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Date Title & Description Contributors
2020-10-27

  152 — Winona LaDuke—First Born Daughter

For Winona LaDuke the best part of running for Vice President in 1996 and 2000 on the Green Party ticket with Ralph Nadar was meeting so many people who really want to see a democracy that works—who really want to vote for someone they believe in. At r...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-10-13

  151 - Pearl Jam: It's a Rock Band, Not The Smithsonian

Sometimes we find the story, sometimes the story finds us. Such is the case with this tale of two Keepers from the Pacific Northwest, the official/unofficial archivists for Pearl Jam. Caroline Losneck, a radio producer in Maine heard our Keepers series...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-09-22

  150 — Floating City - The Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans

We go to New Orleans for a kind of biblical reckoning. A story of science and prayer, with a cast of improbable partners—environmental architects and nuns—coming together to create a vision forward for living with water in New Orleans. Mirabeau Water G...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-09-08

  149 - The Sonic Memorial—Remembering 9/11 with host Paul Auster

The Peabody Award winning Sonic Memorial Project, an intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood, through audio artifacts, rare recordings, voicemail messages and inter...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-08-25

  148 - The International Congress of Youth Voices

Picture this: 131 young people, 13 to 26 years old, from 37 countries—youth activists from around the globe— students, writers, poets, marchers, community leaders all gathered together in San Juan, Puerto Rico in August 2019, the week after the scandal...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-08-11

  147 - Kamal Mouzawak—A Lebanese Kitchen Vision

On Tuesday August 4th, a massive explosion devastated Beirut, shattering the port and the heart of the city. Over 150 people have lost their lives, some 5000 people have been injured, hundreds of thousands have lost their homes — all while the people o...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-07-28

  146 — French Manicure—Tales from Vietnamese Nail Shops in America

In honor of the many people who work in nail salons across the country who are struggling to keep their businesses from going under during these long closures, The Kitchen Sisters Present French Manicure —Tales from Vietnamese Nail Shops in America, a ...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-07-14

  145 - Louis Jones, Field Archivist, Detroit

Louis Jones, Field Archivist, is a Keeper. For 27 years he has worked building and caring for the largest labor archive in North America—the Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit. Home to numerous union and labor collections from around ...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-06-19

  144 - 95,000 Names—Gert McMullin, Sewing the Frontline

In 1985, Gert McMullin was one of the first San Franciscans to put a stitch on the AIDS Quilt, the quilt that began with one memorial square in honor of a man who had died of AIDS, and that now holds some 95,000 names. Gert never planned it this way, b...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author
2020-06-09

  143 - The McDonogh Three—First Day of School

November 14, 1960, New Orleans. Three six-year-old girls, flanked by Federal Marshals, walked through screaming crowds and policemen on horseback as they approached their new school for the first time—McDonogh No. 19. Leona Tate thought it must be Mard...
  The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia author