Tune in TODAY @1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social to hear KOOP Community Council Chair, Safaa Al Mahamid, share a recap of the World Refugee Day 2026 celebration event that occurred June 13th @ the Asian American Resource Center in Austin & interviews with some participants that were recorded that day.

Tune in TODAY @1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social to hear about this year’s Juneteenth celebration at nchmuseum.org from Rowena Dasch, the museum’s Executive Director. We’ll also discuss the Reckoning with the Past Project which centers the history & story of the slave quarters building on the property.

Tune in TODAY at 1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social to hear what the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center has in store for this month’s Juneteenth celebrations. Guests Christine Pascaludo & Kendall Stewart from www.austintexas.gov/carver will fill us in.

Tune in TODAY at 1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social to hear music historian (and fellow KOOP DJ of “International Folk Bazaar” Weds.@12pm) Kim J. Simpson share the music and lore behind some of Texas’s lesser known music legends.

Tune in TODAY @1pm for a discussion w/Aloki Shah, President of @uwic-cwa.bsky.social about the union’s role in safeguarding the rights and working conditions of all Integral Care staff (integralcare.org) and its advocacy around social services line items within the city’s annual budget proposals.

Tune in TODAY for a discussion with Cole Glosser, Peer Policy Fellow @ Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (CTD) about CTD’s advocacy work around attendant wage increases and protecting home & community based services (HCBS) at the state level, amidst federal Medicaid cuts. www.txdisabilities.org

Staff & volunteers of @koopradio.bsky.social had the honor of co-hosting the Austin preview screening of @stealthisstory.bsky.social with @austinfilm.bsky.social today. The film opens to the public @AFS on Friday, May 22. Independent media working in solidarity for people, not corporate profit.

Tune in TODAY at 1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social for a discussion with Kaiba White of citizen.org and Stephanie Chavez Noell of parentsclimatecommunity.org about reasons why Austin City Council should vote NO to the purchase of new gas peakers for Austin Energy’s east Austin power plant.

Tune in TODAY at 1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social to hear ATX Dispatch intern, Mia Aguirre’s , engagingly reported story of the City’s egregiously executed wastewater pipeline project that destroyed a portion of Austin’s beloved festivalbeach.org and how the org rallied to salvage the damage.

Tune in TODAY @1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social to hear about the Activists of Austin Portrait Show opening May 2nd at Gallery Dojo in the Canopy Arts Complex. Nina Jolly & Melody Tremallo join us on the program to discuss the artists & activists behind it all. www.handsoffcentraltx.org/events/may2

Tune in Tomorrow, April 28th @1pm on @koopradio.bsky.social to hear Melinda & Michelle speak with Nina Jolly and Melody Tremallo about the Activists of Austin Portrait Show opening May 2nd at Gallery Dojo in the Canopy Arts Complex. www.handsoffcentraltx.org/events/may2

On ATX Dispatch today Melinda & Michelle spoke to Theresa Clower w/@intolightproject.bsky.social and Annie Hernandez w/Christi Center about navigating grief after loss of loved ones to drug overdose. INTO LIGHT’s art exhibit “Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories” is @ UT’s School of Social Work

Our engineering partners at University of Texas at Austin (KVRX) were contacted by the Federal Aviation Administration regarding interference affecting aircraft communications, so we’re keeping it off while the issue is fully investigated and resolved. You can still listen at KOOP.org.

Join us TODAY at 1pm @koopradio.bsky.social for a discussion w/Brother Robert Tyrone Lilly and Lauren Oertel about their personal stories which led to their co-authored book of poetry, Inside Out: A Texas Prisons Poetry Story

Join us Saturday, April 4, from 12 to 5 PM at the KOOP studios as we wrap up our Spring Membership Drive. If you're due a thank-you gift from the drive, you can grab it in person. Also you can take a behind-the-scenes studio tour, & meet some volunteers and DJs & catch live music sets at 1 & 3!

Tune in tomorrow @ 1PM on @koopradio.bsky.social for a discussion w/Dan Foster (of Two Fosters One Price) on the hidden history of African Texas fiddle music & many influences the Black diaspora has had on Texas music overall. Dan will also be sharing music clips to bring these tales to life.