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2012: Private Rights and Public Fights

1980 Diamond v. Chakrabarty

From Action Speaks Radio | 53:30

The Supreme Court case that helped put a ‘for sale’ sign on our genes.

Dna_small Who owns life? On the surface the answer seems obvious. After all, how can one ‘own’ life? How can a person or a corporation lay claim to something that has evolved over millennia and indeed can be seen as our collective inheritance? And yet when the Supreme Court decided in Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980) that genetically modified organisms could be patented, a sea change occurred in our nation’s and the world’s thinking, opening up new investment opportunities, research and some would say dangerous incursions into genetic modifications of living matter.

With our panelists, David Bollier , activist, writer, policy strategist and co-founder of the Commons Strategy Group as well as a Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication , Glenn Cohen , Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty Ph.D. microbiologist , scientist, and researcher and the man after whom this seminal case is named, we will look at the scientific, economic, legal and ethical implications of this groundbreaking Supreme Court case.


1992 First Critical Mass Ride

From Action Speaks Radio | 53:31

Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Criticalmass002_small_small The revolution may no longer take place first in the factories, but as Seattle anti-NAFTA Demonstrations and Occupy Wall Street has shown, might be in the streets, in the parks and--to the anger of many--in traffic.

Critical Mass began in 1992 in the city of San Francisco when bicyclists decided to meet monthly in downtown rush hour auto traffic to join the commute home. Beginning with 50 cyclists, Critical Mass gatherings grew into the thousands in cities throughout the world, often engendering police retaliation and motorist anger. While occasionally members of the ad hoc community fought back against recalcitrant authorities and angry automobile drivers, many within the movement evolved an understanding that the best method for recruiting others to a non-fossil fuel economy was to create a sense of joy, celebration and sociability with their ride through the city. Critical Mass' horizontal, rather than vertical leadership became a model for subsequent protests, like the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle and, in many ways, Occupy Wall Street. Critical Mass continues to this day and some assert that its battle for the 'Right to the City'  has been partially responsible for the rise in bicycle friendly policies in both urban and small town US communities.

Our panelists:

Zack Furness, Assistant Professor of Communications at Pennsylvania State University and author of One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility. He is also editor of Punkademics , co-editor of The NFL: Critical/Cultural Perspectives , and has written for several edited collections, journals, and non-academic publications including Punk Planet, Souciant and Bitch Magazine.

 

David Herlihy,  author of  Bicycle: The History,  which greatly clarified the true origins of the bicycle, and The Lost Cyclist , the story of Frank Lenz’s ill-fated bicycle trip around the world in the 1890s, a Publishers Weekly 100 Best Books of 2010. 

 

Nicole Freedman, Executive Director of Maine Huts and Trails and former Director of Bicycle Programs for the City of Boston under Mayor Thomas Menino. During her tenure for the city (2006-2012), Boston transformed itself from the worst cycling city in the country to a recognized leader in cycling. Nicole also competed professionally in bike racing from 1994-2005, winning two national championships and competing for the United States in the 2000 Olympics in Sidney.

 

Recommended Reading:

- Bicycle, The History by David V. Herlihy  Yale University Press, 2006

-The Cyclist's Manifesto; The Case for Riding on Two Wheels Instead of Four by Robert Hurst; Falcon Guides (2009)

-One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility by Zack Furness (Temple University Press, 2010),

-Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration Edited by Chris Carlsson AK Press (2002)

1936 Chaplin's 'Modern Times' Debuts

From Action Speaks Radio | 53:30

Factories closed; unions ignored; the Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’?

Chaplin previews a world beyond the factory and unionism where one’s identity is as fragile as one’s last pay check and where even a walk into the sunset leads to nowhere in particular.

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In our discussion, we will look at the many ways that for Chaplin, Modern Times was a film living “in the between,” with its meanings similarly situated. Debuting in 1936, almost ten years after the advent of sound, this film marked the first time Chaplin quite reluctantly left the pantomime style of the silent film and drifted hesitantly into allowing the public to hear the sound of his voice. From a political point of view, shot in the midst of the great depression, Modern Times was both a skeptical look at the depersonalization of the industrial world, and an unclear vision of the alternative. At once terrified of the inhumane qualities of the assembly line and modern surveillance techniques, Chaplin in this film seems to also view unionism with reluctance. The Tramp, now showing his wear and age, fits nowhere. He lives in an imagined past without strong connection to a realized future.

Panelists: 

Charles Musser, P rofessor of American Studies, Film Studies, and Theater Studies at Yale University where he teaches courses on silent cinema and documentary. His books include The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (1990).  He recently completed the documentary Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (2012) with Carina Tautu.

Maureen Reddy,
Professor and Chair of the English Department at Rhode Island College. Her books include “Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture,” “Everyday Acts Against Racism,” and "Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction." Her current project focuses on race in Irish popular culture, 1988-present.

Philip Rosen
is a Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He works in the fields of film theory and history, with special attention to questions of culture and ideology, and to historiography and temporality in the contexts of a variety of national cinemas. Rosen's most recent book, Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory , relates problems in contemporary film and cultural theory to theories of history, arguing for a special relationship between conceptions of film and conceptions of history.

Recommended Reading:

  • Chaplin and American Culture by Charles J. Maland; Princeton University Press (1989)
  • Chaplin, A life by Stephen Wessman MD; Arcase (2008)
  • Chaplin, A Tramp's Odyssey St. Martin's Press (2009)

1965 Griswold v. Connecticut

From Action Speaks Radio | 53:29

Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Griswold225_small In 1961, Estelle Griswold, Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut and Dr. C. Lee Buxton, a physician and professor at the Yale School of Medicine, opened a birth control clinic in New Haven, Connecticut to dispense information and contraception to married couples. Sounds OK—except it was illegal by virtue of an 1879 law that had never been tested. Griswold, Buxton and the Planned Parenthood League successfully tested the law in front of the United States Supreme Court on the grounds of the privacy that should be afforded to a husband and wife. It was not a long journey to Roe v. Wade! We look at this early case that framed the female body as a site of contestation and control.

With...
Susan Brison , Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Dartmouth College where she also teaches in the Program in Women's and Gender Studies.  She is co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation, and author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self.

Naomi Rogers , Associate Professor in the Program for the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Her first book was on polio and public health in the Progressive era (Dirt and Disease: Polio before FDR 1992), and her second book examined a homeopathic medical school which survived the post-Flexner years (An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia 1998).

Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. Dr. Prescott’s teaching interests include recent U.S. history, U.S. women’s history, and the history of medicine and public health. Her most recent book is The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States.

