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Linda McQuaig: How Canada's top 1% succeeded in winning the class war
July 17, 2012, 11:47 a.m.
Linda McQuaig is a political journalist and author specializing in the threats to the integrity of Canada's social programs and principles of equality as well as the increasing power of the country's elite business establishment. She is the author of eleven books including Shooting the Hippo (1995), It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet (2004) and The Trouble with Billionaires (2010). She spoke at the Social Planning Council's Annual General Meeting on June 5, 2012 and CKUW News Director Michael Welch managed to speak with the award-winning Toronto Star columnist while she was in Winnipeg.
Part 2: How Canada's top 1% succeeded in winning the class war despite the prevalence of progressive attitudes including in Alberta.
Linda McQuaig:The real economic impacts of austerity
July 17, 2012, 11:42 a.m.
Linda McQuaig is a political journalist and author specializing in the threats to the integrity of Canada's social programs and principles of equality as well as the increasing power of the country's elite business establishment. She is the author of eleven books including Shooting the Hippo (1995), It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet (2004) and The Trouble with Billionaires (2010). She spoke at the Social Planning Council's Annual General Meeting on June 5, 2012 and CKUW News Director Michael Welch managed to speak with the award-winning Toronto Star columnist while she was in Winnipeg
Part 1: The real economic impacts of austerity, and the virtues of fair and progessive taxes, including the Tobbin tax.
July 17, 2012, 11:39 a.m.
Paramount Masters State Critierum Championships and sounds from the race. Watsonville results from Nor Cal.
4th World Radyo - The Discriminating Bullet (FWR-07.16.2012)
July 17, 2012, 10:43 a.m.
With HIV infection rates in the African Diaspora and the Indigenous World at their highest rates ever, TheAngryindian asks: 'Where are the conspiracy theorists when we really need them'?
#601 - The Psychopathology of Money
July 17, 2012, 5:18 a.m.
This week we continue examining money, with radio adaptations of 2 films. In our first hour, Adam Curtis' 25 Million Pounds narrates the rise and fall of financial fraudster, Nick Leeson. In our second hour, The Economics of Happiness which recommends relocalization as the urgent solution to economic globalization.
July 17, 2012, 4:02 a.m.
On the Monday, July 9, 2012, Climate Justice Forum radio program, Wild Idaho Rising Tide (http://wildidahorisingtide.org/) activists heartily welcome Leah Marsters, a clean energy associate with Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG), who championed with a half-dozen conservation organizations the first statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing (âfrackingâ) by natural gas companies. Leah discusses the background and evolution of this successful campaign and the influence of the groundbreaking Vermont law on fracking restrictions in other jurisdictions. The show, originally broadcast between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online at KRFP Radio Free Moscow (http://radiofreemoscow.org/), also covers regional and continent-wide climate activism news.
July 17, 2012, 3:39 a.m.
Took a look at all the bands playing Schneckapalooza 2012 - pretty much rocked, though I ran out of time towards the end, so I have exceptionally high expectations for the show. Check it out!
July 17, 2012, 12:13 a.m.
July 16, 2012, 11:56 p.m.
"Alan Turing was a British mathematician and logician. In the first half of the 20th century he articulated a conceptual framework surrounding so-called âmechanical thinking devicesâ. His ideas were entirely theoretical. Because Alan Turing lived before the first electronic computers were actually built. All the same, many of his ideas remain at the foundation of theories of computation and the field of computer science...."
Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/turing-test/
# 245 Possible Next PM Of Australia
July 16, 2012, 8:51 p.m.
The opposition leader and his ilk satirized, parodied, commented and sung about
July 16, 2012, 6:59 p.m.
Pirate Radio Song
Station ID
Palestine Today for July 16
War Update:Tank trucks burned, warlord's aide killed in suicide bombing
Desertion Song (clip)
Station ID
SWAT team raids Seattle Occupy home seeking anarchist material
Greenpeace shuts down 74 Shell stations
Between the Lines:parents group takes on climate change and extreme weather
Union representing PEPCO linemen blames staff cuts for power outages
Franklin School/shelter site takeover trial press conference
Affordable housing tour challenges planned luxury hotel in Adams-Morgan
An 11 year old British trans-girl & her mum + LGBT news
July 16, 2012, 5:52 p.m.
A pre-teen British trans-girl struggles to be she; Episcopalians pass same-gender couple rites but Presbyterians reject them, Maryland's marriage equality faces repeal, leading Latino rights groups say "Familia es Familia", a bi-national couple fights DOMA discrimination, a float-free WorldPride liberates London, cosmic Kameny pickets between planets, and more LGBT news from around the world.
