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June 8, 2009, 10:43 a.m.
June 8, 2009, 10:13 a.m.
From politics to poetry, and from working to winemaking--what this collection has in common is everything is no longer than 5 minutes. Fourteen segments and a short song at the end!
June 8, 2009, 8:36 a.m.
Don Hassig describes the pollution prevention work of Cancer Action NY. His organization is leading the way on cancer prevention that focuses on the minimization of pollutant carcinogens including dioxins, furans, PCBs, PAHs, benzene and carcinogenic metals. Born in the new millenium, Hassig's groups guide local communities in creating environmental health education campaigns.
June 8, 2009, 4:42 a.m.
Info form The Slingshot Organizer, and the Daily Bleed the Peoples Calendar web site. Some audio borrowed from the Radio Rootz Crew at WBAI & Neighborhood Network of Columbus Ohio.
June 7, 2009, 11:24 a.m.
Sirhan Sirhan is serving a life sentence for the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. However, recent evidence indicates that Kennedy was killed by a second gunman who has yet to be brought to justice.
June 7, 2009, 9:09 a.m.
A special audio media collage on torture recently changed wording to Extreme Interrogation Techniques or EIT's featuring samples from Taxi To the Darkside, 24 and various other media Bush, Rumsfeld and even the almighty king of torture Dick Cheney.
EIT = TORTURE
June 7, 2009, 8:50 a.m.
So what does an imperial legate of the New World Order look like? You'd be hard-pressed to find a better example than former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. From his constitution-undermining Continuity of Government planning to his poisonous Aspartame pimping to his North Korean nuclear technology wheeling and dealing, join us this week on The Corbett Report as we uncloset Rummy's skeletons.
BE THE CHANGE Climate Conversion
June 7, 2009, 8:32 a.m.
Will you be a spectator or activist? Forest Ethics Exec Tzeporah Berman explains new climate activism with Power Up. Arran Stephens, CEO of Nature's Path. Pastor Bruce Sanguin on his conversion to green religion. From Be The Change Circles Vancouver May 23 09. Also climate wrecking forests.
TORTURE AND THE NEED FOR JUSTICE
June 7, 2009, 8:12 a.m.
The Looting of America - Again?
June 7, 2009, 6:54 a.m.
Leopold on the fantasy finance that led to economic crisis how progressive policies are needed for recovery while Tabb laments that bank bailouts will preclude such policies.
June 6, 2009, 9:35 p.m.
Wrap-up of the past weeks news with Geov Parrish and Maria Tomchick of Eat the State! (www.eatthestate.org).
June 6, 2009, 8:46 p.m.
Rotating Grind Magnet (Grad Econ)Pt.2 -- .ogg & .mp3! 1:02:50
June 6, 2009, 8:37 p.m.
Part Two of a pretty good one, with lots of sound montage stuff. Recorded graduation weekend here at the UI so there's some references to the economy that graduates are entering, plus the usual countercultural angst and reverie.
239 - How US Policy Embraces Violence
June 6, 2009, 7:16 p.m.
Pt A - News: Hidden Photos In Violent America; Steve Diamond analysis: Obama: Stop Talking Start Doing; Talk Nation Radio: Chip Berlet on the Tiller Murder, the Media, the Patriot Movement; music.
Pt B - Outside The Box: Church or State; Peak Oil Check-In: Electric Chickens; Everyday Environmentalist: Clothes Cleaning; Media Minutes; Between the Lines.
Break The Stereo June 06 2009 Part 2
June 6, 2009, 5:45 p.m.
Another hot and sweaty hour starting it off with Brothers Johnson. Some Sly with "Love And Hate". Jack Trombey kills it with a dirty track called "rock bed". J5 and Pras vs. Sting. Then we move into an extended O'Jays set with a new remix by Woodhead! The Meters with Fire on the Bayoo. What a killa track... then some Coldcut, All Good Funk Alliance and Matt the Alien remix of Ying Yang Twins. Crystal blue persuasion ya'll...;)
Break The Stereo June 06 2009 Part 2
June 6, 2009, 5:45 p.m.
