Thinking Out Loud

Category: Talk, Public Affairs, Opinion,

Time: Monday-Thursday, 9am-12pm

Hosts: Dan Toomey (DJ/Producer), Jim Giddings (DJ), Dave Tiernky, and others

Email: thinkingoutloud(at)wuml.org

Website: Thinking Out Loud

Description/Favorites: Public affairs show covering the workplace, the community and the environment from a pro-labor, leftist point of view.
In English from 10am-11am, with a different language each day from 11am-Noon.

"Thinking Out Loud" is a public affairs show dedicated to providing the underreported news, information and opinions not often heard in mainstream non-profit or for-profit radio. We are affiliated with the National Radio Project, the Independent Media Centers, The Workers Independent News Service, and TUC radio. We focus on the Workplace, the Environment, and the Community. Our bias is pro-labor, pro-diversity, anti-corporate. During some segments of our show, we cover those subjects from a more global perspective, bringing you voices and thoughts of commentators like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Jim Hightower, and Utah Phillips, Arundhati Roy, Juliet Schor, the Dalai Lama. We have segments in foreign languages that serve certain immigrant communities; among these are the Khmer language, spoken in Cambodia and in Lowell's large Cambodian community, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. The Spanish language segment on Thursday from 11:00 to noon is called "Pensando en Voz Alta"; the co-hosts talk about the Hispanic community, and its relation to the workplace and the environment. We try to have live interviews as often as we can in the WUML studio at about 10:00; interviewees have included striking nurses, community organizers, peace corps veterans, health care activists, among many others. A little after 10:00 on Tuesday, we usually bring you "Voices of Our World" from Maryknoll, and at 11:30 to noon on Wednesday, we have "Environmental Corner", with two local co-hosts and live guests.

We intersperse our talk, opinion and news with music that ranges from topical (such artists as Dave Rovics, Leon Rosselson, Judy Small) to xenophile (Sufi chants, South African Freedom Songs and much more) , which you probably aren't hearing on other stations in this area. We welcome listener input by phone, email and mail.

Each Thursday, during the 10:00 hour, Isa Cann hosts "The Long View" segment, about "Working Towards Sustainability", highlighting economic, environmental & social development news, information & occasional feisty commentary. Please visit www.thelongview.net/ for more information"

Send comments to thinkingoutloud(at)mindspring.com.