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Aussie wedding woes+Mississippi mud+LGBT news!
Aug. 17, 2015, 6:36 p.m.
Dramatic dissent defines the marriage equality debate Down Under, while same-gender Mississippi parents fight the last adoptions ban in the U.S.; Mexico's high court overturns state adoption restrictions, Costa Rica considers common law equality, Chelsea Manning is charged with possessing treacherous toothpaste, Ugandans celebrate Pride under the radar, Reykjavik rolls out a rainbow road, and more global LGBT news.
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #64 - 8-21-15
Aug. 17, 2015, 5:57 p.m.
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
Aug. 17, 2015, 5:46 p.m.
This episode of GroundWire was produced at Kootenay Co-op Radio, a co-operative community radio station which broadcasts on Sinixt traditional territory.
Headlines
Thunder Bay students and unions concerned Fair Elections Act will deter students | Carly Forbes
SRO Tenants in Vancouver file one of the largest Residential Tenancy complaints in BC History | Catherine Fisher, CJLY
Prison Radio CKUT on access to voting for prisoners and their right to vote | CKUT
Features
Attendees of Winnipeg's Anishaabe Water Walk aim to stop construction of the Energy East Pipeline | Michael Welch and Victoria King, CKUW
Final feature of GroundWire's August 2015 Prison Justice coverage; Letters From the Inside aims to increase inmate's access to information | Maegan Thomas, CJSF and Catherine Fisher, CJLY
Community Radio Report
The National Campus and Community Radio Association's new Executive Director, Barry Rooke, spoke to Victoria Fenner from Rabble Radio about what campus and community radio is doing to integrate new media into what has traditionally been one-way communication | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah
Music was provided by House of Rain and Kathleen Yearwood.
Contact groundwireprod (at) gmail.com to pitch to the next episode of GroundWire!
Aug. 17, 2015, 3:09 p.m.
Completion of "Solving 9-11, The Deception that Changed the World"; Arabic music.
If Music Could Talk - Aug 16, 2015 - Part 2 Interview with Mihir Kallianpur
Aug. 17, 2015, 2:43 p.m.
If Music Could Talk - Aug 16, 2015 - Part 1
Aug. 17, 2015, 2:38 p.m.
Aug. 17, 2015, 1:41 p.m.
Finding Your Groove; 8/16/15; Set #1
Aug. 17, 2015, 4:16 a.m.
Finding Your Groove; 8/16/15; Set #2
Aug. 17, 2015, 4:13 a.m.
US Rule in Occupied Earth 4: You Are Next
Aug. 17, 2015, 1:36 a.m.
The last of four commentaries on the nature of genocide, the meaning of the term, the intrinsically genocidal nature of US and European imperialism, and the increasingly genocidal tenor of global governance, including that in Western countries themselves.
It's Wrong to Wreck the World
Aug. 17, 2015, 12:31 a.m.
From the University of Oregon, Kathleen Dean Moore delivers an artful talk about our attack on Nature, and hope of reviving love instead. Recorded in Vancouver. With readings from her work & original song by Libby Roderick.
Aug. 16, 2015, 11:14 p.m.
Satire, stories
538 - Iran Deal; Medicare; Corporate & Climate Crimes
Aug. 16, 2015, 7:38 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Bullish On Terror; President Obama on the Iran Nuclear Deal; Jim Hightower on Corporate Crime and Punishment; Between the Lines interview: Civil Disobedience Targets Shell Icebreaker Ship; Between the Lines interview: On Medicare's 50th Anniversary; Outside The Box: Taxing Ourselves; music.
The Happy Station Show August 16 2015
Aug. 16, 2015, 3:16 p.m.
Media Network Plus August 15 2015
Aug. 16, 2015, 3:10 p.m.
Aug. 16, 2015, 2:27 p.m.
Sean tells the story of Danish resistance to Nazi occupation during WWII and the metaphor of "Being A Good Dane" via sabotage and other forms of resistance. Thanks for passing this on, Ernest Hemmingway...
