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Feb. 1, 2015, 8:59 p.m.
This week in the Q we take on what may or MAY NOT be a Mummblecore film when we jump into THE ONE I LOVE from first time director Charlie McDowell, starring Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss⦠Hereâs what you have: THE ONE I LOVE is a refreshing and inventive take on monogamy, relationships, and expectations â one that turns the idea of the âRomantic Comedyâ on itâs head. Ethan and Sophie, (played by Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss) escape to a country retreat on the advice of their counselor (played by Ted Danson) to save their ailing marriage. But, when an unexpected AND unexplainable discovery presents itself, what begins as a quiet opportunity to reconnect morphs into a head trip into the surreal â one that forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future in an impossibly unique way. We do our best to straighten this one our for ya â as well as our Top 3 Movie Doppelgangers!
Feb. 1, 2015, 4:50 p.m.
Illinois Green Party Chairman, Rich Whitney, and Secretary, Vito Mastrangelo, join us in studio to talk about the Green Party, Labor, Healthcare and Environmental issues.
Everything Is Terrible; Oscar Shorts; & new releases for the week of January 27th
Feb. 1, 2015, 2:05 p.m.
The hosts discuss the release of Oscar-nominated short films prior to the awards themselves, the coming of Everything Is Terrible to Asheville, and (of course) upcoming releases into theaters and onto dvd!
Feb. 1, 2015, 1:50 p.m.
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New Film & DVDs for the week of Jan 20, 2015
Feb. 1, 2015, 1:48 p.m.
Intro's to what's new coming out in theaters and the hosts favorite new releases on DVD for the week of Jan 20, 2015
Free Alabama & Mississippi Movements in prisons & updates on Sean Swain
Feb. 1, 2015, 1:25 p.m.
Prior to the main portion of this week's episode, we hear a Sean Swain segment and also Ben Turk comes on to talk about difficulties Sean's currently facing (for instance beginning a hunger strike on Monday due to shenanigans by officials at OSP, where Sean is being held, and possibly JPAY (the company that contracts communication with Ohio's DRC) that have limited his communications again.
It is suggested that folks concerned called the boss of the ODRC Lead Council Trevor Clark's boss (Stephen Grey 614 752 1765). More on this can be found here: http://seanswain.org/support-seans-hunger-strike-call-the-odrc-on-monday/
The majority of this week's episode is a conversation with incarcerated members of the Free Alabama & Mississippi Movements. The FAMMC (now including inmates in California as well) is an inmate-drive non-violent, civil disobedience movement with the goal of bettering the situations of prisoners, challenging the profits of prison corporations and departments of correction, ending the impunity of wardens and guards and abolishing the "new slavery" of mass incarceration in the U.S.
Due to the poor connection with the guests, some of the audio is difficult to hear, so a transcript should be posted in a few days at ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw where this post can be found and later at thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org
M. Ray (at St. Clair Correctional Facility/SCCF near ) & Kinetic Justice Amun (at Holman/HCF near Atmore, AL), two founders of the Free Alabama Movement along with a member of the Free Mississippi Movement break down mass incarceration, the forms of struggle they're taking (including work stoppages, documentation, outreach and organizing), the economic underpinning to prison labor and prison privatization, issue of sanitation, diet, cost to inmates and family of incarceration, assault and rape in Womens facilities, networking across state borders... M & Kinetic also talk about the recent lockdowns at their facilities.
A call-out for folks on the outside to pressure the administrations of these AL facilities to get rid of Warden Davenport (St. Clair, formerly Tutwiler) & Bobby Barrett can be found here: http://prisonbooks.info/2015/01/30/help-stop-the-reign-of-terror-by-alabama-prison-officials/
A post concerning the lockdowns from a few days ago but with information on the death row hunger strikes at Holman facility can be found here: https://denverabc.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/fam-press-release-protest-at-st-clair-prison-in-alabama/
An upcoming way for folks around the country to get involved in this movement is to share the information of the FAMMC with folks on the inside and try to help them to get involved in the movement. Keep up on the upcoming pushes to protest at and outside of prisons around Alabama, Mississippi and more by checking out their facebook and twitter pages. These groups are planning to focus demonstrations and campaigns against McDonalds Restaurants (which use prison labor to make it's burger patties, uniforms and more) and other businesses that are all around us that contract prisoner labor to make a profit.
