Latest Programs
5/18/11 - Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
May 30, 2011, 5:52 p.m.
Executive Director of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Jack Harris, discusses how his organization tries to make the law better for trial attorneys, and for the clients they represent.
# 198 Local Coal Seam Gas Problems
May 30, 2011, 4 p.m.
Chat with Sofie about the massive proliferation of coal seam gas exploration, and about the local and regional concerns.
Crooner k.d. lang + Playwright Jane Anderson + global LGBT news
May 30, 2011, 2:48 p.m.
Iconic crooner k.d. lang talks about her music, love, and life; backstage with award-winning multi-platform playwright Jane Anderson; Pride marchers meet mayhem in Moscow, LGBT parades are aborted in Montenegro and Belarus, Aussie fundamentalists can't silence calls for marriage equality, the Church of Scotland lifts its blanket ban on gay clergy, Pride is accidentally on display in Afghanistan, and more LGBT news from around the world.
The Other Black Music May 29, 2011
May 30, 2011, 12:39 p.m.
roadcasting 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 May 29, 2011
May 30, 2011, 11:57 a.m.
Two hours of African, Latin and Caribbean music.
Every Sunday 5:00-7:00 PM
2011May30:Richmond African Burial Ground Victory
May 30, 2011, 10:36 a.m.
This episode of the DefendersLIVE discusses the victory in removing the asphalt from the slave burial ground in Richmond, Virginia. Also discussed in this episode is the reaction of city officials, VCU lobbyist, and law enforcement in response to the actions taken by members of the Defenders For Freedom Justice & Equality in protesting and winning the fight in stopping the desecration of our ancestors final resting place.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0093
May 30, 2011, 9:50 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
If Music Could Talk - Memorial Day weekend 2011
May 30, 2011, 9:23 a.m.
Dr. H H Bauer: Knowledge Monopolies and Research Cartels:
May 30, 2011, 6:43 a.m.
Prof. Bauer discusses the rise of scientism (belief that science will solve all problems), the misconceptions concerning the scientific method, the domination of our current scientific culture by dogma , and the dire effects of these problems on our lives and societies. He also discussed how to move back towards a more open and reality based scientific process.
Cool Jazz Set; May 29, 2011; Set # 1
May 30, 2011, 5:33 a.m.
May 30, 2011, 4:58 a.m.
5 talks from the 2011 Anarchist Book Fair in Sheffield:
Elephants, Dogmas and Taboos: a Friendly Critique of Anarchism
This talk was advertised with the following text:
"Anarchism is often unthinkingly dismissed - or uncritically embraced. This session takes a provocative look at anarchism, challenging a number of ideas taken for granted by most anarchists, to see how feasible - and desirable - anarchism really is."
Anarchism 101
This talk was advertised as:
"Everything you wanted to know about anarchism/libertarian communism but were afraid to ask. A panel discussion featuring members of the Anarchist Federation http://www.afed.org.uk/ , Solidarity Federation http://www.solfed.org.uk/ and the Commune http://thecommune.co.uk/ . "
Sorry the start of the discussion is missing, it's probably only the first 10mins at most that was missed.
Anarchist Studies Network Book Launch
Anarchism and Moral Philosophy - Edited by Benjamin Franks and Matthew Wilson
Anarchism and Utopianism Edited by Laurence Davis and Ruth Kinna
Postanarchism: A Reader Edited by Duane Rouselle and Sureyyya Evren
Sheffield Social Centre: Why? What? Where?
See http://www.sheffieldsocialcentre.org.uk/ for more on this project.
Luddites Organising Forum
This talk was advertised with the following blurb:
"From 1811 to 1813, thousands of textile workers in Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire rose up against the mill owners, by smashing the power looms which were throwing them into unemployment and starvation. In 2011, anarchists, labour organisers and green activists will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Luddite rebellion and planning resistance to the new industrial revolution we see today. This workshop will look at the expansion of corporate power through nanotechnology, biotechnology, surveillance, information and other technologies, and at how we can resist these developments in the spirit of our comrades 200 years ago."
The land magazine website is at http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/
For more information about the campaign see: http://www.luddites200.org.uk/
Cool Jazz Set; May 29, 2011; Set # 2
May 30, 2011, 4:37 a.m.
Jazz For The Asking PRG 024 hour 1 and 2
May 29, 2011, 9:11 p.m.
