These students from Bucks County will be focusing on PA politics and want the podcast to serve as a call to action for all young people to get involved in the civic process and demand change.
Central Bucks is under fire for allegedly creating a toxic environment for LGBTQ+ students, vindictively targeting a teacher, and spending more than $1 million for reputation laundering.
Barbara Simmons was executive director of The Peace Center for 30 years. She was founding director of PeaceTalks radio, producing documentaries from across the globe. And she continues to be a force for peace and justice in Bucks County.
Frederick Clarkson unpacks this GOP-linked far-right theocratic movement that wants to build a “kingdom revolution” led by an “army of believers” to usher in Christian dominion over what they call the “Seven Mountains”: religion, family, education, government, media, entertainment and business.
On the first half of the show Olivia talks about her undercover reporting at the Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia, then Diana joins to explain why she and so many others in Bucks County refuse to co-parent with these extremists.
Brett talks about being a dad to his daughter Lily and what it’s like in this Transphobic moment we find ourselves in nationally, and in Bucks County (specifically in Central Bucks School District).
Victoria speaks about her new book “Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice,” which she wrote, in part, “to help readers understand the violence and corruption that drives migration.”
What does successful student- and teacher-led community resistance to book banning look like? These two #FReadom fighters share their story – and strategy and tactics.
The ideology and worldview of conservative activist parents is creating and contributing to the ongoing school board wars.
Environmentalists say that allowing the industry to drill in Pennsylvania’s part of the watershed would risk contaminating drinking water for some 15 million people with toxic chemicals.
“I want the results of the water tests to be made public. I want an investigation about how the material got into the field, and I want it remediated,” said Trumbauersville resident Wes Comes.
If the two-year limit is enacted, evictions are expected to skyrocket, resulting in an increase in homelessness.
Local MAGA millionaire Jim Worthington put it best when he told NOTUS last week, “Ninety percent of the time, he votes with the president. He didn’t this one time, but it didn’t affect the outcome.”
“It is deeply unethical for a sitting school board member to be hired by members of her own board to a position at the local tech school,” said Pennridge School District parent Laura Foster.
