Kindred Continuum

In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more. In Tilantongo program 2 for 2023, Mixtec campesinos Berta Santiago and Agustin Leon Santos discuss technology. Ironically, they point out, indigenous campesinos here still […]

In Program 1 for 2023, Mixtec Culture, Lifestyles, and Values, Mixtec leader Eliseo Reyes Miguel returns to our Tilantongo conversations, probing more deeply into the communal language and thought that make this civilization, its ways of life, and its values so different from those of our Western civilization in crisis.  https://gmcr.org/prog/kindred%20continuum/tilantongo/kindred%20continuum%20230327%20tilantongo%20ep%208.mp3

Students from GW Stout (and an alumna) come to the table for a lively discussion about their fourth grade gardening program.  Facilitated by fourth grade teacher Julie Dunning-Farmer and County Commissioner Alicia Edwards, these students detail their gardening adventures, from breaking up asphalt seven years ago to cultivate their school property, to making salsa and pumpkin pies from their harvests.  As they discuss the evolution of their garden plots and […]

Host Nan Franzblau and co-host Cliff School Librarian Mary Giardina are joined by Mrs. Quattrocchi's 5th grade students.  The students discuss the five large murals they created for the Cliff School cafeteria that inspire others to compost their food waste and educate them about the process.  Students talk about how composting happens and its benefits and impacts on the environment.  They also describe their murals in detail, even down to […]

Host Nan Franzblau and New Earth Project founder Carol Ann Fugagli talk with six 4th graders about Climathons held at their schools.  The students discuss the projects they completed at the Climathons: worm boxes for vermicomposting, short videos about the benefits of composting, and posters showing the whys and hows of composting.  Students talk about what they learned and how to make composting more widespread in their community.  

In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more. In Program 3, How Oaxacan Indigenous Villages are Devastated by the Mega Development Projects that Claim to Help Them, Ana Maria Garcia, […]