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How Cities Are Preparing for Rising Tides
May 12, 2015, 6:43 p.m.
As they learn more about the realities of climate change and sea level rise, some coastal communities are taking action. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Benjamin Grant, the Urban Design Policy Director for SPUR, a California-based nonprofit that focuses on making urban areas more sustainable. In response to already documented rapid erosion, Grant and his colleagues have presented San Francisco with a bold plan for re-doing a 3.5 mile stretch of San Francisco's coast, known as Ocean Beach. Grant and host Alex Wise talk about the San Francisco proposal, and how it could serve as a template for other coastal cities, if they can afford it, that is.
Out of the Woods - Show #266 - 5-16-15
May 12, 2015, 4:57 p.m.
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, from Arlo Guthrie to Aerosmith. 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
May 12, 2015, 4:48 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.
May 12, 2015, 1:48 p.m.
Breathin' - Constant Deviants
God It - De La Soul ft. Nas
The Abduction - Tony Touch ft. Wu Tang Clan
Keep On - A.N.D.
Bad Bad Man - John Cena and Tha Trademarc ft. Bumpy Knuckles
Feels Great - The Four Owls
Somebody's Gotta Do It - Screwball ft. Triple Seis
Belong to the World - Oddisee
Off Da Head - 3 X Dope
That's How I Kick It - Chief ft. J.Sands & Kenn Starr
Say Sumthin (Kiss The Sky) - Kev Brown, Kenn Starr & Quartermain ft. Shin-Ski
Down the Line Joint - Black Rob ft. Puff Daddy, Mark Curry, G-Dep, and Mase
Eye - Saga
Grand Entrance - Staalin
Honor - Sean Born ft. Dev Duff
Breathe Easy - Relic
Marcus D - Son of the Moon
May 12, 2015, 1:28 p.m.
June 11th Statement by Sean Swain
May 12, 2015, 1:11 p.m.
In this audio commentary, Sean speaks about what solidarity means and about the upcoming day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist and Eco Prisoners (June 11th).
"Imagine you are a state terrorist who tortures people and ask yourself, âWhat woud be my WORST NIGHTMARE?â
Then BE thatâ¦"
Seattle Opt Out Press Conference
May 12, 2015, 7:41 a.m.
Press Conference on SBAC Testing: Opt Out Movement Biggest in Seattle's History recorded April 7, 2015 at the Seattle NAACP Headquarters in Seattle, WA.
Technology and Society - Machines
May 11, 2015, 10:49 p.m.
Chicago Society Conference on the trending evolution of human beings and technology in the near and distant future.
Machines, especially computers, are dominating the modern world. They shape the infrastructure of human society. Machines are normalized in a positive frame as helping to model and make decisions of great importance, linking human beings to each other. But the fact that such relations are increasingly less democratic, equitable, or just and accrue benefit to those who control the machines is subsumed by the techno boosterism of our business dominated planet. The complexity of the networks and vastness of the data
landscape is moving toward autonomous decision making.
The keynote speaker, Professor Kowolski, expresses his concern about humans loosing control of their creation on the current path we are on. Physicist Max Tegmark , in presentation elsewhere, warns that Artificial Intelligence is increasing the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War.
The panel speakers discuss advances in machines, hardware or software, and how they will change our lives in the coming years. Panelist discuss their research in autonomous vehicles, human / robotic skill integration for customized manufacturing, robotics for aiding human rehabilitation and, if I understood what she said, reverse genetic mapping with big data.
FCC Payola Proposal May 12, 2015
May 11, 2015, 10:25 p.m.
Report about final day for public comments, May 12, on FCC proposal to make payola easier for record companies.
May 11, 2015, 6:09 p.m.
Dangerous legislation to sanction censorship on California campuses impending in Sacramento; likewise in DC regarding "fast-track" on TPP; Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream cops out on Mideast peace; why Some People See Ghosts; ICC to hear Mavi Marmara victims; Arabic Beat music.
