Latest Programs
Stories from the Frontlines in the Battle Against Big Oil
June 23, 2014, 11:50 a.m.
"National oil spill expert and author Riki Ott, Ph.D., is a marine toxicologist, author, and activist who is spearheading national efforts to update the national contingency plan. Her latest book is Not One Drop (Chelsea Green). She is featured in several movies, most recently Dirty Energy (Cinema Libre Studio).www.rikiott.com "
Riki Ott recounts her experiences and lessons learned fighting the oil industry. From surviving the Exxon Valdez spill to traveling North America working with communities affected by oil to her current rewriting the National Contingency Plan for oil spill response.
Dr. Riki Ott was invited by Tar Sands Free Midwest to chair a strategy meeting to develop an action plan in response to the BP Whiting spill into Lake Michigan in late March. Crucial questions still need to be answered. Riki offered her oil spill expertise as a guide to effected parties and water quality activists to make sure that this malfunction at BP doesn't continue to be thrown under the rug. Both Chicago area and NW Indiana residents are organizing to prevent British Petroleum's further degradation of Lake Michigan and its surrounding communities.
June 23, 2014, 11:46 a.m.
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June 23, 2014, 11:13 a.m.
If Music Could Talk - June 22, 2014
June 23, 2014, 8:13 a.m.
June 23, 2014, 7:33 a.m.
Today's show focuses on public relations. Bill Gorrell commenrts on the history public relations and some of it's modern uses. He particularly emphasizes Edward Bernays book "Proaoganda".
A Cool JazzFest, Part 1; 6/22/14; Set #1
June 23, 2014, 3:57 a.m.
A Cool JazzFest, Part 1; 6.22.14; Set #2
June 23, 2014, 3:55 a.m.
June 22, 2014, 7:37 p.m.
Have you ever been to a concert and seen the random mic stands throughout the audience? If so, then you've spotted the equipment that tapers use to record live shows!
Every Sunday on WRIR from 3-5am I'll be showcasing live concerts, both local & national, that were recorded by audience members!
Please tune in & experience this unique point of view brought to you by audience tapers live on WRIR-LP 97.3FM or online via the listening portal at wrir.org/tunein
June 22, 2014, 2:54 p.m.
Spoken word remix of various artists including: Lee Ranaldo, Jim Morrison also Listener, Laurie Anderson, Hakim Bey, fIREHOSE, UNKLE, Charles Veitch, William S Burroughs Special pdr mixes and more.
June 22, 2014, 1:50 p.m.
Featuring: Report back from Cannes Film Festival by professor and critic Dennis Broe, Wikileaks exposes banks attempting global financial deregulation, California teacher tenure at risk, Palestinian hunger strike, voices of houseless vets, and criminalizing houselessness.
June 22, 2014, 1:36 p.m.
Have you ever been to a concert and seen the random mic stands throughout the audience? If so, then you've spotted the equipment that tapers use to record live shows!
Every Sunday on WRIR from 3-5am I'll be showcasing live concerts, both local & national, that were recorded by audience members!
Please tune in & experience this unique point of view brought to you by audience tapers live on WRIR-LP 97.3FM or online via the listening portal at wrir.org/tunein
June 22, 2014, 1:28 p.m.
Swain discusses the history of the Ohio State House, built by slaves and imprisoned artisans round up and arrested BECAUSE they could be made to provide free labor under the 13th ammendment.
June 22, 2014, 1:03 p.m.
This week's show features mainly a dubbed interview by comrades at A-Radio Berlin with a member of a Comite Popular da Copa in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The interviewee speaks about the context of resistance in Brazil and how it's developed, public discourse around elections, the cost of living, developments around the FIFA World Cup and upcoming Olympics in Brazil. He discusses the links between politicians supporting these huge events, the political power of the construction companies, the displacement of poor, urban peoples and the further gentrification of cities under the guise of facilitating these huge events that draw short term profits but cause longterm damages. Information about the Comite Popular da Copa in Sao Paolo can be found at: http://comitepopularsp.wordpress.com/
More works by A-Radio Berlin can be found at http://aradio.blogsport.de
At about 40 minutes into the show, the begin presenting a conversation with Layla AbdelRahim about her recent book, "Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness". She is an anarchaprimitivist who explores ideas of education, domestication and civilization in terms of childhood development and overall human health. In this portion, we define some terms and talk about instrumentalization of living things and symbolic thought and how they are used to shape the child's mind into the civilized and non-empathic perspective. Info on the book can be found at http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca
Sean Swain, this week, talks about the corruption and enslavement involved in the construction of the Ohio State Capital building in Colombus.
Playlist for this episode is pending.
Climate Change - We Don't Want It
June 22, 2014, 11:56 a.m.
