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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 October 10
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Osprey Oriell Lake discusses the Women's Climate Change Agenda and the first annual International Women's Earth and Climate Summit. 2) Mary Cook, a teacher in Arkansas, helps students engage with the ocean through the NOAA Teacher at Sea program. 3) A Changing Gears report on the student loan debt from private vocational schools.
- Subject:
- Oceanography--Study and teaching--United States, Climatic changes, and Student loans
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 October 3
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Elizabeth Gilbert speaks about her new book, "The Signature of All Things." 2) Communities across the nation look for alternatives to industrial agriculture like the Beacon Food Forest in Seattle, Washington. 3) A UN Radio report on the $750 billion annual cost of food waste. 4) Harvest Public Media reports on the security of a federal seed vault in Colorado.
- Subject:
- Women botanists--Fiction and Urban agriculture
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 September 26
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Excerpts from Homeland Productions', "A Map of the Sea," a story based on the collapse of the cod fishery in Newfoundland. 2) Editor Sarah Weinman talks about some of the best female authors of noir fiction writers in her book, "Troubled Daughter, Twisted Wives."
- Subject:
- Women authors, Atlantic cod fisheries--Closures, Newfoundland and Labrador--History, and Noir fiction
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 September 19
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Excerpts from Jiri Slavicinsky's documentary, "Last Summer in Grand Bruit," a story about the resettlement of a rural fishing community in Newfoundland, Canada.
- Subject:
- Atlantic cod fisheries--Closures and Newfoundland and Labrador--Grand Bruit--History
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 September 12
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Rebecca Sive talks about women leaders and her book, "Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman's Guide to Winning Any Office From the PTA To The White House." 2) Jemma Brown reports from Salt Lake City on the political future for Mormons. 3) The Maidu tribe of California is working with an old adversary to regain formal stewardship of their homeland in Plumas and Lassen Counties.
- Subject:
- Women--Political activity--United States, Maidu Indians, and Indians of North America--Land tenure
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 September 5
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Maine lobstermen consider forming unions after a lobster surplus caused prices to drop to a record low. 2) Upstate New York farmers share their stories. 3) Avenal, California struggles to find a new economy after its oil boom. 4) Public health nurse Amy Gastelum talks about fear and working in an unsafe New York City neighborhood.
- Subject:
- Farmers--New York (State), Lobster fishers, and Fear
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 August 29
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Martha Baskin speaks filmmaker Christopher Nolan and Dr. Helen Caldicott, Nobel Prize winner and anti-nuclear activist, about the long term health impacts of nuclear accidents. 2) Ontario Power Generation is proposing construction of an underground permanent burial facility for all of Ontario's low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. 3) Amy Mayer reports on the Conservation Reserve Program. 4) A report on preserving wildlife habitats in New York City.
- Subject:
- Wildlife habitat improvement, Radioactive waste repositories--United States, and Nuclear power plants--Accidents--Health aspects
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 August 22
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) NWLC Vice President for Education and Employment Fatima Goss Graves discusses women's equality issues in the national campaign. 2) Gilles Malkine profiles Marie Antoinette. 2) A WMMT report on natural gas drilling in southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
- Subject:
- Gas well drilling--Law and legislation and Women's rights--United States
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 August 15
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) George Morgan discusses his book, "Rocket Girl," a biography about his mother, Mary Sherman Morgan, the first female rocket scientist. 2) Amy Mayer reports on the nonconventional and natural methods of raising egg-laying hens as an alternative to battery cages and large factory farms. 3) Delia Passi, founder of the Women's Choice Award, discusses how her review and recommendation service works.
- Subject:
- Chickens--Housing and Women scientists--United States
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 August 8
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Lissa Harris, cofounder of The Watershed Post in the Catskills, discusses reporting during Hurricane Irene and the newspaper industry. 2) Lori Price of Citizens for Legitimate Government discusses reporting on stories not featured in the popular media outlets. 3) Wendy Welch writes a memoir about opening an independent bookstore in the digital age.
- Subject:
- Newspaper publishing, Electronic publishing, and Mass media--Objectivity
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 August 1
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Peter Neill of the World Ocean Observatory in Maine argues the negative impacts of hydrofracking to the ocean. 2) The Lake Superior Project examines measures taken to protect water resources from the Great Lakes. 3) Liberians went into panic after a rumor that their water would turn to blood, Grant Fuller reports. 4) In Deer Isle, Maine, thousands of gallons are disappearing from the town of Stonington's water supply every week.
