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Jan. 4, 2012, 6:59 a.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
The War Drums Beating Against Bradley Manning, Iran and Women
Jan. 4, 2012, 12:53 a.m.
Cohn explores the hypocrisy of Bradley Manning, who she declares a hero, facing charges in an impending court martial while real war criminals go free. Parry talks about the importance of learning from the past and the Wikileaks documents, the Weapons of Mass Destruction lie to justify the war against Iraq, to understand what the same documents point to in a similar buildup for war against Iran. Marcotte discusses the unprecedented assault against women and reproductive rights that marked 2011.
Jan. 4, 2012, midnight
Taking the Wayback Machine for a ride tonight. It's still set on "20 Years Ago" from last new year when we went to 1991. So yep, you guessed it, this time we're hitting up 1992, the year everything really blew up. So pull on your Docs, your flannels, your thermals, and your ripped jeans. This one's for the Gen X'ers.
Jazz For The Asking PRG 040 hour 1 and 2
Jan. 3, 2012, 8:12 p.m.
2012 01 Chickeners Year In Review
Jan. 3, 2012, 8:06 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 to be had. This episodes reviews the ups and downs for chickens and chickeners in 2011 and indulges in a little forecasting.
US-Pakistan relations strained to breaking point
Jan. 3, 2012, 7:55 p.m.
It's been a troubled year for the alliance between the United States and Pakistan. In the most recent incident, NATO helicopter gunships killed 24 Pakistani border guards near the Afghan border. Irfan Husain is the author of Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West. He's also a regular columnist for the Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn.
Jan. 3, 2012, 7:10 p.m.
The Harper government has been strongly opposed to the Kyoto Protocol since coming to power in 2006. In mid-December, the Canadian government officially pulled out of the accord. Andrea Harden-Donahue is energy and climate campaigner for the Council of Canadians. She talks about what this move means for Canada.
Richard Grossman: WHEN INJUSTICE IS LEGAL (ONE of TWO)
Jan. 3, 2012, 6:30 p.m.
This program is in remembrance of Richard Grossman, who died of cancer in November 2011. He was one of the great uncompromising, courageous thinkers and activists in the unfolding project to define, limit and abolish corporate power. Ralph Nader called Grossman "the preeminent historian of corporations" and this speech, that Grossman gave at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in November 2006, shows what that meant. Grossman refers to the radical branch of the Abolitionists who confirmed that we are born with inalienable rights that precede the formation of governments, rights that governments are tasked to protect. As with the Abolitoinists in the 1800-reds who determined that slaves could not be free under the existing constitution, anti corporate campaigner also need to re-write the constitution to dismantle the corporate state.
Interviews David Bacon author of Illegal People
Jan. 3, 2012, 6:06 p.m.
We Interview David Bacon author of "Illegal People How Globalization Creates Migration
and Criminalizes Immigrants". David explains the human impact of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United States. Illegal People explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, more migration, more immigration raids, and a more divided, polarized society.
We speak about how inequity creates forced migration and how the Occupy Movement is beginning to address many
of these issues.
Jan. 3, 2012, 4:01 p.m.
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Palestine Today for Jan 3
Between the Lines: Israeli activists investigate occupation/war profiteers
War Update:US base rocketed in Afghanistan
Between the Lines: Bradley Manning's first court appearance after 18 months pretrial confinement
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Occupy Wall Street attacked by police after reoccupying Zucotti Pk New Years Eve
Twitter suspending accounts over "too much talk about Occupy Wall Street"
Eric Sheptock's Stete of Homelessness address-complete
Occupy Wall Street Protests N.Y.P.D. Stop and Frisk
Jan. 3, 2012, 3:18 p.m.
Building Bridges joins OWS in Brownsville, East New York where community
residents, indeed a community that has been assaulted by the highest rate of
stop and frisks in the city tells the NYPD hell no more to profiling, harassment
and criminalization of African-American and Latino youth.
