WCRS Podcast - consciousvoices

Conscious Voices March Against Monsanto

Submitted by consciousvoices on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 8:37pm

59:45 minutes (54.71 MB)

Last week as many as 1,000 people marched in downtown Columbus to protest against the biotech company Monsanto. We have audio from the rally and we take a look at monsanto's history dating back to Agent Orange and up to this week's banning of GMO crops by Peru. We hear from Canadian farmer Percy Scmeiser who lost a lawsuit against Monsanto and we look at the impact of neonicotenoid insecticides on the world's bee population.

Conscious Voices - Conscious Voices, Hale update, Pattycake goes Coop

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 3:08pm

58:55 minutes (53.95 MB)

update on Carla Hale case with audio from the latest rally, a clip from Jeremy Scahill, and and interview with Jennie Scheinbach, founder of Pattycake Bakery, which has now become a worker-owned cooperative, plus music from Pete Seeger and Sweet Honey in the Rock

Conscious Voices - Conscious Voices Carla Hale update, Eartrh Guardians, Cincinnati riotsa

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 1:57pm

59:40 minutes (54.63 MB)

Update on Carla Hale's case against the Catholic Diocese, a message from youth environmentalist group Earth Guardians, and reflections on the 2001 riots in Cincinnati from a program produced at WSLR in Gainesville, Florida

Conscious Voices Carla Hale rally and Aura Bogado

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 11:36am

59:58 minutes (54.9 MB)

1st half; interviews at the rally for Carla Hale held last Friday in front of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus. 2nd part; a lecture by Aura Bogado on global climate debt.

Conscious Voices Columbus May labor rallies

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 1:01pm

59:47 minutes (54.74 MB)

Two separate rallies focused on labor rights took place in downtown Columbus this week as the state legislature takes up a bill that may lead to union-busting in public schools, and another that would seriously undermine collective bargaining rights throughout the state. In this program we feature highlights from both rallies, plus a song from Pete Seeger, who turned 94 this week.

Conscious Voices - the firing of Carla Hale

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 3:16pm

59:41 minutes (54.64 MB)

Carla Hale was fired from her teaching position at Bishop Watterson catholic high school after 19 years when an anonymous letter, allegedly from a parent of a student there outed her as a lesbian. Alumni and others have organized in solidarity and are demanding her reinstatement and a change in the Catholic Dioces employment policies.

Conscious Voices analysis of the Steubenville high school football rape case

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 04/19/2013 - 9:28pm

58:31 minutes (53.57 MB)

An examination of the Steubenville case, with mention of several similar cases. Narrated articles by sports columnist Dave Zirin, former punk rocker Henry Rollins, and feminist author Mia McKenzie witn a music clip from Peggy Seeger, and closing remarks by feminist sex blogger Laci Green

Conscious Voices - Conscious Voiec es Fracking and waste wells in Ohio

Submitted by consciousvoices on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 6:28pm

59:40 minutes (54.63 MB)

Interviews with ODNR spokesperson Heidi Hetzel-Evans, and a well inspector plus Eric Miller on opposing waste injectioon wells in Mansfield.

Conscious Voices MLK special

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 4:47pm

59:18 minutes (54.3 MB)

MLK's speech; "Why I Oppose the War on Viet Nam", Danny Glover reading John Lewis' original, un-redacted speech that was to have been delivered at the March on Washington, John Lewis speaking at the 2012 Democratic Convention, and a Democracy Now report on the Wilmington 10, who we3re pardoned on Dec. 31, 2012

Conscious Voices - Stubenville

Submitted by consciousvoices on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 4:27pm

59:05 minutes (54.1 MB)
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