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Dec. 21, 2011, 7:18 a.m.
Another "no plans equals success" night!
Who needs themes when you have the Camp Creek Boys, EC & Orna Ball, Brett Ratliff and many others?!
Enjoy!
JB&OK
Dec. 21, 2011, 6:59 a.m.
It's all about Money on tonight's Edge of Americana-Getting It, Wanting It and Just Having It, Diving into swimming pools full of it. This that got it, and those that don't.
It's cold cash we're talking about here-and, no, it ain't even Fund Drive Time yet! Otto and Josh are back together this week so you know it's going to be good.
Enjoy!
OK&JB
Dec. 21, 2011, 3:04 a.m.
The Peaks & Valleys of Clean Energy Innovation
Dec. 21, 2011, 1:07 a.m.
The bankruptcy of solar startup, Solyndra, earlier this year had the clean energy naysayers up-in-arms, saying that Solyndraâs demise proved that governments shouldnât be wasting taxpayer money on businesses that could fail. We all know that startup businesses are inherently risky and in the clean energy space, they can be quite expensive but whoâs better suited to foot the bill and assume the risk, private companies or government-backed efforts?
This week on Sea Change Radio, we welcome back to the show, Jesse Jenkins, the Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute, a leading progressive public policy think tank. Jenkins and host Alex Wise discuss his white paper titled âBridging the Clean Energy Valleys of Deathâ which gives an overview of the challenges facing clean energy commercialization and outlines proposals that may allow green technologies and entrepreneurs to better compete with their fossil fuel-based brethren.
Dec. 21, 2011, 12:24 a.m.
Keepin' it going...
What Future for Our Youth - A Dialogue Between Carl Dix and Cornel West
Dec. 21, 2011, 12:19 a.m.
Carl Dix and Cornel West, two of the most radical public intellectuals in the US today discuss "In the Age of Obama...Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-education: What Future for Our Youth" to an audience of almost two thousand at UC Berkeley. Program consists of excerpts from the speeches delivered by both Dix and West as well as a sampling of the question and answer period with the audience.
NO SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) Mix
Dec. 20, 2011, 11:18 p.m.
Mix explaining the SOPA the the Stop Online Piracy Act H.R. 3261 a U.S. bill in congress now that would censor the internet as we know it in the name of copyright. Blocking websites, commerce and outlawing users. Also a way around DNS bolcking.
WSQT (DC Pirate) BRoadcast for December 20
Dec. 20, 2011, 10:22 p.m.
Pirate Radio Song
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Palestine Today for December 20
War Update: US Consulate rocketed as fighting continues after US "withdrawal" from Iraq
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Bradley Manning solidarity march on Ft Meade
Occupy DC Marches against the NDAA/detention bill Dec 18, 19, at least 13 total arrests
Carol of Christmas Greed
Occupy DC Vote hunger striker Adrian continues after others forced to drop out
Occupy DC delivers golden bull (Wall Street's golden calf) to Congress, it is refused
Twitter suspending accounts over "too much talk about Occupy Wall Street"
Between the Lines:GOP using state lass such as voter ID for voter suppression
Between the Lines short: Extreme weather of 2011 a tate of things to come
Between the Lines: The durban climate negotiations
Jenny Gerbasi on Public Transit and Urban Sprawl in Winnipeg
Dec. 20, 2011, 9:10 p.m.
In Winnipeg, the Southwest Rapid Transit Corridor will be funded, in part, by an increase in transit fares. City councillor Jenny Gerbasi talks about why she voted against the city's 2012 capital budget and why transit infrastructure should not be funded by an increase in bus fares.
Petition against Winnipeg Transit fare increase
Dec. 20, 2011, 8:48 p.m.
Winnipeg city council approved a last-minute idea to increase the cost of public transit, without consultation. This has prompted backlash from opposition councillors, transit users and transit activists. Emily Wiebe went to city hall to tell city councillors why she opposes the fare increase.
Dec. 20, 2011, 8:47 p.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
Voice Ok Korea - December 21, 2011 - 0200UTC the Death Of Kim Jung Il
Dec. 20, 2011, 8:12 p.m.
Five Canadian men still fighting security certificates
Dec. 20, 2011, 7:06 p.m.
Since September 2011, five men have been detained under security certificates in Canada. The men have been held for up to eleven years, yet no charges have been laid, despite a Supreme Court of Canada judgement ruling that found security certificates unconstitutional. Mary Foster is a long-time activist on this issue in Montreal.
Working conditions for migrant workers in Canada and the U.S.
Dec. 20, 2011, 6:22 p.m.
December 18 is a day of action on the rights of migrant workers, refugees and displaced people. Adriana Paz was one of organizers of an event in Vancouver to commemorate this day. She is an activist with Justicia for Migrant Workers BC. Paz recently returned from the Arizona-Mexico border where she was researching the conditions for migrant workers there.
G20 organizers plead guilty to lesser charges
Dec. 20, 2011, 5:51 p.m.
In mid November, 17 members of the G20 Main Conspiracy Group reached a collective plea deal. No-one was convicted of conspiracy but six of the defendants pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Alex Hundert and Amanda Hiscocks also pleaded guilty to counseling to obstructing the police. Alex Hundert explains how that plea deal came about.
GroundWire Community Radio News | Dec 18, 2012
Dec. 20, 2011, 5:29 p.m.
