We are now syndicating the organic gardening and sustainability podcasts of Bozeman resident Kate Gardner, aka The Manic Gardener. Catch the latest shows in our Community section, or the full archive at The Manic Gardner program.
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Election season approaching ...
As we head into the 2012 election season, Gallatin Community Radio is again planning to provide both individual candidate statements and recordings of public forums that not everyone interested is able to attend. The first two shows in this coverage, from a candidate forum at MSU and a talk on legislative referenda, are now available on our Government page or in the 2012 Election program. If you are sponsoring or know of an event that would belong in this program, please contact us at info@gallatincommunityradio.org.
Democracy Now! for Friday, May 18
- Headlines for May 18, 2012
- Occupy G8: Peoples’ Summit Confronts World Leaders at Camp David, Urging Action on Poverty, Hunger
- "I Know He Was Scared": Trayvon Martin’s Girlfriend Recounts Phone Call Right Before Fatal Shooting
- Ben Jealous: "Heartbreaking" Trayvon Tapes Capture Experience of Millions Racially Profiled in U.S.
- "The Worst Racial Profiling Program in the Country": NAACP President on NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Program
- All-White Jury Acquits Houston Ex-Police Officer in Videotaped Beating of Black Teen Chad Holley
- U.S. Secret Drug War in Honduras: Botched DEA Raid Leaves 2 Pregnant Women, 2 Men Dead
Democracy Now! for Thursday, May 17
- Headlines for May 17, 2012
- Journalist, Plaintiff Chris Hedges Hails "Monumental" Ruling Blocking NDAA Indefinite Detention
- "End This Depression Now": Paul Krugman Urges Public Spending, Not Deficit Hysteria, to Save Economy
- Krugman: Jamie Dimon Should Resign over JPMorgan’s $3B Lost Bet and Campaign Against Financial Regs
- Paul Krugman on Eurozone: "The Whole Thing Could Fall Apart in a Matter of Months"
- Paul Krugman: Debt Commission Chair Alan Simpson is Wrong to Call For Greater Austerity, Budget Cuts
MSU Council on Leadership, Outreach and Engagement: Wonderlust Forum May 18, 2012
Wonderlust welcomed two representatives from Montana State University, Dr. Douglas Steele, Vice President for External Relations and Director of Extension and Dr. Jim Rimpau, Vice President for Planning and Chief Information Officer, for a Friday forum of particular significance to Wonderlust participants. Drs. Rimpau and Steele talked about MSU's new Council on Leadership, Outreach, and Engagement, the University's work on a long-term strategic plan, and how this work might affect outreach, lifelong education, and the Wonderlust program.
The U.S. Farm Bill: Wonderlust Forum Mar. 9, 2012
The sprawling US Farm Bill is up for renewal in 2012. What programs should be eliminated to balance the budget? What new programs might be included to help family farms and to improve human health and the environment? What are the implications for Montana?
Wonderlust welcomed MSU Agricultural Economics Professor Vince Smith as the speaker for its March 9th Friday Forum. He discussed likely changes to farm policies, including termination of direct payments, adjusting price supports, reducing the scope of the Conservation Reserve program, revisiting the ethanol use mandate.
Professor Smith is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and serves as a consultant on domestic and international agricultural issues to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USDA and other agencies.
2012 Equal Pay Day presentation
Equal Pay Day is held annually in April to signify the point into a year that a woman must work to earn what a man made the previous year. To bring awareness to this issue, the Bozeman Professional Women (BPW), the Bozeman Library Foundation, and Montana Women Vote held a program on April 17 – Equal Pay Day for 2012 – at the Bozeman Library. Speakers included Rep. Franke Wilmer, Corky Bush, and Jan Strout.
Wonderlust Side Trip - Art Runs Through It: The Legend of Livingston, Montana
Livingston, Montana has long been a legendary arts center--home to actors, writers, painters, musicians, photographers and film makers. Wonderlust, Journeys of the Mind, an organization of lifelong learners sponsored by Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, and Country Bookstore presented a panel on February 27, 2012 that discussed whether the extraordinary scenery of the Paradise Valley draws artists to this small town or whether it all happened accidentally. Residents from all these fields talked about the near-mystical draw of Livingston.