Lily, Ellen, Alison, and Pat + global LGBT news!
May 11, 2015, 5:17 p.m.
Lily opens her closet curtains; Ellen crowns two prom kings; Tony bows a dozen times to Alison's Broadway bombshell; a lesbian-feminist-poet-activist has a few words "For the Straight Folks"; Cyprus officials propose civil partnerships, Costa Rica's high court orders doctors to heal their homophobia, Buenos Aires christens a 3-parent family, a top Kenyan official declares "no room for gays" in his country, "God's lawsuit" is cast out, and more LGBT news from around the world!
May 11, 2015, 2:16 p.m.
True Tales of America's Opiate Epidemic
May 11, 2015, 12:06 p.m.
Interview with Sam Quinones author of "Dreamland: True Tales of America's Opiate Epidemic" recorded April 29, 2015 in Seattle.
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #50 - 5-15-15
May 11, 2015, 7:16 a.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.
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Swinging with Mom; 5/10/15; Set #1
May 11, 2015, 4:16 a.m.
Swinging with Mom; 5/10;15; Set #2
May 11, 2015, 4:14 a.m.
Net Neutrality court challenges May 11, 2015
May 10, 2015, 11:11 p.m.
Report about challenges at the FCC and in the courts to net neutrality.
May 10, 2015, 10:31 p.m.
Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang
People's Struggles, People's Victories
May 10, 2015, 8:57 p.m.
This episode of Back in the USSR marks two heroic anniversaries: the 70th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe on May 9 1945 and the liberation of Saigon on April 30 1975 which finally saw the forces of the American Empire expelled from Vietnam. Both of these anniversaries mark a great victory for the working people and oppressed nations of the world in the face of imperialism, and unsurprisingly neither is officially celebrated anywhere in the modern West which prefers to back Nazis in Ukraine today rather than celebrate the defeat of Nazism seventy years ago. Millions of people gave their lives so that these victories could be won and I refuse to let their sacrifice be forgotten in this country. Long live the Red Army and the peoples of the Soviet Union who heroically resisted the fascist beast, finally driving it back to its lair in Berlin and killing it. Long live the Vietcong who resisted the American Empire to their last drop of blood and finally beat a superpower. Long live the international struggle against imperialism. The fight goes on until imperialism and class exploitation are erased from the face of the earth and liberation for working people and self-determination for all peoples of the world becomes the order of the day.
History of the African American Liberation Struggle
May 10, 2015, 7:52 p.m.
Back in the USSR talks to Brendan Campisi about the African American struggle for liberation, Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and the battle for self-determination, self-defense, and self-respect among the oppressed peoples of this continent and beyond against the racist capitalist state in America.
Angel Station - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
May 10, 2015, 7:22 p.m.
Welcome to the CARNAL CARNIVAL!
May 10, 2015, 4:43 p.m.
Strap yourself into the sticky, blistered vinyl seat of a rickety, rusty roller coaster and get ready for a nightmarish journey through an endless sleazy midway of freaks, geeks, misfits, perverts, and grifters as Evil Susie, acting as my booking agent, shepherds me through a multitude of questionable job opportunities working for a very carnal carnival! The title is cribbed from the sprightly Jehova Hates Phred song "Carnal Carnival," and it's bolstered with selections from The Jackie Papers, Bill Hicks, Crispin Glover, Joe Frank, Firesign Theatre, Tin Huey, Nash the Slash, Wendy O. Williams & The Plasmatics...and there's even a special geeking demonstration by Joe Coleman actually biting the heads off of a couple mice! I mixed it with chunks from MULTIPLE MANIACS (the Cavalcade of Perversion!), the obscure comedy hippies Conceptionland, carny sequences from sleaze classics CARNY GIRLS, FREAKS, and SATAN IN HIGH HEELS, and poured on some gloppy goops of some sick & lame kids LPs of PINOCCHIO and MisteRogers and some xtian thing called GINGERBROOK FARE [sic]. Goddamn, but this thing is packed with skeevy sleaze!