ARadio on Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisones plus new METAL traxx!
Aug. 16, 2015, 1:47 p.m.
This week on The Final Straw we feature a short interview by our komrades at Anarchistisches Radio Berlin with anonymized organizers of the International Week in Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, which is called for August 23rd-30th of 2015. More info on that can be found at http://tillallarefree.noblogs.org after that we'll be playing some recent metal and punk tracks from around the world. Much of this was gleaned from R-A-B-M, a site featuring global perspectives and music from across the Loud spectrum. Red & Anarchist Black Metal, as a site, hosts political commentaries and musical projects of anti-capitalist, ecological, anti-state, feminist and other common sense pursuasions... or at least projects that're good and reject NSBM & RAC trajectories. More can be found at http://R-A-B-M.blogspot.com
But first in news:
Earlier this week Sean was unexpectedly transferred to Warren Correctional. It seems he wasnât given enough notice to send word out to supporters, so weâre not sure whatâs up with this. Warren is a primarily level 3 institution, so Sean also likely had his security level reduced.
It is located near Cincinnati, so anyone there, in Bloomington, or in Columbus are now closer than they used to be. Sean loves visitors (and is more down to earth in person than his writings would suggest) so if youâd like to hang out in a big room with uncomfortable chairs, lots of sad people who are happy to see each other and vending machines that provide the best food half the people in that room can get, fill out some visitation forms and write Sean a letter letting him know youâd like to come.
His new address is:
Sean Swain
243-205
Warren CI
P.O. Box 120
5787 State Route 63
Lebanon, Ohio 45036
Chelsae Manning, who is currently serving a 35 year sentence at the maximum security US Disciplinary Barracks in Ft Leavenworth after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly three-quarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents while she was in the military, is facing indefinite solitary confinement. The charges that have been brought up against Chelsae are very clearly the product of institutional intimidation, and they include: having literature pertaining to trans issues (Manning is a transgender woman), spilling food onto the floor, and being in the possession of an expired tube of toothpaste.
From her support page: "This is a disturbing attempt to silence Chelseaâs voice. Chelsea has been very active while in prison, speaking out through her twitter account about issues of government transparency, transgender rights, and the prison system. Sheâs been writing a regular column for The Guardian, and even wrote a bill to reform the Espionage Act and protect journalism.These absurd charges against Chelsea, and the outrageous threat of indefinite solitary confinement, are clearly an attempt to silence Chelseaâs important voice and cut her off from the outside world.We have to make sure this attempt to silence Chelsea not only fails, but backfires". And we here at The Final Straw agree!!
To sign the petition created by Fight for the Future, you can go to: https://www.freechelsea.com/
And to read Chelsae's regular column at The Guardian you can visit: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/chelsea-manning
To write to Chelsae, you can address letters to:
CHELSEA E. MANNING 89289
1300 NORTH WAREHOUSE ROAD
FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS 66027-2304
And to donate funds, read updates on her case, and to see guidelines for sending her mail, you can visit the very comprehensive website http://www.chelseamanning.org
Columbia, SC native, Eddien Patterson was arrested during the July 18 anti-KKK demonstration in South Carolina (which we at The Final Straw reported here: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2015/08/03/they-ran-the-kkk-out-of-town-in-fact-exclamation-point/). He was initially charged with 2nd degree felony assault and battery by a mob as well as 3rd misdemeanor assault and battery. Eddien was on probation at the time of arrest and now is serving ten months for violating the probation. He is currently being held at the Richland County jail.
On July 29 Eddien was given the additional charge of Breach of Peace of a High and Aggravated Nature for allegedly breaking the windows of a KKK members pick up truck. Currently we are trying to find a lawyer for Eddien, but he has requested that money be added to his books and desires to receive letters.
To send money, either send donations to free.eddien@gmail.com on PayPal or go to https://richland.mcdanielsupply.co/deposit/index
his Department of Corrections # is 591561, which you'll need to either send him funds or mail.
