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April 27, 2015, 2:27 p.m.
It's The Cramps! All-Cramps Music for Cramps People!
April 27, 2015, 1:20 p.m.
Here, in honor of the resurfacing of the long-thought-lost "Human Fly" footage, is the show I did half a thousand episodes ago...BSTF #545, The Cramps Show! On either end, you will hear Lux Interior in messages he left on my answering machine in 2002, rearranged through my Recombinant Comedy⢠technique to work into a shaky narrative framework for the sprawling show itself. I never shared this show with Lux and Ivy, much to my regret, because it seemed like a major transgression of coolth to have saved those messages. But it MUST be played again, dammit, and as "Bob" is mah witless, IT SHALL BE HEARD AGAIN TONIGHT!
This is a solid hour PLUS of the awe and mystery and mayhem that personified The Cramps. Except for the opening and closing bumpers, it's nothing but CRAMPS MUSIC for CRAMPS PEOPLE. If that number includes you, you'd better strap yourself the fuck in, because this isn't just a radio show...this is a session in a sonic shockabilly centrifuge that's going to blow all your clothes off and strip the fuckin' fur from your housepets with its violent, driving rhythms and apeshit, lyrical imagery!
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #48 - 5-1-15
April 27, 2015, 11:09 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.
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
If Music Could Talk - April 26, 2015
April 27, 2015, 9:37 a.m.
April Showers of Jazz; 4/26/15; Set #1
April 27, 2015, 4:57 a.m.
April Showers of Jazz; 4/26/15; Set #2
April 27, 2015, 4:53 a.m.
Civilian Deaths and Radio-Controlled Drones April 27, 2015
April 26, 2015, 10:54 p.m.
Report about civilian deaths and radio-controlled drones.
April 26, 2015, 5:51 p.m.
Why our debt finance system needs war profits for the economy to survive [ reworked ]
April 26, 2015, 3:11 p.m.
In this first in a series, Sean revisits some of the assumptions necessary for the running of government and it's opposition by nature to Freedom.
Prisoner Health announcements for Mumia Abu-Jamal & Robert Seth Hayes + metal and punk
April 26, 2015, 1:01 p.m.
There are two announcements at the start of this episode concerning health developments and request for public action on behalf of longstanding prisoners and former Black Panthers. Following those, we feature new death rock by BÃRN from Iceland (playing at Static Age in AVL on May 9th), doom by
First, Mumia Abu-Jamal is an imprisoned journalist, former Panther and supporter of MOVE members while they faced repression in Philly in the 70's and early 80's. He was accused of killing a cop while driving his cab in 1981. He is not getting enough medical treatment for his recently diagnosed diabetes (including a specific diet to help him cope and medication) and related skin disorder. More information and a call to action on his behalf can be found at http://www.freemumia.org
Robert Seth Hayes is a former Panther and BLA member who is accused of killing a cop in NYC in 1973. He suffers from many, worrying and chronic health problems including poorly controlled diabetes and weight loss, much like Mumia. Supporters are requesting that people call in on April 27-28th to a number of officials in NY to get him medical treatment and stop this punishment. There's also a fax-in day on April 29th and 30th on his behalf. More info at http://powmedicaljustice.com/call-fax-in-for-seth
http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/12185
April 26, 2015, 10:56 a.m.
George Kourounis, host of the TV show "Angry Planet", & the solar-powered international musician Turtuga Blanku. But first, Laurence Brahm, a high-powered international lawyer who switched from taking multinational companies into China, to creating new alternatives for local economies.
April 26, 2015, 8:18 a.m.
