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Sam Pelts, artist, activist, Special Project Manager for the CODEX Foundation and one of the founding organizers of the remarkable, expansive EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, an exhibition that took place throughout 2021 to raise the alarm about the global poisoning and destruction unleashed by the extractive industries. (WPKN November 10, 2021)
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Guneeta Singh Bhalla tells us why she left her career as a young physicist to tell other people’s oral histories of Partition, nearly 10,000 of which are archived in The 1947 Partition Archive which she founded in 2010. Broadcast on WPKN radio Oct. 13, 2021)
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Yaron Matras, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, speaks from the UK via Skype, about his book The Romani Gypsies. The interview includes a modern version of Gelem Gelem, often used as the anthem of the Romani people. It was composed by Zarko Jovanovic who personally experienced incarceration by the Nazis in WWII. (The shorter version of the […]
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Do you know where your passport is? Listen and you’ll hear my personal reflections along with what my son, grandson and two friends have told me about their feelings about their passports. Could my neurotic feelings be a legacy from my refugee parents?(First broadcast March 14, 2012) Blog post here.
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Dr. William Grevatt, Los Angeles-based educator and Jungian analyst and President of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, talks about his new book The Alchemy of Tyrann: A Jungian Perspective, in which he explains why, 75 years after the end of Hitler, what he calls “the dark shift to the right”, the pendulum swinging […]
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Why do the words socialism and democratic socialism get Americans so riled up these days?? What’s so fearful about “From each according to ability; to each according to need”? As I searched for answers to these questions, I was fortunate to come across an article by philosophy professor Luc Bovens in which he traces the […]
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Well-known botanist and conservationist Tom Rawinski talks about moving from his work in the field educating northeast region towns how to manage the connections between their forests, their deer and their hunters to becoming a Fellow in the coveted Harvard Forest Bullard Fellowship Program where he’ll be writing a book to explore the deer abundance issue […]
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Isabella Tree talks about her latest book Wilding, a new kind of creation story. From the Knepp estate in Britain’s West Sussex, Ms. Tree tells how she and her husband Charlie Burrell, defeated by its deep clay soil to intensively farm their 3,500 acres of ancient, inherited land, literally turned it over with the help of […]
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Issy and Maggie, two 8th grade girls from Long Island, New York talk about how the first months of living through a pandemic have altered the ways they see themselves, their friends and social media — and what “going back to school” means these days. (Broadcast on WPKN radio Aug.12, 2020 and produced by Tony Ernst.)
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Jungian analyst and scholar Dr. George Elder talks about the psychology of apocalypse and pandemic as seen through the lens the theories of Carl G. Jung. He tells us how Jungian thought can help us understand the massive forces shaping our world today. Among the sources Dr. Elder mentions in this interview are: Archetype […]
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
