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UpFront Soul #2015.46 - Hour 2- November 23-29, 2015
Nov. 19, 2015, 9:38 a.m.
We'll hear new soul from Grace Love & the True Loves, plus new music from Nicole Willis, Gloria Ann Taylor, The Jack Moves, and many more!
UpFront Soul #2015.46 - Hour 1- November 23-29, 2015
Nov. 19, 2015, 9:01 a.m.
We'll hear new soul from Grace Love & the True Loves, plus new music from Nicole Willis, Gloria Ann Taylor, The Jack Moves, and many more!
Nov. 18, 2015, 10:04 p.m.
Apartheid state: Bristolians just back from Palestine
Nov. 18, 2015, 4:26 p.m.
The Kelly Alexander Show November 18 2015
Nov. 18, 2015, 4:10 p.m.
Susan Akram, Amir Toumé, and attempts to reclaim the historic village of Ikrit
Nov. 18, 2015, 1:43 p.m.
Today we feature Boston University Professor Susan Akram, whose legal work with refugees throughout the world we have followed over the years on This Week In Palestine. We recorded a presentation by Prof. Akram at Boston University as she focused on the plight of refugees driven out of their villages in 1948 as Israel conducted its ethnic cleansing campaign. Following Susanâs presentation you will hear Amir Toumé who will tell the compelling story of how the refugees from his historic village of Ikrit, destroyed during the ethnic cleansing are trying to reclaim their village.
Unfortunately, the story of Ikrit is not unique. Over 350 villages were emptied and destroyed during the ethnic cleansing. And while many villagers were driven into refugee camps in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and the West Bank, some remained, or returned and are now living in Israel, or as they like to refer to it, â48â. But the villagers were not allowed to return to their villages. They live outside, but continue to identify with their village. In most villages the people are not allowed to return even to visit the village, except for the cemetery. I vividly remember visiting the village of Sufuryia outside of Nazareth with a former villager and we had to stand in the cemetery to view the remains of the village and to hear Sufuryiaâs story. Our host faced arrest if he took us into the former village, now a wooded hillside.
Israeli cruelty knows no bounds. As a form of collective punishment they force these villagers to live on the outskirts or in other towns and villages, rather than let them re-inhabit their village of origin which means so much to them. The goal is to make life difficult for Palestinians with the hope that they will leave Israel. But that is definitely not happening. Even after over 60 years of exile from their beloved villages, the descendants identify with that particular piece of land.
As you will hear Ikritâs story is a bit different because it was or is a Christian village with a church standing at its center. And although the village was destroyed, the church remains, and is allowed to function as a Christian Church on a limited basis. So villagers from Ikrit, which is in â48â, can go into the church as well as the cemetery. Some of the young descendants of Ikrit have decided that they will occupy the churchâ¦they will live there, and they do. It is an amazing story that you will hear from Amir Toume, a third generation descendent of those driven from Ikrit in 1948.
First Prof. Susan Akram sets the table. Then Amir Toumé tells his story of the attempts to occupy his historic Palestinian village of Ikrit in what is now Israel.
Nov. 18, 2015, 12:33 p.m.
Nov. 18, 2015, 9:54 a.m.
The opening hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Nov. 18, 2015, 9:35 a.m.
The second hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Between the Lines for the Week Ending November 27, 2015
Nov. 18, 2015, 9:29 a.m.
ISIS Terrorist Attacks Designed to Instill Fear & Hasten the "Apocalypse" ;With Pressure, U.S. Climate Movement is Becoming More Inclusive of Communities of Color; Oregon's Dept. of Justice Caught Spying on State Residents Who Used #BlackLivesMatter Hashtag
Nov. 18, 2015, 9:29 a.m.
Dub and blues, two great tastes that taste great together; the newest Balkan beats from Germany, Bosnia, Moldova and Washington DC; classic mbalax from Senegal; 21st century Afrobeat
Nov. 18, 2015, 9:17 a.m.
The third hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Nov. 18, 2015, 8:59 a.m.
The fourth hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Nov. 18, 2015, 6:32 a.m.
An hour of Old Time Radio. More info: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Nov. 18, 2015, 6:29 a.m.
An hour of eclectic Classical music. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Nov. 18, 2015, 6:25 a.m.
An hour of Jazz Fusion, Free Jazz, and other Modern Jazz sounds. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Nov. 18, 2015, 6:21 a.m.
An hour of the best in Jazz. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Nov. 18, 2015, 6:17 a.m.
A relaxing hour of instrumentals and vocals. Playlists and info: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Sounds From the Global Village 1538
Nov. 18, 2015, 6:11 a.m.
Music from around the world. Playlists and info: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Nov. 17, 2015, 8:13 p.m.
Orpheus Reed on Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, why he did it and what it means. Lucha Bright and Joe Scogin, defendants in trials of protesters arrested for April 14 actions against police murder. Simon Levy, the director, and two of the actors, Thomas Silcott and Suanne Spoke, on Athol Fugard's âPainted Rocks at Revolver Creek.â
Dr. Anthony DiMaggio - The Neoliberal System, Post-2008
Nov. 17, 2015, 8:03 p.m.
