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June 11, 2011, 7:45 p.m.
Asian psych- and garage-rock; the three Kutis -- Fela, Femi and Seun; from blues to porro in five easy steps; African urban and electronic dance music
Target Union Drive; Queens Library Budget Disaster
June 11, 2011, 4:16 p.m.
Workers Aim at Target Unionization
With
Tashawna Green â Member Union Organizing Committee
Sonia Williams â Member Union Organizing Committee
Aly Wady â Special Projects Dir., Organizing Dept., UFCW, Local 1500
Diana Robinson â Food Policy Coordinator, UFCW, Local 1500
Target workers at the superstoreâs Valley Stream location are furious that their hours have been cut sometimes to just one or two days a week while new workers are being hired. So they donât have enough income to survive forcing
many to rely on food stamps & Medicaid. A majority of workers have already signed cards supporting unionization with Local 1500, UFCW. Target is fighting back by threatening union workers with firings, disciplinary actions and closing the store. Workers have been prevented from discussing their employment on social networking sites, interrogated about their union activity and have been told their union activity was under surveillance. If the workers vote to join Local 1500 in the June 17 election, the Valley Stream store would be the first Target in the country to be unionized but probably not the last especially in the NYC area.
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Bloombergâs Budget to Decimate Queens Public Library
With
John Hyslop, Pres., Queens Library Guild, Local 1321 , DC 37 AFSCME
Library workers are fighting Mayor Bloomberg's proposed $25.3 million in budget cuts to the Queens Public Library. Since 2008, over 200 jobs have already been lost through attrition and layoffs. The current proposed 30% cut will result in library hours being at their lowest level ever, less than in NYCâs budget crisis of the 1970s. These cuts would slash library services; close branches 2-3 days a week; end the free
computer and Internet services; destroy the materials budget; and force 234 Library employees to be laid off. Local 1321 is sponsoring a demonstration outside the Central Library on Merrick Blvd.
June 11, 2011, 4:10 p.m.
Au septième ciel - 11 juin 2011
June 11, 2011, 1:46 p.m.
Claire Denis (White Material), Rebecca Zlotowski (Belle épine).
Bilderberg's CIA/Nazi roots & NATO war agenda
June 11, 2011, 12:06 p.m.
Up to No Good: 'New war likely on Bilderberg agenda'
11.06.2011 17:31
RT's Bill Dod talks to Tony Gosling, an investigative journalist from Bristol, UK, about what might be the main agenda behind all the security and closed doors at this year's meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Switzerland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviCaODZ0zQ
Bll Dodd, Tony Gosling
Is It Not The Time For Everybody?
June 11, 2011, 11:34 a.m.
mr. atavist here filling in for the absent Buzzy on Shake Some Action, WRIR 97.3 FM/wrir.org, Saturdays 11-1.
Let's go to work.
*Ep00043 fingerpaintsofthegods*
June 11, 2011, 10:55 a.m.
The usual mix of music scoured from the bottom of the interwebs.
Happy Station Show June 11, 1965
June 11, 2011, 6:48 a.m.
June 11, 2011, 6:35 a.m.
Switzerland In Sound June 11, 2011
June 11, 2011, 6:24 a.m.
June 11, 2011, 6:16 a.m.
June 11, 2011, 3:20 a.m.
The week's show features two important thinkers on the idea of the world as system. First, a radio adaptation of episode 2 of the new documentary by Adam Curtis, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace about the social role and flimsy scientific basis of the idea of an 'ecosystem', followed by a short comment by Curtis on the film's main message. Next, Ivan Illich on the institutionalization of society and the loss of people's personal power in the 1980's when people started to see the world as a system.
June 10, 2011, 8:30 p.m.
Cheryl interviews Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker on False Flag Operations, which appear to be the norm rather than the exception when it comes to luring the public into supporting wars based on false justifications. This show was first aired on March 4, 2008.
Do something that won't compute: know the land
June 10, 2011, 6:48 p.m.
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
~Wendell Berry, excerpt from The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
On today's episode of Health Justice Radio, we consider the ways in which our own health and the health of our community, is linked to the health of the land. We speak with Knowing the Land is Resistance a Hamilton collective dedicated to exploring the remaining Carolinian Forest. Their writing has appeared in MayDay magazine where they ask questions like, "Why is there so little forest left? Who benefits from this? What do healthy natural communities look like in this area? How do disturbed wild spaces heal themselves? How can we, humans raised in this constrictive colonial, capitalist system, participate in that healing?" Listen here.