Recommended Reading

  • Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade by David J. Garrow; Macmillan (1994)
  • Griswold v. Connecticut: Contraception and the Right of Privacy by Susan Wawrose; Franklin Watts (1996)
  • Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control an the Constitutional Right of Privacy by John W. Johnson; University of Kansas (2005)

1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner

From Action Speaks Radio | 53:29

Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bodyscan_small Anyone who has taken an airplane in the last ten years knows getting through security is not a lot of fun. For some, the relatively recent introduction of the body scanner an intolerable intrusion. Yet, this method of surveillance is only the latest in the development of what many have called a ‘surveillance society’. Monitoring, collecting, assessing: the omnipresence of real and imagined devices that make our private life public has left some people worrying. Today we use the 1992 invention of the body scanner as our starting point for a discussion of ‘security and its discontents.’

Steven Brown is executive director of the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, and has served in that capacity for more than twenty-five years. Before that, he served as executive director of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union for three years. He also worked at the Philadelphia ACLU and at a chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Frederick Lane
i s a nationally-recognized expert on privacy and the impact of emerging technologies on society. He is an author, attorney, educational consultant, expert witness, and lecturer. He has written seven books, including most recently "Cybertraps for the Young" and "American Privacy: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right."

Vida Bajc,
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Methodist University. Dr. Bajc completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Canada. Her research connects framing theory, ritual, surveillance and security, globalization, culture and Christianity. Her first book, titled Security and Everyday Life , (co-edited with Willem de Lint), was published in 2011 by Routledge Press.


Recommended Reading

  • Taking Liberties, The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy by Susan N Herman; Oxford Press (2011)
  • American Privacy by Frederick S. Lane,; Beacon Press (2009)
  • The Shadow Factory by James Bamford, Doubleday (2007)
  • Security Studies, An Overview by David Lyon; Polity (2007)
  • Everyday Surveillance, Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life by William Staples; Rowman and Littlefield (2000)
  • Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity by Torin Monahan; Rutgers University Press (2010)
  • Nothing to Hide, The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security; Yale University Press (2011)

1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor

From Action Speaks Radio | 53:29

The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

Hine_child_small In 1908, a young teacher and photographer, Lewis Hine, was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to document evidence of child labor primarily on the East Coast and in the South. Hine had previously photographed arriving immigrants at Ellis Island and even then, his photos showed an extraordinary sensibility, one filled with respect, dignity, and equality. Hine’s work helped introduce America to the issues of child labor at a time when the glories of Industrialization were filling the coffers of the rich, while beginning ever so slightly, to offer promises of economic advancement for those of the working class. Hine’s pictures were worth more than a thousand words as he established the camera as an actor in social change. His heirs are many: the Photo League, Sebastião Salgado and perhaps even social documentary filmmakers like Michael Moore. Today artists continue to bear witness to perceived injustices, while at the same time prompting post-modern questions about the ‘objectivity’ of the photograph and its makers.

Panelists:

Anthony Lee, professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College.  He writes mostly on photography and is founder and series editor for Defining Moments in American Photography, published by the University of California Press.  He was a panelist on Action Speaks way back in 2005.

Dan Czitrom, Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught since 1981 with a focus on recent American cultural and political history. He is the author, most recently, of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York, a fresh look at the Progressive era social reformer, journalist, and pioneer photographer who publicized the conditions of the desperately poor in New York.

Catherine Evans, Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art since 1996, and Chief Curator since 2004. In 2001 she spearheaded the acquisition of the most significant photography acquisition in the museum’s history - the Photo League collection. She served as author and curator for The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, the collaborative exhibition and book, organized by CMA and The Jewish Museum in New York.


 

Recommended Reading:

  • America and Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940, by Walter Rosenblum, Naomi Roseblum and Alan Trachtenberg (Aperture Foundation; 1997)

  • Lewis Hine as Social Critic by Kate Sampsell-Willmann (University Press of Mississippi; 2009)

  • Lewis Hine by Alison Nordström and Elizabeth McCausland (D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc; 2012)

  • The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 (Jewish Museum), by Mason Klein and Catherine Evans (Yale University Press, 2011)

1944 FDR's Second Bill of Rights Speech

From Action Speaks Radio | 53:29

Can and should the government guarantee economic security?

Fdr_small During his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 President Roosevelt stated that the United States should implement, a second "bill of rights" arguing that the political rights guaranteed by the constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure equality in the pursuit of happiness ." Roosevelt's remedy was to declare an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee: Employment with a living wage , housing, medical care, education and Social Security . This radical rethinking of the responsibility of our government was both a theoretical justification of the New Deal, and a call to finish this audacious project. This Second Bill of Rights speech was to create a foundation for much of the subsequent work undertaken by the federal government through Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, form the basis for the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights and be a target for the right as they advocated for less government.

Tara Melish, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Center at SUNY Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York. A graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School, she is a specialist in the area of international law and human rights, with a particular focus on comparative national and international approaches to the protection of economic, social and cultural rights.

Jennifer Klein,
Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches courses in 20th century U.S. urban history, labor history, and political economy. Her new book, Caring for America, co-authored with Eileen Boris and published by Oxford University Press this year, just won the National Women's Studies Association Sara Whaley Book Prize. Her previous book, For All These Rights, won prizes for political and business history. Her articles have appeared in Dissent, The New York Times, CNN.com, New Labor Forum, and Labor Notes, as well as scholarly journals.

Eve Sterne,
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Sterne, who graduated from Yale University and received her doctorate from Duke, specializes in relationships between labor, immigration, religion and politics in twentieth-century America. The author of Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence, she is a lo ng-time executive board member of the Rhode Island Labor History Society.

 

Recommended Reading:

  • A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights, by Elizabeth Borgwardt (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 2007)
  • The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever, by Cass R. Sunstein (Basic Books; 2004)
  • Social and Economic Rights in the American Grain: Reclaiming Constitutional Political Economy, by William Forbath, In The Constitution in 2020, (Jack M. Balkin & Reva B. Siefel eds.; Oxford University Press, 2009).


2011: Conflict & Amusement in America: How Can it hurt if it's so Much Fun?

1961: President Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex Speech

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:58

Did a Fox guarding a hen house get it right, and if so, how?

Eisenhower_panel_small President Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II warned us, in his 1961 Farewell Speech, of the potential perils for the United States if the military dictates policy and government investment. 

In this episode, we look at how prescient our former General/President was and whether or not we are in a permanent state of military engagement and, if so, is that a bad thing, given all the money it pumps into our economy?

