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April 8, 2013, 6:43 p.m.
What entertainer Leslie Jordan's mother doesn't want you to know; a Russian "Rainbow Minute" that definitely adds up; Uruguay prepares for marriage equality, a judge won't register a gay Paraguay couple's legal Argentine wedding, Gambia's President calls gays satanic, Nepal's Blue Diamonds are in the rough, civil unions spring from Arizona's "liberal oasis", more LGBT news from around the world; and "Everybody Has To Have A Mother".
April 8, 2013, 4:53 p.m.
Larry Thompson is Onkwehonwe. The ultimate authority that he answers to is his clan mother. On August 11, 2011, acting upon his clan motherâs direction, Larry Thompson entered the GM Powertrain Superfund site and began excavating the Toxic Mound with his backhoe. This incident led to an arrest, a lengthy series of legal encounters and eventually a court appearance for sentencing on a charge of Criminal Mischief. Just prior to sentencing, St. Lawrence County Judge Jerome Richards gave Earth Protection activist Thompson twenty minutes to explain his purpose in breaking the laws of New York State and the United States.
Larry Thompson said that his familyâs gardens were right next to the part of the General Motors (GM) property used as an industrial landfill. He said that the gardens were downhill from the GM property where the dumping was occurring. They swam and fished in Turtle Cove, which was fed by a stream that ran right along the edge of the landfill. He said the family ate the deer and muskrats that drank from these waters.
He stated that there were no signs warning the people of Akwesasne to stay away from the landfill. Mr. Thompson stated that the family and others who lived on Raquette Point were poisoned by the chemicals in the landfill. He referred to this poisoning as genocide. He takes the position that GM, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the New York State Department of Health (DOH) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knew for a lengthy period of time that exposures to toxic chemicals were taking place and did little to warn the people about the exposures that they were receiving and the risks associated with these exposures. He listed cancers, heart disease, skin conditions and reproductive problems as results of being exposed to the chemicals that were disposed of in the GM landfill.
Mr. Thompson went on to note that the EPA Record of Decision allowed GM to leave the unlined, illegal, industrial landfill on the land. The people of Akwesasne refer to the capped industrial landfill as the Toxic Mound. He spoke of the events that immediately led up to the decision to take action for removal of the Toxic Mound. A close friend told Larry that he had recently been diagnosed with cancer and Larryâs sister, Neddie Thompson was found to have kidney cancer. How to address the Toxic Mound genocide was taken up with the clan mother and it was her order that he take action to raise awareness about this threat to the people of Akwesasne.
Larry Thompson was sentenced on April 4, 2013. The charge was disposed of with a conditional discharge. Mr. Thompson was not fined. He was not required to pay any restitution. He was ordered to pay a surcharge which totaled less than 300.00 dollars. An order of protection was issued that forbids Mr. Thompson from entering upon the GM Powertrain Superfund site. The leniency of the sentence demonstrates that Judge Richards recognized the honorable nature of Larry Thompsonâs actions.
On April 6, 2013, at his home on the Akwesasne Reserve Larry Thompson gave me an interview in which he states once more his reasons for doing what he did. His words come from a heart filled with deep goodness. Larry Thompson loves the land, the plants and animals and the people of Akwesasne. He acted in love to raise awareness of the intentional poisoning of all these special parts of his world. He acted in love to protect the land, the waters and the inhabitants of this place from further poisoning.
Larry Thompson told me that he was now planning the next step in his campaign to bring about the removal of the Toxic Mound. His voice was filled with the strength of a man who knows that he is right. I believe that the day will come when the Toxic Mound is removed. This will be a major step in righting the wrongs that have been done by GM, DEC, DOH and EPA. Honor to Larry Thompson. He is a hero of the New American Revolution.
April 8, 2013, 3:58 p.m.
WIKILEAKS RELEASES TWO MILLION CABLES -
FULLY INDEXED AND SEARCHABLE ONLINE
WikiLeaks founder JULIAN ASSANGE electronically joined a Monday press conference at Washington's National Press Club to announce a new online indexed database of 1.7 million State Department Cables that he said were previously obscured from public scrutiny by official tactics of "secrecy and complexity."
Joined by WikiLeaks spokesperson KRISTINN HRAFNSSON, Assange revealed how the new database, called the Public Library of US Diplomacy [ wikileaks.org/plusd ], is already making news worldwide.
[WikiLeaks Press Conference at the National Press Club]
Labi Sifre - "Something Inside (So Strong)"
April 8, 2013, 3:41 p.m.
There were a big, ugly collecton of collaborators involved in the John F. Kennedy assassination. They met in Dallas the night before, and host Paul Kangas names their names.
Heroin was only part of the big picture. Organized crime was long called a perpetrator of the killing, but who were the hidden figures behind the scenes?
