Capitalism and the Human Condition: Ebola, Xenophobia and the Search for Meaning in the World

Sigga Jagne on the Ebola plague, how best to fight it & the need for the world to step up in the face of this terrible crisis. Alan Goodman talks about his article, "Ebola: Stop the Xenophobia." and the morality that allows the US to respond with cruel disregard for the suffering of people in West Africa. Tim Sutton talks about his movie "Memphis," a musical drama about a talented singer/songwriter suffering from a creative block, who sets off in search of his muse and the meaning of his life.

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Toppers Halloween Special 3: Trash or Treasure?

Visit the thrift store and learn all sorts of bargain and reselling strategies. The third halloween special from 'Toppers. Features music.

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New album Background Music from The Transpersonals

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CPR News, October 28, 2014

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Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything (ONE of TWO)

On her web site Naomi Klein says: Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. <http://www.naomiklein.org/>
 On October 17, 2014, in a small town in Northern California a grassroots coalition almost filled the 1,000 people capacity Veterans Building to hear Naomi Klein speak about her 2014 book, This Changes Everything. The North Bay Organizing Project <http://northbayop.org/> is a coalition of 18 labor, immigrant rights, faith based, union, Living Wage, education, and environmental organizations. The Canadian writer Naomi Klein first received world-wide attention with her book: No Logo, that went on to become an international bestseller. Her book The Shock Doctrine, is a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics.

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Lead in the Blood: Dangers and How to Protect

Radio Curious discusses lead poisoning in children with Dr. Martha E. Richmond, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of Environmental Science, at Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts. An estimated 500,000 children have lead poisoning in the US.

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The Mixed Tape - October 28, 2014

Weekly all-Canadian community radio music potpourri with a Maritime and equality focus

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The Mixed Tape - October 27, 2014

Weekly all-Canadian community radio music potpourri with a Maritime and equality focus

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EXECUTE CAPITALISM

Playlist - http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/the-anarchy-show

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!earshot 20 - October 24, 2014

Anthony Enman and Brian Cleveland skip the regular count down ritual from earshot-online.com to bring you tracks from some of the artists they are most excited to catch at Halifax Pop Explosion. We also chat with Quiet Parade's Trevor Murphy and Brave Radar's Conor Prendergast

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GroundWire | October 27, 2014

This week GroundWire was produced on traditional Anishinaabe and Métis territory at CKUW in Winnipeg, Mantioba. Hosted By: Julien Cooper and Chris Reid, CKUW Headlines: Lynn Gehl, an Algonquin - Anishinaabe woman from Ontario, challenges the federal government in court after she was denied Indian status. | Jessie Wins, CFRU Northern Cree First Nation of Pimicikamak take over a hydro dam near their territory in Manitoba. | Michael Welch, CKUW The National Aboriginal Women's Summit takes place in Membertou, Nova Scotia. | Ophira Horwitz Features: The recent rise in grassroots feminist activities at Queen's University and in Kingston in response to sexual assault and threatening activities by Men's Rights Activists. | Filza Naveed, CFRC Highlights from the Winnipeg DIY Fest and Anarchist Bookfair. | Liz Picylo and Victoria King, CKUW Community Radio Report: The official launch of 99.3 County FM in Prince Edward County, Ontario. | Ophira Horwitz

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Reframing Anti-Semitism, chapters 4 thru 7.5

Continuing the short anthology of edited articles which take a second, much closer look at accusations of anti-Semitism (anti-Jewish) and their misuse; some oud music.

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It's Pat! (Robertson) + "Out in the Night" + global LGBT news

Black New Jersey lesbians go to prison just for going "Out in the Night"; rightwing U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson issues a gay terrorism alert; Liberian churchmen blame gay people for Ebola, a Nigerian court nixes a hetero challenge to the country's draconian anti-gay laws, hooded vandals invade a Macedonian LGBT celebration, a trans veteran proves U.S. Army discrimination, a lonely Puerto Rican judge upholds the U.S. territory’s civil marriage ban, "Gandalf" fights school bullying, and more LGBT news from around the world.

