Swinging Valentines; 2/14/16; Set 2

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From the Margins: Feb 14, 2016

(1) Unpaid interns - interview with Andrew Meade, freelance media worker who is a member of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and Canadian Freelance Union. Meade talks about efforts to try and improve protections for unpaid interns and the broader issue of whether and and what context unpaid internships are justified at all. (2) Organizing panhandlers and other street workers - Interview with Andrew Nellis, organizer with the Street Labourers of Windsor and the Ottawa Panhandlers Union. Nellis reflects on the unique features and challenges of organizing panhandlers, buskers, scrappers and other street workers and his wealth of experiences in these efforts. (3) MC Liddz with a killer rhyme

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Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror

Talk by Phyllis Bennis author of "Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A Primer" given February 2, 2016 at Town Hall Seattle.

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Organizing a Faculty Union at UW

Interview with Gina Neff with UW Faculty Forward, a grassroots organization working to unionize faculty at the University of Washington.

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The Covert Report: Narco-Cartels Now Role-Model Global Capitalism

http://truthfrequencyradio.com/covert-report-susan-lindauer-62070/

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Eat the Airwaves! - 02/13/16

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0339

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Lake Air 1606

Smooth Jazz, New Age and Acoustic music. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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Inside Outside Alliance on deaths in Durham County Jail, NC & medical neglect

This week we feature a conversation with Steve, a member of the Inside Outside Alliance, a group in Durham working to amplify the voices of prisoners, foster better connections with their family and loved ones on the outside and raise awareness (in the words of the prisoners and their families) of problems in the Durham County Jail with an eye towards holding the Sheriff's Dept & local government accountable. More on this project at http://amplifyvoices.com. This week we speak about the un-reported deaths in jail of Matthew McCain (January 2016), Dennis McMurray (January 2015) and briefly about the death of Raphael Marquis Bennett (August 2015). There is also a conversation on medical neglect (in Matthew's case, he claimed he was not getting proper treatment for his diabetes and epilepsy). Also mentioned is the work going on around different parts of North Carolina to get communities aroused against the recent snatching up with intent to deport latino youth by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during it's recent spate of raids against folks accused of entering the U.S. from Central America in the past few years. These include: A student on his way to school in Durham, named <a href="http://raleigh.quepasanoticias.com/noticias/ciudad/local/ice-arresta-a-adolescente-hondureno-cuando-se-dirigia-a-la-escuela-en-durham">Wildin David Guillén Acosta</a>; <a href="http://wncn.com/2016/02/13/vigil-planned-for-2-wake-county-teens-detained-by-immigration-officials/">Edwin Alvarez-Gálvez of Raleigh & Santos Padilla-Guzman of Cary</a> are 3 of the so-called NC 6. <a href="http://abc11.com/news/deportation-fears-keep-some-durham-students-at-home/1198522/">Here's an article</a> students in Durham avoiding school for fear of ICE and words from teachers and admins at the schools expressing how dangerous they feel it is for the community. One organization on facebook working to keep folks informed on the raids can be found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Alerta-Migratoria-NC-1105654329444645/?fref=photo">here</a>. ------------------------------- This is an update from our frieds at No New Animal Lab: From their website http://nonewanimallab.com On January 29th, No New Animal Lab, with representation from the Civil Liberties Defense Center, filed an anti-SLAPP Special Motion to Strike against injunctions filed on behalf of two executives of Skanska USA. Skanska and its key decision makers have been the subject of a year-long protest campaign, organized under the banner of No New Animal Lab, for their $90 million contract to build a large, underground animal research lab for the University of Washington (UW). Skanska executives at the corporation's Portland office filed for injunctions against four activists and “No New Animal Lab” in an attempt to stifle the growing national protests. Such lawsuits are known as "SLAPPs" (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) and are often used by corporations against protest movements in an attempt to chill dissent and disrupt campaign organizing. Rather than outright criminalizing protest activity, corporations attempt to exploit the legal system, dragging grassroots activists through frivolous civil court proceedings and draining and redirecting both time and material resources. SLAPPs exist to shrewdly muzzle movements that seek to hold corporations and their executives accountable and are backdoor attempts to legislate unreasonable restrictions upon speech and assembly. “The campaign against Skanska is about challenging power--the power to callously decide the fate of thousands; the power to construct lives of suffering, captivity, and pain; and the power to evade accountability through the impersonal structure of corporations,” said a spokesperson for No New Animal Lab. “When you challenge power, you get a response. These SLAPP injunctions are just that--a response from Skanska, one of the largest corporations of its kind. The No New Animal Lab campaign interprets these lawsuits as a measure of its effectiveness.” The No New Animal Lab campaign has grown substantially in the last year, and the pressure against Skanska is at an all-time high. In mid-January, hundreds of people from all over the country converged in New York to protest the company’s U.S. headquarters and CEO and President Richard Cavallaro, and Skanska’s largest U.S. investor, the Vanguard Group. One way you can help right now is to make a DONATION to the campaign. Every penny goes directly to grassroots organizing and helping with legal costs. Support means everything in moments like these. To donate to this cause, and to learn more about this campaign, you can go to the website http://nonewanimallab.com and click on the red Donate tab on their page. To hear the interview that we conducted with members of this campaign, you can visit http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org and search "no new animal lab". ---------------------------------------------- We finish up the show with three musical tracks from CrustWithSprings.blogspot.de and R-A-B-M.blogspot.com: First we'll hear a very new band called Baeden from Sydney Austrailia with track one off their 2015 demo entitled "iphone versus crusty slice" Second is track one from Gudsforladt, which is a one person project from salem, mass. the track is off their 2016 self titled release. Thirdly we'll hear Wrang which is a black metal band from the Netherlands. This track is called eulogy to impermanence and is off their 2015 demo ================================ Playlist: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/15307

