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WPKN is a nonprofit, freeform, community radio station (arts organization) that is more than 50 years old. The vision of WPKN is to build community, a loyal and growing audience, and an engaged and educated citizenry by providing the highest quality of free-form programming that broadcasts entertainment, music, news, thoughts, sounds, ideas and event listings that support free speech, diversity, and the interests of the local and global communities WPKN serves. Our radio frequency of 89.5-FM ...
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The WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast features guest interviews hosted on WPKN broadcasts with our renowned DJs. Musicians, artists, producers, writers, movers and shakers - dig deeper into their philosophy and ethos. Founded in 1963, WPKN is a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of ...
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WPKN’s daily local newscast covers Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut, and Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, airing weekdays at 6:35pm EST, and available in this podcast subscription format. The expanded WPKN newscast will focus on state legislative sessions and local politics, immigration rights, climate and environmental concerns, economic inequality, poverty, and cost of living issues, and reproductive rights. Broadcasts will include diverse voices from the ...
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Often live, unique, remote, out-in-the-wild WPKN broadcasts. WPKN, cited as “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker, founded in 1963 as a 100-watt campus outlet, WPKN is today a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunte ...
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Groups Demand Democrats Convene Emergency Meeting to Counter Trump’s Authoritarian Coup
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21:03Interview with Sam Rosenthal, political director of RootsAction.org, conducted by Scott Harris. Sam Rosenthal discusses his group and Progressive Democrats for America’s petition calling for the Democratic National Committee to convene an emergency meeting, declaring that “business as usual must give way to truly bold action that mobilizes against …
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Gang of Four's Jon King interviewed by WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio)
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50:25Gang of Four's Jon King talks with WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio) ahead of the band's farewell tour opening date at Verso Studios/Westport Library, Friday, April 18th. Jon King has also a new memoir To Hell with Poverty! A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four. King will be in discussion with WPKN DJ Chris Frantz (The Talking Head) …
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Assessing Corporate Media’s Coverage of Trump 2.0
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25:34Interview with Ari Paul, a New York City-based journalist and lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, conducted by Scott Harris. Ari Paul discusses his recent article, “Failing to Rise to the Constitutional Crisis,” about the deficiencies of corporate media’s coverage of the Trump regime’s authoritarian coup, a…
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Organizing Effective Resistance to Trump’s War on Democracy
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17:53Interview with Svante Myrick, president, People for the American Way, conducted by Scott Harris. Svante Myrick discusses the escalating constitutional as the Trump regime defies or ignores court orders — and the growing concern that the president may invoke emergency powers, such as the Insurrection Act of 1807, to eliminate all remaining checks on…
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Democracy Defenders Work to Undermine Trump’s Future Invocation of Insurrection Act
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26:33Interview with Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor, an organizer with the Climate Disobedience Center, conducted by Scott Harris. Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor discusses her group’s recent “Call to Courage” campaign — amid concern that the Trump regime may be getting ready to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would give the president power to deploy US mi…
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After Trump Tariff Pause, Senators Demand Investigation of His Inner Circle for Insider Trading
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33:02Interview with Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, conducted by Scott Harris. Jeff Hauser discusses growing concern that people in Trump’s inner circle may have known his changing tariff policy, allowing for insider trading — combined with the fact the SEC is dismantling a key tool in collecting trading data, the Consolid…
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How Your Federal Tax Dollars Were Spent in 2024
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11:26Interview with Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris. Lindsay Koshgarian talks about her group’s latest annual analysis, the 2025 Tax Day Receipt, highlighting exactly where Americans’ 2024 income taxes went and what those numbers say about our national…
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Could Federal Workers Emerge as Leaders of a New Broad-Based Trump Opposition Movement?
