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.

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.

Polar bears feast on the remains of bowhead whales on the edge of the Beaufort Sea while cultural anthropologist Richard Nelson describes their actions, explains their lives, humans' historical relationship to Polar bears, and their chances for survival.
This is a rebroadcast of a Sprouts edition that featured an environmental show called "Encounters" that brought the sounds of the northern wild to the radio. It no longer exists and was produced at KCAW in Sitka, Alaska, hosted and narrated by Richard Nelson, nationally known nature writer and cultural anthropologist.

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.

Sea Change Radio host Alex Wise, speaks with Kitt Doucette, a journalist for Rolling Stone who recently wrote about this war over plastic bags. Doucette talks about the history of the conflict, some of the fronts on which this battle is being waged, and what we can all do to fight back against the corporate bullies gaining ground everyday in this struggle for the earths well-being

"We have no choice but to take action," says Rosalinda Guillen, a widely recognized rural justice leader and champion of farmworker rights. In this interview with Guillen, she discusses organizing, participatory democracy, and what she and her colleagues call ecofeminism: "empowering the feminine in our society, people and mother nature herself."
Guillen also talks about some of her proudest victories as an activist and organizer, and what shed like to accomplish next.
Rosalinda Guillen is born in Texas, and spent her first decade in Coahuila, Mexico before emigrating with her family to LaConner, Washington in 1960. At the age of ten she went to work as a farmworker in the fields in Skagit County. Today, Rosalinda is the executive director of Community to Community, an organization that works to, broadly, redefine power in order to end settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy. Within the labor movement Rosalinda has worked with Caesar Chavezs United Farm Workers of America and has represented farmworkers in ongoing dialogues of immigration issues, labor rights, trade agreements, and strengthening the food sovereignty movement.
This interview was originally aired on Rootstock Radio, a weekly radio show from Wisconsins Organic Valley, the nation s largest organic farmer-owned cooperative. The show focuses on food, farming, and family. It educates about the good food movement" the challenges faced, change makers and grass root initiatives, and what each of us can do to work toward a healthy, sustainable, and just food system.

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.

In the past several days we have bore witness to three separate fires; the Camp, Woolsey, and Hill, rage across both northern and southern California. As the death toll has currently risen to fifty, hundreds remain missing, and over a quarter of a million Californians have been forced to evacuate. We begin this week by offering our hearts to all the people who are impacted by these fires.
This week Dr. Chad Hanson, a forest and fire ecologist, with the John Muir Project, joins us. Dr. Hanson is a member of the Sierra Club's National Board of Directors and he holds a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California at Davis, with a research focus on fire ecology in conifer forest ecosystems. He is the co-editor and co-author of the 2015 book, "The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature's Phoenix."
Studies published by Dr. Hanson cover topics such as: habitat selection of rare wildlife species associated with habitat created by high-severity fire; post-fire conifer responses and adaptations; fire history; and current fire patterns.
Join us during this difficult week to learn about what happens in a post fire habitat, why fire is an ecological treasure, not a disaster, how significantly climate change will impact wildfires, and why both politicians and the United States Forest Service have a vested interest in spreading misinformation when it comes to forest management.

A program in northern California is helping victims of last year's wildfires rebuild zero carbon homes. We explore one family's experience, how the program works, zero carbon homes, and how they save money while helping the planet.

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.

Part 1 of a 2 part series.
This week, Sprouts presents OutCasting, public radio's LGBTQ youth program.
The AIDS crisis exacted a terrible toll on LGBTQ people and other populations. In the early years of the epidemic, an AIDS diagnosis was almost invariably fatal. In the U.S., the groups most affected were gay men, intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians. Because gay men were among the first populations to be identified as high risk, AIDS was known in the early years as a gay disease, and because of that, people with AIDS were highly stigmatized. In fact, before the disease was called AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), it was called GRID - Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disease.
Barely a decade after the Stonewall riots marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement and an increased level visibility and freedom for LGBTQ people, AIDS precipitated a backlash. The federal government, which had sprung into action when a small number of Americans contracted Legionnaire's disease, was almost completely unresponsive during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, as dozens of initial cases became hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands. Notoriously, President Ronald Reagan didnt publicly utter the word AIDS until several years into the epidemic. The general public sentiment ranged from indifference to "you brought this on yourself" hostility.
Affected and infected populations had to be activists in ways that had little parallel with other diseases. LGBTQ women were in one of the population groups least at risk for contracting the disease, yet many of them played very important roles in AIDS activism. What drew them into the movement?
In this edition of OutCasting, youth participant Lauren begins a two-part conversation with Ann Northrop, a longtime journalist and activist. Ann is the co-host of Gay USA, TVs weekly LGBT news hour. During the years at the height of the epidemic, she was active in New Yorks ACT UP - the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power - an influential group that countered public indifference and worked to spur the government into action.

Chief Golden Light Eagle from the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota tells the story of how he and thousands of Native American children were separated from their parents and lived in terror at the Marty Indian School in Marty South Dakota, run by the catholic church. Some did not survive the violence inflicted on them by the priests and nuns.
Golden Light Eagle also describes how he helped initiate the filing of lawsuits with statements by thousands. Some made it to the South Dakota Supreme Court but all were defeated.
Although attempts to bring the state and the church to justice have failed so far, Michelle Dephene-Echols, who is an activist and attorney who grew up in Marty and is also a survivor of sexual abuse, recently brought a bill to the South Dakota legislature in hopes of creating a window of opportunity for the survivors of the school to file suite. She explains the legal history and the bill she proposed, that is currently in the South Dakota state legislature.
Finally Dephene-Echols discusses connections between abuse at the boarding school and Nazis.

In Part One the emphasis is on Attorney General Wyman and the jailing of Dr. Willard Uphaus, director of the World Fellowship Center, the role of the state and federal Supreme Courts, and the response of the community around Uphaus to the jailing, and Dr. Chapman discusses in more detail Willard Uphaus personal history and the historical context in which he grew to become the person who resisted the red-baiting intrusion of Attorney General Wyman.

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.