Healthy By Nature is a show dedicated to bringing you the best of modern science and naturopathic medicine. Dr. Firisin answers your questions about common health questions and current trends and unravels current information and beliefs about healthcare. With a call-in show format, Dr. Firisin engages directly with the public to help them make informed choices about their health. The show airs the 4th Saturday of every month from 9 am to 10 am. Dr. Kathryn Firisin is a naturopathic physician and medical director of Coastal Natural Medicine in Southport, CT. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare her practice focuses on gastrointestinal conditions, autoimmune ...

Live Culture is a monthly discussion around contemporary art and cultural events, which later become available as podcasts on Soundcloud, available HERE. Now in it’s the third year, Live Culture has presented a broad range of projects, venues and cultural initiative including conversations with artists, curators, gallerists, composers, writers, and musicians both locally nationally and internationally. The show airs the final Saturday of each month from 11-12 noon. Sign up for monthly announcements about the show HERE, or look for updates on the shows Facebook Page HERE. The logo image "Large and Small Thoughts" is courtesy of Joan Fitzsimmons. Martha Lewis is a visual artist, curator, educator and radio presenter who has ...

Módulo Lunar // The Lunar Module is a monthly program that airs every third Thursday of the month from 4 to 7 pm hosted by Luis Luna, producer and community organizer. This show is a platform for diverse Latinx music from across the American Continent including the U.S. These sounds drape the acoustic stage to discuss and elevate social justice issues and collective liberation programming. Luis brings activists, organizers and members of the community from across Connecticut and the U.S. to amplify our collective voices. Abolition Transmission is a radio collaboration between incarcerated abolitionists and organizers on the outside. This program is meant to amplify the voices and experiences ...

Each week, host Scott Harris conducts interviews on a wide range of political, economic and social topics with individuals and representatives of organizations not ordinarily accessible in the mainstream media. Counterpoint is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, Connecticut, at 8:00 PM, ET. You can listen live online at that time at WPKN. Some of the interview segments featured on Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio news magazine. Visit Between The Lines‘ website for free downloadable (or streaming) MP3 audio and subscriptions to podcasts, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of past Counterpoint programs presented by segment can be accessed at Counterpoint Radio. The full program is accessible ...

Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Because Between The Lines is independent of all publications, media networks or political parties, we are able to bring a diversity of voices to the airwaves. This award-winning program provides a platform for individuals and organizations generally ignored or marginalized in corporate media. Each week, Between The Lines features: ▪   A five-minute summary of some of the week’s under-reported news stories gathered from the alternative press and other sources. ▪   Three in-depth interview segments focusing on significant international, national and regional issues. Our production staff includes journalists and community activists who have ...

Mic Check, Sunday, 5:30 PM — WPKN’s ½-hour weekly public affairs and community discussion program. Our diverse roster of hosts presents a wide range of topics for discussion: focusing on global, national, and regional issues and their effect on the local Connecticut community. Just as the phrase “Mic Check” was used to mobilize people to create a human microphone during the Occupy Movement, this weekly program will amplify our local community’s many concerns and voices and bring them to the air-waves. Join the conversation on-air at 203-336-9756. WPKN has been an essential part of my life for more than thirty years. I feel lucky to have moved ...

In the early 2000's I began doing my radio program, which I call Organic Radio. The name holds a dual meaning for me… I view WPKN to be a living organism and not a formulaic or algorithm-driven venture, like commercial radio or paid streaming services. It's a collective tapestry woven together by the many programmers who cultivate the musical fibers into something artistic and imbued with meaning and a greater significance – so Organic as in living matter. And also Organic, like the practice of farming without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial means. We are small, not factory scale, and like the soil, we aim ...

Sustainable Long Island with Francesca Rheannon and Tony Ernst is a monthly series about issues of land use, water and energy resources, transportation and the food industries on the twin forks of Long Island. The program is heard on the 2nd Saturday at 9 am and on the 3rd Wednesday each month at 7:30 pm. Visit the program archives. Francesca Rheannon is an award-winning media professional who thinks a better world is possible. She is host and producer of Writers Voice, a weekly radio show & podcast featuring in-depth conversations with writers of all genres, airing on stations nationally since 2004. Francesca also co-produces Sustainable East ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon features in-depth conversations with writers of all genres. The program features interviews and readings, as well as reviews with authors such as Louise Erdrich, James Risen, Ursula K. LeGuin, Russell Banks, poet Richard Wilbur, and many more notable writers. Writer’s Voice is produced and hosted by Francesca Rheannon and has been on the air since 2004, with more than 500 shows produced, airing on stations across the United States. Francesca Rheannon is an award-winning media professional who thinks a better world is possible. She is host and producer of Writer’s Voice, a weekly radio show & podcast featuring in-depth conversations with ...

