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Pride Day interview with Alexis Mitchell
June 28, 2011, 8:28 a.m.
Host Kym Nacita interviews Toronto-based media artist Alexis Mitchell, whose performative documentary and hybrid media works explore queerness, memory, performativity, space, architecture, and nuanced understandings of contemporary Jewish identity and politics.
Public sector unions and the assault on public services
June 28, 2011, 8:20 a.m.
Business elites are attacking the last remaining stronghold of unionism â public sector workers. Michael Hurley says creative new strategies are needed in response. Hurley is President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, a division of CUPE. Heâs co-author, with Sam Gindin, of a recent article in The Bullet.
June 28, 2011, 5:58 a.m.
June 28, 2011, 2:16 a.m.
James Fadiman had studied under Richard Alpert at Harvard University and then went on to complete his Masters and PhD in Psychology with an unprecedented focus on studying Psychedelics at Stanford University.
He taught at Stanford and other learning institutions and co-founded the graduate school, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in 1975.
James Fadiman's website is http://www.jamesfadiman.com/
He is an author of both fiction and non-fiction books, his latest being "The Pscychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys."
The website is
http://www.jamesfadiman.com/guide.html
He will speak at Kepler's in Menlo Park, CA on Thursday June 30 at 7 p.m. For more information, please look at the flyer at:
http://www.jamesfadiman.com/schedule.html
The link for the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
is
https://www.itp.edu/
The website for Students for Sensible Drug Policy is http://ssdp.org/
Here's the wiki website which Dr. Fadiman mentioned for people who are looking for help and information on taking psychedelics: http://entheoguide.net/wiki/Main_Page
June 28, 2011, 1:47 a.m.
Drug night goes out with a heavily medicated whimper! Tonight, we're playing all songs about prescription drugs, and then closing it out with another thoroughly awesome episode of Rum Doings in the second hour.
Further To Fly: Exploring Air Travel Part II
June 27, 2011, 10:53 p.m.
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we talked about how a single flight can virtually neutralize all the efforts a family makes in a year to reduce their carbon footprint. As individuals, itâs essential that we begin to fly less, but isnât there something more that the airlines can do, too? This week, Alex Wise interviews Jim Walsh, Managing Director of Corporate Environmental at American Airlines. He explains how early motivations to become more efficient and sustainable stemmed from rising fuel costs and an associated self-interest in saving money. But these seeds of sustainability began to sprout and the airline now boasts a number of employee-informed solutions, including donating used carpets to animal shelters, plans for burning alternative fuels, replacing heavy food carts with lighter ones, and even serving rain-forest certified coffee.
June 27, 2011, 8:04 p.m.
This week is especially great. I touch on such a wide range of topics. Our national focus, takes us to Washington D.C. for protests of the previous week and the business of debt ceiling negotiations, which is D.C. code for budget talks, as well as a reminder of our Fourth Amendment constitutional rights. National Protest feature activist group Witness against torture as they interrupt members of the house directing their attention to continued abuses and torture at Guantanamo.
Our Local Focus brings us to Sheridan Village, in Peoria for a Union demonstration. Grievous union labor is up in arms over the managers of the shopping center properties choice to hire out of state labor to re-roof the complex. I also have a conversation with Taura Edwards, the daughter of late, respected local environmental activist and writer Tom Edwards. As she takes the baton to continue his fight to keep Peoria lakes free of islands. I visit The Peoria Theater, and speak with the owner and general manager about what he sees are his establishments gifts and opportunities to community, in this weekâs community expose.
June 27, 2011, 7:10 p.m.
We start out with a short tribute to the late Anal Cunt frontman, and then it's in to the snottiest, lowest-fi, garage punkest episode yet. These jams will make you wanna spit in your teacher's face, swear at your ma, and crash your car. Some new old school groovers like King Salami and Hipbone Slim round out the mix.
Highlights include: School Jerks, Henry Fiat's Open Sore, Hell-Racer, some old Rip Offs 7"s, and Inservibles (!!!).
This one's raw and full of attitude. Too many snotty gems to list here, just check the playlist!
playlist: http://wrir.org/index.php?/blog/entry/3403/
17JUN2011: Remembering Tim Meinbresse
June 27, 2011, 6:22 p.m.
Tonight I'll be remembering my good friend Tim Meinbresse, who lost his battle with cancer early Monday morning. Lots of tunes come to mind, including bands I saw with Tim. Ex-wife Julie, son Griffin, & daughter Amelia join in.
www.wrir.org/index.php?/blog/entry/3352
Audio from the 2011 Tacoma Leonard Peltier Clemency Rally
June 27, 2011, 5:43 p.m.
Listen to Native elders talk about the struggle to free Leonard Peltier. Chauncey Peltier, Leonard's son, speaks about his dad. More speeches by Leonard's supporters were recorded at the rally held in front of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Tacoma.
Interview with Paul Wright of Prison Legal News
June 27, 2011, 5:37 p.m.
Paul talks about founding Prison Legal News while incarcerated in Washington State as a resource for prisoners.
The Other Black Music June 26, 2011
June 27, 2011, 5:24 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.
The Motherland Influence June 26, 2011
June 27, 2011, 5:15 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Every Sunday 5:00-7:00 PM
Interview with Michael Novick on Anti-Racism and Decolonizing
June 27, 2011, 4:42 p.m.
New York says "We do" to marriage equality + more LGBT news
June 27, 2011, 4:42 p.m.
New York crosses the marriage equality threshold, while President Obama's ringing "non-endorsement" suggests a failure to "evolve"; partnerships are endorsed in Liechtenstein and Wisconsin, Tennesseans launch a lawsuit for the right to ban bias, police protect protested Pride parades in Sofia, Zagreb and Budapest, the W.H.O. finds anti-gay sex laws unhealthy, Amnesty asks Turkey to axe homophobia, and more LGBT news from around the world; plus a poignant reading by a poet who's passed.