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18:03Interview with Micah Sifry, a writer, editor, and organizer, conducted by Scott Harris. Micah Sifry is working on a novel and writing a weekly newsletter on democracy, movements, organizing, and tech called The Connector. Micah will discuss his recent New York Times article, “A Different Kind of Anti-Trump Resistance is Brewing,” and issues related…
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Mic Check: CT Students For A Dream Fight For Immigrant Justice And Safety
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26:38Tabitha Sookdeo, executive director of Connecticut Students for a Dream, describes her organization's mission and strategy to secure justice and safety for undocumented young people and families in cities and towns around the state. Interview by Richard HillBởi WPKN
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As Israel's Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Continues, Trump Suppresses Dissent, Free Speech on Campus
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8:20Interview with Fawzia Afzal-Khan, visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies, at Princeton University. Fawzia Afzal-Khan discusses her recent article, “Student and Faculty Repression on US Campuses: the Palestine Exception,” relating to the reported 600 international students who have had their visas revoked by Trump’s State Department, and…
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Force MD's, Kahlil and Stevie Lundy, interviewed by Terrible Tee and Gee's Records
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23:32WPKN is a media partner in the Force MDs and Family Live in Concert Pre Memorial Day Celebration at Foolproof Brewery in Bridgeport, happening Sunday May 18th at 6PM with doors at 4PM. In support of this upcoming event DJ, emcee, and educator Terrible Tee spoke Stevie D and Kahlil Lundy of the Force MD’s along with promoter and record dealer, Gee’s…
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Resistance Roundtable: The Fight to Save the First Amendment with Dr. Isaac Kamola
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50:23Dr. Isaac Kamola, Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom with the AAUP, discusses the Trump regime's juggernaut attacks on free speech at colleges and universities; and the budding collaboration with Labor to create a united front against this assault. And Briam Timko, communications and voluteer coordinator with Unidad Latina e…
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Connecticut Prepares for Trump Federal Education Budget Cuts
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16:33Interview with Mary Yordon, president of the Norwalk, CT Federation of Teachers union and a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers Connecticut, conducted by Scott Harris. Mary Yordon talks about the massive April 5th “Hands Off” protests across the U.S., and the Stamford, CT protest where she spoke in opposition to President Trump an…
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The Largest Day of Protests Yet in Donald Trump’s Second Presidency
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13:08Interviews with Hands Off April 5th protesters in New York City, conducted by Scott Harris. The protests, which were organized in more than 1,400 cities and towns across the US, Canada, and Europe sent a message to Trump, Musk and the GOP: “Hands Off” our healthcare, hands off our civil rights, hands off our schools, our freedoms, and our democracy…
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Proposed Mayday 2028 General Strike Could be Needed Sooner to Stop Trump’s Authoritarianism
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17:36Interview with Fred Glass, a labor historian, retired union communications director, and writer/director of the documentary film, "We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day," conducted by Scott Harris. Fred Glass will discuss his recent article, “Best Guess: How Do We Defeat the Fascists?” and the history of general strikes and United Auto …
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The Disastrous Impact of Trump’s International Tariffs on U.S. Economic Inequality
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27:12Interview with Omar Ocampo, a researcher at the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris. Omar Ocampo discusses his recent article, “‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More,” the repercussions of Donald Trump’s decision to impose massive international tariffs, and th…
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Luis T. Puig (Cuban Refugee) interviewed by WPKN's Lou Pomales (host of La Esquina Latina)
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1:05:58Luis Puig Bio: Born in 1965, and raised in La Habana, Cuba under communism, Mr. Luis Puig spent his first 15 years of life living in Castro’s Cuba. Mr. Puig had to live under the rules of that system, even having to be a communist Pionero (communist youth organization) like all the kids are forced to be there. His father served 12 years imprisonmen…
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Monthly Labor Report: Will Labor Lead an Anti-Fascist Front?
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33:06UE President Carl Rosen and economist and labor historian Michael Zweig discuss the Trump/Musk fascist coup and what role labor will play in forming alliances with the different silos on the Left and in leading an anti-fascist front. Hosted by Richard HillBởi WPKN
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Nels Cline interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino (Organic Radio)
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49:42Guitarist Nels Cline is interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino as they discuss Cline's expansive genre-defying work across multiple projects. Nels Cline's Consentrik Quartet comes to the region Wednesday April 9th, at the Space Ballroom in Hamden, CT.Bởi WPKN
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Trump’s Unconstitutional Executive Order to Change US Voting System Would Disenfranchise Millions
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16:25Interview with Greg Palast, Filmmaker and journalist and the author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, conducted by Scott Harris. Greg Palast discusses his recent article, “Trump-Musk order will cost 21 million their vote,” re: Donald Trump’s March 25th executive order that restructures the way America…
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Trump Targets International Students for Deportation, 1st Step to Repress Free Speech for All
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18:32Interview with Nader Hashemi, director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University, conducted by Scott Harris. Nader Hashemi discusses the campus response to the ICE arrest and attempt to deport Georgetown Univ. researcher and instructor Badar Khan S…
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Trump-Musk Sabotage of Social Security Designed to Hasten Its Privatization
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17:55Interview with Sam Pizzigati, veteran labor journalist, Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, co-editor of IPS' newsletter Inequality.org, and author, conducted by Scott Harris. Sam Pizzigati discusses his recent article, “Could Elon Musk Destroy Social Security as We Know It? — and issues related to the Trump-Musk attempt to sabotage Soci…
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Confronting the Reality of Trump’s Hateful White Supremacist Agenda
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27:10Interview with Tim Wise, one of the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and author of nine books, including his latest, "Dispatches from the Race War," conducted by Scott Harris. Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls “a vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” assesses Trump and Trumpism since his …
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CT Criminal Justice Reform Activists Demand State Release Video of J’Allen Jones’ 2018 Prison Death
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14:47Interview with Barbara Fair, a licensed clinical social worker, social justice activist, organizer, and founding member of Stop Solitary CT, conducted by Scott Harris. Barbara Fair talks about a press conference on Tuesday, March 25 that demanded the release of a video related to the correction officer beating death of J’Allen Jones on the 7th anni…
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