If We Do Not Disappear

"This show is 110% … one of the most consistently awesome programs we have come across." The Sunrise Ocean Bender sets sail every Monday morning, 1 – 3 a.m. on WRIR lp 97.3 FM, to find something for your ears, and something for your head … From psych to prog to pop and whatever tributary we can find on the way … and right back around again. There might be a map, but the destination is up for grabs. If it all goes right, we may just get lost. Meet me at the muster station … it might be a long week. mratavist.wordpress.com *_* wrir.org

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Eight Years in Solitary Confinement Part Two

Radio Curious brings you part two of a discussion about incarceration from the prisoner's perspective with Steven Czifra, a 38 year old student at the UC Berkeley, who beginning at age 14, spent 16 years in prison.  Almost half of that time he spent in solitary confinement. In part one Steven Czifra describes the prison experience and in part two he reflects on the criminal justice system and tells how he changed his life.

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Peace Radio for September 22, 2013

This is the September 22 version of Peace Radio. This program features an interview with Dale J. Ross M.D. of Rawhide Health in St. Maries, ID. who is trying to set up a subscription-based method of health care delvery of the small-town in which he lives. This program also includes a discussion of International Peace Day, as well as our regular features: the Human Toll, book and movie reviews and children's programming by Miriam Kent.

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The Motherland Influence: September 22, 2013

African, Latin & Caribbean music.

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AMBIANCE CONGO: September 22, 2013

Two hours of Congolese music.

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Camp Bucca Burn Pits Smoke Exposure and Cancer

Those who risk their lives to protect their fellow Americans deserve to be protected. War is a dangerous activity. Many combatants on both sides have lost their lives or suffered terrible injuries in the Iraq conflict. The danger of being harmed by the enemy is a given in war. However, a very different kind of danger existed at Camp Bucca during the late 2000s when Anthony Thornton was stationed there. Every day a black cloud of noxious smoke swelled over his base. The Camp Bucca burn pits belched out toxic emissions from the combustion of the solid waste produced by approximately 27,000 people. Anthony describes his response to the experience of being in this toxic cloud with compelling directness, "It made you want to run inside to get away from it." Not knowing how dangerous it was to breathe the emission cloud, Anthony persevered in his work and took the waste smoke in stride. As the days at Camp Bucca wreaked a chemical assault upon his body, Mr. Thornton's health deteriorated. First he was diagnosed with bronchitis, then asthma, and then the worst of all blows, brain cancer. He has had one tumor removed and now he is awaiting surgery to remove a second tumor. This is not right. This should never have happened. In 1997, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York State Department of Health (DOH) published, "Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Household Waste in Barrels". This report set forth stark facts regarding the extreme toxicity of open waste burning emissions. Burning mixed solid waste in open fires creates and releases many toxic chemicals, including: dioxins, PCBs, benzene, formaldehyde, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The elements lead, arsenic, chromium, cadmium and mercury are also released in the emissions from these fires. Waste fire ash is contaminated with these metals. In 2009, a statewide ban on open waste burning went into effect in New York State. The private contractors who were doing the burning at Camp Bucca and the US military authorities that employed them should have checked into the emissions of open burning before deciding to dispose of waste in this manner. Anyone who had knowledge of the toxicity of open burning smoke would have been obligated to veto this waste disposal option. Maybe no one at Camp Bucca knew about this, but the people who decided to do the burning should have known. Dioxin is a promoter of carcinogenesis. Initiated cancer cell lines develop more rapidly as a result of dioxin exposure. The other chemicals listed above are initiators of cancer cell lines. Mercury exposure has been associated with increased risk of developing brain cancer. When a person is exposed to such a mixture of carcinogens, cancer risk is increased significantly. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently convened an expert panel to review PCB carcinogenicity. This panel was unanimous in its decision to classify all PCBs as carcinogenic to humans. Respiratory exposure is recognized by the WHO as a major contributor to total exposure. Breathing air contaminated by the emissions from the burn pits imposed significant exposure. Breathing burn pit smoke over the course of a year imposed a large quantity of exposure to human carcinogens. Higher exposure equates to higher cancer risk. The higher ones risk of developing cancer, the more likely it is that one will develop cancer. Anthony Thornton developed cancer. It is highly likely that the smoke from the burn pits caused this. His supervising officers failed to protect him from a well established source of harm. The United States government should compensate Mr. Thornton for the harm that he has suffered. It is the responsibility of the US Department of Defense to make a very diligent effort to warn all the people who were exposed to waste fire smoke on military bases of the disease risk that is imposed by such exposure. It is also the responsibility of the Department of Defense to educate the exposed population on the subject of strategies to reduce all ongoing exposures to dioxins, PCBs and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs). In 2010, the WHO published, "Persistent Organic Pollutants: Impact on Child Health". This landmark public health protection document recommends action to minimize the POPs exposure received by children. All animal fats are contaminated with POPs. Thus, POPs exposure can be minimized by limiting animal fat consumption. The Department of Defense should distribute the WHO POPs report to every person who was exposed to the toxic smoke. I asked Anthony Thornton if the burn pits in Iraq were still burning. He stated that to the best of his knowledge they continue to be used for waste disposal. The Department of Defense must bring an end to the open waste fires on its bases. There must be no more burning of solid waste by the US military and its contractors. Due to the toxic emissions of open waste burning, this is not an acceptable waste disposal option. When will the Department of Defense start protecting military personnel from all avoidable chemical exposure dangers? War is dangerous enough without having to deal with being poisoned by waste burning.