Dr. Bill Miller, author of "The Microcosm Within" on climate & new diseases. From Wales, Lloyd Jones' new "cli-fi" work, and "Victory Gardens" Vancouver co-founder Lisa Giroday on urban farming.
#329 -- Sir! No Sir! (Part 2) (R)
June 22, 2014, 11:48 a.m.
David Zeiger's fine video documentary (U.K.version), adapted to radio. How resistance and rebellion by America's active-duty soldiers and sailors made the U.S. end the Vietnam War. Current reflections by veterans and others--some famous, some obscure--mix with period newscasts and other recordings. The famous ones include Army physician Dr. HOWARD LEVY, Army "Green Beret" Sgt. DONALD DUNCAN, and actor & activist JANE FONDA.
Stephen Kinzer's new book Reset Iran Turkey And Americas Future
June 22, 2014, 7:10 a.m.
June 21, 2014 â SECOND HOUR â George welcomes Stephen Kinzer to update us on his book âReset Iran, Turkey an Americaâs Future
June 22, 2014, 4:51 a.m.
Killer on the loose! This week in The Q we revisit the work of maverick director Takashi Miike as he spins this unsettling, blood-soaked yakuza yarn with the (2001) cult film ICHI THE KILLER When mob don Anjo mysteriously disappears, his protégé Kakihara vows to find the people responsible. Sporting a blond head of hair and a yawning, pierced slash for a mouth, Kakihara is no ordinary gangster and his methods are equally unorthodox. Meanwhile, a shadowy character known as Jijii deftly manipulates, for his own nefarious ends, Ichi, an unbalanced but ruthless killing machine clad in a superhero suit. Pining for the sadistic abuse of his boss, Kakihara learns of Ichi from a Hong Kong hostess and sets out to find this fabled butcher, hoping he can inflict the pain that Kakihara craves⦠Check it out to just how much we enjoyed this particular ride, or to see if we wanted out of the car! All of that and our Top 3 Non-Traditional Super Heroes.
June 22, 2014, 12:02 a.m.
I have been asked, time and again, about my background, as well as how and why I got involved in the alternative media. Having answered the same types of questions over and over again has gotten quite tiresome for me, so I figured it would be best to just compile the most common types of questions Iâve received over the years and answer them, one right after another, in the form of a 2-part podcast that ultimately took 4 hours to answer.
June 21, 2014, 11:51 p.m.
I have been asked, time and again, about my background, as well as how and why I got involved in the alternative media. Having answered the same types of questions over and over again has gotten quite tiresome for me, so I figured it would be best to just compile the most common types of questions Iâve received over the years and answer them, one right after another, in the form of a 2-part podcast that ultimately took 4 hours to answer.
New York's Extreme School Segregation
June 21, 2014, 5:34 p.m.
New York s Extreme School Segregation:
Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future
featuring
Gary Orfield, Co-Dir., Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles
In a report released by UCLA s Civil Rights Project its Co-Director said in the 30 years I have been researching schools, New York State has consistently been one of the most segregated states in the nation -- no Southern state comes close to N.Y. Decades of reforms ignoring this
issue have not produced strategies that have succeeded in making segregated schools equal. It is time to adopt creative school choice strategies to give more New York children an opportunity to prepare to
live and work effectively in a highly multiracial state
# 282 Smolder - A Remarkable Man
June 21, 2014, 5:11 p.m.
Rememberance of a Nimbin activist - a cerebral palsy sufferer
June 21, 2014, 12:39 p.m.
Mande virtuosos; twangy guitars of Latin America; a live set by Washington DC gypsy brass band Black Masala (engineers are Richard Schellenberg and Jay Westermann); salsa's trombanga sound
ISIS in Iraq, NATO's proxy army eyes up Syria
June 20, 2014, 12:21 p.m.
http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/35450/
Glenn Greenwald on the Snowden affair
June 20, 2014, 12:14 p.m.
http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/35450/
5 Things Successful Overlords Do Every Day
June 20, 2014, 12:13 p.m.
IRAQ and Syria in the Crosshairs: Conversations with Michel Chossudovsky and Mahdi Nazemroaya
June 20, 2014, 11:28 a.m.
On this week's show, MIchel Chossudovsky reviews the recent surge of factional violence in Iraq by the group ISIS and how it plays into America's imperial program for the region. We also hear from Mahdi Nazemroaya , Research Associate with the Centre for Research on Globalization about the elections in SYria which he had a chance to observe earlier in the month,
Waiting For Something That's Already There
June 20, 2014, 8:06 a.m.
mratavist.com
June 20, 2014, 6:14 a.m.
Anthony Enman & Brian Cleveland count down the Top 20 of the week from earshot-online.com. We also have Halifax-based duo Vogue Dots and a look at entertainment news with Stephen Carlick of Exclaim! magazine and more!
June 20, 2014, 3:26 a.m.
http://acksisofevil.org/440.html