A protracted but determined struggle to defeat an airport construction project produced an extraordinary victory. In the face of brutal police repression, Isabelle Fremeaux, Jay Jordan, and others created an autonomous zone and prevented the construction of a massive international airport on 4,000 acres of fields, forest, and wetlands in western France. Fremeaux and Jordan … Continued


On today’s July 4th holiday broadcast: 0:08 Historian Adam Hochschild joins us to discuss the Americans who volunteered to fight fascism before defeating it was the policy of their country. We discuss his book Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. 1:08 – A journey into the sounds of nature and … Continued