This episode of GroundWire was produced by Leanne Arnison on traditional Mohawk territory at CKUT in Montreal, QC
Headlines:
Occupy Vancouver Port | Joel Barde
Abousfian Abdelrazik | Ray Corkum, ckut
Community Radio Report:
Homelessness Marathon | Aaron Lakoff, ckut
Music:
Cris Derkson | "Smile at me"
Features:
Climate change conference in Durban | Verena Uttner, ckut
Drugs, raid on Guelph compassion club, and police misconduct -- Scott Gilbert, Director of the Hamilton Medical Marijuana Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, updates us on what has happened since the raid within Guelph, Ontario last year | MaryCarl Guiao, cfru
Canada's failure to regulate environmental standards on Metro's Iona Sewage Facility | Leanne Arnison, ckut
Dec. 20, 2011, 2:31 p.m.
The 12 Fl. Oz. Show on air Christmas party lineup consisted of Charles Arthur from Johnny Hott and Piedmont Souprize (among many others), Jon Brown from Horsehead, country crooner Wes Edwards, Lee Harris from the Country Sunshine Band, rockabilly wildman Wrenn Mangum, and Andy Vaughan from the Driveline and Hamburger James with Chip Farnsworth on drums and Erik Kutzler on bass. This was a very fun, loose night of live celebration.
Dec. 20, 2011, 2:11 p.m.
The Iraq War finally ends ... though 80 more civilians are blown up and the final American death is announced ... Vaclav Havel, Kim Jong-Il and Christopher Hitchens say goodbye ... a hint of God Particle ... and we watch the sinking of Newt Gingrich. Oh, and Merry Christmas.
Aboriginal Sovereignty and Attawapiskat
Dec. 20, 2011, 11:14 a.m.
With the federal intervention into Attawapiskat the issue of federal oversight in Aboriginal reserves and Aboriginal sovereignty has reignited. To clear some of the muddy waters of the issue Cameron Maclean talks with James Wilson the commissioner of the treaty relations commission of Manitoba.
Check out http://ckuwnews.ca/ for more.
Do They Know it's Christmas
Dec. 20, 2011, 11:13 a.m.
A variety of Social action groups spoke to Hamilton City Hall in regard to the use of the money that is downloaded by the Province, from the Federal Government, to be used by and large for Social programs
Dec. 20, 2011, 11:04 a.m.
The final book in Sawyer's trilogy about The Singularity.
Dec. 20, 2011, 10:45 a.m.
On Nov 17 at the Lo Pud, the Downtown Biz hosted a forum on Downtown safety. The forum was very tense, with people shouting and interrupting some of the panelists. Some have written off the forum for it's lack of civility and poisoning the "well of civil discourse" http://uniter.ca/blog/entry/6934/
Yet the forum brought up critical important issues in regards to downtown safety,the role of both the downtown Biz and the police.
Dec. 20, 2011, 10:36 a.m.
Jim Morrison is still one of the most compelling figures who has ever been part of popular music. He never got old and therefore never seriously let us down, so the mysteries that remain still matter to many. I have gathered together most every existing recorded tape of The Doors and Jim Morrison from late August 1970 to Jim's death in Paris in July 1971 and combined them with a chronology of the events of Jim's Miami trial, his final shows with The Doors, the move to Paris, and the stories about his death.
Dec. 20, 2011, 10:26 a.m.
The mantra of the Occupy movement is the 99% VS the 1%. Although on the surface this statement seems to encapsulate the issue of income inequity to some the statement is shallow. Globally most of the occupiers are in fact part of the global 1%. There has been a movement to decolonize and re-occupy the occupy movement to encapsulate the global 99%. How can the occupy movement address this and build solidarity with the global 99%?
Dec. 20, 2011, 9:46 a.m.
Dec. 20, 2011, 9:33 a.m.
Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein was one of the 10 thousand people who surrounded the White House on November 6 to say no to pipelines and no to the tar sands. She explains why she thinks the united opposition of BC chiefs is so critical to the fight against Enbridgeâs Northern Gateway pipelines and against the tar sands development as a whole.
Dec. 20, 2011, 8:40 a.m.
Proceedings of a KPFA/Pacifica-sponsored debate on religion held 6 Jun 2007 between:
The late Christopher Hitchens, author of "God Is Not Great," and
Chris Hedges, author of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America"; with
Musical Coda:
John Lennon: "God" [rare acoustic version];
The Young Rascals: "I Believe"; and
Lovin' Spoonful: "Do You Believe in Magic?"; and
Anchor's Outro:
"... We also wish you happy holidays, if indeed atheist secularism allows the very word 'holiday' -- eliding as it does the phrase 'holy day,' from the Old High German 'heilig,' referring to things 'holy, sacred and divine.' Or, in the original Proto-Germanic etymology -- 'healthy.'
"For Five O'Clock Shadow, I'm Robert Knight in New York."
Dec. 20, 2011, 1:47 a.m.
There are drinking songs in store for you tonight, as is ever my wont. Tune in and drink up, if you would, please!
Dec. 19, 2011, 10:21 p.m.
The annual Radio Ecoshock Green Music Festival. Best of eco-music, many you won't find on Itunes. Some sent in by listeners, or the artists, not on albums, etc. Playlist at ecoshock.info. Plus 2 new Occupy songs ( Makana and David Rovics). A little inspiration for the heart.
First Nations united against tar sands oil and pipelines
Dec. 19, 2011, 7:48 p.m.
At the beginning of December 2010, 61 First Nations signed the Save the Fraser Declaration. The declaration states that the Nations of the Fraser River Watershed in BC will not allow the pipelines or similar tar sands projects to cross their lands. One year later, the signatories to the declaration number more than 130. Jackie Thomas of the Saikâuz First Nation was one of the chiefs involved in drafting the Save the Fraser declaration. She was present at a signing ceremony in Vancouver December 1st, 2011 and she spoke later that day at a public forum organized in part by the Wilderness Committee.