Education Reform Rally at Harvard Commencement Ceremony
May 29, 2011, 6:17 p.m.
This rally was a protest of Education Secretary Arnie Duncan's so-called "Race to the Top" Policy held outside Harvard Yard, while he was inside Harvard Yard.
Investigative journalist's Princess Diana assassination report
May 29, 2011, 2:22 p.m.
May 29, 2011, 1:14 p.m.
Music, talking, and much ado about nothing.
May 29, 2011, 11:27 a.m.
Talk by Terri Mast, Secretary Treasurer - Inland Boatman's Union's Region 37 and Cindy Domingo, National Chair for the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes on "Martyrs for Justice: Revisiting the Assassinations of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes 30 years later" given May 26 at Smith Hall, University of Washington in Seattle.
Seldom Heard Radio May 29 2011
May 29, 2011, 11:18 a.m.
as originally broadcast on WSCS 90.9 New London NH on 5/29/11. From folk to funk & all routes in between.
May 29, 2011, 11:15 a.m.
Wrap-up of the past weeks news with Geov Parrish and Maria Tomchick of Eat the State!
May 29, 2011, 9:24 a.m.
Brief review of "zines" and alternative press publications
May 29, 2011, 9:20 a.m.
a look at the life and music of Jim Sullivan, who vanished mysteriously in 1975.
May 29, 2011, 9:12 a.m.
ALSO: FULL VIDEO OF PROGRAM AT:
http://politube.org/show/3226
BSTF 868 - Hurricane Spectacular 11 - Lord of the LIES!
May 29, 2011, 8:05 a.m.
Tonight's episode of the HURRICANE SPECTACULAR is Chapter 11: "Lord of the LIES!"
After last week's violently tumultuous episode, things seem to have wrapped up nicely. Jeb Robertson Bush has at last tracked his rogue brother through the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged bayous and killed the shithead with extreme prejudice. YES! George has finally been captured, slaughtered, and decapitated, his bloody, gutted remains abandoned in the swamps.
You'd think Jeb's problems would finally be over.
You'd be surprised.
BSTF 867 - Hurricane Spectacular 10 - DEATHMATCH!
May 29, 2011, 7:51 a.m.
Tonight's episode of the HURRICANE SPECTACULAR is Chapter 10: "DEATHMATCH!" The tenth chapter of my epic opens with a sense of foreboding of horrors to come--and this one DELIVERS, plus!
As Jeb "Snake Plissken" Robertson Bush beats the bayous tracking his renegade half-brother George, he tortures information out of shellshocked hurricane survivors and reminisces about the convoluted genetic path that brought him to this pivotal point. The flashback-memories that well up in Jeb's mind throw stark light on the twisted intertwining histories of the Robertson/Bush dynasties. Meanwhile, George is all fucked up with nowhere to go--drunk off his ass and wandering the swamps aimlessly in a drag disguise, the idiot is unaware that his meandering path is drawing him closer and closer to a brutal date with Destiny--and boy, is SHE pissed at him. All bets are off as the two presidents finally face each other in the middle of a storm-ravaged Louisiana battleground. And this fact is TRUE:
Someone will DIE tonight. And *badly,* too.
The incredible jaw-dropping violence of the last three minutes is NOT TO BE MISSED. You'll want to fap to it later, believe me.
It opens with "Swampland" by Aussie proto-punks the Scientists from 1979. Leon Russell splashes through with some incisive and timely songs as well. And as for that George Bush edit of "Fortunate Son"--? I didn't do it, but I wish I had.
339 - US & Israel Isolated About Palestine
May 28, 2011, 8:54 p.m.
News You Need to Know: US & Israel Increasingly Isolated; NH Gazette Fortnightly Rant; Between The Lines interview: Howard Friel on Obamaâs Attempt to Revive Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations; Backyard Chicken Broadcast; Media Minutes; Outside The Box: Power of Words, pt 2; music.
May 28, 2011, 5:57 p.m.
May 28, 2011, 5:26 p.m.
Rome et le cinéma (Pasolini, Zampa, Kubrick).
Aronowitz, Baker & Lynd - What Is To Be Done?
May 28, 2011, 3:32 p.m.
What Is To Be Done?