TRIGGER WARNING: May contain CLOWNS. ("May," HELL.)
May 10, 2015, 2:14 p.m.
Interview with Jen Marlowe, Director & Producer, and Nada Alwadi, Co-producer of the new documentary film âWitness Bahrainâ
May 10, 2015, 2 p.m.
Wrap-up of the past weeks news with Geov Parrish and Maria Tomchick both formerly with Eat the State!
May 10, 2015, 1:28 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that features vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and cassette tapes and homemade cds. Each show features a freeform variety of music released between the early 1900's and next week in numerous musical genres.
May 10, 2015, 1:25 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that features vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and all kinds of tapes and homemade cds. Each show features a freeform playlist of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week in numerous musical genres.
May 10, 2015, 1:23 p.m.
Paper Radio is a podcast series from DJ Frederick of One Minute Zine Reviews. Paper Radio explores paper culture in the digital age. Topics include: letter writing, postcards, newsletters, mail art, the postal service, zine publishing and unique indie publications, free speech, DIY resources, DIY music and making your own media.
Sean Swain Silenced: Repression at Lucasville
May 10, 2015, 1:07 p.m.
Sean Swain can't do his youaretheresistance segment this week. He's been silenced by his jailers at SOCF Lucasville in Ohio, cut off from email, phone calls, video visits and apparently mail. Rather than read his posts and letters that are available at seanswain.org, I'll give a synopsis.
Basically the situation is this: Sean (and many other on his cellblock) witnessed a guard pepper spray 2 prisoners in neighboring cells for nothing. On April 20th, after a series of escalations by guards, prisoners were pepper sprayed, threatened with beatings, taken to the hole and Sean witnessed the and wrote about the event. Because of the unfairness of the way that the guards and courts have dealt with the 9, Black prisoners taken to the hole on the claims of organizing, and in particular the treatment of Rob Mahone (Sean's neighbor), Sean decided to allow his record of the events to be posted at http://seanswain.org
Operation Fenix: Repression in Czech Republic
May 10, 2015, 1:02 p.m.
This week's episode theme: Repression!
Not really, but all of the content is related to that topic: Operation Fenix in Czech Republic; announcements on the 30th anniversary remembrances of the bombing of the MOVE house in Philly; updates on Mumia's health status; Dave Strano out on bail, injured by police in Denver; support for Baltimore arrestees; the silencing of Sean Swain.
I forgot to say Happy May Day to y'all out there. Happy May Day, celebration of the corruption of the American Legal System as encapsulated in the indictment of the Haymarket 8, anarchist labor leaders and rebels accused of responsibility for throwing a bomb at cops during a rally in Chicago in 1886. Funny thing is, many of those 8 weren't present and those who were were busy giving speaches when the bomb was thrown by an unknown figure. Of the 8, 4 were executed after a show trial, 1 committed suicide in prison to defy the authorities, and the 3 were later exonherated. Since all of their names have been cleared.
It's also notably a European pagan holiday celebrating fertility, or new beginnings as spring rolls into full steam.
Since this event it's been celebrated worldwide by marches and parades, by uprisings and riots, by picnics and gatherings. Tip of the hat to the folks of Seattle, Montreal, Milan, Istanbul, Oakland, Seoul, Moscow, Barcelona and sooo many other places where folks rose up in revolt. A great segment talking about this year's May Day can be found at http://www.submedia.tv/stimulator/2015/05/09/may-day-gray-day/
OpFenixThe main content of the episode is a conversation with Lucy and Michael, two Czech anarchists speaking about the raids, arrests and charges of terrorism in the Czech Republic known as Operation Fenix/Phoenix. From the support site:
With âOperation Fenixâ came the biggest wave of police repressions against the anarchist and radical left movement in the recent czech history.
