Latest Programs
May 13, 2014, 8:06 a.m.
Weekly jazz, punk, krautrock, psychedelia, noise, hardcore, folk, avant-garde and the weird bleak rock & roll underbelly. Thursdays at 9pm and again Wednesdays at 10pm on Local 107.3fm with your sound operator Sir Lord Bobby Babylon.
May 13, 2014, 6:55 a.m.
A report back from the antifa rally in Brisbane and the Labour Day Rally.
A new film about Gina Rinhart, a brief discussion of anarcho syndicalism, news from Australia's refugee detention center in Manus Island.
May 12, 2014, 5:23 p.m.
Teen gets thrown from IDF army jeep in middle of nowhere; John Kerry warns of Apartheid Israel; statements revealing the folly of a "two-state solution"; Music by Mavrothi T. Kontanis, Wooden Heart".
May 12, 2014, 5:15 p.m.
May 12, 2014, 4:50 p.m.
U.S. policy on Ukraine - Follow the money
May 12, 2014, 3:11 p.m.
It seems like ancient history, but in November, all hell broke loose when the elected President of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovitch, chose to defer an EU trade agreement. Writer Stephen Gowans, from "What's Left," explains what it was about Yanukovitch's government that offended Wall Street.
The Hashtag Hunt for the Girls in Nigeria
May 12, 2014, 2:46 p.m.
What is American power going to do to save these children? We've heard this question before. It should raise caution flags.
Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford discusses this latest white man's burden, as well as mad dog Paul Kagame's ongoing aggression in Congo and abroad, and the nature of AFRICOM's expansion relative to China's growing trade presence in Africa.
May 12, 2014, 2:10 p.m.
Sean talks about the case of the Lucasville Uprising Defendants facing the death penalty from back in 1992. Calls on Ohio Governor J. Kasich to release and celebrate the prisoners.
Swivelization pt 1: 03/16/2014
May 12, 2014, 2:03 p.m.
Sean gives a 5 minute intro to civilization ("Swivelization"). FUNNY!
May 12, 2014, 1:55 p.m.
Post-reading of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" - re-read of last two chapters, three interviews with author Max Blumenthal on The Real News (.com); music by Aza.
If Music Could Talk - May 11, 2014
May 12, 2014, 7:38 a.m.
Swinging for Mom; May 11, 2014; Set #1
May 12, 2014, 3:52 a.m.
Swinging for Mom; May 11, 2014; Set #2
May 12, 2014, 3:50 a.m.
#323 -- Climate Doom But Not Gloom (Part 2)
May 11, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
Last week, Professor GUY MCPHERSON showed that climate-change disaster is imminent and probably irreversible. The species Homo sapiens will be extinct by 2050, he forecasts. This week he discusses whether any force could rescue us (probably not) and then considers the ethical question, How should we behave in the face of our impending demise?
Then a short comic sketch by GEORGE CARLIN, who--similarly--discusses ways of going out with style.
For both men, it's Doom yes, but Gloom not necessarily.
May 11, 2014, 4:59 p.m.
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 night midnight/Wednesday morning PT.
CKDU 88.1 FM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Friday overnight/Saturday morning 2:30AM AT.
CFRC 101.9 FM, Sunday 11PM ET, Kingston, Ontario.
May 11, 2014, 4:05 p.m.
All acoustic guitar drivin instrumental tracks from various artists such as Grails, John 5, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Micheal Hedges, California Guitar Trio, Explosions In The Sky, Bruce Cockburn, Minutemen, Van Halen, Devotchka, Kaki King, Calexico, Dave Porter, Triumph, Buckethead, Black Sabbath and more.
4 years of The Final Straw Radio
May 11, 2014, 12:57 p.m.
This week's show features 4 conversations. For the fourth anniversary of the Final Straw Radio going on the air, we took it upon ourselves to have conversations with other people doing similar and different anarchist audio projects.
