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Neil Leinwohl artist, retired ad agency creative director and disabled Vietnam vet talks about moving to AI after using older tools for art that he’s been making since he was 10 years old. See Neil’s prolific and constantly updated AI work on Instagram @neil_leinwohl, https://www.facebook.com/neil.leinwohl/ and the earlier work on his website http://neilleinwohlartist.com  (WPKN, Nov. 2, 2026) The post Neil Leinwohl: artist, veteran ad creative and Vietnam vet on why he now uses only AI to create appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Architect Hyder Ibrahim talks about working on Bibi Pak Daman, the 5-year renovation project of a shrine in Lahore, Pakistan, dedicated to 7th century saint Lady Ruqaiyya. Hyder also examines the project’s significance for for women, for the local community and for him personally. (WPKN September 7, 2026.)   The post Architect Hyder Ibrahim on renovating a shrine in Lahore appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

In this month’s Tidings episode Sam Bliss speaking to us from Vermont about Adam Wilson’s idea of food as gift and his own theory of non-market food practices. (WPKN, August 3, 2026) The post Dr. Sam Bliss: social scientist, author and activist on food as gift and non-market food practices appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Thomas Little is a North Carolina-based artist, writer, illustrator, philosopher and proprietor of A Rural Pen Inkworks. a small operation that makes iron-based ink and pigments by dissolving firearms in acid. Speaking in this Tidings interview as both amateur ink historian and ink and pigment maker, Thomas examines his own work through the lens of […] The post Thomas Little–artist, ink maker, alchemist: on making ink from guns dissolved in acid appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices […] The post Suchintan Das, Oxford Rhodes Scholar: Empire, War and Mass Detention in Imperial India appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Author, editor and environmental journalist Tara Lohan  talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings from Bend, Oregon about her new book Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Lifein which she describes the building of dams and the growing movement to remove them. (WPKN, March 2. 2026 (WPKN, March 2, 2026)    The post Tara Lohan, author: “Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life” appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Born in Jerusalem, Robert Massoud, is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, entrepreneur, who came to Canada as a child. In 2004, he founded Zatoun, a grassroots organization to support Palestinian farmers in the West Bank by promoting and selling their olive oil in North America for fair trade prices. Speaking to us from Toronto, Robert explains […] The post Robert Massoud: why Palestine continues worldwide as a conflict without resolution appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Chuck Collins, author, researcher, storyteller and campaigner based at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his new book Burned by Billionaires: how concentrated wealth and power are ruining our lives and planet. Chuck also shows us how we can reduce the impact of this wealth concentration on our lives.(WPKN December 1, 2025) The post Chuck Collins: Burned by Billionaires appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

John Christian Phifer  is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, September 10, 2025 )   The post John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Jeff Halper, Jewish Israeli author, activist, advocate, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaks to us from Jerusalem where he has lived since 1973. Jeff is co-founder and Director of ICAHD, established in 1997, a nonprofit advocacy organization of Israelis who work to end Israeli apartheid and a member of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) […] The post Jeff Halper analyzes why Israel gets away with it appeared first on Hazel Kahan.