Harvey Wasserman: From Fukushima to Solartopia! (ONE of TWO)

Only someone who worked tirelessly to defeat nuclear power for over 40 years and has not stopped to this day – someone who lived and built a renewable energy utopia for the same 40 years - can take the frightening topic of Fukushima and give energy for a way out. Harvey Wasserman says that we are in the fight for our lives. We must and can build the green powered earth before the next nuclear meltdown. In this Hiroshima Day 2014 speech he lays out how it can be done. Harvey Wasserman lived on an organic farm in Massachusetts when he and his community prevented a nuclear power plant from being built in the Montague Valley in 1973. In 1976 he helped organize the Clamshell Alliance, which staged the first mass demonstrations against the Seabrook nuclear plant. In 1979 he co-organized the Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) concerts in Madison Square Garden. In 1994 he spoke for Greenpeace to 350,000 fans at Woodstock 2. To this day Wasserman has investigated the nuclear industry and their meltdowns, from Harrisburg to Chernobyl and Fukushima. At the same time he taught history at two Ohio colleges and has helped in successful campaigns to save a local wildlife refuge, shut a central Ohio trash-burning power plant, stop a regional radioactive waste dump and ban McDonald's from the town of Bexley.

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Keeping An Eye On The Natural Gas Boom

Even the most casual followers of energy policy have become aware of the controversy surrounding the massive expansion of fracking in this country over the past decade. Successful attempts to lift the curtain on fracking, like Josh Fox’s 2010 documentary film Gasland, have spurred a grassroots movement to push back on natural gas giants and lobbyists who would have us believe that fracking is clean and safe. So who is winning this battle for America’s health and well-being, fought on the parallel fronts of policy and PR? This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise speaks with Neela Banerjee, a journalist who covers energy and environmental policy for the Los Angeles Times, to get an update on the latest developments in natural gas exploration. She talks about the fight to keep drinking water safe around the 77,000 natural gas wells throughout the country, and the controversy surrounding the use of unpermitted diesel fuel in the fracking process.

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Women of the World Festival

Patrick talks of violence against women and what this was for him as a child, age 5 as it began. Patrick learned to "insert" himself between his mother and his father's fist when conflict.

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Treading Water

In April 2011, Manitoba experienced a 1-in-350-year flood - unprecedented water levels were intentionally diverted through the Fairford Dam to Lake St. Martin. As a result, First Nation communities in the area were swamped and 2100 people were forced from their homes into hotels and temporary housing units, which is still largely the case today. ‘Treading Water: Plight of the Manitoba First Nation Flood Evacuees’ looks at the issue and airs on CBC this Saturday, August 23 at 7 pm CST. The documentary is produced by Wookey Productions and Nüman Films. Victoria King talked with one of the films’ producer, writer and director, Janelle Wookey. Airs on CBC August 23, Saturday at 7pm central standard. time.

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Bristol Cannabis Club & NORML-UK

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CPR News, August 19, 2014

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GroundWire | August 18, 2014

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Beeching Lively + "The Dog" + global LGBT news

"The Dog" gets his day in a new documentary; Christian singer Beeching rocks the Bible in a Lively debate; dozens are busted in Lebanon's anti-gay crackdown, complex Ugandan politics slow the race to renew the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Law, Kenyan lawmakers decide against death by stoning for LGBT people, the U.S. marriage equality clock gets turned back in Tennessee, a great-great granny sets a world record at the Gay Games, and more global LGBT news.

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Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #12

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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Elie Wiesel is Morally Corrupt

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, long known for his moral shortcomings in refusing to acknowledge Israeli atrocities, published a huge ad in the New York Times recently comparing Hamas to ancient Canaanite child-sacrificers.

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Gender Inequality in China: Part Two Workplace Disparity

Radio Curious continues a conversation about gender inequality in China with Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China.”

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CPR News, August 18, 2014

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Ferguson: 08182014

Sean shares his views of the rebellion in Ferguson, MO, and offers solidarity to the folks there.

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'Cool Me One' Aug. 17, 2014; Set #1

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'Cool Me One' Aug. 17. 2014; Set #2

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Victory Gardens Past and Future (replay)

Food prices rising due to climate, peak oil & poor economy. Best time to start your city on Victory Gardens. Speech by Lamanda Joy to Great Lakes Bioneers tells how.

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Standing Against Israel s Ongoing War Crimes Against the People of Gaza

Standing Against Israel s Ongoing War Crimes Against the People of Gaza Speakers Include Laila El-Haddad, author of Gaza Mom blogger & journalist Ilan Pappe, historian/activist/author The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Fida Qishta, Film maker, Where Should the Birds Fly? Ares Mansour, Gaza Journalist Josh Ruebner, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, author "Shattered Hopes: Obama s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace" Highlights of the World Can t Waits extraordinary event which brought together diverse voices of dissent, with varied perspectives, but all of who are determined to seek justice for the people of Gaza. Join us and listen to people across the globe to hear how unjust and intolerable the occupation of Gaza is, and how impossible all that would be were it not backed by the U.S. government.

