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The WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast features guest interviews hosted on WPKN broadcasts with our renowned DJs. Musicians, artists, producers, writers, movers and shakers - dig deeper into their philosophy and ethos. Founded in 1963, WPKN is a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of ...
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WPKN’s daily local newscast covers Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut, and Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, airing weekdays at 6:35pm EST, and available in this podcast subscription format. The expanded WPKN newscast will focus on state legislative sessions and local politics, immigration rights, climate and environmental concerns, economic inequality, poverty, and cost of living issues, and reproductive rights. Broadcasts will include diverse voices from the ...
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WPKN is a nonprofit, freeform, community radio station (arts organization) that is more than 50 years old. The vision of WPKN is to build community, a loyal and growing audience, and an engaged and educated citizenry by providing the highest quality of free-form programming that broadcasts entertainment, music, news, thoughts, sounds, ideas and event listings that support free speech, diversity, and the interests of the local and global communities WPKN serves. Our radio frequency of 89.5-FM ...
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WPKN Gold Sounds is a video performance and audio broadcast series featuring global and local talent. Artists and bands perform several songs in the Bridgeport, CT WPKN studios, and are interviewed about their formation, influences, process, and overall approach. The series features emerging and established acts; digging deep into musical artistry. WPKN Bridgeport at 89.5FM, streaming worldwide at wpkn.org is a 10,000 watt community radio powerhouse entertaining and informing the audiences f ...
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Often live, unique, remote, out-in-the-wild WPKN broadcasts. WPKN, cited as “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker, founded in 1963 as a 100-watt campus outlet, WPKN is today a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunte ...
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June 13, 2025 (encore of June 12, 2025)
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23:36بقلم John Iannuzzi, WPKN
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Trump–GOP Budget Slashes Clean Energy Incentives that Reduced Pollution, Created Jobs, Lowered Electric Bills
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5:55Interview with Collin Rees, U.S. program manager with Oil Change International, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. The Trump administration is cutting every subsidy and tax rebate for clean energy under the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden in 2022. The Trump administration and the Republican Congress is als…
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Tod Papageorge (Emeritus Director of Photography at the Yale School of Art) & Lisa Kereszi (Assistant Director in Photography at Yale) interviewed by WPKN's Valerie Richardson
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39:58Valerie Richardson speaks with Tod Papageorge, emeritus director of photography at the Yale School of Art, and Lisa Kereszi, assistant director in photography at Yale, about At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence, a new exhibition at MoCA Westport. The show pairs Papageorge’s iconic black-and-white photographs of 1970s–80s Los Angeles beachgoers …
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Trump Signals He May Invoke Insurrection Act, Paving the Way to U.S. Dictatorship
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13:34Interview with Charles Haynes, of Citizens Against Tyranny in America, conducted by Scott Harris Charles Haynes talks about Trump’s deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles amid protests against ICE deportation raids, and his recent column, “Trump Protestors: You Have No Idea What Is to Come,” with a focus on Israel’s seizure of shi…
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Trump Attack on LGBTQ Community Provokes Energized Resistance
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17:19Interview with Brandon Wolf, Human Rights Campaign national press secretary, conducted by Scott Harris. Brandon Wolf provides an overview of Donald Trump’s many attacks on the LGBTQ+ community over the first five months of his administration and in the first few days of June Pride Month. He also discusses how HRC and a national coalition of allied …
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June 14th Anti-Authoritarian Protests Nationwide Likely to be Largest Since Trump Returned to Office
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18:12Interview with Tamika Middleton, managing director of Women's March, conducted by Scott Harris. Tamika Middleton discusses a broad coalition’s plans for the June 14th national No Kings and Kick Out the Clowns protests, which are being organized in more than 1,800 locations across the U.S. in response to President Trump and the Republican party’s at…
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Israel Seizes Gaza-Bound Humanitarian Aid Ship, Violates International Law
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27:38Interview with Craig Mokhiber, former director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, conducted by Scott Harris. Craig Mokhiber discusses his urging the UN to convene under Uniting for Peace to mandate a protection force be deployed in Gaza, a call for a complete military embargo of Israel, robust sanctions against t…
