MAYDAY RECLAIMED, EXECUTIONS REJECTED, and AFGHANISTAN OCCUPIED.
OCCUPY MAYDAY:
ACTUALITY from the occupied and encaged "free speech zone" on the steps of the Federal Reserve Museum across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, preparing for Occupy Mayday protests; and
Historian STAUGHTON LYND [ amazon.com/Staughton-Lynd/e/B001HCU3TI ], author of "Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks" and forewordist of Howard Zinn's "On History," discusses the originally-American, pre-communist 19th Century roots of "Mayday" -- a now-global labor celebration which was transformed into U.S. September irrelevance by corporate-friendly legislators. Lynd also discusses the counterintuitive tactic of modern unions' rejection of a "strike clause" in exchange for automatic "check-off" paybacks and other marginal benefits -- and the current synergy between the labor and "occupy" movements;
CONNECTICUT EXECUTES DEATH PENALTY BAN:
LAURA MOYE, of Amnesty International's Death Penalty Desk [ aiusa.org ], on the grassroots campaign that led to Connecticut;s recent rejection of the death penalty. Moye details the ethnographic discrimination of the penalty against people of color and poverty, and exposes the excruciating horror of the medical malpractice known as "lethal injection; and
"MY RAINBOW RACE" - 44,000 NORWEGIANS sing in multicultural solidarity for the 77 recently murdered by a sociopath (whose name is unimportant) facing a NON-death-penalty prosecution. The Norwegian-language of the seminal song is mixed with PETE SEEGER's original English version; and
USA IN AFGHANISTAN FOREVER:
As Barack Obama sneaks into Afghanistan to brag once more of his extrajudicial "execution" of Osama Bin Laden, ROBERT NAIMAN [ justforeignpolicy.org ] details US military plans for an infinite stay in Afghanistan, and continuing "drone" aggression in neighboring Pakistan, as well as the potential for Afghanistan's utility in future regional operations by the Obama administration - along with an analysis of US covert operations in Syria; and
CODA:
"THE MERCY SEAT" - A modern cover by The Red Paintings of Johnny Cash's stunning musical documentation of the mental process of electrocutive execution.
Anchor: Robert Knight Producer: Thiago Barrozo Engineer: Michael G. Haskins Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
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