http://communitybridge.blogspot.com Community Bridge is the progressive alternative to talk radio in Manhattan, KS. It's mission is to increase awareness and understanding on current issues at the local, state and national level from a progressive point of view while promoting collaboration and engagement between the Kansas State University community and the broader community of Manhattan. Commercial reproduction of this or any Community Bridge show is strictly prohibited. renner1974@gmail.com (renner1974@gmail.com) en-us Wed, 16 May 2012 21:22:06 GMT Hipcast RSS Feeder 1.25 News & Current Events 60 http://crenner.hipcast.com/albumart/1005.1337203326.jpg http://communitybridge.blogspot.com Christopher Renner Community Bridge is the progressive alternative to talk radio in Manhattan, KS. It's mission is to increase awareness and understanding on current local, state and national issues from a progressive point of view while promoting collaboration and engagement between the Kansas State University community and the broader community of Manhattan. The progressive alternative in Manhattan, KS. no public,affairs,programming,progressive,issues,and,concerns,talk,radio Christopher Renner renner1974@gmail.com c4dcaf44-a9dc-8128-b64c-37ec5d0614b3 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:07:03 GMT 00:16:01 Christopher Renner no The Hidden Hands in Redistricting Special podcast: In the first story of a new series, Propublica reporter Olga Pierce and news application developer Jeff Larson examine how corporations, unions and other special interests are manipulating the redistricting process in their favor by funneling money through purportedly independent redistricting groups. For complete transcript, visit: http://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/podcast-the-hidden-hands-in-redistricting/ http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/9f132272-a556-bcb7-8f27-1320068ade6e.mp3 db0703fd-7e8b-6bee-736f-08d0f41ad17e Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:49:45 GMT 01:35:11 Christopher Renner no Meeting Community Healthcare Needs On August 30, 2011, the Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice sponsored a community forum featuring representatives from local hospital, mental health and dental services who responded to questions from the audience regarding the needs for low cost health care in the Manhattan area and service accessibility. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/020c4ad2-7685-09fe-5d1f-6400ba47f762.mp3 c038dee3-a681-3f75-3fe6-700b9efe6a86 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:28:53 GMT 00:54:04 Christopher Renner no Kansas Equality Rally Speeches On August 6th, Kansas Chapter of the National Organization of Women and the Kansas Equality Coalition held a rally for equality at the state capitol building in Topeka. The rally was in response to attacks on the free speech rights of Kansans by the Brownback administration. You will hear Tom Witt, Kari Ann Rinkner, Pedro Irigonegaray, and Mark Manning as well as the voices of four participants. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/638204f2-d5dd-a915-4de0-27daf607dbad.mp3 96861bb0-9015-2bb7-1da2-7470a6efb40a Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:37:32 GMT 01:00:42 Christopher Renner no Kansas Equality Rally Community Bridge opens this week with Tom Witt, President of the Kansas Equality Coalition, for a discussion of the upcoming equality march and rally at the state Capitol on August 6th.  The rally is being called in response to Sam Brownback's hijacking our state government for his own agenda and his efforts to hijack as well the First Amendment rights of all Kansans who disagree with him by treating opposition groups differently than those who support his imperial governorship. Then we will hear a short clip from the Best of the Left podcast and close out the hour with Lynne Davy from the Riley County Humane Society. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/7657a088-15d3-e861-6705-20851166ff31.mp3 b68ebe79-9521-1520-824f-8cae3fceae8c Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:07:23 GMT 00:58:31 Christopher Renner no The Christian Patriarchy Movement This edition of Community Bridge is unedited. Community bridge opens this week with Kathy Cook, Executive Director of Kansas Families for Education, discussing the upcoming Save Our Schools Rally that will take place at the Capitol building in Topeka on July 30th beginning at 11:00 am.  The rally is part of a national effort to put the public back in public education!  A national rally will take place in Washington DC at the same time. Then Community Bridge welcomes Kathryn Joyce, author of "Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement," published by Beacon Press in 2009, for a discussion of the movement, how it saddles women with a life of submission and near-constant pregnancies, and a look at evangelical Christians new campaign to adopt children from around the world in order to spread its ideology.  http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/697ee155-e44a-8541-24f3-2d2c833d511c.mp3 f701a838-8d26-3270-e02a-96a2065a4e7c Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:24:16 GMT 01:00:35 Christopher Renner no Global Warming - What every person needs to know In the second hour, Charles Rice, distinguished K-State Professor of Soil Microbiology and President, Soil Science Society of America,  joins us for a discussion of what science knows about global climate change - and it isn’t what the corporate media is saying! Contrary to what the US media and the New York Times in particular has been saying, there is not disagreement in the scientific community on this topic. Global warming is happening and it could drastically alter life as we know it. Rice also gives a report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting preparing for the 5th Assessment Report which took place this past week in South Korea.  http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/13d65b3b-105f-60b0-11f6-962d8d5c122e.mp3 b8ff4032-0eb8-244e-116b-58cc3f77b86a Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:33:52 GMT 00:42:06 Christopher Renner no What's Causing the Flooding on Wildcat Creek? Community Bridge opens this week with representatives from the Wildcat Creek Watershed Council to discuss the recent flooring in west Manhattan, the impact development is having on the watershed and what alternatives exist. Joining for the discussion in studio will be Rod Harms, Commissioner Rich Jankovich and Eric Bernard. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/f82a6867-3c9b-af2f-4733-3b21ca8718c3.mp3 2ed4c34d-3f05-be8c-1f5a-6a758e05a00c Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:05:42 GMT 00:54:41 Christopher Renner no Exposing the American Legislative Exchange Council In our second hour, Christopher Renner connects with journalist Beau Hodai for a discussion of the American Legislative Exchange Council.  What Is ALEC? They meet in secret. They write our laws. And they want to silence the American people. On March 15th, University of Wisconsin Professor Bill Cronon posted a study guide on his blog on the history and actions of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). He asked: What is behind the “sudden and impressively well-organized” wave of right-wing legislation targeting workers, students, women, immigrants, and the environment in state legislatures? He found that all roads led to ALEC. ALEC is a conservative think-tank run by right-wing politicians and corporate and financial interests within the banking industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the big oil and gas industries, and others. They are aligned to many right-wing and conservative interests, including the election-manipulating Koch Industries.  ALEC is funded by the Koch brothers to promote an agenda that curbs individual liberties, attacks unions, the social safety net and seeks to insure that corporations pay no taxes, but benefit from all sorts of tax-payer dollars in return.  Much of the legislation passed in the during the 2011 Kansas Legislative session was ALEC inspired, including cuts to public education, the "administrative reforms" Governor Brownback has imposed on the state, and Kris Kobach's Voter ID bill. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/1e9bd6c4-a055-ccf8-a7b2-f428ca581276.mp3 1ab9d529-0883-db19-d4d7-e473499c1a0c Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:40:19 GMT 00:56:33 Christopher Renner no The Flint Hills Discovery Center During our first hour this week we take up the Flint hills Discovery Center with its executive director, Bob Workman. The Flint Hills Discovery Center celebrates the importance of the tallgrass prairie, through a presentation of its geology, biology and cultural history. With 7,000 square feet of dynamic permanent exhibits, visitors will learn the importance of this rare eco-system and its rich biological diversity. Visitors will also learn how the first Native peoples lived here in harmony with nature for 13,000 years, and how Euro-Americans adopted grazing as the principle economy of the Flint Hills that has essentially saved it. Workman discusses the architecture of the building, its green features, and what the Center will offer the people of Manhattan and the state of Kansas. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/08a2fcdf-ba08-4447-b4cf-08128ced32cf.mp3 c580d8a7-9f65-e1a6-85f0-ad0e6864fd1d Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:08:08 GMT 00:57:01 Christopher Renner no The Future of Water in Kansas For our second hour, Chris Cardinal, Legislative Director for the Kansas Sierra Club, joins us for a discussion of water policy for the state of Kansas as well as discussing some strategies people who are concerned about the environment can employ given the actual political reality. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/412a43a5-43f6-82e4-7245-35419c558ac9.mp3 f3e353f8-c7a8-29b9-a9cb-6215269643a8 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:57:41 GMT 00:58:25 Christopher Renner no Discovering Queer American History Community Bridge celebrates the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots this week with Michael Bronski, Senior Lecturer, Women's and Gender Studies Program at Dartmouth College for a discussion of the his newly released book "A Queer History of the United States." http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/1da6d835-d6a4-54a1-e2ff-9061a733549b.mp3 53e95f4c-b6c8-459c-947e-304538cd94de Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:28:02 GMT 00:57:50 Christopher Renner no What is the People's Budge? For the second hour Stephanie Mott, Executive Director of the Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project (K-STEP), joins host Christopher Renner for a discussion of transgenderism and to show support for transgender Kansans and their families. Mott kicks off a state-wide tour at 7:30 am Friday morning at the Bluestem Bistro to raise awareness of K-STEP and transgenderism in the state. Community Bridge closes out with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Peter Hart for a discussion of the People's Budget. This week Sen. Bernie Sanders challenged President Obama - and over 50,000 people co-signed his letter to the President - to stand with the poor of our nation and demand that the Republicans raise taxes on the wealthy. People's Budget was put forward by the co-chairs of the 80-member Congressional Progressive Caucus. Their plan is humane, responsible, and most of all sensible, reflecting the true values of the American people and the real needs of the floundering economy. Unlike Paul Ryan's almost absurdly vicious attack on the poor and working class, the People's Budget would close the deficit by raising taxes on the rich, taming health care costs (including a public option), and ending the military spending on wars and wasteful weapons systems. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/4be4c3a8-b262-036b-abd2-fe17331b11a0.mp3 4bfc42ba-cd37-bb25-87bb-7b614168c7fd Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:03:49 GMT 00:59:59 Christopher Renner no Little Apple Jazz Festival 2011 Community Bridge opens this week with Beth Bailey and Ben Hopper, Union Programming Council, along with musician CJ Manning for a preview of this year’s Little Apple Jazz Festival.  At about half past the hour, Ashley Long, Lindsay and James Thompson of the Riley County Humane Society join us in studio to discuss the work of the organization and how people can support it.   http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/25f0824b-e425-b06a-cf8e-b3a3838df592.mp3 d3d15b08-ca8b-d1f5-7dfc-19d37bf914eb Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:00:53 GMT 00:55:52 Christopher Renner no Collusion between KDHE and Sunflower Energy In our second hour, we are first joined by Stephanie Cole, Kansas Sierra Club, and Scott Allegrucci, Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, to discuss the collusion that was revealed in KDHE e-mails between the department and Sunflower Energy over the proposed Holcomb plant permit process.  Then at half past the hour, Elaine Mohr and Darrel Parks from the Manhattan Farmers Market join us to talk about what's new at the market this summer. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/26ec610c-b411-7a20-079b-895e0d3966df.mp3 61d6d3b5-ea8a-66ab-6b71-60d43fdb2678 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:54:25 GMT 00:59:27 Christopher Renner no World Social Forum 2011 Community Bridge opens this week with Jim Hamilton and Gwethalyn Williams for a discussion of this weekend’s youth experimental theatre project at the Manhattan Arts Center. Then Mallory Knodle joins host Christopher Renner for a discussion of the World Social Forum that took place in February in Dakar, Senegal. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/e975df63-5d47-6a2a-0c20-21b65cca79bf.mp3 61c7689a-90ac-7181-78da-a35a6bb7b2cd Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:03:49 GMT 00:56:39 Christopher Renner no June 16 - Obama and the Gays In our second hour we first hear about what programs are available for young and old alike at the Manhattan Arts Center this summer with Amanda Hedrick. Then we hear from singer-songwriter Jeremiah Clark about his music. Clark will be in concert in Manhattan on June 25th. Due to work conflicts, our discussion of the Koch brothers with Mark Ames and Mike Elk has had to be rescheduled. Instead we will hear from Progressive Radio as Matthew Rothschild interviews editor and author Tracy Baim about her book “Obama and the Gays: a Political Marriage.” http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/5ea74fb3-ef05-a2cb-a8ef-e730f494ba74.mp3 9dca23a2-3514-e8d3-a61d-15dc8b152de3 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:55:51 GMT 00:59:53 Christopher Renner no Mark Potok on the rise of right-wing extremists Community Bridge opens this week with Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center, in a discussion of the Center's annual report "The Year in Hate."  Potok discusses the rise of right-wing extremists and how they are infiltrating organizations such as the Tea Party to make racism mainstream once again.  We close out the hour with Monique King, Yasche Glass, and Jonathan Anderson, from the Juneteenth Planning Committee discuss this year's Juneteenth Celebration. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/8bac31d0-af19-279a-b7d3-4185ffb20ae7.mp3 545f765c-1df2-b1af-78b0-27d581d85ae7 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:07:10 GMT 00:49:36 Christopher Renner no The Impact of Budget Cuts on Kansas Schools In our second we open with a short chat with Lisa Engelken about her upcoming concert at Jardine's in Kansas City, then we take a look a the impact of Brownback’s budget cuts on Kansas public education. Several days after taking office, the extremist Brownback proposed the largest cut to our public schools in Kansas history. The final budget left many state agencies decimated and more than $72 million in the state’s savings account, something the fanatic Brownback called the budget “a victory for Kansas.” Such cuts are anything but a victory for Kansans! Mark Desetti, KNEA; Tom Krebs, Kansas Association of School Boards; Kathy Cook, Kansas Families for Education; and Usha Reddi, a elementary school teacher for USD 383 discuss the impact of the budget cuts to public education in Kansas. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/ccc99cbb-1a66-c949-f567-c93d9d96c42b.mp3 5349479b-8bf7-257c-a926-4bc4bab52bfc Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:59:33 GMT 00:58:04 Christopher Renner no Coming Up with a Budget for 2012 On this week's Community Bridge, we open with Bernie Hayden, Director of Finance for the City of Manhattan, for a discussion of how the City of Manhattan goes about developing it’s annual budget and a look at the budget for 2012. Then we will hear a short summary of the Global Commission on Drug Policy’s new report that finds the US-led "War on Drugs" campaign is a failure and recommends major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime. To download the report go to: http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/Report http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/9eee56e0-9f8d-db96-de4d-eda49fc6ddf3.mp3 58dc61be-ddc9-1055-bf29-bfdabef820d8 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:29:03 GMT 00:55:52 Christopher Renner no The Future of the Arts in Kansas On May 29th, Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law the $13.8 billion state budget, and as expected he line-item vetoed funding of the Kansas Arts Commission. In February, Brownback had issued an order to eliminate the Arts Commission as a cost-cutting move and replace it with a private, nonprofit foundation. The plan brought widespread opposition with supporters of the commission saying it was needed to lure federal arts dollars and provide important programs in local communities. The Kansas Senate rejected Brownback’s order and both the House and Senate agreed to fund the commission at $689,000 for the year. Even so, Brownback earlier this month issued layoff notices to the commission’s staff of five employees. In his veto message to the Legislature, Brownback said, “In difficult fiscal times such as these, the state must prioritize how to spend its limited resources and focus its attention on providing core services. The arts will continue to thrive in Kansas when funded by private donations, and I intend to personally involve myself in efforts to make this happen.” Sam Brownback has cost the State of Kansas over $1.2 million by vetoing the funding for the Kansas Arts Commission. We take up the question of the future of the arts in Kansas with: Llewellyn Crain, Kansas City Symphony; Jay Nelson, Kansas Arts Commissioner; Henry Schwaller, chairman of the Kansas Arts Commission; Penny Senften, Director, Manhattan Arts Center. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/6a39e21d-a973-d8cf-a537-4aa1aa14b9a0.mp3 a4eb8998-16fa-1589-6b78-33c3cdd50adb Mon, 30 May 2011 01:50:22 GMT 00:58:58 Christopher Renner no An Interview with Robert McChesney This week's edition of Community Bridge opens with Robert McChesney in a discussion of the state of the US media and his new book: “Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It.” McChesney is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, and cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press. McChesney has written or edited seventeen books on media and politics. He has also written more than 150 journal articles and book chapters and another 200 newspaper pieces, magazine articles and book reviews. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages. He has been the subject of more than 70 published profiles and interviews. In 2001 Adbusters Magazine named him one of the “Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism.” Utne Reader in 2008 listed him as one of their "50 visionaries who are changing the world" http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/6d6dec10-fe07-82f5-a482-8bb6d6ca5b5d.mp3 15eba1cf-fc04-87a0-c52a-6dfe60dafc7b Mon, 30 May 2011 01:49:23 GMT 00:55:45 Christopher Renner no Arts in the Park and Flint Hills Pride 2011 In our second hour this week we first hear about the line up for this year’s Arts in the Park Series with Ashley Penner from the City of Manhattan's Park and Recreation Department. Then Kevin Stilley joins us to discuss the activities planned for this year’s Flint Hills Pride event that will be held at Milford Lake on June 11th. Finally we close out with a clip from Truthdig radio featuring Bill Moyers about the state of US media. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/fa881c1e-9805-0bcf-23fb-f863ed55e7dc.mp3 b04e939a-3142-1ef2-b000-90b1be6f632b Mon, 23 May 2011 11:53:20 GMT 00:57:26 Christopher Renner no GOP's War on Women It’s almost an unbelievable figure — 916. That’s the amount of legislation that has been introduced primarily by the GOP so far this year, in an attempt to regulate a woman’s reproductive system.  And Kansas is no different that the national trend.  With tens of millions of Americans unemployed, states facing dire fiscal situations, and more and more people loosing their homes, one has to ask why abortion has become the GOP's number one priority?  A report by The Guttmacher Institute, finds that in addition to these laws, more than 120 other bills have been approved by at least one chamber of the legislature, and some interesting trends are emerging. As a whole, the proposals introduced this year are more hostile to abortion rights than in the past: 56% of the bills introduced so far this year seek to restrict abortion access, compared with 38% last year. Three topics—insurance coverage of abortion, restriction of abortion after a specific point in gestation and ultra sound requirements—are topping the agenda in several states and all three have been approved by the Kansas legislature. A link to this report will be available with the shows podcast on our Community Bridge webpage. Joining us to talk about what has happened in the Kansas legislature is Kari Ann Rinker, State Coordinator of Kansas NOW, and Shanna Kay Crowe. Then, Amanda Marcotte, a blogger RH Reality Check best known for her writing on feminism and politics, joins Community bridge to discuss what is happening at a natioanl level. In 2008, Marcotte published her first book, entitled “It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.” http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/912262d8-5cc2-62c1-b17f-198abf23d9e5.mp3 817b029e-af86-721e-84a2-d94e92abba4c Fri, 20 May 2011 16:57:27 GMT 00:59:34 Christopher Renner no May 19 - American Empire For our second hour we take up the theme of American Empire in a tribute to GRIT TV which ceased operations on May 13th. First we hear GRITtv host, Laura Flanders, interviews Chris Hedges about the death of Bin Laden and the continuing concern over terrorism, the end of empathy in the U.S., and what avenues are left for progressives to fight back.  Then we hear Flanders interviewing retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich about the changes in the administration and the ongoing situation in Libya and Syria, and notes that at a time when the Arab world is undergoing deep changes, it should be a time for modesty in the US and a reconsideration of military power and the use of violence to achieve goals. We close out this hour with a clip form Law and Disorder Radio featuring the award-winning independent journalist Will Potter. Potter is the leading authority on “eco-terrorism.” He’s the author of the new book, "Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege." http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/10a60868-2633-3495-b447-ada9ff740d7d.mp3 17f35b01-e68c-c37d-c001-60abae9f5cce Mon, 16 May 2011 02:00:17 GMT 00:51:55 Christopher Renner no State of Kansas Media Part 3 Community Bridge opens this week with our third round table discussion on the state of the media in Kansas.  Joining the discussion are Mike Shields, Managing Editor of the Kansas Health Institute's News Service;  Justin Kendall, weekly writer for the KC Pitch, the largest of alternative weeklies in Kansas; Michael Caddell, newspaper publisher, blogger and radio talk show host; and R. J. Dickens, news director at KCTU Tv in Wichita. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/cd40fc70-3bd8-2bf9-c3fa-00f568ab9a5f.mp3 d4eef481-edbe-059d-89d4-4f681c6a74ae Sat, 14 May 2011 19:31:10 GMT 01:01:10 Christopher Renner no Exposing Andrew Breitbart Andrew Breitbart has no problem lying to his listeners, especially if he can score points against progressives. Breitbart's website BigGovernment.com is famous for promoting heavily edited videos produced by anti-abortion rights activist Lila Rose and falsely claiming that the video proves that Planned Parenthood engages in systemic criminal activities. In 2009, Breitbart promoted heavily edited tapes that he falsely claimed showed systematic corruption at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) related to child prostitution and sex trafficking. In 2010, Breitbart posted heavily edited video of Shirley Sherrod speaking at an NAACP function and falsely suggested that Sherrod discriminated against a white farmer in her capacity as the Agriculture Department's Georgia Director of Rural Development. This video caused her to lose her job, but Sherrod is now suing Breitbart. Then in April, just a week after he promised to "go after the teachers and the union organizers," his website started running a series of choppy, heavily edited videos taken from labor studies courses taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and the University of Missouri-Kansas City by this week’s guest, Judy Ancel, director of the Institute for Labor Studies at UMKC. The posts promoting these videos claim, among other things, that the professors "instruct students on how fear, intimidation, and, even, industrial sabotage are important and, often, necessary tools," and that they teach their students that the US flag is "racist." Ancel exposes Breitbart tactics and his dishonesty in this week’s show. To read her statement on the Breitbart sting visit: http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2011/04/judy-ancels-statements-on.html. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/14bb85cb-733e-e750-38f5-aadbbe5ca774.mp3 e87581ee-729e-9aaa-d7f9-875e8e283a78 Mon, 09 May 2011 21:53:33 GMT 00:58:10 Christopher Renner no El Salvador's Sister City Program Since the 1980´s, Sister Cities has built people-to-people solidarity relationships between the United States and El Salvador.  These relationships are the core of their work and the foundation upon which the Sister City project works for human rights, social justice, and cultural exchange.  This important work only happens through hundreds of dedicated volunteers in cities around the United States who maintain “sister city” relationships with Salvadoran communities.  On this week’s show, we hear from Sara Bishop, national coordinator of the US- El Salvador Sister City Project, about the Sister City program. Then we hear from Sofia Pablo-Hoshino, Shahna Campbell and Ivone Damian, three of the fourteen K-State student who when to El Papaturro, the Salvadorian community coupled with the Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice since 1995 through the Sister City program. The students talk about their experiences with in El Salvador and the plans to return in 2012. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/97e67854-9755-4a7e-b2b2-a8e278e14d40.mp3 8512d380-c0d6-60e4-dcd9-fda2ed4254c8 Mon, 09 May 2011 01:09:39 GMT 00:58:01 Christopher Renner no More Voices Against Plutocracy In our second hour we first hear from Dr. Vandana Shiva is a clip from GRITtv. Shiva says: "The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago." Shiva is a scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. Shiva was named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine.  Shiva spoke at K-State in October 2009 and the podcast of her speech is available on the Communitybridge website. Click on the link to the 2009 podcasts and scroll down to October. Then we hear a clip from Truthdig Radio featuring Tim Canova, the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law and co-director of the Center for Global Law & Development at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange, California. Canova takes on the Standards and Poors treat to downgrade the US credit rating in a discussion of the economic meltdown in our casino economy. The show closes out addressing the Manhattan City Commission’s vote to repeal the new anti-discrimination ordinance. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/80677430-d0d3-98f8-00a5-7c481d5d65de.mp3 2b38acaa-dddf-b51b-3074-56e3f60146ed Sun, 01 May 2011 16:35:28 GMT 00:58:04 Christopher Renner no Living in a Fact-Free Political World Community Bridge opens this week with a look at lying as normative political discourse. Political lying has always been with us, but what the GOP and some Democrats have done is akin to carpet-bombing the truth. Mother Jones Magazine turns its investigative eyes on this reality in its May/June edition entitled: You Lie! Inside the GOP’s Fact Free Nation. We hear from Rick Perlstien who’s article “Fact-Free Nation from Nixon’s Dirty Tricksters to James O’Keefe’s video smears: How Political lying became the new normal, opens the topic. Perlstien is the author of two noteworthy books: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, and  Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history.  From the summer of 2003 until 2005 he covered the presidential campaigns as chief national political correspondent for the Village Voice. He has also published The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America's Dominant Political Party, an essay with responses from commentators including Robert Reich, Elaine Kamarck, and Ruy Teixeira. In 2006 and 2007 he wrote a biweekly column for The New Republic Online. Perlstein was a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future, for whom he wrote the blog The Big Con. The hour closes out with Josh McGinn discussing the what’s happening with the Manhattan City Commission and the efforts by the right-wing extremists Matta and Butler to repeal the city’s recently passed Anti-discrimination Ordinance. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/630049c0-c70a-9e52-c649-b6490faac495.mp3 6928338a-42d2-9e45-212d-d0d8b023b443 Sun, 01 May 2011 16:35:00 GMT 00:55:37 Christopher Renner no April 28 - David Solnit on Social Activitism David Solnit has been trying to change the world since high school, when he joined a campaign to abolish draft registration. Since then, the Bay Area-based carpenter, activist, and puppeteer, has been on the frontlines of direct action, protesting the US role in Central America, in the 1980s, free trade deals in the 1990s, and, lately, the US intervention in Iraq. Solnit is a member and co-founder of Art and Revolution, a loose-knit collective combining art and theater with direct action. This creativity-with-a-purpose stands in a colorful tradition of theatrical dissent, from the Diggers, the Yippies, and the French Situationists of the 1960s. Solnit and his predecessors subvert the system, and point to alternatives, showing, by means of blatant contrast, how fundamentally flawed the “normal” state of affairs can truly be.  Solnit was in Manhattan earlier this month to conduct a workshop on social action and to speak at the Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice annual meeting. I spoke with him on April 8th here in the KSDB studio. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/6856e8e9-ddbf-d413-3a99-882e771e9c7d.mp3 8ac291a6-3017-35ea-1d07-7db7361c09c8 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:26:27 GMT 01:11:26 Christopher Renner no An Interview with David Bacon Community Bridge opens with representatives of Morning Star, inc., a consumer run organization (CRO). CROs are not-for-profit organizations, run by current and former consumers of mental health services. Richard Stitt, Executive Director and Elizabeth Stitt, Community Transition Coordinator at Morning Star, Inc., will join us to discuss this important community service. Then the remainder of the show will feature David Bacon, union activist, journalist, and immigration rights advocate. Bacon presented the spring Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice lecture at K-State on February 28th. Bacon is an associate editor at Pacific News Service, and writes for TruthOut, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Progressive, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He has been a reporter and documentary photographer for 18 years, shooting for many national publications. He has exhibited his work nationally, and in Mexico, the UK and Germany. Bacon covers issues of labor, immigration and international politics. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/b542a95f-f9ee-b442-27e7-64c11395c9a6.mp3 39280f50-78ca-7d5d-1154-44347bb5c2bb Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:20:15 GMT 00:56:14 Christopher Renner no The State of Kansas Media - Part 2 Community Bridge opens this week with our follow up to last month's panel discussion on the state of the media in Kansas.  This week we take up the issue of conservative bias on the op-ed pages have how that affects reporting in general.  We touch on the issue of think tanks and how their talking points help determine what is said on the editorial pages.  Panelists also explore the role of Net Neutrality in providing people with access to diverse opinions and its role in a health democracy. We also hear about the National Conference for Media Reform, which took place this past weekend in Boston.   Joining us for this discussion are Michael Caddell, Tim Hjersted and Pam Polhy. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/80175eb9-c076-fe72-a643-fcd79bfa432c.mp3 7c7cdb94-9a8e-8225-62bf-3f66aabb41bb Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:01:53 GMT 00:50:04 Christopher Renner no Public Transportation for Manhattan In our second hour, Riley County Commissioner Karen McCulloh and aTa Bus director Anne Smith join us for a update on the future of public transportation in Manhattan.  aTa has received millions in federal grants to begin a regional and fix route transportation system in Manhattan. Smith and McCulloh provide an update, but could the recent Manhattan City Commission election waste this possibility to improve the quality of life in Manhattan? We also find out what is planned for the 2011 Earth Day celebration at K-State from Students for Environmental Action president Zach Pistora. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/587791a9-b8d1-8e12-f3b9-7cc716242dcc.mp3 51c2e61a-9200-03e1-79a3-dfea68f456b9 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:02:06 GMT 01:00:01 Christopher Renner no When We Were Strangers Community Bridge opens this week with an interview featuring author Pamela Schoenewaldt in a discussion of her new novel, "When We Were Strangers." The novel tells the story of Irma Vitale, an Italian immigrant who leaves her Abruzzo mountain village to come to America. Schoenewaldt takes up such current issues as immigration reform and women's reproductive rights in this historical novel that readers of Geraldine Brooks, Nancy Turner, Frances de Pontes Peebles, and Debra Dean will most certainly cherish. "When We Were Strangers" will live in the mind and the heart long after its last page is turned. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/0923359a-9aa7-6a1a-0ce4-3a9b792d26e2.mp3 40ed9be9-af57-5d1b-87b1-0afb9626f019 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:34:09 GMT 00:57:20 Christopher Renner no MRFF - Fighting for the Soul of the US Military In the second hour,  Chris Rodda, author of “Liars for Jesus” and senior research director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation joins host Christopher Renner via telephone.  The MRFF fights unconstitutional religious oppression and tyranny in the U.S. armed forces.  Founded by Michael Weinstein, a 1977 Honor Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and legal counsel for the Reagan administration, MRFF directly battles the far-right militant radical evangelical religious fundamentalists who have infiltrated the US military. This battle is detailed in: “With God On Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military” released by St. Martin's Press in October 2006. The book is an expose on the systemic problem of religious intolerance throughout the United States armed forces.   Rodda is a regular contributor at Talk2Action.org and a blogger on the Huffington Post. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/c373241c-b328-9d2b-e45a-86e0be29a05b.mp3 270d826d-15cf-dc0b-bed9-f91a9b0e1862 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:13:31 GMT 00:57:52 Christopher Renner no Fight Plutocracy: Defending Public Services What’s happening to American Democracy? Why are the two political parties only interested in what the wealthy think? Why does the middle class continue to shrink? Why does it seem corporations are above the law? Well the answer lies in the growing reality that our democracy is being replaced by plutocracy. In the March/April edition of Mother Jones, Kevin Drum provides insights that every American should understand in preventing our experiment in democracy from becoming and fascist plutocracy. Joining us to discuss the Drum article as well as his own work on the topic is Andy Kroll, a journalist at Mother Jones. In the second half of our first hour we take up HB 2390. On March 14th, at the request of the Speaker of the House Mike O'Neal (R-Hutchinson), the chair of the Kansas House Appropriations Committee, Marc Rhodes (R-Newton), introduced HB 2390 that would abolish Kan-Ed and transfer all remaining assets to the state's general fund effective July 1 of this year.  Kan-Ed was created by the Kansas Legislature in 2001 and administered through the Kansas Board of Regents. The purpose of the program is to expand the collaboration capabilities of Kan-Ed's member institutions: K-12 schools, higher education, libraries and hospitals through the use of technology.  As such, it provides services including hospital ER databases, provides libraries, schools and hospitals with affordable and high-speed Internet connectivity, the ELMeR videoconferencing network, research databases (including all K-12 databases and Heritage Quest), Kan-Ed Live Tutor (Homework Kansas), and more.    HB 2390 is another attempt to destroy civilization as we know it and deprive Kansans of basic services.  