Hazel Kahan

Hazel Kahan


Latest Episodes

Chuck Collins: Burned by Billionaires
November 30, 2025

Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his new bookBurned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet. Chuck also shows us how we can re

Peggy Lauber on how North Fork Audubon serves and protects the ecosystem and its humans
September 30, 2025

Peggy Lauber, president of North Fork Audubon Society, talks about the many ways this flourishing local organization serves and protects not only the environment and ecosystem but also what it offers

John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation
September 09, 2025

John Christian Phifer is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial pr

Jeff Halper analyzes why Israel gets away with it
August 18, 2025

Jeff Halper, Jewish Israeli author, activist, advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaks to us from Jerusalem where he has lived since 1973. Jeff is co-founder and Director of ICAHD, established

Minerva Perez, Executive Director introduces OLA of Eastern Long Island
August 17, 2025

Minerva Perez, Executive Director of OLA of eastern Long Island, talks about building this Latino-focused nonprofit advocacy, aligning its activities with the East Ends governance structure and now implementing a rapid response plan to train volunteers t

Amy Folk on Southold’s enslaved and enslavers
July 01, 2025

Amy Folk, Southold Town historian, talks about the North Fork Project and its goal of naming all the towns enslaved people, describing the process of finding the enslaved as well as their enslavers. (Broadcast during WPKNs Black History Month, February

Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself
June 10, 2025

Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex

Steve Schott of CCE talks kelp and seagrass
June 01, 2025

Steve Schott, Marine Botany/Habitat Restoration Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension, talks about sugar kelp and eelgrass, crucial to protect and restore the waters around Long Island, and the re

Dr. Urvi Khaitan: Lessons for climate collapse from WWII-era Indian women
May 13, 2025

Dr. Urvi Khaitan, historian and Prize Fellow at Harvard Universitys Center for History and Economy, tells us how learning about Indian women and food policies and practices during Indias severe World War II food insecurity, can equip us to better surviv

Candace Hall: Greenport native daughter, Village Clerk and community leader
May 06, 2025

Greenport native Candace Hall talks about being Greenports Village Clerk along with some candid personal revelations:the complexities of being part of a large family in a small town, being the first young black woman to achieve community prominence and