aztecladyIf you can, support your local PBS station.
We desperately need organizations that are still fighting--however subtly--the disinformation campaigns of white supremacy and fascism.
Hopewell earthworks in Ohio: World Heritage Site.
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Look who's reporting things are they are: federal agents using less-lethal ammunition on peaceful citizens exercising their right to assemble.
(If you can, budget a monthly donation for your local PBS station--we must bridge the gap and #FundPBS)
Federal agents use tear gas, pepper balls on nonviolent protesters following Portland No Kings rally
Good reporting on PBS on the October 18, 2025 protests.
(if you can, set up a monthly donation to #FundPBS )
#FundPBS (and donate to the people displaced by the storm: https://www.kyuk.org/alaska-state-news/2025-10-14/heres-how-you-can-help-survivors-of-the-western-alaska-storm)
#JoyScrolling Wild Hope: sea otters in California's estuaries and restoration efforts bringing back food chains.
If you can, schedule a small monthly donation to your local PBS station. #FundPBS
Hungry, Hungry Sea Otters: The Big Appetites Saving Coastlines | WILD HOPE
In the Margins, part of PBS Origins, on the history of enslaved Black people seeking freedom (illustrated here with the story of Mumbett/Elizabeth Freeman's suit), and how marginalized people's efforts have expanded *everyone else's rights*.
(If you can, budget a monthly donation and help #FundPBS)
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-forgotten-courtroom-dramas-that-put-freedom-on-trial-f22bgh/
#PSA: New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering On The Media, Radiolab, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info:
https://current.org/2025/09/wnyc-offers-free-programs-to-stations-affected-by-funding-cuts/
Please share this information far and wide, and ask your local and state representatives to start allocating funds to your local public radio and PBS stations. And if you can safely do it, please consider adopting a station:
If you can, start making a monthly donation to PBS.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5529431/pbs-cuts-15-of-jobs-in-wake-of-federal-funding-cut
Do you enjoy nature, science, history? You can enjoy the latest programs, as well as years' worth of archives, at PBS. And if you make a monthly donation--as little as $5, as much as you can afford--you can preserve this national treasure resource for future generations.
Did you know that you can help shore up the funding gap for PBS (and NPR), as well as getting access to fantastic content, for just $5 a month?
Such as the new series, CIVICS MADE EASY--where they explain things like, oh, HOW VOTING WORKS in the U.S.