We take up this issue in our first hour of Community Bridge this week with representatives from those communities served by the Kan-ed program. The House passed HB 2390 by 69 to 51 on Friday APril 1. Joining us to discuss what Kan-ed is and how it benefits Kansans are Carol Barta from the North Central Kansas Libraries System, Jennifer Findley, Senior Director of Education at the Kansas Hospital Association, and Carol Woolbright who is the director Interactive Distance Learning Network at Greenbush Regional Education Service Center in Southeastern Kansas. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/67a4d30f-93db-3150-0a50-171145600468.mp3 f452ba7a-f000-d40c-6ca7-40d33bbf70ed Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:27:21 GMT 00:58:13 Christopher Renner no Brownback's War on the Mental Health Services Community Bridge opens our second hour with Robbin Cole, Executive Director of Pawnee Mental Health on how Brownback's budget cuts are hurting Kansans in need of mental health services in Manhattan and across the state.  At 6:30 we are joined by Rev. Tobais Schlingensiepen and Rev. Trudy Cretsinger representing Kansas families served by the Kansas Neurological Institute, another service Sam Brownback has deemed too costly for the state to continued to support. For fiscal year 2010, its operational budget was 29 million dollars, of which 16-point-five million came from the federal government through Medicaid funds. State appropriations amounted to 10 million dollars. KNI serves around 160 Kansans, the majority (83%) are aged between 30 and 59; 88 percent have a profound intellectual disability; 83 percent are unable to speak and the remainder have very limited speech abilities; 68 percent are unable to walk; and, 94 percent have lived at KNI for 10 years or more. But for Sam Brownback these people do not deserve to be care for by the state. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/d87821b5-ca87-8662-0fa3-1cedea7442cf.mp3 9ff9d4f0-af1a-1dcb-a4d9-d21ec925617d Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:23:52 GMT 01:01:10 Christopher Renner no Abolishing the Kansas Death Penalty Community Bridge opens this week with a previously recorded interview that host Christopher Renner conducted with Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ.  Prejean's work on death row was showcased in her book, Death Man Walking and the film of the same title.  Then we hear some commentary on what's been happening in the Kansas legislature from the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty and close out with two syndicated clips: Chris Hayes's program, The Breakdown, takes on corporate personhood and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s CounterSpin takes on the issue of taxes with Chuck Collins of US Uncut. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/0295f893-404a-9d4d-6a54-03cea584ddea.mp3 3df3c79c-4ce8-214b-f0bf-0addfe7cda5b Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:52:38 GMT 00:56:22 Christopher Renner no The State of Media in Kansas This week Community Bridges takes up the issue of the media in Kansas. In particular we explore the media landscape in Kansas, the conservative bias in reporting, consolidation of media ownership, lack of diversity on opinion pages of newspapers, and the role of new media (blogs, e-newspapers, online radio) in informing the public debate and challenging what corporate media isn't telling Kansans. Guests include: Michael Caddell host of Radio Free Kansas and the blog Fightn’ Cock Flyer; R. J. Dickens, host of the long-running talk show "The River City Forum" on KCTU-TV Wichita and Acting Executive Director of the American Low-Power Television Association; Jim Herrman a data base consultant and co-chair of the Kansas Progressive Caucus of the Kansas Democratic Party; and veteran journalist Carl Williams, a media consultant for a non-profit organization with responsibilities that include producing video training programs. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/ea4edf44-89d1-15cd-528a-d47fbf2060de.mp3 9d2caee3-3aa1-4789-4073-0e6719921d85 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:44:59 GMT 00:59:47 Christopher Renner no A conversation with Rich Jankovich Community Bridge opens this week with Rich Jankovich, candidate for the Manhattan City Commission. In the second half of our first hour we hear from Naomi Klein on the union busting efforts that are taking place across the US and the frontal attach on our democracy by corporate-owned state governors. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/3f3fb0e3-8224-ed4d-4003-4ffd35a6d327.mp3 ae80ed1f-a88e-d30e-0815-4bf55c9254e9 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:33:34 GMT 00:59:15 Christopher Renner no International Women's Day 2011 Following this week's Media Minutes, we turn our attention to International Women's Day and it's centennial celebration. Host Christopher E. Renner provides some historical background before we hear a clip from Democracy Now featuring Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Amy Goodman, and Kavita Ramdas. Then Renner takes on Kris Koback's racist anti-immigration legislation before we close out with some commentary from Jim Hightower addressing the on-going protests in Wisconsin. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/527a5dbc-65fc-7a81-4901-00a71396cf9e.mp3 85dadbb1-5dd8-0cd6-d3eb-011e57c931ad Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:27:09 GMT 00:56:13 Christopher Renner no An Interview with Tim Wise This week's Community Bridge opens with Ruth Douglas Miller giving an overview of the next Science Cafe that will take place on Tuesday, March 8th at 7:00 pm at Radina's. Then we hear a previously-recorded interview I conducted with Tim Wise when he was at K-State earlier in February.  Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. Recently named one of “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,” by Utne Reader.  Wise is the author of five books, including “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son;” “Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White;” “Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male;” “Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama,” and his latest, “Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity.” He has contributed essays to twenty-five books, and is one of several persons featured in “White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five Personal Stories” (Duke University Press). He received the 2001 British Diversity Award for best feature essay on race issues, and his writings have appeared in dozens of popular, professional and scholarly journals. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/b04e2c57-7d92-6bd2-69a6-5ac801242295.mp3 ed90ecb3-063c-4b1d-9f96-09eae7f60197 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:10:25 GMT 00:57:51 Christopher Renner no Manhattan City Commission Candidates In our second hour, we welcome Phil Anderson and Stan Hoerman, candidates for Manhattan City Council, for a discussion of their qualifications and to respond to questions submitted by Community Bridge listeners. We talk about taxpayer dollars going to the Chamber of Commerce, rental inspections, separation of church and state, and much more. Rich Jankovich will join us on March 10th at 5:00 for a similar interview. At this time John Matta and Wynn Butler have not responded to my invitation to be on Community Bridge. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/26c2f08e-27d6-43cb-6d52-42715c6f9955.mp3 07a322a0-4ab3-aef7-bde0-451fa6944b4f Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:10:56 GMT 00:40:55 Christopher Renner no Kansas Rallies to Save the American Dream On Saturday February 27th, approximately 1500 Kansans joined with hundreds of thousands of others across the United States to protest the war on the middle class that is being waged by the Republican Party and their corporate billionaire backers. Joining with voices echoing the need to return government to the people, working class Kansans from teachers to correctional officers spoke out against the extremism of Sam Brownback and the Koch Brothers. We will hear from Aaron Fowler of Wichita, a member of the American Federation of Musicians union, who emceed the rally. Then, Teresa Molina, a Wichita teacher, Greg Winfield a correctional office at the Lansing State Prison, followed by Jane Carter, executive director of the Kansas Organization of State Employees, Emilio Ramirez of the United Steel Workers; Rep. Paul Davis, House Democratic Leader, and Senator Anthony Hensley concludes. Then we hear from a couple of people in the audience, Tracee Collins, Sen. Marci Franco of Lawrence, and Janice Norlin of Salina. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/473a6b0b-2f92-21ab-cf65-bce481f1c6a7.mp3 40c38072-49b2-2026-ec7e-1ff68e8777fa Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:48:50 GMT 00:56:30 Christopher Renner no Feb 24 - National Spay Day 2011 We open this week with commentary by Christopher Renner on HR 2260 and other legislation being worked in the Kansas House. Then we hear from Law and Disorder Radio, for a discussion of a new report from Political Research Associates that exposes an influential anti-Islam and anti-Muslim segment of the counter-terrorism training Industry. Since September 11, 2001, the “war on terror” has give rise to private companies that offer training by so-called “experts” on Islam and terrorism. These experts label Islam as a terrorist religion, routinely branding Muslims as vengeful and duplicitous people who oppress Westerners. The complete report can be downloaded at: http://www.publiceye.org/islamophobia/cincotta-2010/index.html. We close out our first hour with Lynn Schumacher and Gary Sears from the T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter.  The Humane Society of the United States reports that four million cats and dogs - about one every eight seconds - are euthanized in animal shelters in the U.S. each year.  We explore what people can do to help reduce this number as well as other services the shelter offers to Manhattan and Riley County. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/bb778314-91a2-3527-9753-ba51baf005eb.mp3 75db2940-6639-7d34-c814-e7f6ffad2b0f Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:28:12 GMT 00:56:43 Christopher Renner no Anti-Immigrant Legislation in the KS House In our second hour, we take up the issue of anti-immigrant legislation in the Kansas House. This week the House voted to repeal in-state tuition for Kansas high school graduates who are undocumented. This law provides in-state tuition for some 400 Kansans who in many cases have only known our state as their home. Now Kris Kobach and his xenophobic supporters are trying to deny these Kansas graduates their right to a university education. In addition, Kobach is trying to make Kansas a second Arizona by introducing in the Kansas House a Kansas version of AZ SB 1070 that legalizes racial profiling and denying "suspected" undocumented immigrants basic services. Lalo Muñoz, director of the Latino Information Network of Kansas, Alaide Vilchis, a 2008 graduate of the University of Kansas who benefited from the in-state tuition law, Holly Weatherford from the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri and hopefully Angie Williams, immigration lawyer and an expert on Kobach's draconian laws, will join us by telephone for a discussion of the legislation being proposed. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/4434cdee-2e57-f14f-c900-a58a5223c7e7.mp3 e478123f-10d0-027a-8a69-8d792309bfdd Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:05:33 GMT 00:56:51 Christopher Renner no Mountain Top Removal - Coal Mining on Steroids n our second hour we hear from Washburn University instructor Kellis Bayless on the environmental destruction cause by mountain top removal coal mining and what our coal addiction is costing us. Mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining (MTR) has been called strip mining on steroids. One author says the process should be more accurately named: mountain range removal. Mountaintop removal /valley fill mining annihilates ecosystems, transforming some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world into biologically barren moonscapes. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/9cabc6b8-d2ab-3f7c-0d37-bb67ba058aea.mp3 c9d393e6-f1fd-7df9-243f-3fb1ee246393 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:28:41 GMT 00:59:54 Christopher Renner no Kobach's Boondoggle Vote ID Law Community Bridge opens this week with a look at the "Voter ID" legislation nativist extremist Kris Kobach wants to force on Kansas. Inspired by "race laws" of a by-gone era, Kobach has thrown the sound bite of "voter fraud" around to cover up his xenophobic fears of brown and black people. In ten years, there have been 80 incidents which could be labeled "voter fraud." Just to give some perspective, Kansas has 1.7 million registered voters. That means there is a .00004 percent chance of a register voter being fraudulent. More people are misdiagnosed in hospitals in a month (research reports 155 misdiagnosed cases per 1,000 hospitalized patients) than there are cases of voter fraud in Kansas in 10 years. Now it looks like Kobach's xenophobic fears are going to cost Kansas tax payers over a million dollars, when the state doesn't have money to take care of it current commitments. So why is the legislature even considering this law? Representatives from the Kansas Voter Coalition will discuss the proposed law, the testimony that was delivered on Wednesday against it, what Kansans can do to oppose this effort to limit who can vote in our state, and a discussion of Kobach and his links to white supremacist groups. Connecting by phone are Ernestine Kriehbel, League of Women Voters of Kansas, and Kari Ann Rinker, Kansas National Organization of Women. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/03a40f3b-6000-f46b-5aad-3253ed33347f.mp3 b3fe9ca7-19ba-fd6f-203e-ce395ee4002e Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:23:32 GMT 00:52:12 Christopher Renner no Robert Scheer on the Great American Stickup In our second hour we take up the issue of the 2088 economic crisis with veteran journalist and author, Robert Scheer in a discussion of his recent book: "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street." In "the Great American Stickup," Scheer begins with Ronald Reagan' s obsession with the radical deregulation of financial markets and its glorification under the Clinton administration to Obama' s reform efforts that oddly enough, rely on Clinton cronies to clean up and profit from the mess they made. Scheer proves that, when it comes to the ruling sway of money power, Democrats and Republicans are no different. He provides readers with the characters who set up the American economy for its own demise - Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Alan Greenspan, while at the same time telling us about those who sounded the alarm and underscoring the foreseeable results of putting Wall Street in the driver' s seat. Scheer demonstrates how a economy once designed to help Americans become members of the middle class was turned into a global casino - a confoundingly enormous and esoteric system of gambling on new financial products worth hundreds of trillions of dollars. By the time the house of cards began collapsing in 2007, only Wall Street understood what it had created while its government partners remained clueless and the American people were taken to the cleaners. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/3b5f34ef-1234-8246-6764-f458baca9615.mp3 91c76792-685c-330f-4113-7d2fbcc608c1 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:07:04 GMT 00:57:16 Christopher Renner no A conversation with Roger Hodge On this week's Community Bridge we first hear about Sigma Xi's Science Cafes with Mike Herman and Sam Wisely. Wisely will speak on Tuesday February 8th at 7:00 pm at Radina's. Then Roger Hodge joins us my telephone to discuss his book: "The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism." In Mendacity of Hope, Hodge enumerates the failings of the Obama presidency - the prison in Guantanamo Bay is still open, extraordinary rendition continues, the government invokes state secrets to thwart investigations of torture continue as do two wars that the Democratic base wanted an end to, Americans personal communications are routinely tapped by the FBI and freedom of speech continues to be curtailed. With a cataloging of his major donors, an assiduous review of his actions before and during his presidency and a foray into early American history, Hodge builds a case that Obama has betrayed his liberal base. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/aa37d092-2956-4327-e3aa-736d8537fcaa.mp3 036bfd1d-0f0c-39db-4f11-4313b909d2bc Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:14:35 GMT 01:01:07 Christopher Renner no Funding Public Education in Kansas In our second hour, Mark Desetti and Terry Forsyth, Kansas NEA, Kathy Cook, Kansas Families for Education, and Mark Tallman, Kansas Association of School Boards join us by telephone for a discussion of public education under the Brownback administration, what is happening in the legislature regarding the state budget, and what it means for local schools and the possibility that your property taxes will be once again going up. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/d7ca1675-1b08-bcea-e67d-74b3433269a8.mp3 0acb9e69-a171-5500-5690-ab73bc61b25b Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:17:03 GMT 00:55:56 Christopher Renner no An Interview with Rebecca Costa Community Bridge opens this week with a live interview of author and sociobiologist Rebecca Costa in a discussion of her thought-provoking new book: The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction.   The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction, connects the dots between crime, oil prices, Wall Street, global warming, nuclear waste and childhood violence.  Costa reveals the four telltale patterns which paralyze innovative thinking, and with it, a civilization's ability to solve complex problems. Using both historic and modern day examples, The Watchman's Rattle describes what happens when complexity races ahead of the brain's ability to manage it, the underlying reason why experts and governments can no longer fix global crisis and conflict.  http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/a309d770-b647-ec54-7b74-0667550af37a.mp3 f71e9a8a-d978-a322-8598-e519a83429ad Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:16:09 GMT 01:01:32 Christopher Renner no Engaging the Muslim World For our second hour we will broadcast Carolyn Benton Cockefair Chair in Continuing Education lecture given by Juan Cole on Nov. 15, 2010, at the University of Missouri - Kansas City entitled “Engaging the Muslim World." Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009). As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/fa1878bc-87eb-8ac7-41a6-724fc2edfcf2.mp3 efa64caa-488c-3bbc-d867-720789824a81 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:59:03 GMT 00:50:57 Christopher Renner no Update on Sunflower Energy's Holcomb Plant Community Bridge begins a new season with an old topic - the Sunflower Energy powerplant slated for construction in Holcomb. Blocked numerous times and opposed by a majority of Kansans, Gov. Parkinson’s parting gift to Sunflower was a construction permit, after it had previously been denied. Scott Allegrucci, Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, and Stephanie Cole, Sierra Club of Kansas join us for a discussion of recent developments including the firing of KDHE Secretary Bremby, the issuing of a permit for Sunflower, and the Sierra Club’s lawsuit against it. Community Bridge apologies for the sound quality of this recording, but being the first week the studio was back in operations, we had some technical difficulties. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/f58f06a9-5ab7-e732-d5d7-102307b16d2d.mp3 6e44aadd-180a-6a8b-3746-6c364e2784ac Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:46:54 GMT 00:59:40 Christopher Renner no Cutting Funding for the Arts in Kansas Llewellyn Crain, Executive Director of the Kansas Arts Commission, and Penny Senften, director of the Manhattan Arts Center join Christopher Renner in studio to discuss Sam Brownback's proposal to defund the arts in Kansas.   Join the fight to save the arts by joining the Facebook group “Keep Funding for Kansas Arts!” at http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=100725473337844. We close out by rebroadcasting an interview with Wendel Potter, author of "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans," conducted by The Nation magazine. Potter explains how insurance companies are manipulating the conversation surrounding healthcare legislation. Potter was a health insurance executive for nearly 20 years but quit his position in 2008 because he found it difficult to work for an industry that placed profit over people’s health. In 2009, Potter testified before the Senate on how insurance companies have engaged in practices that have forced millions of Americans to become uninsured. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/96d75354-9fa0-80b3-d97f-0f3537358686.mp3 94ea76d1-b941-2278-b8ec-d5215464be47 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:14:12 GMT 00:45:45 Christopher Renner no Belief as Community - Session 3 While Community Bridge takes a break for the holiday season, we are going to publish a series of shows from our 2007 season that looks at how beliefs come together to weave the tapestry that makes up our community in Manhattan. In this installment, that originally aired on March 15, 2007, educator Cathy Hedge and business owner Jeff Levine discuss how they understand the meaning of community and how they put their beliefs into actions through their work and lives. At the end of the show is a short commentary by Christopher Renner on the need to repeal the Patriot Act that is as relevant today as it was in 2007! http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/0ad2564c-f445-9945-6277-c9b87e87ab78.mp3 3b5f02c8-3eac-4719-d99c-dd9ff58909d4 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:13:06 GMT 01:00:45 Christopher Renner no Riley County Celebrates the Sesquicentennial Community Bridge opens this week with Cheryl Collins, executive director of the Riley County Historical Museum in a discussion of the Kansas Sesquicentennial. Kansas joined the union in 1861 after four attempts at writing constitutions and numerous deaths as "Bleeding Kansas" was daily covered on the front page in east coast newspapers. Collins will discuss how the sesquicentennial will be celebrated in Riley County. In the second half of the hour we hear an interview with journalist and blogger Glenn Greenwald from Progressive Radio. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/08640a4c-8c86-7a5d-e589-f32fd837f867.mp3 6020a613-3de5-35f1-9e3c-e0bf56d09d69 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:37:53 GMT 00:54:06 Christopher Renner no Navigating the WikiLeaks Document Dump Corporate media is doing a bad job of informing the public debate about the third WikiLeaks document dump. Right-wing pundits and members of Congress show their contempt for our democracy by calling for the death of Julian Assange - more the reaction of a dictatorship than of people called to stand strong for the values of democracy. We hear views and perspectives not getting much air-time on corporate media - first we hear from GRITtv featuring retired US Army Colonel and former State Depatment official, Ann Wright; then we hear a clip from Law and Disorder Radio featuring Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Michael Steven Smith; and finally a clip looking at the how the media has handled the document dump from NPR's On the Media, featuring Brook Gladstone and Bob Garfield interviewing the executive editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/5439b3ae-340b-5ba5-b687-b24e61968a46.mp3 cdf954d0-f7bc-98f4-6b27-6ce7304f3c94 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:16:52 GMT 00:59:37 Christopher Renner no Human Trafficking in Kansas Community Bridge celebrates Human Rights Day (Dec. 10th) with a look at human trafficking in Kansas with Kansas Assistant Attorney General Christine Ladner, Vicky Luttrell of the Kansas Human Trafficking Advisory Board, and K-State Prof. Nadia Shapkina. Human trafficking generates approximately $32 billion international each year making it one of the top 3 international crimes. The U.S. State Department reports that nearly 1 million people are trafficked across international borders each year. Roughly 80 percent of those trafficked are females and 50 percent are children. Trafficked people are modern slaves forced to work in sweatshops, prostitution rings, as farm labors, in private homes as domestic workers and other enterprises. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/8db08e7c-1fe7-1d92-6bfb-d54408eb7d5b.mp3 f75923e5-7d7e-041d-dd9b-c8e228468981 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:13:37 GMT 01:00:34 Christopher Renner no Humanity's Footprint In our second hour, Walter Dodds, distinguished professor of biology at K-State, joins Christopher in studio to discuss his book, "Humanity’s Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment." Keeping with the theme of human rights, to close out the hour, Jonathan Mertz, chair of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project discusses Tuesday night's historic vote in favor of ending discrimination in Manhattan based on sexual orientation and gender identity by the passage of the new anti-discrimination ordinance. