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"Swingin' in the 4th"; 7/5/15; Set #1
July 6, 2015, 4:42 a.m.
"Swingin' in the 4th" 7/5/15; Set #2
July 6, 2015, 4:40 a.m.
July 6, 2015, 4:04 a.m.
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The Happy Station Show July 5 2015
July 5, 2015, 6:39 p.m.
YouthSpeaksOut! Marijuana Adolescent Brain Part 1 2015
July 5, 2015, 5:56 p.m.
Ralph Cantor returned to Mendocino County to lead a public forum on how marijuana, alcohol, and other drugs affect the adolescent brain and personality. Part 1 59 minutes
Angela's Birthday Show - 007/04/15
July 5, 2015, 5:47 p.m.
Discussions of labor news stories, call-ins from guests and Angela focuses on issues of concern to her.
July 5, 2015, 4:55 p.m.
July 5, 2015, 4:26 p.m.
July 5, 2015, 12:56 p.m.
Sean gives a rave review of the new text by The Invisible Committee, "To Our Friends." TOF is a long view of the last 8 years of occupations, uprisings, insurrections and revolutions from a communisation perspective.
#LibertaDiDimora: Hobo, Repression and Autonomia around the University of Bologna, Italy
July 5, 2015, 12:43 p.m.
This week's episode features a conversation with Francesca. Francesca is a student at the University of Bologna in Italy and is one of the people at the center of a wave of repression in response to ongoing autonomous organizing inside and outside of the University. The University of Bologna is the oldest, continuously operating public University in the world. Francesca is also a member of the Hobo collective, which runs an autonomous social space inside of the Poli-Sci department of the University.
In December of last year, after numerous marches and interventions around the city and university on a range of issues such as immigrant rights, precarity of employment, underpaying of university workers, increased cost and decreased quality of services at the university, affordable housing, the censure of political dialogue and more, the District Attorney of Bologna had Francesca and 5 comrades arrested as a preventative measure in order to stop their organizing and to terrorize the students and militants of the area. 4 students have been placed on house arrest in Bologna, making it quite difficult to make ends meet economically, and 2 were exiled from the city, thus cutting short their educational career. In response, a campaign called "#LibertaDiDimora", which translates to freedom of home, was launched to respond to the repression of the 6 comrades and to continue struggles around freedom of movement and housing issues inside and outside of the university. More on student organizing around the world at http://commonware.org/
For the hour, we'll be speaking with Francesca about her case, the campagn, the Autonomia movement which Hobo is alligned with, the monetization of education, precarity, internships, immigration in Italy, squatting and more. More at http://hobo-bologna.info
But, first a few announcements.
In the wake of the tragic murder of nine African American bible study members on June 17th, 2015 at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church by a white supremacist their was an outpouring of grief and solidarity expressed around the world. This was followed by a series of protests and direct-action removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the capital grounds in Colombia, South Carolina. The pressure built in other Southern States to remove the CSA Battle flag from their state flags resulting in blowback from some white folks to the removal of this "heritage" symbol that means oppression to so many others. Subsequent to the killings and flag debates, at least 6 black churches were torched between June 22nd and June 29th around the South East. Churches in: Knoxville, TN; Macon, GA; Charleston, SC; Elyria, OH; Tallahassee, FL. To top this, and never to lose an opportunity to display their pointy heads, the Klu Klux Klan has decided to call for a rally on the steps of the South Carolina State House on July 18th at 3pm and just as the racists will be coordinating to show up at the rally, so are anti-racists and regular-ass folks around the region. There are all sorts of calls for participation in all sorts of ways to counter a public display of hatred by the KKK. I hope to see y'all there. http://columbiascdemocallout.tumblr.com/
In a perfect segway, the next evening, July 19th 2015, folks are invited to come to the new location for Firestorm Books & Cafe at 610 Haywood Rd for a presentation by Saralee Stafford & Neal Shirley on their book, Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South. For our conversation with the Shirley & Stafford, check out this link: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2015/06/03/dixie-be-damned-a-regional-history-of-the-south-east-through-an-insurrectional-anarchist-lense/
A reminder to listeners with graphic talents, we're soliciting designs for stickers, posters and more. The artists who's designs are selected will receive a few prizes from our freeboxes (actually, some tee shirts and literature). We're looking for the name of the show, our website and images that may reflect the project. We're hoping it can be a tool for better advertising the project and getting more folks involved. You can email designs in pdf format to thefinalstrawradio(at)riseup (dott)net or send them in physical form to, again:
The Final Straw
C/o Ashevillefm
864 Haywood Rd
Asheville, NC 28806
Finally, I'd like to give a brief shout out to some other audio & video projects that have been kicking out the jams of late. If you're familiar with The Final Straw, you may have heard some of their names on our 4th Anniversary show last year.