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The Motherland Influence Oct. 26, 2014

African, Latin & Caribbean music. Fall Fund Drive for WRIR

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The Other Black Music Oct. 26, 2014

Broadcasting from WRIR-LP 97.3 FM and www.wrir.org in Richmond, Virginia USA. "The Other Black Music" broadcast Black music ignored by other Richmond stations. Soul, Zydeco, Funk, Afro-Pop, Blues and more. Every other Sunday 3-5pm EST

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'Klinghoffer' Still Draws Protests

The New York Met Opera resurrects performances of 'The Death of Klinghoffer' after 23 years and pro-Israel Americans are still up in arms. The composer, lyricist and producers maintain that there is nothing anti-Semitic about the work; music.

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Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #22 - 10-30-14

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

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501 - Private Profit Vs Peace, Health, Survival

News You Need to Know: ISIS War Lacks Intelligence; Between The Lines interview: Private Profit Trumps Public Health in Ebola Research; Jim Hightower: Billionaires, Farmers; NH Gazette Fortnightly Rant: Cloudy, With a Chance of Scandal, 10/17/14; Outside The Box: Binaries; music.

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CPR News, October 27, 2014

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War Report

In this edition of the In Context War Report, we explore the nature of proxy warfare, discuss examples from history and consider whether current proxy wars may result in a direct conflict between the major powers.

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#347 -- Policy Failures ... or ARE They?

With the the US again escalating its war against Iraq, many have decried the failure of US Middle-Eastern policy. But a "failure" to the majority may be a "success" to the elite, who profit from those policies. NAOMI KLEIN (2006) and MICHAEL PARENTI (2007) each argue this point, with many examples from the recent past--including Iraq. Plus a song by James McMurtry. Updated with new commentary by KD.

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1Daylite Swingtime` Oct. 26, 2014; Set #1

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`Daylite Swingtime` Oct. 26, 2014; Set #2

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#693 - Social Destabilization Tactics Post WW2

A new speaker on the show, Douglas Valentine, outlines the CIA's development of "Operation Phoenix", which helps explain how the Police State in the USA today has been so rapidly rolled out after 9-11; social destabilization techniques which the CIA tried out in Vietnam and developed in Latin America in the 1970s are being applied in Mexico and increasingly in USA itself. In our second hour, we continue with more from FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds on Gladio Operation B in Turkey, and NATO's links with high level drug trafficking.

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Steve Salaita and Ali Abunimah on Suppression of Academics

Recently a variety of university administrations have escalated clampdowns on free expression by their faculty members, in particular those who criticize Israel. In this episode we hear a discussion by Steve Salaita (recently fired by University of Illinois for speaking out) and Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada.

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Program 222

Each week I play a blend of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music from futures past.

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Program 221

Each week I play a blend of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music from futures past.

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Dilar Dirik on the Rojava Revolution, part 1

