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Hello U.S. Equality Act! + much more global LGBT news!
July 27, 2015, 5:42 p.m.
The U.S. Equality Act fights equality-phobias; San Francisco Catholic schoolteachers seek "morality" dispensation; the European Court of Human Rights rules for the legal recognition of same-gender couples, gender identity rights advance in Italy and Poland, Taipei pops the question to Taiwan's Constitutional Court, it's the end of the rainbow in Riyadh, and more global LGBT news.
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #61 - 7-31-15
July 27, 2015, 5:33 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
July 27, 2015, 5:33 p.m.
Segment One
Night Walk by Rick Braun
CD: Night Walk (Bluemoon)
Hexagram of the Heavens by Martin Kolbe
CD: Guitar Works (Narada)
What Am I Gonna Do With You? by Kenny Rankin
CD: Because of You (Chesky)
The Longest Summer by Pat Metheny
CD: Secret Story (Geffen)
Segment Two
Mango Tango by Richard Elliot
CD: Metro Blue (Artizen)
Louise by Michael Lucker
CD: The World of Acoustic Guitar (ZYX)
Circumstance by Wayman Tisdale
CD: Power Forward (Motown)
Oceanside by Andrea Brachfeld and Phoenix Rising
CD: Remembered Dreams (self-released)
Segment Three
Yesterday by Jim Horn
CD: A Beatles Tribute (Rhythm Records)
Rameau's Nephew by Philippe Saisse
CD: Sampler '89 (Windham Hill)
The Girl From Ipanema by Al Jarreau and Oleta Adams
CD: A Twist of Jobim (GRP)
The Only One by Checkfield
CD: A View From the Edge (American Gramaphone)
July 27, 2015, 12:44 p.m.
Summer Grooves; 7/26/15; Set #1
July 27, 2015, 4:03 a.m.
Summer Grooves; 7/26/15; Set #2
July 27, 2015, 4 a.m.
Dr. Pamela Gronemeyer - 07/25/15
July 26, 2015, 9:14 p.m.
The first half hour of the show focuses on several labor related news stories. In the second half hour, Dr. Pamela Gronemeyer phones in to talk about upcoming events surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the start of Medicare on July 30, 1965.
Rev. Susie's Katrina Epic, Ch. 2: "Welcome to Helltown"!
July 26, 2015, 8:13 p.m.
Chapter 2 of the HURRICANE SPECTACULAR: Welcome to HELLTOWN! To bring you up to speed: Hurricane Katrina has kicked the ass of New Orleans. Marooned on overpasses or sealed within the SuperDome to die, the stunned and shellshocked residents of New Orleans are realizing that President George intends to do nothing about the disaster. To leaven the gloom, Dread Zeppelin offers their take on "Smoke on the Water;" and there's some spirited bluegrass pickers (Flatt & Scruggs, perhaps) doing "Take Me in Your Lifeboat"--but there's precious little hope to go around. This episode ends with a poignant duet between Otis Redding and Mayor Ray Nagin that worked so well, it surprised the hell out of me!
Things are only going to get far worse. And there are FIFTEEN MORE HOURS of this show to come. What the hell was I thinking?
Rev. Susie's Katrina Epic, Ch. 1: "Hell & High Water"!
July 26, 2015, 7:42 p.m.
Well, tempus FUGGIT! It's been 10 whole years since Hurricane Katrina, so it's time for Chapter One of the HURRICANE SPECTACULAR, "Hell and High Water"! From this single nut of a show, a 17-hour, 17-headed hydra emerged to become a uniquely Amerikan armchair revenge odyssey. This is the foundation of the saga: the Hurricane Katrina backstory, full of intrigue and suspicion, mystery and conspiracy. In an atmosphere of killer storms and mysteriously exploding levees, the inundation begins, sweeping with it chunks of King Uszniewicz and His Uszniewicztones, a little Katrina and the Waves (*had* to!), and a stunning duet between Jimmy Swaggart and Dread Zeppelin where you will hear, vividly, how easy it is to twist a man's words. All I did was seamlessly switch "God" and "Satan," and "loves" and "hates," and even *I* was convinced!
Civilization - Change It or Leave It (replay)
July 26, 2015, 7:10 p.m.
Can we return to the primitive? Miles Olson on personal rewilding. Asoka Bandarage on "middle way" out of collapse. Organic grow and cook w. Barbara Damrosch of Four Season Farm. Replay of Radio Ecoshock 130612
July 26, 2015, 4:28 p.m.