Another hot and sweaty hour starting it off with Brothers Johnson. Some Sly with "Love And Hate". Jack Trombey kills it with a dirty track called "rock bed". J5 and Pras vs. Sting. Then we move into an extended O'Jays set with a new remix by Woodhead! The Meters with Fire on the Bayoo. What a killa track... then some Coldcut, All Good Funk Alliance and Matt the Alien remix of Ying Yang Twins. Crystal blue persuasion ya'll...;)
Break The Stereo June 06 2009 Part 2
June 6, 2009, 5:45 p.m.
Another hot and sweaty hour starting it off with Brothers Johnson. Some Sly with "Love And Hate". Jack Trombey kills it with a dirty track called "rock bed". J5 and Pras vs. Sting. Then we move into an extended O'Jays set with a new remix by Woodhead! The Meters with Fire on the Bayoo. What a killa track... then some Coldcut, All Good Funk Alliance and Matt the Alien remix of Ying Yang Twins. Crystal blue persuasion ya'll...;)
Break The Stereo May 06 2009 Part 1
June 6, 2009, 5:26 p.m.
I know we can make it! Yes we can! Funky Lee Dorsey, gotta love him. The meters take the funk for a walk with "Cissy Strut". Cymande with "the Message". Wilson Pickett rocks the studio and Allen Toussaint with a double shot. Baaaam. War and Shirley Bassie lights the fire under the rare groove records. Give it up! Funkadelic and Bob James finish off the first hour....
June 6, 2009, 3:16 p.m.
June 6, 2009, 1:49 p.m.
Current affairs analysis with Dr. Gerald Horne, hosted by Norman Otis Richmond. Dr. Gerald Horne is the author of a new book "The End of Empires: African Ameicans and India" and "Blows Against the Empire: US Imperialsm in Crisis". Topics include: First 100 days Obama, Obama in Cairo and Middle East, socialism as an alternative to current crisis, Canadian elections, automobile crisis, South Africa/Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Black Music Month
June 6, 2009, 1:41 p.m.
RADIOLA! begins its fifth year on WHCL-FM, and this RADIOLA! is just like all the other ones, only different.
This Modern Beat -- June 5, 2009
June 6, 2009, 10:02 a.m.
I'm filling in for Christian this week. That gives me a chance to play some stuff that generally doesn't fit into Global A Go-Go. In the case of this episode, that's mostly old-school hip-hop from the early 80's (rap, go-go, electro). Plus a few new items and an assortment of other beat-oriented material.
June 6, 2009, 10 a.m.
Abdelkader Belaouni is a 41-year-old blind Algerian refugee living in sanctuary at St. Gabriel's Church in Pointe Saint-Charles. Kader's appeals for status and citizenship in Canada have been overlooked and three years later he's still fighting to remain. The interview happened inside Kader's room at St. Gabriel's in Montreal.
June 6, 2009, 8:45 a.m.
Rumba congolaise; a reggae sampler; Balkan high drama; rockin' desert blues
The Road to Copenhagen: Bonn Part One
June 6, 2009, 7:41 a.m.
We start our coverage of the United Nations climate talks in Bonn with a look at how low some of the targets are that rich nations are bringing to the table. We also flag up the dangers of the scientifically unfounded rush to include Biochar and large-scale no-till agriculture in the draft negotiating texts.
05Jun09 Bristol Local Elections special
June 6, 2009, 6:16 a.m.
June 6, 2009, 3:20 a.m.
The REAL motto of the Pentagon, VA, & White House has been not "Support . . . " but rather "F**k the Troops!" Journalist Glantz explains the ways they do so. Fighting troops are treated shoddily, injured troops (no longer useful to them) worse, and veterans worst of all. Hence all the suicides, homelessness, & untreated PTSD. Then I show that this has been true for a century, with a recording from 1971 and a reading from Smedley Butler
June 5, 2009, 10:22 p.m.
DJ Pari is not in the studio tonight so I decided to jam out to some funky disco type records of the late 70's to early 80's. All original records with a few rarities out of Richmond and Petersburg. ~Crank it up yall~
Opting out of funding the military
June 5, 2009, 10:11 p.m.
NDP MP Bill Siksay has introduced a bill to allow Canadians to register as conscientious objectors and divert their tax money away from the military. He explains why he introduced the bill and how it would work.
Getting out of planes and on to high-speed trains
June 5, 2009, 10 p.m.
Portland to Vancouver, Montreal to Boston - just two of the trips that would make a lot more sense in a train. Paul Langan is with High Speed Rail Canada. He discusses what needs to happen to get us off the short-haul flights and into high-speed trains.