The Radio Café on Santafenewmexican.com

We talk to Ben Shelton of Conservation Voters New Mexico and Theresa Cárdenas from the Union of Concerned Scientists about the effort to make New Mexico a 0% carbon emissions state.

So many movies, so little time! We feature three films, on today’s show, but there are so many more to see (check out santafefilmfestival.com) Tom Donahue’s brilliant documentary, This Changes Everything, is about gender inequity in Hollywood. Tim Disney talks about his film, William, the cloning of Neanderthal DNA and the resulting young man trying to make his way in a world where he’s different. And biographer James McGrath Morris talks about the film, Joseph Pulitzer: The Voice Of The People

Bernardo Ruiz’s new film, Harvest Season, shows us a year in the Napa Valley with multi-generational Latino vineyard workers and business people. It’s a celebration of all the people who work behind the scenes to make each bottle of California wine.

Rachel Kleinfeld is the author of a brilliant new book, A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security, in which she examines some of the world’s deadliest regions, including Colombia, Sicily, the American South, the Republic of Georgia, and Bihar, India.

New Mexico may be on the verge of banning coyote killing contests statewide. The state legislature is also considering bills that would ban wildlife trapping on public lands, and other measures to protect wildlife. We talk to Chris Smith of Wild Earth Guardians, and Judy Calman of Animal Protection Voters.

Jal Mehta is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He’s a deep thinking about improving education, and about the many communities in the US in which schools are addressing problems of both education and society. An acclaimed educator himself, he speaks and writes with empathy and understanding about the challenges that the US education systems face, and what steps a state like New Mexico can take to challenge and engage our students. 

Anna Sofaer was a young artist and photographer visiting New Mexico when she discovered the dagger of light bisecting a rock art spiral at Chaco Canyon. Decades of subsequent research have revealed the rocks placed by ancient Chacoans over a thousand years ago mark solstice, equinox and lunar events.

New Mexico has a new governor and a new legislature. Santa Fe New Mexican Journalists Milan Simonich and Andrew Oxford talk about what we can expect—what changes and what doesn’t—and it’s not all about political parties. 

Last month Santa Fe was host city to the Journalism Under Fire conference, organized by the Santa Fe Council on International Relations. We talk to Courtney Radsch, Advocacy Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, about the threats to press freedom worldwide, including the killings and harassment of journalists, and what the CPJ does to protect individuals and news organizations. 

For the last decade, Howie Morales has been a New Mexico state senator. Now he’s Lieutenant Governor, and he has some big ideas for education, renewable energy, immigration, and civil rights.

S1 E12 2017 in Review with New Mexican journalists

S1 E11 Leona Stuckey and community violence

How to prepare a delicious, traditional Thanksgiving dinner—and many variations on the theme. In our second annual Thanksgiving food show, Johnny Vee, director of the cooking school at Cosas in Santa Fe, tells us about his own history with less-than-delectable holiday cuisine, and how we can prepare healthy and tasty food in advance for a low-stress holiday. 

In this highly readable slim volume, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Jason Stanley shows us the ten basic elements of fascism, and illustrates how they operate, including in the US, where us-vs.-them politics has always been at odds with our democracy. 

How do adversaries find common ground? How do they work together to find common goals an interests? Food from the Radical Center: Healing our Land and Communities by Gary Paul Nabhan is about food and land conservation, but its lessons have the potential to bring together many people in our polarized nation.