by radiocafe | Jun 9, 2020 | Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Politics
Cliven Bundy is a rancher who’s refused for decades to pay his grazing fees for using public lands. But where did his ideas about public lands come from? We talk to author Betsy Gaines Quammen about her new book.
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by radiocafe | Apr 17, 2020 | Arts & films, ASU, Books, Science & health
In 18th-century England, viruses and bacteria were not understood — but the idea of contagion was part of the social fabric. We talk to Annika Mann, an ASU scholar of 18th-century and Romantic-era British literature and culture.
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by radiocafe | Mar 17, 2020 | Activism, Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Politics
Ronnie Cummins analyzes what’s not working about our food system and lays out a blueprint for change — while reminding us that regenerative agriculture is ultimately a necessity.
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by radiocafe | Dec 30, 2019 | Activism, Books, Environment, Politics, Santa Fe New Mexican
Is our society evolving, or eroding, or both? We talk with deep thinker, activist, and prolific author Terry Tempest Williams‘ about her new book of essays, Erosion: Essays of Undoing.
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by radiocafe | Dec 19, 2019 | Books, New Mexico, Politics, Race/class/gender, Santa Fe New Mexican
Historian C.J. Alvarez tells the history of the border through it many building projects — designed both to keep people (and cattle) out of the US and to facilitate the flow of commodities in both directions.
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by radiocafe | Dec 9, 2019 | Books, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
Living on the street…recovering from an illness…establishing an exercise routine–wherever we are, our animals help us to survive and thrive. We talk to Karen Cain of the Street Homeless Animal Project, and to author Carlyn Montes de Oca.
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by radiocafe | Dec 5, 2019 | Activism, Books, Environment, Native & indigenous, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
…those are just some of the stories of Jack Loeffler‘s fascinating memoir, Headed into the Wind — a tale of explorations in consciousness from nature and indigenous mind to music and the counterculture.
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by radiocafe | Dec 3, 2019 | Activism, Books, Politics, Santa Fe New Mexican
What do you do if you see illegal, unethical, or wasteful activities in your government job? If you speak out what will happen–to those at fault, and to you? Political scientist Allison Stanger‘s new book recounts a history of whistleblowers and what’s at stake today.
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by radiocafe | Nov 23, 2019 | Activism, Books, Politics, Race/class/gender, Santa Fe New Mexican
Fred Hampton was a young, charismatic, and brilliant leader in Chicago’s black community when he was gunned down by the police. We talk to Hampton’s attorney and biographer Jeffrey Haas, on the 50th anniversary of Hampton’s death.
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by radiocafe | Nov 18, 2019 | Arts & films, Books, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican
Photographer Michael Berman‘s black and white photographs tell the story of life and land on the border, and his essays reveal what happens behind the camera.
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