Sounds Irish is a weekly program coming straight from County Wicklow in Ireland, hosted by Joe Bollard, one of the elder statesmen of the Irish show band scene. Each program features a variety of Irish and Irish-related songs from many different genres, along with a healthy dose of banter from your host. Please consider adding Sounds Irish to your stations' weekly lineup of programs. All we ask is that we know where the show is being aired so that we can give mention on the program. To contact the show, it is best to send email to Joe Bollard directly at joebollard2@eircom.net
The 2-hour program is posted weekly in multiple parts for broadcasters to insert their own breaks.
100 Year Battle to Integrate N.Y.C.'s Fire Dept
July 26, 2015, 3:39 p.m.
The Long and Victorious Fight to Integrate the N.Y.C. Fire Department
with
Ginger Adams Otis , Staff Writer for the N.Y. Daily News and author of Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York's Bravest
In 1919, when Wesley Williams became a New York City firefighter, he stepped into a world that was 100% white and predominantly Irish. Nearly a century later, many things in the FDNY had changed--but not the scarcity of blacks. N.Y.C. had about 300 black firefighters--roughly 3 percent of the 11,000 firefighters in a city of two million African Americans.. Decades earlier, women and blacks had sued over its hiring practices and won. But the FDNY never took permanent steps to eradicate the inequities, which led to a courtroom show-down between N.Y.C.'s billionaire Mayor, Mike Bloomberg, and a determined group of black activist firefighters members of the Vulcan Society. They also faced an insular culture made up of relatives who never saw their own inclusion as favoritism. It was not until 2014 that the city settled the $98 million lawsuit. At the center of this book are stories of courage--about firefighters risking their lives in the line of duty but also risking their livelihood by battling an unjust system.. Among them: FDNY Captain Paul Washington, a second generation black firefighter, who spent his multi-decade career fighting to get equality on the job.
July 26, 2015, 12:47 p.m.
Sean actually finds himself agreeing with Donald Trump... McCain is not a hero for his activities during war.
They ran the KKK out of town, in fact (exclamation point)
July 26, 2015, 12:40 p.m.
A reminder to listeners with graphic skills. We here at The Final Straw have gotten some great submissions for sticker, poster and merch designs for the show but would love to see what else y'all could throw our way. If you have an idea or an image that could include the: show name, ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw and some kind of thematically related title (like, A Weekly Anarchist Radio Show) or imagery. You can email designs to bursts@ashevillefm.org or mailed to:
The Final Straw c/o AshevilleFM
864 Haywood Rd
Asheville, NC 28806
If you're in the Asheville area, consider volunteering at AshevilleFM, WSFM-LP. It's a great chance to learn skills, share skills, make friends and more. Whether you want to end up behind the mic or behind a table, drop us a line at volunteer@ashevillefm.org or, better, fill out the application at visiting http://www.ashevillefm.org/volunteer.
This week we spoke with John, an anti-racist insurrectional anarchist who grew up in the U.S. South. John discusses the anti-klan rally that happened on July 18th in Columbia, SC, what he saw, implications, who was there and why. Next week's episode we'll discuss media representations of the rally, such as positing it as a showdown between the KKK and the "Black Panther Party" (meaning in actuality the New Black Panther Party, an organization unconnected to the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense around during the 60's and 70's). We'll also talk about violent opposition to racists and the concept of the New South. If you CAN'T wait to hear that, check out our podcast file version of this episode, which will bring you one and a half hours of the conversation plus our regular announcements, Sean Swain segment and some dirty south jams. For those in the radio audience, the second portion of our conversation with John will be aired next week along with other material.
Please note that John wished us to inform y'all that he's the kinda guy who doesn't do interviews normally and was nervous, so his laughter during serious points is not a sign of levity or lack of seriousness, but more of a sign of discomfort.
In relation to today's episode, those with internet access may choose to visit the new anarchist news site, http://itsgoingdown.org, to check out a story entitled "all the news you didn't even know was going down." That story describes and links to examples across Canada and the U.S. of events over the recent past of people defacing confederate monuments, protesting the cops in response to deaths in detention, the shortcomings of labor unions and the fight for $15, Recent arrests in Oakland of 2 folks accused by the FBI and charged under the Animal Enterprise and Terrorism Act for freeing Minks and so much more.