These folks run a weekly (often up to 3 times a week) podcast-radio show called The People's Platform that can be listened to and called into when live or found as archives. More on this show can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freealabamamovement
For more information generally about the FAMM, check out their main website at: http://freealabamamovement.com/
A recent report about the violence (sexual and otherwise) perpetrated by officials against the prisoners at the Juliet Tutwiler Women's Facility in Alabama (at which the current warden of St. Clair, Curtis Davenport, who's overseen this rise of violence was once an official), check out this US DOJ report from January of last year: http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/tutwiler_findings_1-17-14.pdf
For the book that M. Ray has written about the goals and background of the Free Alabama Movement: http://freealabamamovement.com/FREE%20ALABAMA%20MOVEMENT.pdf
Warning Labels & Swivelization : 2015-02-01
Feb. 1, 2015, 12:37 p.m.
Sean discusses warning labels we see around us on products and how they should be seen as a sign of how swivelization has stupified the common sense from us.
Who You Gonna Call? MYTHBUSTERS
Feb. 1, 2015, 11:34 a.m.
Who You Gonna Call? Mythbusters! (Soapbox Podcast 02/01/2015)
02/01/2015
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Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox
February 1, 2015
TOPIC: MYTH BUSTING
GUEST: JUSTIN COLELLA
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Justin Colella is an American entrepreneur, philosopher, social activist, producer, and philanthropist. He started his first company at the age of 19 and has been self-employed ever since. He is currently President at Commission Enterprises, Inc. and other sales and marketing corporations that engage in guerrilla marketing for Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Colella is also Founder and Chairman of the 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Human Rights Organization, Hustle For Humanity. He is a Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a Doctorate level Clinical Hypnotherapist, and an elected member of the American Psychological Association (APA). He currently resides in Southern California and is a competitive athlete in Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and CrossFit. Justin Colella is currently working on a documentary film project set to be released in 2015 that promises to challenge the existing global political, psychological, and economic paradigm
Abrupt Climate Change - Again!
Feb. 1, 2015, 11:25 a.m.
Dr. James White, Arctic specialist at U of Colorado, says abrupt climate shifts happened in the past, happen now, and will come again. Huge changes possible. Then UK psychotherapist Ro Randall on how to talk to a denier. Clip of Robert Kennedy Jr. on coal.
The Week in Economics by John Weeks
Feb. 1, 2015, 9:48 a.m.
First of a new series of commentary on economic conditions and policy in the Uk and beyond from John Weeks.John Weeks is a professor emeritus of the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies and author of The Economics of the 1%: How Mainstream Economics Serves the Rich, Obscures Reality and Distorts Policy. His recent policy work includes a supplemental unemployment program for the European Union and advising the central banks of Argentina and Zambia. More info on John at http://jweeks.org/
International War and Peace Affairs and Current Events
Feb. 1, 2015, 7:42 a.m.
Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon discuss current international war and peace issues and events.
-Victory of the anti-austerity Syriza Party in Greece
-Outrageous that Putin not invited to Auschwitz memorial event
-Recent UN GA Resolution combating the glorification of Nazism and Neo-Nazism, only US, Canada and Ukraine voted against it. Many abstained. Need to make stopping the growing Nazism in Europe a priority.
-Cuba and American Talks: US hypocritically attacking Cuba for "Human Rights" violations, while Cuba points to the reality of Ferguson, disproportionate number of Blacks in US prisons, and the US having the highest number per capita of incarcerated any where in the world
-Obama grieving over death of Saudi Arabia's president, a Wahhabi absolute monarchy, and the irony of an IMF woman representative saying the Saudi Arabian president was a reformer and supporter of women
-The American Sniper Film: An atrocity, killing people to keep up numbers. Chris Kyle, the Sniper ---saying he wished he killed more of the savages, called some men --he saw as weak--women, exploited his military experience by forming a company where he gave crash courses for pay, Logo of his company was "Punishers" and has a skull which is often associated with WWII and the Nazis, had a Templar Crusader's cross, which signifies a holy war against Islam.