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/ba8c6cf9-097a-d833-ae52-5b34ae0d73a2.mp3 c2edfdf5-5c86-e23f-6466-9360a0a34eb1 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:32:53 GMT 01:00:51 Christopher Renner no The Crisis in Mental Health Care in Kansas This week's Community Bridge opens with a discussion of the crisis in mental health care that has been caused by the budget cuts to essential social services in the State of Kansas. As a result, mental health clients with limited resources are finding it impossible to obtain the medications they need to live normal lives. Without medications, mental health clients face a downward spiral including the loss of independent living, their social safety net and since the state mental hospitals are cannot accept new patiences, our communities have no choice put to place mental health clients in jail. Robbin Waldner Cole, Executive Director of Pawnee Mental Health Services, joins us in studio with Rich Cagan, Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness Kansas, and Mike Hammond, Executive Director of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, join us by telephone to discuss how Kansas is treating its citizens with mental health concerns. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/669e481e-7566-e811-3fbd-b20eced3d594.mp3 d2f4e710-d528-338b-8e96-451ea33f71ef Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:08:02 GMT 01:01:09 Christopher Renner no Merchants of Doubt Naomi Oreskes is one of the world's leading historians of science. Her research focuses on consensus and dissent in science. Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change" was cited in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and led to op-ed pieces in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. In "Merchants of Doubt," Oreskes discusses how science can be misconstrued to create doubt. Her research highlights the disconnect between the state of scientific debate and the way it is presented in the mass media and perceived by the public. Specifically, Oreskes looks at public beliefs -- or disbelief -- about climate change. Dr. Oreskes’ visit to Kansas is a jointly sponsored effort made possible by the interinstitutional collaboration of Kansas State University, University of Kansas, and Fort Hays State University. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/b3e7d5a3-5955-debb-71c1-328ed8b1660d.mp3 a7f430bc-f85b-cdb5-09a6-e256cc03e422 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:15:19 GMT 00:59:57 Christopher Renner no Andy Worthington on GITMO Community Bridge opens with British journalist Andy Worthington, author of "The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison" and co-director with Polly Nash of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo." Having spent several years looking at the undercurrents of post-war British social history — in particular the clash between the state and some of its most outspoken critics (protest movements, travellers and alternative communities) — Worthington turned his attention to the “War on Terror” in 2006. Like many decent-minded citizens of the world, he had been deeply concerned, from the moment Guantánamo opened in January 2002, that the US administration’s response to 9/11 was both cruel and misguided, but although Worthington conducted some research in the years that followed, it was not until March 2006, when he read Enemy Combatant by the released British prisoner Moazzam Begg, that he asked himself the fateful question, “Who’s in Guantánamo?” The quest to answer this question consumed over a year of his life, and led to the creation of "The Guantánamo Files." "The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison," published by Pluto Press, and distributed in the US by Macmillan, includes reviews by released Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg, lawyers Clive Stafford Smith, Marc Falkoff and Candace Gorman, authors Michelle Shephard, Stephen Grey and Peter Bergen, film-maker Ken Loach, and film producer Marty Fisher. The book is available from Amazon. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/6a5cc58c-50ca-da68-df8d-d5956c41003a.mp3 7c2d0bb7-d00a-73f0-6619-e723ad04dbd2 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:18:58 GMT 00:57:07 Christopher Renner no Belief as Community - Panel 4 In 2007 Community Bridge hosted a series of panels discussing how belief systems help create community. Each panelists was asked to prepare a written statement about how their beliefs affected how they understood community. After reading the prepared statements, the panelists then compared and contrasted each other statements with their own looking for common ground and how that contributed to how we understand the community we live in. For this show panelists included: Kathy Dzewaltowski, Susan Marshall, Michael Nelson, and Flordie Pettis. This podcast is release to honor the memory of Flordie Pettis, who died on October 2, 2010. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/edbcc577-bbff-4cb2-aa07-b2e5a6a45436.mp3 839a15f8-a748-0428-ca70-6a1dd87fb12d Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:40:21 GMT 00:32:30 Christopher Renner no A Living Wage for Manhattan Our second hour opens with Tom Manney, from No-NBAF in Kansas, who comments about the report issued by National Research Council on the evaluation of risks associated with the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility proposed for Manhattan. Then Geri Simon and Claudean McKellips from the Manhattan Living Wage Coalition join us in studio to discuss the Coalition's efforts to establish a wage floor for companies receiving economic development funds from the City of Manhattan. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/44c27225-3db3-0f08-b5d5-793a3ad39d89.mp3 7fcdef7d-71aa-15a0-705b-737005ec92d4 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:16:08 GMT 00:58:55 Christopher Renner no The Kansas Rural Center Community Bridge opens this week with Dan Nagengast, Executive Director of the Kansas Rural Center, in a discussion of upcoming Sustainable Agriculture Conference, local and regional food systems, and how "production agriculture" has put more farmers out of business that the Dust Bowl, Depression, weather, or the environmental movement ever did. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/b9ea9a64-9512-292e-e96d-5d85a9151dff.mp3 545396f0-e7ab-21b3-9e4f-a04ee48e4b38 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:10:03 GMT 01:00:59 Christopher Renner no The Ecstatic Poerty of Paul Goldman Our second-hour opens with this week’s Media Minutes and a clip from GRITtv featuring Kathy Kelly discussing her recent trip to Afghanistan where she spoke to everyday citizens, including men and women. Kelly notes that the average person on the ground there has little awareness of the September 11 attacks, despite the rationale for the U.S. occupation. Then we are joined by ecstatic poet Paul Goldman for a discussion of his poetry, the meaning of faith and how his spiritual poetry as the soft scalpel to transform and awaken.   http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/8db6168f-8c80-58cb-6c75-d9907b3a2aa2.mp3 40bee19c-923c-c186-bb11-ae728b6fcb5f Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:21:11 GMT 00:58:09 Christopher Renner no The 2010 Midterm Election - What Does It All Mean? Community Bridge opens this week with K-State Professor of Political Science, Joe Aistrup, with a discussion of Tuesday's Mid-term election results and what they mean nationally and for the state of Kansas.  At 45 past the hour, we are joined by Stephanie Alderman-Oler from the K-State Fair Trade Advocates to discuss this year's Fair Trade Marketplace that will open with a fashion show on November 16th and closes on Thursday November 18th. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/e46ca912-b58a-9b26-83fc-0188aad1545a.mp3 f31e4fa3-d9bd-4594-2374-75a1db041fc2 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:50:14 GMT 00:58:09 Christopher Renner no Gary Rivlin - How Poverty Became Big Business In our second hour we are joined by telephone with author Gary Rivlin for a discussion of his book: "Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business." BROKE, USA is Rivlin's report from the economic fringes. In the two years he spent researching the poverty industry, he ventured to Las Vegas to hang out at the annual check cashers convention, he spent time in Tennessee with the small-town debt collector who founded the $40-billion-a-year payday cash advance industry, he met with a number of mercenary entrepreneurs who are getting tens of millions of dollars rich selling high-priced products to the country's hardworking waitresses, warehouse workers, and mall clerks. In short, it explores how Wall Street made poverty a big business and what it is doing to those who can ill afford to go into debt. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/e46ca912-b58a-9b26-83fc-0188aad1545a.mp3 31e7ebbf-c671-53b8-d85b-91160d4e65b9 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:51:01 GMT 00:57:53 Christopher Renner no Kennth King on Germs Gone Wild Community Bridge opens this week with Kenneth King, author of "Germs Gone Wild: How Unchecked Development of Domestic BioDefense Threatens America." King holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University. King has taught writing at colleges and universities in Kentucky, Missouri, and Illinois, clerked for the Hon. Eugene Siler, Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and worked as a staff attorney for the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund. He was on the faculty at Western Kentucky University before resigning to complete this book. Ed Hammond, former director of the Sunshine Project gives "Germs Gone Wild" the following review: "A superb guided tour of the demented world of twenty-first century bioweapons research in America, where dangerous new labs seem to pop up on every street corner, the lines between offense and defense blur, and people who question the wisdom and safety of it all are derided by their own government." http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/e66e0a58-799c-861d-908a-ff1381087863.mp3 13fe76c6-6a27-92d9-e980-16d476f06aef Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:25:37 GMT 00:59:02 Christopher Renner no The Hudspeth-Jenkins Debate This is a rebroadcast of the debate sponsored by KTWU Channel 11 and the Topeka/Shawnee County Chapter of the League of Women Voters between Cheryl Hudspeth, Democratic challenger, and Rep. Lynn Jenkins, Republican, for the second congressional district of Kansas. Community Bridge and KSDB thank KTWU for making this audio available for rebroadcast. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/d4062464-f18a-e459-4b19-ab9158f798fd.mp3 4dfddab2-3f3f-4bf6-9572-221288308a15 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:12:56 GMT 00:54:56 Christopher Renner no Cheryl Hudspeth Candidate for Congress In her only debate with Lynn Jenkins, Cheryl Hudspeth came out swinging to show the night and day difference between the two candidates and why Hudspeth wants to serve the people of the Second District, not corporate interests. In this interview Hudspeth discusses education, the need to reign in the military budget, supporting the middle class and implementing clear energy in Kansas. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/a1eceaf5-f163-5e64-8cd1-4ddd2e7d9855.mp3 7bb18b16-50ff-186f-dc13-8d6b1ea4d740 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:12:30 GMT 00:57:42 Christopher Renner no Update on Manhattan's Proposed Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Community Bridge opens this week with Christopher Hopkins, Iraq Veteran and K-State student, in a discussion of his efforts to form a local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and his experiences at the US Social Forum. Then Debbie Nuss, Dusty Garner, and Joshua McGinn of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project join us for an update on the proposed new anti-discrimination ordinance for the City of Manhattan. At the Human Rights and Services Board on October 14th, the radical religious right let their opposition to equality for all Manhattanites be known loud and clear. Our guest try to make sense of the what was said and bring the focus back to the real issue: LGBT people are discriminated against in Manhattan. