As the annual United Nations Climate conference takes place, this year in Bonn, Germany, we'll turn to US-activist Kali Akuno about what the COP23 can achieve now that Donald Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord. Akuno will join us from Bonn. Then, in the wake of another mass shooting in a church in rural Texas, we'll get reflections on gun control from Reverend John Vaughn with the Auburn Seminary. Finally, we'll take a deeper look at the Paradise Papers just released by the...
Topics: United Nations Climate, conference, Bonn, Germany, COP23, Donald Trump, Paris Climate Accord, mass,...

On today's show we'll focus on the issue of climate change in all three of our stories. First, the Nebraska Public Services Commission just approved an alternate route for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, just days after the original Keystone pipeline in South Dakota had a massive spill. We'll turn to Judith LeBlanc of the Native Organizers Alliance for more. Then, Dallas Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network joins us fresh from the COP23 UN climate meeting in Bonn, Germany....
Topics: climate change, Nebraska Public Services Commission, route, Keystone XL pipeline, Native Organizers...

Climate justice activists at this year's United Nations COP23 meeting in Bonn, Germany, confronted both speakers promoting fossil fuels at a White House panel, and California governor Jerry Brown. On today's show we'll speak with two indigenous activists Isabella Zizi and Daniel Ilario, from the US who were part of those actions. Then, we'll spend the rest of the hour with author Sasha Polakow-Suranski, former Op-Ed editor at the New York Times, about his new book, Go Back To Where You Came...
Topics: Climate, justice, activists, United Nations, COP23, Bonn, Germany, White House, California,...

House Republicans are racing to pass their behemoth 429-page tax reform bill just days after the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the $1.5 trillion in tax cuts will automatically trigger major cuts to Medicare. The Senate version of the same bill includes an end to the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, leaving many to wonder if the GOP is turning their tax bill into a healthcare reform bill. We'll speak with Lindsay Koshgarian of National Priorities Project for more....
Topics: House Republicans, tax reform, bill, Congressional Budget Office, cuts, Medicare, Senate, mandate,...

In dieser Episode ist Steven Walter zu Gast, der Gründer und künstlerische Leiter des PODIUM Festivals in Esslingen und designierte Intendant des Beethoven Festes Bonn ab November 2021. Er ist einer der profiliertesten Innovatoren im Bereich der klassischen Musik in Deutschland, hat als Kurator für zahlreiche renommierte Festivals und Häuser gearbeitet und sein eigenes Festival immer wieder neu erfunden und von einem studentischen Projekt zu einer der wichtigsten Marken für Klassik im 21....
Topics: Podcast, Kultur, Kulturmanagement, Wissenschaft, Coronavirus, DigitalisierungBeethoven, Bonn,...

2020 hätte nicht das Corona-Jahr, sondern das Beethoven-Jahr werden sollen. Seit beinahe einer Dekade schon liefen die Pläne für die Feierlichkeiten zum 250. Geburtstag des Komponisten. In dieser Ausgabe berichtet Malte Boecker, Direktor des Beethoven-Hauses Bonn sowie Künstlerischer Geschäftsführer der Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH, was es heißt, nach dem begeisternden Anfang der Feierlichkeiten praktisch eine Vollbremsung einlegen zu müssen, wie schwer es ist zu planen, wenn man nicht...
Topics: Podcast, Kultur, Kulturmanagement, Wissenschaft, Coronavirus, DigitalisierungMusik, Festival,...