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March 16, 2016, 9:12 a.m.
March 16, 2016, 9:01 a.m.
Anthony Enman & Brian Cleveland count down the Top 20 albums charting this week from earshot-online.com, take a look at music news with Stephen Carlick of Exclaim!, chat with Craig St. Cyr of Mojave Winter and Jeff Patch of Free To Grow, and much more.
March 16, 2016, 6:51 a.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
March 15, 2016, 9:44 p.m.
Alan Goodman on the poisoning of Flint, Michigan and the system that did it. Bob Avakian, The Election Hustle, from BA Speaks, Revolution - Nothing Less!
Desalination: Is It Time To Drink The Pacific?
March 15, 2016, 8:20 p.m.
Transforming ocean water into potable drinking water seems so remarkably cool on so many levels. But alas, desalination remains both expensive and energy intensive. Up to this point, it has only been tried in relatively wealthy, arid nations like Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. But with the serious threat that the ongoing drought poses to the nationâs breadbasket, itâs possible that desalination technology could soon be arriving on the golden shores of California. This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise speaks with energy reporter from The Desert Sun, Sammy Roth. He recently researched a piece about efforts to make desalination more commonplace in California.
Arnie Gundersen Visits the Refugees of Fukushima
March 15, 2016, 8:06 p.m.
Our 2nd Conversation with Tom Abowd, author of the book "Colonial Jerusalem"
March 15, 2016, 6:21 p.m.
Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012. That's the full name of Tufts University Anthropologist Tom Abowd's book, published in 2014 by Syracuse University Press.
Today our entire program consists of our conversation with Tom Abowd. A year ago, when the book first came out, we had a conversation with him and vowed at the time we would continue that conversation. Today we do so. We sat down with Tom in his office at Tufts University.
The publisher's description: "In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is often suggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates everyday life under Israelâs long military occupation as it is defined by processes and conditions of "apartness" and separation as Palestinians are increasingly regulated and controlled. Abowd examines how both national communities are progressively divided by walls, checkpoints, and separate road networks in one of the most segregated cities in the world. Drawing upon recent theories on racial politics, colonialism, and urban spatial dynamics, Colonial Jerusalem analyzes the politics of myth, history, and memory across an urban landscape integral to the national cosmologies of both Palestinians and Israelis and meaningful to all communities."
The Tufts Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures lists Abowd as Lecturer, Arabic Culture. Listeners willing to go out of their way to save $34.95 are invited to download the book, chapter by chapter, at https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815652618.
Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
March 15, 2016, 2:37 p.m.
Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than ever before. The examination and analysis of our individual DNA, in addition to answering a myriad of medical and forensic secrets also reveals the mix of our individual ancestors and the paths they took. This analysis provides significant and untold information about who we are, from where we came and how we may connect with our relatives.
Dr. Alondra Nelson, the Dean of Social Science and professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University, in New York City, is our guest in this edition of Radio Curious.
Professor Nelson is the author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome. She s also the author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, which she and I have previously discussed on Radio Curious.
To discuss The Social Life of DNA, Professor Nelson and I visited by phone from her office n New York City, on February 19, 2016. We began by noting that although all human beings are members of the human race, people are grouped by skin color and/or facial features and characterized as being of a different race.
The book she recommends is Come Out Swinging, by Lucia Trimbur.
This program was recorded on February 19, 2016.
Jazz For The Asking March 15 2016
March 15, 2016, 9:47 a.m.
March 15, 2016, 8:02 a.m.
Reminiscing about the late Keith Emerson during the LP
March 15, 2016, 5:51 a.m.
This Way Out's take on Hillary's foggy AIDS memory = 3:30
March 14, 2016, 8:13 p.m.
* * TRYING SOMETHING NEW * *
Break out segment from this week's "This Way Out"; feel free to run as a separate news feature, but please credit "This Way Out" in your local intro: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HILLARY CLINTON CAUSED AN UPROAR WITH HER MISGUIDED ATTEMPT TO SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT NANCY REAGAN AT HER FELLOW FORMER FIRST LADY'S FUNERAL ON MARCH 11th. "THIS WAY OUT'S" LUCIA CHAPPELLE [LOO-shuh cha-PELL] REPORTS.
March 14, 2016, 7:48 p.m.
Niko's Ansatz
1.Break It Down - Brainwash 2000
2.Long Gev - World Renown
3.Out Ta Flip - Street Poets ft. Polecat
4.Rockafella (*remix and original) - Redman
5.Boy Meets World - Erick Sermon
6.Wreck Your Ears - The B.U.M.S (Brothas Unda Madness)
7.Fakin Jax (Rude Youth remix) INI ft. Pete Rock
8.Ill Street Blues - Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
9.Rock & Comeen - Lady Apache
10.How Many MC's - Blackmoon
11.Undastand - Heltah Skeltah
12.Wrekonize remix - Smif N' Wessun
13.God Lives Through - A Tribe Called Quest
14.E-Z On The Motion - Ghetto Concept
Drederick Crate-Em 2011 randoms for the remainder.
15.4 Corners Vision - The BrainStormers ft. Crooked I
16.We're Live - The 49ers ft. DJ Yasu
17.Raisin' The Bar - Isada Tariq ft. A.P.E.X.
18.To The ZZ ZZ Ah You Don't Stop - J Dilla
"Tangerine's" Mya & Sean + Hillary's "history" + LGBT news!
March 14, 2016, 6:23 p.m.
"Tangerine's" tiny camera tracks colorful trans stories; Hillary faces scorn for her Reagan praise; India's archaic sodomy law withstands another repeal effort, homophobic terror engulfs Indonesia, a refugee controversy mixes with 2 federal firsts at the 38th Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, bias builds in Missouri, queer fears cancel Easter in Stockton, California, and more global LGBT news!
March 14, 2016, 11:35 a.m.
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March 14, 2016, 8:06 a.m.
"Swing, Ladies, Swing" 3/13/16; Set 1
March 14, 2016, 4:59 a.m.
"Swing, Ladies, Swing" 3/13/16; Set 2
March 14, 2016, 4:56 a.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0343
March 13, 2016, 10:03 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
March 13, 2016, 6:26 p.m.
GUEST: DAVID SWANSON
TOPIC: WAR IS A LIE
This week, on the Soapbox, Cindy chats with Soapbox friend, David Swanson about the 2nd edition of his book: War is a Lie.
March 13, 2016, 6:22 p.m.
GUEST: BOB KIRKCONNELL
TOPIC: CIA DRUG AND ARMS DEALING
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The Motherland Influence March 13, 2016
March 13, 2016, 6:14 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
The Other Black Music March 13, 2016
March 13, 2016, 6:08 p.m.
Broadcasting from WRIR-LP 97.3 FM and www.wrir.org in Richmond, Virginia USA. "The Other Black Music" broadcast Black music ignored by other Richmond stations. Soul, Zydeco, Funk, Afro-Pop, Blues and more. Every other Sunday 3-5pm EST
March 13, 2016, 1:05 p.m.
We talk with Pat Mooney, founder of the ETCgroup about crazy new technology on the loose. Then well-known journalist Steven Kotler on ecopsychology in ten easy steps. Is it a diversion for comfortable coffee shops or "the answer".
Appalachia Resist! and Uprising at the Holman Unit in Alabama
March 13, 2016, 12:36 p.m.
This week we spoke with two members of the southern Ohio based group Appalachia Resist!, which is a social and environmental justice group that has been active since 2012 in fighting fracking, frack waste, and injection drilling in their area. We speak about the camp, which is going to be held next weekend, about the schedule and about how the two approach organizing. More about the camp and the group can be found at https://appalachiaresist.wordpress.com/
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Last night prisoners took over Holman prison in Alabama. At around
midnight a fight between inmates escalated to include guards and even
the warden. Staff fled, and the rioting prisoners have taken over
general population, lighting guard towers on fire and barricading the
doors.
News and video, here:
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/03/reported_riot_fires_at_holman.html
According to rumors, the incident began when an officer responded to a
fight between two prisoners with excessive force and was stabbed in
response. "Then they brought the warden down and the warden got to
talking crazy so they ended up stabbing the warden, and then after that
all the officers ran up out of the institution, that was like 12:00,
1:00 this morning."
The warden and officer's injuries were not fatal. There are videos
circulating on social media of prisoners burning the control towers and
opening all doors. âWe're tired of this shit, there's only one way to
deal with it: tear the prison downâ one of the participants stated.
At around 2 am the riot squad and police arrived. They said they were
waiting on daylight to move and try to restore control of the facility.
At this time, people haven't heard from the occupied portion of the
prison for a few hours, but it seems the authorities have not moved in,
either. Friends and family of prisoners in Holman are asking that people
pray for their loved ones.
Holman's capacity is 1002 prisoners, but it also has a segregation unit
and death row, which are still under the prison's control. Prisoners in
segregation have not received their breakfast meal, four hours after it
is normally distributed. General population at Holman consists of four
open space dormitories, housing 114 people each, plus a 200 person
annex, so there may be between 450 - 650 prisoners involved in the uprising.
Alabama DOC has been increasingly unstable in recent months, incidents
of violence within the institutions have been stacking up, the federal
government was on the verge of taking over the system due to poor
management and budgetary shortfalls last year.
An article from Jan 2016 about ADOC's failure to operate safe and stable prisons: http://www.eji.org/node/1198
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March 13, 2016, 8:49 a.m.
An hour of Old Time Radio. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
March 13, 2016, 8:43 a.m.
An hour of eclectic Classical music. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
March 13, 2016, 8:39 a.m.
An hour of modern Jazz. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
March 13, 2016, 8:27 a.m.
A weekkly hour of mainstream Jazz. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Out of the Woods - Show #310 - 3-19-16
March 12, 2016, 8:27 p.m.
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Out of the Woods is an earthy, wires and wood, mostly acoustic program featuring some of the best new and established artists from the worlds of folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriters, alt.country, Americana, classic country, old-time, Celtic, and everything that falls in between. The show is an unpredictable mix flowing like a river between moods, often with an edge or in a melancholy minor key. On occasion, Out of the Woods features interviews and live in-studio performances with national and international touring musicians. Past guests have included artists such as Bela Fleck, Si Kahn, Brown Bird, Dana Robinson, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Kate MacLeod, Bill Bourne, Karl Shiflett, Rachel Bissex, Darryl Purpose, Bow Thayer, Cosy Sheridan and many others. Out of the Woods grew out of Jon 'Chip' Colcord's former acoustic programs, The Song Swap and Music For The Mountain, separate folk and bluegrass programs which aired in New Hampshire during the 1990s. As a child, Colcord grew up a ravenous music fan with an ear for both rock and folk. All of these influences converge on Out of the Woods to bring you a mix which is as much on the edge as it is down home. Folk music with a rock 'n' roll soul