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The WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast features guest interviews hosted on WPKN broadcasts with our renowned DJs. Musicians, artists, producers, writers, movers and shakers - dig deeper into their philosophy and ethos. Founded in 1963, WPKN is a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of ...
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WPKN is a nonprofit, freeform, community radio station (arts organization) that is more than 50 years old. The vision of WPKN is to build community, a loyal and growing audience, and an engaged and educated citizenry by providing the highest quality of free-form programming that broadcasts entertainment, music, news, thoughts, sounds, ideas and event listings that support free speech, diversity, and the interests of the local and global communities WPKN serves. Our radio frequency of 89.5-FM ...
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WPKN’s daily local newscast covers Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut, and Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, airing weekdays at 6:35pm EST, and available in this podcast subscription format. The expanded WPKN newscast will focus on state legislative sessions and local politics, immigration rights, climate and environmental concerns, economic inequality, poverty, and cost of living issues, and reproductive rights. Broadcasts will include diverse voices from the ...
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WPKN Gold Sounds is a video performance and audio broadcast series featuring global and local talent. Artists and bands perform several songs in the Bridgeport, CT WPKN studios, and are interviewed about their formation, influences, process, and overall approach. The series features emerging and established acts; digging deep into musical artistry. WPKN Bridgeport at 89.5FM, streaming worldwide at wpkn.org is a 10,000 watt community radio powerhouse entertaining and informing the audiences f ...
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Often live, unique, remote, out-in-the-wild WPKN broadcasts. WPKN, cited as “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker, founded in 1963 as a 100-watt campus outlet, WPKN is today a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunte ...
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Luis T. Puig (Cuban Refugee) interviewed by WPKN's Lou Pomales (host of La Esquina Latina)
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1:05:58Luis Puig Bio: Born in 1965, and raised in La Habana, Cuba under communism, Mr. Luis Puig spent his first 15 years of life living in Castro’s Cuba. Mr. Puig had to live under the rules of that system, even having to be a communist Pionero (communist youth organization) like all the kids are forced to be there. His father served 12 years imprisonmen…
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Nels Cline interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino (Organic Radio)
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49:42Guitarist Nels Cline is interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino as they discuss Cline's expansive genre-defying work across multiple projects. Nels Cline's Consentrik Quartet comes to the region Wednesday April 9th, at the Space Ballroom in Hamden, CT.WPKN által
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Monthly Labor Report: Will Labor Lead an Anti-Fascist Front?
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33:06UE President Carl Rosen and economist and labor historian Michael Zweig discuss the Trump/Musk fascist coup and what role labor will play in forming alliances with the different silos on the Left and in leading an anti-fascist front. Hosted by Richard HillWPKN által
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Trump’s Unconstitutional Executive Order to Change US Voting System Would Disenfranchise Millions
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16:25Interview with Greg Palast, Filmmaker and journalist and the author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, conducted by Scott Harris. Greg Palast discusses his recent article, “Trump-Musk order will cost 21 million their vote,” re: Donald Trump’s March 25th executive order that restructures the way America…
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Trump Targets International Students for Deportation, 1st Step to Repress Free Speech for All
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18:32Interview with Nader Hashemi, director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University, conducted by Scott Harris. Nader Hashemi discusses the campus response to the ICE arrest and attempt to deport Georgetown Univ. researcher and instructor Badar Khan S…
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Trump-Musk Sabotage of Social Security Designed to Hasten Its Privatization
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17:55Interview with Sam Pizzigati, veteran labor journalist, Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, co-editor of IPS' newsletter Inequality.org, and author, conducted by Scott Harris. Sam Pizzigati discusses his recent article, “Could Elon Musk Destroy Social Security as We Know It? — and issues related to the Trump-Musk attempt to sabotage Soci…
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Confronting the Reality of Trump’s Hateful White Supremacist Agenda
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27:10Interview with Tim Wise, one of the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and author of nine books, including his latest, "Dispatches from the Race War," conducted by Scott Harris. Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls “a vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” assesses Trump and Trumpism since his …
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CT Criminal Justice Reform Activists Demand State Release Video of J’Allen Jones’ 2018 Prison Death
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14:47Interview with Barbara Fair, a licensed clinical social worker, social justice activist, organizer, and founding member of Stop Solitary CT, conducted by Scott Harris. Barbara Fair talks about a press conference on Tuesday, March 25 that demanded the release of a video related to the correction officer beating death of J’Allen Jones on the 7th anni…
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As Voter Anger Rises Over Trump’s Attacks on Federal Government, Bernie Sanders and AOC Rally and Energize Opponents
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19:49Interview with Aaron Regunberg, a contributing editor at The New Republic, senior climate policy counsel at Public Citizen and a steering committee member of the Pass the Torch, conducted by Scott Harris. Aaron Regunberg discusses his recent New Republic article, “Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done,” and the current debate about the …
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Right-wing Domination of Social Media a Powerful Channel for Political Disinformation
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16:02Interview with Kayla Gogarty, research director with Media Matters for America, conducted by Scott Harris. Kayla Gogarty discusses her group’s recent study, “New analysis found 9 out of the 10 top online shows assessed are right leaning.” Ideas are being debated on how progressive activists, journalists and scholars can break through right-wing med…