Native American Art of the Southwest at the Heard Museum
Jan. 3, 2012, 2:14 p.m.
Radio Curious visits the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, with communications manager Debra Krol. The museum is dedicated to the sensitive and accurate portrayal of Native arts and cultures, with an emphasis on Southwestern Native American tribes.
Ani Terton on COP17, the international climate change negotiations in Durban
Jan. 3, 2012, 1:48 p.m.
Yearly News 2011 Weekly News 3 Jan 2012
Jan. 3, 2012, 12:34 p.m.
A summary of the news for the year 2011 -- Iraq War ends, the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement changes the conversation -- plus the news of the past week as well as a report on the use of Spice marijuana substitute by the U.S. Military.
Jan. 3, 2012, 11:39 a.m.
This is the Peace Radio show for January 1, 2012. Our featured guest is Emma Stanford, a participant in Occupy Portland. Also includes news headlines, and movie and book reviews
Jan. 3, 2012, 10:47 a.m.
As we pass into a new year, we look ahead but that means we also reflect the past. Tonight's collage is of the movement from dark to light, displaying the violence of history, but streams as well with the minute particulars of art and how we read culture, and who we trust. This program takes its time but changes constantly, just like we all should.
Jan. 3, 2012, 6:41 a.m.
A "Five O'Clock Shadow" anniversary special on "The Persistence of War," compiled from The Shadow's premiere broadcast in late 2010, featuring:
President Barack Obama's then-most-recent 30,000 troop "surge" -- and his false "promise to withdraw them " in Afghanistan (committing a combined TWICE as many troops [70,000] as President George W. Bush before him), and his false "promise of withdrawal by... JULY, 2011;
Fred Bronfman, first reporter to reveal the secret US bombing of Laos during the Vietnam war, discussing current WikiLeaks revelations of clandestine US bombing in Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan;
Barack Obama's 2009 speech incresing US military presence in Afghanistan, with false commitment to withdrawal by July 2011;
Jo Cumberford, executive director of the National Priorities Project, discussing federal spending alternatives and the cost of war in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan; and
Legendary singer Freda Payne, discussing her anti-Vietnam war background and the US military banning of her music, including her famous anti-war song "Bring the Boys Home"; and
Freda Payne - "Bring the Boys Home (Bring Them Back Alive)."
Jan. 3, 2012, 2:27 a.m.
Sup, y'alls? I got told today that my lack of appreciation for 'Jack and Diane' and 'Pink Houses' by John Cougar Mellencamp was an indication that I didn't like music with poetry in it. 'Fie on you, Satan!' says I! I'm rebutting that claim with a bunch of tunes/bands I think have the qualities of poetry about them. While still keeping to my regular theme - that's right, we're still gettin' drunk, just like the poet in that X-Cops song - because poetry is always the better for having some form to fight against. So sayeth I.
disRespect - Joe Barbera on his experiences introducing equity reforms . . . to banks.
Jan. 2, 2012, 6:24 p.m.
Joe entertains with his stories of implementing a subversive programme of marketing to people of different minority groups (with the backing of the Bank's chairman).
"Pride On Screen 2011"
Jan. 2, 2012, 6:18 p.m.
Award-winning entertainment journalist Steve Pride shares copious clips and comments by their makers as he recalls some of the LGBT moving images that moved him most during the past 12 months with his "Pride On Screen 2011" - including more multi-dimensional TV characters like "Max Blum" on "Happy Endings", and proliferating couples like the partnered hunky but unhappy ghosts on "American Horror Story"; and Steve's countdown of his picks for the Top Ten LGBT films of 2011 (from #10 to #1): "The Wise Kids", "The Topps Twins: Unstoppable Girls", "We Were Here", "Gun Hill Road", "August", "Leave It On The Floor", "With You: The Mark Bingham Story", "Beginners", "Weekend", and "Pariah".
Fourth World Radyo : Respectable Racism (FWR-01.02.2012)
Jan. 2, 2012, 6:12 p.m.
