Death Valley: May 23, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

National Park ranger Linda Slater explains how Death Valley has biodiversity, despite being one of the hottest places in the world. Death Valley is a protected U.S. national park located in eastern Ca...

Pipeline Stories of the Midwest: May 09, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Midwestern states continue to be slated for multiple pipelines being built to carry oil to the Gulf of Mexico from North Dakota and Canada. Stories of Iowans who continue to fight the pipeline, includ...

Indigenous People Lead the Fight Against Climate Change: May 02, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

In this edition of Sprouts we'll hear multiple indigenous voices speak about Earth Day and climate change. Judith LeBlanc, a member of the Caddo tribe of Oklahoma and the director of the Native Organi...

Media Literacy: Apr 25, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"YouthSpeaksOut! on Media Literacy": Today's show was hosted by students in a Journalism class at Ukiah High School. They spoke bout how they access media, such as Facebook and Instagram, and what the...

Connecting Gay Elders with Youth: Mar 28, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A generational gap in the LGBTQ community is leaving many young people in the dark when it comes to the history of the LGBTQ rights movement. As young people strive and often struggle to accept themse...

The Tenuous Future of Grassroots Radio: Mar 21, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Under threat from large organizations like National Public Radio, college and community radio stations are losing their place on the airwaves. Today we hear some of their stories and look at what the...

Urban Farming and Self-Determination in Detroit: Mar 14, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Detroit's 7-acre D-Town Farm is one of the largest urban farms in the country and is associated with a "Food Warriors" program for youth age 7-12 and a "What's For Dinner" lecture series. Its founder,...

Women: The Oppressed Majority, Part 3: Feb 14, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Third installment in a three-part audio documentary about how women have been colonized by men and the many ways in which they resist this. This week's installment, "A World without Patriarchy", discu...

Women: The Oppressed Majority, Part 2: Feb 07, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Second installment in a three-part audio documentary about how women have been colonized by men and the many ways in which they resist this. The series describes how for six centuries, Western male el...

America, Divided, Goes to DC: Jan 31, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Over two extraordinary days on the National Mall in Washington, DC we met Trump voters, and anti-Trump protesters, who had come in from far and wide for the inauguration and the Women's March that fol...

Voices from the Women's March: Jan 24, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A collection of voices from women and their supporters who joined the march on Jan. 21 in Washington, DC and other locations. Hosted by Cyma Shapiro and produced by Sprouts.

Women: The Oppressed Majority: Jan 17, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Women: The Oppressed Majority – A History of Male Violence" (Part 1 of 3): Starting six centuries ago, the Western male elite has built a viciously patriarchal world, by making war on women and explo...

Rev. William Barber II: Jan 10, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg of WBAI's Building Bridges interviewed the Reverend William Barber II of North Carolina, who as President of the state's NAACP provided the vision behind a powerful grassro...

Sally Roesch Wagner: Jan 03, 2017: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Survival is Indigenous": In conversation with Barry Vogel ("Radio Curious"), Sally Roesch Wagner discusses how, throughout history, European cultures kept turning to indigenous cultures for hints on...

Penpa Tsering: Dec 27, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Tibet and China – Spirituality Vs. Materialism": John Shuck of KBOO speaks with Penpa Tsering, the new Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet, based in Washington, DC. T...

Bakken in the Heartland: Dec 20, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Iowans reflect on their lives, their towns, and their environments as the Bakken Pipeline is built through their communities by Dakota Access. One citizen of Ames, Iowa, a map maker, makes the first p...

Emmanuel Red Bear, Winona Gasteau, Mark Edwards: Dec 13, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Standing Up Oceti Sakowin Camp": On Dec. 4, 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit to Dakota Access Pipeline to dig under the Missouri River near Cannon Ball, N.D. where thousands of Lakot...

Michael Tubbs, Tama Brisbane: Dec 06, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"From Bankruptcy to Reinvention": Stockton, CA is the poster child of an American town gone wrong. Twice-named by Forbes Magazine as the most miserable city in the U.S, it filed Chapter 9 bankruptcy i...

Matthew Fox: Nov 29, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Host John Shuck speaks with theologian/activist Matthew Fox, author of 30 books who was silenced by the Vatican for his views. In his latest book, "A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality...

Post-Election Shock Wave: Nov 22, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

In the shock wave following Election 2016, "Feminist Current" producer Meghan Murphy speaks with political consultant, women's rights activist, and former Bernie staffer Sarah Slamen of Houston on wha...

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Nov 15, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A conversation with unstoppable and fierce legendary artist, educator and political activist Buffy Sainte-Marie. Almost 50 years after the release of her first album, It's My Way, Buffy continues to p...

Election Eve at the Grassroots: Nov 08, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

We visit with reporters from three Pacifica affiliates about what's happening on the ground in their state, and how it bodes for our democracy. The spotlight falls on referendums in Maine and Colorado...

Disaster Radio: Nov 01, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Jim Ellinger of Austin Airwaves describes the key role low-power radio can play in the wake of a natural disaster, and the many roadblocks created both by the FCC and local authorities. He tells his o...

Nina Simons: Oct 18, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Holistic Endeavor of Shifting Culture": Co-founder and president of Bioneers, Nina Simons, an award-winning social entrepreneur and visionary thinker, talks about far-reaching questions about organiz...

Jay Famiglietti: Oct 11, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Vanishing Water Act": Sitting in a place they call the "mall" in the center of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus in Pasadena, CA, it's shady and relaxing. Scientists confab at tables with umbre...

