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NYC Rally to Save Postal Jobs & Services From A Management Gone Postal
March 23, 2012, 12:01 p.m.
Saving Postal Jobs & Services From A Management Gone Postal
NYC's Community/Labor United for Postal Jobs & Services joined with postal workers to rally to save postal jobs and the services provided. The plan is to shut down 4,000 post offices, eliminate 223 which is half of the mail processing centers nationwide , end Saturday mail delivery and fire 220,000 postal workers. In N.Y.C. alone, Postmaster General Donahue wants to eliminate 34 post offices. There is no fiscal crisis that warrants these cuts, which will destroy the post office system. There is however, a Congressionally manufactured crisis caused by its imposition of onerous and unnecessary financial mandates on the Post Office. Unless we stop Congress, the public postal system will be destroyed and Wall Street will swoop down and sell it to corporate vultures.
#212 -- Power, Propaganda and the Silence of Writers
March 23, 2012, 8:54 a.m.
Independent journalist John Pilger exposes the hypocrisy of the news media--and how they further the aims of Established Power by producing a barrage of propaganda. The examples he cites are striking--such as the media INVENTING a child-prostitution scandal among Australia's indigenous people (thus furthering a land-grab by the government). Then there's the press's "propaganda of silence": NOT reporting facts and stories that contradict the claims of the powerful.
March 23, 2012, 7:32 a.m.
spotlighting Rush and the Insanity that is sexist, racist, homophobic Reich-wing Radio. Help from Media Matters, Stephen Colbert, and Mike in Raleigh as sponsors take down Rush's ads.
Friday Breakfast Blend with Phil D.
March 23, 2012, 7:23 a.m.
They'll Soon Forget The Field In Which You Lie
March 23, 2012, 6:03 a.m.
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Nafeez Ahmed - Population, Climate Skeptics, Kony 2012
March 23, 2012, 5:21 a.m.
Dean Puckett and Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed discuss population and why it isnât a main focus in the film, have an in-depth chat about Climate Skepticism and dissect KONY 2012 â Enjoy !
March 23, 2012, 1:39 a.m.
Scooter, Firesign Theater, and Rod Serling. Submitted for your approval.
Vancouver's police dog training needs major overhaul
March 22, 2012, 9:01 p.m.
Police dogs in Vancouver injure an average of five people a month badly enough that they have to go to Emergency. Pivot Legal Society is bringing a lawsuit on behalf one of those bite victims who needed 100 staples to close wounds in his leg. Douglas King is a lawyer with Pivot Legal's policing campaign.
Dialect - Bristolian Methodists bring religion out of the Churches
March 22, 2012, 8:40 p.m.
Protesting tuition hikes in Quebec
March 22, 2012, 8:27 p.m.
Student unions representing nearly 200,000 students are on strike across Quebec, protesting a planned tuition increase of 75%. Rushdia Mehreen is a graduate student and on the strike committee of the Concordia University Mobilization Squad.
March 22, 2012, 7:15 p.m.
Various. Not date-specific
The Shortwave Report 03/23/12 Listen Globally!
March 22, 2012, 5:51 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, and the Voice of Russia.
March 22, 2012, 11:44 a.m.
March 22, 2012, 10:30 a.m.
March 22, 2012, 8:40 a.m.
March 17th 2012 at Left Forum, Scott Nappalos interviews Marianne a student and organizer involved in the occupation of the New School that happened during the upsurge around Occupy Wall Street
Postal Workers Struggle in Canada
March 22, 2012, 8:29 a.m.
A March 17th 2012 interview at Left Forum with Phinneas Gauge, a revolutionary libertarian postal worker, about struggles at the Canada Post.
March 22, 2012, 7:18 a.m.
This RADIOLA! suggests that the best home remedy is Business As Usual.
March 21, 2012, 10 p.m.
Various. Not date-specific
377 - Economics, Democracy and the Use of Force
March 21, 2012, 9:52 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Use of Police Against Dissent; Bioneers: Human Rights, Economics and the Environment; Media Minutes; Backyard Chicken Broadcast: Chickens and Neighbors; music.
March 21, 2012, 8:37 p.m.
George Clooney wants intervention in Sudan, so the Taylor Report decides to interview David Hoile from the European Sudanese Public Affairs Committee. "People who have been around the block a few times have very little patience for people like George Clooney," suggests Hoile.