In this period of intensified class warfare against the working class and the poor,
what will it take to mobilize the people for the mass movement it will surely take to win? Many have been heartened by the fightback in Wisconsin and many of the frontline states. But is the predominately electoral strategy that is currently being followed sufficient to win? What is the role direct action, strikes, including general strikes, and cross union and community solidarity? We talk with:
General Baker has been called the most important 21st century American revolutionary. He was a leader of the Detroit wildcat strikes in the 1960s, a founder of the legendary League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), & the first American to refuse induction to fight in Vietnam. The book, "Detroit: I Do Mind Dying" (about the worker revolts of that era) calls Baker the "soul of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)." An autoworker for 30 years, he remains a champion of the unemployed and unorganized workers.
Stanley Aronowitz is a Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies. He is author or editor of 25 books including: Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future; How Class Works; The Jobless Future with William DiFazio); & False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class consciousness.
Staughton Lynd has dedicated his life to activism and social change as a historian,
lawyer, and labor activist. He helped direct the Mississippi Freedom Schools. In April 1965 he spoke at the first march on Washington against the Vietnam War and became an early leader of the anti-war movement. Subsequent to becoming an attorney he spent years focusing on labor and prison issues. He wrote the definitive history of the 1993 Ohio prison uprising at Lucasville as well as the ever popular âLabor Law for the Rank and Filerâ and âRank and Fileâ oral histories of the 1930âs.
Freedom Riders at Parchment Farm Part II
May 28, 2011, 12:52 p.m.
Parchman Farm has probably inspired some of the best r & b coming out of Mississippi. That quintessentially southern place, part prison, part cotton field, became the final destination for Freedom Riders who had to be shielded by the National Guard from local mobs as they made their route through the south. Alarmed by the violence of the mobs, President Kennedy dispatched his brother, then Attorney General Robert Kennedy to strike a deal with the state officials from Mississippi to ensure that the Freedom Riders would have safe passage to Jackson. In exchange for their safe passage (the National Guard would escort the Freedom Riders into the state), the Freedom Riders would be arrested on their arrival in Jackson.
Over 350 of the Freedom Riders were placed behind bars and given a six-month sentence for âbreach of peaceâ violations. Rather than posting bail immediately however, the Freedom Riders chose to remain in jail for forty days, the maximum amount of time one could remain in jail before losing their right of appeal. As the local jails filled up, many of the Freedom Riders were transferred to the newly built maximum-security facility at Parchman Farm located 140 miles outside of Jackson.
At Parchman the conditions worsened. Men and women prisoners were segregated from each other by race and sex. The female population was housed in the death row wing of the prison many were subjected to humiliating body searches and allowed no time for exercise.
The Freedom Riders responded to their harsh treatment by singing freedom songs from their cells. When the guards demanded they stop their singing, the Freedom Riders refused. As punishment for their insolence, the guards took away their blankets. The riders were forced to sleep on the, hard steel floor.â
Nights were especially cold.
Freedom Riders - attacked! Part 1
May 28, 2011, 12:36 p.m.
50 years ago today, under a secret arrangement with the Federal government put in place by Robert F. Kennedy, Nashville Stud ent Freedom Riders boarded buses from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, MiSsissippi, under National Guard escort. The National Guard escort was in response to a series of violent incidents that threatened the Freedom riders, the most serious of which occurred on Motherâs Day, May, 14th, 1961 when the riders were met by an angry mob (dressed in their Sunday finest as if theyâd just come from church) in Anniston, Alabama. Due to the ferocity of the mob, the bus decided not to stop at the station and it quickly left. But a member of the angry band had slashed the busâs tires at the station. A few miles outside of Anniston the tires began to deflate and the bus was forced to pull over. As the bus driver fled, a mob of men who had been following the bus got out of their cars and surrounded the stricken bus. From somewhere in the crowd a firebomb was thrown inside the bus and exploded. As the Freedom Riders tried to escape the smoke and flames they found they could not as the exit doors were blocked by the surging mob. Just then one of the gas tanks exploded on the bus and the mob rushed back allowing the Freedom Riders to push the doors open and escape. As they exited the burning bus, the Freedom Riders rushed outside still choking from the thick smoke and were beaten by the waiting vigilantes. As lead pipes and baseball bats were swung, only an onboard undercover agent prevented the Freedom Riders from being lynched that day as he fired his gun into the air. Later that same day the Freedom Riders were beaten a second time as they arrived in Birmingham, Alabama. Kennedy decided to act.