WPKN's leading public affairs coverage concerning politics, policy, planet and so much more.
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The WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast features guest interviews hosted on WPKN broadcasts with our renowned DJs. Musicians, artists, producers, writers, movers and shakers - dig deeper into their philosophy and ethos. Founded in 1963, WPKN is a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of ...
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WPKN is a nonprofit, freeform, community radio station (arts organization) that is more than 50 years old. The vision of WPKN is to build community, a loyal and growing audience, and an engaged and educated citizenry by providing the highest quality of free-form programming that broadcasts entertainment, music, news, thoughts, sounds, ideas and event listings that support free speech, diversity, and the interests of the local and global communities WPKN serves. Our radio frequency of 89.5-FM ...
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WPKN’s daily local newscast covers Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut, and Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, airing weekdays at 6:35pm EST, and available in this podcast subscription format. The expanded WPKN newscast will focus on state legislative sessions and local politics, immigration rights, climate and environmental concerns, economic inequality, poverty, and cost of living issues, and reproductive rights. Broadcasts will include diverse voices from the ...
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WPKN Gold Sounds is a video performance and audio broadcast series featuring global and local talent. Artists and bands perform several songs in the Bridgeport, CT WPKN studios, and are interviewed about their formation, influences, process, and overall approach. The series features emerging and established acts; digging deep into musical artistry. WPKN Bridgeport at 89.5FM, streaming worldwide at wpkn.org is a 10,000 watt community radio powerhouse entertaining and informing the audiences f ...
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Often live, unique, remote, out-in-the-wild WPKN broadcasts. WPKN, cited as “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker, founded in 1963 as a 100-watt campus outlet, WPKN is today a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunte ...
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Jason Duncan (Just Add Water Records, So What) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller
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42:49Jason Duncan of the late-60s/70s reissue record label, Just Add Water Records, and rock 'n' roll band So What chats with WPKN's Brendan Toller about being a rock 'n' roll renaissance man, and the upcoming Derv Gordon (the Equals) 2025 tour that has So What backing.Av Brendan Toller, WPKN
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For Decades, the FBI and local Police Have Turned a Blind Eye to White Supremacist Violence
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19:11Interview with Mike German, a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice, conducted by Scott Harris. Mike German talks about his new book, “Policing White Supremacy the Enemy Within,” a former FBI agent’s urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism…
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Derv Gordon (the Equals) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller
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1:12:04Derv Gordon of the Equals chats with WPKN's Brendan Toller about his life in music, the formation of the Equals, trajectory, and upcoming 2025 tour that stops in New Haven at Cafe Nine on Weds, March 19th.Av Brendan Toller, WPKN
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Nicole Mitchell interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli (Soundprint Asia, My Other Music)
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1:13:29Joseph Celli will features an interview with award-winning jazz flutist Nicole Mitchell on his My Other Music (MOM) show on Mon., March 10, 9-10am exclusively on WPKN 89.5fm or streaming @ WPKN.org. The internationally recognized musician discusses her creative process, her work with the AACM and her Black Earth Ensemble. The program includes sever…
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Joe Russo (JRAD, Selcouth Quartet) interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino (Organic Radio)
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1:00:03WPKN's Bill Cosentino speaks with Joe Russo about his musical history leading up to and including Joe Russo's Almost Dead (JRAD), as well as his latest project with Selcouth Quartet. They sonically explore some of the improvisational scapes this talented group of musicians have created in Iceland and bring to the area as they kick off their tour in…
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Students Across America Resist Trump’s Elimination of Campus DEI
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16:23Interview with Nicole Carty, Executive Director of Get Free, a youth-led progressive activist movement, and Carson Delia, a Temple University student and Get Free member, conducted by Scott Harris. Nicole Carty and Carson Delia talk about confronting the Trump regime’s attempt to eliminate DEI policies in higher education and censor curricula that …
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Trump Threats, Attempts to Intimidate US Free Press
