Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

The Consequences of Bottled Water 

In just four decades, bottled water has transformed from a luxury niche item into a ubiquitous consumer product, representing a $300 billion market dominated by global corporations. It sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems.

Justin Mog from WFMP-LP Louisville, KY (Forward Radio), opens the tap for a much-needed conversation with Dr. Daniel Jaffee, author of the brand new book, "Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice."

Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water and challenge its growth in North America and worldwide. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, residents, public officials, and other participants in controversies ranging from bottled water's role in unsafe tap water crises to groundwater extraction for bottling in rural communities, Dan Jaffee asks what this commodity's meteoric growth means for social inequality, sustainability, and the human right to water. Unbottled profiles campaigns to reclaim the tap and addresses the challenges of ending dependence on packaged water in places where safe water is not widely accessible. Clear and compelling, it assesses the prospects for the movements fighting plastic water and working to ensure water justice for all.

Dan Jaffee is an environmental and rural sociologist, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on water commodification and on social conflicts around bottled water. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Comedy as a Public Service 
Comedian Karin Babbitt returns to the stage 

Women make up half of the population, but women don't make up half of stand-up comedians, not by far. Today, they make up just 14% of the profession.

So what is it like to be a woman stand-up? What might drive a woman to try stand-up in a male dominated field?

Comedian Karin Babbitt shares her perspective and talks about her return to the stage as a mature adult. After raising a family, Karin renewed her comedic skills, years after she achieved limited success in a time less friendly to women standup comedians. Now, her confidence is more grounded in her work, instead of where she hopes it will take her. 
Suki Wessling, Karin Babbitt

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

The Supermarket: How it Shapes Our Food System 

In 1916, Clarence Saunders opened the first self-service grocery store called the Piggly Wiggly. It was revolutionary. It changed the way people shopped for food. Instead of taking a list to a counter and asking the grocer for items, customers were let loose in a maze of shelves to find items on their own. This saved money for the grocer in two ways: by cutting down on labor, and by encouraging people to buy on impulse instead of necessity.

Markus Puskar takes us on a capitalism journey by sharing the story of the Piggly Wiggly and the mass marketing culture that it helped inspire. This is the first episode in his documentary series called "Candy Jail." 
British Journalist Raj Patel, Chemical Engineer & Environmental Activist Jan Dell 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Religious Liberty vs LGBTQ Equality - part 21 

OutCaster Isha continues her conversation with civil rights attorney Jennifer C. Pizer about the social movement that focuses on LGBTQ people as a threat, religious doctrine cited in cases regarding constitutional law, the Equality Act, the Fairness Act, the protective reach of federal law, including LGBTQ figures in school curriculum like Alan Turing and Harvey Milk, and research from psychologists and social scientists on the fact that preventing young people from becoming LGBTQ by withholding information does not work.

Jennifer C. Pizer is the Senior Counsel and Director of Law and Policy for Lambda Legal, the country's oldest and largest legal organization seeking full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT people and everyone living with HIV. 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Earth Riot Radio: The Great Unknown 

This episode from Earth Riot Radio includes news of the earth in a time of great climate upheaval. The description includes how extreme weather events are affecting world citizens and animals like the Golden Lion Tamarin, a New World monkey native to the coastal forests of Brazil. 

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Earth Riot Radio: The Great Unknown 

Reverend Billy & the Church of Stop Shopping preach the good word about the earth. They sing and praise the poetry of our great globe.

This episode from Earth Riot Radio includes news of the earth in a time of great climate upheaval. The description includes how extreme weather events are affecting world citizens and animals like the Golden Lion Tamarin, a New World monkey native to the coastal forests of Brazil.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

The 2023 Global Space Conference on Climate Change 

Host Zinzi Konig discusses space as a tool box for political action with the Director General of the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA) Christian Hauglie-Hanssen.

They talk about how climate change is accelerating faster at the poles and the equator, communication, models for hydropower, agriculture and resistance to floods, and how space agencies can partner with locals to police illegal deforestatio

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

A Tale of Two Diasporas  

Two stories of encounters between Ukrainians and Russians in the Diaspora. In Abu Dhabi Ukrainians and Russians encounter each other, leading to tensions. In Uzbekistan, refugees who are both Russian and Ukrainian, find each other for solace and mutual help and rebuilding.

Julia Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian reporter, communications expert, and marketing executive. She studied at the Abu Dhabi and New York City campuses of New York University, where she studied social and public policy. Her research led her to do ethnographic fieldwork in Abu Dhabi, which allowed her to observe Ukrainians there, and their relations with Russians.

YouTube vlogger Konstantin Samoilov was a successful professional in Russia where he lived with his family until he left, last fall. He fled when mobilization was announced to recruit Russians as soldiers for the invasion of Ukraine. He tells the story of how refugees face losing everything. Samoilov started and leads the Tashkent International Breakfast Club, which regularly brings together hundreds of people at a cafe in the capital of Uzbekistan to help each other rebuild their lives.  
Ukrainian reporter, communications expert, and marketing executive Julia Tymoshenko & Russian Refugee and Vlogger Konstantine Samoiyov  

Credits:
Sprouts is a weekly program produced in collaboration with community radio stations and independent producers bringing featuring radio production of national interest. The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio.

Ukraine 2 4 2 features interviews with experts, key people on the ground in Ukraine and many others affected, who can give direct and personal accounts of the unfolding of the war in Ukraine, how people of diverse backgrounds and professional skills rally in the fight for freedom and the historical context of Russia's invasion.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Class Can't Do the Work of Race 

After the recent Supreme Court decision to remove affirmative action placement from universities, #RaceClass explores the intricacies of race and racism in America. In our national affirmative action conversation: Why can't class-based policies do the work of race-based policies? Our short answer: because racism transcends class.  
Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold 

Sprouts is a weekly program produced in collaboration with community radio stations and independent producers bringing featuring radio production of national interest. The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio. 
Produced by Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold and Arnie Arnesen. Production help from Boston University's Kim Miragliuolo.  Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.

The Origin of Juneteenth 

June 19, 1865 marks the origin of Juneteenth, on Galveston Island. The official celebration began in 1866, commemorating the freedom of African people from settler colonialism, 2 1/2 years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.


June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the legislation, making Juneteenth the 12th federal holiday. Its the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.

Voices:

Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies, at the University of Houston. Mexico ended slavery before Texas, Dr. Horne explains why. Special thanks to producer and host Mimi Rosenberg (WBAI).

Sam Collins III, co-chair and historian of the Juneteenth Legacy Project on Galveston Island, the birthplace of Juneteenth in 1865, explains the early history of men with guns who were written out of the narrative.

Dr. Anne Lundy, music director of the Community Music Center of Houston, shares the evolution of Black spirituals and the African American musical tradition.

Mimi Rosenberg of WBAI New York spoke to Dr. Tiffany Crutcher live from the Juneteenth Freedom Festival, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She's the twin sister of Terrance Crutcher, who was shot and killed Sept. 2016, by police officer Betty Jo Shelby in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was unarmed.
 Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots, is a weekly program produced collaboratively by radio producers at community stations around the world. The show features local news and culture of international interest.