Ellie 2.0 - Am950 The Progressive Voice Of Minnesota
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- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 203:27:50
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The Progressive Voice of Minnesota
Episodes
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – The Big Interview With Ranae Lenor Hanson
15/08/2021 Duration: 23minRanae Lenor Hanson is the author of the new book Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress and she speaks with Ellie about the rural and urban cultural and political divides in Minnesota.
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 14, 2021
15/08/2021 Duration: 43minAnn Hopkins is Ellie’s Featured Idealist profile this week; Ellie talks about the rural/urban divide in Minnesota with Northern Minnesota-based author Ranae Lenor Hanson in the Big Interview.
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – August 7, 2021
08/08/2021 Duration: 43minEllie’s featured idealist is seminarian and activist Jonathan Daniels; Ellie’s Big Interview is an encore presentation of her August 2020 conversation with author Michael Fosberg; Ellie has a lot of updates for us in her C-block this week.
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 24, 2021
25/07/2021 Duration: 43minIda B. Wells is Ellie’s featured idealist, the Big Interview is with Jennifer Halpus, parent of a transgender student who filed suit against the Anoka-Hennepin school district for discrimination; Ellie speaks about her recent advocacy.
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 17, 2021
18/07/2021 Duration: 43minWith this being Pride Weekend in the Twin Cities, our theme is “Pride and Puppies.” We begin by highlighting the recent executive order of Governor Walz that directs health insurers in MN to attest that they don’t provide coverage for conversion therapy—the practice of trying to counsel LGBTQ youth to suppress their sexual or gender…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – July 10, 2021
12/07/2021 Duration: 43minIt’s an Ellie’s Talking Head Show! We start with our featured idealist, Lauren Underwood, a second-term congresswoman who represents Illinois’s 14th District who at 32 was the youngest black woman ever elected to Congress. Her political trajectory was unusual—she started as an RN focusing on health care policy but became politically motivated when the ACA…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – June 26, 2021
27/06/2021 Duration: 43minThis week’s featured idealist is the late Robert Katzmann, a judge who President Clinton appointed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1999. Judge Katzmann used his imagination and position to innovatively increase legal access, and as well, he gave diverse students a glimpse of how their lives can be different. The Big Interview…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – June 19, 2021
21/06/2021 Duration: 43minTo commemorate today’s first-ever federal Juneteenth holiday, I talk about Opal Lee, a 94-year-old idealist who began pushing for federal recognition of June 19, 1865 (the date when federal troops ended slavery in Texas) when she was 89. The Big Interview is with Torrie Allen, executive director of Arts Midwest, which just received an $8…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – June 12, 2021
14/06/2021 Duration: 43minDavid Edgerton Jr fills in for Ellie on today’s show!
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – June 5, 2021
06/06/2021 Duration: 43minWe start out talking about the 1919 massacre of 200 black men, women and children in Elaine, Arkansas when white-color farmers/townspeople asserted Jim Crow power after black farmers sought to unionize in order obtain fair prices for their cotton crops. The Big Interview is with David Edgerton, Jr. of the DEJ Group, which provides diversity,…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – May 22, 2021
24/05/2021 Duration: 43minWe begin this week featuring Mercy for Animals (MFA), an international animal protection nonprofit that works to prevent cruelty to farmed animals, and which promotes compassionate food choices and policies. One of the ways that MFA operates is through investigations where people go undercover into factory farms or animal processing sites to document and record…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – May 15 2021
17/05/2021 Duration: 43minWe have a rock star show this week! We being with the featured idealist: Liz Cheney—yes, I know, that Liz Cheney. But there’s no getting around the fact that her brave stand against the former president and the Big Lie is about as idealistic as anyone can be. The Big Interview is huge—we have John…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – May 8, 2021
10/05/2021 Duration: 43minTo begin, I share about how conservative media has coined the phrase “Critical Race Theory” as a way to attack the efforts of many who seek to end America’s problems with systemic racism. The Big Interview is with Julia Gay of the Coalition of Asian American Leaders. In my C-Block, I talk about a recent…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – May 1, 2021
03/05/2021 Duration: 43minOur featured idealist is Van Jones, best-selling author, nonprofit creator, and CNN commentator, who’s used his imagination to change the social justice landscape. The Big Interview is with Fawzia Kahn, a physician-turned-artist, whose installation, “Becoming Visible,” highlights the invisible roles that women play. I’m happy to say that I was one of the women featured…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – April 24, 2021
25/04/2021 Duration: 43minThis week’s show begins by highlighting Darnella Frazier, the then-17-year-old who videoed Derek Chauvin as he suffocated the life out of George Floyd. I refer Darnella as a “defacto idealist” who may not have intended to change the world that afternoon, but yet still did so in a way that few could ever seek to…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – April 17, 2021
19/04/2021 Duration: 43minOur featured idealist is Katie Porter, the California Congresswoman who represents Orange County and who’s known for using a whiteboard when questioning witnesses testifying before Congress. The Big Interview is with Sondra Samuels who shares about The Itasca Project’s “First Thousand Days” initiative aimed at protecting the physical and mental health of babies in their…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – April 10, 2021
11/04/2021 Duration: 44minWe begin by learning about McKenzie Scott, the former Mrs. Jeff Bezos, whose estimated $63 billion net worth makes her the richest woman in the world. An accomplished author, she has signed onto the Giving Pledge, vowing to give away half her wealth before she dies. The Big Interview is an encore interview of Mary…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – April 3rd, 2021
05/04/2021 Duration: 43minThis week’s idealist is Steven Donziger, an attorney who took on Chevron for polluting the Ecuadoran jungle and won a $9.5 billion judgment. When Donziger attempted to collect the judgment, Chevron fought back; now Donziger is on his 600th+ day of home confinement awaiting a contempt of court trial. The Big Interview is with Jamey…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – March 27, 2021
27/03/2021 Duration: 43minA Live Show! Our theme is “Making Amends” and we begin by highlighting “The Longoria Affair” that arose in 1949 when a Three Rivers, Texas funeral home refused to allow a wake at the funeral home for Felix Z. Longoria, Jr., a Latino Army private killed in WWII and whose body was returned 4 years…
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Ellie 2.0 Radio – March 13, 2021
15/03/2021 Duration: 43minOur highlighted idealist is Marc Elias, an attorney who’s represented the Democratic National Committee and many other Dem entities; he also served as general counsel to the election campaigns of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Most importantly, he oversaw efforts to protect President Biden’s win versus the Big Lie about election fraud and he’s now…