To write to Eddien, address letters to:
Eddien Andre Patterson #591561
E Dorm
Alvin S Glenn Detention Center
201 John Mark Dial Dr
Columbia, SC 29209
For updates on his case, you can visit https://freeeddien.wordpress.com/
EXTREME HEAT IN TX PRISONS by Malik Washington:
The next audio was a lengthy letter dated July 20th from Keith "Malik" Washington. Keith âMalikâ Washington is living in the Wallace Pack Unit in Navasota, Texas. He reports on human rights abuses in the Texas prison system. Known to his friends as Comrade Malik, his life mission is to serve the people and create conditions in the United States in which all humyn beings have access to freedom, justice and equality! More on his observations, his case and the contents of the letter on Extreme Heat conditions at Wallace Pack Unit (and the retaliation for complaint against 3 inmates there) at http://comrademalik.com
UNICORN RIOT:
And finally, we'd like to suggest another source for what's called "alternative media" aka media for all you trouble makers out there. The website http://www.unicornriot.ninja/ boasts a bunch of awesome looking videos and articles about current events which would be of interest to anarchist leaning folx.
From the website:
"Unicorn Riot is your commercial-free not-for-profit media alternative. We operate independent of government/corporate funding and are currently accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
The purpose of Unicorn Riot is to amplify the voices and images of marginalized people and further the understanding of dynamic social struggles in communities around the world. We produce media in order to educate and expose the root causes of social conflict in todayâs globalized world.
Unicorn Riot is comprised of independent journalists and multimedia artists working together from around the world who are committed to providing uncensored alternative media supported by the viewers themselves."
MUSIC TRACKS:
This track is "a gospel of the flesh" by SEEDS IN BARREN FIELDS from Gothenburg, Sweden, which formed in 2007. They focus on themes of anarchism and environmentalism and are out on Lundr Records. This track is off their July 19th, 2015 release Let The Earth Be Silent After Ye.
AMESTIGON is from Lower Austria, and they formed in 1995 and are still going strong. They focus on Satanism and the Occult among other themes and are out on the lable World Terror Committee. Right now we're hearing the track, 358 which is off the band's full length album "Thier", which was released in May of this year.
PALCE CHALICE from San Francisco, formed in 2008 and out on the label Gilead Media. We're hearing Shaking Nerves & Vacuous Spheres from their June 16th, 2015 release, Negate The Infinite & Miraculous.
Aug. 16, 2015, 11:02 a.m.
Today, Cindy again chats with Leslie Boyd.
Leslie's son Michael Danforth died on
April 1, 2008 due to lack of health
insurance and access to quality care.
Leslie has become a healthcare advocate
from her loss and has founded
Western North Carolina Health Advocates
#713 - The Deep State in Western Europe, 1972-1986
Aug. 16, 2015, 4:30 a.m.
This week, a range of materials from scholarly articles to YouTube videos sheds some light on the murky world of post-WW2 deep political intrigue in Europe. The NATO run Operation Gladio is our point of departure, but False Flags are just the most dramatic of many forms of psychological warfare. In our second hour we look at an even now relatively little known group called "Le Cercle" which appears to have been actively engaged in similarly Machiavellian political manipulation carried out in many of the self-styled "democracies" of Western Europe.
Dave on Enbridge, Sarah on 15 Now Tacoma - 8/15/15
Aug. 16, 2015, 1:57 a.m.
Our first phone guest, Dave, calls from Bloomington, IL with details about Enbridge using eminent domain to build a crude oil pipeline. Sarah Morken also calls in with info about 15 Now Tacoma. (extended length 1:04:35)
Aug. 15, 2015, 6:32 p.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0312
Aug. 15, 2015, 4:07 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0311
Aug. 15, 2015, 4:01 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0310
Aug. 15, 2015, 3:56 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0309
Aug. 15, 2015, 3:48 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0308
Aug. 15, 2015, 3:44 p.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0307
Aug. 15, 2015, 3:39 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0306
Aug. 15, 2015, 3:32 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0305
Aug. 15, 2015, 3:28 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0304
Aug. 15, 2015, 3:23 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain