RADICAL FEMINISM AND MOTHERHOOD

GUEST HOST: ANITA STEWART GUEST: MARYLOU SINGLETON Once in awhile, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox uniquely reflects the life and interests of Cindy Sheehan. This week, we welcome midwife and radical feminist MaryLou Singleton to talk about how "political correctness" is robbing motherhood of its inherent language and meaning. Cindy gave birth to her children at home with midwives in attendance and her strong motherhood is the very thing that gave her the strength and power to confront George Bush in the first place and to continue her battle against the Empire even to this day.

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Program 323

Radio Thrift Shop is a show that evolves and changes every few months. It is primarily an homage to freeform radio shows 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

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Program 322

Radio Thrift Shop is a show that evolves and changes every few months. It is primarily an homage to freeform radio shows 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

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Sascha & Ramona of To Change Everything Tour on anarchism, struggle and solidarity

This week, we are happy to share an interview contributed by an audio militant associated with The Final Straw. This conversation took place after one of the presentations of the Crimethinc tour associated with the publishing and distribution of To Change Everything zine, a recent and widely translated introduction and invitation to anarchy. This interview was conducted shortly after one of the 3 panel discussions that took place last month in the Bay Area and includes two members of the tour. Sascha is an anarchist from Prague in the Czech Republic and Ramona is an anarchist from Slovenia. The Crimethinc To Change Everything tour will be hitting up Firestorm Books and Coffee in Asheville, North Carolina on Wednesday, November 11th at 5pm. If you like the insights you hear in this conversation and want to engage these guests plus more, show up to this free event. Next week we'll be bringing an interview between our own William Goodenuff and members of the No New Animal Labs initiative attempting to organize against the planned building of an expanded, public-private animal testing facility on the University of Washington campus. William and the guest will talk about their recent nation-wide tour and the wider scope of the No New Animal Lab project in creating a more robust animal rights movement on Turtle Island. But first a couple of announcements... From the youcaring.com fundraising page for our friend, Steph: "On October 19, while attempting to help a man whose dog had been hit by a car, Stephanie Wilson was run over by an SUV. The accident left her with life threatening injuries and claimed the life of the dog she was attempting to help (the man she was with was also injured, though less severely). For anyone who knows Steph, they know that her being injured while attempting to help others is an emblematic example of her unceasing willingness to put the lives of others before herself. Over the years, Steph has rescued countless animals, often traveling to disaster areas to volunteer as a relief worker, and has never hesitated to help someone in need. Just last week she was rescuing animals from the flooding in South Carolina. But now this ceaseless champion of others needs your help." Continuing from the youcaring.com site: "as Steph spends her life doing animal rescue (which as anyone involved knows is a passion project more than a stable career), she is without insurance. What is more, the individual driving the SUV that hit her was driving an uninsured vehicle on a suspended license. Therefore it is expected that the medical costs for a sustained hospital stay are likely to be astronomically high and likely will fall all on Steph herself. This is where you come in." According to the updates on her youcaring.com page, Steph's condition has improved since the accident, but she's still not out of the woods. Her brain swelling has not increased, and there's hope that soon she'll be stable and swelling will decrease to the point that doctors can begin to operate on the blood clot that's been found. Again from the fundraising page: "We are asking you to help her manage this unexpected burden. Please consider donating to help get Steph back on her feet and support the animals currently under her care. If you can’t personally afford to donate, please pass this campaign along to your friends. All money raised will go towards Steph’s long-term recovery, rehabilitation and immediate costs of animal care for the animals currently in her rescue." To find out more and to contribute to fundraising for Steph Wilson's medical costs, visit: https://www.youcaring.com/stephanie-wilson-454345 ============================ Unstoppable is specifically by and for incarcerated folks who identify as women, gendervariant, and/or trans. This anti-authoritarian publication seeks to blend radical political analyses with personal experiences and observations. We want to elevate the voices on the inside that are often excluded from political dialogues, while also asking people on the outside to convey their social and political realities to people on the inside. Unstoppable aims to build bridges across prison walls and beyond them by facilitating dialogue and engagement between those who are incarcerated and those who are not. Unstoppable is asking for contributions in the form of artwork, poetry, writings, social commentaries, fieldnotes from the prison yard or the streets, critical views of power structures and more. Unstoppable is particularly interested in focusing on gendered issues and systems of social control in the U.S. context, but we invite a wide array of topics. Such topics might include: organizing against police terror; personal triumphs in overcoming past or ongoing trauma; community-based responses to gendered violence and abuse; self-care in high stress environments; the consequences of deprivation in the U.S. prison system; environmental liberation; forms of resistance in women’s prisons; do-it-yourself ethics; astrology and planetary transits; et cetera! Please email unstoppablepublication@gmail.com if you wish to be involved with this project in any way or if you have a contribution to share. Or you can write us at unstoppable, po box 11032, pueblo, co 81001 to contribute or to get a free subscription if you are currently incarcerated! Please spread the word to folks on the inside and out; we want this distributed broadly! =========================== From the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, or IWOC's website, the group that we interviewed in June of this year about the drugging of prisoners in Missouri: Imprisoned social justice activist Kenneth Bell is being targeted by the administration at Potosi Prison in Missouri. From a letter dated 10-24-15… “Until a couple of days ago I was the prison law clerk, “Jailhouse Lawyer”, but I was fired for filing grievances and for assisting others who are incapable of doing it themselves. . . . Please form a network of people who will call and confront officials about my firing. If I am to continue to help them here in PCC I need to be back in my position. . . . By firing me, prison officials hope to intimidate other prisoners and thereby discourage anyone who would be inclined to complain about conditions here, or who would try to help another prisoner do so.” Many of you may remember the horrendous conditions that we described at Potosi last winter and the torture endured by prisoners who went on hunger strike after being retaliated against for complaining then. For a list of phone numbers to call, scripts, instructions and updates, check out http://iwoc.noblogs.org ===================== Due to time constraints, we were unable to announce Khmer playing at the Odditorium on Friday the 6th of November on our regular broadcast, but do so in the podcast version of the show along with a track from that band. That version also features a tiny bit more dialogue and a track from Gattaca, a sludgy hardcore band from Prague that Sascha from the interview requested. Playlist for podcast version: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/14181

