"Resistance Radio” is where Native voices are offered to the public discourse on Native issues and issues that affect us all. “Resistance Radio" airs live every Thursday at 3:00 PM EST on WBAI 99.5 FM in NYC. "Resistance Radio" is the only Native hosted, live, call-in radio talk show in a major market.
Episodes
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
The chickens have truly come home to roost! Everything from climate change to political unrest, gender inequality and racism are all direct results of the legacy of colonialism.
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Resistance Radio with John Kane 10/10/22; Indigenous Peoples Day
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
We are broadcasting a special Indigenous Peoples Day program on WPFW. Sharing the holiday with the originator of the American Holocaust almost forces us to talk about Columbus and to do the show in the District of Columbia, a whole other bit of irony.
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Resistance Radio 10/6/22; The Scale and Scope of ”Indian Boarding Schools”
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
This podcast comes sandwiched between last week's National Remembrance Day for Victims of Indian Boarding Schools and Indigenous Peoples Day. and even with this attention, I'm not sure people, including Native people, fully grasp the scope, scale and harm associated with these federally funded and church run institutions.
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Resistance Radio with John Kane 9/29/22; Our ExistenceIs Not Guaranteed!
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
There is a saying that says "Our existence is the resistance." And that is because our existence is not guaranteed. We fight to survive. Our population was eliminated by 99% by colonization. No other population has survived such an onslaught.
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
It was recently said that for the first time in 230 years Congress will have full indigenous representation. No! Not even close. If a Native person is successful at gaining enough white support to get elected, it's those people that they represent. Their loyalty is with party and the people who elected them, NOT with Native peoples who they may be related to.
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
One of our major tobacco manufacturers settled a fight with NYS by paying $56 million. The State just never stops coming after us!
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Resistance Radio with John Kane 9/8/22; Of course it’s racism!
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
There seems to be a persistent aversion to acknowledging that the centuries of atrocities that Native people have experienced is the result of racism.
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Dr. Philip Zimbardo joins me for the program to refute those using his name and misrepresenting his work to promote the use of Native mascots and to discuss his years of research, including his famed Stanford Prison Experiment and his current Heroic Imagination Project.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Resistance Radio 8/17/22; Donna Fann-Boyle joins me for the program.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
My sister in arms, Donna Fann-Boyle, joins me to update me on her fights from PA and to compare notes.
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Resistance Radio 8/11/22; The Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
I haven't given a whole show to explaining what the Doctrine of Discovery is in quite a while. So here we go. Feel free to do your own research but allow me to explain how we were and are impacted by this racist church doctrine.