Latest Programs
The Motherland Influence: December 13, 2015
Dec. 13, 2015, 9:21 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music. African Youth Center program.
Sounds From the Global Village 1501 (Encore Presentation)
Dec. 13, 2015, 9:20 p.m.
This is an encore presentation. New shows return in January.
Lake Air 1501 (Encore Presentation)
Dec. 13, 2015, 9:15 p.m.
This is an encore presentation. New shows return in January.
AMBIANCE CONGO: December 13, 2015
Dec. 13, 2015, 9:14 p.m.
Congolese music.
The Jazz Scene 1501 (Encore Presentation)
Dec. 13, 2015, 9:11 p.m.
This is an encore presentation. New shows return in January.
Jazz Progressions 1501 (Encore Presentation)
Dec. 13, 2015, 9:06 p.m.
This is an encore presentation of the show. New shows return in January.
War, Empire & the 2016 Elections
Dec. 13, 2015, 9:01 p.m.
Panelists discuss political struggle and movement building in light of the up coming Presidential elections and the Black youth led street protests against State repression and police impunity in the murder of Black youth. They reference the triple evils of Racism, Classism and Militarism that Dr. King identified and the role played by the Democratic Party in furthering those evils in support of Empire abroad and exploitation at home.
Q&A starts at 00:52:10
Dec. 13, 2015, 5:05 p.m.
Final Chapter - Compton's Most Wanted
All For One - Brand Nubian
Dominos - Grand Daddy I.U.
Just to Get a Rep (*album version) - Gang Starr
Strictly Ghetto - Poor Righteous Teachers
Keep It Flowing - Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth ft. A.G.
A Day Of Outrage, Operation Snatchback - X Clan
Posting High - Masta Ace
Run for Cover - Eric B & Rakim
Youthful Expression - A Tribe Called Quest
I'm Mad - EPMD
Edutainment - Boogie Down Productions
Burn Hollywood Burn - Public Enemy ft. Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane
Mudergram (Live At Rapmania) - LL Cool J
Jazz Thing instrumental - Gang Starr and Branford Marsalis
555 - Fight Each Other OR Fight Climate Disruption
Dec. 13, 2015, 4:56 p.m.
News You Need to Know: US Allies Fighting Each Other; Mumia Abu-Jamal Commentary: The Wages of Fear 12-6-2015; Mark Fiore: Trump Recruitment and Retention; Jim Hightower: WTO's billion-dollar toad, TPP deal, nefarious corporate behavior; TUC Radio: Vandana Shiva on Soil Not Oil; music.
Media Network Plus December 12 2015
Dec. 13, 2015, 4:18 p.m.
Dec. 13, 2015, 2:14 p.m.
This episode features an interview with Boston College Professor Eve Spangler, who teaches a very special course on the Israel-Palestine conflict. This course includes a trip to Israel-Palestine during the winter semester break in January of each year. Professor Spangler has now written a book, a kind of primer on the conflict titled "Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict" (Sense Publishers, 2015). She brings the disciplines of sociology and anthropology to the analysis of the conflict, making it a unique, interesting and important read. Our host recently sat down with Spangler to discuss her book and her course at BC.
In the course of this interview, Spangler pointed out that Israel is using its occupation of Palestine as a weapons lab for the development of new military weapons and surveillance systems, which it markets to the world. In fact, that is its major industry.
Following that interview: Jeff Halper, an Israeli anthropologist and activist, has written a new book on this very issue. You will hear much more about this in the future, in fact Jeff Halper is due to be in Boston in February talking about his book. Meanwhile, we present a recorded clip previewing his new book "War against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification" (Pluto Press, 2015).
Dec. 13, 2015, 1:04 p.m.