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Why Canadian Students wants to defederate from the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)

In this show we reflect on Sept. 11th and how imperialism has used it to propel war on the people around the Globe. Also, our feature interview focuses on the Defederation Campaign; Canadian Students are organizing to defederate from the Canadian Federation of Student. Through our conversation with Ashleigh Ingle, Ontario Spokesperson, we explore why. Email the Defederate Campaign : timetomobilize@gmail.com

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CA Prisoner Hunger Strike roundup with Ed Mead

This week William talks with Ed Mead, editor of CA Prison Focus magazine to discuss the results of the hunger and work strikes that swept west coast prisons since July, resulting in one prisoner death and at one point including the participation of 30,000 hunger strikers. The strike, the third over two years, was meant to bring attention to and pressure against the state for it's practices of indefinite detention in solitary confinement without recourse, the silencing of prisoner activists, lack of programs for prisoners to prepare for the outside world, the institutionalization of snitch-culture through "debriefing", group punishments and not providing adequate and nutritive food. More info can be found at: http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/ This Thursday in Oakland, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will be holding a press conference following a legal hearing around posing a class action lawsuit around inhumane conditions in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay. Show up if ya can! Details at: http://ccrjustice.org/pelican-bay http://www.prisons.org/ http://www.prisonart.org/ The second half of the show features new metal and punk tracks from Primary Stress, ANCST & more. The playlist for this episode can be found here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/7677

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Broadcast One Hundred Fifty Six

Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music & culture in the spirit of free radio

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Fall Back into Classic Soul & R&B

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Mi'kmaq Warrior Society's Jim Pictou on 'Fracking' in New Brunswick and the Struggle for Mi'kmaq Nationhood

Jim Pictou is a member of the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society, “the homeland security of the Mi’kmaq nation.” Today, the Mi’kmaq, whose ancestral lands span much of the Atlantic region of Canada, are at the center of a developing resistance to hydraulic fracturing – or ‘fracking’ in New Brunswick, the process by which high-pressure water and chemicals are injected into the ground to remove natural gas from shale rock. The resistance to fracking in New Brunswick has seen the development of a broad united front of native and non-native people. This interview was conducted with Jim Pictou on September 20, 2013, by Steve da Silva for the Two Row Times and BASICS Community News Service.

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US Aggression, World Resistance; Wal-Mart and Living Wage; Marissa Alexander

Brian Becker reports back from a recent anti-imperialist conference in Beirut, uniting global opposition to US war on Syria. Plus, a discussion on Wal-Mart worker struggles for labor rights and a living wage. Also, protests demand freedom for Marissa Alexander (includes protest footage).

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African Genocide and Fanonian Dialectics (09.22.2013)

TheAngryindian looks at the obvious anti-African aspects of the modern North American experience and the communal reluctance to accept the reality that Black People are not welcome in the Europocentric paradigm. Also: 4th World Radyo speaks with Afrocentric writer; poet; illustrator; street activist and Franz Fanon political-lit specialist Malichi Daniels about the current state of the African Diaspora and the question of physical as well as cultural sustainability. The dialogue concerning colonialism, xenophobia and self-defeating cultural implosion is particularly deep, leading into many stimulating (and illuminating) African subjects and ideological areas generally not openly aired on a public forum. If you have never had a chance to encounter independent Afro-centred political theory explained in clear, practical terms before, here is your chance. Cop this.

