Sprouts SPROUTS RADIO FROM THE GRASSROOTS
Have you produced something for radio that you would like to showcase nationally? We'll air it.
Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 29-minute weekly program featuring radio content being produced by grassroots community radio stations, Indy Media Centers, and other independent production groups. We celebrate these many vital and diverse voices by bringing them to a national audience. Sprouts is produced collaboratively by radio producers across the country; sometimes even the world.
Our mission:
- Showcase unique and diverse content being produced at community radio stations and other grassroots media groups
- Encourage production collaboration across geographical distances via the Internet
- Air news and cultural stories - that are unique to local areas - to a national audience
- Bring new and fresh voices and stories to the airwaves
- Encourage new producers, connecting them to other progressive producers
- Increase communication between all producers-of-conscience
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DARFUR DAIRIES:MESSAGE FROM HOME
David Morse interviews activist Jen Marlowe about her filmJanuary 10, 2007.
Co-Produced by: Dori Smith and David Morse at FM 91.7 WHUS , at the University of Connecticut, in Storrs, CT David Morse has been writing about Darfur for Salon, Alternet and Tom Dispatch. He visited Sudan in 2005 and has been writing about the conflict in Darfur for two years. He interviewed Jen Marlowe to ask her questions about her film, "Darfur Diaries, Message from Home." Marlowe worked on the film with Adam Shapiro and Aisha Bain. We hear her describe what it was like to film Darfur Diaries and discuss the difficulties the team had gaining attention from the media. |
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PROGRESSIVE US WRITERS
January 3, 2007.
Produced by: Dori Smith, WHUS, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT This week we speak with progressive American writers about the importance of reversing Bush Administration policies at home and abroad. What are the costs? What should activists be focusing on during the years leading up to the next Presidential election? How can the U.S. political system be transformed for the sake of the social welfare?
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REVEREND BILLY ON PEACEThursday December 28, 2006.
Produced by Ursula Ruedenberg at Pacifica National Office in New York City. Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping delivered an end-of-the-year sermon at Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York City on December 10th. In anticipation of a political as well as natural spring, he took stock and meditated on the path to peace. The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir provided stirring music. This performance was dedicated to the memory of activist Brad Will, recently killed in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
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CALLS FROM HOMEFriday, December 20, 2006.
produced by: Nick Szuberla and Adelia Kirby, WMMT in Whitesburg, KY.
Calls from Home features excerpts from WMMT's seventh annual holiday program featuring live calls from families of prisoners. The program features songs, poems and prayers and shares the intimate power of families speaking directly to their incarcerated loved ones.
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GRASSROOTS GROCERIESThursday, Decmber 14, 2006.
Produced by: Wajid Jenkins, WORT, Madison, WI.
This week we look at the past, present and future prospects for grassroots groceries in Madison, Wisconsin. With a globalized food system that favors centralized,large-volume brokers, small-scale grocers face huge obstacles. One of the original food cooperatives in the United States, the Mifflin Street Community Cooperative in Madison, Wisconsin was forced to close its doors on Friday December 8, 2006.
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CUBAN HIP HOPThurs, Dec 7, 2006.
Produced by Mitch Jesserich at WBAI-Pacifica New York City This week Mitch Jeserich, a host for WBAI-Pacifica's morning show, Wake Up Call, and Sujatha Fernandes explores how hip hop has found a revolutionary niche inside of Cuba. They play samples of some current Hip Hop tracks for us. Sujatha Fernandes is the author of the new book Cuba Represent!: Cuban Arts, State Power, And the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures.
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OAXACA REPORTThurs, Nov 30, 2006.
Produced by August Sound Coalition (http://radio.socialtechnology.net) in connection with the IndymediaCenter, New York City, by Andrew F. Edited by Rebecca Major. Overview of the movement in Oaxaca --> Excerpts from the new video film "Land, Rain and Fire: Report from Oaxaca"
Urgently Timely Interviews (Tues Nov 28) with: -Tami Gold, filmmaker, professor and co-creator of thenew video film
"Land Rain and Fire: Report from Oaxaca."
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KCSB IN 1970: STUDENT-CONTROLLED MEDIA
Thursday, November 23, 2006.
Produced at KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA.
KCSB is a student-run community radio station broadcasting from the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Thirty five years ago, a string of intense student-led protest erupted here that leading to the total destruction by fire of a local branch of the Bank of America.
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POST-ELECTION ROUND-UPAN EDITION OF 'INFORMED DISSENT' Thursday November 16, 2006.
Produced by Robert Knight in New York City. Executive Producer:Otis Maclay / Pacifica. This week's Sprouts featues one installment of Pacifica Radio's weekly election-time special series covering important issues of the American political theater. This edition of Informed Dissent is a post election round-up. |
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CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONSAN ADDITION OF 'INFORMED DISSENT' Thursday November 16, 2006.
Produced by Robert Knight in New York City. Executive Producer:Otis Maclay / Pacifica.
This week's Sprouts features one installment of Pacifica Radio's weekly election-time special series covering important issues of the American political theater. Mitch Jesserich from FSRN and WBAI-Pacifica in New York hosts the program. This edition of Informed Dissent addresses the issue of Constitutional protections in our democracy. |
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