The Radical Imagination Podcast

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Ken Lawrence, veteran community organizer, activist, anti-Klan, anti-Nazi researcher on how to understand and organize against fascism.  

Host Jim Vrettos interviews Rebecca Winthrop, leading global authority on education, imagining how we can keep our children curious, engaged in critical thinking and in love with learning.

Radical  Imagination host Jim Vrettos welcomes Jewish Currents editor Peter Beinart and Columbia University visiting Israeli historian Avi Shilon to a discussion on Israel, Zionism and the war in Gaza. 

The April 23rd Radical Imagination show -- Imagining the Future of Black Lives Matter and Racial Social Justice, was a dialogue between host Jim Vrettos and Black Lives Matter co-founder and of Black Lives Matter Grassroots co-director Melina Abdullah.

The April 10th show of the Radical Imagination with host Jim Vrettos was a dialogue with the young filmmaker Sabrina Geffner concerning her craft and her recent, award-winning short narratives, "Good Enough" and "Somebody Nobody."

Today's Radical Imagination show will be a dialogue between host Jim Vrettos and acclaimed columnist and political commentator Peter Beinart -- author of the recent New York Times bestseller Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza -- A Reckoning.   We'll be addressing one of the most important issues of our time and discussing Peter's premise that Palestinian liberation means Jewish liberation as well.

Host Jim Vrettos welcomes a respected and renowned national commentator and expert on the world of love, marriage and relationships. Beatty Cohan Vrettos is an activist, a skilled psychotherapist and sex therapist, a media commentator and consultant, author of the groundbreaking book Never Make A Mistake in Love Again, host of the Ask Beatty show on progressive Radio Network.

People have become angry and frustrated by the scarcity of oppositional leadership to challenge the catastrophic coup and illegal power grab facing the country. There's a growing realization that it's up to us to act.
This show is a beginning conversation on ways individuals can take action and to connect with each other, fighting back to save our democracy. 
 

Jim Vrettos honors what would have been the 85th birthday of anti-war and civil rights activist Tom Hayden, principal author of The Port Huron Statement, by talking with his comrade and also activist Alan Haber.
 
 
 

Jim Vrettos interviews Italian film director Aldo Luliano, who's known for his award-winning short films at Oscar-qualifying festivals. His soulful short DIVE is a melancholic exploration of adolescent love in a world driven by violence.