From http://anarchistnews.org we get this headline:
"Turkish-based anarchist group AnarÅi Ä°nisiyatifi (Anarchy Initiative) are calling on the global anarchist community to hold worldwide demonstrations outside Turkish consulates on July 26, 2015 at 7PM in response to the government of Turkey's complicity in the Suruç, Massacre. 32 young people were murdered in the suicide bombing committed by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) including 2 anarchist comrades: Alper Sapan from AnarÅi Ä°nisiyatifi EskiÅehir and Evrim Deniz Erol. The 32 comrades from various socialist, communist and anarchist youth groups were planning to cross the border from Turkey / North Kurdistan into Kobane in Rojava to deliver gifts for the war-affected children of the city and to participate in the reconstruction of war-ravaged Kobane." Short notice, but there ya go. http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/anarchy-initiative-call-worldwide-s...
On a separate tip, the main topic of our conversation on the last episode, anarchist prisoner Eric King of Kansas city, will be having a birthday on August 2nd. Drop him a line, share some of your own poetry, make friends... whatever.
You can write Eric at:
Eric King
#27090045
CCA Leavenworth
100 Highway Terrace
Leavenworth, KS 66048
Also, he has an amazon wishlist where you can buy books online and get them shipped to this voracious reader. Details on that or direct deposits into his commissary can be found at http://supportericking.wordpress.com"
Michael Kimble is a self described black, gay anarchist who is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security facility in Alabama for the self defense killing of a "white, homophobic, racist bigot". Mr. Kimble is a writer and is part of the Free Alabama Movement, which is a group that organizes against prison work conditions by putting together work strikes and work stoppages around the state of Alabama. More about them at http://freealabamamovement.wordpress.com
Michael Kimble has a parole date set for December of this year, and it's been a long time in coming! Stay tuned for any support that he needs, as well at to read his writings, at http://anarchylive.noblogs.org
Receiving mail while incarcerated has been shown to be very important, firstly to help combat the brutal isolation which prison forces people to undergo and secondly to demonstrate to prison officials that people's cases do not go unnoticed. To write Michael Kimble, address your letters to:
Michael Kimble
#138017
3700 Holman Unit
Atmore, AL 36503
On Wednesday, July 22, Tyler Lang plead guilty (in a non-cooperating plea agreement) to a single count of conspiring to travel in interstate commerce with the purpose of damaging an animal enterprise. Specifically, Tylerâs charges stem from the mink release and vandalism of a fur farm carried out by him and Kevin Olliff (aka Kevin Johnson) in August of 2013.
Tyler, like Kevin, faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release. He also faces the possibility of hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and restitution. Tyler is currently not in custody, though his sentencing has been set for November 9th, 2015 at the Federal Courthouse in Chicago, IL. Please stay tuned for info on court support at that time! A show of community support for Tyler in the courtroom on that day would help lift his spirits and keep him strong. You can see updates and information about his and Kevin's case at http://supportkevinandtyler.com
August 8th 2015 marks 37 years of unjust imprisonment for the MOVE 9, who are part of the MOVE organization founded by John Africa. The MOVE organization is a multi faceted group whose tenants include: anti slavery, anti racism, anti industry, anti colonialsm, and pro revolutionaryism among many others. The MOVE 9 are a group of men and women who have been in prison since August 8, 1978, following a massive police attack on them at their home in the residential neighborhood of Powelton Village in Philadelphia. The government and Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on their house, killing 11 people, including 5 children. One officer died in this attack, and it's since been proven that none of the MOVE 9 were responsible. Despite this evidence they are still held captive by the state.
On Saturday August 1st there is a call for support at a community town hall meeting to demand the Justice Dept take action to investigate the case and wrongful imprisonment of the MOVE 9. This meeting will take place in Philadelphia, PA from noon to 4PM the African American Museum located on 701 Arch Street Downtown Philadelphia. Topics to be covered will include: the destruction of the house, the beating of Delbert Africa, the trial of the MOVE 9, and
the illegal practices of the Pa Parole Board.
For more information about this organization and about the MOVE 9's case, people can go to http://www.onamove.com
To hear our past episodes on the case of the MOVE 9, visit http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org and search "MOVE 9"
As a final little heads up to folks in the listening audience, I'd suggest you check out the July 9th 2015 episode of the blogtalk Free Alabama Movement podcast. The show is produced by prisoners within the Alabama and Mississippi prison system and connects them with the folks on the outside and folks incarcerated across the U.S. This episode features a convo between members of FAMM, Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan of the Lucasville Death Row prisoners currently held at OCF Youngstown, as well as Alex, of Prison Legal News newsletter. You can find links to this episode and tons of other interviews and resources up on the site http://supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org.
