Radical Pamphlets Hear and Now
Radical Pamphlets Hear and Now is an audio production of the New Perennials project at Middlebury College. For centuries pamphlets were utilized to demand reform, equality, and justice. Our pamphlets are rooted in the local, and written by teachers, farmers, students, artists, community caretakers, and neighbors. They offer common sense and practical advice to slow down and attend to the here and now wherever you are.
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Episodes
8 episodes
Trailer: Introducing Radical Pamphlets Hear and Now
Welcome to Radical Pamphlets Hear and Now, an audio production of the New Perennials Project at Middlebury College.For centuries, pamphlets were utilized to demand reform, equality, and justice. Nowadays, they can offer common sense, and...
#7 The Middlebury College Student Almanac
Written and read by Middlebury College student Mary Nagy-Benson urging her classmates, and all young people who spend four years on a college/university campus, to acknowledge and engage with the town or city in which it and they are situated.<...
#6 Faith in a Seed, Hope for the Next Generation
Inspired by John Dewey and Henry David Thoreau, Matt Schlein, outdoor educator and founder of The Willowell Foundation and the Walden Project in Monkton, Vermont, calls out the many ways the indoor classroom-model of education fails all w...
#5 Relationships Matter: Lessons from a Half-Ton Teacher
Written and read by actor, director, and educator Lindsay Pontius about an experience on her farm with a cross-species teaching and learning activity involving a veteran teacher and a horse.In Pontius' words: "For more than 40 years, I h...
#4 The Plantspeak Papers
Imagine a group of plants getting together and figuring out how to communicate their displeasure with and to their human neighbors. What would they say? Listen in here to find out. They begin with this: "Dear Neighbor - The irony is not lost on...
#3 Slowing Down Is A Radical Act
Written and read by Middlebury College student Kylie King on the importance of slowing down and taking more time with what she calls long-form content, and less time with social media sites that thrive on shortness and speed. As King explains, ...
#2 Go Farm, Young People, and Help Heal the Country
A just and sustainable future will require rebuilding rural America. For too many decades, the countryside has been exploited and depopulated to support urban society, and enrich only suppliers and processors. For too many urban people with pro...
#1 Local Food, More Hope
In the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Paine, author, historian, and gardener Kathleen Smythe declares in her pamphlet that the time has come for declaring independence from a global agricultural system that robs us of our food sovereignty and t...