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Mendocino Country Independent Newshour 3-26-12
March 29, 2012, 11:18 p.m.
This week on the Mendocino Country Independent News Hour, Co-publisher Annie Esposito speaks with Vets for Peace about their recent regional conference and plays exceprts of Judi Bari of Earth First! to highlight the upcoming documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari? in theaters now.
Annual French Music Show w/ Sara Gossett
March 29, 2012, 9:16 p.m.
Read about the show here http://wrir.org/index.php?/blog/entry/7028/
and here
http://www.lightningsgirl.com/2012/03/march-29th-2012-cause-effect-annual.html
Gondola proposed for Squamish park
March 29, 2012, 7:50 p.m.
Stawamus Chief Provincial Park protects the world-famous granite cliffs just outside Squamish, B.C. Sea to Sky Corporation is applying to remove land from this Class A park to build a gondola to carry people from the valley floor to the summit. Gwen Barlee worries that this project could be the thin edge of the wedge in a park system that is already severely underfunded.
The Shortwave Report 03/30/12 Listen Globally!
March 29, 2012, 5:35 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. The Voice of Russia, Spanish National Radio, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle.
Persistent Organic Pollutants Exposure Minimization, A Consensus Building Conference
March 29, 2012, 5:28 p.m.
Scientific knowledge supports the conclusion that the contamination of the global environment with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is causing significant damages to human health around the world. This knowledge serves as a basis for public educational outreach focusing upon POPs exposure minimization. In the 2010 World Health Organization report, âPersistent Organic Pollutants: Impact on Child Healthâ, the recommendation is made that health arena leaders take action to minimize the exposure that children receive to POPs.
On March 28, 2012, Cancer Action NY hosted a conference on the subject of POPs exposure minimization. David O. Carpenter, MD, Director of the State University of New York at Albany, Institute for Health and the Environment presented a brief overview of the WHO report named above. This presentation was followed by a discussion of strategies for accomplishing POPs exposure minimization. Much of the discussion centered upon motivating the United States government to take the steps necessary to insure that the corporations which used and disposed of PCBs are required to take further actions that would reduce the harm caused by their past actions. It was agreed that a joint effort should be made to educate the residents of the Akwesasne reserve on the subject of POPs exposure minimization. Akwesasne is downwind and downstream on the St. Lawrence River from industrial sites where PCBs were used and disposed of. Large quantities of PCBs continue to be present on these sites. Participants also decided to work together to conduct a second PCB Health Congress, the first of which was conducted in 2006 in Fairfield Connecticut the location of the global headquarters of the General Electric Corporation.
This conference gave voice to a common belief that corporations and failed government have polluted the Earth with dangerous chemical substances and that the time has come for accountability for the poisoning of many people who have been exposed to these chemicals. We are among the people who continue to move forward with their efforts to have good health and an uncontaminated environment. We are some of those who believe that corporations and government must be brought under the control of the people.
Dialect - Paths to peace: Stormont's Northern Ireland Assembly
March 29, 2012, 3:21 p.m.
March 29, 2012, 2:31 p.m.
The first Motown (Tamla) music to win a Grammy, the Temptations' story is epic and continues from the 50s to today. Tonight I play through the major singles of the hit period and concentrate on the Psychedelic Soul days of Norman Whitfield. Hearing all this terrific music at once is a learning curve of social growth, and it packs a mighty melodic and harmonic wallop.
March 29, 2012, 2:30 p.m.
This is a podcast of the March 29th, 2012 episode of WRIR's Commonwealth of Notions. It airs every week from 1-3AM on Wednesday Evenings/Thursday Mornings. It offers insight from it's host on the local music scene, upcoming events and new favorite tunes that he'd like to share.
March 29, 2012, 2:06 p.m.
Trayvon Martin (Black People and the Feeling of Injustice)
March 29, 2012, 2 p.m.
After a difficult week, trying to sort out my feeling about the Trayvon Martin case, this is my response to the all too familiar injustice of an unarmed black man shot by an overzealous discrimminating thug.
Media wars - the Strategic Communications industry
March 29, 2012, 1:30 p.m.
http://truthjihadradio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/james-petras-massacre-of-afghan-17-and.html
http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/Barrett_12.html
Potluck Breakfast March 28, 2012
March 29, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
"I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking." -Dean Smith
I should be more like Dean. twitter: @ptlckbrkfst like on the FB. live on weds 8am-11amPST on www.killradio.org fun times. Yodel on.
March 29, 2012, 10:15 a.m.
This RADIOLA! feels and sounds better than last week, with new and unexpected shellac and other glad tidings.
03-28-12 The Lolo Show 28 (most of it)
March 29, 2012, 3:08 a.m.
Featuring Comedian NICK Z w/Ft ARTIST Scott Marshall & Marshall's Highway Debbie The Pet Lady
Show #27 had technical problems regarding the original studio recording and I thought I'd help out with this one.
Unfortunately I thought Lolo was beginning the show at 9:30 P.M. like in the past shows but it was rescheduled for 9:00 P.M.
What I recorded from the on-line broadcast was the remainder yet it's most of the show.
This is planned to be spliced together with the first part of the over-modulated original studio recording.
Check out; http://soundcloud.com/the-lolo-show
Pastor Rex Cat
March 28, 2012, 10:13 p.m.
This is a podcast of the March 15th, 2012 episode of WRIR's Commonwealth of Notions. It airs every week from 1-3AM on Wednesday Evenings/Thursday Mornings. It offers insight from it's host on the local music scene, upcoming events and new favorite tunes that he'd like to share.
March 28, 2012, 10:08 p.m.