Taking people early in the morning hours, accusations of preparation of terrorist acts and confiscation of a server, which held several activistsâ sites, all came with âOperation Fenixâ which started on Tuesday, 28th of April. Anti-extremist police is actively trying to frighten the left scene and collecting information in a fishing expedition.
Through the hour, Lucy and Michael talk about the far right in Czech Republic, the far left and anarchists, squatting in Prague, sabotage & animal liberation movements attached the Network of Revolutionary Cells in that country and also about the upcoming Prague Anarchist Bookfaire.
Other notes:
Sean Swain can't do his youaretheresistance segment this week. He's been silenced by his jailers at SOCF Lucasville in Ohio, cut off from email, phone calls, video visits and apparently mail. Rather than read his posts and letters that are available at seanswain.org, I'll give a synopsis.
Basically the situation is this: Sean (and many other on his cellblock) witnessed a guard pepper spray 2 prisoners in neighboring cells for nothing. On April 20th, after a series of escalations by guards, prisoners were pepper sprayed, threatened with beatings, taken to the hole and Sean witnessed the and wrote about the event. Because of the unfairness of the way that the guards and courts have dealt with the 9, Black prisoners taken to the hole on the claims of organizing, and in particular the treatment of Rob Mahone (Sean's neighbor), Sean decided to allow his record of the events to be posted at seanswain.org
May 13th, this Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of the Philly PD's bombing of an already persecuted but defiant MOVE organization in that city. MOVE is a group focused on a worship of life and with a critique of racism, cruelty to animals, civilization and capitalism. On MAY 13th, 1985, the Philly pigs, ostensibly in an attempt to end a standoff with members of the MOVE organization where they'd barricaded themselves in a house, took a C4 bomb from the National Guard armory and dropped it by a helicoptor onto a house, killing 11 people, 5 of them children and levelling a city block. 7 move prisoners remain imprisoned on BS charges. You can find out more about the case at onamove.com including info on events in Philly, Oakland, West Hollywood & Minneapolis. http://onamove.org;
In a related note, the life of longterm prisoner, journalist, MOVE supporter and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal is still in danger and there's a request for immediate pressing of his jailers in Pennsylvania to give him the medical attention that he needs. Mumia recently fell ill, going into Diabetic shock and suffering from untreated skin legions while incarcerated at SCI Manci. Though officials had conducted 3 blood tests on him in prior time no one informed him he'd developed Diabetes. He's been denied medical treatment at various stages, an adequite diet and also access to his family, lawyers and supporters.
You can call the following officials to express concern:
John Wetzel - Secretary, PA Department of Corrections â (717) 728-4109
Thomas Wolf - Governor of Pennsylvania â (717) 787 2500
and more info on the case can be found at http://freemumia.com ;
There's a continued request for solidarity for folks arrested in Baltimore in the wake of rioting that resulted from the murder of a 25 year old Black man named Freddie Grey at the hands of the police and their subsequent denial of guilt despite his arrest being videotaped. Legal and bail funds for the rebels can be donated at http://www.crowdrise.com/legalbailsupportforbaltimore ;
There's a request for economic aid and support for community organizer Dave Strano after his beating and arrest at a Baltimore solidarity action that was attacked in Denver, CO earlier this month. He was bonded out on the 5th of May for $5,000. For more info and to help him out, check out https://denverabc.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/denver-community-organizer-ar...
Playlist pending
526 - Protest Violence, Stand for Justice
May 10, 2015, 1:02 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Saudi/US Siege and Aggression on Yemen; Between the Lines interview: Baltimore's Uprising; MIT Anti-Drone Demonstration, 5/6/15; Jim Hightower: Stand With Postal Workers; Between the Lines interview: Bernie Sanders' Presidential Run; Jim Hightower: Trans-Pacific Partnership; Outside The Box: Equal Pay for Equal Work; music.