The first non-me voice y'all will hear is that of John Zerzan, the second is Franklin Lopez, the third is a member of the Crimthinc Ex-Worker Podcast collective and the final two are Rydra and Bellamy. Introductions will ensue momentarily. We'll be speaking this hour about the projects they work on, about the medium of radio and podcast, about what folks have learned while doing this work and about how we feel it fits into the anarchist project of the abolition of hierarchies, the state and capital, if not civilization.
http://johnzerzan.net/radio/
http://submedia.tv/
http://www.crimethinc.com/podcast
http://freeradicalradio.tumblr.com/
Check out some other radio/audio projects linked on our show website: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/links-to-check-out/
Keep an eye out for these interviews to be stand-alone features at our website
May 11, 2014, 9:45 a.m.
Will the Pacific ocean change-up called El Nino startle the world? The latest update from NOAA, plus two scientific experts.Ends with backyard farmer Luke Kimmel and his green bag of tips.
May 11, 2014, 4:35 a.m.
Down with a sickness! ANTIVIRAL (2012), thatâs the film in quarantine this week. Writer/Director Brandon Cronenberg (yep, THAT Cronenbergâs son) makes his feature debut with this hyper sterile bio thriller that may just be a cautionary tale. Hereâs your premise⦠A man who smuggles celebrity viruses to ravenous fans gets infected with the same bug that killed a media darling, and becomes locked in a deadly race against time while also ending up being the target of biological collectors. Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee from X-Men) Plays the part of Syd March, an employee of the Lucas Clinic â a company that reaps a tidy profit by infecting willing clients with viruses taken from their favorite celebrities. Earning a little extra cash on the side by using his own body to smuggle out popular microbes, Syd finds himself in mortal danger after he infects himself with a pathogen taken from Hannah Geist, a gorgeous superstar who later dies as a result of her illness. Now, itâs only a matter of time before Syd succumbs to a similarly gruesome fate. When Sydâs shady clients and a rival company discover heâs carrying a bug that could revolutionize the industry, he must fight back with the only weapon he has â his own virulent blood⦠Itâs worth a chat! Listen to see how many red freckles we prescribed to this one. That and our Top 3 âScience gone badâ movies.
The King of Rome - Radio Drama
May 11, 2014, 1:33 a.m.
A pigeon race, as every fancier knows, begins with a basket. But with a hundred different finish lines, each one a backyard loft, when does a pigeon race end? In 1913, Charlie Hudson entered one of his pigeons in a race from Rome to England. On the day of the big race a storm blew in and a thousand birds were swept away and never seen again. Apart from one...
2014 Marijuana & The Adolescent Brain
May 10, 2014, 6:10 p.m.
Laytonville Healthy Start hosted Ralph Cantor in a new series of presentations on the topic of "Marijuana & the Adolescent Brain." Ralph taught at Laytonville High and then a public forum in May 2014. Produced by Dan Roberts Two 59 minute parts
477 - US Inequality Leading to Injustice
May 10, 2014, 5:08 p.m.
News You Need to Know: US Law For Both Its Citizens: Lockheed and Boeing; Matt Taibi on "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap," 5/2/2014, Portsmouth NH; Jim Hightower Commentary: Margaret Mary Vojtko; Outside The Box: Afflict the Comfortable; NH Gazette's Fortnightly Rant: The Passion of Cliven Bundy, 5/2/2014; music.
May 10, 2014, 1:18 p.m.
Writers are inveterate explorers; give them an orange and they will observe it, rip the hide off, and see what's inside. As Willy Lohman said, 'You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!'. Today, the Mind's Eye writers go about preserving both the fruit and the peel in poetry and prose in 'The Inside of Things'.
The US/Israeli Surveillance Machine; Salman Abu Sitta on the Geography of Occupation
May 10, 2014, 11:55 a.m.
First, we review the subject matter of an April 14 Mondoweiss article by Nancy Murray: "Itâs time to reveal the Israeli role in the US surveillance machine." Here is a pertinent excerpt: "As described in the UK Guardian by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, a 2008 document obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden states that 'one of the NSAâs biggest threats is actually from friendly intelligence services, like Israel. There are parameters on what NSA shares with them, but the exchange is so robust, we sometimes share more than we intended.'" For full text of Murray's article, go to mondoweiss.net/2014/04/israeli-surveillance-machine.html.