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/3a9cd52f-fe0c-d06b-1b73-83f5790909fd.mp3 767dba58-af48-8e9a-1d9d-0d01cca95b61 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:25:09 GMT 01:24:23 Christopher Renner no Undocumented Youth and the American Dream Approximately 2 million undocumented children are educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home and who, upon high school graduation, find the door to their future slammed shut. As a follow up to the screening of the film “Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth” on K-State in September, 2010. The film explores the challenges that face undocumented youth and the gridlock around immigration reform in the United States. The panel was moderated by Michael Kaye, law professor at Washburn University, and included: Roberta Farrell, Immigration Attorney; Amanda Morales, Ph.D., Graduate Student Advisor K-State College of Education; Jonathan Willmouth, Immigration Attorney; Rep. Sydney Carlin, state legislator; and Erin Fleming who works extensively with undocumented youth-many of whom are actually pictured in the film. Erin is part of the KS/MO DREAM Alliance-a local Kansas City group made up of mostly undocumented youth, as well as national projects such as The DREAM Is Coming and United We DREAM. The panel walks through the life of an undocumented youth trying to go to college and explore the roadblocks she encounters. The panel was sponsored by Alianza, Community Cultural Harmony Weel, Dorothy L. Thompson Lecture Series, and Multicultural Business Student Association. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/06b5255d-77d8-aa10-9c31-b3be44b37b33.mp3 17d2e3b6-2f2f-f0b9-9fbd-5c1d71aa91c1 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:03:51 GMT 00:55:04 Christopher Renner no C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy We open this week with Allie Loush from Sunset Zoo to fill us in on  Spooktacular that happens on October 23 & 24th and other events happening at the zoo. Then author Jeff Sharlet joins us for a discussion of his new book: "C-Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy," which features Kansas’ own Senator Sam Brownback and a significant player.  "C-Street" is the sequel to Sharlet's book "The Family." In “C-Street” Sharlet’s undercover research and investigative work answers some of the country’s biggest questions: how political fundamentalism endures in America; why, despite the collapse of the old Christian Right, it is as big a threat to democracy as ever before; and where, in a time of political upheaval and culture wars, fundamentalist politicians really intend to lead the country. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/927f6159-27ca-44f7-657c-785f61fd594f.mp3 f5e34d76-8c98-e39c-d5ec-e143ef4a4224 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:55:56 GMT 00:30:22 Christopher Renner no A conversation with Rep. Tom Hawk Rep. Tom Hawk as been a voice for reason in the Kansas legislature, but the Republicans are trying to unseat him with another rubber stamp for the party bosses. Rep. Hawk discusses some of his accomplishments, funding for public education and growing the Kansas economy in this abbreviated edition of Community Bridge. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/3addc885-6e08-cd42-0997-d8366c1b6e5e.mp3 25e19a03-98e5-400e-425f-548a2ca96e6b Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:42:11 GMT 00:52:16 Christopher Renner no Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act. What does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act do for you? Judith Baker, Regional Director for the Region 7 Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, outlines some answers in our first hour this week. Baker will cover questions asked at the July 26th public forum sponsored by the Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice as well as cover new information about the changes to the U.S. health care system that took place on September 23rd. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/2c03ae87-f4f9-75bb-6a8f-1019654e4604.mp3 c48196c4-f7b2-c4cf-54b2-8fd6bd29c34b Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:40:15 GMT 00:51:32 Christopher Renner no Hispanic Heritage Month/Yes on Amendment 2 Our second hour opens with representatives of the K-State chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Hispanic American Leadership Organization to discuss Hispanic American Heritage Month. Then at 6:30 pm, Robbin Waldner Cole, Executive Director of Pawnee Mental Health Services, and Rick Cagen, Executive Director of Kansas National Alliance on Mental Illness, join us for a discussion of the Kansas Voting Disqualification Amendment, also known as Constitutional Amendment Question 2, that will appear on the November 2 ballot. The measure, if enacted by voters, would eliminate mental illness as a voting disqualification. For more information visit: Yes on Amendment 2 at http://protectvotingrights.com/ http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/7076a745-2cb0-af3b-cdd8-9bf8c9dc8c88.mp3 8faf2d67-c9ae-2410-86ae-bc943a9ec4a6 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:25:40 GMT 00:50:47 Christopher Renner no An interview with Tom Holland and Kelly Kultala Community Bridge opens with the Democratic candidates for Kansas Governor Tom Holland and his running mate Kelly Kultala live in studio.  Holland and Kultala discuss the issues facing Kansas, their plans to help build strong schools and an even stronger Kansas economy and why they are the better choice for Kansas on November 2. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/d34b37b4-d2b0-2052-6df5-114d475d66d4.mp3 980d4bd0-64ba-ff89-0de6-5730e5030bf2 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:02:50 GMT 00:55:29 Christopher Renner no FHHRP's Battle for Equality For our second hour, Dr. Charles Barden, K-State Extension, opens the show with a discussion of two invasive tree killers invading Kansas. Then Jonathan Mertz and Joshua McGinn from the Flint Hills Human Rights Project discuss their efforts to have sexual orientation and gender identity added to the City of Manhattan's Anti-discrimination Ordinance. We close out with a clip from GRITtv featuring David Kirby, author of “Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, dairy, and Poultry Farms” who discusses why cheap food is making Americans sick and in some cases killing them. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/7fc67d3b-c5c5-91fe-4588-b3279dfb4352.mp3 cb6c9695-65b4-6066-c5d5-7e9b71c65108 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:32:55 GMT 00:54:36 Christopher Renner no What Every Kansan Needs to Know about Kris Kobach The Republican's nominee for the job of Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, is a well know nativist extremist who makes a living by drafting anti-immigrant laws and, after they are adopted, trains officers to enforce them. If the laws are challenged, he goes to court to defend them. Quite the racket since the laws are always rule unconstitutional and in the mean time he lines his pockets with tax-payer dollars from the legal fees he racks up. Immigration lawyer Angie Williams and UMKC law student Raymond Rico join us for a frank discussion of Kobach and his anti-immigrant crusade. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/dfa5cab9-b3a9-64b6-2023-f5670ffe4bf4.mp3 94614920-3117-b157-b2f5-48b5c271a5e2 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:30:57 GMT 00:49:08 Christopher Renner no Bill Press on Toxic Talk For our second hour, talk show host and author Bill Press joins us to discuss his new book "Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right has Poisoned America's Airwaves."   Susan Gardner on Daily Kos has this to say about Toxic Talk: " ...the most value found in Toxic Talk from Press's keen eye and long history in the business, which allow him to describe the fine shades of rhetoric and attitude on the conservative talk spectrum, from Rush Limbaugh to Glenn Beck, from tow-the-party-line guy Sean Hannity to paranoid loon Michael Savage. For those of us who can't handle listening to these guys, the author's serious delineation of defining the personalities and their trademark rhetoric is invaluable as a resource. He also knows the syndication biz inside and out, and his perspective on how the game has changed over the years and how it all fits together now is instructive." Community Bridge closes out with Penny Senften, Manhattan Arts Center, in a discussion of the events planned for the fall season. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/21a21b54-dbb5-e511-4895-2958c3de8d58.mp3 3992e8ab-e709-2836-c4e7-16ca577c53c7 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:03:33 GMT 00:50:54 Christopher Renner no Community Cultural Harmony Week 2010 Community Bridge opens this week with Scott Jones in a discussion of the activities planned for Community Cultural Harmony Week 2010 that takes place the seek of September 20th. Then Breanna Clary, Ecumenical Campus Ministry, joins us in studio for a discussion of Real Food Lunch. served each Thursday between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m and provides a healthy lunch to students from K-State. We close out this week's show first with a clip featuring Phyllis Bennis in a discussion of the "end to the Iraq war" from Fairness and accuracy in Reporting and then hear Katrina vanden Heuvel on fighting the class war from GRITtv. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/68c78ec0-d28b-800f-39d6-6ae3eb155af5.mp3 40ecf7e0-4a0a-8c9f-aa21-06a06fca64ce Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:02:11 GMT 00:57:14 Christopher Renner no McCain's 40th Anniversary In our second hour this week, host Dusty Garner takes the mic as we open with this week's Media Minutes. Then we welcome Todd Holmberg, executive director of the McCain Auditorium, to discuss its 40th anniversary celebration in a previously taped interview. We close out with the first of a series of interviews featuring candidates for elected office with our own writer/producer Christopher Renner discussing his vision for Riley County and why he is running for county commissioner. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/bf4233c5-6989-abfa-a323-3bf48570cc4e.mp3 bdb95705-9729-2978-e021-1f2f3d0115ce Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:11:52 GMT 00:56:09 Christopher Renner no 75 Years Later the Battle for Social Secuirty Continues Social Security turned 75 in August. Since 1935, Social Security has touched the lives of almost every American and provided an economic lifeline for millions of people. To read stories about how Social Security has directly impacted the lives of Americans, visit: http://www.ssa.gov/75thanniversary/readstories/1.html. Community Bridge celebrates this important milestone this week with Nancy Altman, author of "The Battle for Social Security" and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Pension Rights Center and Co-director, Social Security Works opening the show at 5:00pm. Altman will connect with us via telephone. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/63c08113-b881-bede-4a4d-50c19ad3a1ee.mp3 23fb7951-23e7-e464-9162-8229c070d718 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:53:40 GMT 00:59:39 Christopher Renner no Labor Day Special On second hour opens with Joyce Glasscock, executive director of the Manhattan Boys and Girls Club, discussing discuss new after-school programs they are offering for students at Theodore Roosevelt elementary school. Then hear an update on the situation with Net Neutrality from On the Media. Community Bridge closes out this week's show with a special program from the National Radio Project's "Making Contact" in honor of Labor Day - "Working Beyond Unions," featuring Dr. Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center, professor of sociology & political science; Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center, professor of sociology, cultural studies & urban education; Bill Fletcher, Jr., labor activist and editorial board member and columnist at BlackCommentator.com; James Gray Pope, Rutgers School of Law-Newark professor and Sidney Reitman Scholar; Saket Soni, Director of the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice; and Elaine Bernard, Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/b1fefbe8-f8e8-8799-f67b-b750fec8985d.mp3 0c1b4023-94f4-cbdf-bce8-01f736ef391d Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:04:25 GMT 00:57:02 Christopher Renner no Movies on the Grass 2010 Community Bridges opens with Donna Schenck-Hamlin who fills us in on this year’s Movies on the Grass schedule. Then, Roy Crenshaw from Big Brothers – Big Sisters of Manhattan joins us to talk about volunteering for their organization. Brandon Haddock then tells us about K-State's new LGBTQ Resource Center and we close out with this week's edition of the Breakdown with Chris Hayse. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/7f0471bc-4bf2-0934-0cab-6caa3bba9a42.mp3 a13798aa-d740-685f-26f0-8782aae45296 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:57:17 GMT 00:54:33 Christopher Renner no A. Q. Miller School of Jounalism Turns 100 Our second hour opens with Gloria Freeland and Steve Smethers in a discussion of K-State's A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications Centennial. We close out this week by rebroadcasting a clip from the Tavis Smiley Show featuring author Tim Wise, author of "Colorblind" and "White Like Me," discussing the ideals about a post-racial American and the way to solve racial tensions is by not talking about them. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/8f6f14ca-f01a-b1dc-8c1c-d6ba5ad123d3.mp3 b07219fd-77ae-c699-3c0a-1bd76535b74a Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:28:50 GMT 00:55:35 Christopher Renner no Votes for Women! In our second hour we will broadcast the documentary: Votes for Women! by award-winning producer Sandra Sleight-Brennan. "Votes For Women" was the slogan on the banners that many American suffragists wore in the 72 year struggle to get the vote. On August 26, 2010, we celebrate Women's Equality Day and the 90th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment. The documentary uses song, interviews, re-creations of events, and comments from historians to bring this dramatic history to life. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/f3c38528-0fff-e9b9-67db-3e0b370372d2.mp3 9722a1e2-0b82-7770-b6ac-01a19650b241 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:56:41 GMT 00:56:17 Christopher Renner no 538 Ways to Live Liberally Community Bridge opens this week with the founder of Living Liberally, Justin Krebs, joining by telephone for a discussion of his new book: "538 Ways to Live, Work and Play Like a Liberal." Krebs will be in Kansas to conduct a book signings in Kansas City, MO, on Monday, Aug 16th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm, and hosted by Drinking Liberally Kansas City. Then on Thursday August 19th at 7:00 pm at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence hosted by Drinking Liberally Lawrence. To find out more about Living Liberally, listen to our show from 18 February 2010 at: http://communitybridge.blogspot.com/2010/02/18-feb-2010-impact-of-budget-cuts-on.html Following Krebs we are joined by Jane Gibson of the Manhattan Living Wage Coalition who gives us the details about this year's Laborfest scheduled for Sunday September 5th. Nearly two years after a global financial crisis almost crippled our economy, President Obama two weeks ago signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, otherwise known as the financial regulatory reform bill. The bill is supposed to prevent such a crisis and the subsequent bank bailouts from ever happening again, but will it really accomplish that? And more broadly, what does it do to reform the financial system that made Wall Street's abuses possible in the first place? The Nation's Washington DC Editor Christopher Hayes and finance blogger Mike Konczal tackle these questions on this week's edition of The Breakdown. We close out this hour with this week's Media Minutes. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/22316601-33a1-b07c-0956-9f9f499d5028.mp3 e3a93054-c437-8ae1-b301-764a3985b760 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:52:36 GMT 00:55:46 Christopher Renner no Defending Women's Rights As part of our efforts to celebrate Women's Equality day and the 19th Amendment's 90th anniversary on August 26th, Community Bridge opens with Kari Ann Rinker, President of the Kansas Chapter of the National Organization for Women, along with Amber Versola and Vicki Stangl in a discussion of where women stand in the state of Kansas, what still needs to be done in the fight for women's equality, and the 2010 General election. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/f4ab4061-9390-fe37-4258-a01e13e81345.mp3 78dd3fdf-1b8b-9f9b-4f65-eaf0518e9863 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:08:48 GMT 00:47:57 Christopher Renner no Exploring The Blues. During our second hour, following this week's Media Minutes, we take a look at the Blues with KSDB's Benjamin Detrixhe. Detrixhe hosts a specialty show on KSDB - Blues Power with Ben - dedicated to the Blues music genre. With Detrixhe spinning tunes, we will look at the historical development of this unique American musical form over the last century. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/a80653fa-1fee-f1cd-b417-bdfda7bcae59.mp3 bb35f18f-33ac-2dd1-0497-abd8112c41fa Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:03:07 GMT 00:54:10 Christopher Renner no Hudspeth for Congress Cheryl Hudspeth, Democratic Candidate for Kansas' 2nd Congressional District, joins host Chloe Beeman in studio for a discussion of key issues facing Kansas voters: the economy, bringing the defense budget under control, education, and the environment. Hudspeth shares her opinions and discusses how to respond tot he many concerns we face. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/d13f0d05-c6e4-9c0a-8f09-d0af5d897d88.mp3 03a72f86-7302-f33e-fbd3-72e1e147e216 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:45:26 GMT 00:50:59 Christopher Renner no Chris Biggs on the Secretary of State Race Following this week's Media Minutes, Secretary of State Chris Biggs joins us in the KSDB studio to discuss the Secretary's job on key issues in this year's election campaign - from voter fraud to immigration - and his criticism of candidates who what to use the office for their own political agendas. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/322c6b60-2261-0cbe-ebfe-b5582a151294.mp3 c429e978-3159-27ea-e5b6-a54f3173bc4f Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:36:45 GMT 00:54:45 Christopher Renner no July 15 Pt 2 - An Interview with Michael Ramsdell For our second hour we welcome director Michael Ramsdell in a discussion of his film "Anatomy of Hate; Dialogue of Hope," which screened earlier this spring here in Manhattan. The film reveals the shared narratives found in individual and collective ideologies of hate, and how we as a species can overcome them. The DVD is available for check out from the Manhattan Public Library. Ramsdell states: "Standing amidst anti-gay picketers and Nazi rallies, dodging stones and rubber bullets in the West Bank, riding combat patrols outside of Baghdad, and working amidst the bodies of dying and deceased soldiers in the CASH, I was provided the opportunity to explore humanity's inclusionary and exclusionary divisions to a significant degree. What I found was, for me, life changing." http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/f2ffb46c-fe31-bab9-dd95-f98afe2f9546.mp3 da4532e0-e902-1790-7771-5fef7fe5d12d Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:20:30 GMT 00:51:51 Christopher Renner no Public Comments on Sunflower Energy Community Bridge opens this week with Stephanie Cole, Kansas Sierra Club, and Scott Allegrucci, Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy, in a discussion of the public hearing process for Sunflower Electric’s proposed 895-MW coal plant in Holcomb. While many may think this is a done deal because the governor and the legislature removed even the potential of regulatory and rate oversight over Sunflower by the Kansas Corporation Commission, and stripped the Kansas Department of Health and Environment of any state authority over air quality, the truth is, neither the governor, nor the legislature, nor a single utility has the ability to unilaterally ignore the existing enforcement agreement between the State of Kansas and the Environmental Protection Agency. Making the up-coming public comment time and public hearings worth paying attention to. Recently, Physicians for Social Responsibility issued a report showing that coal emissions contribute to four of the five leading causes of death in this country. That means that although Sunflower claims this plant will be the “cleanest in the country,” if it is built, Kansans will be at an increased risk for heart disease, cancer, stroke, and lower respiratory diseases, such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. So although Colorado is poised to get 80 percent of the energy produced by the plant, Kansas will be stuck with 100 percent of the pollution and 100 percent of the health risks. The public comment period for Sunflower's Holcomb Station coal plant is open from July 1 - August 15. Public comments can be submitted to KDHE anytime during that period. Public hearing will be held on: August 2 in Overland Park at 2:00 PM Blue Valley Northwest High School (135th and Switzer) August 4 in Salina at 2:00 PM Highway Patrol Training Center Auditorium (2025 East Iron) August 5 in Garden City at 2:00 PM Garden City Community College Joyce Auditorium (801 Campus Drive) Hearings will break at 5:00 PM and reconvene at 6:30 PM, continuing until all verbal and written comments have been submitted. For more information, visit KDHE's Website. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/824d4bd7-5ede-834a-26d6-138cc00c7f68.mp3 65df7a4e-49e2-96d2-c480-fa3672c3140b Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:45:31 GMT 00:48:51 Christopher Renner no An discussion with Rep. Rom Hawk This week's Community Bridge opens with Rep. Tom Hawk in a discussion of the 2010 legislative session. At 45 past the hour, Beth Bailey, Assistant Director/Manager of Programs at the K-State Student Union, joins us to provide an overview of the Little Apple Jazz Festival that takes place July 17th in City Park. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/0ffd6678-9644-1cd0-573a-51fdd77a7d13.mp3 ad836c1b-a7a3-3fd4-7d9c-426e29e5898b Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:55:41 GMT 00:59:26 Christopher Renner no July 8 - Pt 2: Net Neutrality Update & Immigration Special Our second hour opens with Tim Karr of Free Press for a brief update on the situation with Net Neutrality. (For a complete overview of this issue, please see our March 5th show.) Then we close the show by rebroadcasting two features looking into the issue of immigration from New America Media. First, America always likes to describe itself as a nation of immigrants, but throughout its history it’s also struggled to keep immigrants out through a patchwork of laws. Now when we talk about our broken immigration system, politicians like to look at the border with Mexico. The flood of immigrants crossing illegally into Arizona and the federal government’s inability to secure the borders was cited by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer when she signed the state’s anti-illegal immigration bill into law. But was that bill so unprecedented in American history? Sandip Roy interviews veteran Sacramento journalist Peter Schrag and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Tyche Hendricks who give us two views of immigration – one up close and personal on the ground, the other the big picture, the historical view. Peter Schraag has written "Not Fit For Our Society – Immigration And Nativism In America" and Tyche Hendricks has written "The Wind Doesn’t Need A Passport – Stories From The US-Mexico Borderlands." Then Mary Ambrose reports on the US-Mexico boarder with David Danelo, author of "The Boarder - Exploring the US - Mexico Divide," in which Danelo straddles the border in his first hand interviews with both hardened border patrollers and Mexicans searching for the illusive American prosperity. The Economist says: "If you want a feel for the strange, dangerous, and inspiring entity that is both the border and la frontera, this is a pretty good place to start." http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/4da528a4-c01e-4986-ce5c-5a55f14f89fa.mp3 4af71b78-53cb-34f1-407a-8db84d196c77 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:10:46 GMT 00:56:09 Christopher Renner no KONZ - Flint Hills Community Radio We open our show with a discussion of the northern Flint Hills new radio station, KONZ - Flint Hills Community Radio with Linda Teener, Debbie Nuss, and Jon Tveite, including what you can do to be part of this exciting effort. Then we hear this week's installment of "The Breakdown" with Chris Hayse. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/ffdb4013-f598-ded9-f920-7cfc134ddb91.mp3 7c8b884b-0bb1-769c-d5e6-90e6d38b6a5e Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:07:12 GMT 00:48:53 Christopher Renner no SEA Blocked from Helping Clean Up BP's Oily Mess Opening our second hour, Ellen Welti from Students for Environmental Action, discusses the groups recent efforts at trying to help with the Gulf Coast clean up and the road blocks they ran into created by BP which prevents volunteers from address the worst human-made environmental disaster in our history. Following Welti's report by rebroadcasting a clip from GRITtv featuring Mike Papantonio. "I know what a thug corporation looks like," says lawyer and radio host Mike Papantonio, who is busy building a RICO case against BP for the oil devastation in the Gulf. "These people are sociopaths and the GOP are apologizing for them." Papantonio joins GRITtv host Laura Flanders from Florida to discuss the ongoing case against BP, noting that the company bragged back in 2008 of being able to better track its oil movements only to claim now that it had no idea how much oil was gushing into the water. He also discusses the studies that found brain damage and genetic mutations in people exposed to oil in previous spills--and why drilling in Alaska is going forward anyway. http://crenner.hipcast.com/deluge/87aa3b97-1410-8127-ffeb-86e7e8b0dcc7.mp3