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20:03Interview with Katherine Jacobsen, Canada, and Caribbean program coordinator with the Committee to Protect Journalists, formerly worked for The Associated Press in Moscow and as a freelancer in Ukraine, conducted by Scott Harris. Katherine Jacobsen talks about CPJ’s call on the Trump administration to restore Associated Press access to the White Ho…
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Confronting the Democratic Party’s Weak Opposition to the Trump Coup
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26:37Interview with Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, conducted by Scott Harris. Norman Solomon discusses his recent article, “Democrats Irritated by Voters Who Elected Them Need an Attitude Adjustment.” where he warns that Democratic legislators who are “perceived as wimps who fai…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Denounces Trump’s Dangerous Move Toward Oligarchy, Authoritarianism & Kleptocracy
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12:55Excerpt of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, Senate floor speech on Feb. 4, 2025, edited and produced by Scott Harris. In this Feb. 4, 2025 excerpt of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ speech, he addresses the Trump-Musk coup, describing it as a dangerous movement toward oligarchy, authoritarianism and kleptocracy.…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Waging a Dangerous Attack on the Foundation of U.S. Public Health Policy
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17:40Interview with Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emeritus, epidemiology at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, conducted by Scott Harris. Elizabeth Jacobs discusses rising concern about newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.’s agenda at this sprawling agency and the damage his anti-scienc…
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Civil Resistance Strategies and Tactics to Resist the Trump-Musk Coup
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19:59Interview with Maria J. Stephan, author of the award-winning book, "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict," conducted by Scott Harris. Maria Stephan talks about her recent article, “We are Stronger Than We Think,” and issues related to the rising protest movement opposing the Trump/Musk agenda, the power of collecti…
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Voters Oppose Congressional Republicans’ Attempt to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid
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25:18Interview with Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, conducted by Scott Harris. Alex Lawson discusses the House GOP budget resolution that calls for $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid to help pay for extending the 2017 tax cuts for billionaires and multinational corporations, primarily benefiting the wealthiest Americans. He also …
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* Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid Healthcare; Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works; Producer: Scott Harris. * Civil Resistance Strategies and Tactics to Effectively Resist the Trump-Musk Coup; Maria J. Stephan, Co-Lead and Chief Organizer with the Horizons Project; Producer: Scott …
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Neubody, New Haven Techno Collective, on Heatsync Records: Buddy City EP Vinyl Release and more, with WPKN's Brendan Toller
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50:56Underground techno collective discusses their first vinyl EP release of Buddy City, their popular New Haven dance nights at Cafe Nine, and so much more... https://heatsyncrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-buddy-city-epAv WPKN
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BIPOC Farmers in Move Forward in CT: The Liberated Land Cooperative
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47:41Vetiveah Harrison and Héctor Freedom Gerardo, discuss their unique journeys that led them to the food justice movement and ultimately to the formation of the Liberated Land Cooperative ( https://www.liberatedlandcooperative.com/). This group of BIPOC farmers and food justice activists has created a network of CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) …
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OMB Director Russell Vought, Architect of Trump-Musk Demolition of Federal Government
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13:28Interview with Branko Marcetic, a Jacobin magazine staff writer and author of "Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden," conducted by Scott Harris. Branko Marcetic discusses his soon-to-be-published in-depth profile of Russell Vought, the longtime radical anti-government ideologue who, as Trump’s recently confirmed director of the Office of Man…
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Trump Russia Ukraine War Peace Overture Creates Rift with US European Allies
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19:55Interview with Mel Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, conducted by Scott Harris. Mel Goodman examines Trump’s latest initiative to end the Ukraine war, his reported conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin — and how these announced negotiations could impa…
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Democrats’ Muddled, Ineffective Response to Trump-Musk Coup