Steven Starr: Massive Radiation Contamination of Japan with Radioactive Cesium
April 8, 2013, 3:01 p.m.
Steven Starr says: "Long lived radio-nuclides such as Cesium 137 are something new to us as a species. Although they are invisible to our senses they are millions of times more poisonous than most of the common poisons we are familiar with. They emit radiation, invisible forms of matter and energy, that we might compare to fire. It's not a fire that can be scattered of suffocated because it burns at the atomic level, it comes from the disintegration of single atoms".
Starr gives an update as to what people in Japan are facing now and into the future. He explains how Cesium 137 is created in the Nuclear Power Plant and how it disperses and continues to move. How it enters the body, mainly via contaminated food, and bio-accumulates in humans, plants and animals. He refers to studies of the Chernobyl disaster and lists the organs affected and the diseases caused by Cesium 137. He takes issue with regulations that set unacceptably low exposure standards and ignore the added danger from Cesium 137 that lodges inside the body and creates a long active source of exposure.
April 8, 2013, 2:39 p.m.
Anti-Violence PSA from Aboriginal Press News Service Public Radio (APNSPR)
April 8, 2013, 12:09 p.m.
The recent release of Oliver Stone's film "JFK" has helped awaken the world to the crimes of Richard Nixon and George Bush. Comparisons of various nations as they awaken to the reality of coups is discussed. Marcos assassinated Aquino, the French imprisoned Dreyfus and America murders the brother and mother of Dr Martin Luther King.
Discussion of the Viet Namese Heroin trade and the French connection to Richard Nixon give a new look at history.
Finally the role of the Federal Reserve in the death of John F. Kennedy is raised
April 8, 2013, 11:46 a.m.
In this episode Paul Kangas discusses the recently released film by Oliver Stone "JFK". Reviews by the major and local media, as well as JFK author Mark Lane.
The tramp photos are a major topic of this show
A rare mention of Fidel Castro recently saying he had just recieved contact from JFK regarding open trade, but the assassination cut the avenue short
April 8, 2013, 11:34 a.m.
Interview with Pamela Olson author of "Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland"
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0190
April 8, 2013, 11:22 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
April 8, 2013, 7:37 a.m.
The Top 20 plus an interview with Mark Hamilton from Woodpigeon and Mark Procopio from Elos Arma as well as the !e-ntertainment 411 with Stephen Carlick from exclaim!
"Swing into Spring" April 7, 2013; Set #1
April 8, 2013, 6:45 a.m.
"Swing into Spring" April 7, 2013; Set #2
April 8, 2013, 6:41 a.m.
May I Show You The Wonder Of The Age?
April 8, 2013, 2:44 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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The Motherland Influence: April 7, 2013
April 8, 2013, 12:10 a.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
April 7, 2013, 11:45 p.m.
Two hours of Congolese music!
Episode 9 - Matt Mernagh and the Struggle for Marijuana Rights
April 7, 2013, 11:28 p.m.
In this episode, we share a beer at Pharmacy with Matt Mernagh, a/k/a/ Mernauhuana, the Cannabis Champion of the World. Coach of the Toronto Hash Mob, Mernagh has led the fight for an end to marijuana prohibition since 2002, through a series of legal challenges, public protests and tireless advocacy. We talked about the politics of prohibition, the Canadian anti-prohibition struggle and the global movement to celebrate 4/20.
April 7, 2013, 9:38 p.m.
Remember this old PSA...? "LIFE--What a BEAUTIFUL choice..."
**BRAAAAP!!** Yeah, RIGHT!
At times, life sucks harder than a friggin' turbocharged HOOVER, and when living in this hellish PinkWorld becomes the equivalent of soaking your cortex in battery acid after a good brillo'ing, you start to consider embracing the alternative. Life is damned rough on those who feel TOO MUCH, and sometimes all the bullshit, uncertainty and incomprehensible injustice all build up until you just want to make it stopstopSTOP!!!!! I understand this all too fucking well--because I get to that point as often as some bitches have periods, and it's all I can do not to jump off a goddamned skyscraper and get off this fucking merry-go-round ride. Well, I'm soaking in another one of those plunges, but since I lost my identity, I've found that I can't do a fresh show--WHAT THE FUCK CAN I DO FOR THERAPY??? What the hell...so let's all just pile into the hot tub, stick our heads under the water, and steep in this secondhand hot tub of angst, shall we? This show was originally done during one of those times...and let me tell you, after I worked it all out on the air, it felt like the biggest frickin' cigarette I ever had.