In this, the 10th Anniversary of the September 11th bombings, the role of the military in our nation is on the front burner and this lively discussion of Eishenhower’s Farewell Address will examine just how influential our military is in our society. 

This Program’s Featured Panelists:

Francis J. "Bing" West is an author and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration. His book The Strongest Tribe, is a history of the Iraq War that was a New York Times Bestseller and was ranked by Foreign Affairs Magazine as #7 among the top foreign policy books of 2009. His 2004 book The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the First Marine Division, written with United States Marine Corps General Ray L. Smith, was awarded the Marine Corps Heritage Prize for non-fiction, as well as the Colby Award.

Neta Crawford is Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Boston University where her teaching focuses on international ethics and normative change. Crawford is currently on the board of the Academic Council of the United Nations System. She is the author of Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, Humanitarian Intervention which was a co-winner of the 2003 American Political Science Association Jervis and Schroeder Award  for best book in International History and Politics.

Roger Stahl is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, with interests in rhetoric, media, and culture. His 2010 book Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture (as well as his 2007 documentary by the same name) traces this relationship in recent years.


 

 

 

1972: The Birth of Pong and the Rise of Video Games

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:59

Pong introduced America to video games and now there seems to be no turning back.

Is this why we don't leave our houses anymore?

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In this, our second episode of our Fall 2011 season, we investigate the popularity of video games, their use in education, their relationship to the military and whether or not they are presaging the global expression of our utopian yearnings. 
  
As more and more people around the world use video games to pass the time, to teach and learn and to create alternative realities, it is time for us to consider what its implications are and whether or not we are leading or being led—and to where.

This Show's Featured Panelists: 

D. Fox Harrell, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Digital Media; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has written extensively on identity and digital culture and has published an article called Algebra of Identity; Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapor for Theory Magazine. 

Mary Flanagan, Professor of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth College, is the inaugural chair holder of the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanites. Dr. Flanagan is the author of 'Critical Play; Radical Game Design and is the inventor of the first web based digital game for girls "The Adventures of Josie True". 

Randall Nichols is as Assisstant Professor at Bentley College where his areas of interest are: the Political Economy of Media, New Technology, Media Industries, Video Games, Media Economics and Popular Culture. His essay, Target Acquired: America's Army and the VideoGame Industry is in Joystick Soldiers; The Politics of Play in Military Video Games edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Mathew Thomas Payne.

Michael Townsend is a world record holder in video games and has been focused on conquering them since first introduced to Pong.  He has actively gamed through the evolution of all major platforms from the Atari 2600 to the PS3.  He supports his gaming habit by drawing with tape as an internationally renowned public artist.  He has to stop gaming this Fall to find the time to write his first book

 

 

 

1971: 'An American Family'; Our First Reality TV Show

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:59

What's Real? What's Not? Does Anybody Care?

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Program Description: 

When Directors Alan and Susan Raymond put their cameras--and us--into the lives of an upper middle class white family from Santa Barbara in 1970-1971, California, the schisms in the American Family became readily apparent. What was revealed was not Leave it to Beaver. What was introduced was, well, unreal...or was it?

With this week's panelists, we will look at how TV changed through the popularity of An American Family.

With the current proliferation of 'Reality TV' and its 'reality' which often seems quite suspect, we will wonder what accounts for its popularity, whether or not An American Family can be seen as its direct ancestor and ask what it might be 'preparing us for.'

Here is a chance to look more deeply at a subject that sits with us in our living rooms, brought to you by an American Family that allowed us to sit in theirs.

This Program's Featured Panelists: 

Alan and Susan Raymond are Academy Award-winning filmmakers whose work influenced and changed the landscape of American television. In 1971, as the filmmakers of the seminal 1973 PBS cinema verite series An American Family, the Raymond's captured the daily life of the Loud family and forever changed the vision of the American family on television. Many of Alan and Susan Raymond's films are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Paley Center for Media and Bibliothèque nationale de France, in Paris. The Raymonds have created feature length documentaries about dyslexia, schools in the era of No Child Left Behind, children at war and the rise of Elvis Presley. They have been selected for the Television Academy Archives as Emmy TV Legends and received The International Documentary Association Pioneer Award in 2010 for their body of work. Their films have been broadcast on PBS, ABC News, HBO, and the BBC.


Robert Self
 teaches and writes in twentieth-century U.S. history. His principal research interests are in urban history, the history of race and American political culture, post-1945 U.S. society and culture, and gender in the mid-century city. His first book, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for for Postwar Oakland, was published by Princeton University Press in 2003. It won four professional prizes, including the James a. Rawley prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). He is currently at work on a book about gender, sexuality, and political culture in the U.S. from 1964 to 2004. for Postwar Oakland, was published by Princeton University Press in 2003. It won four professional prizes, including the James a. Rawley prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). He is currently at work on a book about gender, sexuality, and political culture in the U.S. from 1964 to 2004.


Lynne Joyrich
 is associate professor of Modern Culture and Media where she has taught film and television studies, as well as gender and sexuality studies, since 1999. She is the author of Re-viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996) and of a number of articles and book chapters on film, television, feminist, queer, and cultural studies in various journals and anthologies. She is also a co-editor and member of the editorial collective of the media and cultural studies journal Camera Obscura.

 

 

1981: President Reagan Fires Air Traffic Controllers

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:59

A Shot Over the Bow Thirty Years Ago Lands Today in Wisconsin and Elsewhere

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President Reagan’s firing of the Air Traffic controllers for refusing to return to work, introduced a battle with labor whose echo is still very much a part of our contemporary political discourse. President Reagan sent a message to public service unions—and to unions in general—that they would not be dictating the terms of their relationship to corporate America or to federal or state governments and that the era of labor’s victories would be over. 

In this episode, we look at how this moment was nested into the rise of Free Market Philosophy and how it resonates today in the contemporary conflicts in Ohio, Wisconsin and in many other states and municipalities.

This Program's Featured Panelists: 

Dr. Joseph McCartin is an Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. He is an expert on twentieth century U.S. labor, social and political issues. He teaches courses in 20th Century U.S. Labor History, U.S. Since 1945, America Between the Wars, 20th Century (and Modern) U.S. State and Society, and 20th Century U.S. Social History. His new book, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America [New York: Oxford University Press, 2011] explores the social and historical impact of this labor strike, and will be available at our show! 

Mike Downey is the president of RI Council 94 AFSCME. He followed his father and grandfather into a career as a plumber. He went to La Salle Academy. After La Salle, he went to plumbing school, a five-year program of work and classes. Downey, of Irish heritage, lives now in Charlestown, where he was on the Town Council, but grew up in Providence and Narragansett.