Grow a beard, grow a conscience. This week itâs 1973âs Serpico, Sidney Lumets portrayal of an honest real-life New York City cop against a corrupt system. Neophyte officer Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is determined not to let his job get in the way of his individuality. Despite his colleaguesâ leery reactions, he keeps one foot firmly planted in the counterculture, sporting a beard and love beads while living in bohemian Greenwich Village. Serpicoâs peers genuinely ostracize him, however, when he refuses to take bribes like everybody else. Appalled by the extent of police corruption, Serpico goes to his superiors, but when he discovers that they have ignored his charges, he takes the potentially fatal step of breaking the blue wall of silence and going public. Serpicoâs revelations trigger an independent investigation by the Knapp Commission, making him a marked man, and permanently changing his life. Shot on location with a gritty emphasis on documentary-style realism, Serpico presents a city in decay both literally and morally, as everybody is in on the take, and the cops and criminals are almost interchangeable. Released in late 1973, Serpicoâs true story of bureaucratic depravity touched a cultural nerve, and the film became a hit with both critics and audiences, particularly for Pacinoâs complex performance as the honest, long-haired whistleblower.
How do we end this one? Our Top 3 Movie Beards! Absolutely.
BCfm local election discussion part 2: West of England LEP, immigration and evictions
April 26, 2015, 6:56 a.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/bcfm-politics-show-with-tony-gosling-14/
525 - War On Yemen; US Wage Protests; Deepwater Horizon; Populism
April 25, 2015, 7:54 p.m.
Talk Nation Radio interview: Stop The Saudi (and US) War on Yemen; Outside The Box: Modernize the Military; Between the Lines interviews covering: Low Wage Workers Nationwide Protest; The Gulf On Fifth Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; 'Populism 2015' Conference; Jim Hightower: TPP Turns Corporate Persons into Corporate Nations; music.
April 25, 2015, 7:44 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Climate Change and Terrorism; Between the Lines interview: Culture of Impunity in US Law Enforcement; Mumia Abu-Jamal: 4-9-2015; BTL interview: Tax Cuts for Corporations and the Rich; Between the Lines interviews Yale Climate Activists; Jim Hightower: Oil refinery workers strike; Mark Fiore: Oil Quakes; BTL interview: Women's Earth and Climate Action Network; music.
#373 -- Bad Business: Nuclear Power
April 25, 2015, 7:42 p.m.
A creaky nuclear power plant in Vermont was finally finally shut down. Not for the 500 best reasons but because it simply wasn't profitable to run. Turns out, nuclear power never did make any business sense, anywhere. Noted management consultant JEREMY RIFKIN and veteran power-system administrator DAVID FREEMAN each explains why.
So why do government and the nuclear industry keep promoting this failed product? It's a fig-leaf for nuclear bomb-making, says Freeman.
Indigenous Peoples and Academic Freedom in the New Era of Civility
April 25, 2015, 5:40 p.m.
Talk by Steven Salaita on "Indigenous Peoples and Academic Freedom in the New Era of Civility" recorded April 6, 2015 at Gowen Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
April 25, 2015, 5:01 p.m.
April 25, 2015, 11:56 a.m.
April 25, 2015, 11:32 a.m.
Continued reading of "Witness in Palestine" including journal entry "Twisted Easter-Egg Hunt", music.
Roll Back Low Wages: Stories of New Labor Organizing with Sarah Jaffe
April 25, 2015, 11:29 a.m.
Roll Back Low Wages:
Nine Stories of New Labor Organizing in the United States
with
Sarah Jaffe, labor journalist, author of Roll Back Low Wages
Albert Scharenberg, co-Director Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung,
NY Office
The Fight for $15 Campaign comes against a backdrop of the mass incarceration and other forms of state violence against people of color and immigrants, stagnating wages, chronic unemployment, underemployment and starvation pay, and Building Bridges will drill down deeper to examine the economic conditions behind the Fight for $15 Campaign and the
coalescence of workers groups stimulating these campaigns and new forms of organization for interest of the working class. If we were to select one word to best describe the most important current trend in the economy of the United States, precarity would be a leading candidate. America s middle class is shrinking and recent polls suggest that possibilities for merit-based advancement are at their lowest point ever. A growing number of people work low-wage jobs under precarious circumstances, often without long-term job security, health care, or possibilities for advancement or retirement. Many quite literally find themselves one sick day away from being fired and replaced by another person desperate to feed her or his family. Increasingly, precarity in our working lives, or in those of our neighbors, our friends, or our loved ones, has become the new norm. With inequality on the rise, the U.S.
government largely beholden to corporate interests, and austerity the economic recipe du jour, the implications are significant for the future of working people
April 25, 2015, 11:26 a.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that loves vinyl records, 78s, 45's, private press releases, all kinds of tapes and homemade cds. Each show features a freeform playlist of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week
April 25, 2015, 11:24 a.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that loves vinyl records, 78s, 45's, private press releases, 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.