Rick Rozoff:the invesrion of humanitarian war
June 27, 2011, 4:07 p.m.
The current wars under the banner of the war on terror have all been justified under the notion of a humanitarian war.Rick Rozoff goes through in inversion of a humanitarian war and the historical revisioning that goes with it
Check out Rick Rozoff at http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/
and check out more interviews at ckuwnews.ca
The Re-branding of the Tar Sands
June 27, 2011, 3:39 p.m.
The tar sands in Alberta have a dubious and repugnant reputation. Recently the Canadain goverment has undertaken a re-branding campagin of the tar sands in Europe.How is the Canadain goverment trying to sell the tar sands? How much money and man power is used? What are the ramifications of these PR wars.
Check out more of Martin Lukacs and more grass roots news at http://www.dominionpaper.ca/
Check out the CKUW news teams website at ckuwnews.ca
June 27, 2011, 3:24 p.m.
New work by multiple award-winning SF writer China Mieville
Janie Rezner Janie Rezner Interviews Dr. Marguerite Rigoglioso
June 27, 2011, 2:12 p.m.
Dr.Marguerite Rigoglioso is author of The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece, and Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity. She teaches on women and religion at Dominican University of CA, the California Institute of Integral Studies, The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Greek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts--stories of mortal women's couplings with gods; the unusual virgin birth stores of Pythagoras, Plato, and Alexander; and more. In this study Marguerite suggests such details are remnants of an early Greek cult of divine birth. She argues that many in the highest echelons of Greek civilization believed non-ordinary conception (parthenogenesis) was the only means possible of bringing forth high spiritual beings who could serve as true leaders or avatars, and that specific cadres of virgin priestesses were dedicated to this practice. Her book adds a unique perspective to our understanding of antiquity and has significant implications for the study of christianity and other religions in which divine birth claims are central. " . . .an orginial piece of scholarship that dares to imagine traditions at the foundation of Western culture in an entirely new light."
If Music Could Talk - June 27 2011
June 27, 2011, 1:36 p.m.
2011Jun27:Complexities of Richmond's Black History
June 27, 2011, 10:30 a.m.
This episode of the Defenders LIVE concerns issues pertaining to the history of African Americans and our role in the Civil War especially as it pertains to the former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA. We deal with building awareness within our race for our history. Using the richest parts of our history to build a foundation for future generations.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0097
June 27, 2011, 8:58 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
Cool Jazz Set; June 26,2011; Set #1
June 27, 2011, 7:07 a.m.
Cool Jazz Set; June 26,2011; Set #2
June 27, 2011, 7 a.m.
The Financial Hijacking of America (TWO of TWO)
June 27, 2011, 12:08 a.m.
Ellen Brown warns us of the role of the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland. But most importantly she describes the Bank of North Dakota, an amazing, little known, highly successful state owned bank founded in 1919 and flourishing today. Then and now it is structured to bypass Wall Street. Brown suggests that California adopt that model to solve both the budget and the overall financial crisis - as 14 states are already planning to do. The website, <publicbankinginstitute.org/> is a major organizing tool in this intriguing effort to take power away from the commercial banks and Wall Street.
Espacio de Noticias de la Ké Huelga - 24 de junio de 2011
June 26, 2011, 10:26 p.m.
El Espacio de Noticias intenta comunicar la resistencia de los pueblos contra el monstruo capital y sus gobiernos sirvientes. Se elabora en Ciudad Monstruo, México y forma parte del proyecto radial de la Ké Huelga Radio. Esta es la edición del 24 de junio de 2011.
June 26, 2011, 9:40 p.m.
TABLE RONDE :
L' art en prison
Table ronde lors de l'exposition www.expoagir.com
La présentation du projet Agir par l'imaginaire sous différents angles et sa mise en contexte par rapport à d'autres initiatives de création artistique en établissements de détention canadiens.
Interventions:
Véro Leduc
Finissante à la maîtrise (Ãcole de travail social - UQÃM), sa recherche porte sur l'expérience d'Agir par l'imaginaire et, grâce à huit entrevues avec des participantes, explore le lien entre l'art communautaire et la reconnaissance sociale.
Sylvie Verville
Aujourdâhui incarcérée à lâÃtablissement Joliette,
Sylvie Verville a réalisé à la Maison Tanguay lâÅuvre photographique « Blessée » présentée dans lâexposition AGIR.
Marion Vacheret
Professeure agrégée à l'école de criminologie de l'Université de Montréal, Marion Vacheret réfléchit sur lâéchec du modèle sur lequel nous avons pensé les prisons dans les 30 dernières années, axées sur la gestion du risque des personnes judiciarisées.
Justin Piché
Doctorant au sein du département de sociologie et dâanthropologie à lâUniversité de Carleton, Justin Piché sâintéresse aux coûts de lâincarcération versus celui des alternatives possibles.
June 26, 2011, 9:23 p.m.
Music talking wash, rinse, repeat.
U.S. Cultural Genocide: Winnemem Wintu Declare War
June 26, 2011, 8:40 p.m.
Independence Day begs the question of what freedom and independence means. For Independence Day, Radio Curious brings you an interview with the Headman and War Chief of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California. The Winnemem Wintu declared war on the United States in 2004, in response to the âcontinued cultural genocideâ against the indigenous tribe. Since that time they have been in a state of war against the US Government, which refuses to officially recognize the tribe as Native Americans.
June 26, 2011, 2:23 p.m.
Interview with William Hartung Director of the Arms & Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and author of "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex"