARCHIVES and via
    PODCAST

  • In Focus — in-depth local news and public affairs discussion (northern Westchester communities along the Hudson River).  Monday evening at 6:30, Wednesday morning at 7:30.
    Available in
    ARCHIVES and via PODCAST

  • For the Greater Good — a look at a different lower Hudson valley nonprofit each week.  Wednesday evening at 6:30, Saturday morning at 9:00.
    Available in ARCHIVES and via PODCAST

  • Critical Conversations — an occasional series on issues of public importance.

  • Recovery Talk — discussion about recovery from illness, trauma, and more.  Friday evening at 6:30, Saturday morning at 9:30.
    Available in
    ARCHIVES and via PODCAST

  • Democracy Now! — daily independent global news hour.  Weekdays at noon.

  • Free Speech Radio News — daily national and international newsmagazine.  Weekday afternoons at 4:00 and again at 6:00.

  • This Way Out — international gay and lesbian newsmagazine.  Tuesday afternoon at 1:30, Saturday morning at 11:30.

  • Making Contact — national and international public affairs.  Monday afternoon at 1:30, Saturday mornings at 10:30.

  • Alternative Radio — national and international public affairs.  Wednesday afternoon at 1:00, Saturday at noon.

  • CounterSpin — media critique.  Monday afternoon at 1:00, Saturday morning at 10:00.

  • Sprouts (Pacifica) — radio from the grassroots — a wide variety of programs from community radio stations and independent producers.  Tuesday afternoon at 1:00, Saturday morning at 11:00.

All airtimes are Eastern Time.


LGBTQ YOUTH ISSUES

More about OutCasting, including LGBTQ community resources and the Trevor Project suicide hotline...

Related:  Front page article about OutCasting in the October 6, 2011 edition of The Journal News

OutCasting

OutCasting is WDFH's public radio program giving voice to LGBTQ youth issues.

Boy Scout Ban:  The Boy Scouts of America has partially lifted its ban on gay Scouts and adult Scouting leaders.  This week, we break our transgender series (below) to cover the Boy Scout issue in a timely manner.

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS:  Following our two part interview with the transgender activist Juli Grey-Owens, we will broadcast our discussion with New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who sponsored marriage equality in New York and is now sponsoring GENDA, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

LGBTQ ISSUES IN EDUCATION:  A reading of the play "Queering History" by Maggie Keenan-Bolger, and an interview with Maggie about how the play came to be.

More info on OutCasting...

Available in ARCHIVES and via PODCAST

  • Listen online now.

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http://wdfh.org/xml/outcasting.xml

OutCasting this week:

Thursday evening, June 20 — 6:30-7:00 p.m.

Saturday afternoon, June 22 — 1:00-1:30 p.m.

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INCLUSIVE SCOUTING NETWORK

The Boy Scouts of America's gay ban is partially lifted

 

Since the late 1970s, the Boy Scouts of America (B.S.A.) has had a policy that bans gay youth and adult leaders from membership in the Boy Scouts.  In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that B.S.A. had the legal right to continue this discriminatory policy.  In the years since, organizations have been formed to fight the ban through other channels. 

 

Meanwhile, B.S.A. has ejected Scouts and adult leaders whose homosexuality came its attention.  Others, after becoming aware of the policy, left Scouting on their own.  Untold numbers have declined to get involved at all.

 

More than 60% of volunteer Scouting leaders voted on Thursday, May 23, to partially lift the ban, but only to the extent that it covers youth Scouting members; under the proposed change, gay adult leaders will still be banned.

 

Will it now be safe for gay Scouts to come out?  What message does the partial change send?  Will it be enough to enable B.S.A. to regain some of the support and membership it has lost?  Perhaps most importantly, why is the B.S.A. reluctant to make a sweeping statement that discrimination is simply wrong?

 

This week's edition of OutCasting, which was produced before the vote took place, explores these complex issues through discussions with people who are or have been involved with the fight to overturn the ban, including:

  • Evan Wolfson, the civil rights attorney who represented a gay Scout whose ejection from Scouting led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Boy Scouts v. James Dale;

  • Zach Wahls, the executive director of Scouts for Equality;

  • Mark Noel, the executive director of the Inclusive Scouting Network who was ejected under the gay ban shortly after the Supreme Court decided the James Dale case;

  • Michelle Tompkins, national media manager of the Girl Scouts of the United States;

  • Christoph, who left Scouting;

  • David, a current Scout who opposes the ban; and

  • Michael, who is still closeted in Scouting.

This edition was also carried nationally on the Pacifica program Sprouts, also heard here on WDFH. 

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LOCAL NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

In Focus

In Focus, an in-depth discussion program on local news and public affairs, features guest reporter Gary Cahill, editor and publisher of The Gazette, based in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Available in ARCHIVES and via PODCAST

  • Listen online now.

  • Subscribe to podcast (free) — enter this address in your podcatching software to have your computer automatically download each news episode:

http://wdfh.org/xml/infocus.xml

More podcasting info...

In Focus this week:

Monday evening, June 17 — 6:30-7:00 p.m.

Wednesday morning, June 19 — 7:30-8:00 a.m.

hosted this week by Tim Podell

A critical Briarcliff Manor school budget vote will be held on Tuesday, June 18.  After significant cost cutting, should this budget re-vote go down as did the budget plan defeated on May 21 — the district's first budget defeat in at least four decades — a "contingency budget" will be required for the 2013-14 school year.

Transition Ossining will be hosting a home gardening class at the Mariandale Retreat and Conference Center, Ossining, on June 30 for people interested in growing their own fruits and vegetables.

There are now six candidates for the two available council seats up for election on the Cortland Town Board: Democratic candidates Debbie Costello and Seth Freach; Democratic primary challengers Domenic Volpe and Brian Pugh, who have recently picked up the Independence and Working Families lines; and Republicans John Lentini and Theresa Knickerbocker. Ms. Knickerbocker was recently elected to her third consecutive two-year term as a Village of Buchanan trustee. An independent who has been elected and reelected a Buchanan trustee with Democratic support, there are grumblings among Republicans in terms of supporting her.

The village of Croton-on-Hudson is considering a First Night celebration for this coming New Year's Eve. The last area municipality to host something similar — the Village of Ossining, about eight years ago — dropped the idea after the inaugural event.

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LOCAL NONPROFITS

For the Greater Good

Nonprofit organizations do incredibly important work left undone by the private sector, government, and other forces our society.  For the Greater Good is a half-hour weekly program spotlighting the work being done by nonprofit organizations in our area.  Hosted by Di Morgan, discussion will focus on activities, programs, services, events, and the need for funds and volunteers.

Available in ARCHIVES and via PODCAST

  • Listen online now.

  • Subscribe to podcast (free) — enter this address in your podcatching software to have your computer automatically download each news episode (free):

    http://wdfh.org/xml/greatergood.xml

More podcasting info...

For the Greater Good this week:

Wednesday evening, June 19 — 6:30-7:00 p.m.

Saturday morning, June 22 — 9:00-9:30 a.m.

Pleasantville Circle of Friends

Folk musicians find friendship and feedback at the Pleasantville Circle of Friends.  The group holds monthly song swaps and an open mike.  Founded by Jody Stockhamer and Jim Dirlam, the group is open to all.  Follow the group as Pleasantville Circle of Friends on Facebook.

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LOCAL ISSUES

Critical Conversations

Critical Conversations is an occasional series of in-depth discussions on issues of public importance.

This week:

Tuesday evening, June 18 — 6:30-7:00 p.m.

 

hosted this week by Di Morgan

 

Indian Point

Stonypoint 55 is a group opposing the re-licensing of the Indian Point nuclear power plants.  Manna Jo Greene, Susan Leifer, and Susan Shapiro discuss their activities and strategies and why the group believes the plants are unsafe.

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HEALTH

Recovery Talk

Recovery Talk, hosted by veteran journalist Robyn Leary (1950-2011), 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.

Robyn died unexpectedly on June 6, 2011.  We are broadcasting encore presentations of Recovery Talk in respectful and loving memory of her.

Available in ARCHIVES and via PODCAST

Recovery Talk this week:

Friday evening, June 21 — 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday morning, June 22 — 9:30-10:00 a.m.

On this week's edition of Recovery Talk, New York music promoter Robert Taylor explains why the annual Christmas party at Eva's Village has grown the reputation as an exciting platform to debut new talent.  For the past four years, Taylor has produced the show.  He says the audience at the well respected New Jersey homeless shelter for men and women in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are unusually good judges of talent.  Listen up and find out why.

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DAILY NEWS AND ANALYSIS

Democracy Now!

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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GAY / LESBIAN / BISEXUAL / TRANSGENDER ISSUES

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, June 18 — 1:30-2:00 p.m.
         
