Oppression, Resistance and Revolution: the Stories of Rodney King and Nicky in the Bronx

Smith on his new work inspired by the late Rodney King. The vicious beating of King by four LAPD cops was seen around the world. When the cops were acquitted in April, 1992, LA erupted in the largest urban rebellion in US history. Smith tells King's story from the beating to his death in 2012. “Getting Down to BAsics with the People” continues with an in-depth conversation with Nicky, a woman who suffered abuse and brutality her entire life and then discovered the movement for revolution.

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Like a Pinata

"The thing that’s hardest for me when I’m here, the thing I truly don’t like, is the way I feel like a piñata all the time...." Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/like-a-pinata/

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De Pod 2012-06-04

Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang

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The Myth of Sex Addiction Part One

Does Sex Addiction catch your attention, spark your imagination or stir your libido? Radio Curious visits with Dr. David Ley, author of “The Myth of Sex Addiction.” In the first of a two-part conversation, David Ley argues that “sex addiction” is a fraudulent concept. 

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Books and Reading (Part 2)

The Junto Radical Lending Library is a collectively-run, volunteer based library that is free for the public to use. Geoff Heath is a member of the collective and a volunteer at the library. We talk about the library collection, zines, books (including Black Flags and Windmills by Scott Crow), the upcoming anarchist bookfair and DIY fest, and the importance of books and reading for activists. The Junto library is in the Autonomous Zone, or A-Zone, 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg. There's more information at a-zone.org.

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Books and Reading (Part 1)

We discuss books (Sacre bleu by Christopher Moore and Pulphead by John Jerimiah Sullivan), reading groups, neighbourhood bookstores, libraries and how books and reading create community. Bill Fugler is the owner of the Neighbourhood Bookstore and Cafe at 898 Westminster in Winnipeg.

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August 2012 Episodes from MediaMonarchy.com

Here are the August 2012 audio-only episodes from Media Monarchy... For more, go to http://feeds.feedburner.com/mediamonarchy_reader

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If Music Could Talk - Aug 5, 2012

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Weekly News in Review 7 August 2012

Yet another semiautomatic rifle does its business, this time at a Sikh gurdawara in Wisconsin (we've barely had time to catch our breath since the last one!) ... Additional reports on mass murders and mass murderers ... More shenanigans in Syria ... and Michael Phelps is the most honored Olympian of all time.

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Society is a Prison/Operation Wake Up CKDU 88.1 FM

Gary Kinsman’s talk will focus on the history of queer liberation organizing in Canada, moving from its radical roots in the social and class struggles of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the moderate, integrationist organizations that dominate in our communities today. These mainstream groups focus on formal legal equality and acceptance within neo-liberal capitalism. Kinsman will argue that we need to resist this new paradigm by remembering the radical roots and origins of our struggles. The talk will include stories of resistance to the national security campaigns against queers, including some of the organizing that has taken place in Nova Scotia and Halifax. Kinsman will outline the class, racialized and gendered features of the emergence of the “neo-liberal queer” and will offer suggestions on how radical, activist queer organizing can be re-ignited today. Gary Kinsman is a long-time queer liberation, anti-poverty and anti-capitalist activist. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities, co-author (with Patrizia Gentile) of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, and editor of Whose National Security? And of Sociology for Changing the World. He is currently working on a new book project called The Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer. He lived in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s where he was involved in gay and AIDS activism. He currently teaches sociology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, on the historic territories of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek nation where he is active in the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty and the Palestine Solidarity Working Group.

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Society is a Prison/Operation Wake Up CKDU 88.1FM

Student debt isn't just a personal liability; it is part of a broader system that fundamentally limits our horizons. This presentation names the university as a central institution of a new chapter of capitalist history, one that isn't only interested in exploiting people...'s bodies, but also their minds. Struggles against the corporatization and privatization of universities, in Quebec and elsewhere, aren't just about lower tuition fees - they are a fight for the future itself: the future of our economy, our society, and our minds.

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Salute to Kate Bush

Kate Bush appeared suddenly in 1977 with the worldwide hit "Wuthering Heights," and for the next fifteen years she was one of the ultimate cult stars of British pop with a fantastically devoted fan base. Then she took a long leave and raised a child and came back to the public in 2005. Tonight in honor of Kate's 54th birthday July 30, I listen back to her music over the era and jump with her to the present. So if you don't know her music let this be a bit of introduction, and a reminder of her powerful poetic musicality. This is progressive rock sprinkled with a touch of sadness. This is the music of our time.