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Cuba Under Siege

For more than 50 years America's unrelenting hostility against the Cuban Revolution has resulted in the development of a siege mentality among island leadership and its citizens. This has affected politics, economics, culture, and nearly all aspects of everyday life. In a vibrant new look at Cuban-American relations, Keith Bolender analyzes, through the voices of the powerful and the common, both the positive and negative of revolutionary society constantly under pressure from the world's greatest powers. Using both historic and current examination, including comparisons with America under siege since 9/11, the work covers the roots of besiegement, the impact it has had on the Cuban people, and how and when the besiegement will end.

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The Urban Bestiary

Interview with Lyanda Lynn Haupt author of "The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild".

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Eat the Airwaves! - 09/21/13

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Broadcast One Hundred Fifty Five

Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio

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Typewriters

Paper Radio is a new series from the producer of One Minute Zine Reviews exploring paper culture in the digital age. Future topics will include: writing letters, postcards, mail art and the postal service, zines and unique small press publications, DIY resources, and more.

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The Robin Hood Tax Campaigners Take to the Streets

Riding with Robin Hood to Take from Wall Street and Distribute to Main Street! with The Robin Hood Tax campaigners who take to the streets Think about it, in this the wealthiest country in the world the newest US data shows more than 48.9 million Americans lived in households struggling against hunger in 2012. But, despite this the House Republican Leadership's Nutrition-Only Farm Bill just cut $40 billion dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition ssistance Program (SNAP), the newest term for food stamps. They also voted to defund Pres. Obama's health care law, setting up another fiscal showdown just before the October 1st federal budget deadline. These draconian cuts are a renewed attack on all safety-net and poverty-alleviation programs. They say "where's the beef, there's no money". But we say we're sitting on a virtual pot of gold that could fund hunger, healthcare, and education. So we'll head to the streets of NY where Robin Hood and his followers say it's time to tax Wall Street to feed Main Street with a Robin Hood Tax.

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The Vibe Collective 13.08.17

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The Vibe Collective 13.08.24

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Colorado Floods & Climate Collapse

The biggest climate-driven extreme weather event since Katrina - Boulder's Carolyn Baker reports on fracking leaks, climate, economic hit. Plus Calif. songwriter Dan Imhoff on new album "Agraria".

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The Vibe Collective 13.08.31

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September 20, 2013

A dedication to my friends and WRIR volunteers Ruthie & James, who are getting married this weekend; women, war and peace in Mali; roots reggae from Jamaica and Cote D'Ivoire; 1970s Afro-funk

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Media Network Plus September 21 2013

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Out of the Woods - Show #181 - 9-20-13

This version of the program is divided into 6 segments so broadcasters who desire to use this content can insert your station info, etc. The segments vary in length, but I try to keep them approximately 30 minutes in most cases. Out of the Woods is an earthy, wires and wood, mostly acoustic program featuring some of the best new and established artists from the worlds of folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriters, alt.country, Americana, classic country, old-time, Celtic, and everything that falls in between. The show is an unpredictable mix flowing like a river between moods, often with an edge or in a melancholy minor key. On occasion, Out of the Woods features interviews and live in-studio performances with national and international touring musicians. Past guests have included artists such as Bela Fleck, Si Kahn, Brown Bird, Dana Robinson, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Bill Bourne, Karl Shiflett, Rachel Bissex, Darryl Purpose, Bow Thayer, Cosy Sheridan and many others. Out of the Woods grew out of Jon 'Chip' Colcord's former acoustic programs, The Song Swap and Music For The Mountain, separate folk and bluegrass programs which aired in New Hampshire during the 1990s. As a child, Colcord grew up a ravenous music fan with an ear for both rock and folk, from Arlo Guthrie to Aerosmith. All of these influences converge on Out of the Woods to bring you a mix which is as much on the edge as it is down home. Folk music with a rock 'n' roll soul

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Classic Media Network September 21 2013

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Switzerland In Sound September 21 2013

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The Happy Station Show September 21, 2013

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Jazz For The Asking PRG 0106

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