This week we feature an interview conducted by an Audio Cadre of ours on the West coast with Brooke, an anarchist who participated in the Foreclosure Defense Group (https://foreclosuredefensegroup.wordpress.com/) that sprang from Occupy Oakland in March of 2012. During the hour, they speak about the history of that group, it's strengths and weakness and lessons around cross-race and cross-class organizing around displacement in Oakland based on some of the models worked out by SolNet, the Seattle Solidarity Network (http://seattlesolidarity.net/). For an extended version of the conversation, check out the podcast version of the show.
If you're in Asheville on Friday, December 18th, there will be a free event you can check out at this calendar listing: https://www.firestorm.coop/events/1673-defend-the-zad-defend-autonomy.html
From the description:
"ZAD is a large scale land occupation near Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France. It was squatted in 2009 at the invitation of local citizen and farming associations, who had been resisting the imposition of an airport, highway, high speed train, and tram line since 1972. Since then, the anti-airport movement has depassed traditional limitations of "issue-based struggles" with a strong critique of capitalist and hierarchical systems (including and especially the State), and links and shared projects with a wide diversity of people, to the point where the divisions between squatter, farmer, local, have become blurred.
After a massive police operation in 2012, "Operation Cesar", the zone of 8 miles square has been free of State intervention, and has become known as a "zone outside the law". Zadistas have created our own infrastructures and are autonomous in many ways. Some things work less well, like conflict resolution, but overall the occupation is settled into the territory and is planning for the long term, together with the "locals" and "farmers" involved in the struggle and those living close by. At the moment, however, the French prime minister is threatening to evict the ZAD and begin work on the airport early 2016. Ironically, they are waiting until just after the COP 21 in Paris (while billing the airport as "good for the environment")."
More on the ZAD here: The http://zad.nadir.org/?lang=en
Playlist: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/14649
Dec. 13, 2015, 12:44 p.m.
Michael T. Snyder of the economic collapse blog explains many warning signs next Depression looms. Prof. Tim Snyder on possible return of state-sponsored mass murder as climate deteriorates. Notes on extreme rainfall around the world.
Dec. 13, 2015, 6:54 a.m.
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Episode 2015.01 - A Look Ahead to 2016
Dec. 13, 2015, 3:57 a.m.
I am Back!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am your Brother Vphiamer Adis, please join me for a quick, very quick, look ahead to the economic catastrophe called 2016, okay it may not be that bad, however there are some smoke signals suggesting we might want to watch the Junk Market carefully and the prices surrounding us.
Chicago Press Conference - Sixteen Shots and a Cover-up
Dec. 12, 2015, 10:31 p.m.
Press conference at a demonstration outside Chicago Mayor
Rahm Emanuel's office in City Hall.
Holiday Thrift Shop 2015 Program 3
Dec. 12, 2015, 4:01 p.m.
Third in a series of holiday broadcasts from the Radio Thrift Shop with music for Christmas, Solstice and the winter season.
Dec. 12, 2015, 3:57 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a show that evolves and changes every few months. It is primarily an homage to freeform radio broadcasts of the 1960s and early 1970s. Radio Thrift Shop features a homegrown mix of vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of tapes and homemade / self released cds. Each edition features a unique playlist of music released between the early 20th century & next week. Some shows include music that revolves around a theme.
Grassroots Alliance Challenges COP21 Climate Conference in Paris : Walmart Worker Surveillance
Dec. 12, 2015, 3:51 p.m.
It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm: the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Challenges COP21 Climate Conference in Paris
with
Kali Akuno, is a founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, an emerging network of worker cooperatives and supporting institutions in Jackson, Mississippi and the South. Kali also served as the Co-Director of the US Human Rights Network, and as the Executive Director of the Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund based in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. Some of Kali s most noted works include, most recently Casting Shadows: Chokwe Lumumba and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi ; Revolutionary Nationalism for the 21st Century , and Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era . Kali has authored many articles and pamphlets on international and working class politics, with a focus on how government counterinsurgency, state violence, the drug war, mass incarceration and neoliberalism impact Black communities, and issues of zero waste, food sovereignty, solidarity economies, and worker cooperatives.