April 25, 2015, 3:14 a.m.
Performance Poet Len Martin on prohibition of marijuana
This Week in Radio News: Ben Mirin April 25-May 1, 2015
April 24, 2015, 11:43 p.m.
Radio news about radio waves. This week low-power FM gets a proposal for a power boost; David Petraeus gets a very different sentence then other leakers; the U.S. House passes a cybersecurity bill and considers two very different post-Aaron Swartz bills; a listen to reasonable recommendations for recording the police; and a report on just how much electronic waste is being created. The show also tunes in Ben Mirin beatboxing bird sounds for World Wetlands Day 2015 and Chantal Dumas with 86400 Seconds for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"Reaching Porcelain"
April 24, 2015, 4:35 p.m.
This RADIOLA! remarks upon a personal anniversary in characteristic fashion.
Karamozov live on POP Goes The World!
April 24, 2015, 3:53 p.m.
April 24, 2015, 2:32 p.m.
BCfm local election discussion part 1: Mayor and Police cuts
April 24, 2015, 1:48 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/bcfm-politics-show-with-tony-gosling-14/
April 24, 2015, 1:32 p.m.
Police officer Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded his supervisors telling officers to manipulate crime statistics and make illegal arrests from 2008 to 2009. The Village Voice series that broke Schoolcraft's story was written by Graham Rayman. Ira Glass narrates the story.
"Police Officer Schoolcraft, who worked in the relatively high-crime 81st precinct in Brooklyn, was not a happy camper. Some might call him a malcontent.
In 2009, he began to secretly tape-record precinct roll calls at which commanding officers ordered cops like himself to refuse to take robbery victimsâ crime complaints. Cops were also ordered to downgrade felonies â which are serious crimes â to less serious misdemeanors so that the precinct would appear safer than it actually was.
Schoolcraftâs secret tape recordings might well have been ignored, had not the police department then done something shocking.
On Oct. 31, 2009, Schoolcraft left his tour early, saying he felt sick, and returned to his apartment in Queens. A few hours later, a police posse, led by Brooklyn Deputy Chief Michael Marino, entered his apartment and, saying he needed medical help, forcibly brought him to Jamaica Hospital.
Despite his protests, the hospital admitted him and held him for six days. For part of that time, he was kept in its psychiatric ward.
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After six days, Schoolcraft was released from the hospital. He and his father then left the city for upstate Johnstown, where Larry Schoolcraft had grown up.
Meanwhile, Larry Schoolcraft alerted the media to what the department had done to his son.
The Schoolcrafts then hired an attorney, who sued the NYPD in federal court for $50 million, claiming that Adrianâs forced hospitalization was retaliation for his having blown the whistle on his precinct commanders.
Amidst the mediaâs hue and cry, the department was forced to address Schoolcraftâs allegations about the 81st precinct.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced an internal investigation, which determined that Schoolcraftâs precinct commanders had indeed downgraded crimes. The precinctâs top commanders were all transferred and disciplined.
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This was not merely a crime-reporting problem. Misclassifying crimes has consequences. In Upper Manhattan, as Rayman reported for the Village Voice and notes in his book, police downgraded an attempted rape to âcriminal trespassing,â a misdemeanor." ~ Leonard Levitt
For more information read "The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct" by Granham Rayman in The Village Voice.
Source: This American Life: 414: Right to Remain Silent
NSA Threatens National Security
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist. Bruce discusses how the NSA threatens national security by breaking the âtrust of the internetâ and how to push back against the NSA using technical and legal means. Bruce is interviewed by Scott Horton.
Source: The Scott Horton Show: Bruce Schneier
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