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Climate Catastrophe Indonesia

We get a report directly from the scene, with Dr. Daniel Murdiyarso, at the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor Indonesia. Then one of the long-standing reporters on tropical forests, Mongabay founder Rhett Butler.

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Omar Barghouti - "BDS & the Ethical Obligation to End Complicity in Oppression"

Omar Barghouti speaks about Boycott-Divest-Sanction, the BDS movement, now in its tenth year and growing. He talks about its ethical foundation to ending State oppression of human beings, specifically Palestinians. The non-violent campaign has diminished Israeli hegemony over its narrative that normalized State violence, such that people recoil to understand what is at Israel's Zionist core and the injustice they are complicit in should they not stand in opposition. He addresses the complexities of coalition building and "context sensitivity" central to working with the wide range of groups that are moving to support the Palestinian cause and mentions recent support coming from scientists and a major US labor conference. Barghouti mentions Israel's experiment at undermining the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, a new " McCarthyism", by influencing State governments and the precedent it sets for other interests seeking to suppress decent. Boycott is a First Amendment protected act. In Illinois, for instance, BDS was attacked by the passage of a law directing the State pension system to divest from companies that support BDS, that is to undermine free speech, following a unanimous vote in the Illinois State Legislature. Barghouti offers a few observations on the political system and the poverty of politicians.

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Media Network Plus October 31 2015

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#722 - A Milieu of The European Deep State

This is the most intense look we've taken at the Bilderberg group since episode 528. In the 5 years since that show was produced, Bilderberg has been much more under the media spotlight. We begin with Charlie Skelton comparing the experience of reporting on the G7 with reporting on the Bilderberg. Next we hear a 2007 summary of the Bilderberg group by Daniel Estulin and some concluding thoughts by Tony Gosling.

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Jethro Tull - Bootleg 1970

Some singles and some live tracks from concert at the Long Beach Arena. My God, Sossity, and more

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549 - Non-combat Combat by US; Corporate Corruption; Reforming Prisons

News You Need to Know: Non-Combat Combat; Between the Lines interview: US Drone Program's Deadly Flaws; Jim Hightower: 14-year-old American Boy In Exile; Between the Lines interview: American Corporations Withhold $620 billion in US Taxes; Mumia Abu-Jamal: 10-16-2015 Statement; Jim Hightower: Guess who's pushing for prison reform?; Outside The Box: Cliches; Hidden Histories: Halloween; music.

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CPR Sunday, Nivember 1, 2015

Political analysts Eric Draitser in New York and Mark Sleboda in Moscow discuss world events. Hosted by CPR News senior editor Don DeBar.

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HA HA Halloween

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548 - Making Peace, Stopping TPP, Explaining Congress

News You Need to Know: Making Orwell Proud; Between the Lines interview: Israeli and Palestinian Combatants for Peace; Between the Lines interview: Transpacific Partnership; NH Gazette's Fortnightly Rant: Another Fine Predicament, 10/16/2015; Jim Hightower: Speaker of the US House & Congressional Morality; Outside The Box: Child-Free; music.

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DeVotchKa October 2015

A compilation of music from DeVotchKa multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble based in Boulder Colo.

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Rev. Susie's Katrina Show ch. 14: "Etouffée, Brute?"