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Learn More

Home Page with Duo Dickinson – Whether it is in our homes or on our streets, humans experience what we make. Today we are all compelled to listen to our health in a time of threatened well-being – but what impacts us every day, impacting how we feel in the world we make for ourselves? Duo Dickinson has built over 800 things, written 8 books, write now about architecture, homes, families and the human condition for 5 publications. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

State of the Arts with Richard Pheneger & Peggy Nelson takes a look at the arts: in fact, it’s the “State of the Arts” on WPKN. Peggy Nelson is a marketing and advertising professional and is Co-Host of State of the Arts at WPKN Independent Community Radio and Account manager at AT&T. She studied Theatre at the University of Findlay. Learn More Richard Pheneger is an independent entertainment professional specializing in theater, comedy and voice over. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

Join us on November 3 from 8 PM to 11 PM for WPKN’s Alternative Election Coverage hosted by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and the Public Affairs team. While the main-stream media counts and prognosticates, we’ll be having in-depth discussions on a full range of issues from racism, labor, voter suppression, health care policy, and post-election movement building with a roster of guests from around the country including Ralph Nader, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg, labor economist Michael Zweig, economist Dr. Jack Rasmus and many more. We’ll also hear reports about turn-out, lines or problems at polling sites around Westchester County, on Long Island and in southern Connecticut. ...

What’s Your Point with host Garnett Ankle. You come for the music and stay for the talk. On “What’s Your Point?,” Garnett Ankle interviews guests live in the studios, or on the telephone. The subjects vary from politics to music. He also gives listeners the opportunity to call-in and voice their opinions on issues of the day. It may be something you disagree with, or something else. You are entitled to your opinion and have a right to air it even though I may disagree with your point of view. A discussion of our differences is always preferable to physical conflict. In the end, we may have to agree ...

First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse. Today many Indigenous peoples are still excluded from society and often even deprived of their rights as autonomous Nations and recognition of approximately 397 valid Turtle Island Nation(s) to Nation-U.S. treaties. Nevertheless, they are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories and to address their issues as original Nations of Turtle Island; and to redress the returning of lands, territories, and resources of their Nations. Their continued existence as peoples is closely connected to their free will to influence their own fate and to live in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems. Indigenous ...

CounterSpin with Janine Jackson is FAIR’s weekly radio show, produced and hosted by Janine Jackson. It’s heard on more than 135 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada. CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what corporate media might have missed in their own coverage. CounterSpin highlights censored stories and exposes biased and inaccurate coverage, while examining the power of corporate influence and sexism, racism and homophobia in the news. Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and the host and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin—a weekly program of media criticism ...

Spotlight on Arts & Culture airs on the 2nd Monday of the month, from 12 Noon to 1 PM, with host, David Green. Collaborative, future-oriented strategist and communicator dedicated to enabling organizations fully achieve their desired impact. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

¡Barricada! is hosted by John Jairo Lugo. Somos un equipo de trabajo, multietnico, organizadores comunitarios, que buscamos a travez de Barricada, llegar a la comunidad latina con un mensaje alternativo. Nuestra meta es crear una red transnacional  de noticias para llevar semanalmente a nuestra audiencia lo mas reciente de los sucesos por los que atraviezan nuestros pueblos. Esos que estan al sur, al otro lado de la frontera. “We are a team of multiethnic, community organizers. We seek through “¡Barricada!“, to reach the Latino community with an alternative message. Our goal is to create a transnational news network which, weekly, presents to our audience recent events affecting our peoples. Those who are ...

The Resistance Roundtable with host Richard Hill and panelists Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner, & Guest/s. Following the 2017 Presidential Election, The Resistance Round Table, in the Armageddon Report, looks at issues raised by Donald Trump’s Presidency. Particularly on issues of concern to the WPKN Community— issues that receive little, or no, mainstream media coverage. My life is divided between directing the band, doing radio at WPKN, teaching music and dance (Swing and Salsa), and teaching and hosting youth radio programming. Learn More Scott has worked in radio since his college days when he served as a DJ and then manager of a small college radio station in Western Massachusetts. ...