AI and the University with McKinney Simpson guest host
Indigo radio has its first Appalachian State University guest host, McKinney Simpson. McKinney is a senior at App State majoring in Public Health. She spends the hour discussing the impact and proliferation of AI on campus, student thoughts, and the adverse health and environmental impacts of AI.
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High Country Mutual Aid - Boone, NC
Indigo Boone host Anna talks with Red and Eli from High Country Mutual Aid out of Boone, NC.
High Country Mutual Aid is a grassroots community movement, based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, funded entirely by public donor support. We are an ever evolving group, comprised of folks of diverse identities and backgrounds, working to educate about the numerous ways our current systems are failing us, and utilizing collective coordination to create systems of care to meet the needs of our communities and strengthen all our relations.
Connect with them at highcountrymutualaid.org
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The Revolution will not be Televised - Socialism Conference 2025
In todayâs show, Chris Lievense, high school social studies teacher in Vermont and Kelly Junno 3rd grade teacher in Western Massachusetts, and Spark faculty, share with us their insights from the 2025 Socialism conference in Chicago and how those lessons are applicable to their work as K-16 educators.
A major theme Kelly and Chris found at the conference was, how does the progressive left recapture the narrative. Fascist canât win unless they capture education and the narratives around it that normalize injustice. How does the progressive left ask for the unimaginable. How do we ask for a better world where we donât have prisons, where we donât spend billions of dollars and billions of lives to have them and instead ask for what are the kinds of care we need and what are the things that we need to meet, at minimum, the basic needs for people: food, clothing, shelter, health, education, transportation. How do we bring the majority of people in the United States along with the possibilities of abolition. Most Americans canât imagine an abolitionist society. How do we as educators change the conversation which then changes the narrative around this and make it imaginable? Most importantly that Capitalism canât solve capitalism
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Learning From Vandana Shiva
Host Becca sits down with Dax who recently return from working and learning in India at Vandana Shiva's project Navdana. We discuss the historical and current work of agriculture. Navdana began as an example and teaching farm, showing that a farm without chemicals can exist. We also discuss on of the main aspect of the project, seeds saving as resistance to global capitalism.
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"The City is giving us Lemons but y'all are my Lemonade" --Dr. Ari Brazier for the hour!
Indigo host Anna sits down with Dr. Ari Brazier, community organizer & educator in Atlanta - Ari talks with us all about the #stopcopcity movement here in ATL, race, education, their work with ParentLab, children, abolition, and more!
*Photo of Remix, provided by Dr. Ari
Instagram accounts to follow
@atlparentlikeaboss
@stopcopcity
@thehighlanderschoolatl
@saveweelaunee
Songs:
1) Hard Times, Baby Huey
2) Violent, 2Pac
3) I Wish I Knew How to be Free, Nina Simone
4) Overjoyed, Stevie Wonder
Indigo Radio is a project of the Spark Teacher Education Institute based out of Southern VT. We are a group of educators [seeking to learn through engaging with others in our community and throughout the world. We are both in the classrooms and on the streets.
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