Latest Programs
episodes116/117 - march 27/april 3, 2009
April 3, 2009, 4:36 p.m.
some of the clouds are not clouds on episode116 of media monarchy & it's coming around as we're watching chicago cops & the private police, dark knight debts, death & destruction, lucky larry & the continuing coverups of 9/11, wamu truth & the econocrash crisitunity, obamessiah & the apostles of war, budgets, drugs, cyberwar videogames & the uk x-files + artificially sweetened music from superdrag and tons more...
19SEP2008: Thank God It's Friday!
April 3, 2009, 3:19 p.m.
Let's continue last week's theme...party! Lots of upbeat songs to get your toes a tappin'. And bands that just played or will play Richmond soon.
www.wrir.org/x/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7880
12SEP2008: It's Friday night...let's party!
April 3, 2009, 2:05 p.m.
How about a simple theme this week...party! Lots of upbeat songs to get your toes a tappin'. Oh yeah, and some tickets to give away for next Thursday night's punk show at Nara Sushi!
www.wrir.org/x/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7831
April 3, 2009, 12:55 p.m.
In 1952 Paul Robeson, an African-American hero, was barred from entering into Canada to speak to union workers in Vancouver, so he addressed 40 000 assembled workers on the Canadian-US border via a radio microphone. More then fifty years later Canada's censorship regulators have not gotten any wiser and have tried to silence British MP George Galloway, who will use the medium of a video-link hookup to address the masses in four Canadian cities.
April 3, 2009, 12:07 p.m.
Hot Mix
April 3, 2009, 11:41 a.m.
This week, NATO raises its profile, ghostwriters, and hijacking choice. In "Six Degrees of Spin and Fakin,'" DC Navigators.
Ellen Hodgson Brown on Escaping the Global Web of Debt
April 3, 2009, 9:46 a.m.
Ellen Brown goes over the definitions, what derivatives are, why the banks failed, and then offers suggestions on ways to help salvage the economy. She urges all states to set up state banks, like N. Dakota.
Vermont House of Representatives Debate on Marriage Equality Bill
April 3, 2009, 6:23 a.m.
On April 2, 2009, Vermont's House of Representatives voted 95-52 to grant full marriage equality to same-sex couples. Hear the sometimes emotional debate.
Cycling for a Sustainable Future & Forget Kale -- Eat More Lorac!
April 3, 2009, 6 a.m.
Jim Merkel is one of four bicyclists about to pedal 350 miles through Vermont in April to promote the transition from oil dependence to community resilience.
In an April Fool's Day feature, host Carl Etnier talks to numerous guests and callers about lorac, a forgotten wonder plant that small farmers say could be a boon to them, if it's re-legalized. Lorac can be used for food and fuel, and it promotes forest health. However, its most potent form has an unusual side effect...
wrir.org 97.3 April 3rd edition
April 3, 2009, 5:39 a.m.
G20 Protests Part I - dissident island hit the streets...
April 3, 2009, 4:18 a.m.
April 3, 2009, 1:51 a.m.
05SEP2008: Alaska & Rain...and NASCAR!
April 2, 2009, 11:50 p.m.
Two songs on this week's party in St. Paul (a little Alaska, a little Arizona). Then some rain & storm songs while the remnants of Hurricane Hanna hit Richmond. And in honor of NASCAR being in town this weekend, I'll be doing my semi-annual "Men Driving in Circles" set.
www.wrir.org/x/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7764
April 2, 2009, 10:15 p.m.
Discussion of Project Censored, and Joseph Stiglitz. Book and Movie Reviews, News Headlines
30AUG2008: Man, do I have a bunch of '80s mix tapes!
April 2, 2009, 10:07 p.m.
A bunch of old cassettes...and a milk crate full of vinyl!
Robert Hazard's "Escalator of Life" and many more '80s gems.
www.wrir.org/x/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7711
April 2, 2009, 9:27 p.m.
