Latest Programs
ENDA encore+Pat & Conan+"Born This Way"+more!
July 15, 2013, 6:15 p.m.
A blog and a book were both "Born This Way"; Conan O'Brien heals Pat Robertson's tummy ache; an effort to pass ENDA returns to the U.S. Congress; a Colombian judge says yes to a gay couple's marriage proposal, Kolkata Pride walkers question normalcy, the Tel Aviv LGBT Center massacre is redefined as a hate crime, and more global LGBT news.
Trayvon Travesty; Train Terror
July 15, 2013, 5:35 p.m.
Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report is today's featured guest. But first, Phil Conlon comments on the destruction of a small Quebec town by an undermanned locomotive. "Railways just love every new computer system," everything capital intensive, everything that involves less and less workers until the day they can have no more workers.
The train was on a 5 MPH speed restriction - they couldn't trust the track. When the infrastructure fails, and there's no workers, there's no fallback.
Glen Ford returns to the program to discuss the Trayvon Martin affair. This is an important moment in history. "It is well known the that the U.S. is a surveilliance state and an incarceration state." Black people have always known this. Once a white person can convince a jury that they were acting "reasonably," then the case against them disappears.
Zimmerman's profiling and stalking of Trayvon Martin was "reasonable conduct" to police. The onus is on the profiled one, and not the white vigilante. In the trial, the police acted as defense witnesses, rather than prosecution. They recognized a kindred spirit.
In a jury of one's peers, how is it that six white women ended up as a jury of "peers?" Ford explains the decline of Affirmative Action and the rise of a racist subjectivity.
July 15, 2013, 12:53 p.m.
"The Expendables"
How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants
Are Getting Crushed
Inside the new and exploitative
temporary economy
Written by Michael Grabell, for propublica
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0204
July 15, 2013, 11:55 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
July 15, 2013, 9:51 a.m.
Monroe Park is among Richmond's most historic public spaces. It's also 'home' to many of the city's homeless. Plans to renovate the park -- and to close it to the public while those renovations are undertaken -- continue to face resistance from some of Richmond's homeless advocates while meeting with support from others.
David Noble: A Wrench in the Gears
July 15, 2013, 9:23 a.m.
Jonathon Bullick discusses his new documentary on David Noble, a world-class critic of automation and the processes of technological change. Noble is remembered for his outsized contribution to various movements, including Palestine solidarity.
He took nothing for granted: the "benefits" of corporate-designed automation, the "inevitability" of digital distance education, the "impossibility" of challenging the Israel lobby and the U.S. military.
Bullick's documentary shows what it means to be an uncompromising activist at a time when the powerful are clamping down on every aspect of human life.
The Motherland Influence: July 14, 2013
July 15, 2013, 1:44 a.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Lots of reggae today!
July 15, 2013, 1:21 a.m.
Two hours of Congolese popular music.
July 14, 2013, 11:47 p.m.
Robert Andrew Scott brings you experimental, psychedelic and folk music of the late-60s; post-punk of the late-70s / early-80s; synth-based pop / noise / punk; 20th / 21st century composition; dreamy / shoegazing pop; and exotic world music styles.
439 - Economic Problems & Solutions
July 14, 2013, 8:51 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Obamas Coup For Democracy; Between The Lines Underreported News; BTL interview: Super Rich Tax Avoidance; BTL interview: Sustainable Economic Models; BTL interview: Parents' Group Confronts Climate Change; Outside The Box: Gun Control; music.
July 14, 2013, 6:11 p.m.
Each week, Marc and Kim throw in their two cents for what's new in theaters, what's new on DVD, and TV on DVD releases. This week: Only God Forgives, 42, Evil Dead, Regular Show, Shoah, and more
July 14, 2013, 6:11 p.m.
July 14, 2013, 3:44 p.m.
We've got an extra special guest host for this afternoon's Songs From The Big Hair!
Current owner/operator of Snake Oil Recording and former singer/guitarist of Richmond's own beloved Rocket 69, Daneil "Dan-O" Deckelman is taking over studio 1 at WRIR world headquarters to play his favorite 80s metal, punk, post punk, power pop, etc....!
