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April 20, 2010, 5:38 p.m.
I talk about the Nag Hammadi collection, read from the Gospel of Phillip and Thunder Perfect Mind. I talk about the importance of understanding Christianity's impact on our world and also about how Christianity must learn to listen to the wisdom of women.
April 20, 2010, 4:32 p.m.
April 20, 2010, 2:50 p.m.
40 years is a long time to sleep with the same person, but that's just what my girlfriend's parents have done. A show of love songs as quirky and varied as any marriage. Music from Ann Marie Sheridan, John Prine, Mike Dunn, Stacey Earl, Steve Earl, and the Rev. Niel Down.
Gerry Epstein: Finance For the People!! Not for the Bankers!
April 20, 2010, 2:48 p.m.
Professor of Economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at Umas, Amherst, Epstine is also staff economist at the Center For Popular Economics. He co-coordinates SAFER - Economists' Committee for "Stable, Accountable, Fair and Efficient Financial Reform" www.peri.umass.edu/safer
Epstein details the conditions that forced workers to borrow inorder to maintain their living standard while their wages were held flat during a period of burgeoning business profits.
From Guerrilla Gardening to SPIN Farming
April 20, 2010, 2:44 p.m.
CKDU's Operation Wake Up host Felix Kanneman speaks with Garity Chapman from the Ecology Action Centre about Urban Gardening in Halifax.
We talk about Halifax' community and collective gardens, guerrilla gardening hotspots, school gardening, urban farming, Community Supported Agriculture and the local food revival in Nova Scotia. Garity shares her knowledge about useful gardening resources, local workshops and events, gives advice on planting & growing, urban soil quality & soil health, and how to maintain a sustainable, organic garden in an urban environment.
April 20, 2010, 2:29 p.m.
In anticipation of this yearâs May Day, we present an adaptation of last yearâs hour of radical and celebratory music and audio.
April 20, 2010, 1:39 p.m.
Talk Nation News Update, Muhammad Khurshid at Pak Afghan Border
April 20, 2010, 12:31 p.m.
Civilians in Pakistan are terrorized and trapped between a failed government and rival militant groups and war lords, says Muhammad Khurshid. He also mentions threats to journalists from all sides including govt.
April 20, 2010, 11:38 a.m.
Attached is the audio and the slides from a presentation titled 'Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy' that Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law at Sheffield University gave at the Café Scientifique, in The Showroom, Sheffield, on 19th April 2010.
Power point slides and more information about this talk: http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2010/04/449416.html
Apryl Chavez - Stanford Spoken Word Collective - 19-Apr-2010
April 20, 2010, 9:33 a.m.
Apryl Chavez is a performing member of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective. She has performed since she was in her early teens on radio, the stage, and tv.
The Stanford Spoken Word website is http://www.stanfordspokenword.com/
Prison Zine Distribution - 4/17/10
April 20, 2010, 7:20 a.m.
David Johnson hosts weekly Labor News. This week's in-studio guests are Anthony Rayson and Mike Ploski of South Chicago ABC, Anarchists Black Cross. They talk about their Prison Zine Distro, discuss their work with prisoners and talk about the prison industrial complex. Tom Thomas also presents his weekly poem in the "Cultural Corner".
Happy 4/20! vs. 2 Much Sexual FreeDumb vs. An Indictment of the Illegal System - April 20, 2010
April 20, 2010, 5:42 a.m.
This episode: when award-winning documentaries exposing the phony drug war are on HBO, why is marijuana still illegal? When it cures people of cancer (etc.) in Nova Scotia, and maybe other places, why is ingesting hemp still illegal in Canada? What is up with our legal (illegal?) systems anyway? When governments worldwide are passing more laws than ever, can people really "trust" the "system" to "work" anymore? Did it ever? BTW, how's your sex life? Kinky enough 4 ya? You sure? Just asking.
122 (E) Raisin' Chicks (Post-Easter Adoption Frenzy Episode)
April 20, 2010, 4:21 a.m.
You caught the Bucky Buckaw agenda fever. You thought through the ethicalities and practicalities and got chicks but now you find yourself staring at the little critters and thinking "uh-oh" what now. Maybe this episode can help.
April 20, 2010, 3:10 a.m.
All kinds of intoxicated awesomeness... exactly what you'd expect from Mother's Milk!
Dorothy Fadiman, Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
April 20, 2010, 12:19 a.m.