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How Progressives Should Approach Dilemmas of 21st Century Politics

Professor Wright argues that capitalism, by its very nature, undermines core progressive values. Politicians face a dilemma if they try to advance these values by making capitalism work better. The talk ends with ways of dealing with the dilemma.

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UN Assembly Sandbags Syria

UN: SAUDI SCRIPT SANDBAGS SYRIA Analysis of the Saudi-sponsored UN General Assembly resolution selectively condemning Syria for using “heavy weapons” against “rebel” jihadi invaders backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, NATO and the United States. Featuring testimony from the delegates of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Cuba, South Africa, and Bolivia. Includes: South Africa's peculiar vote for the resolution -- despite acknowledging its bias -- so that the Assembly would "speak with one voice [sic]"; and The Syrian ambassador's extraordinary claim of death threats against himself and his family promulgated in Saudi and Qatari media. Chumbawamba – “Invasion”

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Reading Reading

"I’ve been reading a book about reading. It’s got my mind running in circles, so already its title is appropriate, Becoming Beside Ourselves. It’s by Brian Rotman, who makes a case that the habits of the alphabet, of reading and writing, have added such a wide collection of skills and rituals to Western culture and so influenced the post-natal development of the brain that we’re too immersed to be aware of how much alphabetic reading and writing are responsible for notions at the foundation of Western thought, like our concept of mind, and logic, and our ability to imagine what Rotman calls a “disembodied monobeing”...." Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/reading-reading'

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The Other Black Music Aug. 5, 2012

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

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At The Show Episode 9: Songs of Love

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Remembering Gore Vidal+"A Queer & Pleasant Danger"+LGBT news

A final history lesson from Gore Vidal; Kate Bornstein's work in "transgress"; Vietnam considers the reality of equality, Jerusalem Pride takes back the street, the U.S. low-prioritizes same-gender partner deportations, a Connecticut case hastens "DOMA's" demise, hate groups get more than chicken feed from poultry politics, and more LGBT news from around the world. => SUBMISSIONS WELCOME! No compen$ation but a worldwide audience: TWOradio@aol.com.

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The Lost Edge of Am

This one slipped through the cracks! Enjoy! JB

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So . . . so Hot.

It's hot . . . very. All my records melted and my banjo skin turned back into a kitty cat and ran down to the river for a swim. No Otto to cool it down, so it's all songs of summer, fire, heat, hell, and the Devil. Enjoy it, slowly. JB

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Banjos On The Beach

Smell that salt air! Hear the seagulls! Eat some taffy! Make a sand castle! Play the Banjo! Enjoy, JB&OK

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The 2012 Clifftop Edition of EoAm

You can almost smell the fiddling from here! It's all revivalist old time music tonight in honor of the Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival, taking place right now in Clifftop, WVA. Enjoy! JB

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A Whitman's Sampler of oldtime, bluegrass, ragtime, jugband, and, of course, coconuts.

Watch out for the gross ones with the weird jelly on the inside! Tonight, we have (among many others): The Seldom Scene, The Leake County Revelers, The Fox Hunt, The Acoustic Burgoo, Georgia Crackers, The Georgia Yellow Hammers, Chris Thile & Michael Daves, John Hartford, and so so many more! ENJOY! JB&OK

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0155

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Cradled In Branches That Stretched Out Their Arms

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.

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~Jeff Hamilton Tribute~ Aug. 5, 2012; Set #1

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~Jeff Hamilton Tribute~ Aug. 5, 2012; Set #2

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The Motherland Influence: August 5, 2012

Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.

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Collapse

"These are some notes I made during a trip to the island of LaGonave in Haiti a few years ago. Birdchirp and overcast. Dogbark chorus at night. So much is the same: the morning air, the way they laugh. Starlight on the limestone road. Madan Kloka is on the hill above me planting something. Her sheets flap in the wind. Jared Diamond describes “Montanans” in Collapse. They resemble “Idahoans”, but are more glamorous. Bigger sky. It’s weird to hear yourself explained to the average reader, thrown up in relief against what’s commonplace... " Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/collapse/

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Atomic Mom on the 67th Anniversary of Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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