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Trump Defiance of Rule of Law Plunges U.S. Into Deepening Constitutional Crisis
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28:09Interview with Christopher Wright Durocher, vice president for program and policy with the American Constitution Society, conducted by Scott Harris. Christopher Durocher assesses the threat to democracy posed by the Trump administration’s actions over the past eight weeks and offers thoughts on what it will take to mount an effective defense of the…
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WU MAN (Grammy Award winning Chinese pipa virtuoso) interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli
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29:31Radio Host Joseph Celli interviews Grammy Award winning Chinese pipa virtuoso WU MAN prior to her performance with the New Haven Symphony. WU MAN discusses the 2,000 year old pipa tradition, the new pipa concerto (Ears of the Book) composed for her by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Du Yun. “…one of the foremost Asian musicians in North America…she…
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Dr. Andrea E. Reid, Gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital on Colon Cancer Awareness & Prevention Screening with WPKN's Andrea Shellman
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24:22Andrea E. Reid, MD, MPH is a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital where she is also the Director of Diversity and Faculty Development for Gastroenterology. Dr. Reid is also the Associate Dean for Student and Multicultural Affairs and Director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs at Harvard Medical School.…
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Trump’s Erratic Tariffs, Massive Federal Government Layoffs and Budget Cuts Provoke US Recession
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17:42Interview with Dean Baker, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, conducted by Scott Harris. Dean Baker discusses his recent articles, “The Democrats’ Necessary Apology” and “The Trump-Musk Recession: Because They Can,” as well as issues related to Trump’s tariffs, Wall Street’s response and what’s ahead for the U.S. eco…
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New Book Examines the Vast Difference in How White Americans Perceive Racism and Sexism
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16:50Interview with Betsy Leondar-Wright, a community organizer, a diversity workshop facilitator, and a sociology professor teaching critical race theory and economic inequality. Leondar-Wright talks about her new book, “Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas,” co-written with Jessi Strei…
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Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Disrupt Benefits to Nation’s Most Vulnerable
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17:01Interview with Justin Glawe, independent journalist and editor of the American Doom newsletter, conducted by Scott Harris. Justin Glawe discusses his latest Rolling Stone article, “Social Security Insiders Warn Trump and Musk Could Break the Program,” and growing concern that congressional Democrats can’t mount an effective defense of America’s mos…
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Trump Suppression of Free Speech Used as Unconstitutional Pretext to Deport Palestinian Student Activist
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27:40Interview with Sam Carliner, a journalist who focuses on US imperialism and the climate crisis, conducted by Scott Harris. Sam Carliner talks about his recent Waging Nonviolence magazine article, “How pro-Palestine student activists are fighting increasing repression,” and the recent Trump administration’s arrest and attempt to deport Mahmoud Khali…
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The Organic Farm Stand: The Secret Life of Healthy Soil!
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45:29Monique Bosch, the Soil Health Program Manager with CT NOFA, gets down and dirty about the microbial basis of healthy soil that promotes nutrient dense food and a sustainable environment. Also: Steve Munno of Massaro Farm in Woodbridge, CT, provides the Small Farms Report; and Vincent Kaye of Swords into Ploughshares Honey, presents the Honey Bee U…
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*Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Shatter the Progam Serving the Nation’s Most Vulnerable; Justin Glawe, an independent journalist, frequent contributor to Rolling Stone magazine; Producer: Scott Harris.*Public Citizen Pushing Back Against Trump Regime’s Onslaught of Lawlessness; Lisa Gilbert, Co-President of Public Citizen; Producer: Mel…
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Connecticut Citizen Action Group’s 2025 Legislative Agenda Explained
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15:51Interview with Tom Swan, executive director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group, conducted by Scott Harris. Tom Swan discusses CCAG’s priorities and goals in the current state legislative session, as well as initiatives a coalition of groups in the state are working on to build a firewall to protect CT residents from Trump 2.0 authoritarian fed…
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Trump’s Erratic On-Again, Off-Again Tariff Policy Born of Desperation
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18:35Interview with Richard D. Wolff, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, author of 11 books including, “Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism,” and host of the weekly TV program Economic Update, conducted by Scott Harris. Richard D. Wolff examines Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, Europe a…
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Target’s Elimination of the Chain’s DEI Policy Provokes Nationwide 40-Day Boycott
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16:08Interview with the Rev. Jamal-Harrison Bryant, senior pastor at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, conducted by Scott Harris. Senior Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant discusses his call for a 40-day “fast” from shopping at Target stores during Lent starting on March 5, in response to the company’s retreat from their Diversit…
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Trump’s Ongoing Assault on Democracy Closely Follows the Authoritarian Playbook
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26:05Interview with Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, conducted by Scott Harris. Jason Stanley shares his views on the Trump regime’s unconstitutional attempt to eliminate entire federal agencies, the mass firing of government employ…
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Make the Road CT: Communities Fight Back In Connecticut
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29:23Sonia Hernandez and Veronica Ubaldo are team members with the community support organization Make the Road Connecticut, one of a national network of grassroots immigrant-led groups. They share their personal stories of struggle for a better life in the US and their involvement in the fight for immigrant rights in their home town of Bridgeport, CT. …
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