Latest Programs
OISE Anti-Psychiatry Lecture Series, March 30
April 16, 2012, 10:10 p.m.
Don Weitz talks about bias in the Canadian media that unquestioningly parrots misinformation put out by the psychiatric & medical industry, perpetuating dangerous stereotypes which ultimately even serve to excuse deaths such as the police killings of psychiatric survivors over the last year.
Thomas Berry. Healing a Savaged Earth
April 16, 2012, 8:23 p.m.
This program offers a presentation of the thoughts of Thomas Berry on the consequences of industrial civilisation and on the need to consciously change direction towards what he calls the Ecozoic Era. The program offers some insight into the sources from which Thomas Berry formed his views and drew spiritual nourishment.
"Healing a Savaged Earth" is drawn primarily from Thomas Berry's lecture "The Ecozoic Era" presented at the 11th annnual E.F. Schumacher Conference in October 1991.
April 16, 2012, 8:10 p.m.
Egyptian âDemocracy,â Nobel Subversion, and Encroaching Police State in USA, featuring:
LISA HAJJAR, Egypt scholar from the University of California at Santa Barbara, on:
Overnight exclusions of Mubarakian and Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidates from Presidential electoral eligibility; MB and military regime compatibility; US distortion of âArab Spring,â US covert intervention in popular protest, and Egyptâs Salafist impulse;
An acoustically-transcribed STATE DEPARTMENT CABLE alert about potential MB overtures to USG for better future relations, courtesy of WikiLeaks; and
An explosively revealing interview with Illinois University Law Professor, DR. FRANCIS BOYLE on:
The Nobel Laureate rebellion against Secretary of State Hillary Clintonâs claim of dominion over the upcoming âNobel Summitâ in Chicago; USG subversion of populist movements such as âArab Springâ and âOccupy Wall Streetâ; his own inclusion on the TSAâs âno-flyâ list; his inheritance of Henry Kissingerâs desk at Harvard; and the probability of âde facto and de jureâ police/military operations during protests against the imminent NATO summit in Chicago.
April 16, 2012, 6:47 p.m.
Hemet DC sounds, Sycamore Canyon-US Cup, World Champ Alison Dunlap talks about climbing, Tim Bleumenthal and Andy Clarke talk about the National Bike Challenge, Santa Cruz Classic race report
April 16, 2012, 6:18 p.m.
Discussing his concept of the Edison Gene
100 years of Hay + global LGBT news
April 16, 2012, 5:52 p.m.
A Silver Lake ceremony marks the "Harry Hay Day" of the movement; Gambia goes after gays and lesbians, a drunken Dubai dalliance draws stiff jail time, Budapest cops and Hungarian lawmakers want to silence LGBT people, Russia's delegation decries a G8 rights declaration, studies show homophobes doth protest too much, a "reparative therapy" supporter repudiates his research, the Australian Greens' Brown bows out, and more global LGBT news.
The Motherland Influence April 15, 2012
April 16, 2012, 2:11 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music
The Other Black Music April 15, 2012
April 16, 2012, 12:43 p.m.
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
April 16, 2012, 12:37 p.m.
Emission de radio portant sur la bande dessinee, l'illustration et l'animation diffusee les vendredis, 17h30, sur les ondes de CKRL 89,1 FM.
April 16, 2012, 12:23 p.m.
Emission de radio portant sur la bande dessinee, l'illustration et l'animation diffusee les vendredis, 17h30, sur les ondes de CKRL 89,1 FM.
April 16, 2012, 11:19 a.m.
Extensive coverage of the Quebec student strike with our Red Square Report as well as the Harper Bazaar, our bi-weekly roundup of news and analysis on the Stephen Harper Conservative government. Today, David Tacium interviews community activist Ed Lee on the impacts of the proposed Bill C-31, sometimes refered to as the Refugee Exclusion Act, on queer refugees and migrants.
Legacy of Racism in America, Student Strikes in Quebec
April 16, 2012, 11:15 a.m.
Phil speaks with Thomas Martin Sobottke, author of "Across that Dark River," a meditation on the American Civil War and the continuing issue of race in America. The memory of the Civil War has been contentious ever since the Union victory because of the legacy of white supremacy. From a 21st century standpoint, Sobottke attempts to understand the U.S. attempts to come to grips with institutionalized racism following the civil-war.
Then, Montreal grad student Sunci Avlijas returns to the program to report on the progress of the economic disruption strategy in the Quebec student strike. Can Quebec students buck the trend and escape the "company store" arrangement of student loans?
Finally, Phil reaches Thomas Mountain in the middle of the night in Africa to discuss Western intelligence operations and Etiophia's continuing aid dependence. Ehiopia receives more foreign aid than Israel: what are donors getting in return?