Paul Cannon was an Air Traffic Controller for 13 years in Boston. He was the President of a PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) local between 1975 and 1979, stepping down to be the first Choirboys in New England. He resigned as a Choirboy and became campaign manager for George Kerr and participated in the PATCO strike and stayed active with the local. Later he became a business agent for Teamster Local 122.

 

 


2010: What's Eating Us?

Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1987 The Roaming Mobro Trash Barge

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:59

In 1987, a barge filled with New York City garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast and into Mexican and Caribbean waters. Our panelists use this event to frame contemporary issues of consumption, disposal, and reuse.

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In 1987, due to a shortage of landfill space, a barge filled with over 3000 tons of New York City trash was dragged up and down the east coast of North America and into Caribbean and Mexican waters. Originally destined for North Carolina as part of a solid-waste to methane conversion pilot program, the so-called "gar-barge" became synonymous with our society's problems with overconsumption and lack of sound solid-waste disposal strategies. With similar problems continuing to haunt large cities throughout the world to this day, with no viable solution to toxic and nuclear waste disposal on the horizon, and with an Australia-sized island of plastic waste and chemical sludge floating in a vortex of marine currents in the North Pacific, Action Speaks examines the global economic, humanitarian, and environmental problem that trash has become.

 

Action Speaks! Host and Creative Director Marc Levitt welcomes famed Boston University Professor Juliet Schor, the only "Anthropologist-in-residence" ever hired by the NYC Department of Sanitation, Professor Robin Nagle, and Sarah Kite, Director of Recycling Services for the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, to discuss the issue of what to do with the waste products from a material rich society.

 

    * What happens to our garbage after we throw it out?

    * What can and can't we get rid of?

    * Is re-cycling a simplified, "feel-good" solution to deeper problems we refuse to face?

    * Can we order our economy around something other than shopping?

    * Should manufacturers be responsible for what they create?

 

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Dr. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. She is the author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, the national best-seller The Overworked American, The Overspent American, and many other books and articles. She is a co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, South End Press and the Center for Popular Economics, and a former Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Leontief Prize.

 

Sarah Kite is Director of Recycling Services for the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation and President of the Northeast Recycling Council. She has 10 years of progressively responsible experience in environmental protection and solid waste management, including public policy and program design, solid waste contract management, recycling program implementation and analysis, composting education, and monitoring legislative processes. Her environmental protection career started at the Sierra Club, where she worked as an environmental grassroots organizer, working on issues like suburban sprawl, water quality, and transportation.

 

Dr. Robin Nagle is anthropologist-in-residence for New York City's Department of Sanitation, a position she has held since 2006. She is also director of the Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program at New York University, where she teaches anthropology and urban studies.

Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1973 The First U.S. Mobile Phone Call

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Everyone has an opinion about the role of cellular phones and mobile media technology in our society. Action Speaks panelists look at the first ever cellular phone call and approach this topic from ethical, philosophical, political, and community activist points of view.

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Start any conversation with, "What do you think about the cell phone?" and you'll get everything from "It's ruining the English language," to "It's creating brain tumors"; from "It's the best way to create community," to "I just made an experimental film with mine!" Everyone has an opinion about this invention that has made us "always available" and, some argue, never "here."

 

In this episode of Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates That Changed America Host and Creative Director, Marc Levitt, and our panelists, Quinnipiac University Professor Sharon Kleinman, editor of The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life (2009) and Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century (2007), William Powers, author of Hamlet’s Blackberry, and Linda Raftree, Social Media and New Technology Advisor for Plan International, discuss these and other topics around our digital "Swiss Army Knife."

 

  • Has the cell phone permanently changed our ability to be present? Or ethical?
  • Has our unprecedented access to information made us superficial thinkers?
  • Can the cell phone re-democratize political experience? Media production?

 

Linda Raftree is the Social Media and New Technology Advisor for Plan International. Linda is based at Plan's US Headquarters in Rhode Island, but spends most of her time in Africa supporting the use of new media and technology tools in Plan’s community development programs, including human rights, advocacy, health, sanitation, education, violence prevention, gender, civic education, and emergencies. Before joining Plan USA in 2001, Linda lived and worked in El Salvador for 10 years managing child media, child protection, peace and reconciliation, and disaster programs.

 

William Powers is the author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. A former staff writer for The Washington Post, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times and many other publications. He is a two-time winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for best American media commentary. Hamlet’s BlackBerry grew out of research he did as a fellow at Harvard University. He lives on Cape Cod.

 

Dr. Sharon Kleinman is professor of communications at Quinnipiac University. She is the editor of The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life (2009) and Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century (2007) and is currently writing a dictionary of media and communication. She holds a B.A. in English and American literature from Brandeis University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Communication from Cornell University. An avid mountain biker and yoga practitioner, she lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1927 - Father Coughlin "On the Air" and the Birth of Right-Wing Radio

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With the popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and now Glenn Beck, we felt it was time to look at the ‘original’ nationally known conservative radio talk show host, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who organized and addressed large rallies, called for a return to God and became a leading oppositional figure for a sitting President. In our conversation we look at Father Coughlin’s career to see what methods of communication and distribution he created and to compare our current group of conservative commentators in philosophy, method, and content as well as in their reach and popularity. Our panelists for this episode are Dr. Susan Smulyan, Professor of American Civilization at Brown University with a research specialization in American radio history, Dr. Sheldon Marcus, Professor of Education at Fordham University and Coughlin biographer, and Talkers Magazine’s Michael Harrison.

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With the popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and now Glenn Beck, we felt it was time to look at the ‘original’ nationally known conservative radio talk show host, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who organized and addressed large rallies, called for a return to God and became a leading oppositional figure for a sitting President. Father Coughlin’s reach was huge, establishing a national network of radio stations to carry his show and help him to raise funds for his preferred causes. Originally attracted by the New Deal, Father Coughlin veered right from FDR’s policies, establishing ties eventually to Nazi and anti-Semitic elements in our society. In our conversation we look at Father Coughlin’s career to see what methods of communication and distribution he created and to compare our current group of conservative commentators in philosophy, method, and content as well as in their reach and popularity.


Dr. Sheldon Marcus is a Professor in the Division of Educational leadership and Policy of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education.  He has been on the Fordham faculty since 1968 and has also served as Associate Dean for 17 years. Dr. Marcus has authored or coauthored 6 books, including Father Coughlin: The Tumultuous Life of the Priest of the Little Flower.

