Latest Programs
July 22, 2013, 7:26 p.m.
A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives looks at the effect of violence against women on womenâs equality. Author Kate McInturff says it has a very significant impact. Kate McInturff is a research associate with the CCPA in Ottawa.
The Motherland Influence July 21, 2013
July 22, 2013, 6:48 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin and Caribbean music.
July 22, 2013, 6 p.m.
Race sounds from 805 Crit weeekend, Ontario GP and Ride it Like You Stole It Criterium. Robert reviews SPY Happy Lens and Kenda Karma tires
If Music Could Talk - July 21, 2013
July 22, 2013, 5:46 p.m.
Baldwin, Mercury, Wilde & Parker+global LGBT news
July 22, 2013, 5:07 p.m.
A gay countertenor sings the praises of "Oscar", James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" get a timely reissue, a "Rainbow Minute" remembers Jim and Freddie, and a political poet schools "The Straight Folks"; Queen Elizabeth crowns marriage equality, Mexico has its first out mayor, Okinawa dots its "i" in pink, and more global LGBT news.
July 22, 2013, 4:09 p.m.
In the July 2013 Taxcast: We analyse the OECDâs Action Plan it says is going to tackle corporate tax avoidance. And who needs the OECD, the G8 or the G20 anyway? The Taxcast looks at working models governments could implement NOW without any more summits: Japan introduced itâs Tax Haven Counter Measure Law in the 1970s and Mexico has a tax haven black list and the Dictamen Fiscal rule to help it hold multinational corporations to account.
July 22, 2013, 2 p.m.
Getting to my backlog of
unpublished shows;
this is a good listen.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0205
July 22, 2013, 11:05 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
"Sophisticated Ladies & All That Jazz"; July 21, 2013; Set #1
July 22, 2013, 6:11 a.m.
"Sophisticated Ladies & All That Jazz"; July 21, 2013; Set #2
July 22, 2013, 6:06 a.m.
I've Got Something Growing Through Me
July 22, 2013, 3:06 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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#281 -- M. Parenti vs God & His Demons, Part 2 (R)
July 21, 2013, 10:04 p.m.
Political scientist Michael Parenti discusses his new book, God and His Demons--a survey of the woes caused in the name of, and by, Organized Religion.
Part 2, he discusses the alliance of the Church, the nation-state, and economic power; ... FEMA's enlisting the clergy to preach obedience to authority; ... and the Christian Right's takeover of the Air Force Academy. He praises 2 16th-century Christians--Montaigne and Giordano Bruno. And explains why, despite everything, he's not an atheist.
The Happy Station Show July 21, 2013
July 21, 2013, 9:43 p.m.
Labour in the Time of Cholera and Cancer
July 21, 2013, 9:26 p.m.
A recent article examines why deaths from infectious diseases have dropped so dramatically. It says itâs less to do with medicine and more to do with better living and working conditions for workers. Ian Hudson co-wrote the article with Robert Chernomas. He teaches economics at the University of Winnipeg and is co-author of To Live and Die in America.
Helping seniors who live in South Granville food desert
July 21, 2013, 8:40 p.m.
South Granville street in Vancouver has lost almost all its grocery stores, as commercial rents skyrocket. This has left seniors without good food options. The West Side Mobile Market aims to fill the gap. ZsuZsi Fodor is the coordinator of the West Side Food Collaborative.
Sensible BC working towards referendum vote on marijuana
July 21, 2013, 8:03 p.m.
Elections BC has just approved the language of a petition to introduce the Sensible Policy Act into the legislature. Dana Larsen says the biggest hurdle is getting enough signatures on the petition as BCâs referendum regulations require 10% of voters in each riding to sign up. Dana Larsen is director of Sensible BC.
Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
July 21, 2013, 7:55 p.m.
Few would deny that capitalism is a broken system and in desperate need of change. Yet to imagine change, we need to understand how the system works. A new book by Geoff Mann attempts to explain how capitalism is actually working, rather than how it should work. Geoff Mann teaches political economy and economic geography at Simon Fraser University.
The Vinyl Underground July 10 - 2013
July 21, 2013, 7:09 p.m.
Freeform genre hoping fun with music - and a special on NoMeansNo, what could go wrong?
July 21, 2013, 4:36 p.m.
This week's show features a conversation with one of the editors of the recently released journal of Nihilist Anarchism called Attentat, available from Little Black Cart.
We explore some of the history of the term nihilism and some of the philosophical underpinnings to it, as well as what intellectual nihilism today and active nihilism today look like around the world and in the U.S. in particular. The editor speaks about what they think nihilism can bring to anarchism and vice-versa.
More info on the journal can be found at http://pistolsdrawn.org .
