RadioACTive Pop! Asks What You Can Do for Your Community

  • November 3, 2025
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Monday, Nov. 3: With SNAP benefits in limbo, as many as 86,000 Utah households are now feeling the pinch of the federal government shutdown at the kitchen table. RadioACTive Pop! will have resources, food drives, and drop-off locations to share on the show tonight. Project Rainbow leaders and volunteers are getting ready for Transgender Awareness Week. Plus, Tree Utah needs volunteers for the 3rd annual Wuda Ogwa Restoration Project with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation.

Get More Local, More Vocal in Your Community with Tonight's Guests, Organizations & Events

Rallies & Resources Spotlight (full list here):

  • Nov. 3-9: Utah Giving Week to raise money for the Utah Food Bank. UFB Director Ginette Bott explains why the support is needed now more than ever. FYI: Every $1 donated equates to $7.23 in goods & services.

    • “A statewide effort from Cache County to Carbon County, from Salt Lake to San Juan, and everywhere in between — to help families in need of food assistance this November. Consider donating one dollar for every member of your family, organization, or business — every dollar provides three meals through the Utah Food Bank. Together with the Utah Legislature, the Governor’s Office, the private sector, and faith-based organizations, we can unite to ensure every Utah family has food and security. #UtahWeekOfGiving”

  • Nov. 1-30: Shared Plate Project: A Coalition of Local Restaurants Nourishing Neighbors / Una coalición de restaurantes locales que nutren a la comunidad. Ana Valdemoros of Square Kitchen and Jeanette Padilla Vega of Food Justice Coalition explain this grassroots coalition of local—mostly minority-owned—food businesses turning generosity into action by providing free, high-quality meals to anyone in need. 

    • Meals are available for pickup at Square Kitchen, 751 W 800 S, SLC, Monday–Friday, 8 AM–8 PM on a first-come, first-served basis through November 30, 2025. Fill out this brief form to receive meal pick-up instructions. Participants can choose from a variety of meals available from various restaurants. The Shared Plate Project is an initiative by The Food Justice Coalition in partnership with Square Kitchen. 

    • El Proyecto Plato Compartido se basa en la convicción de que la alimentación es un derecho humano, no un privilegio. Esta coalición de negocios locales de comida —en su mayoría propiedad de minorías— transforma la generosidad en acción al proporcionar comidas gratuitas y de alta calidad a quien las necesite. Las comidas se pueden recoger de lunes a viernes, de 8:00 a 20:00, por orden de llegada, del 31 de octubre al 30 de noviembre de 2025. Complete este breve formulario para recibir las instrucciones para recoger su comida. Los participantes pueden elegir entre una variedad de platillos disponibles de diversos restaurantes. El Proyecto Plato Compartido es una iniciativa de la Coalición por la Justicia Alimentaria en colaboración con Square Kitchen.

  • Nov. 7 & 8: 3rd Annual Wuda Ogwa Planting Days | 10A-2P @ Bear River Massacre Site, near Preston, ID (approx. 2-hour drive from SLC). Tree Utah Executive Director Amy May explains more about this partnership to restore the site of the 1863 Bear River Massacre to its historic Wuda Ogwa condition.

    • Event by TreeUtah: "Volunteer with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and partners to plant 50,000 native trees and seedlings to restore the land back to its historic condition. Please remember to dress for the weather, wear long pants, closed-toe shoes, sun protection, and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. Bring a refillable water bottle if you have one. We’ll provide tools, gloves, snacks, and everything else. To learn more, sign up, or support this restoration project, click here.

Mammoth Opportunity

The Utah Mammoth are heating up the ice at the Delta Center. Meanwhile, Mysteries of the Ice Ages at the Natural History Museum of Utah will go the way of the woolly mammoth by January 4. RadioACTive talks with Carrie Levitt-Bussian, the museum's Paleontology & Mineralogy Collections Manager, for fun facts and tickets!

Exhibit Highlights: 

  • Encounter iconic Ice Age creatures like muskoxen, caribou, wolves, woolly mammoths, and cave bears
  • Step into the world of the Neanderthals and discover how they adapted to life in the freezing cold
  • Explore the ancient Beringia land bridge that once connected Asia to North America
  • Learn how the dramatic landforms we recognize today were carved by ice sheets during the last glaciation
  • View real tools and artifacts—thousands of years old—crafted by the Tuniit (Dorset) and Thule-Inuit peoples

RadioACTive Pop! Gets the 411 on Transgender Awareness Month

November is Transgender Awareness Month. Utah is tied with Tennessee for the 8th & 9th most transgender people in the country, according to a new report from the Williams Institute.

Jacey Thornton of Project Rainbow, Leah Bastian of Utah Trans Plus Coalition, and TenAce Moser of Queer and Sober SLC talk about life in Utah as a transgender person, whether they feel safe, finding community, and all the cool events this month. Below are some select events during Trans Awareness Week, Nov. 13-19. For the full schedule, click here. 

  • Nov. 13: Transgender Flag Raising
  • Nov. 15:  TransFeastival 
  • Nov. 17: Day of Economic Empowerment
  • Nov. 18 Day of Civic Engagement
  • Nov. 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance


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Tonight's RadioACTive Team

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9 FM. Tonight's team included:

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