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Northern Sun News is a  one hour public affairs program covering a wide variety of topics. The emphasis is peace, ecology and social justice. In-studio guests and recorded speeches and occasional topical music.


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5/16/2013 Northern Sun News
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5/9/2013 Northern Sun News
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Carl Sack – Environmental activist
Topics: The push for iron mining in northern Wisconsin 7 the opposition to it
Frank Kane – Environmental activist
Topics: Update on bad environmental legislation passed in Wisconsin

5/2/2013 Northern Sun News
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Tom Haines – Executive Producer Gold Fever film
Topics: Saga about making a film of indigenous opposition in Guatemala to a gold mine right in their community
Jake Olzen – Catholic farmer near Lake City, MN
Topics: Being arrested in frac sand protest in Winona, MN

4/25/2013 Northern Sun News
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Playlist Tracks:
Langston Hughes – Commentary – I eventually found work…
Album: Essential Hughes; Label: Caedmon
Langston Hughes – Trumpet Player
Album: Essential Hughes; Label: Caedmon
David Rovics – Meanwhile in Afganistan
Album: Meanwhile in Afganistan; Label: S – R
Jim Tittle – Documentary film-maker
Topics: The Price of Sand
Carl Sack – Environmental Activist
Topics: Hazards of sand mining & fracking for oil & natural gas
Dave Logsdam – Vets for Peace
Topics: Upcoming activities

4/18/2013 Northern Sun News
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Heather von St James – Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization volunteer, blogger
Topics: Dust: the Great Asbestos Trial film, 100 year history of health risks still a problem today
Michael Brunson – Chicago Teachers Union
Topics: Pt 2 How they won the 2012 strike & the problems ahe

4/11/2013 Northern Sun News
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– Author, prof, food activist
Topics: Rebuilding the Foodshed: how to create local, sustainable and secure food systems
Michael Brunson – Chicago Teachers Union activist
Topics: The organization & education that allowed them to win the 2012 strike

4/4/2013 Northern Sun News
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Eric Toensmeier – Author & Permaculture Teacher
Topics: Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-tenth of an acre and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
Rob Czernick – Activist with Center for Deep Ecology. Mpls
Topics: Permacultre & gardening classes & web sites

3/28/2013 Northern Sun News
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ks:
Clive North – Sisters Camelot collective Member
Topics: Views of the collective on the canvasser’s strike
Tiffany Wicklund – Sisters Camelot canvasser & striker
Topics: Why the canvassers formed a union under the IWW banner & went on strike
Susan Lindauer – Author & CIA whistle-blower
Topics: Pt 2 from the talk about her book Extreme Prejudice: the terrifying story of the Patriot Act and the cover ups of 9/11 and Iraq

3/21/2013 Northern Sun News
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Ray Magnuson – Trustee St Paul House of Labor
Topics: Intro
Susan Lindauer – C.I.A. Whistle-Blower , author
Topics: Extreme Prejudice: terrifying story of the Patriot Act & the cover ups of 9/11 & Iraq; the ultimate conspiracy to silence truth

3/14/2013 Northern Sun News
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Suzanne Gordon – Author & co-editor Culture & Politics of Health Care Work, Cornell U Press
Topics: Beyond the Checklist: what else health care can learn from aviation teamwork & safety
Cecile Pineda – Author
Topics: Devil’s Tango:how I learned the Fukushima step by step
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Northern Sun News
Air Date:
March 14, 2013
DJs:
Don Olson
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Thursday, 9:00am to 10:00am
DJs: 
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