This week's playlist can be found here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/7260
This show will stream at ashevillefm.org from 3AM EST, July 22, 2013 through July 28. It will air on kxcf and kwtf in the north bay on Monday, July 22nd. Archives of this series can be found at our website thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org and you can reach us at thefinalstrawradio(at)riseup(dot)net if you care to.
July 21, 2013, 4:21 p.m.
Wrap-up of the past weeks news with Geov Parrish of Eat the State!
Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution
July 21, 2013, 3:29 p.m.
Interview with Doug Fine author of "Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution".
Julija Sukys on the Canada Writes Prize for Creative Nonfiction
July 21, 2013, 2:57 p.m.
Julija Å ukys was one of the readers for the Creative Nonfiction Prize sponsored by CBC's Canada Writes. She spoke to CKUT about the process of deciding the finalists, and her own experience as a writer of creative nonfiction.
Broadcast One Hundred Thirty Two
July 21, 2013, 2:54 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. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio.
July 21, 2013, 1:41 p.m.
Killer heat wave across the Northern Hemisphere (plus record winter day in Australia). From Japan to N.A. to UK deadly heat. Climate change starts now. Appeal by Alex Smith
Broadcast One Hundred Thirty One
July 21, 2013, 1:29 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 21, 2013, 12:15 p.m.
July 21, 2013, 11:51 a.m.
Cindy Sheehan, host of Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox and peace-cyclist, leads a community conference call about building a sustainable, anti-partisan, peace movement.
Apoyo a Juan Ariza (sobreviviente de Hampstead) para su Solicitud de Residencia Permanente en Canadá
July 21, 2013, 11:14 a.m.
Esta es la grabaciòn de una entrevista a Juan Ariza llevada a cabo por Eduardo Huesca el dia 3 de junio de 2013. Juan Ariza llegó a Canadá a través del programa de trabajadores temporales extranjeros "poco calificados", el 3 de febrero de 2012. El 6 de febrero de 2012 en Hampstead Ontario, que se encuentra lozalizado entre Kitchener y Stratford, Juan Ariza junto con otros 12 trabajadores peruanos viajaba en una camioneta de trabajo camino a casa después de haber estado trabajando en una granja de pollos, durante este viaje la camioneta chocó contra un camión de transporte. Diez de los trabajadores peruanos y el conductor del camión de transporte murieron; Javier Aldo Medina, Juan Ariza y un tercer hombre llamado Edgar Sulla-Puma (quien ha estado en coma en el hospital de Hamilton desde el accidente) fueron los únicos sobrevivientes del accidente. Juan Ariza está tratando de encontrar un camino para conseguir la ciudadanÃa en Canadá. Usted puede apoyar su lucha para permanecer en Canadá, firmando la solicitud en lÃnea en http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-allow-hampstead-survivor-juan-ariza-s-application-for-permanent-residency-in-canada?utm_campaign=six_hundred_signatures&utm_medium=email&utm_source=guides
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English translation of title and description:
Support Hampstead Survivor Juan Ariza's Application for Permanent Residency in Canada
This is a recording of an interview with Juan Ariza conducted by Eduardo Huesca on June 3rd, 2013.
Juan Ariza came to Canada under a low-skilled temporary foreign worker program on February 3rd, 2012. On February 6th, 2012 in Hampstead Ontario, which is between Kitchener and Stratford, Juan Ariza and 12 other Peruvian workers were driving in a work van home after working on a chicken farm, and then collided with a transport truck. Ten of the Peruvian workers and the transport truck driver died; Javier Aldo Medina, Juan Ariza and a third man Edgar Sulla-Puma (who has been in a coma in Hamilton since the accident) are the sole survivors of the accident. Juan Ariza is attempting to find a pathway to citizenship in Canada, you can support his struggle to stay by signing his petition online at: http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/jason-kenney-minister-of-citizenship-immigration-allow-hampstead-survivor-juan-ariza-s-application-for-permanent-residency-in-canada?utm_campaign=six_hundred_signatures&utm_medium=email&utm_source=guides
#657 - Rounding Up The Opposition
July 21, 2013, 10:30 a.m.
This week, a two part look at the practice of Genetic Engineering as carried out by Monsanto. We begin with a radio adaptation of 2009 film "David versus Monsanto". Then it's an in depth look at what the Wikipedia thought police describe as a "virtually ideal herbicide": Monsanto's glyphosate. Senior Research Scientist Stephanie Seneff, publisher of a recent papers suggesting that glyphosate (roundup) may be implicated in many of the diseases which are now increasing in prevalence in USA.
July 21, 2013, 7:15 a.m.
It's the most METAL show Songs From The Big Hair has ever seen!!!!! We'll be playing verything from Raven to Maiden, as long as it rocks.
Hold onto your faces kids, becuase they're about to get melted off.