Radical Mothers' Voice
Wednesdays, 1:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Hosts: Sarah Fusco & Jayne McCoy

The Radical Mother's Voice airs every Wednesday afternoon from 1:30 to 2 p.m., CST, on 91.7 f.m., K-O-O-P Austin, and online at koop.org. Rad Moms has aired since 1999.

Sarah Fusco & Jayne McCoy are your Rad Moms hostesses. Each week we feature special guests from the local community or from other cities in the United States. We typically interview and discuss issues with our guests for the first half-hour. During the last half hour, Sarah & Jayne discuss local issues, personal thoughts and/or upcoming Austin events. Rad Moms generally play a couple songs during the show, as well as some spoken word pieces from politicos such as Noam Chomsky. Sarah has been hosting the show since March 2003 and Jayne has been co-hosting since March 2004.

You may visit the Rad Moms webpage on the Single Parent Resource Network website. Us Rad Moms are currently in the process of archiving our past shows, so please visit this site for future additions. You may also email us at radmoms at hotmail dot com or radmom76 at yahoo dot com. Jayne can be reached at jaynekoop at juno dot com.

Former Radical Mother's Voice hostesses include Loi Medvin (1999-2003), Rad Mom Extraordinaire and founder of the Austin-based non-profit organization for single parents SPRN; and Laura Nevarez (2003-2004), Sherry Milam (1999 & partially in 2003), Joanna (2001 & 2002) and Elaine (1999-2000).

The Radical Mother's Voice has won several of KO-OP's Silver Mic Awards over the last several years. In 2003 the show was awarded for Best Show for Social Justice; in 2004 Rad Moms won Best Outstanding Guest for our Aug. 2003 show featuring David Barsamian (author & purveyor of Alternative Radio); and this year Rad Moms was awarded for Best News & Public Affairs Programming.

So if you're interested in radical parenting, alternative (real) news, political discussion, education policy, homeopathic remedies, spirituality, how to become active and other "radical" topics, tune in each week at 4:00 p.m. to the Radical Mother's Voice, where we're RAISING THE REVOLUTION!!

Some of our notable guests from the past include:

