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| Description | The UtneCast is a field guide to independent arts, culture, and ideas. Like our parent publication Utne Reader, this podcast takes a regular look at people, ideas, and trends that are pointing the way toward a kinder and greener world. | |
| Updated | Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:28:13 +0000 | |
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1. Wallace Shawn & The Revolution http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Standard PodcastWallace Shawn is perhaps best known for his roles in commercial blockbuster films like The Princess Bride (where he played the conniving Vizzini) or the Toy Story movies (where he’s the voice of Rex the dinosaur). The more refined among you may know him from Woody Allen’s Manhattan or the film My Dinner With Andre. Shawn is also a [...] |
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2. Flagg Miller on Osama bin Laden’s Cassette Collection http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Standard PodcastLinguistic anthropologist Flagg Miller spent years transcribing the contents of Osama bin Laden’s personal cassette collection. In the May-June 2010 issue of Utne Reader, we reprinted an article on Miller’s work from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s an excerpt: The tapes surfaced in December 2001, following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, when [...] |
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3. Weatherman Paul Douglas on Climate Change http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Utnecast: Weatherman Paul Douglas on Global WarmingMeteorologist Paul Douglas knows that the climate is changing and that people are to blame. In this podcast, the veteran weatherman talks about the science behind global warming and why other meteorologists have a hard time believing it. |
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4. Mark Dowie on Detroit: Food Among the Ruins http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Standard PodcastImagine a city transformed. High-rises become layers of indoor farms that grow produce 365 days per year. Skeletons of old houses sheathed in plastic are now greenhouses. The goal is immediate access to food. That’s what investigative journalist Mark Dowie imagines for Detroit. But this isn’t some utopian vision. Dowie visited Detroit and traveled [...] |
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5. Heavy Metal in Baghdad http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Standard PodcastSenior editor Jeff Severns Guntzel talks to the drummer of the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda about living through three wars. |
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6. Arundhati Roy on Democracy, India, and Writing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Standard PodcastNovelist and essayist Arundhati Roy turns her critical eye to her home country of India in her latest collection of essays. Fieldnotes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers is published by Haymarket Books. |
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7. The Ethics of Solidarity http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: We called Sara Falconer, author of “Solidarity, Not Charity” (reprinted from Briarpatch in our March-April 2010) issue and asked her to talk a bit more the ethics of solidarity and what she discovered in post-Katrina New Orleans. To hear what she had to say, visit Utne.com/Solidarity. |
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8. Immigrant Prisons: Locally Run, Federally Funded, Accountable to Nobody http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Standard PodcastIn Jailing the American Dream, reprinted in our March-April 2010 issue, investigative reporter and policy analyst Tom Barry documents the collision of profits, poverty, and injustice in America’s borderland prisons. In this episode of the UtneCast,Barry talks about his quest and the obstacles along the way. |
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9. Joe Sacco on Drawing War http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Joe Sacco on Drawing WarIt used to be that Middle East reporting was the domain of newspaper and magazine correspondents. Joe Sacco changed all of that when his depictions of Palestinian life first appeared in comic book form in the early ’90s. Today his painstaking portraits of war are revered by comics freaks and [...] |
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10. Howard Zinn Talks About His New Documentary http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 0.00Mb) Description: Download Howard Zinn Talks About His New DocumentaryOn Sunday, December 13, the History Channel will air The People Speak, a documentary based on historian Howard Zinn’s book Voices of a People’s History, a collection of 200 documents and speeches that serve as the raw material to Zinn’s classic book A People’s History of the United [...] |
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