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The Shortwave Report 04/29/11 Listen Globally!
April 28, 2011, 5:52 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Japan, Germany, Cuba, and Russia.
April 28, 2011, 5:50 p.m.
FUKUSHIMA DRAMA - Are You Safe?
April 28, 2011, 4:26 p.m.
Can we believe the Japanese on Fukushima dangers? Could another big wave of radiation hit North America, Europe? A reactor by reactor report, plus geopolitics and your own preparation. The under-reported stories.
April 28, 2011, 3:33 p.m.
This is a podcast of the April 28th, 2011 episode of WRIR's Commonwealth of Notions. It airs every week from 1-3AM on Wednesday Evenings/Thursday Mornings. It offers insight from it's host on the local music scene, upcoming events and new favorite tunes that he'd like to share.
April 28, 2011, 12:47 p.m.
This panel features speakers representing the independent, humanitarian, solidarity based organizations: No One Is Ilegal! -Toronto, Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for the Relief of Tamils (Canadian HART), Migrante-Ontario, and Communist Party of Canada. The first three speakers share the experiences of their communities as being comprised of racialized working-class and poor (im)migrants in Canada, illustrating the hardships, inequalities, racism, and other abuses inherent in the process of (forced) migration to Canada. All participants examine the recent changes in the Canadian immigration system and focus on the work that grassroots, anti-oppression, community organizations have and are doing in southern Ontario to create change.
Connecticut Tries to Raise Taxes on Millstone Nuclear
April 28, 2011, 12:32 p.m.
Dominion Resources, operating Millstone Nuclear, threatened to pass along any tax to consumers, that as the Governor and legislator sought to lower electric bills. Lost in the shuffle was any debate about safety concerns and green incentives.
A.Gundersen Fukushima Situation Updates 4.6.11 to 4.26.11
April 28, 2011, 6:35 a.m.
This episode of Politics and Science consists of Nuclear Engineer, Arnie Gundersen's ongoing independent analysis of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plants. The dates of these updates start at April 6th and are current up to April 26th.
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the Non-profit Fairewinds Energy Education Corp 501(3)c Please consider donating to support their efforts to bring independent professional analysis to nuclear issues.
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http://www.fairewinds.com/
April 21 2011 Kootenay Co-op Radio - Music
April 27, 2011, 8:43 p.m.
beats, dubstep, drum and bass, hip hop, roots and more
Thursday at 10pm-12 PST & kootenaycoopradio.com
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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL, Part THREE
April 27, 2011, 8:16 p.m.
This program presents the consequences of the Chernobyl explosion on the environment. How has the radiation affected - and continues to affect air, water, the soil, plants and animals. How does radiation move, disperse, bio-accumulate and enter the food chain. Specific examples are from studies on rivers and lakes, wild and domestic animals, birds, fish, fungi, bacteria, viruses, studies that show that they were all affected, in varying degrees, but without exception.
April 27, 2011, 8:14 p.m.
April 27, 2011, 8:08 p.m.
A poem by Robert Animikii Horton recorded at Rhizome Cafe on April 14. The occasion was the Vancouver book launch of Feminism for Real, an anthology edited by Jessica Yee. Beverley Jacobs is a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and immediate past president of the Native Women's Association of Canada. Her partner Pat is also from the Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan. Pat reads the poem after Beverly Jacobs talks about what the book means to her.
April 14 2011 Kootenay Co-op Radio - Music
April 27, 2011, 7:59 p.m.
beats, dubstep, drum and bass, hip hop, roots and more
Thursday at 10pm-12 PST & kootenaycoopradio.com
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The Grand-Mother's Spirit
April 27, 2011, 7:39 p.m.
Jessica Yee is the editor of a new anthology called Feminism for Real. At the Vancouver book launch, Jessica Yee showed a video of a performance piece that she says was the catalyst for the book. The piece is titled The Grand-Mother's Spirit and was originally performed and recorded at a feminist conference in Montreal in 2008. Jessica Yee introduces the video.
A Slam on Feminism in Academia
April 27, 2011, 7:23 p.m.
The new anthology Feminism for Real had its Vancouver launch at Rhizome Café on April 14. Proma Tagore was there to read the piece her sister - Shaunga - wrote for the book. Proma Tagore is herself an author and a poet. Her most recent book is title "Language is not the only thing that breaks." She starts by introducing her sister to the audience.
Dialect - Bristol's cancer industry, nuclear power & nuclear war
April 27, 2011, 7:16 p.m.