• Ms. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!: www.democracynow.org.  Dec. 2004 Listen to Rad Moms Featuring Amy Goodman.
• David Barsamian, author, founder and director of Alternative Radio, www.alternativeradio.org
• Robert Jensen, Ph.D. & Journalism Professor at the University of Texas at Austin College of Communication: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/home.htm
• Rahul Mahajan, Ph.D. and author of The New Crusade: America's War on Terror and Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S Power in Iraq & Beyond: www.empirenotes.org
• Pat Youngblood, Austin activist and member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center: www.thirdcoastactivist.org
• Marika Ripke, Representative from the pending U.S. Department of Peace Campaign (begun by Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich): www.dopcampaign.org.
• Lucy Burton from San Antonio's Women's Global Connection: www.womensglobalconnection.org
• Laura Flanders, author of BUSHWOMEN and radio hostess on Air America: www.lauraflanders.com and www.airamericaradio.com
• Baker Harrell, Ph.D., founder & director of the Austin-based 501(c)3 organization, Youth Interactive, which provides after-school alternative fitness programs for children: www.youthinteractive.org
• Thomas Hartwell, Egyptian-based international photojournalist (with a photo j. degree from UT Austin) who previously worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, as well as Palestinian charity groups: www.usaid.gov/iraq/photogallery and www.pcwf.org/artifacts/photography/photography.htm
• Patrick Olsen from Clean Up Texas Politics, a project of the Austin non-profit organization Campaigns for People: www.cleanuptexaspolitics.org and www.campaignsforpeople.org
• Tria Milo from the Dayemi Tariqat, an Austin organization that has five orphanages in Bangladesh: www.dayemi.org
• Brad Blanton, Ph.D., author of Radical Parenting: Seven Steps to a Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World and former Green Party candidate for Congress in state of Virginia: www.radicalhonesty.com and www.blantonforcongress.com
• Gael Murphy co-founder of CodePink: Women for Peace: www.codepink4peace.org or www.codepinkalert.org and co-founder also of Occupation Watch: www.occupationwatch.org.
• Aziza Bey  & Missy Bolbecker with the American Friends Service Committee, promoting the Women & War Conference: www.afsc.org or www.afsc.org/austin March 2003
• Travis Brown & Amanda Bueller of Public Citizen's Austin office: www.citizen.org or www.citizen.org/texas
• Casey Kaplan of the Texas Freedom Network, a watchdog group for the religious right in Texas (www.tfn.org)
• Nolle Davis, formerly of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas & now with the Texans for Medical Marijuana:
  www.texansformedicalmarijuana.org
• Lesley Ramsey & Jere Locke of the Texas Fair Trade Coalition (working to reduce WTO's impact, working against CAFTA & GATS, & privatization of public services in the U.S. & beyond): www.texasfairtrade.org
• Laura Scarborough, local Austin musician & piano instructor: www.laurascarborough.com May 2003
• Dr. Angela Valenzuela, professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at UT Austin's College of Education: http://www.utexas.edu/education/facultyDetails.php?ID_PK=68D680E8-C1BA-DA9F-63276258082AA3DF June 2003. Dr. Valenzuela returned to RMV on June 8, 2005. Listen to the show here.
• Robin Schneider of the Texas Campaign for the Environment: www.texasenvironment.org
• Karen Hadden of the SEED Coalition, aka the Sustainable Energy & Economic Development Coalition: www.seedcoalition.org
• Nancy McCoy, author and attorney from Houston/Montgomery County
• Wendy Land, former editor & publisher of Duality Awareness Media, an Austin-based publication
• Teachers/moms from the All Austin Cooperative, a children's school where parents must volunteer in order to provide Montessori-type teaching: www.allaustincoop.org
• Danielle Tierney of Planned Parenthood of Central Texas: www.ppaustin.org April 2005
• Representative from the Women's Advocacy Project: www.women-law.org
• Shana Ginsberg & Stephanie Hebert, founders of the Ashera Project, an Austin-based non-profit working to prevent teen pregnancies by teaching sex education in schools: www.asheraproject.org
• Luke Metzger, Advocate for TexPIRG: the Texas Public Interest Research Group spring of 2004 & 2005: www.texpirg.org
• Colin Clark, environmentalist with the Save Our Springs Alliance: www.sosalliance.org
• Vanessa Stone, founder & director of the Foundation for Divine Consciousness: www.divineconsciousness.org
• Marge Wood, Lea & Oz, from Texans for Peace & Earth Family Alpha Blog: www.texansforpeace.org and www.earthfamilyalpha.blogspot.com/
• Debbie Russell, local activist extraordinaire & frequent guest: www.austinspokes.org or www.saveourcivilliberties.org
• As a substitute of Rodney G's Pieces of Peace (Mondays at 3 p.m.) show in the summer of 2003, Sarah interviewed Dr. Lester Kurtz, who attempted to establish a Department of Peace Studies at UT.
• Cindy Ly, M.D. and Ph.D. candidate in brain surgery from Baylor Medical School in Houston. December 2003
• Cathy R. Berryhill, mother of Rad Mom Sarah Fusco.
• Various select KO-OP Djs have joined us Rad Moms in the past including Rodney G. from Pieces of Peace/Piezas de Paz Mondays at 2 p.m.
• Bob Coleman formerly of Commercial Suicide, Sundays at 8 p.m.
• Gabriel Vega of the Liberated Space & the KO-OP Thursday evening news.
• Jeanette Monsalve of Mamis of Color, Tuesdays at 3 p.m.

Rad Mom Sarah has substituted for several KO-OP shows in the past: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, aka KLERE, Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: www.counterfolk.com/ken/extrav/ & Celtic Storm, Mondays at 9 a.m.; & Expressive Movements, Fridays at noon; & Membership Drive choreography with Isidoro Lopez on Fiesta Musical, Thursdays at 11 a.m.; & Around the Town Sounds with Aaron (former Dj of the Doctor's Office & purveyor of Austin's Church of the Friendly Ghost): http://home.grandecom.net/~cofg/