Feb. 1, 2015, 7:35 a.m.
Political analyst Stephen Gowans discusses his recent article, "Puppets vs. antipuppets: Why Syria's Assad is a persona nongrata in the West while Egypt's Sisi gets $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid annually."
Gowans starts off describing the The American Sniper film as dreadful -- the politics that played out were reprehensible. They drove home the reality that it is the Chris Kyle type who are the terrorists, not the people who are defending their country from attacks.
A common definition of terrorism is that it is the unlawful use of violence for political ends and thus indicts Sisi of Egypt, the U.S., Turkey and the Gulf Monarchies, which are arming terrorists to fight Syria.
The end game is: Those rulers who serve the moneyed interest are labeled as friends of the West and are not attacked, while those rulers who serve their own countries are labeled as enemies and terrorists who must be taken out any which way.
Jan. 31, 2015, 6:36 p.m.
New Music the end of 2014 into 2015 featuring Marlyin Manson, Sleater Kinney, Sharknoid, The Black lips, Tom Petty, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cinematic Orchestra and more.
A Green State of the NYS State Message vs A Culture of Corruption
Jan. 31, 2015, 1:58 p.m.
The Real Deal: A Green State of the NYS State Message
Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for NY Governor, responds to Governor Cuomo s proposed budget and State of the State address. Hawkins will also discuss the recent arrest of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the culture of corruption that dominates the NY state Capitol. In addition to the need for ethics reform, Hawkins will discuss Cuomo s education agenda and attacks on teachers; energy; taxes and fiscal relief for local governments, minimum wage and poverty.
Jan. 31, 2015, 1:51 p.m.
Continued reading of "Freedom Sailors", chapters 10 and 11; Arabic Beat music.
Jan. 31, 2015, 1:48 p.m.
RTS is a homegrown radio show 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.
Jan. 31, 2015, 1:44 p.m.
RTS is a homegrown radio show 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.
Jan. 31, 2015, 9:03 a.m.
We remember magazines that have bit the dust--and defunct magazine *features*--notably Esquire's "Dubious Achievement Awards." This annual satire on the year's vice and folly is much needed today.
Surely an award would have gone to the Keystone Pipeline. And to Saudi Arabia, for joining the recent Paris march celebrating freedom of the press.
We still have CONN HALLINAN's "Are You Serious?" Awards. We'll read some of the latest. Plus another take on the Keystone Pipeline by singer DAVID ROVICS.
Jan. 30, 2015, 9:23 p.m.
Jan. 30, 2015, 7:03 p.m.
Southeast Asian rockers; Black Masala in WRIR's Live Room; a cool groove
The resistible rise of the extreme right in Sweden & Europe
Jan. 30, 2015, 6:51 p.m.
Jan Johansson, Senior Researcher & Secretary General, Organization for European Interstate Cooperation, discussed the rise of the neo-fascist right and led a discussion of this problem. Johansson co-authored with Philip Lerulf, "Europe Deserves Better - A Study of Extremist Parties in Hungry, the Netherlands and Denmark". He outlined the spectrum of extreme right political parties active in the European Parliament, from the nationalist far right in England to the neo-Nazi Jobbik in Hungary and Golden Dawn in Greece, with an explanation of their differences. During his presentation he explains the title of the talk and the connection
to the Swedish journalist and crime novel writer Stieg Larsson.
Bristol Band 'The Transpersonals' guest produce Dialect 2of2
Jan. 30, 2015, 2:25 p.m.
Web first show - on BCfm 93.2FM - Monday 16th February 2015 https://www.facebook.com/thetranspersonals
Jan. 30, 2015, 2:21 p.m.
Bristol Band 'The Transpersonals' guest produce Dialect 1of2
Jan. 30, 2015, 2:20 p.m.
