WHYR News

25/10/2021

A judge sentenced the human rights lawyer to six months in prison—but the calls for environmental justice are only growing.

25/10/2021

The Supreme Court is back in session but hasn’t brought legitimacy with it.

25/10/2021

Ralph Nader Radio Hour airs Mondays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. If you missed today's conversation with Randall Kennedy, author of Say It Loud: On Race, Law, History, and Culture, or want to listen again, stream it at https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/randall-kennedy-on-race-say-it-loud/

Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law professor and author of a collection of essays entitled “Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture” joins us for the full hour to talk about his views on race, class, corporatism, Clarence Thomas, the “n-word,” racial optimism versus racial pessimism, and m...

25/10/2021

Counter Spin by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting airs Mondays at 5 PM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Today: Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron v. Steven Donziger. Tune in this afternoon or listen on demand at https://fair.org/home/paul-paz-y-mino-on-chevron-v-steven-donziger/

Chevron v. Donziger is a case a major fossil fuel company wanted to see silenced that has in fact had that effect.

21/10/2021

Sea Change Radio airs Fridays at 5 PM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Shamus Roller on Housing Justice. Tune in or listen on demand at https://www.cchange.net/2021/10/19/shamus/

For the past year and a half, we’ve been watching the numbers: Covid cases, ER beds, deaths, and, more recently, immunization rates. There’s another set of numbers, however, that has gotten less attention but is just as connected to this pandemic as any of these other figures: housing. The pande...

21/10/2021

Arab Voices airs Fridays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams online at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Stop the War! An Event to Mark 20 Years of the War on Terror. Tune in or listen on demand at http://arabvoices.net/archives/ArabVoices101921.mp3

21/10/2021

Keeping Democracy Alive airs Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Pervasive Yet Invisible White Christian Privilege. Tune in or listen on demand at http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/pervasive-yet-invisible-white-christian-privilege/

It’s been normalized. Americans who are neither Christian nor white may not necessarily feel open discrimination, but privilege underlies everyday life. The starting point is not neutral, as we’d prefer to believe. On this show Dr. Kyati Y Joshi talks

20/10/2021

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine airs Thursdays at 5 PM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tune in tomorrow or listen on demand at https://btlonline.org/between-the-lines-oct-13-2021-full-show/

20/10/2021

Alternative Radio airs Thursdays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: History Textbooks: Facts or Fiction? More about this episode is available at https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/loej001/

20/10/2021

Law and Disorder airs Wednesdays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Editorial By Attorney Heidi Boghosian: Facebook’s Duty to Protect WhatsApp + FBI Evidence Demonstrates Saudi Arabia’s Involvement in September 11 Attacks. Tune in or listen on at https://lawanddisorder.org/2021/10/law-and-disorder-october-17-2021/

20/10/2021

Keeping Democracy Alive airs Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Making the World Safe for Plutocracy: The History of American Policing. Tune in or listen on demand at http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/podcast_archive_recent/

18/10/2021

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service airs Tuesdays at 8:30 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Listen tomorrow morning to hear WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service “Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986. To learn more, visit wings.org.

18/10/2021

This Way Out airs Tuesdays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tune in for the latest reporting from the only internationally distributed weekly LGBTQ radio program, heard on some 200 local radio stations around the world and listen on demand at thiswayout.org.

18/10/2021

Counter Spin by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting airs Mondays at 5 PM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Bobby Lewis on One America News, Jean Su on People vs. Fossil Fuels. Tune in or listen on demand at https://fair.org/home/bobby-lewis-on-one-america-news-jean-su-on-people-vs-fossil-fuels/

OAN's audience has been told that Trump really won the 2020 election and that chemical cocktails are better for Covid than vaccines.

18/10/2021

Ralph Nader Radio Hour airs Mondays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Two Soldiers’ View of War. Tune in or listen on demand at https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/two-soldiers-view-of-war/

Ralph interviews two recent military veterans. First, Erik Edstrom, author of “Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War” tells us about his awakening from West Point Army Ranger to peace advocate. Then, Garett Reppenhagen, a former sniper and now director of Veterans for Peace, te...

13/10/2021

Alternative Radio airs Thursdays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Tipping Points: Environmental & Political. For more information about this episode, visit https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/chon265/

Tipping points are in the air. And with good reason. A planetary emergency looms in the not-too-distant future. This isn’t alarmist talk but the best judgment of our leading scientists. The prestigious International Union for Conservation of Nature has just issued its starkest warning to date: “...

12/10/2021

Law and Disorder airs Wednesdays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Julian Assange: October 26 Appeal + Challenges To Roe v. Wade And Donziger Case Updates. Tune in tomorrow or listen on demand at https://lawanddisorder.org/2021/10/law-and-disorder-october-11-2021/

12/10/2021

Keeping Democracy Alive airs Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: The Prescience And Vision of Rosa Luxemburg. Who? Tune in or listen on demand at http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/the-prescience-and-vision-of-rosa-luxemburg-who/

11/10/2021

Not only is his rhetoric out of step with his party, it's endangering its future control in Washington.

10/10/2021

Counter Spin by Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting airs Mondays at 5 PM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Lisa Graves on the Fight for the Post Office, Stevana Sims on Saving Anti-Racist Education. Tune in or listen on demand at https://fair.org/home/lisa-graves-on-the-fight-for-the-post-office-stevana-sims-on-saving-anti-racist-education/

Though the Postal Service has always been a public good, its current leaders seem intent on driving it into the ground.

10/10/2021

Ralph Nader Radio Hour airs Mondays at 8 AM on Baton Rouge Community Radio WHYR 96.9 FM and streams at whyr.org. Tomorrow: Humane War? https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/humane-war/

Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein joins forces with Ralph as we devote the entire radio hour to discussing war powers in the United States with Yale historian, Samuel Moyn, author of “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.”

10/10/2021

The Human Rights Council recognised this Friday, for the first time, that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.