Check out the Free Radical Radio at http://freeradicalradicalradio.net for a mostly weekly mix of commentary, comedy, critique and always witty reparte.
For great action updates, audio documentaries, reviews and more, Crimethinc's podcast called "The Ex-Worker" is not to be missed. You can find episodes at http://crimethinc.com/podcast, along with links and transcripts of the episodes.
WhichSide Podcast, which features hosts Jeremy Parkin & Jordan Halliday, did a great interview with Kevin Van Meter, contributor to the book "Life During Wartime". Regular episodes feature chats on anarchism, activism, animal liberation, veganism and more. More can be found at http://whichsidepodcast.com.
Finally, I want to give a shoutout to The Stimulator & his f-ing show, It's The End Of The World and We Know It (And I Feel Fine) for riot porn, interviews, commentaries, updates and stunning images and movie references. More from that project at http://submedia.tv
Playlist: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/12915
July 5, 2015, 11:23 a.m.
Wild fires from climate change cause still more warming. Three experts from American Academy for the Advancement of Science meeting February 19th recorded in Vancouver by Alex Smith. Michael Flannigan, U of Alberta on fire and climate. From UBC medical unit, Dr. Michael Brauer on health impacts and personal protection during smoke events. Tasmania's Fay Johnston' estimation of global annual deaths from landscape fire smoke.
533 - Looking Beyond the Flag on July Fourth: Money in Politics, Racism, War, Environment
July 4, 2015, 8:32 p.m.
MW Coverage of NH Rebellion 4th of July Walk; Mumia Abu-Jamal: Charleston; Hidden Histories: Frederick Douglass on July 4; Between the Lines interview: US Escalation in E Europe; Jim Hightower: Big Oil's Frackers Lie; NH Gazette's Fortnightly Rant: The Right Man For The Job, 6/26/2015; Jim Hightower: Billionaires-without-a-clue; Outside The Box: Boycotts; music.
July 4, 2015, 7:28 p.m.
A Labor History Of Queer America; NYC Council's Ban The Box Bill
July 4, 2015, 4:16 p.m.
Out In The Union: A Labor History Of Queer America
with
Mariam Frank, author
Against the backdrop of the historic ruling of the Supreme Court that gay marriage is legal in all the states of this union and in furtherance of addressing the numerous other inequities faced by LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people Miriam Frank, Prof. of Humanities at New York
University and author of Out In The Union: A Labor History of Queer America, based upon 20 years of original research brings us the stories spanning half a century of U.S. labor history and the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender unionists. She expands our horizons both in exposing the complex challenges queer workers face in coming out on the job and inside their unions and gives greater dimension to and continues to fill out the profile of queer life and the activism of the working class.
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NYC Council Passes Ban The Box Bill
Restricting Use Of Criminal Records In Hiring
with
Brandon Holmes, Community Civil Rights Organizer, VOCAL-New York,
a grassroots advocacy group
Carl Stubbs, 63, stood outside New York City Council chambers in anticipation of the council s vote on the Fair Chance Act " a bill that would delay when many of the city s private sector employers can ask job applicants about their criminal history. He said, I feel [that] being Black, having a felony, you don t get hired . I have had a felony for over 30 years. Stubbs, who s also an activist with the group Voices of Community Activists Leaders (VOCAL-NY), wanted the bill to pass because it could improve his chances getting a job. Now, the Bill arrives on the desk of the Mayor June 29th and we ll find out if he signs it into law, precisely what it purports to do and just how beneficial it could prove to be for the employment opportunities of the formerly incarcerated, who have carried that scarlet letter around with them and suffered the Jim Crow consequences into the jobs market.