Kali, discusses "an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color," for climate justice advocated by the "It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm delegation of over 100 frontline leaders from climate-impacted communities across the U.S. and Canada, including the Arctic, united under the slogan: 'No War, No Warming -- Build an Economy for People and Planet.' ... Climate justice seeks to address much more than greenhouse gas emissions, but the root systemic causes of climate change itself. Climate justice is about social and economic justice, and how democratic, peaceful and equitable solutions, not military violence, best serve the interests of humanity. The fossil fuel economy is a driver of these multi-faceted crises facing the world: causing resource wars; polluting our air, water and land; creating illness and death to people and of ecosystems; privatization of nature ..."
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Walmart Engages FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and Lockheed Martin To Surveil Workers Calling for $15 an Hour and Full-Time Work
with
Dan Schlademan, Co-Director, Our Walmart
OUR Walmart has uncovered testimony revealing Walmart s surveillance of their workers fighting for $15 an hour and full-time work in the wake of Black Friday strikes in 2012 and the Ride for Respect in 2013. In addition to closely monitoring the lawful labor rights activism of its associates on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, as the company faced a wave of bad publicity and negative same store sales, Walmart enlisted military industrial giant Lockheed Martin to spy on its workers and the FBI Joint
Terrorism Task Force to gather intelligence on protests. We are fighting for all workers to be paid a fair wage and enough hours to put food on the table
and provide for our families," said Mary Pat Tifft, a Walmart worker of 27 years in Wisconsin. "To think that Walmart found us such a threat that they had to hire a defense contractor and engage the FBI is a mind-blowing abuse of power.
UK House of Commons Syria bombing debate
Dec. 12, 2015, 6:14 a.m.
Dec. 11, 2015, 8:53 p.m.
Latin Waves's Host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Brazilian physician, actor and transcultural psychiatristabout the structural indicators of health. The difference between healing and curing mental health. Dr. Pordeus has developed an actor's method of healing mental illness....In this interview Sylvia and Victor explore the connections of poverty and illness. The power of art in healing reveals the daily rituals of modern society and the root causes of dys-ease.
Author Wen Stephenson speaks at the Climate Justice Rally in Concord MA
Dec. 11, 2015, 3:18 p.m.
Wen Stephenson is author most recently of "What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice" (Beacon Press, 2015). He was the principal speaker at a recent well-attended climate justice rally, held on the historic grounds of Monument Square in Concord, MA.
For more information about his book, view his publisher's web page on it:
beacon.org/What-Were-Fighting-For-Now-is-Each-Other-P1143.aspx
Detailed introduction is by Bob Lawson, local environmental justice activist, who served as MC of this event.
Monument Square is surrounded by busy roadways and near a small airport. You will hear some evidence of this!
Dec. 11, 2015, 2:04 p.m.
Focus Asia Pacific December 2015
Dec. 11, 2015, 1:59 p.m.
Classic Media Network December 11 2015
Dec. 11, 2015, 1:54 p.m.
This Week in Radio News: Encryption for week of Dec. 12-19, 2015
Dec. 11, 2015, 1:49 p.m.
This show focuses on encryption and privacy. After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Colorado Springs, and San Bernadino legislators are now moving to roll back privacy and increase surveillance in the United States. This show hears clips from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and traces efforts to increase surveillance in the United States. Plus, Christian Geschkat, Product Manager at G DATA, gives a corporate view on encryption.
Syria: UK now at war with Russia but we haven't been told by the BBC or MPs
Dec. 11, 2015, 1:22 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-15/
Don't Bomb Syria: Bristol school pupils & students speak out
Dec. 11, 2015, 1:11 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-15/
Dec. 11, 2015, 1:05 p.m.
This RADIOLA! suggests there may be an alternate future in the past.
Dec. 11, 2015, 12:34 p.m.