Dorothy Fadiman has been producing award-winning social change media since 1976. Honors include an Oscar nomination and an Emmy. Subjects focus on social justice and human rights and range from the light of Spirit in every faith (Radiance: The Experience of Light) to progressive education that honors children's natural knowing (Why Do these Kids Love School?) to the extraordinary healing journey of a woman witha spinal cord injury (Moment by Moment: The Healing Journey of Molly Hale). She has produced several series, including a trilogy on abortion rights (From the Back-Alleys to the Supreme Court) â and a five-part series on AIDS in Africa (Seeds of Hope). Her most recent film is STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote, which examines the integrity of a decade of U.S. elections. Future projects include a documentary focusing on the disenfranchisement of Native American voters. PRODUCING with PASSION follows her career and offers specific suggestions, based on what she has learned, for independent filmmakers to use in their work as they find their unique voices through filmmaking.
http://dorothyfadiman.com/
San Francisco's "green" mayor has toxic sludge on this hands
April 19, 2010, 9:49 p.m.
April 19, 2010, 8:01 p.m.
news and analysis about current events, politics, society, economics, culture, peace, and justice relating to Olympia, Washington, and the World
Managing the Emotional Aftermath of a Workplace Trauma.
April 19, 2010, 7:46 p.m.
Managing Work Place Trauma
April 19, 2010, 7:43 p.m.
Discussion about current events, politics, society, economics, culture, peace, and justice relating to Olympia, Washington, and the world.
April 19, 2010, 7:34 p.m.
Talk Radio about current events, politics, society, economics, environment, peace, and justice.
April 19, 2010, 7:11 p.m.
This is the full 4-19-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.
On last weekâs episode of Labor Express we talked with author Jeff Biggers about the death of 29 miners at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia. Will hear more from Biggers today including a reading from his newly released book Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland. Will also here Biggers discuss how coal mining is not only dangerous to miners but dangerous to our environment.
In a related story will hear about a newly proposed ordinance in Chicagoâs city council which will force the Fisk and Crawford coal fired power plants to dramatically reduce the pollution they produce.
A film that will be showing at this yearâs Chicago Latino Film Festival is a documentary about the emergence of the contemporary immigrant rights movement in 2006 and 2007. The film is the work of local activist Esau Melendez with contributions by Labor Beat TV producer Andrew Friend. Andrew interviewed Esau about the new film and will here that interview in the second half of the program.
And will close out todayâs program with some commentary on the announcement this week that Andy Stern, president of SEIU will be retiring.
Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Monday morning at 10:00 AM on Chicago's Sound Alliance, WLUW, 88.7 FM. For more information, see our website at: www.laborexpress.org
and our homepage on Archive.org at:
http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio
or page at Radio4All.netâ¦
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Labor+Express+Radio
The Motherland Influence April 17, 2010
April 19, 2010, 5:44 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin and Caribbean music.
The Other Black Music April 17, 2010
April 19, 2010, 5:15 p.m.
Broadcasting 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.
04-04-10 Easter - What Some People Will Do To Get Nailed 2010
April 19, 2010, 4:57 p.m.
Connecting the notes - 03/31/10 - Jerry Reed
April 19, 2010, 4:46 p.m.
An hour long biographical radio program focusing on a differnt musical personality each week. Visit us online at www.connectingthenotes.com or contact us by emailing connectingthenotes@yahoo.com . All shows originally aired live on Valley Free Radio, 103.3 FM WXOJ-LP in Northampton, MA
Spring '10 Recent Finds Mix
April 19, 2010, 3:08 p.m.
April 19, 2010, 2:27 p.m.
Nate Phelps dissects phobic father Fred+global LGBT news
April 19, 2010, 1:11 p.m.
A Phelps son flees his maniacal "God Hates Fags" father Fred to speak for sanity. A top Catholic Cardinal's queer abuse comments draw criticism, a lesbian couple and an Argentine judge "try" marriage rights, Obama's visitation order represents a small token of his esteem, a 2010 Prop 8 repeal effort falls short, U.S. students use silence to fight bias, and more global LGBT news.
April 19, 2010, 11:33 a.m.
We trace the development of the cartel that dominates global food production and distribution and discuss how this development affects the public. We, also, discuss how food policy relates to eugenics, now known as population control.
Justice4Janitors, TTC Transit issues, & 'Jailhouse Laywers' Mumia interview
April 19, 2010, 9:09 a.m.
Robin Nieto Interviews Diego Mendez about the Justice4Janitors campaign, an open discussion about Toronto transit, and the prisonradio.org discussion between Mumia Abu Jamal and Dr. Cornel West, & more...