Latest Programs
Benny Golson Tribute; Sept. 15, 2013; Set #2
Sept. 16, 2013, 9:26 a.m.
Sept. 16, 2013, 6:18 a.m.
Anthony Enman and Brian Cleveland countdown the Top 20 of the week from earshot-online.com. That plus an interview Ben Fox from Dinosaur Bones and your !entertainment 411 from Exclaim Senior Editor, Stephen Carlick.
Sept. 16, 2013, 4:26 a.m.
"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 â 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.
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Sept. 16, 2013, 3:28 a.m.
More music and soundbites inspired by Syria War Triggers. Will do more shows musically addressing this topic if necessary. Hopefully not.
Sept. 16, 2013, 12:53 a.m.
Sept. 15, 2013, 11:59 p.m.
Music woven with commentary by some of those who realize that we are a PART OF AND NOT APART FROM this Earth. Reality and realities, relatives and what is relative, ways of acquiring our sustenance and the repercussions that they entail, freedom and the free are not one in the same. For informing and entertaining, for questioning and reflecting, to remind and to remember.
Sept. 15, 2013, 11:30 p.m.
447 - Surveillance in US; War on Syria
Sept. 15, 2013, 11:14 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Sickening Exceptionalism; The Rise of the Total Surveillance State; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; NH Gazette Fortnightly Rant: Damned If You Do..., 9/6/2013; BTL interview: US Intervention in Syria; Outside The Box: Crazy; music.
Sept. 15, 2013, 9:07 p.m.
9/4/13 - Va Health Insurance Marketplace (Part 2 of 2)
Sept. 15, 2013, 8:01 p.m.
Health law attorney Jill Hanken at the Virginia Poverty Law Center explains the new health insurance marketplace, how to apply, what plans are available and the tax credits which make it affordable. And during this weekâs âNews You Can Use,â youâll find out why Medicaid expansion is a no lose proposition for Virginia.
The Motherland Influence Sept. 15, 2013
Sept. 15, 2013, 7:56 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
8/28/13 - Va Health Insurance Marketplace (Part 1 of 2)
Sept. 15, 2013, 7:52 p.m.
Health law attorney Jill Hanken at the Virginia Poverty Law Center explains the new health insurance marketplace, how to apply, what plans are available and the tax credits which make it affordable. And during this weekâs âNews You Can Use,â youâll learn about the new remedy that tenants in Virginia have against landlords who illegally evict them.
The Other Black Music Sept. 15, 2013
Sept. 15, 2013, 7:36 p.m.
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
7/24/13 - Virginia Farmworkers
Sept. 15, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Christianne Queiroz, Director of the Virginia Farm Workers Program, describes the lives farmworkers in Virginia and the laws which protect, and sometimes fail to protect them. And during this weekâs âNews You Can Use,â weâll tell you why the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict really is rooted in the problem of segregated neighborhoods.
Sept. 15, 2013, 5:55 p.m.
A Celebration of the Cannabis harvest, you have to celebrate what you can in times such as these, right? With the recent legalization of said plant in Colorado and Washington and the change of tune by the DOJ â sorta â it seemed like an appropriate time to share a few of the many pot tunes that I have collected over the years. So a collage with newz pieces, comedy spots and music in honor of the occasion. All for fun and nothing about medical uses or the continuing war on drugs.
Sept. 15, 2013, 3:52 p.m.
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, unique small press publications, DIY resources, and more.
Marcellus EF! fights the frack & Jerry Koch fights the SGJ (September 15, 2013)
Sept. 15, 2013, 3:47 p.m.
The Final Straw this week features two conversations.
In the first interview, William discusses the Marcellus bioregion with Oz from Marcellus Earth First!, the dangers posed by fracking that shale and what resistance has looked like in PA. Here they also announce the beginning of a forest defense campaign with a tree sit in Loyalsock State Forest as an expansion of their struggle against the Anadarko's attempts to expand fracking. http://marcellusearthfirst.org/
In the second conversation, Bursts talks to Randall of the Support Jerry Committee about the history of Grand Juries, Jerry's legal team's recently filed appeal to his imprisonment, and broader strategies to resisting GJ's. Randall also announces a new website for sharing resources and research on the repression of Anarchists in the U.S., found at anarchistwitchhunt.org. Info about Jerry's case can be found at jerryresists.net.