Web first show - on BCfm 93.2FM - Monday 9th February 2015 https://www.facebook.com/thetranspersonals
Bristol's elite Merchant Venturers ran the slave trade now our schools & hospitals
Jan. 30, 2015, 1:54 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/bcfm-politics-show-with-tony-gosling-11/
Syriza won Greece because NATO imposed 1960s fascist dictatorship
Jan. 30, 2015, 1:48 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/bcfm-politics-show-with-tony-gosling-11/
Jan. 30, 2015, 12:24 p.m.
Sociologist Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of Americaâs angry white men including white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students. Downward mobility, increased racial and gender equality, and a tenacious clinging to an ideology of masculinity has left many men feeling betrayed and bewildered. Raised to expect unparalleled social and economic privileges, white men are suffering today from what Kimmel calls "aggrieved entitlement".
Many white men believed that the benefits were their due have been snatched away from them. Michael believes that the school shootings perpetrated by middle-class white male students, the menâs-rights movement, white supremacists, the fathersâ-rights groups, and more are due to aggrieved entitlement. The choice for angry white men is not whether or not they can stem the tide of history because they cannot. Micheal is interviewed by Hanna Rosin, the author of "The End of Men".
Source: C-Span: After Words with Michael Kimmel
Autism Linked to Pesticide Exposure
Women's exposure to agricultural pesticides during pregnancy appears to sharply increase the risk for developmental delays and autism in their children, according to a paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives. Irva Hertz-Picciotto is a senior author of the study and Professor of Epidemiology at the MIND Institute at UC Davis. Irva discusses the study and the dangers of pesticides with Steve Curwood.
Source: living on earth: Autism Linked to Pesticide Exposure
Music includes Compassionate Conservatives - To All The Troops, Bruce Cockburn - Waiting For A Miracle, Ani DiFranco - Millenium Theater, Everton Blender - Bush and Saddam, Capitol Steps - Oh What a Beautiful Mormon, FDR 1-20-1937, Capitol Steps - If I Tax a Rich Man, The Compassionate Conservatives - Frat Boy, David Rovics - Ballad of a Cluster Bomb, Capitol Steps - Ronald The Red-Faced Reagan, Pearl Jam - Masters Of War, Capitol Steps - Drop My Baby One More Time, The Slackers - Propaganda, Frank Sinatra - Mack the Knife, His Hot Five / Louis Armstrong - Tight Like This, George Carlin - Special Dispensation; Heaven Hell Purgatory And Limbo, Manuel Barrueco - Rodeo
Greece: From Austerity to Prosperity? Conversations with Ellen Brown and Binoy Kampmark
Jan. 30, 2015, 11:46 a.m.
In this installment of the Global Research News Hour, we examine the dynamics of the Greek economy and why the Greek people voted the anti-austerity Syriza Party to power.
Ellen Brown of the Public Banking Institute explains the role of Goldman Sachs in setting up Greece for a fall, and how the Mediterranean country could survive the end of the bail-outs.
In the second half hour, scholar, RMIT University lecturer and Counterpunch contributing editor Binoy Kampmark talks about the background of Syriza, the political culture on the ground, and what the future may hold for a financially emancipated Greece as well as other European countries.
Jan. 30, 2015, 11:26 a.m.
This RADIOLA! strolls down Memory Lane to pay tribute to the man who graded and paved it for us.
American Sniper And American Exceptionalism (01.30.2015)
Jan. 30, 2015, 10:49 a.m.
TheAngryindian speaks on the US literary and cinematic pro-war propaganda mill and its deification of USN Senior Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle, an unrepentant ethnic bigot and sociopathic mass-killer who also claimed to have knocked former Gov. Jesse Ventura to the ground over his principled opposition to the 'War on Terror'. Special Musical Guest: Michael Bucher and his new single: 'Not a Mascot' â (available here: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/node/158722) And a free-wheeling conversation between TheAngryindian and Bob Kincaid on the Head On Radio Network â The HORN â on a variety of interesting and controversial subjects. Check it out!
For more data on Chris Kyle racism, see: "American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL): "Injun" in Chris Kyle's AMERICAN SNIPER" ( http://twitthat.com/l6N7F ) - Monday, January 26, 2015