A wider war in the Middle East?
July 16, 2012, 4:16 p.m.
Sara Flounders of the International Action Centre describes the "Syria crisis" and how it is being handled. "It's important to rally the anti-war movement, which has opposed past wars, to oppose this one."
Peter Rosenthal discusses the celebration of anti-racism activist Charles Roach.
July 16, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
As a collage uses overlapping layers to build itself up, so does the personality. Even if we do not recognize it as such, what we are is built from our relationships to experience and to other people. The strategy used in this very trippy collage is to let collisions and overwhelming volume ride over quieter, more controlled moments and when something appears within to let that lead to the next step. All the while getting high on dreams, life, great music and love. Have fun. Horizontal dance. Get high. Change.
July 16, 2012, 2:25 p.m.
July 16, 2012, 12:29 p.m.
More tunes on Friday afternoons from KRFP in Moscow, Idaho.
Songs from the Big Hair - 7/14/2012 - on WRIR
July 16, 2012, 12:16 p.m.
If Music Could Talk - July 15, 2012
July 16, 2012, 12:08 p.m.
Crow-nysism (A Cultural Commentary on Music and More)
July 16, 2012, 11:35 a.m.
We are living in a time where we as a society are, just like Nero, content to fiddle while our planet and society burns - metaphorically speaking. Our music, movies and television shows are happy and detached while our lives are isolated, depressed and stressful. In this weeks episode I take a look at our entertainment in a way that may surprise you.
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
July 16, 2012, 9:54 a.m.
Talk by Chris Hedges co-author of "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" recorded June 29, 2012 at Town Hall Seattle.
Now It Seems The Bubble's Burst
July 16, 2012, 9:29 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.
mratavist.wordpress.com :: wrir.org
July 16, 2012, 12:40 a.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0152
July 16, 2012, 12:07 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Motherland Influence: July 15, 2012
July 15, 2012, 11:53 p.m.
PART A
1)Mose âFan Fanâ & Orchestre Somo Somo (DRCongo)
Hello Hello (this programâs theme song)
from the CD Hello Hello
Sterns Africa
2)Captain Sinbad (Jamaica)
Jamaica 50
Jamaica 50
Maximum Sound
3)Keith & Ken (Jamaica)
Jamaica Ska
The Creole Reggae Box Set
Sanctuary Trojan
4)Shaggy & Josey (Jamaica)
Sweet Jamaica
Sweet jamaica
Clifford Ray Music
5) Lord Kitchener (Trinidad/Jamaica)
Jamaican Woman
Trojan Calypso Box Set
Trojan
6)Gyptian (Jamaica)
Jamaica
Reggae Culture Vol. 1
7)Harry Belafonte (Jamaica)
Jamaica Farewell
The Essential Harry Belafonte
RCA
8)Valley Boys (Bahamas)
New Years Junkanoo
Live
9)Baha Men (Bahamas)
Coconut
Who Let The Dogs Out
Artemis Records
10)Grupo Gale (Colombia)
20 De Julio
20 De Julio
Cocodis
11Orquesta Guayacan (Colombia)
Pau Pau
Serie Cristal
RMM
12)Anibal Velasquez y Su Conjunto (Colombia)
Triguena
Promesas De Cumbiambera
Fonodisco
13)Lisandro Meza (Colombia)
Otra Vez Contigo
Lisandroâs Cumbia
World Circuit
14)Toto La Momposina (Colombia)
Mami Wata
Pacanto
World Village
15)Dame El Chiquito (Colombia)
El Halcon
Champeta Criolla: A New African Music From Colombia
Palenque Records
16)Los Nemus Del Pacifico (Colombia)
Si Tu No, La Otra
Montuno Y Salsa Con Alexis Murillo
Sonotone Music
17)Juaneco y Su Combo (Peru)
Un Shipibo En Espana
Masters Of Chicha 1
Barbes Records
18)Los Illusionistas (Peru)
Colegiala
The Roots Of Chicha 2: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru
Barbes Records
19)Los Destellos (Peru)
Por Las Mananas
El Sonido De Tupac Amaru
Masstropicas
20)Los Drags (Peru)
Damelo Mi Nena
Back To Peru Volume 2
Vampi Soul
21)Novalima (Peru)
Diablo
Karimba
ESL Music
22)Novalima (Peru)
Machete
Afro
Quango Music
23)Katiana (?)
