Active Voice Radio

Series produced by Chris Goldstein

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"Social Justice Literacy"/ "A Voice of Truth in a World of Deception" Weekly 25 minute interviews with people who practice what they preach...

Active Voice Radio is a weekly program featuring 25 minute Social Justice interviews, usually with authors who have a new book out. The program also includes some Commentary, Soft Features, comedy and music. My loose term for the program is "Social Justice Literacy."


31 Pieces

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Playing In The Street: Halloween Tames Traffic
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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David Engwitch author of Mental Speed Bumps explains how the street activity of Halloween is just what we need to calm traffic.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
Santa Fe: Being Local in a Tourist Town
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Commentator Chris Goldstein reflects on Santa Fe and his transformation to a "local"

  • Added: Dec 31, 2005
  • Length: 03:16
Active Voice Radio - Raw Interview: AFSC's Kathy Bergen - Quakers in Israel/Palestine
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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An Active Voice Radio interview with Kathy Bergen of the AFSC on the book When The Rain Returns: Working Towards Justice and Reconciliation in Pale...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2006
  • Length: 17:53
American Jews in the IDF: One Day at the Border Crossing
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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An IDF soldier detains a Palestinian family at a border crossing and comes to an epiphany.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2006
  • Length: 09:56
Active Voice Radio Interview: Mark Klempner- Dutch Holocaust Rescuers
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Mark Klempner is the author of The Heart Has Reasons- Holocaust Rescuers and their Stories of Courage. We explore Mark's process of meeting the Res...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2006
  • Length: 19:19
Interview with Moazzam Begg, a Guantanamo Bay Detainee
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Moazzam Begg is a British Muslim who became an Enemy Combatant detained at Guantanamo Bay.

Bought by WMPG and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 2
Active Voice Radio: J. Timothy Hunt/Dr. Owens Wiwa- The Politics of Bones
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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PART ONE- Dr. Owens Wiwa documented Petroleum Based injuries and deaths among the local population...and now lives in exile in Canada.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 1-5-07: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Steve Hendricks dicusses his new book- The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Stuggle for the Soul of indian Country

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 1-25-07: Joseph Romm- Hell and High Water: Global Warming the Solutions and the Politics
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Romm is a former Asst. Secretary at the Department of Energy and director of the Center for Energy and Climate

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 1
ACTIVE VOICE RADIO: 2-2-2007- Nancy MacLean: Freedom is Not Enough_The Opening of the American Workplace
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Author Nancy MacLean interviews on her newest book Freedom is Not Enough_The Opening of the American Workplace

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Feb 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 3-30-07: Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan: The Varieties of Scientific Experience- KSFR Fund-drive
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Ann Druyan Interview, KSFR pledge pitch

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2007
  • Length: 22:03
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 6-29-07: Congressman Ron Paul and Journalist Clarence Page speak about Marijuana and Racism
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Congressman ron Paul of Texas and Chicago Tribune Columnist Clarence Page discuss marijuana and racism

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 2-27-08: Marnia Lazreg- Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Marnia Lazreg teaches sociology at Hunter College. Her newest book Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad looks at the French-...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Feb 26, 2008
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 4-18-08: Columnist Froma Harrop- Obama, Drugs and Everyone Else
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Harrop goes over some of the other powerful politicians who have admitted past substance use...but were never arrested. Froma and Chris discuss the...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Interview- Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) on HR 5843, An Act To Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Congressman Frank discusses a bill he is sponsoring to remove Federal Penalties for Marijuana

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 08:51
Active Voice Radio - Tom Wells - The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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The Norfolk Four are case studies in how interrogation techniques used in nearly every American police department can elicit false confessions.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Girl with a Red Hat: The Secret Genius of the Vermeer Family
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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The groundbreaking discovery of an unknown master painter and perhaps one of the greatest women in art.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:31
An Irreverent Christmas - Richard Cheese, Twisted Sister and more
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Absolutely irreverent holiday music and other songs from Richard Cheese, Twisted Sister, Bubble, Casey Desmond and Grisbi all put together like a p...

Bought by WDSE, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KRUA


  • Added: Dec 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
2008 Interviews: Barney Frank, Judy Polumbaum, Jim Douglass, Marnia Lazreg, Steve Bloom
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Some author interview highlights from Active Voice Radio 2008

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
The Philly Mummers: A Wild Tradition Keeps Strutting
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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I went looking to do a piece about a crazy parade, but I found a deeper story of working families keeping up their traditions and spirits in tough ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:30

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