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Monthly Labor Report -- June, 2025 -- Upping the Ante on the Resistance
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41:04The June Labor Report features Jeremy Brecher, co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability, and author of the iconic labor history book, Strike!, joined by economist and labor historian Michael Zweig, to discuss the latest alarming developments in the Trump regime's authoritarian putsch, and what shape and strategies an effective resistance …
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Growing National Boycott Campaign Targets Avelo Airlines for its ICE Deportation Flights Contract
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5:48Interview with Umme Hoque, an organizer with Defend and Recruit, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Avelo Airlines is the only known commercial carrier that is operating deportation flights from the U.S. under contract with Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security. One of its commercial passenger hubs is in New Haven, Connecticut, where it h…
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Coalition Wins Amendments to Connecticut ‘Trust Act,’ Strengthening Protections for Immigrant Community
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20:31Interview with Juan Fonseca of Danbury, the campaign manager of the Trust Act NOW! coalition, conducted by Scott Harris. Juan Fonseca discusses the CT Senate’s recent passage of amendments to the state’s TRUST Act, assessing what was, and was not accomplished by groups working to strengthen protections for the state’s immigrant community.…
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Group Files Human Rights Complaint Against US for Complicity with Israel’s Gaza Genocide
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17:27Interview with Seth Donnelly, one of the founders of Taxpayers Against Genocide, a grassroots movement spreading across the U.S., conducted by Scott Harris. Seth Donnelly talks about his group, Taxpayers Against Genocide, and the National Lawyers Guild International Committee’s legal complaint filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Right…
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‘Project Esther’ Advocates Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Protest, Equates All Dissent with Terrorism
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17:06Interview with Andra Watkins, a New York Times best-selling author and Project 2025 dissector on the Substack online newsletter, "For Such a Time as This, conducted by Scott Harris. Andra Watkins discusses her recent column, “Project Esther: Where Dissent = Terrorism,” with a focus on the Trump regime’s targeting of individuals and groups protestin…
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Progressive Groups Demand Democrats Hold Emergency Meeting to Develop Effective Challenge to Trump’s Autocracy
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27:19Interview with Alan Minsky, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, conducted by Scott Harris. Alan Minsky discusses a petition circulated by several progressive groups calling for the Democratic National Committee to “convene an emergency meeting of all its members—fully open to the public—as soon as possible,” to strategize in con…
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Connecticut Teachers Union Civil Disobedience Protest Calls for Equitable Funding for State’s Schools
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16:59Interview with Leslie Blatteau, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers. Leslie Blatteau talks about the CT chapter of the American Federation of Teachers union’s recent civil disobedience protest resulting in the arrest of 10 members and students in front of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s office at the State Capitol. The protest was part …
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Veterans’ Fast Demands for Israel to Restore Full Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
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15:58Interview with Russell Brown, Vietnam veteran, conducted by Scott Harris. Russell Brown talks about his participation in the 40-day “Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza,” where dozens of U.S. war veterans and religious activists have gathered at United Nations headquarters in New York City to raise awareness of the famine looming over Gaza. Participant…
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Trump’s White Supremacy on Full Display in Meeting with South Africa’s President
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18:35Interview with Ron Jacobs, a contributor to Counterpunch.org and author of Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation, conducted by Scott Harris. Ron Jacobs talks about his commentary, “Culture, Christianity, and the Afrikaner Blues,” in the context of the blatantly false claims made by Donald Trump during South African President Cyril Ramaphos…
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The Deadly Impact of Trump-GOP House Budget Bill
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27:30Interview with Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, conducted by Scott Harris. Alex Lawson discusses his group’s strategy to defeat Trump’s grotesque budget bill in the U.S. Senate that mandates the largest cuts in U.S. history — totaling $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare as well as the the SNAP food assistance program —…
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Bill Targets Nonprofits Not Aligned with MAGA Agenda
