The weds 6-7pm Mental Health Show has been on the air since VFR’s very first week of operation. The show focuses on interviews with people diagnosed with mental illness labels like schizophrenia, bipolar, borderline and obsessive-compulsive, as well as organizers, activists, and writers from the world of madness and mental health outside the mainstream.
Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Nathan Rutstein, an author of some 20 books, taught at the University of Mass in Amherst, and at Springfield Technical Community College. And before that, he was the International News Editor for NBC during the Huntley-Brinkley era. He was the founder of the Institutes for the Healing of Racism.
Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 12.9.2006…
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This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 56:21
This Week’s Topics:
–The Donald Rumsfeld pre-resignation memo.
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Seth Petchers, Oxfam International’s Make Trade Fair campaign coffee lead, discusses how Starbucks opposes Ethiopia’s bid to trademark its renowned regional coffee names–Sidamo, Harrar, and Yirgacheffe. Dean Cycon, founder of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Company, discusses problems with the trademarking solution, and how appellation (the system by which regional wines such as Champagne and Bordeaux protect their exclusivity) represents a better solution in his mind. He also discusses Fair Trade as an important part of the solution, while also identifying limitations of Fair Trade in achieving truly ethical and sustainable trade.
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MEF, 7:30 – 9:30pm Read more on Valley Free Radio Board Meeting Agenda 12.6.06…
http://www.archive.org/download/SocceShow04Dec06/Goal04Dec06_64kb.mp3
Dramatis Personae (in order of biceps):
Eamon ffitch [sic]
The Ghost of Kevin Meek
Carson Cistulli
Show Recap:
Too embarrassing to include
Photos of Franck Ribery (you’ll see):
Exhibit One
Read more on Goal: The Soccer Show 12.4.2006…
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The following is a test of the new VFR podcasting features. For your amusement I have podcast one of the great moments in “radio history”.
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Over the course of the summer and this school year members of Youth Leadership in the Arts, a media arts and activism program for middle and highschoolers, met to brainstorm a mural for the new community radio station, Valley Free Radio located in Florence, MA. Read more on Community in Radio Mural Unveiling for Valley Free Radio Station…
Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Ray Estes, a Baha’i from Chapel Hill, NC who is a commercial designer by trade, but his first love is discovering spiritual truths from the Bible and the Bahá’à writings. Ray describes his upbringing and his spiritual journey leading him to the discovery of the Bahá’à Faith. To him “Life is an adventure”.
Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 12.2.2006…
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