 

Dr. Susan Smulyan, Professor of American Civilization at Brown University, is the author of Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting (1992) and Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (2007).  Professor Smulyan teaches courses in popular culture, advertising history, radio, digital scholarship, and American Studies methods.  Most recently, she held a Research Fellowship in the Scholars and Artists in Residence program at the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.

 

Michael Harrison is the founder and editor of Talkers magazine, the leading trade publication serving the talk radio industry in America. He is a radio broadcasting maverick and trade journalist who has been at the center of many of the exciting pop radio revolutions of the last thirty years.

 

Dr. Evelyn Sterne is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at University of Rhode Island. Her book Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence (2004) is a study of the relationship between religion and political incorporation among immigrant groups in our fair city of Providence at the turn of the 20th century. Her current research interests include evangelism and working class history.

Action Speaks! - What's Eating Us?:1971 Alice Waters Opens Chez Panisse

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In 1971 famed Chef Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. The current popularity of Farmers’ Markets and Community Gardens can in many ways be traced back to Waters and her restaurant. This episode of Action Speaks looks at the economic, cultural, political, and public and private health implications of the local food movement.

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Farmer’s Market’s, community gardens, localvores, and California cuisine are in many ways the children of Alice Waters and her restaurant, Chez Panisee. Started in 1971 by Ms. Waters as an attempt to replicate her dining experiences of a recent trip to France, Chez Panisse created a market and a movement in cooking that emphasized the fresh and the local. Rather than franchising her restaurants like many celebrity chefs, Ms. Waters turned her attention to the quality of school lunch programs, founding the Edible Food Project in a Berkeley middle school. Just how possible is “eating local”? What. if anything. is wrong with internationalism in food? Why should local farming be protected if it isn’t financially viable? What are some of the implications of the local food movement for our private and public health? There are just some of the questions that are addressed by our panelists: Thomas McNamee, author of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, Rolando Robledo, executive chef of Cambridge, Massachusetts localvore Clover Food Labs, Dr. Katherine Brown, director of Providence, Rhode Island’s South Side Community Land Trust, and Dr. Christine Thompson, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, RI.

 

Dr. Christine Thompson is Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Johnson & Wales University. Dr. earned a Ph.D. in Classics at the Ohio State University before attending Johnson & Wales en route to a twelve-year career as a chef and caterer. She later returned to Johnson & Wales to teach courses such as “Culture and Food” and “Food in Film and Literature” that combined her interest in food with her liberal arts background.

 

Thomas McNamee is the author of Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution and four other books. His essays, poems, reporting and reviews have appeared in a wide range of magazines.

 

Rolando Robledo is the Executive Chef of Clover Food Lab, a Cambridge-based purveyor of food trucks specializing in local, seasonal, “just-cut,” and organic food. Hailing from New London, Connecticut, he comes to Clover with a background that includes the The French Laundry, Lespinasse, Aquavit, and Emeril’s. He recently spent seven years as a professor of culinary arts at Johnson & Wales University, and was named the 2010 FENI Chef Educator of the Year.

 

Dr. Katherine Brown is the Executive Director of Providence’s Southside Community Land Trust, an organization dedicated to providing access to land, education and other resources so that people in greater Providence can grow food in environmentally sustainable ways and create community food systems where locally produced, affordable, and healthy food is available to all.

Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1998 - The Sonny Bono Act (Copywright Extension)

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Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America and its panelists -- including famed author Shepard Fairey and scholar and attorney Lawrence Lessig -- explore the complexities of copyright protection in a world of free culture, public art, technology, and cyberspace.

Logo_small_small Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America returns for its 16th season, entitled "What's Eating Us?" With our country still mired in economic collapse, Action Speaks, with the help of nationally known scholars and practitioners, examines the patterns of consumption that got us in this mess in the first place -- and may help get us out.

As part of Providence's nationally known Action Speak radio show, the inaugural honorees of the AS220 Free Culture Award, Shepard Fairey and Brandon Edens, Harvard law professor, political activist, and "Free Culture" author Lawrence Lessig, and AS220 Artistic Director, Umberto Crenca took part in a public conversation in August moderated by Marc Levitt,  Host and Creative Director of Action Speaks. The conversation included Fairey's work as a public artist and his influences and ideas on the creative process, Lessig's notion of the Public Commons and his thoughts on copywrite legislation and free software. Crenca spoke to the challenges of engaging with notions of Free Culture as the director of AS220, an unjuried and uncensored arts non-profit and Edens illuminated the complexities of free culture in the realm of technology from the perspective of a computer engineer active in hardware and software development. In keeping with the theme of Action Speaks' "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America," the panelists were asked to comment on significant moments in their personal, artistic, professional and political evolution as well as dates in the world of public art and cyberspace that changed how we view and participat with the world. In keeping with Action Speaks' format, the public was invited to join the discussion with comments and questions.

Lawrence Lessig
 is an academic, author and political activist. He is best known for his work to reduce the legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is the author of the book 'Free Culture'. Currently, Mr. Lessig is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Shepard Fairey 
is an American contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, 1992. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" and "Obey Giant" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic super market tabloid Weekly World News. His work became more widely known recently in the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama "HOPE" poster. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He was prominently featured in the new Banksy film, 'Exit at the Gift Shop.' Fairey was arrested on February 7, 2009, on his way to the premiere of his show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts, on two outstanding warrants related to graffiti.

Umberto Crenca 
is the founder and Artistic Director of AS220, a non-profit center for the arts in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 was established in 1985 to provide a local forum and home for the arts.  AS220 offers any Rhode Island resident the chance to exhibit or perform their work in an unjuried and uncensored all-ages forum. The organization maintains thirty two artist live and/or work spaces, four gallery spaces, a printshop, two darkrooms, a technology lab and a stage, and has established a powerful presence in the Downtown Arts and Entertainment District.  Since 1998, Crenca has spearheaded efforts to bring more meaningful arts education programming to incarcerated youth. In 1999, Crenca established AS220's youth arts program, Broad Street Studio, which continues to serve and support youth transitioning out of state care with arts instruction and professional development at AS220's Empire St. location.  Crenca was a visual art instructor at the Rhode Island Training School, the state's juvenile detention facility from 2000-2004. In the past two decades, Crenca has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Urban Institute, The Ford Foundation, LEF Foundation, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Connecticut Council on the Arts, the New England Artists' Trust, and the Creative Cities Summit. In 2010, Crenca was honored to receive both the Rhode Island College's Charles B Willard Achievement Award and a 2010 Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Brandon Edens
 began his work at AS220 as a volunteer in 2001 and has served as AS220's system administrator for the last three years. In 2005, Edens obtained degrees in both Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island. Edens' training in embedded systems landed him a position as an embedded firmware engineer with Zeo Inc., creators of the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach. He continues to develop his interests in 3d graphics, graphics processor units and game programming with Fluxamalabs, an indie game group. Edens' ascribes to the four freedoms attached to the Free Software movement - to run, study, redistribute, and improve software. One of Brandon's more recent projects, the AS220 jukebox, allows local artists to upload their music via a web interface to AS220.org. Music is made available for AS220 Foo(d) and bar patrons to play via a coin-fed physical interface and participating artists are directly compensated for all paid plays. The jukebox is licensed as free software and publicly available (see www.as220.org/jukebox). Designing and building all the components himself, Brandon created an elegant solution to AS220's boycott of music licensing agencies. As a resident of Rhode Island for the last fifteen years, Edens' was awarded the 2010 Biennial Free Culture Award designated for an outstanding local artist.