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16:37Interview with Lia Holland, campaigns and communications director with Fight for the Future, conducted by Scott Harris. Lia Holland talks about her group’s opposition to a provision included in this year’s Republican reconciliation bill, similar to last year’s H.R. 9495, which would allow the Trump regime to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofi…
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New Book Examines Gaza Genocide & Palestine, Israel History
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16:15Interview with Sim Kern, a former teacher, journalist, novelist, and best-selling author of The Free People’s Village, conducted by Scott Harris, conducted by Scott Harris. Sim Kern talks about his new book, Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation, a part-activist memoir, part-crash course in Jewish and Palestini…
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Broad Opposition to Trump-GOP’s Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget Cuts
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19:10Interview with Analilia Mejia, co-executive director of Popular Democracy in Action, conducted by Scott Harris. Analilia Mejia discusses her group’s opposition to the Trump/GOP budget proposal that will cut a combined $1 trillion from Medicaid and the SNAP food stamp program, which will result in 10.3 million people losing Medicaid coverage over th…
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Trump Visit to Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed Policy Outcome, Enriches President's Family
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26:27Interview with Raed Jarrar, advocacy director with the Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), conducted by Scott Harris. Raed Jarrar, advocacy director with the Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), discusses the group’s views on President Trump’s recent visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.A.E., the deals announced, gifts received, and maj…
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State Climate Policy Could be a Bulwark Against Trump Gutting of Federal Environmental Regulations; Repairing the Constitution's Democracy Deficit
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55:35Allison Pilcher, policy director, with the Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs discusses several important climate bills currently being debated in the Connecticut state legislature; and Luke Pickrell, a writer and member of Democratic Socialists of America, who talks about his recent Jacobin magazine article, "Only a Democratic Constitution…
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Building Community with the CT TRUST Act (HB 7212)
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26:48Juan Fonseca Tapia, a lead organizer with the Trust Act Now Coalition, discusses the history of this law, first passed in CT in 2013, then revised in 2019. The latest version, HB 7212, is now before the Conneticut State Legislature and contains an expansion of the protections to undocumented residents in the state. Interview by Richard Hill…
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Sam Carlson of the Tines, Co-Owner/Producer at Sans Serif Recording (New Haven) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller (Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio)
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54:24Sam Carlson, a lynchpin of the modern-day New Haven, CT music scene drops by to preview singles from the new Tines album Barrows (hitting in August 2025), and to share his favorite productions from Sans Serif Recording with music by Offering Field, Mickey Blurr, Ambulance Chasers, Pyramid Rose Band, and Old Milk Mooney. Hear his take on art, music,…
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New Book Examines “The Green New Deal from Below”
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17:21Interview with Jeremy Brecher, a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of "Strike!" conducted by Scott Harris. Jeremy Brecher talks about his latest book, “The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy,” which explores community-led initiatives in various sectors such as renewable e…
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New Report Finds 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt US Workers
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16:16Interview with Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, conducted by Scott Harris. Margaret Poydock discusses EPI’s new report, “100 Ways Trump Has Hurt Workers in his First 100 Days,” which she co-authored, as well as the response of workers and opponents challenging the Trump regime policies. His new book Examin…
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Challenging Trump’s Unconstitutional Effort to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
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18:59Interview with Jacob Love, senior attorney with the Boston-based group Lawyers for Civil Rights, conducted by Scott Harris. Jacob Love talks about his work challenging President Trump’s executive order to strip birthright U.S. citizenship from children born to immigrant parents. He’ll also discuss his concern about reports that the Trump regime is …
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A Catholic Worker Activist’s Appeal to Pope Leo to Visit Gaza
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26:06A Catholic Worker Activist’s Appeal to Pope Leo to Visit Gaza: Interview with Kathy Boylan, a member of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker community in Washington, D.C., conducted by Scott Harris. Kathy Boylan discusses her hopes for Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope, as a peacemaker and advocate for social justice, as well as personal appeal to t…
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