Watching the US slide far to the Right. This is the first show for 2012.
Dispatch:(Recorded On - 01.02.2012) - Lessons For Original Peoples
Recorded: Indian Country, Occupied North America
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disRespect (archivals) Kids Rehabilitation and Adult Care Homes
Jan. 2, 2012, 6:10 p.m.
disRespect discusses with Ms. Fischbein-Germon her view that quality of life is attainable for children with disabilities by broadening the definitions of disability and standards of participation to achieve greater inclusion for our communities
Also Kaz Klonowski, former Ontario Lodging Home resident takes us inside the lodging home system with his personal experiences of living in lodging homes. "What they're saying, is you're not worth a nickel, good-bye, you know? And that sucks." Kaz died in 2011.
Break The Stereo- Layed Out Funk
Jan. 2, 2012, 4:22 p.m.
Some laid out funk on this weeks show. Good grooves, good times, thanks everyone for making this show possible. Peace out in the new year. Take it easy with all your brothers and sisters...
Jan. 2, 2012, 3:06 p.m.
: A radio series inspired by the writings of JRR Tolkien with ecological, mythological music and musings.
Justice for Jazz Artists, What No Minimum Wage & No Pension?
Jan. 2, 2012, 2:03 p.m.
Justice for Jazz Artists, What No Minimum Wage & No Pension?
With
John O'Connor, Vice President AFM's Local 802
Keisha St. Joan, jazz vocalist
New York City's musicians' union has been leafleting outside The Blue Note,
a major jazz club, in a campaign to gain pension benefits and a minimum wage for jazz artists. The disagreement between the union and club owners dates back to 2005, when union leaders and the night clubs successfully lobbied the NYS Legislature for a reduction in the sales tax on tickets with the extra revenue to be used to pay for pension and health benefits for the artists. While jazz has been recognized by the U.S. Congress as "America's National Treasure," and clubs like the Blue Note, Birdland, the Jazz Standard, Iridium and the Village Vanguard are still filling seats and charging hefty prices, the jazz players find themselves facing old age with no pension and little in the way of Social Security, since much of their pay was in cash and off the books. "It's just a sin that we have no pension," said Keisha St. Joan, 72, a jazz vocalist who was distributing leaflets. "I will not have a pension before I die."
Jan. 2, 2012, 1:37 p.m.
The mission of One Minute Zine Reviews is to bring attention to the underground world of print that thrives in the digital age. This program is free to rebroadcast on any terrestrial, internet, satellite, or other radio station upon notification of DJ Frederick
Jan. 2, 2012, 1:31 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech freeform celebration & exploration of music from the last century of recorded music in all genres ... music that you might discover ... in a flea market or charity shop! Or in your parents / grandparents attics, or deep in the cutout bins at your local record store ... if you can find a local record store ... Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture for the analog set.
The Motherland Influence: January 1, 2012
Jan. 2, 2012, 11:34 a.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
AMBIANCE CONGO: January 1, 2012
Jan. 2, 2012, 11:25 a.m.
Two hours of Congolese music.
Jan. 2, 2012, 10:59 a.m.
January 1 2012 edition Groundwire
Description: No headlines this episode.
Features: "Modern Slavery In Canada And The World" by Accessible Media Inc, "UN inquiry into missing and murdered women" by Aaron Lakoff of CKUT Montreal, and "Occupy Nelson" by Marya Folinsbee and Aaron Pickett of CJLY in Nelson.
Community Radio reporting was contributed by Terry Brennan of CJLY Nelson ("Sounds Cooperative initiative") and Sandra Johnstone of CHLY Nanaimo ("Cortes Community Radio").
Music by L'Al (Song: Where we belong, Album: Deportation), Great Uncles of the Revolution (Song: Stockholm, Album: Stand Up!), and Robert Minden and Carla Hallett (incidental music from "Terra Cotta" and "Lullaby" from album "Are You Now".