Short and Sweet
# 34: Dr Helen Caldicott - If You Love This Planet (Guest - Robert Scheer)
April 2, 2009, 6:29 p.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 Scott Powell, Amanda Bellerby and Jasmin Williams. Edited by Jasmin Williams.
The Shortwave Report 04/03/09 Listen Globally!
April 2, 2009, 4:28 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
April 2, 2009, 3:44 p.m.
Attached is a recording of a Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign public meeting held on 2nd April 2009 titled "Gaza, Israel and War Crimes", which was addressed by, Dr. Michael Kearney, a specialist in international law.
A questions and answer session follows the talk.
Dr. Michael Kearney is a member staff at the University of York's Centre for Applied Human Rights, http?//www.york.ac.uk/inst/cahr/
http?//www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk/
Ellen Hodgson Brown on Escaping the Global Web of Debt
April 2, 2009, 2:38 p.m.
Global Finance markets, derivatives, what went wrong and how it can be fixed. Starting a state bank, like North Dakota's can help bring US states back into solvency.
Guest Kevin Surace talks about Green Jobs - 3/28/09
April 2, 2009, 1:40 p.m.
Bob Paleczny hosts weekly labor news. This week's phone guest is Kevin Surace, CEO of Serious Materials. Kevin discusses Green Jobs and Serious Material's recent purchase of Republic Windows. Tom Thomas adds labor news headlines and his weekly poem in the "Cultural Corner".
April 2, 2009, 1:17 p.m.
Bio-Science students put on a conference on the Climate Crisis. Several professors from McMaster University gave a talk on how they view the financial meltdown as an eco crisis.
April 2, 2009, 12:39 p.m.
Ongoing Resistance to the Atlantica Free Trade Agreement
April 2, 2009, 10:33 a.m.
Asaf Rashid, Halifax-based organizer against the Atlantica free trade zone, talks about ongoing resistance to the neoliberal project slated to affect maritime Canada and New England.
Take a look at www.blackmask.ca for more of our shows.
April 2, 2009, 10:05 a.m.
We speak with Amy Miller about her new film, Myths for Profit: Canada's Role in Industries of War and Peace, which she's currently touring across the country along with co-producer Boban Chaldovich. We talked about the movie's central points, criticisms in a review by Yves Engler, and where you can find an online trailer of the movie.
Take a look at www.blackmask.ca for more of our shows.
BBC's Radio 5 - Up All Night with Author Susan Galleymore
April 2, 2009, 8:59 a.m.
Susan Galleymore the mother of a U.S. soldier made international headlines by taking the dangerous step of traveling to Iraq to visit her son stationed on a military base in the so-called Sunni Triangle, north of Baghdad.
29AUG2008: This Week's Party in Denver
April 2, 2009, 2:15 a.m.
Presidential candidates, changes, multi-ethnic celebration...
"Reagan" does the Ronnie Rap, "RFK" sings Wild Thing, George Clinton Paints the White House Black, Nona Hendryx brings Transformation, Hot Chocolate celebrates Amazing Skin, The Soul Stirrers tell Why they Like Roosevelt
www.wrir.org/x/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7704
Truth and Justice Radio interview with David Ray Griffin
April 1, 2009, 11:21 p.m.
David discusses his latest book (The New Pearl Harbor Revisited) and several upcoming works. Topics discussed range from Airline Flights, Crash Sites, Tower 7 collapse, press coverage, intelligence matters and gradual awakenings.
WIVK Learns of the TVA Disaster
April 1, 2009, 8:24 p.m.
Just a week after the dam collapse in eastern Tennessee, the Sunday talk-show in Knoxville didn't know much about it. The topic of the day was guns, but David Grace was gunning for the TVA so he worked the topic into the show.
More Prayers for the Victims of the TVA
April 1, 2009, 8 p.m.
While keeping the heat on the Governor of Tennessee, who has not declared the TVA dam collapse of December 22, 2008 a disaster, David Grace called the Healing Touch with Norma Dearing. Norma provides good, lively prayers for callers, and as luck would have it, she has friends in Chattanooga and was sorely surprised to learn of the poisoning of the city.