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The Street Heart Project

Interview with Rex Hohlbein, Executive Director of Facing Homelessness and Sara Snedeker, Founder of the Street Heart Project.

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Eat the Airwaves! - 08/16/14

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The Bad I Transmission #76

93.3 FM,CFRU Guelph - Friday 6PM ET,Saturday 11PM ET Tuesday 9PM ET,The Scope at Ryerson,Toronto 101.9 FM CFUV, Victoria, B.C.,Tuesday overnighnight/Wednesday morning 12AM PT. CKDU 88.1 FM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Friday overnight/Saturday morning 2:30AM AT. CFRC 101.9 FM, Sunday 11PM ET, Kingston, Ontario.

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Anger Management: 08/17/2014

Sean talks about the programs one has to take in prison in order to get one's status changed by proof of good behavior. He talks about trying to get out of solitary by taking a money handling class called "Money Smart" and then later "Anger Management". Sean ponders how the state forces people in prison (and outside) to blame themselves for being unhappy about the state of the world we're forced to live in.

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On the uprisings in Ferguson

It's been a week since the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. The images and sounds of the struggle in the streets have ripped open the mainstream media to dialogue around police use of force, discrepancies between how different races and classes in the U.S. experience that force and the lack of transparency and legitimacy on behalf of law enforcement. Solidarity has been expressed from communities around the world, even by folks in Gaza, with the people of Ferguson and the family of Mr. Brown who've suffered this loss and continually live under the gun of the state in Missouri. This week we talk to Luka, a white anarchist from St. Louis who's been going to Ferguson and meeting folks and being in the streets with them, building relationships. Ferguson is a majority black city whose police force is 94% white. Luka talks about their experience of conversation with and struggle alongside of folks from a personal more than political standpoint, across racial lines. Luka gives a narrative of the days between the shooting of Mike Mike through Friday evening (08/15/14), when we spoke. There's discussion of police and protest tactics and how they've changed in the face of a week of gassing and rubber bullets met with molotovs and rocks. To catch perspectives from anarchists in the St. Louis area, check out http://antistatestl.noblogs.org The playlist for this album can be found here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/9994

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Heretical Cultural Commentaries

Def. Heretic-a person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted. And what is commonly accepted is due to our corrupted MSM, I might add. An exceptional anarchist voice and truthsayer, consider this a sampler, twelve short cultural commentaries, spoken by Patrick Willis aka snordster. These are but a few of his many outspoken works, which can be found at the links listed under Program Notes and come in the form of Hi quality videos. Made for copying and pasting and sharing.

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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Director Terry Gilliam applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the career of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen in his (1988) Adventure Fantasy THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN! Gilliam sets the stage as we travel abroad with Munchausen, a baron who we see flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning to the moon, exploring the innards of a volcano, being swallowed by a whale and quelling a war that he himself has started…In short, all of Munchausen’s fabulous lies are here presented as “truth,” played out in full view of nonplussed witnesses Eric Idle, Charles McKeown, Jack Purvis, and Sarah Polley. Fringe benefits include several loving medium shots of jaybird-naked Uma Thurman as Boticelli’s Venus and an extended unbilled cameo by Robin Williams (that is, by the HEAD of Robin Williams) as the King of the Moon! Filmed under considerable duress on a budget eventually exceeding 45 million dollars, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen never quite caught on with moviegoers, though it has enjoyed a lucrative afterlife on videocassette and DVD as well as a devoted following. We Queue it up to see if we in turn will follow as well… All of that including our Top 3 “Adventurous Adventures” in movies.

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Noam Chomsky: US Terror

Noam spoke to a sold out Univ of Hous crowd. Lengthy intro removed.

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JULY 30, 2014 - INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN BARRETT - PART 2

This is part 2 of the interview with Kevin Barrett. Many topics are discussed.

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JULY 23, 2014 - INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN BARRETT - PART 1

Kevin discusses Saudi and Israeli involvement in 9/11.

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491 - Militarization, Abroad and in the US

News You Need to Know: Obama's Iraq Invasion; Between The Lines interview: US Military Action in Iraq; News You Need to Know: Ferguson; Jim Hightower: Lessons From Ferguson; NH Gazette's Fortnightly Rant: Slowdown at the Sausage Factory, 8/8/2014; Outside The Box: Giving Money Away; music.

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Amanda talks of Oil Pipelines and Aprovals of their locations.

Five different band councils were interveners yet pipeline through indigenous lands were approved.

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#337 -- The People vs "The Masters of Mankind"

Three short, impromptu talks by NOAM CHOMSKY on the state of America today. Chomsky brilliantly discusses * the 1%'s attack on public education--and why they are doing it * financial crimes that get people arrested--and the more serious ones that don't * whether the people can change the system The surprising answer to the third question is, Yes--they've done it before.

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