Monthly Archives: October 2015

Archive, Music, Podcasts, Radio

Rise Again! A Sing-Along Concert

Rise Again cover Peter Blood and Annie Patterson’s  popular songbook Rise Up Singing is renowned for getting people to sing: to empower, to build community, and to have fun. To celebrate the release of their  new songbook, Rise Again, Cambridge Forum hosted a sing-along concert featuring Peter and Annie; Charlie King; the Nields; Kallet Epstein & Cicone; and Fred Small. The concert is a benefit for Cambridge Forum and the Carry It On Fund – a new fund to support organizations and causes which Pete and Toshi Seeger were deeply committed to. Recorded October 17, 2015

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Archive, Environment, Radio

Dispatches From The Front Lines of Climate Justice

Journalist and author Wen Stephenson discusses his new book What We’re Fighting For Now Is Each Other.

Stephenson provides a candid look at some of the “new American radicals” who are risking everything to build a stronger climate justice movement. What motivates them? How can individual, local actions really affect a larger global movement?

Wen Stephenson,  an independent journalist and climate activist, is a contributing writer for the Nation.  Formerly an editor at the Atlantic and the Boston Globe, he’s also written about climate, culture, and politics for Slate, the New York Times, and Grist.
Recorded October 7, 2015     Watch this forum on the WGBH Forum Network