In this talk, Anthony DiMaggio discusses his recent research seeking to understand under what conditions the American populace might rise up in opposition to neoliberal politics. DiMaggio argues that declining economic prospects for the average American are associated with growing rejection of the corporate dominated political-economic system. However, as it stands, the public is nowhere near achieving a sustained movement for rejecting neoliberalism. He notes the importance of Occupy Wall Street and service worker protests as representative of growing economic insecurity and anger though they have yet to amalgam a class identity. His discussion draws on Marx and his contemporary relevance to our economic beliefs and the lack of class consciousness among most Americans.
Rwandan Scholar, Leopold Munyakazi Faces Unjust and Deadly Deportation
Nov. 17, 2015, 7:36 p.m.
Rwandan National, academic and lecturer Leopold Munyakazi, spent 5 years (1994-1999) in the Rwandan dungeons without being charged nor having a trial, before being released and traveling to the US in 2004. Muyakazi gave 2 speeches at American universities in 2006 arguing that the massacres in Rwanda between 1990 and 1994 resulted from class conflict and were misidentified as genocide.
Munyakaziâs informed analysis presented in an academic setting prompted the Rwandan junta, which criminalizes all dissent, to quickly issue warrants for his arrest, renewing old claims that heâd participated in killings in 1994. Clearly it is his analysis that prompted the warrants and the U.S. government, which is Kagameâs closest ally, is putting due process at risk by uncritically accepting trumped up charges.
Our Renewable Future - With Richard Heinberg (ONE of TWO)
Nov. 17, 2015, 5:24 p.m.
On a cool November Sunday the hall of the Little Lake Grange in Willits, CA, filled with members and supporters of WELL - Willits Economic Localization.
11 years earlier many of them had come to hear Richard Heinberg after reading his book The Partyâs Over: Oil, War & the Fate of Industrial Societies. The 2004 Canadian documentary, The End of Suburbia, featured an interview with Heinberg and became an inspiration here as well as for the emerging international Transition Town movement.
Arguing that modern life as we know it will end as oil reserves begin running out and climate change does not allow us to burn the rest, the Transition Town Movement focuses on the interrelated issues of energy and economy and all the positive projects of local self reliance that are already under way.
Richard Heinberg's talk on âOur Renewable Futureâ is set among all the frightening news about accelerating climate change. However his message was serious but positive. He asks how our daily life will change as we fully embrace the era of renewable energy? How will we need to shift the ways we use energy - offering both opportunities and challenges.
Richard is Senior Fellow-in-Residence at the Post Carbon Institute and has written extensively on energy, economic, and ecological issues, including oil depletion.
He is the author of twelve books, including some of the seminal works on our energy and environmental sustainability crisis. The most recent one's are: Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels (2015); Snake Oil: How Frackingâs False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future (2013); and The End of Growth: Adapting the Our New Economic Reality (2011)
Bill McKibben: Putting the X in XL
Nov. 17, 2015, 4:02 p.m.
The drawn-out fight to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline recently ended in a triumph for environmental activists, when President Obama announced he would not approve the pipeline. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with the leader of the movement to stop the Keystone XL, Bill McKibben. McKibben and host Alex Wise discuss the importance of the movement to prevent the pipeline's construction, what the recent victory means for the environmental movement in a larger sense, and whom among the current presidential candidates McKibben thinks is best on the environment. Then, we revisit our discussion with entrepreneur Harrison Dillon, the co-founder of Solazyme, a biotech company that creates environmentally-friendly synthetic designer oils that can be used in a wide array of products that have traditionally been petroleum-based.
Nov. 17, 2015, 3:44 p.m.
Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Dr. Frank Vertosick, author of the âThe Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing,â a book about evolutionary intelligence.
Nov. 17, 2015, 2:23 p.m.
Walidah Imarisha, co-editor of the new book Octavia's Brood, talked to us about prison abolition, visionary fiction, and imagining worlds without prisons. Danielle Linnen's talk was from a panel that happened on September 28, 2015 in Montreal. Danielle talked about connections between residential schools and the overrepresentation of aboriginal women in prison.
Nov. 17, 2015, 2:16 p.m.
Ed Mead spoke to us about his new book, Lumpen. Helen spoke to us about the 2016 Certain Days Political Prisoners Calendar.
Nov. 17, 2015, 2:13 p.m.
Victoria Law in New York and JC in Canada spoke to us about issues facing pregnant women behind bars.
Nov. 17, 2015, 2:12 p.m.
Niko Soprano's Favourites No. 74 + B&D Approach FAll vinyl mini set 2015
Nov. 17, 2015, 10:38 a.m.
MF Doom - Gas Drawls
Gang Starr ft. Krumb Snatcha - Make Em Pay
All City - Afta Hours
Big L - The Enemy
Shadowz In Da Dark - Me And My Shadow
Blaque Spurm - Nonoxynol Rhymin'
KRS One ft. Kid Capri - Stop Frontin'
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - One In A Million
40 Oz. - Just One Of Those Days
J-Live - Hush The Crowd
Jay-Z - Dead Presidents
Drederick Crate-Em FAll vinyl min-set 2015
So Clear - Lone Catalysts
Ill Colabo - The Dwellas (Cella Dwellas) ft. Organized Konfusion
Get It Up - Sticky Fingaz
Trust (remix) - The Pharcyde
It's About Time - Del The Funky Homosapien
MF Doom Monosodium Glutamate