- Subject:
- Shale gas industry--Environmental aspects, Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects, Water conservation--Superior, Lake, and Water resources development
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 July 25
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Susan Barnett speaks with Beatrice Edwards, Executive Director and International Programs Director for the Government Accountability Project (GAP), about whistleblowers and information disclosure. 2) Photojournalist Charmian Reading speaks about her experience documenting displaced African Americans who were evicted for registering to vote in 1966. 3) Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson's film, "Out in the Silence," documents the explosive reaction to the gay couple's wedding announcement in their hometown newspaper.
- Subject:
- Same-sex marriage--United States, Whistle blowing--United States, and Voting--United States
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 July 18
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) In 2002, whistleblower Coleen Rowley was named a Time Magazine person of the year. She speaks with Susan Barnett about how growing secrecy around US actions is a threat to national security. 2) EcoReport examines the implications of anti-whistleblowing laws like the ag-gag bill in Indiana that would have criminalized undercover investigations of conditions in factory farms.
- Subject:
- Official secrets, Leaks (Disclosure of information), Whistle blowing--United States, and Factory farms--Law and legislation
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 July 11
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Susan Barnett speaks with Kathy Stevens, founder of the Catskill Farm Animal Sanctuary, about plant-based diets like veganism and public reception and awareness. 2) Yomi Abiola, founder of STUFF (Stand Up for Fashion), speaks about corporate social responsibility in the fashion industry. 3) Gilles Malkine profiles Diana, Princess of Wales. 4) UN Radio reports on the clearing of land mines in former conflict zones.
- Subject:
- Food supply--Environmental aspects, Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997, Animal welfare, and Fashion--Moral and ethical aspects
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 July 4
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) The Global Ethics Corner from the Carnegie Council comments on the internal conflicts behind the recent protests in Turkey. 2) Asli Bali discusses the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, Turkey. 3) Turkish novelist Elif Shafak searches for her nation's modern history in the story, "The Street of the Cauldron Makers."
- Subject:
- Demonstrations--Turkey--Istanbul, Turkey--Politics and government, Shafak, Elif, 1971-, and Turkey--History
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 June 27
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Minda Zetlin, coauthor of, "The Geek Gap," discusses technology enabling employees to be accessible on a 24-hour basis, an increasing number of freelance workers, and the work-home division. 2) A report about job applicants with a criminal record re-entering the job market. 3) Writer Deborah Sabin recounts what happened when she and a friend help with the Jewish rituals for the dead. (Originally aired on show #1214.)
- Subject:
- Ex-convicts--Employment--United States and Criminal records--Economic aspects
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 June 20
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Mary Pipher, author of the new book, "The Green Boat," discusses environmental advocacy and enacting social change. 2) Gilles Malkine profiles Sojourner Truth, the famous women's rights activist.
- Subject:
- Social change--Psychological aspects and Women social reformers--United States
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 June 13
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) A report on Mildred Norman, Peace Pilgrim, who walked across the country for peace. 2) Iraqis reflect on memories of the past and hopes for the future for post-war Iraq. 3) Lydia Ratcliff, a Vermont farmer, discusses small farms in the United States.
- Subject:
- Iraq War, 2003-2011, Peace Pilgrim, -1981, Postwar reconstruction--Iraq, and Farms, Small--United States
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 May 31
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) New York Times reporter, Lisa Prevost's, speaks about her new book, "Snob Zones ? Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate." 2) David Kates reports on the legal battle against two proposed light-rail routes near one West L.A. neighborhood. 3) Niala Boodhoo reports on how cities like Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh are hoping another wave of immigrants will help reinvigorate the economy. 4) Gilles Malkine profiles Frances (Coralie) Perkins who witnessed the Triangle Shirt Factory fire.
- Subject:
- Zoning, Exclusionary--New England, Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965, Traffic congestion, Street-railroads, and Housing development--New England
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 2013 May 24
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- c28d02c9241920a381bed8859cd0cf17
- Description:
- 1) Curt Nickish reports on a vaccine for Lyme disease. 2) Briana O'Higgins produces a narrative of three women battling chronic fatigue. 3) Joanne Silberner profiles a woman with cancer in Uganda, where there are few treatment options.
- Subject:
- Cancer--Patients, Lyme disease, and Chronic fatigue syndrome