This week on The Final Straw, Bursts spoke with Dilar Dirik. Dilar is a Kurdish refugee living in Germany who's a phd candidate studying and working around issues connected with the Kurdish Women's movement and the PYD, or Democratic Union Party, in the Rojava territories within the borders of Syria. Dilar is a Kurdish refugee living in Germany who's a phd candidate studying and working around issues connected with the Kurdish Women's movement and the PYD, or Democratic Union Party, in the Rojava territories within the borders of Syria. With it's foundation in 2004, the PYD has been attempting to create a dual power situation with the government and centering on an anti-state, anti-capitalist, feminist & ecological critique stemming from the influence of the PKK's founder, Abdullah Öcalan, and his model of Democratic Confederalism. Democratic Confederalism is, in a large part, influenced strongly by the libertarian socialist philosophy of communalism, a term coined by the late Murray Bookchin. Bookchin, although not an anarchist upon his death, had been influential to certain strains of social anarchist thought since the 1960's and included elements Communalism of Left Anarchism, Marxism, Syndicalism and Radical Ecology. Following the the 2012 pullout of Syrian government forces from the northern territories, the PYD, a group aligned with the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has held the territory as three independent cantons (Rojava, Cizre and Efrin) organized through a series of communes, councils and alternative representational structure. Primarily during this episode and the following, Dilar speaks about the methodologies of the Kurdish Women's movement in Rojava to autonomously push the PYD at large to create not just an inclusive but to attempt to center on gender balance in all functions, moving to shift things often called "women's issues" to the fore and make them issues for the movement at large. Dilar also speaks about the shift from the former national liberation struggles of the Kurdish people for inclusion in the nationstates of the middle east to an embracing of a stateless status and an attempt to invite and include as many ethnic, religious and national communities and individuals of the region into the implementation of Democratic Confederalism (that implementation is also known as Democratic Autonomy) as could be done. Their hope, as people in the larger Rojava Revolution, is to expand the model into a self-sustaining, directly democratic society in tension with the state and capitalism. The Democratic Union Party (PYD), Rojava region, the YPG (Peoples Defense Units) militia and YPJ Star (Women's Defense Units Star) have come into media headlines in the U.S. of recent because they've been some of the main actors in the defense of Kobane (the capital of Rojava) against the forces of the Islamic State In the Levant (ISIL). ISIL has been attacking the three cantons in recent months, in fact for the last 2 years prior to U.S. recognition of it's existence, and the YPG and YPJ Star have been among the groups fighting ISIL back. The press of ISIL to take the lands, weapons, slaves and wealth and to destroy heretics, continues throughout the 3 cantons despite the retaking of most of the city of Kobane. Perhaps the U.S. public hasn't learned about resistance and attempts at alternative self-organization until the Siege of Kobane because it challenges the stability of U.S. allies like Turkey, Syria and also of Iran and other countries with significant Kurdish populations in the region. In the last 2 years, many anarchists in the west have been looking on with interest on the organizing and resistance in Rojava. Recently, David Graber wrote in an op-ed for the U.K. Guardian that the PYD in Rojava fighting the ISIL parallels the Spanish Revolution of 1936 with the Rojava as the anarchists of the FAI and ISIL as the Falangists, and thus that social libertarians worldwide need to pay attention and offer support to the struggles in Rojava. Other western anarchist sources have been critical of the shortfalls of the Rojava Revolution from their ideological perspectives. We here at the Final Straw are excited to present the words of Dilar Dirik about Rojava not because the revolution is by name an anarchist project, but because it teases some boundaries between philosophies and attempts to put them into practice in the midst of a warzone and fight for their lives. This case of Rojava is interesting, but more importantly it's people, again fighting for their lives. With that said, because the PKK, which is aligned with the PYD, is on the U.S. terrorist list, it's difficult to solicit donations for them in the U.S. However, if you're in the Asheville area, on Wednesday November 5th, 2014 at the Winehaus at 86 Patton Ave, in Asheville from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. There will be music, vegetarian food and the sliding scale tickets from $20-60 will go to the Kurdish Red Crescent to offer material support for those facing assault from the Islamic State. More info can be found at http://bit.ly/aid4rojava You can find writings by Dilar at http://dilar91.blogspot.com Also, we'd like to apologize for the quality of Dilar's audio on the episode, we had a poor connection. Next week's show will be the second half of our conversation on the Rojava Revolution and Kurdish women's movement, media representation of women in Rojava and in the YPJ Star militias fighting against ISIL, if there's an overlap between anarchism and Democratic Confederalism and more. For some articles on the Rojava, check out: http://tahriricn.wordpress.com/tag/kurds/ and remain aware that the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) is a seperate movement operating in Iraq and that the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) is a movement based in Turkey. Both groups operate inside of Syria and were involved in the fight against ISIL on Mount Shengal (Sinjar in Arabic), which crosses the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Rojava. http://ideasandaction.info/2014/10/rojava-anarcho-syndicalist-perspective/ https://robertgraham.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/david-graeber-support-the-kurds-in-syria/

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Jwow: 10-26-2014

A humorous presentation by someone standing in for the Governor of Ohio on his responses to Sean Swain's allegations against Jwow in his bid for 2014 running of Ohio

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No Ebola Here

GUEST: Jeff 4 Justice https://www.youtube.com/user/jeff4justice CLICK FOR JEFF'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL TOPIC: TOP TWO PRIMARY SHAM AND (TWO GUEST FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!) GUEST: MIMI GERMAN TOPIC: ACTIVISM AND NO NUKES NORTHWEST Mimi and Helen Caldicott (one of our previous guests) No Nukes Northwest Facebook Page

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