Race, Humanitarianism, and the Media
April 27, 2011, 6:18 p.m.
Following Maximilian Forte's definitive coverage of the 'African mercenaries' story used by Libyan rebels and the Western media, we interview him on how this racialized discourse was used to legitimize intervention.
April 27, 2011, 6:03 p.m.
The uprisings in the Middle East have shaken some of the prejudices against Arabs and led Westerners to see people in the Muslim countries of the Middle East as simply people struggling for justice just like us. Hayrettin Yucesoy is professor of history at St. Louis University. He talks about some of the stereotypes that are starting to crumble.
Communist Party of Canada on why 2011 election spells great danger to working and poor people
April 27, 2011, 5:41 p.m.
Since 1921, the Communist Party of Canada has been in the forefront of working class and progressive struggles, fighting for peace, jobs, democracy, sovereignty, and internationalism.
Miguel is the federal leader of the Communist Party of Canada and Drew is the Communist Party of Canada candidate for Guelph, ON. They talk about the party's platform and about what's at stake in the May 2, 2011 election for working and poor people, (im)migrants, and aboriginal people, if Big Business is successful in driving the country to the right and into the deadly clutches of a Tory majority.
April 27, 2011, 5:01 p.m.
there has not been a new cubanate song since 1998, until this year. tonight we will hear the new cubanate song and be amazed that this is not actually a dream! as well, we will hear new music from 16 volt, kmfdm, vigilante, fractured, and lpf12 & erissoma.
upcoming show's:
ayria, spider lilies, the ludovico technique @ fallout, richmond, va, wednesday, april 27th
combichrist, ivardensphere, and star killer @ the norva, norfolk, va, monday, may 2nd
aesthetic perfection, faderhead, everything goes cold @ fallout, richmond, va, wednesday, may 4th
my life with the thrill kill kult and 16 volt @ fallout, richmond, va, thursday, may 12th
danzig w/devildriver @ the national, richmond, va, friday, may 13th
social distortion, chuck ragan, sharks @ the national, richmond, va, wednesday, may 18th
front line assembly, die krupps, cyanotic, and dj? acucrack @ jaxx, springfield, va, friday, may 20th
2011 17 Cajun Classic Serama Chicken Show 2011
April 27, 2011, 4:53 p.m.
Bucky Buckaw attempts to raises the ethical bar by propagandizing on decentralizing agriculture for the benefit of livestock, humans and the environment. This episode reports on the Cajun Classic Serama Chicken Show in Vacherie, Louisiana.
# 193 Climate Finance Monsters
April 27, 2011, 4:03 p.m.
explicit language ! media sample collage
If Music Could Talk - April 24, 2011
April 27, 2011, 2:32 p.m.
Ainsi Squattent-elles 2011-04-26
April 27, 2011, 12:45 p.m.
Jeff Blankfort: News and Opinions
April 27, 2011, 12:41 p.m.
Blankfort examines status of uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, neocon support of intervention, double standards of US, growing offcial and public opposition to Israel in Egypt, Netanyahu's forthcoming speech to Congress, and Wikileaks revelation that US considers Pakistan ISI as a terrorist organization
Standing Up Against Prison Build-Up & the Death Penalty
April 27, 2011, 12:34 p.m.
Maidhc Ó Cathail on US Involvement in Arab Uprisings
April 27, 2011, 12:01 p.m.
Middle East analyst and investigative journalist Maidhc à Cathail exposes US governmental and quasi-governmental agencies that have been involved behind the scenes in encouraging "democratic" reform in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Libya, including the National Endowment for Democracy, Democratic and Republican Institutes, International Center for Non-Violence and its head, Peter Ackerman, plus the roles of George Soros and the pro-Israel neocons like Michael Ledeen and Robert Kagan..
04-24-11 The Reverend's Birthday Show 2011
April 27, 2011, 9:40 a.m.
Most of the show is kind of over-driven and I missed the intro.
Pastor Rex Cat
Loisaida - Anarchism in NYC's Lower East Side
April 27, 2011, 9:37 a.m.
Novel about Anarchism in NYC's Lower East Side
Compensation, Access, and Theft: Copyright in the 21st Century
April 27, 2011, 7:40 a.m.
Between the Lines' for the Week Ending May 6, 2011
April 27, 2011, 6:01 a.m.
Iraqi-American Political Analyst;The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster one year later;The Power of Oil Companies on Regulation, Safety & Price Speculation.