At Which Cost Must we Impose our Culture. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Mauricio de Araujo. It is a humanitarian act to host refugees from conflict areas. Forced displacement of entire communities from neighboring countries is becoming more and more common in the latest conflict panorama. Displaced communities are […]
Give Me Your Tired Huddled Masses (View from the North)
Comparing Canada and the United States. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. We discuss comparative immigration and migration policies in Canada in the United States, particularly in view of the Trump’s effects to build the wall, child separation, the current migrant policies in Europe, Abbott and Desantis shipping […]
Sustainable Lighting for a Better Future (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
A Floatable Solar Lantern to Reduce Pollution. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Alice Chun. How Alice Chun came to invent Solight Design. Her struggles,and celebrations as a female inventor and entrepreneur. How she worked with her students to build and test prototypes. Current projects: helping refugees from the Russia-Ukraine […]
What Else Can America Do for Ukraine (American Issues Take Two)
What Can the Government and What Can You Do. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Shackley Raffetto. Our panel, including retired judge Shackley Raffetto, examines what the United States has done and is doing to build the European coalition and help Ukraine defend itself; […]
Our Journey from Ukraine to Maui (Global Connections)
A New Example of Hawaii’s Aloha. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Vladlena Bugay and Igor Chopa. Vlada Bugay and her father Igor Chopa describe their extraordinary journey from Ukraine to Maui, how things were for them in Ukraine, how they managed to get here, and what they found when […]
Unity Through Creativity, Not Force (The Creative Life)
Ukraine, Sarajevo: Healing Trauma of War. The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Laurie Marshall. Envisioning positive futures together is a key skill to surviving and thriving in the 21st century. Creativity is a birthright. We each need to use our genius to heal our heartbreak. With a clear vision, like […]
How we Have Strayed from the Liberal World Order (History is Here to Help)
What Can we Do to Get Back to it. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Peter Hoffenberg. Historian Peter Hoffenberg helps us understand how things have changed since 1945 and how we have strayed from the days of the Marshall Plan and the creation of the United Nations and the liberal world […]
Migration: Conditions May Apply (Latin American Directions)
Between Humanitarianism and Politics. The host for this show is Nicolás Süssmann Herrán. The guest is Moisés Montiel Mogollón. With the recent decision of Mexico of requesting entry visas to Venezuelan migrants fleeing the systemic failure of their country, politics reveal themselves as a prominent factor in the decisions taken by American countries when it […]
The Immigrant and Refugee Debate 2021 (The Middle Way)
Déjà Vu all over Again. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Chang Wang, Paul Anderson and Alexander H.E. Morawa. In 1958, then U.S. Senator JFK published “A Nation of Immigrants.” JFK proposed liberalizing immigration law based on his argument that the United States is a country whose population is predominantly […]
Why Do Central Americans Emigrate? (Global Connections)
Root Causes of Central America’s Crisis. The host for this episode is Jay Fidell. The guest for this episode is Carlos Juarez. Understanding the current migration crisis of Central Americans by exploring the root causes. This includes political upheaval in the region in the last decades of the 20th century that had a devastating human […]