Angelica Guillen: Oct 04, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"We Do the Work": Angelica Guillen – Farm Worker, Educator, Activist, and Poet – describes her life growing up in a migrant camp. She reads some of her wonderful poetry describing life as a Mexican im...

John Coltrane Birthday Celebration: Sep 27, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The Pacifica Radio Archives celebrates John Coltrane's 90th Birthday on September 23, 2016 with special rare recordings of John Coltrane from 1966 and a 2005 interview with his wife, Alice Coltrane. P...

A New Way of Life: Re-Entry After Prison: Sep 20, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Featuring: Susan Burton, founder and director of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project in Los Angeles, a residential program for women returning home from prisons and jails, offering shelter, safety, lea...

Dakota Access Pipeline: Iowa's struggle: Sep 13, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The stories and videos of the Standing Rock Sioux and others gathered to defend their ground and their water against the Dakota Access Pipeline have finally reached the national stage. But for months,...

Sips, Suds and Smokes: Sep 06, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Sips, Suds and Smokes is a program discussing wine, tea, whiskey, beer, and cigars. This episode features 4 Farmhouse Ales: Wicked Weed "Bombadile", Mystic "Mary of the Gale", Monkish "Brown Habit" an...

Michelangelo Signorile, Part 3: Aug 30, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

This is the third and final part of a series exploring anti-LGBTQ backlash against the US Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in the case of Ogerbefell vs. Hodges. This case struck down all of the remaining s...

Marchand MacDermotRoe: Aug 23, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The origins and tenets of fascism and its manifestation in Italy, Germany and Spain under Mussolini, Hitler and Franco, and conditions that could lead to the re-emergence of fascism in our times. With...

Music of the Climate Movement: Aug 09, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

What is the music or spoken-word art of the climate movement? Peter Blood and Annie Patterson discuss the importance of music to social movements and the relative dearth of music for the Climate Movem...

Michelangelo Signorile: Aug 02, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

In this first part of a 3-part series, we begin to explore the anti-LGBTQ backlash against the US Supreme Court's 2015 case of Ogerbefell vs. Hodges, which struck down all of the remaining state bans...

The Changing Face of Fatherhood in the U.S.: Jul 26, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

In this broadcast, Cyma Shapiro, host of the radio show "For Women Over Forty," who will look at the new face of fatherhood in the U.S. She is joined by two West Coast-based men – author/speechwriter...

Black Rage, Black Grief from the Grassroots: Jul 19, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile last week brought a new wave of shock to the American public, and among black communities, feelings of grief and rage were mingled with a steadfast...

Stories from Tibet: Jul 12, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

"Tibet Connection," a former Sprouts staple, may have ended, but problems for Tibetans continue. This week, some stories the Tibet Connection produced to spread understanding about Tibetans, during th...

Barry Vogel, Rep. Sam Farr, Eleanor Knight: Jul 05, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

These are interesting times, as evidenced by last week's unprecedented political events: in the U.S., the sit-in by Democratic House members to demand action by Republicans on common-sense gun legisla...

From Stonewall to Today: Jun 28, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

In recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, and in the wake of Orlando, stories from two Americans: Donald Gallagher, radical faerie and cultural icon who lives in Jersey Ci...

Power from the People: Jun 21, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Students from the Terrascope class of 2018 go on a trip to California to explore how electricity in California gets produced and sent to the people. Also included in this show are two other pieces pro...

Tribute to Prince in Birth and Death: Jun 07, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

The virtuoso musician Prince was born on June 7, 1958. This Sprouts show celebrates his life in the wake of his April 21 death. Featured is his music together with the thoughts and memories of callers...

Stories of Survival from Chile and Ecuador: May 31, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

In 1960, Valdivia, a city in Chile, experienced the most powerful earthquake in recorded history – 9.5 on the Richter Scale – followed by a devastating tsunami. MIT students traveled to Valdivia to re...

Desert Agriculture in New Mexico: May 24, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

A journey through New Mexican agriculture that offers an engaging and informative look at farmers in a desert landscape, and at how their individual farming styles reflect their personal values. Inclu...

Polar Bears: May 17, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Polar bears feast on the remains of bowhead whales on the edge of the Beaufort Sea while cultural anthropologist Richard Nelson describes their actions, explains their lives, humans' historical relati...

Bisexual and Transgender: May 10, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Elliot is a 16-year-old boy who's transgender and bisexual. He says that he accepted his sexuality a long time ago, but his understanding of his gender is more recent. On this episode, Elliot, a parti...

Remembering Kent State: May 03, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen on the campus of Kent State University opened fire on unarmed students who were protesting the Vietnam War and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Sixty-seven shots were f...

Jill Stein: Apr 26, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Jill Stein is the Green Party's 2016 candidate for president of the United States. She is an organizer, physician, and pioneering environmental health advocate. She has led initiatives promoting healt...

Keith Emerson: Apr 19, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Musician Keith Emerson, of Emerson Lake & Palmer fame, died at his own hand on March 10th, 2016. We present an interview with the legendary keyboardist originally broadcast on "Your Wednesday Morning...

Ireland's Easter Rising: Apr 12, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

We discuss Ireland's Easter Rising of April 1916, which led to the establishment of an independent Irish republic. Hosted and produced by Ken MacDermotRoe for Sprouts.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Apr 05, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm

Near closing time on March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Because the owners had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits, many of the workers coul...