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Arizona May Day Immigrant Rights Protest
May 5, 2010, 3:44 p.m.
Immigrants rights organizers report on the tens of thousands of immigrant rights demonstrators who rallied on May Day in Arizona to protest the harsh new immigration law 1070, and state and federal law enforcement harassment of Arizonaâs immigrants, as they demand that stalled legislative reforms in Congress proceed.
May 5, 2010, 1:48 p.m.
Professor Josiah is the Constantine Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences,
a Professor of Political Science, Professor of Classics, a Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy) at Stanford University, and an author of ten books. He played a very cool mix of music to awe listeners especially with some very interesting stories.
His web site is http://www.stanford.edu/~jober/
May 5, 2010, 1:36 p.m.
"we're doing absolutely everything in our power to eliminate the source of the leak" on episode168 from media monarchy w/ biowars & gulf oil - econocrash/eurocrash: fortune, fail & the fed - borderwars & the arizona immigration issue - expatriates, police states & drills in limbo + 9/11 updates, spilled music from faint & moz and tons more...
May 5, 2010, 1:33 p.m.
"do you believe in rapture" for the c-side of episode167 from media monarchy w/ alt news, interviews & the new world next week - ddt & the fast food nation from food world order - hawking's warning, space planes & fair use on cyber/spacewar + rapture music from sonic youth and tons more...
May 5, 2010, 10:10 a.m.
Global Warming. Itâs happened before â during the Middle Ages. Who were the losers? Who were the winners? What can we learn from their experience?
May 5, 2010, 9:38 a.m.
Michelle Alexander provides an incisive and insightful picture of how the War on Drugs and the resulting mass incarceration of Black and brown people was designed to create a racialized caste system, a whole new Jim Crow system even as we're told that we live in a colorblind society; PZ Myers discusses the relationship between Science and Morality and the role of each in the world and comments on Richard Dawkins call for the arrest of the Pope; In the wake of the fascist assualt on immigrants in Arizona Bob Avakian offers a thought on Why People Come Here from All Over the World.
Interview with Professor David Ray Griffin
May 5, 2010, 8:33 a.m.
Professor Griffin explains why he concludes that the US war on Afghanistan is utterly illegal in several major ways, as well as fraudulent. He reviews the amazing contrasts between the continuing official story versus diametrically opposite findings of the FBI and other official bodies. We discuss the opprobrium universally faced by those of us who dare to question the official story.
Prominent among Professor Griffin's extensive writings are nine books on various aspects of 9/11; see his website, davidraygriffin.com.
May 5, 2010, 8:30 a.m.
Between the Lines Week Ending May 14, 2010
May 5, 2010, 7:21 a.m.
Program Gulf Oil Spill-Environmental Damage;Assessing Finance Reform Legislation;The Health Hazards of Cell Phone Use
May 5, 2010, 6:45 a.m.
The second of two Spring 2010 Fund Drive shows, featuring the Chris Vasi Project playing live in the studio
30Apr10 Please use your vote but do politicians really run the UK?
May 5, 2010, 6:06 a.m.
30Apr10 LibDem & Labour Pre election news review
May 5, 2010, 5:31 a.m.
Cool Jazz Set - 2nd May, 2010 - # 1
May 5, 2010, 5:27 a.m.
CoolJazzSet- 2nd May, 2010 # 2
May 5, 2010, 4:57 a.m.
Night Transmissions #55 64kbs Low Fi
May 4, 2010, 11:10 p.m.
Night Transmissions is a 120 minute show featuring vintage radio shows. In this show...
Escape 11/1/49. "Flood on the Goodwins"
The Price Of Fear, "The Man Who Hated Scenes"9/29/73.
CBS Radio Workshop. A Pride of Carrots
H. P. Lovecraft, The Crawling Chao
Music:
Loreena Mckennitt - The Lady of Shalot (1991)
More at http://www.nighttransmissions.com/
But if you go eatin' with pictures of Chairman Mao...
May 4, 2010, 11:02 p.m.
Mostly Blues with a dash of Rock
Night Transmissions #56 64 kbs Low Fi
May 4, 2010, 11:01 p.m.
Night Transmissions is a 120 minute show featuring vintage radio shows. In this show...
The Avengers, 1971 - 1973
Police Headquarters "The Perfect Murder aka The Telephone Suicide". 1932
Strange Adventure - The Wind Wagon. To conclude this segment we got ourselves another locked room murder mystery. (Well it is murder and it is a room, of sorts.)
Five-Minute Mysteries"Death in a Turkish Bath".From sometime in th late 1940s
The Putnam Tradition Sonya Dorman . This story first appeared in Amazing Science Fiction for January of 196
Music:
Nana Mouskouri - Plaisir d'Amour (2006)
Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969)
Judy Collins - Priests (1967)
These dates should not be taken as canonical.
More at http://www.nighttransmissions.com/
May 4, 2010, 10:55 p.m.
Night Transmissions is a 120 minute show featuring vintage radio shows. In this show...
The Avengers, 1971 - 1973
Police Headquarters "The Perfect Murder aka The Telephone Suicide". 1932
Strange Adventure - The Wind Wagon. To conclude this segment we got ourselves another locked room murder mystery. (Well it is murder and it is a room, of sorts.)
Five-Minute Mysteries"Death in a Turkish Bath".From sometime in th late 1940s
The Putnam Tradition Sonya Dorman
Music:
Nana Mouskouri - Plaisir d'Amour (2006)
Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969)
Judy Collins - Priests (1967)
These dates should not be taken as canonical.
More at http://www.nighttransmissions.com/
Mental Health Matters-OCD Guest Ronni Saunders
May 4, 2010, 8:06 p.m.
What is and how to treat Obesessive Compulsive Disorder
Oh Baby Baby It's a Wild World
May 4, 2010, 7:18 p.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org.
Canada: world leader in asbestos export
May 4, 2010, 6:52 p.m.
The federal government not only allows Canadians to be exposed to much higher levels of asbestos than other countries but also continues to export asbestos to places with lower health standards. We speak with Kathleen Ruff, Senior Human Rights Advisor to the Rideau Institute.
Coastal First Nations announce opposition to tar sands pipeline
May 4, 2010, 6:46 p.m.
Gerald Amos is director of an alliance of First Nations on British Columbia's North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii. The alliance announced its ban on the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill. Amos explains why Coastal First Nations oppose the pipeline and what they're prepared to do to stop it.
The Other Black Music May 2, 2010
May 4, 2010, 6:45 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.
Canada muzzles climate change scientists
May 4, 2010, 6:37 p.m.
The federal government releases important reports late in the day on Friday, reduces funding for critical climate change science and prevents scientists from speaking out on climate change. Graham Saul of Climate Action Network Canada talks about the findings of a new report titled Troubling Evidence: The Harper Government's Approach to Climate Science Research in Canada.
What wrong's with legislating against the niqab
May 4, 2010, 6:32 p.m.
Itrath Sayed comments on Quebec's Bill 94 that aims to limit women's access to government services if they are wearing the niqab. Itrath Sayed is a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University; she is currently teaching Women's Studies at Langara College.
The Motherland Influence May 2, 2010
May 4, 2010, 6:29 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin and Caribbean music.
May 4, 2010, 6:25 p.m.
John Conway is one of a group of faculty at the University of Regina who signed a petition questioning the awarding of free tuition for children of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. He explains why he thinks this kind of policy is neither necessary nor appropriate. John Conway is a professor of sociology at U of R.
Canadian Border Services agents raid women's shelters in Toronto
May 4, 2010, 5:58 p.m.
Canadian government officials searching for undocumented people have entered and searched shelters for women escaping domestic violence. Fariah Miranda is with the Shelter-Sanctuary-Status Campaign.
Nigeria's new president from the oil-rich Niger Delta
May 4, 2010, 5:25 p.m.
Nigeria is a country divided into north and south, Muslim and Christian. The north has always been the power base and the south has had the oil wealth. Now things are changing with the accession to power of Goodluck Jonothan. Sandy Cioffe is the director of a documentary about the Niger Delta Sweet Crude.
Setting a fair agenda for the G8
May 4, 2010, 5:20 p.m.
When the world's richest nations meet in Canada in 2010, Dennis Howlett wants poverty to be on the agenda. He is national coordinator of the Canadian organization Make Poverty History. In the lead-up to the G8, his group is heading up a campaign called At The Table to pressure the Canadian government to make poverty reduction and action on climate change a priority.