Changing the Narrative
Second Wednesday of the month at 5PM
with Dena Eakles
Because it is time to turn the narrative around…
Dominant culture has had its say. Now it is our turn.
This podcast is a celebration of voices too often missed or ignored.
The status quo needs a re-make.
Let’s do it.
Dena Eakles is the author of The Peace Warrior; founder of Echo Valley Farm a community sustained farm in southwestern Wisconsin; and founder of Echo Valley Hope, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance sustainable living and peace. You can find their weekly blog at letkindnesswin.com
Or listen to the two-minute commentary “Consider This” every Thursday, 5:30 on WDRT or anytime on wdrt.org.
Would you like to champion someone or some idea?
Let’s talk.
Mary Dougherty and Lisa Doerr of Sustain Rural Wisconsin Network
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ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
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A Warrior for Health Care Access and Equity
Ericka Sinclair, MS, MPH and CEO/Founder of Health Connections, Inc speaks of the importance of “village” life and community as she weaves her life’s story into the work she brings to her community in Milwaukee.
An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha
Listen to acclaimed Palestinian poet, short story writer and essayist, Mosab Abu Toha, as he speaks of life and death in Gaza through his poetry and life’s experience.
His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker.
And Still They Survive
A conversation with Palestinian American Muhammad Kharbush. Born in 1948, the year of the Nakba, Muhammad gives his oral history of the past 76 years.
Palestinian Voices: the Student Encampment at UW Milwaukee
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