Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection 

The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the for-profit business of training guns-for-hire is booming -- literally -- in the backyards of many rural Americans. In this special episode, The Laura Flanders Show travels to the tiny town of Hoffman in Richmond County, NC, where residents live next to a loud private training ground.They have real concerns about who is receiving training there and why, especially after the January 6th Insurrection at the Capitol.

Laura interviews Hoffman's Mayors and one of the County Commissioners who approved the permit for Oak Grove Technologies tactical training site. They regret that approval now. And we travel to nearby Hoke County, where a diverse coalition of local stakeholders " and an all-POC County Commission " were able to stop the expansion of Reservoir International, another training outfit seeking to expand its footprint near the county seat of Raeford. The latter is an example of the power of community organizing, says Serena Sebring of Blueprint NC. Blueprint is partnering with a statewide network of veteran ant-racist, anti-militia organizers to pool information and lift up local strategies for making communities safer.

Guests
-Donald Bryant, RichmondCountyCommissioner
-Tommy Hart, Mayor Hoffman, NC
Daniel Kelly, Mayor Pro Tempore, Hoffman, NC
-Danielle Purifoy,Assistant Professor, Dept of Geography, UNC Chapel Hill
-Harry Southerland, Chairman, Hoke County Board of Commissioners
-Christina Davis McCoy,Former Executive Director, North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence
-Jim Davis,Former Sheriff, Hoke County, NC
-Serena Sebring,Executive Director, BluePrint NC 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.

The Cop and the Anthem 

Featured speakers/guests:
From American author O. Henry and the KSVR Radio Theater Project:

The story of a couple of homeless angels palling around 1920s New York City. One of them knows that winter is just around the corner. So he decides to scheme to avoid the cold snowy streets.  
Actors from the Skagit Radio Repertory Company & the Children's Radio Players

Written by William Sidney Porter (O. Henry); adapted for radio M. Clayton Baber.
Classic Stories presents the Cop and the Anthem by William Sydney Porter, written in 1904. Porter was one of the most famous writers of short stories in the early twentieth century.

Radio Theater Project with Joseph McGuire

Produced at KSVR Studios at the radio station KSVR-FM in Mount Vernon, Washington.

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.

 The Red Deal & the Water Protectors

From COVID, Race and Democracy:

1st segment

You have heard of The Green New Deal, but how about The Red Deal? Melanie Yazzie co-authored The Red Deal, a revolutionary program to fight environmental catastrophe, and secure a livable future for humanity and the planet. From Albuquerque, she spoke with Pacifica producer Ken Yale about The Red Deal, The Red Nation, and the significance of Indigenous Peoples Day.

2nd Segment

Simone Senogles, of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), an Anishinabe from the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota and Angel Stevens, also an Anishinabe, in conversation with WBAI's Mimi Rosenberg. Indigenous activists leading thousands in protest of Enbridge's Tar Sands Line 3 Pipeline In Northern Minnesota say Protect The Wildlife.

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.

What Traditional Ecological Knowledge Can Teach Us (Encore Presentation) 

Dr. Daniel Wildcat, a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation, explains how Traditional Ecological Knowledge can work in tandem with science to help us understand the natural world.

This program is being rebroadcast for Native American Heritage Month. 

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.

The Red Deal & the Water Protectors

From COVID, Race and Democracy:

1st segment

You have heard of The Green New Deal, but how about The Red Deal? Melanie Yazzie co-authored The Red Deal, a revolutionary program to fight environmental catastrophe, and secure a livable future for humanity and the planet. From Albuquerque, she spoke with Pacifica producer Ken Yale about The Red Deal, The Red Nation, and the significance of Indigenous Peoples Day.

2nd Segment

Simone Senogles, of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), an Anishinabe from the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota and Angel Stevens, also an Anishinabe, in conversation with WBAI's Mimi Rosenberg. Indigenous activists leading thousands in protest of Enbridge's Tar Sands Line 3 Pipeline In Northern Minnesota say Protect The Wildlife.

 
Melanie Yazzie, Simone Senogles, Angel Stevens

Host: Jacquelyne Baptiste
Produced by Akua Holt and Jacqueline Baptiste
Editing by Polina Vasiliev

Segments by Ken Yale and Mimi Rosenberg
Editing Assistance by Stephanie Schubert

COVID, Race and Democracy executive producers are Akua Holt, Polina Vasiliev, and Steve Zeltzer

Sprouts theme song, "Torpedoes on Tuesday" 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.

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.

