Fourth World Radyo: Conscious Being And Ethical Nothingness

TheAngryindian offers his thoughts on the untimely transition of North American Indigenous activist and Leonard Peltier supporter Ms. Joan Rodriguez (known on Twitter as @Joanie399) and the passing of actor Leonard Nimoy and his importance as a cultural icon for people of mixed-heritage around the world. Spoken word follows in the main segment and an archived lecture from US Marxist professor and political critic Dr. Michael Parenti speaking about the obvious right-wing perspective that is to be found within mainstream media bias in the United States.

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Illinois World Labor Hour: Elizabeth Wallace - NNU - 2/28/15

Elizabeth Wallace with National Nurses United discusses current legislation and working conditions for health care workers.

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Illinois World Labor Hour: Dorothee Schneider - 2/21/15

Dorothee Schneider represents the Non-Tenure Track Faculty Union Local 6546 at the U of I Urbana- Champaign. She's our in-studio guest in the 1st half-hour to talk about recent contract issues at the U of I. Co-Host Gus Wood remembers Malcolm X on the 50th Anniversary of his assassination.

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Illinois World Labor Hour: Emmert/Miller UIUC Unions 2/14/25

Kay Emmert is a representative of the Non-Tenured Track Faculty Local 6546 at the U of I Urbana-Champaign. Dorinda Miller is the President of AFSCME Local 3700 Clerical workers and represents 1350 employees at the U of I Urbana- Champaign. Both join us in-studio to talk about current issues.

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The Final Straw: Updates on Albert Woodfox of the Angola3, Sean Swain, St. Clair and...

This episode features updates on various prisoner situations, followed by recent post-punk, punk and deathrock from around the world.

Firstly, we give an update on Albert Woodfox (last living, incarcerated member of the Angola 3) who's almost reached his 43rd year (!) in solitary confinement in the state of Louisiana. In addition to this update, we feature a segment of Robert King speaking about his experience in Angola prison and an interview by Noah of The Prison Radio Show with Tory Pegram. The interview aired CKUT, Montreal on Feb 10th, 2015. Albert (aka Shaka Cinque), alongside Herman Wallace and Robert King were convicted by a white jury and based on the inconsistent testimonies of prison snitches of the murder of a white prison guard. The reality is that they were convicted because they've been organizing a chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Angola Prison. For our conversation with Malik Rahim (cofounder of the International Committee to Free The Angola 3), check out: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2014/01/14/court-dates-nato3-announcement-malik-rahim-on-angola3/
Albert Woodfox has a bail hearing on March 2nd, 2015 in Baton Rouge. Details and how to attend can be found here: http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2015/02/a3-newsletter-bail-hearing-for-albert.html
Amnesty Intl's revamped campaign around Albert Woodfox: http://blog.amnestyusa.org/tag/angola-3/
Episode list for CKUT's The Prison Radio Show: http://ckut.ca/c/index.php?q=en%2Foldgrid%2F2%2C17%3A00

We also give an update to the work strike announced to begin today, March 1st, at St. Clair Correctional in Alabama. St. Clair has been one of the hotbeds of organizing for the Free Alabama Movement and Melvin Ray is incarcerated there. On Friday, Warden Davenport called in the Riot Squads against this threat of non-violent non-participation but because of outside pressure they were withdrawn. FAM & Free Mississippi movement are struggling to clearly and non-violently organize resistance to the carceral state that has extended slavery of forced labor without pay onto (disproportionately) black and brown bodies throughout the U.S. More at http://www.alabamaprisonwatch.org/ & http://freealabamamovement.com
For our conversation with Melvin Ray and others from the FAM&M, check out: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2015/02/09/free-alabama-mississippi-movements-in-prisons-updates-on-sean-swain/

We also update listeners to what's been going on with Sean Swain's property access at SOCF, Lucasville, INCLUDING that the administrators destroyed his Qur'an & Taurat. More at http://seanswain.org/socf-staff-fascist-fuckweasels-or-inept-morons-you-decide/

Playlist for episode pending for the last 20 minutes worth of music.

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Sean Swain: You Are The Resistance: Racist Sports Logos

Sean discusses the double standard in American Society around racist imagery depicting Native Americans in sports logos and other examples of when that sort of thing would be scoffed at. In particular he points to the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians sports franchises.

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Radio Ecoshock Show: Climate Disruption of Our Lives

We thought global warming would be gentle and kinda nice. Instead it's weird and extreme. Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers founded theory of Jet Stream waves and Arctic Vortex. Then Dr. Daniel Brooks explains why parasites survive warming better than we do.

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Global A Go-Go: February 27, 2015

An all-African music program: singer-songwriters from Senegal and Mali, a set of Ethiopian music, classic highlife, Afro-funk

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Radio Thrift Shop: Program 260

Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown radio show that loves vinyl records, 78s, 45's, private press releases, all kinds of tapes and homemade cds. Each edition of the Radio Thrift Shop features a freeform playlist of music released between the early 1900's and next week.

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Radio Thrift Shop: Program 259

Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown radio show that loves vinyl records, 78s, 45's, private press releases, all kinds of tapes and homemade cds. Each show features a freeform playlist of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week.

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