Following that, today's main presentation is an important lecture by Professor Salman H. Abu-Sitta of the London-based Palestine Land Society, entitled "The Geography of Occupation." Abu Sitta is a widely respected geographer.
Abu-Sitta gives a personal account of how he became a refugee in Palestine in 1948. Using data from his research, Abu-Sitta shows how over 600 Palestinian villages were systematically depopulated by the advancing Israeli forces, leaving many others dismembered by an arbitrary cease-fire line. With maps and demographic statistics, Abu-Sitta shows that, in effect, Zoinist policies were an ethnic cleasing campaign that resulted in a massive transfer of native Palestinians to the countries bordering Israel, where thousands remain within 100 miles from their original communities.
Abu Sitta points out that ethnic cleansing policy was (and remains) a fundamental principle of Zionism: that we want the land, we do not want the people. For video of this presentation, go to ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJrW-BhgMx0
Carwasheros Washing Out Wage Theft
May 10, 2014, 8:56 a.m.
Carwasheros are Washing Out Industry Wage Theft, Demanding Dignity on the Job and Union Representation
Featuring
The Carwasheros
Mayor Bill de Blasio
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman,
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
Carwasheros are the thousands of workers who shampoo, wax, dry, & detail cars and who are among some of the most exploited workers in New York. They frequently work in appalling conditions for low or, in many instances no wages. Too often car wash owners flout labor laws, health and safety regulations and environmental protections in their single minded drive for profits. But Carwash workers throughout New York have come together in the Wash New York campaign and have succeeded in voting to unionize eight workplaces and have won contracts at six of them. They re a part of the trend of low-wage workers organizing throughout the country and breathing life into the cause for workers justice and we'll hear all about their organizing for workers rights.
May 9, 2014, 7:24 p.m.
Sweet soul music; women fronting Afrobeat bands; another visit to the Sahara; garage and psych from Cambodia
Rabbi Weiss explains why we must protest today's holocaust commemoration
May 9, 2014, 1:32 p.m.
This edition of This Week In Palestine starts off with Rabbi Dovid Weiss, Associate Director of Neturei Karta International in New York. Over the phone, he provides a detailed, lucid explanation of why today's holocaust commemoration is misguided and we need to protest it. Go to nkusa.org for more info about Neturei Karta.
The program continues with International Middle East Media Center's weekly update, and concludes with a segment from Electronic Intifada in which Gazan writers are interviewed. Go to imemc.org and/or electronicintifada.net for more.
Ali Abunimah explains what's wrong about Zionism
May 9, 2014, 1:16 p.m.
For many years, Ali Abunimah has been at the center of Electronic Intifada, and is justly renowned for his clear thinking on Israeli matters. On today's program, we hear a demonstration of that clarity. We provide the talk he gave recently at University of Connecticut.
Who's Undermining Ukrainian Democracy: Putin or the West
May 9, 2014, 12:44 p.m.
In the wake of the horrific deaths at the Trade Union Building in the Black Sea Port city of Odessa, and in the lead up to presidential elections later this month, the Global Research News Hour returns to the topic of Ukraine, and what it seems to be transforming into,
University of Winnipeg President Lloyd Axworthy, himself a former Canadian Foreign affairs Minister and widely sought after commentator on international issues expresses his views about the direction Ukrainian democracy is taking and the threats posed by Russian President Putin, as he sees it.
He is joined by fellow UW Administrator Bill Balan who went with him to Ukraine on a fact-finding mission under the auspices of the Washington-based National Democracy Institute.
Rick Rozoff, an anti-war activist, administrator of the STOP NATO website and frequent interview guest, expresses a very different perspective on whether Russia or the West poses the greater threat to the Ukrainian population and the free world.
INTERVIEWS HAIDA ELDER BILL LIGHTBAUM
May 9, 2014, 12:35 p.m.
Haida elder Bill Lightbaum speaks about the impact of residential school on First Nations culture, language and governance. The ongoing encroachment on First Nations Peoples territories by mining and oil companies.