Playlist pending
July 26, 2015, 12:26 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that features vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of tapes and homemade cds. Each edition features a freeform playlist of music released between the early 20th century & next week.
July 26, 2015, 12:24 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that features vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of tapes and homemade cds. Each edition features a freeform playlist of music released between the early 20th century & next week.
Media Network Plus July 25 2015
July 26, 2015, 11:53 a.m.
July 26, 2015, 10:23 a.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that features vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of tapes and homemade cds. Each edition features a freeform playlist of music released between the early 20th century & next week.
July 26, 2015, 10:21 a.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that features vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of tapes and homemade cds. Each edition features a freeform playlist of music released between the early 20th century & next week.
THE "LEFT" HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
July 25, 2015, 9:43 p.m.
UEST: RAY LIGHT
(GENERAL SECRETARY OF REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION OF LABOR, USA)
TOPIC: ABDICATION OF THE "LEFT"
AND USA/NATO HOSTILITY IN UKRAINE TOWARDS RUSSIA
July 25, 2015, 9:39 p.m.
GUEST: KEVIN ZEESE
TOPIC: FLUSH THE TPP!
KEVIN
This week, Cindy chats with activist-extraordinaire Kevin Zeese about mobilization against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
FLUSH THE TPP!
Stop the Global Corporate Coup
POPULAR RESISTANCE
July 25, 2015, 9:27 p.m.
UEST: S. BRIAN WILLSON
TOPIC: PAYING THE PRICE FOR PEACE
This week on the Soapbox, Cindy chats with long-time
peace worker S. Brian Willson
Currently, there is a film in production called:
Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson and the Peace Movement
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Brian at Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC
CLICK PHOTO TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FILM
July 25, 2015, 9:24 p.m.
TOPIC: POLITICAL COLLABORATION ON TPP
(MARXIST-LENINIST ANALYSIS)
GUEST: RAY LIGHT
This week Cindy chats with the General Secretary of the Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA (ROL-USA) about
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and how Republicans are being used to give Obama the cover ("look at what those evil Republicans are up to") to pass a law that will benefit the global-elite and hurt the "99%"
RAY O' LIGHT ARTICLE ON TPP
TIME TO FINALLY END THE KOREAN WAR
July 25, 2015, 9:19 p.m.
GUEST: ERIC DRAITSER
TOPIC: BATTLEFIELD, THE BLACK SEA
Today Cindy chats with geo-political analyst Eric Draitser
from
http://www.stopimperialism.com
(click for website)
about Eric's article:
Battlefield: Black Sea
The US and NATO are ramping up the hostilities in the Black Sea to isolate Russia for further de-stabilization of the region and forcing new alliances to oppose US Imperial aggression.
Listen to this show for some great information and analysis.
STOP US IMPERIAL AGGRESSION EVERYWHERE!
July 25, 2015, 9:14 p.m.
GUEST: ERIC DRAITSER
TOPIC: BATTLEFIELD, THE BLACK SEA
Today Cindy chats with geo-political analyst Eric Draitser
from
http://www.stopimperialism.com
(click for website)
about Eric's article:
Battlefield: Black Sea
The US and NATO are ramping up the hostilities in the Black Sea to isolate Russia for further de-stabilization of the region and forcing new alliances to oppose US Imperial aggression.
Listen to this show for some great information and analysis.
July 25, 2015, 9:03 p.m.
Focus Asia Pacific July 24 2015
July 25, 2015, 8:55 p.m.
July 25, 2015, 8:47 p.m.
July 25, 2015, 8:25 p.m.
CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX
MAY 10, 2015
TOPIC: ENDING DRONE WARFARE AND THE COMPLICIT CORPORATE MEDIA
GUESTS: NICK MOTTERN AND CRES VELLUCCI
July 25, 2015, 8:16 p.m.
This week on the Soapbox, Cindy Sheehan interviews her friend: comedian, political satirist, and activist Barry Crimmins.
Barry has a very interesting story of political and social activism, but of also overcoming abuse when he was a child to help others.
Barry is the subject of a Bobcat Goldthwaite film called:
Call Me Lucky