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Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN, March 2. 2026 (WPKN, March 2, 2026)
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Executive Director Tijuana Fulford talks about the nonprofit Butterfly Effect Project that she founded in 2014 to empower young girls on the East End of Long Island and beyond to become a generation of strong, independent and successful women. (Broadcast on WPKN February 26, 2026)
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Born in Jerusalem, Robert Massoud, is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, entrepreneur, who came to Canada as a child. In 2004, he founded Zatoun, a grassroots organization to support Palestinian farmers in the West Bank by promoting and selling their olive oil in North America for fair trade prices. Speaking to us from Toronto, Robert explains […]
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Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his new book Burned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet. Chuck also shows us how we can reduce the impact of this wealth concentration on our lives.(WPKN December 1, 2025)
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Peggy Lauber, president of North Fork Audubon Society, talks about the many ways this flourishing local organization serves and protects not only the environment and ecosystem but also what it offers visitors and those who live and work on the North Fork. (WPKN, October 1, 2025)
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John Christian Phifer is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, September 10, 2025 )
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Jeff Halper, Jewish Israeli author, activist, advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaks to us from Jerusalem where he has lived since 1973. Jeff is co-founder and Director of ICAHD, established in 1997, a nonprofit advocacy organization of Israelis who work to end Israeli apartheid and a member of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) […]
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Minerva Perez, Executive Director of OLA of eastern Long Island, talks about building this Latino-focused nonprofit advocacy, aligning its activities with the East End’s governance structure and now implementing a rapid response plan to train volunteers to witness, document and accompany individuals and families during moments of crisis. (WPKN, August 6, 2025)
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Amy Folk, Southold Town historian, talks about the North Fork Project and its goal of naming all the town’s enslaved people, describing the process of finding the enslaved as well as their enslavers. (Broadcast during WPKN‘s Black History Month, February 1, 2023)
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Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024 and WPKN podcast) More about Nick and boarding […]
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.
