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Meet the Host: Mara Holland of ISLA EARTH

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Mara Holland is delighted to give a voice to the many environmental issues facing us today. She is especially fond of successful animal conservation scripts. And as an artist says she would enjoy giving each animal a character voice. She has been the ‘voice’ for clients like HBO and Verizon. She is also an accomplished actress whose art has included community theater, film, commercial voiceover. Her work with costuming has included creations that span the playful (Disney attractions) to the sublime (“Flower Drum Song,” Mark Taper,  Los Angeles). With a deep appreciation for nature, Mara counts Isla Earth among her most gratifying assignments.

Isla Earth is a fun and engaging weekday radio program with an information rich website and free monthly newsletter called the e-Digest. Their team of science writers and editors scour the planet for breaking news about the issues most critical to the health and well- being of this island we call Earth. They cover stories from Antelopes to the near-extinction of the Zuber. Isla Earth also bring to you the latest on alternative energy development and about the environmental and conservation work of community groups and organizations.

These entertaining, science-based, modules encourage ecological awareness, deepen understanding of our natural world, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices. Produced by the Catalina Island Conservancy.

LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE:  CD, mp2, and Podcast
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Available Now ACTION SPEAKS! Fall Series of Specials

Complete Fall Season
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The Theme: “What Now?”


Action Speaks! – Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents its 2009 Fall Series of 4 one hour public forums on burning issues seen in historical context.

All episodes are NOW available FREE on PRX & Content Depot:

What Now? Nixon
“Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroids?”

Action Speaks takes a look at a birthplace of suburban utopia, Levittown. In just over 50 years, the American suburbs have physically transformed the landscape of our country, redefined the middle class and helped to both fuel and bring down our nation’s economy. Is this the American dream we were looking for? Will the suburbs, built on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of oil, be able to turn ‘green’ and can bastions of  ’white flight’ and individualism reflect our nation’s demographic diversity and its needs for community?

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“What began as a Ping Pong match is now a game of ‘Chicken’…the US and China; partners or enablers?”

The relationship between the US and China has been a driving force in the development of both countries. In the past 30 years, China has transformed from  agricultural superpower to manufacturing giant, from a capitalist enemy to the biggest U.S. lender. To understand the impact of this relationship on the future of the US economy and its foreign relations, Action Speaks is heading back in time to follow President Nixon on his historic visit to China when much of this co-dependent relationship began to take shape.

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“First door-to-door, now e-mail-to-email, will community organizing have the same power in a virtual community? How will we organize for change in the 21st Century?”

Panelists include Heather Cronk,the Chief Operating Officer at the New Organizing Institute; Mary Kay Harris, Lead Organizer for the Providence organization Direct Action for Rights and Equality; Pam McMichael, Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center; and Nicholas V. Longo, Ph.D. , Professor & Author of the book Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life
How has mobilizing the public changed in the world of Web2.0 from the days of the Highlander Center’s multiracial labor and Civil Rights organizing? Does Internet based organizing mean less or more ‘Bowling Alone’? Why is community organizer Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rule for Radicals’ a favorite book of the ‘Right’?

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“Is the patient stable, improving, or failing? What are the chances of survival for a nation divided on health reform?”

In this discussion Journalist/Filmmaker TR Reid, Scholar/Author Theda Scocpol and Providence physician Dr. Joseph Chazin look at our contemporary debate about health care reform through the lens of Hilary Clinton’s 1993 Health Care Task force. The three panelists bring their individual expertise to consider whether or not America has the will or even the ability to enact meaningful ‘health care for all’. In the one hour radio show, the three question (sometimes contentiously) whether the United States can create affordable, cradle to grave health care for its citizens in a country dominated by the logic of a market based economic system, while at the same time noticing how other countries have utilized their particularities to initiate health care for all. During this one hour discussion, there is also an in depth discussion of what went wrong with Hilary Clinton’s Health Care Task Force and how President Obama has learned from those missteps.


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Since 1995, Action Speaks! has been committed to enhancing cultural life with unbiased discourse between scholars, artists, students, and citizens.  Host Marc Levitt keeps the pace energetic and the talk lively during open-ended discussions in the casual atmosphere of the downtown Providence arts organization. These are recorded, edited, and rebroadcast on Rhode Island’s NPR station, WRNI 1290 AM.

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