Los Piticos â La Policia
Rugen Los Exitos
Leon Records
24)Empire Bakuba (DRCongo)
Ce NâEst Ma Faute (El Huye)
Disco Terapia Volumen 3
25)Imitshotsovu (South Africa)
Induku (El Sueno)
Terapia
Leon Records
26)Anne Zwing (Colombia)
Te Invito A Bailar
A Todo Nivel
Codiscos
27)Abelardo Carbono (Colombia)
Coelto
Terapia Dura
Ojito Producciones
July 15, 2012, 11:41 p.m.
PART A
1)King Kester Emeneya & Victoria Eleison Dream Team Dream Band
sebene from DORIS ILOKO (this programâs theme song)
from the CD PAS DE CONTACT
Black Music
2)Lo-Benel âMwana Nkoyiâ
JUSQUâAU PETIT MATIN
from the CD JUSQUâAU PETIT MATIN
Cyrique Bassoka Production
3)Bozi Boziana et LâAnti-Choc
MYRA
from the CD LâAVENIR
Rigo Makengo Production
4)Theo Blaise Kounkou
CELIA
from the CD ORIGINAL MASTERS OF THEO BLAISE KOUNKOU VOL.4
Cantos Music
5)Djany Bakela
DECLARATION DâAMOUR
from the digital release TANGO EKOKI
Libre et Belle
6)Santa Nyanga
LETTRE ANONYME
from the CD EPOQUE COLONIALE
Bana Music
7)Papa Wemba & Nouvelle Ecrita
NA KO DECIDER
from the CD SOMO TROP
Sono/Next Music Music
8)Kabose Bulembi
BONGOLO
from the CD ELECTION
M.M. 4X4 Mpova Music
9)Luciana Demingongo
ROKYA
from the CD ZANZIBAR
Survivâ Art
PART B
10) Les Bantous de La Capitale
MOFUDE YA QUARTIER
from the LP LES BANTOUS DE LA CAPITALE
Prodis
11) Reddy Amisi
ZAKINA
from the CD QUEEN LINA
Ets. Mayala/Flash Diffusion Business
12) Orchestre International Rumbaya
NAKANGI FRONTIERE
from the LP LâINTERNATIONAL RUMBAYA SOUS LA DIRECTION DU SHOWMAN LOKO MASSENGO
Musi-Club
13) Tabu Ley & LâAfrisa International feat. MâBilia Bel
RESIDENCE MARINA
from the CD SARAH
Genidia
14) MâPongo Love & Tsheke Tsheke Love
MONAMA ELIMA (autre version)
from the CD SANS PARDON
Ngoyarto
15)Wenge Aile Paris
MOLANGI YA MALASI
from the CD MOLANGI YA MOLASI
Flash Diffusion Business
16)Chella Mputu
TSHILENGI
from the CD MOTO AZA KAKA MOTO
GRK Production
*= by request
July 15, 2012, 9:38 p.m.
"20 years or so agoâwhen me and all my girlfriends were about 20 years youngerâwe were making families, working on our relationships, building our reputations, and going to therapy. Therapy was a way to sort things outâstaying or going, how to learn patience, wondering if youâre crazy. Therapy gave me a lot of ideas for just plain getting along.... "
Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/love-them-tools-2/
July 15, 2012, 8:48 p.m.
A. J. Kretschmar searches for and showcases independent and undiscovered gems of the music industry.
#595 - An Antidote To Forgetfulness
July 15, 2012, 8:46 p.m.
This week we review the wholesale privatization of New Zealand carried out in the 1980s and 90s. We hear a radio adaptation of Alister Barry's 1996 documentary, Someone Else's Country and conclude with a few words from Chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.
July 15, 2012, 8:40 p.m.
This week we hear three different perspectives on the ongoing Occupy movement. Firstly, an open letter to the police by occupier Reverend Richard Lang. Then Noam Chomsky on how to broaden Occupy and on its relationship to the US Republicrat kabuki. Finally P2P theorist Michel Bauwens sets Occupy in the context of emerging peer production. We conclude with another reading from chapter 7 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.
#593 - Let Your Life Be A Friction
July 15, 2012, 8:35 p.m.
After a call to action to 'stop the machine', we hear a couple of voices of those whose lives have been a friction to slow it down. Angie Zelter tells of the plowshares destruction of nuclear weapons, and John Stewart on the prevention of airport expansion, while Gwen Schulman reports of how Canadian environmental NGOs are 'partnering' with big mining firms.