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Classics and Beyond 1606

An hour of eclectic Classical music. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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Jazz Progressions 1606

A weekly hour of modern Jazz, including Free Jazz and Fusion. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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Upstate Radio Theatre 1606

An hour of Old Time Radio. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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Sounds From the Global Village 1606

A weekly musical trip around the world. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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Black History Month: W.E.B. Du Bois

Back in the USSR continues to celebrate Black History Month by paying tribute to one of the greatest African American heroes of all time, W.E.B. Du Bois. This man was a pioneer of the civil rights struggle in America, a pioneer of the Pan-African movement against colonialism, and an uncompromising supporter of socialism and international solidarity among working class people and colonized peoples worldwide against capitalism and imperialism. He was politically active for more than six decades and was still speaking and drawing crowds even in the early 1960s when he was in his nineties. The number of people that this man inspired all throughout the course of a life of courageous struggle and brave example is uncountable.

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Hard News, Troubled Planet

Australia fires climate scientists while expanding coal, Ellen Roberts of GetUp! reports. From Netherlands, scientists Arjen Hoekstra finds 4 billion people in water scarcity. From Hong Kong, Stuart Heaver on nuclear fear next door.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016 MORE ON WHO PROFITED FROM 9/11 TRILLIONS Part 2

Cheryl shares the first part of James Corbett's report on the 9/11 Trillions - Follow the Money (Oct. 2015) -who benefited, disappearing evidence, and cover up are presented. James Corbett's website is: www.corbettreport.com - highly recommended.

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JANUARY 27, 2016 ORIGINS of ISIS & MEDIA PROPAGANDA

Cheryl shares audio clips of Michel Choussodovsky and then John Pilger as they discuss who created ISIS. Cheryl discusses the media propaganda that keeps Americans from knowing what's really going on.

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The Jazz Scene 1606

A weekly hour of mainstream Jazz. Playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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Radio Free Radical

Offering you the very best of alternative, independent political / social justice championing / status quo-challenging audio media live-streamed from our website (radiofreeradical.org) and NOW IN MP3 HERE ON RADIO4ALL! 12 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING IN JUST THREE FILES! It's all yours!

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CPR Sunday, February 14, 2016

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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Fred Jerome, whose father was imprisoned during "Red Scare", appreciates Trumbo.

Fred Jerome, whose father, V. J. Jerome, was one of the more than 100 communists arrested under the Smith Act and who served for 3 years (1954-57) in a Pennsylvania federal prison, gives a critical analysis of the Trumbo film. Dalton Trumbo was a one of the Hollywood 10 communists whom the House Un-American Activities Committee sentenced to serve a year in prison in 1950. On the positive side, Jerome says the film was very well done; gives a realist glance of US McCarthyism or "the Great Red Scare"; gives the public someone who says with pride "I am a communist;" shows a man who refuses to bend under the Congressional Investigating Committee questioning. He sees the highlight of the film --Trumbo's daughter asking him if he is a communist, if mom is a communist and if she is a communist. Trumbo's response about the importance of believing in sharing wealth is a start in explaining what communism is. On the less positive side, Jerome believes the film suffers from the Hollywood "one man against the world" scenario. Jerome says that Trumbo would have been the first to says is not about one person; but, in the film, you don't see the 1000s of others who protested around the world nor even the other of the Hollywood 10 being questioned.

