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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.
May 28, 2011, 8:12 a.m.
Happy 70th birthday to Martin Carthy; new desert blues by Vieux Farka Toure, Terakaft and Bombino; East Africa in the 70s; a salsa set for the dancers
Michael C Ruppert: Beyond Petroleum Man
May 28, 2011, 6:12 a.m.
Whistleblower and so-called conspiracy theorist, Michael C Ruppert, talks to Chris Laidlaw about life and activism and the extinction of what he calls the subspecies of petroleum man.
#553 - US Interventionism, Then & Now
May 28, 2011, 12:48 a.m.
This week we hear a pair of perspectives from earlier this month on US foreign policy, both from seasoned critics of the US Imperial Strategy. Firstly, Tariq Ali reviews the historical record, from the genocidal expansionism of US colonists up this month's exploits in Libya. Secondly, Noam Chomsky speaksin Syracuse, NY on "What Drives US Foreign Policy & What We Can Do To Change It".
Media Network Plus May 28, 2011
May 27, 2011, 10:50 p.m.
May 27, 2011, 5:23 p.m.
Hear The World PCJ/RNW Program 9
May 27, 2011, 5:10 p.m.
WSQT off-air podcast for May 27
May 27, 2011, 5 p.m.
WSQT Intro:On-air broadcast suspended due to suspicous activity at transmitter site, podcasts will continue until new site found
Pirate Radio Song
This Week in Palestine for May 23-27
AIPAC protest nets arrest, confrontation with police
Code Pink protester assaulted, hospitalized after shouting down Israel PM at AIPAC
Between the Lines: Fallout from and BS in Obama's "1967" Palestine speech
War Update for May 27: 7 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Desertion Song (clip)
What if Army ads had health warnings?
Station ID:WSQT in Exile
Homeless and Empower DC swarm DC City Council
West End Library closing alert-Suddenly it's 2007?
Keep DC Wal-Mart free anthem
Solar advocates protest at PEPCO AGM (board meeting)
Between the Lines: March on Blair Mountain against MTR and remembering uprising
8 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
May 27, 2011, 4:57 p.m.
Afghanistan, Thursday: Eight US soldiers were killed in an IED attack on their foot patrol. Major Tim James, a spokesman for NATO, stated two separate IED's were used, while the Washington Post reports a single bomb.This was the deadliest day for NATO in Afghanistan since April 27.
Afghanistan, Thursday: a NATO soldier of unreported nationality was killed in a helicoper crash.
Afghanistan, today: The AP wire is reporting that three more NATO soldiers were killed today, two in another IED attack and one in a separate unspecified attack. That makes 200 occupation soldiers killed this year.
Pakistan, last night: A suicide truck bomber killed 26 people in the town of Hangu. The blast was in an area near multiple government offices, and continues the Taliban's retaliation for the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Pakistan, Wednesday: Pakistani militants rammed a car packed with explosives into a police station in Peshawar, killing eight policemen and wounding over 30 more. The roadside police station was completely destroyed in the attack.
Nuristan, Afghanistan, Wednesday: Taliban fighters captured a government building in Daub District-and in so doing seized control of the Western half of the District. Three Afghan police were killed, NATO and Afghan military forces eo not patrtol the area. The RPG's and heavy weapons of the Taliban gave them an overwhelming advantage in firepower.
Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday: Thousands of supporters of anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched through Sadr City, vowing to take up arms again if US forces remain in Iraq past the Dec 31 deadline for withdrawal agreed upon by the Iraqi government and George W Bush. During the march protesters kicked and burned US and Israeli flags.
Some protesters told reporters they have their weapons at home and that they were ready "at any moment that the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gives his orders", to pick up arms and "fight the Americans".
Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday: Ali al-Lama, former head of the Coalition Provisional Government's de-Baathification effort, was executed by insurgents. He was approached at about 8Pm Baghdad time and shot in the head. He was despised by Sunni insurgents, incuding but not limited to ex-Baathists, as a traitor.