April 16, 2012, 11:09 a.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0139
April 16, 2012, 9:05 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
April 16, 2012, 7:26 a.m.
Various. Not date-specific
"East Coast Jazz": April 15, 2012; Set #1
April 16, 2012, 5:36 a.m.
April 16, 2012, 5:34 a.m.
Had a blast filling in on The Crungeâ¦enjoyâ¦
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"East Coast Jazz": April 15, 2012; Set #2
April 16, 2012, 5:28 a.m.
April 16, 2012, 2:07 a.m.
Hold on to your hardhats, your three rolls of toilet paper. Another adventure in sound.
April 16, 2012, 12:19 a.m.
Crisis Theory for Complex Societies
April 15, 2012, 10:21 p.m.
"How do societies change? It has long been observed that capitalism develops in forty-to-sixty year cycles, bookended by great crashes and periods of stagnation. Technologies and relations of production are transformed along with modes of government and social reproduction. New patterns of trade and nternational relations emerge on the geopolitical level. Ten or fifteen years later, people look back and realize: "That was a turning point. The world is totally different now."
Such a change has been experienced in living memory, with the crisis of the late sixties/early seventies that ushered in neoliberalism. What will happen now? By bringing together various strands of Marxist crisis-theory (the technological innovation school, the regulation approach, world-systems theory) it's possible to show how a distinctly neoliberal society emerged from the political upheaval, long recession and monetary chaos of the sixties-seventies. Once we have identified the full range of neoliberal institutions, we can generate an analytical picture of the status quo around, say, 2005. And on that basis we can see what's changing right now, in many different arenas. Who are the agents of social change? Could we intervene in some of those arenas while everything is still in flux? Why wait fifteen years to discover the solutions that the elites will have arranged for us? The idea of this lecture/workshop is to lay the groundwork for a strategic observatory of the still-unfolding crisis."
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"Brian Holmes is an activist researcher and cultural critic. This proposal grows out of a collective seminar carried out last year at Mess Hall in Chicago, under the title "Three Crises: 30s-70s-Today."" Archive at http://messhall.org/?page_id=771.
Uranium Question 7 Where are we in March 2012?
April 15, 2012, 10:01 p.m.
3 people discuss the National Academies of Scienceâs report which begins: âA range of health and environmental issues and related risks are important considerations as Virginia deliberates on whether to rescind its almost 30-year moratorium on mining uranium. Although there are internationally accepted best practices to mitigate most of these risks, there are still steep hurdles to be surmounted before mining and processing could take place within a regulatory setting that appropriately protects workers, the public, and the environment.â
April 15, 2012, 9:20 p.m.
Eric Koch CBC International Service fir German Announcer
April 15, 2012, 8:12 p.m.
Sub Guest Mr. Felty Cosmic Session
April 15, 2012, 7:41 p.m.
Carlito is out of town tonight and he asked me to sub for him, so here I am. Let's enjoy a couple of hours of music from around the world in the universal language of groove.
# 231 Playing With Nuclear Fire
April 15, 2012, 5:42 p.m.
Explicit language !
'Gone crazy on an absurd topic - nuclear blackmail - nuclear rethoric nonsense
April 15, 2012, 5:25 p.m.
Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang
April 15, 2012, 5:12 p.m.
Sheldon Birnie on hog plants and foreign labour
April 15, 2012, 4:54 p.m.
Southwestern Manitoba is an international centre for pig farming and food processing. The Maple Leaf plant in Brandon and the Hylife plant in Neepawa employ mostly foreign workers, who don't have the same rights as domestic workers, through Canada's temporary foreign worker program. Sheldon Birnie is a Winnipeg writer who wrote "Living the HyLife: How meat packers are fuelling migration to Manitoba towns", in briarpatchmagazine.com, and "Hogtown, Manitoba", in dominionpaper.ca.
Tarek Mehanna & the Criminalization of Free Speech
April 15, 2012, 3:05 p.m.
U.S. citizen Tarek Mehanna was sentenced to 17 years in a supermax prison. Having watched his country invade Iraq and kill thousands of Muslims, in his 20s he spoke against the U.S. war. To critics of the case, it appears he was convicted essentially for translating publicly available text and videos from Arabic, for visiting Yemen without finding a mujahedin training camp, and for declining to become an FBI informant against a friend whom Mehanna had counselled against violence. The FBI built the case against Mehanna using the friend's testimony, and in exchange the friend was not charged. Mehanna neither hatched a plot, nor had a weapon.
- Live radio interview by Amy Grunder, first aired on "Sounds of Dissent" on WZBC 90.3 FM Boston, 2012-04-14.