This is a podcast of the March 8th, 2012 episode of WRIR's Commonwealth of Notions. It airs every week from 1-3AM on Wednesday Evenings/Thursday Mornings. It offers insight from it's host on the local music scene, upcoming events and new favorite tunes that he'd like to share.
Imperialist Canada: State and Corporate Imperialism at Home and Abroad
March 28, 2012, 9:17 p.m.
Todd Gordon discusses the imperial track record of Canada in the global south. Special attention is paid to CIDA.
March 28, 2012, 8:49 p.m.
Interview with documentary filmaker Hala Gabriel
March 28, 2012, 8:19 p.m.
Today's show features filmmaker, freelance producer, production supervisor , and production accountant Hala Gabriel. Hala attended the California Institute of the Arts, where she majored in Film and Television Production. Hala is currently completing her documentary, "Road to Tantura" that delves into her family's past and the destruction of their ancestral village, Tantura, in 1948. By telling the story of one woman's journey into her family's past, the documentary offers a microcosm of the collective Palestinian experience that has been kept buried along with those who perished in Tantura that fateful day in 1948.
Tantura was a small Palestinian v illage on the Mediterranean coast 24 km south of Haifa. It had a population of 1500 people, mostly children. On May 23, the Alexandroni brigade commanded by colonel Benz Pridan an American born in Norfolk, Virginia attacked the village. With little resistance from the villagers, the attack lasted less than 3 hours. After the village was captured, many of the villagers were lined up against a wall and executed. Over 200 villagers were killed. The remaining males, were then taken to Israeli prison camps. The Red Cross took the surviving women and children to refugee camps in neighboring countries. Most of the Tantura villagers ended up in the Yarmouk Refugee Camp outside of Damascus, Syria, which is close to where Hala was born. Today, Tantura is a beautiful beach visited by Israelis from Tel Aviv, and Haifa, who chose to ignore it's painful history. On today's show, we will bring the truth to light, and give voice to the terrible tragedy that occurred on that fateful day in 1948.
To view video clips from the documentary, and to support Hala's project, please visit www.roadtotantura.com
March 28, 2012, 8:12 p.m.
Various. Not date-specific
2012 11 The Chicks of Easter (Annual Special)
March 28, 2012, 8:09 p.m.
Bucky Buckaw raises the ethical bar by propagandizing on decentralizing agriculture for the benefit of livestock, humans and the environment. While having fun, fun, fun. On this Holiday Classic, Bucky discusses the pros and cons of the tradition of giving chicks to young children for Easter.
From Vine To Cork: Sustainable Wine-Making Practices
March 28, 2012, 1:11 p.m.
You are planning a nice dinner party and you want to buy a bottle of wine. How do you stay true to your environmental commitment when choosing a wine? Do you need to buy organic wine, or are there other factors that are more significant? And what about the cork? Does it matter what stops the bottle up? Today on Sea Change Radio we explore wine â what goes in the bottle and what seals it. First, we hear from winemaker Christopher Vandendriessche who discusses practices in the industry that do and do not promote sustainability, and how his small family-run winery, White Rock Vineyards, works to conserve natural resources while producing excellent-tasting wine. Next, host Alex Wise speaks to environmental journalist and educator Andrew Revkin, who has been leading a documentary filmmaking project on the sustainability of cork. They talk about cork and the movement toward synthetic corks and aluminum screw-tops.
Dr David McNally, Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance
March 28, 2012, 1:10 p.m.
David McNally teaches political science at York University Toronto and actively supports numerous social justice movements in that city.
David is the author of six books: Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism (1988); Against the Market: Political Economy Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (1993); Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor and Liberation (2001); Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism (2002; second revised edition 2006); Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (2010) and Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (2011).
David's research interests include the theory and practice of democracy, Marxism and anti-racism, socialist-feminism, classical and Marxian political economy, Hegel and dialectical social theory, and the history of anti-capitalist movements.
We Speak to Dr. Mc Nally about his most recent book "Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance" (2011). The interview covers the true cost of austerity measures (the transfer of public wealth) and the growing global resistance to this theft.
Boris Kagarlitsky on Russian Domestic & Foreign Policy
March 28, 2012, 12:58 p.m.
Kagarlitsky comments critically on Russian elections, Putinâs shaky position and what it means for Russia; on new law allowing growth of political parties; on fragility of oil-dependent economy affected by devalued dollar; how Russiaâs capitalists drive global policy, include US relations, as opposed to geopolitics driven USSR; how Russian oil interests would profit from attack on Iran while its nuclear sector would be hurt; on lack of support for Khodorkovsky; suggests that while Israeli leaders appear to be crazy, they may be only acting mad to get the West to do their bidding re Iran
Jeff Blankfort: News & Opinions
March 28, 2012, 12:40 p.m.
Blankfort reports on Obama-Medvedev exchange in Seoul; quotes Robert Fisk re Sgt. Bales and Kandahar and Haditha massacres; on Fndn. for Def. of Democraciesâ Mark Dubowitz urging Obama to stop all Iran oil exports; on Palestinian Land Day and Global March on Jerusalem; on Israelâs gassing of Portuguese and So. African ambassadors; on UN HRC launching investigation of Jewish settlements and Israelâs response; quotes Amira Hass on Israelâs conning world to pay for occupation; on Ukiah turning down Walmart expansion project.
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Pt 1
March 28, 2012, 11:59 a.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
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Pt 2
March 28, 2012, 11:33 a.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
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Pt 3
March 28, 2012, 11:08 a.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
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Pt 4
March 28, 2012, 10:36 a.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
Between the Lines' for the Week Ending April 6, 2012
March 28, 2012, 10:12 a.m.
Single Payer Advocates Favor High Court Overturning Individual Mandate in Affordable Care Act; Peace Movement Awakens to Stop New War with Iran; Challenges Facing Bicyclists in Current Political and Economic Climate.