Later in the program, Phil speaks with McGill student organizer Sunci Avlijas, who describes the massive protests unfolding over tuition in Quebec. Then, David Heap promotes his upcoming first-hand account of the capture at sea of the Canadian Boat to Gaza.
March 21, 2012, 7 p.m.
another night of dog germs, but tonight everyone's favorite bass player, frankie, makes a triumphant return as my guest!!!
also on the show tonight, besides your requests and the usual awesome music, we will hear new music from red industrie and new-old music from 16 volt and caustic!
upcoming shows:
d.r.i. ,wednesday, march 28th @ kingdom, richmond, va
andrew w.k., sunday, april 1st @ 9:30 club, washington, d.c.
Lifting the Lid on NSA Menwith Hill
March 21, 2012, 6:37 p.m.
Attached is a recording of the Sheffield launch of Yorkshire CND's new research report on Menwith Hill, "Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill: The Strategic Roles and Economic Impact of the US Spy Base in Yorkshire" which was introduced by the author of the report Dr Steve Schofield and was held on 21st match 2012 at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield.
March 21, 2012, 6:01 p.m.
We were able to get our hands on this rare file however it has been adjusted to fit your brain as the original length and mess would cause too much pain.
2012 10 Executive Orders and National Security
March 21, 2012, 5:11 p.m.
Bucky Buckaw has an agenda to replace factory farming with backyard agriculture - one coop at a time - by demonstrating what a good time can be had. This week Bucky answers a listener question about President Obama signing the National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order and discusses the role of chickening in National Security.
March 21, 2012, 4:42 p.m.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement entered its third trimester on March 17, 2012. The day was marked by police aggression in Zuccoti Park as occupiers celebrated their first six months.
FEATURING:
Audio verite coverage of the NYPD riot on the evening of 17 March 2012 [with expletives bleeped out];
An interview with Greg Palast's photographer Zach Roberts, whose head was beaten by police while exercising his reportorial profession; and
Filmmaker Michael Moore, speaking 17 March 2012 at the Left Forum preceding the evening's confrontations.
Janie Rezner interviews Leslene della Madre, shaman and radical feminist
March 21, 2012, 3:59 p.m.
Violence against women--both intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women - are major public health problems and violations of women's human rights. A World Health Organization multi-country study found that from 15 to 71% of women reported experiencing physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lives.
Leymah Gbowee, recent Nobel Peace Prize recipient from Liberia says, "it's time for women to stop being politely angry. I watch men talking about your reproductive issue, something they know nothing about, and I say why are women not angry about this?" A woman friend writes, "What's happening in this country right now about birth control, mandated sonograms prior to abortions is shocking. . . Where are we? We are going backward. I hope for a coalition of women to stand up to this trend."
From Leslene, "It's very confusing about what century we are in...it's 2012, and men are still trying to tell women what to do and what not to do with our bodies. I would like to ask for a worldwide prayer for men to realize that birth control is NOT their issue. What IS their issue is their jealousy/fear of women's creative power--age old--at least 5000 years. When men get a grip on their fear, peace will naturally and organically surface. We need to start creating women's councils around the world to create the world we wish to live in. It most certainly will not include fear mongering men who try to stand on women's backs every chance they get."
March 21, 2012, 3:27 p.m.
One hour sample of the weekly online radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com
MARCH 21, 2012 - INFILTRATION IS THE NORM
March 21, 2012, 3:23 p.m.
Cheryl interviews Kevin Zeese, co-author with Margaret Flowers of two articles
titled: " Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Misdirect are Widespread in Occupy" and Occupy:
Infiltration of Political Movements is the Norm, Not the Exception in the US".
March 21, 2012, 2:53 p.m.
March 21, 2012, 2:22 p.m.
Dona Nieto made national headlines in 2000 when she blockaded a logging truck bare breasted to protest the cutting of old growth redwood trees in Northern California. Half Naked, La Tigresa began citing poetry about the goddess and called on the loggers to worship mother earth.. She was in her 50's and gave new meaning to baby boomers reaching their middle ages. As a beat poet and performance artist, La Tigresa reclaims the divine feminine as a source of fire for environmental activism. And, she calls on others to join her cause.
Her latest book of poetry: Naked Sacred Earth Poems explores biosexuality, a term she has coined, as one's love for the environment in a sex positive way.
Journalist and KMEC show host, Christina Aanestad spoke with La Tigresa about her art, activism and feminism for Women's History Month.