With sounds by Frank Sinatra, the bombastic Richard Kiley and his Fickle Finger of Fate, the Happy Fingers Institute (they have NIGHTMARES about this shit!), Tonio K doing the Funky Western Civilization, the Honeymoon Killers, Norman Bates and the Showerheads, the Polystyrene Jass Band pouring Drano in your veins, Jonathan and Darlene Edwards further shattering the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the Armageddon Experience, crazy xtian preachers who'll make you want to put out your ears with a fucking fork, Tom Lehrer, the Fools, Jonna Gault and her risible "Symphonopop Scene" warbling about "The Pink Life," Screeching Weasel, the Circle Jerks--and take that Quantum Leap with the "Screaming Clocks" sequence from the off-off-OFF-Broadway show "3 GUYS NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN" (Scott Bakula's SECRET SHAME!!!)
This show still kills me--I just wish it could *finish* the lousy fucking job.
April 7, 2013, 7:58 p.m.
Interview with Jack Flanella and music examples
Media Netwok Plus April 6 2013
April 7, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
The Happy Station Show April 6, 2013
April 7, 2013, 7:18 p.m.
Karen Lewis: Fighting For Public Education in Chicago
April 7, 2013, 6:25 p.m.
Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union and alumnus of Northeastern Illinois University, was invited by the Alumni Association to speak about teaching and the fight to make the schools child centered against the corporate assault to run them as profit centers. She speaks about the Chicago Board of Education and Mayor Emanuel and their propaganda juggernaut that sacrifices the city's poorest children to the benefit of investment trusts and real estate developers.
04-07-13 Pastor Rex Cat's Church of Prog #2
April 7, 2013, 6:22 p.m.
"Proving that Prog isn't just for dinasaurs".
Progzilla Podcast's Cliff Pearson
"I agree Cliff. It's also for cats (and other creatures}".
Pastor Rex Cat
Social Class, Downtown Safety and Urban Development
April 7, 2013, 5:38 p.m.
Winnipeg writer Robert Galston talks about social-class bias in urban planning and downtown redevelopment.
At The Show Episode 42: Celebrating Eric Clapton's birthday
April 7, 2013, 5:20 p.m.
April 7, 2013, 4:13 p.m.
4.4.13 Endometrium Cuntplow and Conscious Summary live
April 7, 2013, 3:56 p.m.
DMR 04 04 13 playlist
Secret Chiefs 3 "The 3" (show theme song) from the cd "Book of Horizons" (Web of Mimicry)
Moroccan music from cassette (printed in Arabic)
Iqbal Jogi and Party "Lorau (A Folk Tune Popular in the Desert) from the cd "Music of the Snake Charmers of India"
Moroccan music from cassette (printed in Arabic)
Neung Phak "Sad Chatri live" from the LP "2"
Moroccan music from cassette (printed in Arabic)
Saing Saing Maw "Lam Sai-Taiho" from the cd "Guitars of the Golden Triangle" (Sublime Frequencies)
Behzad "Myth (Mish)" from the cassette "Myth"
Endometrium Cuntplow live set and interview
various tracks from the compilation cd "Jalan Jalan" by Jerry Lloyd (URCK Records)
mixing in behind that:
Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III "Movement I: Rhinoceros Pillar" from the cassette box set "A. Static Mountain"
Pandit Pran Nath "Raga Shudh Sarang" from the cd The Raga Cycle, Palace Theater Paris, 1972"
Conscious Summary live set and interview
Actuary "Fallen Angel: a Lesson in Bad Ideas" from the split double cd set with Peacemaker and HFATTM
unknown artist "Jokvoku 'Tsuki' - Ranjo" from the cd "Music of Japan"
"Start your own local uprising!": an interview about the uprisings in Slovenia
April 7, 2013, 3:16 p.m.
from http://www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw/04/2013/start-your-own-local-uprising-an-interview-about-the-uprisings-in-slovenia
Interview with Ramona, an anarchist activist in Slovenia and member of the Federation for Anarchist Organizing. She speaks about the uprisings which have been happening in that country since November, 2012 in reaction to widespread political corruption and police surveillance. Among other topics, we touch on the conditions leading up to these ongoing uprisings, a brief history of anarchist organizing in Slovenia, and the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair, which will take place in Ljubljana this May.
To keep yourself informed on this situation, go to the FAO website at
http://www.a-federacija.org/english for english content.
The FAO is also a member of the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF). More info on that project can be found at http://i-f-a.org/
We also bring you an anarchist black metal project Hesperian Death Horse, which hails from Croatia, and the band Aylwin from California.
Enjoy.
The full playlist for the show can be found at http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/6580
Check out our website at http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org for
past archives of this show.
April 7, 2013, 2:47 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, warts-n-all, 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. A lot of room to musically explore ...
April 7, 2013, 2:20 p.m.
Wrap-up of the past weeks news from Seattle with Geov Parrish co-editor at Eat the State!