Public Affairs

Radio Liberacion airs every second Sunday of the month, 10am-11am.

Prairie Grassroots airs every 4th and alternating 5th Sundays on WEFT 90.1FM

Prairie Grassroots produced and hosted by Lori Serb has been airing the voices of local community members and broad coalitions working at the grassroots level since 2003. Prairie Grassroots is committed to broadcasting issues and points of view that offer critical analysis on race, class and gender ignored by mainstream media.

Produced by Station Manager Mick Woolf, this program broadcasts on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month, showcasing local community service organizations.

Current affairs program, brought together from a variety of sources.

Started in 1981, Womyn Making Waves is one of the oldest programs on WEFT. The show hosted by a collective; an ever-growing group of women dedicated to bringing independent music, news, poetry, and performance to women in east central Illinois. The show features live interviews and performances with local women as well as women from around the world. All genres of music are played and each member of the collective contributes her unique perspective and taste in music. The work of activists and music by lesbians is a regular part of most programs.

Notes and anecdotes on natural history, your local physical and cultural landscape, far-away places, folk resources, and resource folks. Learn more about the Prairie Monk's work on his website!

A great blend of music from Latin America, plus issues facing our local Latino community. Also features from the locally produced program Horizons, and the nationally-syndicated Latino U.S.A.

The only place in downstate Illinois where you'll hear about workers' issues from a workers' point of view.

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News from Neptune is an hour of discussion of the news of the week and its coverage by the media, co-hosted by Carl Estabrook and Paul Mueth. The show is named in honor of Noam Chomsky, who said,

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."

Higher Ground is a public affairs show that features alternating hosts Eunice Buckner-Boone on the 1st & 3rd Saturdays, and Aaron & Carol Ammons on 2nd & 4th Saturdays. Higher Ground focuses on local affairs and on personal improvement that leads to community develpoment. This public affairs show discusses issues that primarily affect the African-American community, however, the larger social fabric of America is also strategically interwoven into the dialogue.