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Action Speaks is a series of panel discussions presented on Tuesday evenings in October and November from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Each Action Speaks urban dialogue will be taped for broadcast the following Sunday on WRNI-1290. Audience participation is an important component of the experience. Admission is free.
Under-Appreciated Days That Changed America
Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download. Audio is archived on the Web four hours after the WRNI radio broadcast.
Tuesday, October 1st
JULY, 1961
JFK calls for a Fallout Shelter building program as the Berlin Wall crisis heats up. Security in an insecure world: is it possible and at what expense?
Radio broadcast: Sunday, October 6, 7 p.m.
Guests:
Ken Rose, author of "One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture"
Alan Nadel, author of "Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age"
Bill Martel, Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College
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Tuesday, October 8th
OCTOBER, 1952
First Issue of Mad Magazine hits the newsstands!
Dissent and satire: Can we afford it? Can we afford to be without it?
Radio broadcast: Sunday, October 13, 7 p.m.
Guests:
Paul Buhle, of the American Civilization Department at Brown University,
author of "Radical Hollywood"
Andrea Miller-Keller, Independent Curator, Hartford, CT, currently working with the University of Connecticut's Benton Art Museum on developing a Human Rights Gallery
Peter Schuman, Director, Bread & Puppet Theatre
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Tuesday, October 15th
1934
Hays Moral Code introduced into Hollywood!
Sex and pessimism: Does the American public need protection?
Radio broadcast: Sunday, October 20, 7 p.m.
Guests:
Francis Couvares, E. Dwight Salmon Professor of History, Amherst College, and author of "Movie Censorship and American Culture"
Michael Fink, of the English and Film Departments at Rhode Island School of Design, and author of "With a Pen and a Light"
Marshall Berman, Professor, City College of New York, author of "All That's Solid Melts Into Air"
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Tuesday, October 22nd
1973
Rockefeller Drug laws: Draconian Drug laws introduced on the heels of the 1960's and the prison population swells!
Who's imprisoned? What's a drug? You say, Yes. We say, Just say No!
Radio broadcast: Sunday, October 27, 7 p.m.
Guests:
David Lewis, Project Director, Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy, Brown University
Randy Credico, Director, William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, NYC Paul Street, Vice President for Research and Planning and Research Director at the Chicago Urban League
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Tuesday, October 29th
1983
Reagan's Department of Education publishes "A Nation at Ris,"'
and massive assault on public education begins!
Vouchers, standards, testing: Education for the global marketplace or for our children's future? Is there a difference?
Radio broadcast: Sunday, November 3th, 7 p.m.
Guests:
Warren Simmons, Executive Director, Annenberg Institute School of Reform, Brown University
Jennifer Wood, Assistant Superintendant of Rhode Island Schools
Susan Ohanian, Long-time Teacher and Writer on Education, author of "What Happened to Recess" and "Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten"
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Tuesday, November 5th
1981
Sugar Hill Gang releases Rapper's Delight,' the first commercial rap hit and a mad' new culture is born!
Ownership, censorship, graffiti, hip hop and border crossing from the Bronx to you!
Radio broadcast: Sunday, November 10th, 7 p.m.
Guests:
Donald King, Executive Director, Providence Black Repertory Theatre Marcyliena Morgan, Associate Professor, Director, Hip Hop Archive, The Department of Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Bakari Kitwana, former Executive Editor of Source Magazine and author of "Hip Hop Generation; Young blacks and the crisis in African American Culture"
Marc Joel Levitt, Creative Director and Host
Sara Archambault, Program Coordinator
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