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A weekly one-hour progressive radio show featuring lectures & interviews with progressive thinkers.


Every Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.



Our program is carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. It is produced by David Barsamian in Boulder, Colorado.



Alternative Radio is sustained by donations and by your purchases of season subscriptions, recordings and transcripts. You can make a donation, including a recurring amount charged to your credit card each month, from our donations page.



Because Alternative Radio is a syndicated program, we don't have the permissions from them to post their audio files or transcripts. If you go to the Alternative Radio website, you can download their interviews and lectures for a very low price, and help support their work.

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Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Alternative Radio on 01/24/12

Airs at: Tue, 01/24/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Morris Berman – Dark Ages in the U.S (lecture) From the boarded up storefronts to foreclosed homes to the homeless and unemployed, the signs of decay in the U.S. are all too apparent. The political class pretending to care about the 99% have little to offer beyond boile... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/17/12

Airs at: Tue, 01/17/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Mohamad Junaid – Inside Kashmir (interview) Kashmir, renowned for its incredible beauty, is the site of a decades long military occupation mostly hidden from worldview. Adjectives like “intractable” and “protracted” often precede Kashmir. What do the Kashmiri people wan... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/10/12

Airs at: Tue, 01/10/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Wolff - Occupy Wall Street & the Economic Crisis (interview) By any standard, 2011 was a historic year of protest and revolution. In Tunisia and Egypt seemingly invulnerable regimes were toppled. In Wisconsin, citizens outraged over attacks on public workers, sta... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/03/12

Airs at: Tue, 01/03/2012 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
David Korten - Wall Street or the Common Good (lecture) The Occupy Wall Street movement is growing. Mumia Abu-Jamal from his jail cell writes: “In Lower Manhattan's Zucotti Park, renamed 'Liberty Square' by the demonstrators, the cast of thousands swell in rebellion aga... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/27/11

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Paul Cienfuegos – We the People (lecture) Paul Cienfuegos has been passionate about social change all his life and has devoted most of his adult life to this important work. In 1995, he founded Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC), which works to dismantle... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/20/11

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Arundhati Roy on "With the Maoists in India" (lecture) Recorded in New York, NY on November 09, 2011. While China uses Chairman Mao as a figurehead it has embraced a kind of capitalism. But Maoists in India? Yes. Not only there but also in neighboring Nepal where they o... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/13/11

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Stephen Bezruchka – Toward a Healthy Society (lecture) It’s no secret. The poor get the short end of the stick in multiple ways. They live shorter lives and suffer from almost every social problem from lack of decent housing to lousy food to no healthcare to being isola... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/06/11

Airs at: Tue, 12/06/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
On December 17, 2010 Muhammad Bouazizi, a street vendor in a small town in Tunisia, burned himself to death. He was protesting harassment and mistreatment by state authorities. His death fueled a revolt in Tunisia which toppled the Ben Ali dictatorship. The spark s... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/29/11

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
On December 17, 2010 Muhammad Bouazizi, a street vendor in a small town in Tunisia, burned himself to death. He was protesting harassment and mistreatment by state authorities. His death fueled a revolt in Tunisia which toppled the Ben Ali dictatorship. The spark spre... Read more

Alternative Radio on 11/22/11

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Rocking the boat is never an easy task but you can accomplish meaningful things and have some fun along the way. Playing ball with the rich and powerful of course has its rewards. You're in the golden rolodex. You get invited to all the right parties. People nod at yo... Read more