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Checking our Democracy – The Lunatics Have Overtaken the Asylum
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It wasn’t so hard in those days to explain the behavior of one party or the other because they were well within the range of rational behavior.
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The Radical Centrist Podcast explores a politics that steps outside of the realm of the poisonous partisanship that has infected our country in recent years and seek ways to place the American voice – and the American idea – above tribalism, partisan politics and blind allegiance to ideology, to challenge ourselves to ask question and seek answers that can bridge the divides between people, parties and ideologies.
It wasn’t so hard in those days to explain the behavior of one party or the other because they were well within the range of rational behavior.
50 Years ago, Dudley Dudley, with a small dedicated group of women, led the fight to stop the development of the largest Oil Refinery proposed for development in America from destroying the Seacoast of NH, Maine and Massachusetts. . . and they won.
A pilot project with big implications.
Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he has taught at every grade level from high school through graduate school; worked at Harvard; done significant work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and speaks across the country and all over the world
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, war correspondent, and author of 14 books. His latest book, “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison” chronicles his experience teaching in a New Jersey prison an intense, at times, heartbreaking and joyous journey.
Despite the Climate Emergency wreaking havoc throughout the nation and the world, and the Covid-19 pandemic still plaguing us, autumn here in the valleys between the Rattlesnake Ridge and the Sandwich Range has been just about picture-perfect this year.
Today he is among the world’s leading figures in a field that is at the center of the action in a world where climate change has become the number one threat to the planet – or more accurately to the current residents of the planet.
Free Joseph is a singer, songwriter, producer and musician with a history in New Hampshire. In the 1990’s Free lived with his partner Wini Dean who was a well-known figure in the Capital city as the owner of “Isis” a women’s boutique on Main Street in Concord. His first CD, “He is Here” was produced in New London, NH by Cedarhouse Sound and Mastering during the period in which Free was a New Hampshire resident.
Host Wayne King makes the case for respecting both the Abenaki and John Stark by restoring the name of the Asquamchumaukee River.