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19:33Interview with Kenny Stancil, a senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project with broad interests in the political economy of inequality, conducted by Scott Harris. Kenny Stancil talks about his recent article, “Where Is the Democratic Opposition?” and an update on efforts being made to organize an effective and aggressive national Trump opposit…
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Trump’s Illegal Demolition of Federal Government Provokes Constitutional Crisis, Calls for Impeachment
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25:27Interview with John Bonifaz, a constitutional attorney and the co-founder and president of the Free Speech For People, conducted by Scott Harris. John Bonifaz assesses our national crisis as the Trump/Musk coup continues, including the constitutional crisis this administration has provoked as the Trump regime ignores judge-issued injunctions orderi…
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Poets on Fire, Presented by WPKN & Mega Bass Productions
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2:11:05WPKN and Mega Bass Presents: Poets on Fire celebrating Black History Month with a live in-studio poetry broadcast. Listen to a cadre of regional emerging poets including Bridgeport’s own Phillip C. Alexander who has graced stages from Connecticut to Florida, and who recently shared the stage opening for hip hop collective, Brand Nubian. Poet, God I…
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In One Connecticut City: Maga Targets Schools, Kids, Parents, and Communities
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49:58Resistance Roundtable features two guests: -Prof. Christopher Vials, who teaches English at UCONN-Storrs, discusses the theory and practice of fascism and how Trump 2.0 is careening toward a complete dissolution of what remains of American democracy. -Leslie Blatteau, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, talks about the threat posed b…
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Black Labor -- Then and Now with Steven Pitts and Michael Zweig
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32:23A deep dive into the history of African American involvement in the US labor movement with Steven Pitts, recently retired labor policy advisor of the UC Berkeley Labor Center; and Michael Zweig, economist, labor and civil rights activist, and founder of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life at SUNY Stony Brook. Host: Richard Hill…
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Isabelle sits down with her friend Regina Mosley, a community organizer, to talk about love and community organizing. Clips from past conversations with community organizers are included and a wide ranging conversation ensues. Everything from key elements of organizing to the patriarchy's impact on Valentine's Day gift giving is discussed. Music fr…
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Thousands Oppose Trump Regime 2.0 in ‘50501’ Nationwide Protests
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15:48Interview with Kay Evert, one of the co-founders of the group NoVoiceUnheard, and Sydney, an organizer with the Pittsburgh branch of the 50501 protest movement and 50501’s national press liaison, conducted by Scott Harris. Kay Evert talks about the national mobilization network opposing Donald Trump’s illegal conduct and authoritarian agenda that, …
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Trump’s Targeting of Education Dept Could Eliminate Dozens of Federal Programs Benefitting Millions of Students Nationwide
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16:28Interview with Derek W. Black, Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina, conducted by Scott Harris. Derek Black discusses what’s at stake in the Trump administration’s attack on the federal Department of Education, his motivation for this assault, and the importance of federal funds to providing quality primary and secondary education t…
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Elon Musk’s Child Hacker Army Illegally Attempting to Eliminate Multiple Federal Agencies
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16:16Interview with Amanda Marcotte, a senior politics writer at Salon.com and author of "Troll Nation: How the Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters," conducted by Scott Harris. Amanda Marcotte discusses her article re: Oligarch billionaire Elon Musk’s lawless federal agency takeover, “‘ Hitler had some decent points’: Internet trolls guide Musk’s co…
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Trump Doubles Down on his Criminal Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
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29:32Interview with Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and international adviser for Jewish Voice for Peace, conducted by Scott Harris. Phyllis Bennis talks about Donald Trump floating the idea that the US should take over Gaza, ethnically cleanse 2.3 million Palestinian residents and rebuild it into a “Middle East Riviera,” as…
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Dr. Julius Garvey (son of Marcus Garvey) interviewed by WPKN's ICON
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40:00ICON interviews Dr Julius Garvey, the son of Marcus Garvey, the first national hero of Jamaica. President Joe Biden on Sunday January 19, 2025 posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders, and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and…
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