When are you too old to grow up?
Matthew Kordonowy, 04:27
A vox pop that addresses the idea that growing up is a limited time offer
I asked residents of Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" It seems that at a certain age, growing up seems like a thing of the past - something only for youngens and awkward teenagers. I was inspired by a Tom Waits song called "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" from the album Bone Machine. I encourage a listen: the raspy ol' maverick Waits sings about the looming troubles of the world through the eyes of a child (!)
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Kyle Boelte, 00:00
Sudanese refugee stories from Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Across Four Continents tells the story of the Sudanese refugee diaspora on four continents through individual lives. Multiple conflicts in Sudan over the past five decades have forced individuals and families to flee their homes in search of safety and security. Many of these displaced people then register with the United Nations to become official refugees. Significant populations of Sudanese refugees live on four far-flung continents: Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America. Sudanese refugees are in various states of transition. Refugee camps in neighboring Chad hold 250,000 displaced people and are overflowing with new arrivals; more than 30,000 Sudanese refugees live in Cairo, Egypt awaiting emigration to Western countries; and thousands are building new lives in cities like London, Melbourne, and Portland, Maine. We will spend time in countries large and small, in cities with both established and budding Sudanese communities, and in developed and lesser-developed countries. While Sudanese refugees the world over share many common experiences, each place holds a different set of obstacles, offers different opportunities, and has different stories to tell. By focusing on four continents, we will show the global reach of the Sudanese conflict and capture varying stages of transition, while also illustrating the immense variety of refugee life.
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Soundprint, 59:00
Soundprint_08-40 uploaded Friday, October 3, 2008: Triads and Film/Tuning In to the Enemy
This program is offered to current SOUNDPRINT MEMBER stations as a free alternative to our weekly (full 59 minute) Soundprint feed. If you are interested in broadcasting this Newshole-Friendly version of Soundprint, but are not a Soundprint Member Station, please contact us (BEFORE DOWNLOADING) about a trial period or other options at (301)317-0110. Thanks for reading carefully!! **** PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS **** Triads and Film Enter the Hong Kong Triad "Underworld", where actors, directors, and police describe the Triad control of the film industry in the 1990s when a whole series of murders, beatings and dodgy dealings went down. That's when the Triad techniques of persuasion allegedly came into play - extortion, blackmail, beatings, rape - to get actors and stunt men to appear in their flicks. Eventually the actors had enough and campaigned against the violence. In ?Triads and Film?, Producer Sarah Passmore of Radio Television Hong Kong looks at the current situation in the Hong Kong film industry to see the extent to which it may have broken free of these groups, and how much Triads are still involved in the entertainment industry. This program airs as part of our special international collaboration, Global Perspectives: The World of Crime. Tuning into the Enemy Between the mid seventies and the early nineteen nighties, Paul Erasmus was a secret police official in South Africa. His unit was responsible for what he calls dirty tricks, which included arson, sabotage, theft, discrediting people, illegal phone tapping, and firebombing. Then, before apartheid ended, he went in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to confess to 500 offenses and 80 serious crimes and was granted partial amnesty in 2000. Paul Erasmus attributes his return of conscience, in part, to the realisation that he had destroyed the career of a musician whose work, talent and passion he grew to admire and love. Over time, a strange kind of respect and even friendship has developed between Roger Lucey, a political singer, and his former tormentor. Their new relationship is one example of the reconciliation that was part of the political achievement of post apartheid South Africa.
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National Radio Project, 29:00
This November, parental notification (Prop 4) will be on the ballot in California. Prop 4 requires parents to be notified if a minor seeks an abortion. Does this law really protect our youth? If passed, will it affect how young women access reproductive health care?
This November, parental notification (Prop 4) will be on the ballot in California. Prop 4 requires parents to be notified if a minor seeks an abortion. Does this law really protect our youth? If passed, will it affect how young women access reproductive health care? On this edition of Making Contact, we hear from a group of young women in California organizing against Prop 4. They say the measure threatens the health, safety and rights of young women, especially communities of color and immigrant communities. Also, we hear from a proponent of Prop 4 who explains why many others support this law. Lastly, we visit the state of Texas where both parental notification and consent laws have transformed the ways young women handle unexpected pregnancies. This program was partially funded by the Mary Wolford Foundation. Featuring: Heidi, Meuy, Marn, Tiffany, Maly, Susan, Celia, Mimi, Mae, Quy, Sandra, SAFIRE youth members; Amanda Wake, SAFIRE coordinator; Dana Ginn Paredes, ACRJ organizing director; Dr. Paula Hillard, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health member, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Gynecologic Specialties director; Dolores Meehan, Friends of Sarah and the Yes on Proposition 4 Campaign; Rita Lucido, Jane's Due Process attorney; Brandi Bedford, Whole Woman's Health of Austin executive director; Terry Sallas Merritt, Whole Woman's Health corporate executive director; Tina Hester, Jane's Due Process hotline coordinator; Program #41-08 - Begin date: 10/08/08. End date: 4/08/09. Please call us if you carry us - 510-251-1332 and we will list your station on our website. If you excerpt, please credit early and often.
]]>DIY Green Building
KQED, 04:59
On the frontiers of green building
Forget solar panels - how about having your own wind turbine? Your own solar thermal power generator? Your own geothermal well? San Francisco homeowners are some of the first to experiment with these DIY home-energy technologies, and they are getting some help from the city to do it.
]]>Natural Maryland-Episode 1 Nature's Bounty
WYPR, 56:20
International convergence of Red Knot, Horseshoe Crab and man on the Delaware Bay shore.
A remarkable convergence takes place on the Delaware Bay shore each year, a strange intersection of crab, bird and man. Thousands of horseshoe crabs swim up from the dark depths of the ocean to line the beaches and spawn under the light of a full moon at high tide. For one hour, the sand all but disappears as the crabs pile on top of one another making a blanket of horseshoe crabs as far as the eye can see. The spawning on the Delaware Bay shore is the largest in the world. Meanwhile, shorebirds fly from the southernmost tip of South America to the high arctic. They barely stop on their 10,000 mile migration, but make one exception: the dank shores of the Bay where they feed like made on horseshoe crab eggs to fuel their trip. But in the last 20 years, this intricate ecosystem has become threatened and now ornithologists and lay volunteers fly in from around the globe to study, obsessively, the spectacle. The story here is as much about the characters who take weeks out of their lives to come to Delaware each year, as it is about the crabs and birds.
]]>Growing Up in The System
Radio Rookies, 11:42
WNYC Radio Rookie, Shirley Diaz's life has been shaped by the tragedy of her mother's murder and having been raised in several foster homes. To avoid being consumed by loss, Shirley tries to make sense of it all.
Radio Rookie Shirley Diaz's life has been shaped by the tragedy of her mother's murder and the difficulty of growing up in six different foster homes, separated from her six younger siblings. To avoid being consumed by loss, Shirley tries to make sense of these events and find refuge in home and family as she finds them. HOST INTRO: Radio Rookie Shirley Diaz is on the brink of aging out of the foster care system when she turns 21. Many young people face huge challenges when they leave the system. And a disproportionate number of New York City's 17,000 kids in foster care struggle with homelessness at some point in their lives. Braced for adulthood, Shirley whose nickname is Star looks to herself for support.
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Radio Rookies, 09:58
At 15 emancipation has brought both freedom and hardship for Radio Rookie Jordan Teklay. Now 17, he's trying to understand what it means to be an adult.
At 15, Jordan Teklay became legally emancipated from his parents and moved on his own from California to New York City. Since then, he has been learning to juggle the responsibilities of work, school and taking care of himself. Emancipation has brought both freedom and hardship. Struggling to negotiate his path in the world, Jordan is trying to understand what it means to be an adult. HOST INTRO: Teenagers are famous for getting into conflicts with their parents over independence. Occasionally, that tension even leads to a separation of some kind--such as moving in with a relative or going into foster care. But Radio Rookie Jordan Teklay didn't want to be a part of anybody else's family. When the situation with his mom became unbearable, he sought his freedom through the courts.
]]>Nuevo South
Center for Documentary Studies, 30:12
An un-narrated portrait of a Southern town in transition
It's sinking in among Americans that the nation's largest wave of immigration did not happen a century ago. It's happening now. About 35-million of us were born in other countries. That's one in eight residents of the United States. Immigrants come from all over the globe, but Latino immigration is remaking the country. And not just on the coasts and in the Southwest. Siler City, North Carolina used to be the kind of town where almost everyone, black and white, had roots going back a century or two. Characters on the Andy Griffith Show mentioned Siler City, and the actor who played Aunt Bee retired there because it reminded her of Mayberry. It was just about the last place a Spanish-speaking immigrant was likely to land. That started to change in the 1990's. Today, thanks to chicken processing jobs that no one else wants, Siler City is about half Latino. It's not unusual; North Carolina and other southeastern states have some of the fastest-growing Latino populations in the country. Many longtime residents of Siler City say they're not especially troubled by the fact that many Latino workers are undocumented. What does make some uneasy is the way this new population is transforming the racial and cultural flavor of their town. John Biewen and Tennessee Watson of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University produced this portrait of a town in transition...in the Nuevo South.
]]>Tapestry of the Times - episode #5
Tapestry of the Times, 59:00
a radio show from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and WYPR...
In this episode of Tapestry of the Times, songs from New Orleans street singer Snooks Eaglin, Calypso from Trinidad's Mighty Sparrow, the sounds of Brazilian capoeiristas, music from mountains of Puerto Rico, and lush layers of melody from Zimbabwe. Plus: a showcase of female vocal talents Berzilla Wallin, Peggy Seeger, gospel traditionalist Mary Pinckney, and Alaskan Yupi'k singer Mary Stachelrodt. Real music, real people, and the stories behind the sounds... (Like all Tapestry of the Times material, this program can be licensed for free.)
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