Pacifica's 60th Anniversary

This April, Pacifica turns 60 years old. Pacifica owns five stations and with its affiliates is a network of a hundred and fifty independent stations. This week on Sprouts we bring you history, people and ideas broadcast on Pacifica airwaves.

Sound montage by Peter Bochan, WBAI Pacifica New York: First 50 Years.

Sound montage by Christine Black & Ursula Ruedenberg, Pacifica Radio: Last Decade.

29:00 min. (Ursula narrates)

NESEA LEED Debate

NESEA building conference story on WBAI

This is my first story for WBAI-FM in NYC. It's about the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association conference I attended in Boston March 10-12, 2009. The clip contains the whole newscast and my story is last one. there are more stories from the conference and other news around New York to come. Enjoy.

Freedom Summer to Inauguration

This show highlights some of the people and events that lead from voter registration drives in the 1960's to the historic inauguration of Barack Obama. Interviews with reporter Jerry Mitchell, organizer and professor Marshall Ganz, Nov 2008 voters, and excerpts from the Pacifica Archives.

Randi Zimmerman produced this program. I contributed interviews with Marshall Ganz and Jerry Mitchell.

29:00 min.

Harlem Debates Life with Obama

On December 14, 2008 over 1,200 people gathered in Harlem, New York City, to take stock on the eve of the presidential inauguration and ask the the question: will the Obama presidency be good for African Americans?

Hear a spirited debate about an Obama future and what it could mean for the Black Liberation Movement.

Speakers include Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Marimba Ani, Sister Viola Plummer, Dr. James Turner, and Dr. Adelaide Sanford.

Sound recorded and edited by Fred Nguyen, WBAI-Pacifica, NYC

Editorial assistance for text from Yusuf Nuruddin, NYC

29:28 Min.

2008 Election Voices

This program was produced with Randi Zimmerman and Ursula Ruedenberg.

Voices gathered before and after the Election of Obama talk about the hopes, expectations and jubilation of this historic vote. Stories of going to the poles to honor the sacrifices their ancestors had made for the privilege. The innocence of children's expressions at the prospect of someone different in the White House. For others fresh tears and shouts for the moment they dare not imagine. From Germany to Brooklyn, down to Philadelphia and Mississippi and west to Utah; this spellbinding election touched us even as we were pulling the lever. Enjoy the memories.

29:00 Min.

New Year, New Voices

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Randi Zimmerman and I collaborated on putting this program together. It's a collection of segments from Youth Radio programs around the country.

If I Ruled the World- Manhattan Comprehensive style
The Game of Fugitive- Moab run a muck
If War and Peace could be this cute...
Youth Radio Rocks!
Teens on MySpace: You are Warned
Why They Stay Awake

29:00 Min.