NOTE--I made an executive decision to cut one of the episodes out of this run because it sounded so lame it embarrassed me. I wound up putting the original episode #14 together out of all the floor sweepings of material that I had been sitting on for four years. And when I gave it an advance listen, I realized that it doesn't fucking work. The sound levels were muddled, the continuity was incoherent, the white guys from audiobooks trying to sound black were just curdling me, and the violence was just a blare of meaningless bullshit. So I snipped it out, and you know what? This move totally improves the continuity. It keeps up the insane level of Bush abuse which amps up the ominous tone as we slide into the final three chapters. As the [new] fourteenth hour of our saga unfolds, Hurricane Katrina still howls away, scouring the littered Mississippi Delta. Stained with the blood of his slain brother Jeb, George stumbles through the swamps, gripped by madness and looking for someone to help him escape his Hell. He tries his (shitty) luck hitchhiking with a series of bitter, hostile evacuees, only to fall victim to a clutch of Klansmen--Lester Maddox, JB Stoner, James Earl Ray, and the Grand Dragon himself, Pat Robertson. Robertson, still nursing a white-hot grudge against the Bush family, invites George to get hammered with them--to a fiery cross! As if that weren't bad enough, George still faces an appointment with dark destiny... in the form of his sadistic kidnapper Jack, who is roaring through the bayous on a mission of murder. There will be BLOOD. You might want to put a drip pan under your radio. For music tonight, we have a dose of "4-Way Diablo" by Monster Magnet, a perfect song I found in the slushbox at WREK called "Blanco's Big Mistake" by Louisiana Guerilla, and THE most fucking amazing, fucking DARK version of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" by the world's most hardcore fucking band, Deadbolt!!! Also--I did NOT do the George Bush cover of "Imagine," but I wish I had. As far as I can tell, it's by Rx2008, but I could be wrong.

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Nash Holos October 30 2015

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#400 -- Howard Zinn on War (R)

Some highly relevant reflections on our wars by the late Progressive historian (and WW2 veteran). Among his main points: If war resulted from human nature, national leaders would not need propaganda, the draft, and prisons to cajole and compel citizens to participate. It's the leaders--not the citizens--who want war. Therefore, the first step to war is a propaganda campaign at home. War solves no problems, transforms virtuous people into beasts, and kills primarily innocent civilians.

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African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World

African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World with Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and professor of sociology and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes and speaks widely about race, both in the United States and internationally. He is a host on the hit PBS series History Detectives. Tukufu Zuberi s frames decolonization and formal sovereignty as both an era and a sensibility, and defines what African independence actually means for the continent and the world as a whole. He documents the decisive role played by African soldiers in WWII and argues that the war's savagery exposed 'the myth of civilized Europe and barbaric Africa. Though the Allied victory was 'forged with considerable African sacrifice,' much of the continent remained in European imperial hands. However, African participation in the defeat of the Axis powers rekindled anti-colonial aspirations, resulting in a series of uprisings and growing international support for decolonization. Regrettably, the Cold War derailed national independence movements and the continent again became 'locked in a death grip' by brutal military dictatorships supported by either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. In this engaging and bold analysis of African independence, Zuberi critiques the failure of U.S. humanitarian policies toward Africa and Africa s current partnerships with countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He reveals the contradictions that continue to obstruct aspirations for African liberation. Indeed, the evidence presented shows that Africa is once again locked in a death grip of post-colonial and post-independence manipulations, nevertheless, his story of the making of modern Africa, constitutes an impassioned plea to recognize the continent for more than the trouble it has endured.

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Alex Jones show as 1938 War of the Worlds style psychological warfare

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-10/

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CPR News, October 30, 2015

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Shaker Aamer finally released from Guantanamo

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-10/

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"Unexcused Presence"

This RADIOLA! hasn't got a note.

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I Feel Higher Than A Mountain

sunriseoceanbender.com

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How Is There air Up There?

sunriseoceanbender.com

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This Week in Radio News: The Blimp for Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2015

A military surveillance blimp comes unmoored in Maryland, and floats for three hours over Pennslyvania wreaking havoc as it goes. That sounds like the script of some Orson Welles radio drama, but it was real-life this week. This show listens in to reports about blimp sightings, and then hears archival audio of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937. Also, tune in radio headlines: FCC plans to save AM radio with FM; 'Roadrunner' for Massachusetts state song again; Court dismisses Wikimedia suit against NSA; Senate votes for CISA; IRS bought Stingrays for surveillance; Plus, the show tunes in an excerpt of Kate Donovan and Davidly's new adaptation of Richard Foreman's "Film is Evil: Radio is Good." https://www.mixcloud.com/KateDonovanAndDavidly/film-is-evil-radio-is-good/

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Earth First! Update - 29 Oct, 2015

Radical, No Compromise Environmental News

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Russia, Ukraine, Syria and the Grand Chessboard: Conversations with Boris Kagarlitsky and Andrew Korybko

This week's Global Research News hour focuses on the challenges facing Russia and how it is prevailing over efforts by the West to exclude the one time superpower from the geo-strategically significant Middle East and Central Asian Region. The first interview is with Boris Kagarlitsky, Director of the Moscow-based Institute for Globalization and Social Movements , a leading leftist think tank. Kagarlitsky discusses the unique characteristics of Russian political power structures, the class dynamics in the current upheaval in Ukraine, and how Canada should position itself to mitigate the violence and bloodshed unfolding in Ukraine. In the second half hour, we speak with Andrew Korybko, a Moscow-based political commentator. He has written a four part series about the 'New Middle East' unfolding in the wake of Russia's moves against US/NATO's proxies in Syria. He explains the dynamics of this new transformation, the fate of US proxies Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the re-emergence of Iraq, Syria and Iran, and that the geo-strategic significance of the massive refugee flows.

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La marge a CKIA 28 octobre 2015 Elbow

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Focus Asia Pacific October 30 2015

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