Saturday morning, June 22 — 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

  • The June 2003 U.S. Supreme Court sodomy ruling puts the present in perspective

  • U.K. marriage equality gets the Lords' blessing

  • Evangelical American Lutherans choose a gay indigenous bishop

  • Germany's highest court orders tax equity for same-gender couples

  • Pride parades in Changsa, Sao Paulo, Salt Lake City, and Tel Aviv

  • arrests are finally made in the Israeli city's 2009 LGBT youth group killings

  • and more LGBT news from around the world. 

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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.

  • In-depth reports on political and social issues, trends and events, contributed by journalists from around the globe.

  • Ordinary people talk about how public policy affects their daily lives, families and communities.

  • 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  ■  U.S. Foreign Policy    U.S. Domestic Politics    Welfare    Women  ■  Youth

Making Contact this week:

Monday afternoon, June 17 — 1:30-2:00 p.m.
Saturday morning, June 22 — 10:30-11:00 a.m.

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Rad Dads!

Parenting has never been easy.  Merging your politics with your parenting decisions can be even more challenging.  On this edition, fathers… and mothers… on fatherhood and how it’s changing.  Traditional ideas about what a dad is supposed to be are slowly disappearing, but what will take their place?

Featuring:
Tomas Moniz
, Rad Dad creator; Airial Clark, Sex Positive Parent blogger; Janine Macbeth, Oh Oh Baby Boy author; Brent Ramos, Danny Gutierrez, Craig Elliot, Jeremy Smith, Jeremy John, Jason Oppy, fathers.

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media critique

CounterSpin


CounterSpin

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, June 17 — 1:00-1:30 p.m.
       
Saturday morning, June 22 — 10:00-10:30 a.m.

  • Kathleen McClellan on Edward Snowden

  • Ralph Nader on "Told You So"

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This week on CounterSpin:  Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is either a whistleblower or a traitor, depending on whom you listen to.  His revelation of the government secretly gathering data on millions of Americans is likewise either further evidence of state encroachment on civil liberties — or no big deal.  We'll hear from whistleblower advocate Kathleen McClellan, national security and human rights counsel at the Government Accountability Project, about Snowden and the NSA.

Also on CounterSpin this week:  Veteran consumer rights activist Ralph Nader has a new collection of weekly columns titled Told You So.  He'll join us to tell us about the stories he's tried to tell — and what he makes of a media system that too often silences the voices of dissent.

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public affairs

Alternative Radio

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. 

Alternative Radio is hosted by David Barsamian, the award-winning founder and director of the show, which is based in Boulder, Colorado.  One of America's most wide-ranging and respected independent journalists, David Barsamian has altered the media landscape with his radio programs and books with Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, and others.  His most recent books are Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire with Noam Chomsky, Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism with Richard Wolff, and a reissue of the classic How the World Works.  His best-selling books with Chomsky have been translated into many languages.

He is winner of the Media Education Award, the A.C.L.U.'s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.  The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes.

Established in 1986, A.R. 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 A.R. programs, is available at alternativeradio.org.

"A.R. 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

Alternative Radio this week:

Wednesday afternoon, June 19 — 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Saturday afternoon, June 22  — 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Medical marijuana — lecture by Martin Lee

Marijuana, cannabis, weed, grass — by one name or the other you've heard about it and may have even tried it.  An Irish physician, William O'Shaughnessy, introduced the therapeutic use of marijuana to Western medicine in the 1830s.  He gave it to patients to help treat muscle spasms and stomach cramps.

Marijuana as a medicine became common throughout much of the Western world by the 19th century.  It was the primary pain reliever until the invention of aspirin.  Today, there are underreported scientific breakthroughs including the discovery of a non-psychoactive component of marijuana, (CBD), which stimulates adult stem cell growth, prevents the onset of diabetes, and shrinks malignant tumors.

By mining the plant’s treasure trove of active ingredients, medical researchers have developed promising treatments for cancer, heart disease, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s, chronic pain, and many other conditions that are beyond the reach of conventional cures.

MARTIN LEE

Martin Lee is co-founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), the New York-based media watch group.  An award-winning journalist, he has investigated the C.I.A. and its drug experiments.  His classic book on the topic is Acid Dreams.  He is also the author of The Beast Reawakens and Smoke Signals.  He is director of Project CBD and a contributing editor of O’Shaughnessy’s.

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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 afternoon, June 18 — 1:00-1:30 p.m.

Saturday morning, June 22 — 10:00-10:30 p.m.

 

Voices from the 2013 Left Forum

 

Voices from the 2013 Left Forum, featuring Jill Stein, Tadzio Muller, Medea Benjamin, Oliver Stone, Dona Murch, Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, Thomas Drake, Esther Castillo, William Blum, Ninoctka Rosca, Alvaro Garcia Linera and more.

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