Danny O'Keefe's New Album: Looking Glass and the Dreamers 
A Lifetime of Learning from the Nez Perce People 

When Danny O'Keefe was starting out in the music business in the late 1960's, he fell asleep one evening while working on a song. As he awakened, he was given the words, "Looking Glass in Oregon one night had a dream, of soldiers slowly riding in a solemn endless stream." The words came clearly to Danny, but he didn't know who Looking Glass was. When he told his friends about the dream, he learned that Looking Glass was a late Warrior Chief of the Nez Perce People, an Indigenous People of the Pacific Northwest.

Now, Danny is here to share his latest album called, "Looking Glass and the Dreamers." The project has been a culmination of a lifetime of learning from the Nez Perce.

Joel Rafael has a conversation with Danny O'Keefe about how Looking Glass and the Dreamers was made, and shares three tracks from the album.

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.

An 8 Year Sentence for Eco-Terrorism An Interview with Jessica Reznicek

From the Des Moines Register:

"One of two central Iowa women responsible for millions of dollars in damage to the Dakota Access pipeline was sentenced in federal court (June 2021) to eight years in prison."

Mike Murphy of KHOI radio interviews activist Jessica Reznicek about her role in damaging the Dakota Access Pipeline, her view on being labeled an eco-terrorist, and why she has chosen extreme tactics to bring awareness to Iowa's water systems.

In the second half of the program, Pat Schlarbaum interviews environmental attorney Carolyn Raffensperger. Jessica Reznicek, Environmental Attorney Caroly

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.

An 8 Year Sentence for Eco-Terrorism 
An Interview with Jessica Reznicek 
From the Des Moines Register:
"One of two central Iowa women responsible for millions of dollars in damage to the Dakota Access pipeline was sentenced in federal court (June 2021) to eight years in prison."

Mike Murphy of KHOI radio interviews activist Jessica Reznicek about her role in damaging the Dakota Access Pipeline, her view on being labeled an eco-terrorist, and why she has chosen extreme tactics to bring awareness to Iowa's water systems.

In the second half of the program, Pat Schlarbaum interviews environmental attorney Carolyn Raffensperger. 
Jessica Reznicek, Environmental Attorney Carolyn E. Raffensperger

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.

A Feminist Perspective on Glaciers 

Have you ever noticed that scientists historically are mostly white men? Do you think that this fact has skewed some scientific findings? Well, our guest today on Sprouts has certainly noticed.

This week, Alex Wise of Sea Change Radio speaks with glaciologist Dr. M Jackson. Jackson has drawn attention from the right wing for the feminist perspective she applies to her research. Wise and Jackson discuss her new book, The Secret Lives of Glaciers, dive into her research, and examine how and why science has been influenced by centuries of white male dominance.  

Glaciologist Dr. M Jackson

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.

The Story of Sustainable Rice 
An Interview With Ken Lee 

Theresa Marquez from Heartland Stories Radio speaks with Ken Lee. Ken, with his wife Caryl Levine, founded Lotus Foods in 1995, a company that focuses on importing handcrafted rice from small family farms.

Ken and his team are committed to organic and regenerative practices that are generating more rice from less land, preserving valuable genetic biodiversity, saving hundreds of millions of gallons of water annually, promoting long-term soil health, and removing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere.

Tune in to learn more about:
- Ken and Caryl's story on starting their rice business while traveling through China;
- Small rice farms and the toll it takes on women's health;
- The"More Crop per Drop" and System of Rice Intensification (SRI),which was developed to improve rice yields of low-income farmers to alleviate poverty and improve food security;
- The story of Henri de Laulanie, a Jesuit priest and agronomist who developed the SRI in Madagascar in the 70s;
- The golden rice, the genetically modified rice, that cannot solve any poverty, distribution or food waste problem;
- Why what we do to the earth we do to people, and what we do to the people we do to the earth.
To learn more about Ken's work and Lotus Foods go tohttps://www.lotusfoods.com

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.

What Traditional Ecological Knowledge Can Teach Us 

How Traditional Ecological Knowledge can work side-by-side with science 

Featured speakers/guests:

Dr. Daniel Wildcat, a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation, explains how Traditional Ecological Knowledge can work in tandem with science to help us understand the natural world. 
 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.

Surviving as a Young G 
An Interview with a Young Man in Juvenile Hall 

Summary:
Featured speakers/guests:
A young man in juvenile hall tells about his entry into gang life at the age of 12. Oxnard raised and hardened by the hood, this young man talks with Craig Rosen of KPPQ in Ventura, California. They discuss the youth's childhood, the allure of gangbanging when parents aren't around, and owning choices and staying committed to the life.

Later, the discussion turns to what possibilities could have arisen for this young man if he had grown up with different circumstances. The youth is proud of his poetry writing and shares some of his verses with Craig.

Craig Rosen is the manager of the Ventura County Arts Coucil's Arts and Youth Justice Program. Grant funding for the program allows the council to hire local artists to teach poetry, drumming, guitar and crochet.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.