Clean Truck Coalition Puts Pedal to the Metal 
Activists accelerate state rules for zero emission truck transition 

Summary:

Diesel exhaust is heating the planet and harming communities plagued by heavy truck traffic. A coalition of environmental justice, health, green and labor groups brought moving testimony to the California Air Resources Board and got the state to double the speed of transition to zero emissions heavy duty vehicles. California's Advanced Clean Truck Rule is part of the state's plan to get diesel trucks off the road by 2045. It has since been adopted by 5 other states.  

Andrea Vidaurre-Peoples' Collective for Environmental Justice, Ray Pingle - Sierra Club 

Sprouts Theme: Torpedoes on Tuesday by Poison Control Center
CC Music: Blue Dot Session

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Kraina FM National Resistance Radio in Ukraine 

Ukraine's first all-Ukrainian-language radio, broadcast in 26 cities in Ukraine, has rebranded itself as "National Resistance Radio," since the Russian invasion. Airwaves are used to provide information and services to support their community in crisis and war. Kraina FM General Manager Bogdan Bolkhovetsky describes what it means to wake up to war in the middle of the night as a father and husband, and then describes running a radio network during war.  

Kraina FM General Manager Bogdan Bolkhovetsky 

Produced & hosted by Anne Levine, WOMR, Provincetown MA.
Edited by Ursula Ruedenberg, Pacifica Network 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Arab American Heritage Month & the Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston 

In this episode of Sprouts, we talk about the Arab American Heritage Month and the contributions of Arab Americans to the American Society.

We also highlight the newly created Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston in an interview with Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Associate Professor & Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History, and Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston. 
Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti 

Credits: Said Fattouh, Executive Producer & Host of Arab Voices on KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, Texas 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Kraina FM National Resistance Radio in Ukraine 

Ukraine's first all-Ukrainian-language radio, broadcast in 26 cities in Ukraine, has rebranded itself as "National Resistance Radio," since the Russian invasion. Airwaves are used to provide information and services to support their community in crisis and war. Kraina FM General Manager Bogdan Bolkhovetsky describes what it means to wake up to war in the middle of the night as a father and husband, and then describes running a radio network during war.  

Kraina FM General Manager Bogdan Bolkhovetsky
 
Produced & hosted by Anne Levine, WOMR, Provincetown MA.
Edited by Ursula Ruedenberg, Pacifica Network 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Earthalujah! An Environmental Sermon & Interview with Labor Organizer Chris Smalls 

Earth Riot Radio invites everyone to an uplifting session with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.

The program shares environmental updates and interviews Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls and activist for Save East River Park Sarah Wellington.

Amazon Labor Organizer Christian Smalls, activist for Save East River Park Sarah Wellington 
Notes:

Credits:
Sprouts is a weekly program produced in collaboration with community radio stations and independent producers featuring radio productions of global interest. The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio.

Earth Riot Radio is on AudioPort.
http://audioport.org/index.php?op=series&series=Earth+Riot+Radio& 
Reverend Billy, host
Savitri D, News from the Natural World and the Sounds of Extinction
Jason Candler - Editor
Alex Zoppa - Producer
The Stop Shopping Choir sings the Honeybee Song

The Sprouts theme music, Torpedoes on Tuesday, is produced by Poison Control Center. 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Critical Race Theory with Dr. Camilla Westenberg 

Summary:
Featured speakers/guests:
Civic Cipher's Ramses Ja and Q Ward are joined by former educator Dr. Camilla Westenberg whose claim to fame is being the first person to create an accredited Hip Hop literature class at the community college level.

With so much being said about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools, it felt right for Ramses and Q to have a decades-long educator with them for this deep dive into CRT. They discuss exactly what it is, the concerns surrounding it, and what difference it could make in the lives of students.

Dr. Westenberg was Professor Emeritus at Phoenix College and the second vice president of the Maricopa County chapter of the NAACP in Arizona. 
Dr. Camilla Westenberg 
Notes:
Credits:
Sprouts is a weekly program produced in collaboration with community radio stations and independent producers featuring radio production of national interest. The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio.

Find Civic Cipher on AudioPort

http://audioport.org/index.php?op=series&series=Civic+Cipher& 
This show was produced by Ramses Ja and Q Ward of Civic Cipher.


The Sprouts theme song Torpedoes on Tuesday is by Poison Control Center.

Editing Assistance by Stephanie Schubert Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Farewell to Factory Farms 
Stories from farmers who got away 

Former contract poultry growers tell their stories: why they quit, how they got out, and what came after. The founder of a successful cooperative for regenerative farmers raising pasture based meat explains how cooperation can heal the land and earn a good living for farmers. The director of Transfarmation talks about repurposing animal confinement facilities for sustainable crop production.

Storytellers:
Paula Boles- former contract grower for Tyson
Craig Watts- Socially Responsible Agriculture Project and former contract grower for Perdue
Mike Weaver- Contract Growers Association of the Virginias & former contract grower for Pilgrim's Pride
Cody Hopkins- Grassroots Farmers Cooperative
Tyler Whitley- Transfarmation.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Critical Race Theory with Dr. Camilla Westenberg 

Featured speakers/guests:
Civic Cipher's Ramses Ja and Q Ward are joined by former educator Dr. Camilla Westenberg whose claim to fame is being the first person to create an accredited Hip Hop literature class at the community college level.

With so much being said about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools, it felt right for Ramses and Q to have a decades-long educator with them for this deep dive into CRT. They discuss exactly what it is, the concerns surrounding it, and what difference it could make in the lives of students.

Dr. Westenberg was Professor Emeritus at Phoenix College and the second vice president of the Maricopa County chapter of the NAACP in Arizona.  Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts is a weekly program produced in collaboration with community radio stations and independent producers featuring radio production of national interest. The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio.

Find Civic Cipher on AudioPort

http://audioport.org/index.php?op=series&series=Civic+Cipher&

Solidarity Through Solar: A City's Quest for 100% Clean Energy 

Summary:
Featured speakers/guests:
Energy justice advocate Gracie Wooten and energy analyst James Gignac discuss how science can help a Detroit-area community achieve energy sovereignty by generating and sharing its own electricity. Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Why Hard Conversations are Important and Making a Stand for Healthy Soil 
A Conversation with Viroqua Mayor Karen Mischel 

Summary:
Featured speakers/guests:
Before becoming Mayor of her hometown of Viroqua, Wisconsin in 2018, Karen Mischel spent 17 years in the Merchant Marines followed by her current occupation as an organic farm inspector.

Mischel shares:

- Lessons learned in communication from working on the ship;
- The challenges of managing a rural community with new and old residents;
- Why hard conversations are important and non-violent communication is the key in her community;
- Her work on banning herbicide spraying on public places in Viroqua and on leased public agricultural land;
- Her focus on prioritizing clean water, healthy soil, organic farming, and community health;
- Why educating people in the community should be a political responsibility.
 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Information for Liberation: Glen Ford on the History of Black Radio News

Pacifica Network shares excerpts from Glen Ford's keynote speech at the Grassroots Radio Conference in 2019.

The speech gives a history of black radio news, including Ford's experience working at WRDW, James Brown's radio station in Augusta, Georgia. While employed there in 1970, Ford whipped up a stalwart resistance movement with the local leadership, thereby uniting the town to boycott discriminatory businesses.

Veteran Journalist Glen Ford passed away in July 2021. 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.