2009: What Now?

Action Speaks!: What’s race got to do with it?

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Action Speaks looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using under-appreciated dates of the twentieth-century that have changed America.

In this program we discuss the 2000 U.S. Census when, for the first time, individuals could identify themselves as mixed-race citizens of the United States.

Join host Marc Joel Levitt and guest panelists for some old-fashioned community exchange in the downtown arts district of Providence, Rhode Island.

Census2000_small The 2008 season of Action Speaks explored the meaning of race in our contemporary American society.

In this program:  how checking multiple boxes on a survey helped redefine race in America

For the first time in the 2000 census, citizens of the United States were not asked to define themselves by checking a single ethnic box in the census. In all of the census counts through 1990, an individual's race was supposed to be indicated by checking only one of the boxes presumed to correspond to the main social racial categories. Thus, there was no allowance made for multiracial identification, although the category "other" was recognized in the 1980 and 1990 census and on many local record-keeping forms. Advocates worked throughout the 1990s to rescind this “one box” policy. This change will lead to a discussion of the demographics of hybridization and the hybridization of demographics at the turn of the 21st century in the U.S. and in the world. We will also look at the concept of race as a construct and the notion of racial purity.

Join host Marc Joel Levitt and guest panelists for some old-fashioned community exchange in the heart of downtown Providence’s arts and cultural district.

Featured Guests:


Teja Arboleda, filmmaker, television producer, director, writer and entertainer and Entertaining Diversity, Inc. Arboleda’s documentary “Crossing The Line: Multiracial Comedians” looks at the relationship between humor and race.

Noel Igantiev, professor of American history at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He is author of How the Irish Became White.

Kimberly McClain DaCosta
, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Social Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Her book Making Multiracials: State, Family and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line examines how multiracialism emerged as a topic of public discussion in the last quarter century, and how “multiracial” became a recognizable social category and mode of identification.

Maureen T. Reddy, Department of English, Rhode Island College. She has written extensively about race. Her books include Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction, Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture, and Traces, Codes and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction.

Action Speaks! - What Now? 1993: The creation of Hilary Clinton's Taskforce on Healthcare

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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.

Is the patient stable, improving, or failing? What are the chances of survival for a nation divided on health reform?

As we enter into what will be the next big stretch of our nation's effort to reform the health care system, Action Speaks looks back on Hillary Clinton's 1993 Healthcare Taskforce. What can past failures teach us about the present stakes, struggles, and special interests in the health care arena? Can this historical precedent offer us any clues in our search for long-term solutions?

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Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The fall season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

1993 - The creation of Hilary Clinton's Taskforce on Healthcare

Is the patient stable, improving, or failing? What are the chances of survival for a nation divided on health reform?

As we enter into what will be the next big stretch of our nation's effort to reform the health care system, Action Speaks looks back on Hillary Clinton's 1993 Healthcare Taskforce.  What can past failures teach us about the present stakes, struggles, and special interests in the health care arena? Can this historical precedent offer us any clues in our search for long-term solutions?

Featured Guests:

Dr. Joseph Chazan, MD is the President and founder of Nephrology Associates, Inc., an actively practicing Nephrologist, and the Executive General Manager of American Renal Associates, Inc. for RI and S.E. Mass.  Chazan is a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) at Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine.

T.R. Reid is the author of nine books including the current bestseller The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. Reid has taught at Princeton University and the University of Michigan; he has served as an expert advisor to many organizations both local and national. A former correspondent for the Washington Post and frequent commentator on NPR, Reid has written and hosted documentary films for National Geographic TV, PBS Frontline, and the A&E network. Two of his creations, A Second Opinion and Sick Around the World are critical examinations of the current health care system.

Theda Skocpol, Ph.D is a sociologist and political scientist at Harvard University. She has served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and gained recognition for her work on civic participation, including Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and The Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics. Skocpol was the recipient of the prestigious 2007 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.



Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/ 

Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.

Action Speaks! - What Now? 1932 -The Highlander Center opens its doors

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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.

First door-to-door, now e-mail-to-email, will community organizing have the same power in a virtual community? How will we organize for change in the 21st Century?

Rosa-parks10_small Action Speaks is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The fall season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

In this discussion we ask, How has mobilizing the public changed in the world of Web2.0 from the days of the Highlander Center's multiracial labor and Civil Rights organizing? Does Internet based organizing mean less or more 'Bowling Alone'? Why is community organizer Saul Alinsky's 'Rule for Radicals' a favorite book of the 'Right'?


Featured Guests:

Heather Cronk is the Chief Operating Officer at the New Organizing Institute, overseeing NOI's growing operations and planning strategically for NOI's programs. The New Organizing Institute trains progressive nonprofits and political campaigns on new tools and strategies for organizing, emphasizing the areas of field and leadership, data and technology, and new media. Prior to her work at NOI, Heather worked with PledgeBank, a project of mySociety, reaching out to organizations and individuals across the country to encourage the use of PledgeBank and other web-based tools for local community organizing and citizen-centered collective action.

Mary Kay Harris is the Lead Organizer for the Providence organization Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE), and by extension a player in the national social justice alliance Right to the City. For over ten years, Harris has worked within coalitions of activists and community members, for greater police accountability in Providence. Together they have seen such victories as the passage of the nation's 7th Driving While Black Bill. Her training in outreach, strategy and leadership development, allowed for the creation of PERA, or Providence External Review Authority, an autonomous body for investigations on potential police misconduct incidents. Recently, Harris was honored as one of the two recipients of the National Organizers Alliance 2008-2009 Organizer Respite Award.