Moderator Joanne Gardner, an award-winning video director and producer of music videos, singer, performer
Members of the Panel
Clyde Aspevig--artist who has exhibited in many museums, including MOR
Tim Cahill--outdoor and adventure writer, author 12 books including Lost in My Own Backyard founding editor of Outside Magazine.
Carol Guzman--artist who has exhibited in sundry galleries and museums
Margo Kidder--actress “Lois Lane” of the Superman series, starred in many films including costarring with Robert Redford and Peter Fonda.
Scott McMillion--author Mark of the Grizzly, senior editor of Montana Quarterly
Bill Payne, musician and photographer. He has been referred to by Elton John as one of America’s finest rock and blues musicians and is regarded as one of the best on piano and Hammond B3 organ.
Steps towards Sustainability
An interview with Jason Kimm takes place in a truck, a field, and a piece of harvesting equipment I’d never heard of. (It’s called a potato windrower, and it digs potatoes.) Along the way, he describes how he has worked to reduce his farm’s dependence on pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers, not to mention electricity, often through what sound like ludicrously simple means. Using pipes instead of open ditches for irrigation all but eliminates the need for electric pumps. Using a water softener with an herbicide cuts the amount needed in half. And so forth.
Like most North Americans these days, the amount I know about farming might fill a small teacup. But last week I visited the Kimm seed potato farm, where Jason and Yvonne Kimm operate a small organic plot and help their extended family run a much larger conventional farm. You might say I got educated in a hurry.
On a previous show, “No Small Potatoes,” Yvonne introduced me to the organic operation and to the farm machinery and buildings. This week, we take to the fields.
Community Composting with Big Bokashi
How can a food bank cut its garbage output from 85,000 pounds in one year to 40,000 the next—and produce tons of “good dirt” at the same time? By composting, of course. But large-scale composting without turning, and without machinery?
Michael Daltons and MJ Arendes of Gardens from Garbage explain how they are establishing school gardens, keeping tons of garbage out of landfills, and creating compost through a process most North Americans have never heard of, all at the same time. (And all despite the fact that according to MJ, they’ve “made every mistake in the book.”)
Gayle Gifford, Executive Director of the food bank in Great Falls, Montana, talks about how Bokashi has cut her organization’s garbage bills, intrigued Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality, and provided her with something to give back to the gardeners who contribute their produce.
Bokashi appears to do everything from clean up nuclear waste (see last week’s show, Kitchen Composting: Bokashi 101) to keep your cat box from smelling. Yes, you can put it in your cat box, but also your smoothies, your fish pond, or your septic tank, and it will help every time. Don’t believe it? Listen and decide.
Montana Congressional Candidate Forum
The NARAL Pro-Choice Montana Foundation, in association with Montana Women Vote, American Association of University Women of Montana, Montana Human Rights Network, MSU Students for Choice, Montana Women's Lobby, and Montana Women For, sponsored this forum for candidates for the lone Montana Congressional seat on the evening of Mar. 27, 2012. Participating were Democratic candidates Kim Gillan, Rob Stutz, Diane Smith, Dave Strohmaier, Franke Wilmer, and Jason Ward.
Legislative Referenda on 2012 Ballot
Legislative Referenda 2012: What they are and why you should take action
Kim Abbott, Director of Organizing
Montana Human Rights NetworkAs the Director of Organizing, Kim uses a human rights and “intersectionality” framework in her organizing efforts. Many of the referenda that will appear on the ballot this November intersect multiple constituent groups. Kim will discuss these ballot measures.
Legislative Referenda:
• LR-119 ( SB 268 ) to require supreme court justices to be elected or appointed from districts with approximately equal populations .
• LR-120 ( HB 627 ) to require parental notification prior to abortion for a minor, providing for judicial waiver of notification, repealing prior statutes, and providing penalties.
• LR-121 ( HB 638 ) to deny certain state services to illegal aliens.
• LR-122 ( SB 418 ) to prohibit the state or federal government from mandating the purchase of health insurance or imposing penalties for decisions related to purchasing health insurance.
• LR-123 ( SB 426 ) to contingently provide taxpayers refunds of surplus state government general fund balance through an income tax credit based upon property and individual income taxes paid.