June 10, 2011, 6:29 p.m.
Another two wholesome hours of ripping garage punk! This week I dipped into my small but potent record collection to bring you some fucking awesome newer stuff and a few punk classics.
I know I said no metal last time and snuck one in at the end. This time I promise. The closer is possibly the highlight of the whole episode, a band called Simply Saucer from the mid-70s that is mindblowingly ahead of its time.
Other notable tracks include the Rippers, Immortal Lee County Killers, Wildebeests...oh, and the whole Sports Bar side to their split 7".
Hooray for summer.
6/8/11 - Bed Bugs in Rental Housing: Who Pays?
June 10, 2011, 6:08 p.m.
Special Correspondent Kati Kitts from the University of Richmond School of Law interviews your host, Marty Wegbreit, about bed bugs, and why landlords â and not tenants â are responsible for eradicating the problem and paying the costs.
June 10, 2011, 3:27 p.m.
THIS WEEK (June 9, 2011; Episode 13):
This episode showcases the Lebanese Underground/Alternative/Experimental music scene in Lebanon by highlighting music by such amazing young musicians as Zeid Hamdan, Soapkills, Beirut Biloma, Tania Saleh, Marc Codsi, Mashrou' Leila (Mashrou3 Leila), Rayess Bek Orchestra, Fareeq Al Atrash, Grace Deeb, Carol Sacr, Nadine Khouri, Elizabeth Ayoub, Pindoll, Youmna Saba, Blend, Scrambled Eggs.
Additionally, this episode features a live report by Ahmad Qousi who reports--live from Jordan--about various social, economic, and musical trends in that country.
June 10, 2011, 2:55 p.m.
The life and lessons of a city builder
#171 -- The Hidden Life of Garbage
June 10, 2011, 2:42 p.m.
Heather Rogers' short 2005 video documentary, "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage," plus introduction & other commentary by me.
It's about the mountains of waste from a consumer economy based on disposable products... the inability of recycling programs to actually recycle most of the stuff they receive ... and the massive "Keep America Beautiful" anti-littering campaign--an industry ploy designed to head off anti-disposables legislation.
Plus 2 min. on plastic waste by Annie Leonard.
Krassner pt4__Religions Inc Lenny Bruce
June 10, 2011, 2:26 p.m.
Brief mandatory Wweiner Joke, Paul Krassner on the phone, Religions Inc: Lenny Bruce 1958
June 2 2011 Kootenay Co-op Radio - Music
June 10, 2011, 1:11 p.m.
beats, dubstep, drum and bass, hip hop, roots and more
Thursday at 10pm-12 PST & kootenaycoopradio.com
Right click 'save target as' to download
10Jun11 UK economists vs. Osborne and the IMF
June 10, 2011, 1:09 p.m.
10Jun11 Guardian's Charlie Skelton live from Bilderberg 2011 in St Moritz
June 10, 2011, 12:46 p.m.
June 10, 2011, 11 a.m.
Greed is Now Respectable, Part 2: Reverse Mortgages and Annuities
June 10, 2011, 10:49 a.m.
In part two in our series, âGreed is Now Respectableâ we visit again with Attorney Prescott Cole, employed by California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform based in San Francisco, California. We discuss what a reverse mortgage is and the grave and potential economic and social consequences to which purchasers of a reverse mortgage are exposed. We talk about annuities, what they are, what they cost, and why an annuity is a poor investment for seniors. We include a discussion of how Veterans eligible for aid benefits have been lured into giving away their assets in an attempt to become eligible for the aid benefits.
June 10, 2011, 10:48 a.m.
June 10, 2011, 9:41 a.m.
Interview with economist turned rock star turned international best-selling author Jo Nesbo
June 10, 2011, 9:37 a.m.
Friday Breakfast Blend w/ Phil D.
June 10, 2011, 6:01 a.m.
June 10, 2011, 4:47 a.m.
The Sunrise Ocean Bender sets sail every Friday morning, 3 â 6 a.m. on WRIR lp 97.3 FM, to find something for your ears, and something for your head ⦠From psych to prog to pop and whatever tributary we can find on the way ⦠and right back around again. There might be a map, but the destination is up for grabs. If it all goes right, we may just get lost. Meet me at the muster station ⦠thereâs no better way to start your freakend.