Pam McMichael is the director of the Highlander Research and Education Center and a national fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation leadership project. A social justice activist in her native community, Louisville, Kentucky, she is also the co-founder and eight-year co-director of SONG, Southerners on New Ground. 

Nicholas V. Longo, Ph.D. is the Assistant Professor of Public and Community Service Studies and Director of the Global Studies Program at Providence College.  He is the author of the book Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life and a host of other scholarly articles on service learning and civic engagement.


Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/ 

Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.

Action Speaks! - What Now? 1961: JFK Calls for the Moon!

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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.

President Kennedy called for a Moon Landing. President Obama wants a 'Green' Nation. Are solar panels and wind turbines as exciting as 'One Giant Leap for Mankind?' How do we re-energize and re-mobilize America?

201px-apollo_11_insignia_small Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The spring season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

Featured Guests:

Martin J. Collins, PhD, is a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and head of the museum's Oral History Project. Among his author credits are the full length books After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age (Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2007) and Cold War: Laboratory: RAND, the Air Force, and the American State (Smithsonian Institution, 2002). He is editor of the academic journal History and Technology (Routledge).

Kristen Haring, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University. Haring's work has been recognized by the Society for the History of Technology, which awarded her the IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History for portions of her book, Ham Radio's Technical Culture (MIT Press, 2007). Haring studies technology as a component of community and culture in the United States.

Paul Di Filippo, a highly prolific science fiction writer, has hundreds of short stories and several full length novels to his name, including: Ciphers, Joe's Liver, Fuzzy Dice, A Mouthful of Tongues, Spondulix and Cosmocopia, with additional titles forthcoming. Di Filippo writes in a wide range of sub-genres, most notably steampunk and cyberpunk. His innovative science fiction writing has earned him consideration as a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Philip K. Dick, Wired Magazine, and World Fantasy awards. The Providence based author is also a regular reviewer for almost all the major print magazines dedicated to science fiction writings.

Bracken Hendricks, is a Senior Fellow with American Progress where he works on issues of climate change and energy independence, environmental protection, infrastructure investment, and economic policy. Hendricks served in the Clinton Administration as a Special Assistant to the Office of V.P. Gore, the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the President's Council on Sustainable Development, and the White House Livable Communities Task Force. Hendricks was the founding Executive Director and is currently a National Steering Committee member of the Apollo Alliance for good jobs and energy independence, a coalition of labor, environmental, business and community leaders. He has been a member of Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's Energy Advisory Task Force, the Cornell University Eco-Industrial Round Table, and the Energy Future Coalition to name just a few in a long list of credits. Hendricks is widely published on economic development, climate and energy policy, national security, and progressive political strategy.



Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/ 

Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.

Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1972 - Nixon visits People's Republic of China

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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.

What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of 'Chicken'...the US and China; partners or enablers? The relationship between the US and China has been a driving force in the development of both countries. In the past 30 years, China has transformed from agricultural superpower to manufacturing giant, from a capitalist enemy to the biggest U.S. lender. To understand the impact of this relationship on the future of the US economy and its foreign relations, Action Speaks is heading back in time to follow President Nixon on his historic visit to China when much of this co-dependent relationship began to take shape.

Actual-nixon-in-actual-china_small Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The 2009 season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1972 - Nixon visits People's Republic of China?What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of 'Chicken'...the US and China; partners or enablers?

The panelists for the 1972 forum are:

Howard W. French is a Associate Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former reporter for the New York Times, French has served as bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China in Shanghai. French is also an author, documentary photographer and two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize.

Crystal Jiang, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Management at Bryant University's Business College. She received her PhD at Temple University majoring in international business, where she studied the dynamic evolution of Chinese firms and the roles government play. Her research interests include internationalization, innovation strategy, and corporate entrepreneurship of emerging economy firms. Her research work appears in the Oxford Handbook of International Business, Journal of World Business, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and others.

Robert George Lee, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of American Civilization and Chair of the Department of American Civilization at Brown University, where he teaches such courses as "China in the American Imagination."  He has published on a wide range of subjects related to Asian American studies, racial formations, and relations between Asia and America. Three of Lee's well known books are: Dear Miye, Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946, Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture, and Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas.

William H. Overholt, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He formerly held the Asia Policy Research Chair at RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy and served as Director of the Center. A well-known and well-respected analyst of Asian politics, Overholt is the founder of the prestigious journal, Global Assessment, and a frequent publisher. His recent work includes America and Asia: The Coming Transformation of Asian Geopolitics and the award-winning The Rise of China.


Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/

Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.


Action Speaks! - What Now?: 1951 - The Rise of Levittown

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Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroids?

This week, Action Speaks takes a look at a birthplace of suburban utopia, Levittown. In just over 50 years, the American suburbs have physically transformed the landscape of our country, redefined the middle class and helped to both fuel and bring down our nation's economy. Is this the American dream we were looking for? Will the suburbs, built on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of oil, be able to turn 'green' and can bastions of 'white flight' and individualism reflect our nation's demographic diversity and its needs for community?

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Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroids?

 

This week, Action Speaks takes a look at a birthplace of suburban utopia, Levittown. In just over 50 years, the American suburbs have physically transformed the landscape of our country, redefined the middle class and helped to both fuel and bring down our nation's economy. Is this the American dream we were looking for? Will the suburbs, built on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of oil, be able to turn 'green' and can bastions of  'white flight' and individualism reflect our nation's demographic diversity and its needs for community?

PANELISTS:

V. Elaine Gross is the president of ERASE Racism, a regional not-for-profit organization based on Long Island, New York that promotes racial equity through research, policy advocacy and education in areas such as housing, public school education and health. The Racial Equity Report Card: Fair Housing on Long Island is a revealing report published in March 2009.

Alyssa Katz is a freelance journalist who teaches at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. The former editor-in-chief of City Limits, an award-winning magazine about urban policy in New York City, she is currently an editorial consultant for the Pratt Center for Community Development and the author of Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us.

Paul Lukez is a Boston based architect and the founding principal of his own firm, Paul Lukez Architecture. His designs and competition entries have earned him numerous awards with the NE / AIA and BSA. With over 15 years of teaching experience, he has taught at MIT, Tsinghua University , TU Delft and is currently teaching at Washington University.  He is the author of Suburban Transformations, a book which proposes theories and tools for planning suburbs and edge cities.

 


 

Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/ 

Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650.

After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.

Action Speaks! - What Now? 1937: The Flint, Michigan United Auto Workers Sit-In

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:58

Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.

Banks, Auto and Insurance Companies bailed out, lay-offs abound and yet...Where's the anger of the past? The Auto Industry, unions and the drive to protest; has it stalled and are union's pot-holes on the road to recovery?

Flintsit-in_small Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The spring season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

Featured Guests:

Richard McIntyre, PhD is Professor of Economics and Director of the University of Rhode Island Honors Program at The University of Rhode Island. He has written and published extensively in the fields of international and comparative political economy and labor relations. McIntyre is the author Are Worker Rights Human Rights? (University of Michigan Press, 2008) and editor of the New Political Economy book series for Routledge Press.

Travis James Rowley is a conservative republican and native of the state recently named the most democratic in our nation, Rhode Island (Gallup, 2009). A 2002 Brown University graduate, Rowley co-founded the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity at Brown University, an independent 501(c)3 committed to the promotion of underrepresented ideas, beliefs, and perspectives through lectures, conferences, publications, and academic programs at academic institutions in southern New England, including his liberal alma mater. Rowley is the chair if the RI Young Republicans and works as an independent financial advisor for New York Life Insurance Company. Rowley is the author of Out of Ivy: How a Liberal Ivy Created a Committed Conservative (BookSurge Publishing, 2006) and a frequent contributor to the Providence Journal.

Rachel Miller serves as the Rhode Island director of Jobs with Justice, a strongly pro-union non-profit organization with a national presence of around 40 local coalitions. These coalitions bring together labor unions, community organizations, religious groups, and student groups in their fight for economic and social progress in workplaces and communities. Jobs with Justice works on the direct concerns of the labor movement, such as first contract campaigns and organizing, as well as broader economic issues, including affordable housing and health care.

 


 

Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/ 


Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.


Action Speaks! - What Now? 1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:59

Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.

Did building dams, planting trees and taking the boys from the city help end a depression or were we then, as now, just pretending? What exactly does 'Shovel Ready' projects mean for those who are not part of the 'Shovel Ready' construction force?

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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents "What Now?:  1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps

Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The spring season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

Featured Guests:

Vincent Marzullo has served the federal government for the past 25 years and currently directs Rhode Island operations for the Corporation for National & Community Service. During the 1970's recessionary period, Vincent served as the RI Employment & Training Director and administered the state's largest public service jobs program under the Comprehensive Employment & Training Act (CETA)

Neil M. Maher, PhD is an associate professor of history at the Federated History Department of NJIT and Rutgers University at Newark, where he teaches environmental history, urban history, the history of technology and medicine, and landscape studies. Maher's second book, Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2007) examines the history of New Deal Initiative, and its significance in national politics and influence on modern environmentalism.

Randy Albeda is a professor of economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research and teaching covers a broad range of economic policies affecting low-income women and families. She is the coauthor of the books Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits:  Women's Work, Women's Poverty; Unlevel Playing Fields:  Understanding Wage Inequality and Wage Discrimination; and The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual. 




Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/  




Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to recieve a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.

 

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Action Speaks! - What Now? 1949: Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced

From Action Speaks Radio | 58:51

Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial airplay.

What does it mean to 'fail' in America? Have we failed or has the 'American Dream' proven to be hollow? Is there an alternative?

Miller_death_of_a_salesman_2_500-thumb-250x324_small Action Speaks! is a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions framed by the theme "Underappreciated Dates that Changed America."  Each panel draws three or four experts, academics, creatives, and other relevant guests into an open-ended discussion with the larger community in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization, AS220.  Action Speaks! has partnered with RI's NPR station, WRNI, since 1995, and holds the honor of being been the first locally generated show aired on the station. Now you can tune in nationwide to Action Speaks! to hear host Marc Levitt and an endless parade of perceptive intellects and insightful audience members!

The spring season of Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America is organized around the theme ‘What Now?’ With our country mired in its worst economic collapse since the great depression, history can be a guide for what actions our nation should or shouldn’t take to provide for its citizens and whether or not it is time to re-set our priorities.

Featured Guests

Kym Moore is currently the Gerard Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University where she teaches acting and directing. Moore has previously taught at Swarthmore, Hampshire, Sarah Lawrence and The Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film at SUNY Purchase. She has guest directed at Notre Dame University, Smith, Swarthmore, and Dartmouth. Moore is a multidisciplinary stage director, writer, and producer. She is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and the Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab. As the founding director of Frogs on the Water Theatre in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kym Moore has produced a number of plays, formed community outreach programs, and experimented with theatrical form by way of her unique performance style combining fine art, film, dance and theatre.

Monica Teixeira de Sousa teaches about Education Law, Education and Class Mobility, Family Law, and Property. She researches and writes extensively on issues of equity and education. Before joining the New England Law Boston faculty in 2007, she was a staff attorney at Rhode Island Legal Services. Teixeira de Sousa also taught for two years as an adjunct faculty member at Roger Williams University School of Law and served as a trainer for the Legal Services Training Consortium of New England. She has worked extensively with the Rhode Island College Upward Bound Program, from which she graduated in 1994, and is one of the founders and co-chair of the Education Justice Council of Rhode Island.

Scott A. Sandage, PhD is a cultural historian and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Sandage has been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives, the National Park Service and a number of film and radio documentaries. His commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Industry Standard, and Fast Company Magazine, among others. He contributed an essay on loserdom to the catalog of the 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition. His book, Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (Harvard University Press 2005) is a study on how the mid-19th century saw a cultural redefinition of failure as a word that could summarize a whole human life.

Jim Rubens a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist is the author of OverSuccess: Healing the American Obsession with Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection (Greenleaf Press, 2009). From 1994-1998 Rubens served as a term as a New Hampshire State Senator and the Chairman of the Education Committee. Rubens book, OverSuccess, explores the how and why our innate ambition has become unhinged from our capabilities, and our healthy and necessary status-seeking has turned into a pathology.





Action Speaks!, a co-production of AS220 and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, would like to thank The National Endowment for the Humanities who provided major funding to our program; our Media Partners: WRNI, RIPBS & the Providence Phoenix.  Thanks to The What Cheer? Brigade for our intro music.

Find out more at http://actionspeaksradio.org/ 


Contact the production crew at actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any feedback, ideas for future shows for press info or to request a personalized ID. You can also write to us at Action Speaks! c/o AS220 Main Office, 95 Mathewson St. Dreyfus #204, Providence RI 02903. If you are a radio station and wish to receive a CD of Action Speaks! please visit Creative PR's website: creativepr.org to make a request or contact them at info@creativepr.org / 1-888-233-5650. After December 2009, please contact actionspeaksradio@as220.org with any CD requests.