The playlist for this episode can be found here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/7635
Archives of this series can be found at http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org
Concerns, critiques, comments and suggestions can be sent to: thefinalstrawradio( at)riseup( dot)net
Broadcast One Hundred Fifty Four
Sept. 15, 2013, 3:19 p.m.
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
Sept. 15, 2013, 2:52 p.m.
Vinyl from: The 5 Steps, Lou Josie, Bobby Randolph, Lazy Eggs,The Xtreems, Blind Hog, Kent and the Candidates, Hackamore Brick, The Wildcats, Bohemian Vendetta, and more as broadcast via 5110kc shortwave 8/31/13
Live interview with Art Professor of Visual Art John Halaka
Sept. 15, 2013, 2:11 p.m.
The program begins with the most recent weekly audio update from IMEMC. The main feature is our host's live interview with activist-artist John Halaka, Professor of Visual Art at U San Diego. (He is currently in Cleveland, Ohio.) Halaka works and teaches in the fields of Painting, Drawing, and Documentary Filmmaking. He says his creative work serves as a vehicle for meditation on personal, cultural and political concerns.
Broadcast One Hundred Fifty Three
Sept. 15, 2013, 1:50 p.m.
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
Sept. 15, 2013, 12:58 p.m.
Saul Landau was an internationally known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker who worked for forty years on social, political, and human rights issues. Landau produced over forty films, and won several awards, including an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang" and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, an investigation into the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt. Landau wrote fourteen books his latest book puplished a month before his passing, "Stark in the Bronx" a murder mystery.
He won the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, the First Amendment Award, and the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award. In 2008, the Chilean government presented him with the Bernardo O'Higgins Award for his human rights work, and the Cuban government gave him the "Amistad" award in 2013.
Gore Vidal once said, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from."
FROM: Saul Landau dot com
Cindy Sheehan was in Cuba this past week and was not able
to record a new show, so we are honored to honor
Saul by replaying the interview with him about his film:
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
Media Network Plus September 14 2013
Sept. 15, 2013, 6:29 a.m.
Sept. 14, 2013, 10:51 p.m.
Interviews today with DJ Hobbbz and
from Visual Demand
Sept. 14, 2013, 8:34 p.m.
More music and soundbites inspired by Syria War Triggers. Will do more shows musically addressing this topic if necessary. Hopefully not.
Obama's Syria About Face, NSA-FISA Corruption, Church Bombing Anniversary
Sept. 14, 2013, 7:47 p.m.
Analyzing the latest on Syria, plus recent NSA spying allegations and the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham church bombing that changed the Civil Rights Movement.
Sept. 14, 2013, 7:41 p.m.
Interview with Ari Kohn, Founder and President of the Post-Prison Education Program recorded September 14, 2013 during KEXP Fall Fund Drive.
Four Arrested in NY Walmart Action in OurWalmart Nationwide Protests
Sept. 14, 2013, 5:03 p.m.
Four Arrested in NY Walmart Action in OurWalmart Nationwide Protests
with
The workers during the protest!
Walmart workers visited the office of Board of Directors' member Chris Williams to deliver a petition signed by over 200,000 people demanding Walmart commit to provide full-time work with a minimum salary of $25,000, reinstate workers who were fired for striking and agree to stop all retaliation against workers calling for better jobs. Four were arrested when Williams failed to meet with them concerning their demands. Nationwide, one hundred Walmart workers and community members were arrested in 11 cities
OurWalmart, is a union-backed members group, that has filed more than 100 unfair labor practice charges against Walmart with the National Labor Relations Board, including 20 illegal terminations and 80 disciplinary actions.
Sept. 14, 2013, 4:12 p.m.
This is a new lo-tech series from the producer of One Minute Zine Reviews exploring paper culture in the digital age. Future topics will include: letters, postcards, mail art and the postal service, small press publications, DIY resources, and more.
Sept. 14, 2013, 12:35 p.m.
Guest co-host Geoff Bennett Speer of the bands The Eastern Question and BALKANIZE! selects and discusses recordings from Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and Eastern Europe