A (proxy) conversation with a Turkish Anarchist & Metal
July 14, 2013, 3:39 p.m.
This week's episode of the final straw features our light-handed curation of another project's work. We bring y'all an english language interview with members of a Karakeok Autonome (http://www.karakok.org/), a Swiss-Turkish anarchist grouping related to the International of Anarchist Federations. The interview was conducted, translated and rerecorded by our comrades at Anarchistisches Radio Berlin. Their work can be found in multiple european languages at http://aradio.blogsport.de . Check them out.
The latter half of the show is metal and crust. This episode features a track from the new Damascus, Syria-based thrash project called Anarchadia, as well as new tracks from SF's Deafheaven, LA's Solus and Aberdeen's Fifteen Dead.
Cheers!
Playlist is available <a href="http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/7219">here</a>.
Find archives of this show at thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org for download or streaming. Also, contact us for content ideas or critiques at thefinalstrawradio(a)riseup(dot)net
Broadcast One Hundred Twenty Nine
July 14, 2013, 3:19 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform celebration & exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, 8 tracks, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio
July 14, 2013, 2:46 p.m.
DMR 07 11 13 playlist
Secret Chiefs 3 "The 4 (The Great Israqi Sun)"(show theme song) from the cd "Book of Horizons" (Web of Mimicry)
Arrington de Dionyso "Nama Bersembunyi" from the album "Malaikat dan Singa"
Tetuan "Rangoon" from the album "Qayin" from www.tetuan.bandcamp.com
Arrington de Dionyso "Tak Terbatas""Cahaya Bahaya""Tenga Halusinasi" from the album "Malaikat dan Singa"
Lichens "Kopernik Tripnote" from the album "LÃtió Fólk"
ì´ìê°, ê¹ëì (Lee Sang Kang) "(Jungjungmori)" from the album "êµì
-ëê¸ì°ì¡° ì 7ì§ (bamboo flute sanjo"
Josh Lay "Shroud of Ice and Bird Feathers" from the cd "This is a Tourniqet of the Light, the Black Obituary" (split with Crown of Bone, on Obfuscated Records)
Tarnminehead live in studio (first set, guest Guion Hughes)
Fursaxa "Karma""Poppy Opera" from the cd "Lepidoptera"
Tarnminehead live in studio (second set Blake T. Honeytwin) and interview
Rangda "Plain of Jars" from the cd "False Flag" (Sir Richard Bishop/Ben Chasny/Chris Corsano)
Lichens "Aenemonae" from the album "LÃtió Fólk"
Fursaxa "Russian Snow Queen" "Pyracantha" from the cd "Lepidoptera"
Third Ear Band "Water" from the album "Third Ear Band (aka "Elements", 1970)" pound for pound, the best band of all time--the Ustad
Fursaxa "Renounuos" from the album "Amulet"
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz "Nachmiel" "Yaasriel" "Muriel""Aupiel" from the album "Abraxas: Book of Angels, vol. 19" (series of John Zorn compositions)
Bill Horist "Insects of the Divisible Insomnia" from the album "Guitar Weirdo (Solo Prepared Guitar Improvisations 2000-2012)" from CD Baby
Wei Zhongle "Hidden Kingdom" "Dog Star" from the album "Raised High/Brought Low" from weizhongle.bandcamp.com
Rangda "Waldorf Hysteria""Bull Lore" from the cd "False Flag"
Ensemble Pearl "Eat Happy" from the cd "Ensemble Pearl" (Boris/Sunn O)))/Ghost members)
Midsummers 2013 (Or How Long Till The Medicine Takes)
July 14, 2013, 2:10 p.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Jazz History With The Sone of Haberdasher
July 14, 2013, 1:48 p.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
July 14, 2013, 1:37 p.m.
independent music for independent thinkers
The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific NW
July 14, 2013, 12:46 p.m.
Interview with Sandi Doughton, Science Writer at the Seattle Times about her book "Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest".
July 14, 2013, 12:32 p.m.
Rev. Susie the Floozie's Gonna BOOT Ya!
July 14, 2013, 12:18 p.m.
Are YOU a masochist?
Well, if you are, yer gonna be happy as a pig in shit, because this one stings like a razor-sharp styptic pencil right in the eye while your ears are getting reamed out with a bastard file. I'm not going to speak the name of the song that's going to be your next earworm--no siree "Bob", I am going to show you some very tender mercy here. But just look at the playlist I used for this show here and be very, very afraid of what's going to transpire. Hahahaha!!! YES! You will shit in your britches, bitches...!
Crispin Glover! The Fulham Furies! The Humans featuring Robert Fripp! The White Animals! Mrs. Elva Miller! Pure Hell! The Del Rubio Triplets! The Residents! Paula Yates! Gypsy Boots! Destroy All Monsters! The Proxies! Some Dutch remix! The 4 Sknns! Megadeth! The Legendary TigerMan with Maria de Medieros! The Burbank Philharmonic! And the SHITS just KEEP ON COMIN'!!!!
July 14, 2013, 12:15 p.m.
State of climate science notes (Richard Alley); feature on rising seas - Francesca Rheannon of "Writer's Voice" interviews Brian Fagan, author of "The Attacking Ocean." Plus Alison Martin from the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy on endangered farm animals.
Egypt's Second Revolution
July 14, 2013, 10:32 a.m.
"Street Action" is the Kernel of Revolution"
Egypt's Second Revolution
with
Atef Said, Egyptian human rights lawyer and scholar, author of two books about torture in Egypt, currently working on his dissertation about the Egyptian revolution..
and
Sherief Gaber, Mosireen Independent Media Collective in Cairo
What is the Egyptian revolution if not "street action", the ability to express your-self and be heard said Bassem Youssef a popular Egyptian satirist on his popular show "Al Bernameg," of the growth of the grass-roots Tamarrod movement. Just as with the 2011 revolution, this "second revolution" began with youth activists, and now has spread like wildfire through the population. The Egyptian revolution is far from over and we'll go on the ground live to Egypt to ferret out the forces that comprise the Tamarrod movement, and examine the civil stratification in the wake of deposed present Morsi failure in leading Egypt on a democratic path, parse out the role historically & currently of the Egyptian military and determine the promise of a revolution that is far from over.
Nuclear weapons are still a problem
July 13, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
We like to think that the danger of nuclear war has receded, but nuclear weapons are still a problem. Doug interviews Ray Acheson, from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, about her Critical Will project report.
No CA BSA BS, the Union Cup in Bristol, more!
July 13, 2013, 6:11 p.m.
Europe's gay ruggers take the pitch in Bristol; a California Senator vows to defeat Boy Scout bias; Nigeria lawmakers punish LGBT people and their advocates with 10 years
in prison, but the first French gay couple makes it legal, the push for marriage equality stalls in Australia and the U.S. state of Illinois, and rights marches make history in Croatia and the Ukraine.
July 13, 2013, 12:34 p.m.
JULY 10, 2013 - EXPERTS SPEAK OUT - PART 3
July 13, 2013, 7:59 a.m.
This is part 3 of the audio version of the documentary "9/11 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out". The science revealed here about the collapse of the WTCs 1,2 and 7 confirms that the towers fell through controlled demolition and contradicts what the US government has told us about how the towers came down.
Media Network Plus July 13 2013
July 13, 2013, 12:36 a.m.
Rhett Butler on the Palm Oil Industry
July 13, 2013, 12:07 a.m.
The global expansion of the palm oil industry is one of the largest upheavals in modern agricultural history â and one that many Americans know nothing about. And yet palm oil is now everywhere in this country â in our food, our cosmetics and someday soon maybe even in our gas tanks.
This week on Sea Change Radio, we learn about the palm oil explosion over the past two decades from Rhett A. Butler, the founder of the popular environmental news website, Mongabay. Butler talks with host Alex Wise about the social, economic and environmental impact of this rapidly expanding crop in the tropical countries where itâs grown â and what measures are being taken to mitigate the damage that a monoculture like palm oil can inflict.