Basra, Iraq, Tuesday: A woman was slightly wounded and an American armored vehicle damaged when a bomb exploded in the desert area east of Basrah, a U.S. forces media source reported. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the bomb was directed against the U.S. convoy, but no human casualties were reported on the American side.
Babel Province, Iraq, Wednesday: A US HUMVEE was destroyed in flames by a bomb directed against an American military convoy, security sources reported. As usual, no details on human casualties.
Wait a minute-WHAT US convoys? WHAT bombs? I thought US combat operations in Iraq were over! Oh yeah-that's been said before. Mr Barrack Obama, you got what you wanted in Pakistan, nothing else has changed in Iraq or Afghanistan in 8 years of war, and Iraq had nothing to do with September 11. Now's the time to pull the plug-bring all the troops home TODAY!
The Happy Station Show May 27, 2011
May 27, 2011, 4:44 p.m.
May 27, 2011, 4:40 p.m.
"don't play no game that i can't win" on the two-hundred & twentieth episode of media monarchy w/ black boxes, autonomy & the stuxnet square - pirate domains, harbingers & old time radio - superfoods inflation, clowns & camels - convenience, gestures & spotting the lie + a 'no game' newspurge, grand chessboard updates, rapid response & praying for time - steady sounds from beastie boys w/ santigold, !!! & george michael and tons more...
The Kelly Alexander Show May 28, 2011
May 27, 2011, 4:31 p.m.
May 27, 2011, 4:14 p.m.
Classic 90s and 2000s-style crust from, notably, Severed Head of State, Wolfbrigade, and His Hero Is Gone. The premier of Death Dealers on the program (members of Extreme Noise Terror, Anti-Cimex).
Plus, other hardcore like Septic Death and Heresy. Then some cool old-school metal towards the very end. The show's been getting pretty heavy the past few weeks. This one's no exception. Crust on!
#169 -- John Perkins: Mystic, Hit-Man, Prophet
May 27, 2011, 1:32 p.m.
In this interesting and often funny talk, Perkins tells of his comic experiences in the Peace Corps in the Amazon ... of being saved from death by a local *shaman* ... of prophesies that the world is on the cusp of a kindlier era ... of an amusing visit with the Dalai Lama, who told Perkins that the next Dalai Lama will probably not be Buddhist. Plus a brief recap of how covert agents help Western governments and corporations plunder the Third World.
27May11 News review with LibDem Christian Martin
May 27, 2011, 1:22 p.m.
Discussion of the week's news including Obama's visit to Britain, former Serbian military leader Ratco Mladic's arrest will Britain lose its credit rating because of the present political leadership's economic illiteracy? and Facebook trying to recruit under 13 year olds with the new LibDem councillor for Clifton East Christian Martin.
27May11 China's ultimatum to US over Pakistan
May 27, 2011, 1:04 p.m.
May 27, 2011, 11:57 a.m.
Every age of man has been the information age, information may, in act, define us as a species.
Radios Populares @12th Anarchist Bookfair
May 27, 2011, 10:36 a.m.
Radio Populares is a Chicago-based collective, who held a presentation last saturday during the Anarchist Bookfair.They collaborate with communities struggling for social justice to build low power FM community radio stations since 2002. Their work is grounded in solidarity model so they interact with other media activists and community organizations on the front line of the social justice movement. They believe that independent, non-comercial community media is a powerful organizing tool for communities in struggle. In this presentation, they expose their path thoughout the setting of 5 community radio stations in Latin America ; Honduras, Mexico, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador.
To get more information on this collective, you can check their website : radiospopulares.org
# 133: If You Love This Planet: Guest - Martin Sheen
May 27, 2011, 9:31 a.m.
Helen Caldicott, M.D., pediatrician and internationally recognized author and lecturer, hosts a weekly, one-hour radio program titled If You Love This Planet.
Produced by Jasmin WIlliams and Scott Powell. Edited by Jasmin Williams.