July 4, 2015, 2:45 p.m.
Segment One
Here Comes the Night by 3rd Force
CD: Force of Nature (Higher Octave)
Digital Interlude by Alex de Grassi
CD: Altiplano (Novus)
Trust Your Heart by Kate Reid
CD: Sentimental Mood (self-released)
Two Way Street by Eliane Elias
CD: So Far, So Close (Blue Note)
Segment Two
Maputo by Bob James and David Sanborn
CD: Double Vision (Warner Brothers)
The Gift by Philip Aaberg
CD: Windham Hill Classics: Persuasion (Sony)
Paradise by Viktoria Tolstoy
CD: Letters to Herbie (ACT)
Istanbul by Bruce Becvar
CD: Arriba (Shining Star)
Segment Three
Signals by Phil Turcio
CD: Signals (Abstract Logix)
Fjords Ahead by Artie Traum
CD: The Last Romantic (Narada)
Wayfaring Stranger by Red Horse
CD: Putumayo Presents: Acoustic America (Putumayo World Music)
In the Rain by Brian Simpson
CD: Just What You Need (Shanachie)
July 4, 2015, 2:37 p.m.
Continued reading of "Solving 9-11", The Terror Drills that Became Real; music.
9-11, Israel's false flag terrorism
July 4, 2015, 2:16 p.m.
Continued reading of "Solving 9-11" by C. Bollyn, 9-11 and Israel's history of false flag terrorism; music.
July 4, 2015, 1:52 p.m.
Continued reading of "Solving 9-11, The Deception that Changed the World", The Florida Connection & The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Network Behind 9/11; Greek oud music.
July 4, 2015, 12:44 p.m.
Three notable & highly entertaining populists, in their own words:
- Canadian reformist politician TOMMY DOUGLAS (d.1986), telling his comic fable about unresponsive politicians, "Mouseland"
- Texas journalist & commentator MOLLY IVINS (d. 2007), speaking in Berkeley, CA, around 2005. (Don't miss her stories about Rick Perry.)
- Texas commentator, agitator, & former state official JIM HIGHTOWER, with some recent brief podcasts.
Each offers a witty critique of The System--& a call to action.
This Week in Radio News: Zach Poff for week of July 10
July 3, 2015, 10:19 p.m.
Artist Zach Poff explains his "Pond Station" project, with hydrophones in a Wave Farm pond. Also, news about turning TV signals wireless; Morse code orchestras for everyone; and a new host for 'Prairie Home Companion.'
July 3, 2015, 8:41 p.m.
July 3, 2015, 8:34 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.
Modern Slavery and the War on Drugs
July 3, 2015, 5:09 p.m.
July 3, 2015, 2:27 p.m.
Bristol Sikh leader for 10 yrs threatened with deportation
July 3, 2015, 2:14 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-7/
July 3, 2015, 12:47 p.m.
Chasin' Rainbows w/ Railroad Earth,Sprio - One Train May Hide Another, Celtic Girl & The Hog Eye Man. Great craic fr. Celt In A Twist!
worldbeatcanada radio july 3 2015
July 3, 2015, 12:37 p.m.
Jah9 - an exceptional new Jamaican voice of Jazz On Dub talks her debut 'New Name' fr. worldbeatcanada radio!
Lies and betrayal of victims families: Ten years after 7/7 London bombings
July 3, 2015, 12:36 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-7/
Anarchy Now! Chile Elects to Revolt
July 3, 2015, 11:39 a.m.
This week we take a look at the 6 plus year student revolt in Chile, plus ballot burning fury in Mexico and an interview with militants from Santiago who tell us about the anarchist scene there.
"Less Dense in the Pants"
July 3, 2015, 10:49 a.m.
This RADIOLA! celebrates a diminishing abundance, among other things.