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The ICC is trying to frame Gbagbo

Bernard Desgagne provides important background information about Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) political history and the "former" President Laurent Gbagbo who has been targeted by the Western countries and now faces charges at the infamous International Criminal Tribunal (ICC) --the place where all good and just African leaders who do not bow down to the Western powers are drug. President Laurent Gbagbo, elected in October of 2000, was known as "the father of the multiparty-system in the Ivory Coast." Gbagbo's rival since 1992 was Alassanc Ouattara, former IMF man hired by 30 year no-opposition president Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who died in December of 1993. In 1992, Ouattara sabataged Gbagbo's peaceful protests challenging the one-party system and then blamed the destruction onto Gbagbo, who was jailed and given a mock trial. Gbagbo wanted peace and reconciliation, so he pardoned a rebel general and allowed him to take part in political life and made other concessions that allowed Ouattara to run for president in the 2010 elections. Gbagbo won those elections.

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Syrian Army liberating territory, US-Turkey in panic mode

The combined force of Syrian troops and Russian air support has turned the tide of battle against the mercenary terrorist groups trained and financed by NATO and the Gulf Monarchs. Sahiounie contradicts the false reports in Western media about refugees fleeing Aleppo; their numbers have been exaggerated and many are families and supporters of the terrorist groups. The Saudi/Turkish rhetoric about invading Syria does not frighten the people of Syria who are fighting with renewed confidence.

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A Fund-raiser for GRNH host radio station CKUW

What you are about to hear is a special broadcast which was devoted to raising funds for Winnipeg radio station CKUW 95.9FM. It aired Friday February 12th. The program was a live broadcast and refers frequently on the need to donate money to the station. Broadcasters are welcome to re-broadcast this program or if they prefer, play a repeat broadcast from the on-line archives. The Global Research News Hour will return with a regular edition.

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Out of the Woods - Show #306 - 2-20-16

This version of the program is divided into 6 segments so broadcasters who desire to use this content can insert your station info, etc. The segments vary in length. 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

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Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #90- 2-19-16

Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull. The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week

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Protestors Arrested Declaring NYC an ICE-FREE Zone

Protestors Arrested Declaring NYC an Ice-Free Zone, in Push-Back Against Obama s New Year s Resolution To Deport Central American Refugees with The ICE-FREE NYC campaign, comprised of New Yorkers of all Backgrounds Who Want Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Completely Out of Our City In response to the ongoing raids of non-citizens and the announcement of raids against Central American refugees immigrant rights advocates, labor unions, faith-based groups, and community members gathered to say NO to raids, demand and end to deportations and announce the creation of ICE-FREE Zones throughout New York City. First, Obama, already known in immigrant communities as the Deporter-in-Chief, announced the deportation priority program called Priority Enforcement Program (PEP). Shortly after the announcement of PEP, home raids in NYC increased at an alarming rate. Then, on December 26, 2015, Obama s Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) announced nationwide raids aimed at deporting the primarily women and children, many of whom are refugees who fled some of the most violent regions in the world, in particular Central America. But, the ICE-FREE NYC campaign demands that the Department of Corrections and New York Police Department must end all collaboration with ICE, prohibit the sharing of information about New Yorkers between ICE and all City agencies that may reveal an individuals immigration status.The ICE-FREE NYC campaign stands in solidarity and will put their bodies on the line to protect immigrant/ refugee families and create ICE-FREE Zones within NYC's five boroughs and Long Island.

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#415 -- Economics and Inequality, Part 2

Economist Joseph Stiglitz shows that economic inequality in the US is bad and getting worse. The causes are our dysfunctional style of capitalism and a political system that serves only the elite. Our economic inequality is bad for democracy, bad for the US economy, even bad for capitalism, Stiglitz argues. Part 2 has the conclusion of the talk and selections from the Q&A. The talk--though short on solutions--is a lucid and very listenable survey of the problems we face--and their causes.

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Two years on from Kiev's Maidan coup US arming & training Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Battalions

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/36846/

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CPR News, February 12, 2016

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