Latest Programs
Mixed bag of Hillbilly Music for 3/10/09
March 11, 2009, 6:33 a.m.
My weekly radio show on WRIR - Richmond Independent Radio, 97.3 LPFM - http://www.wrir.org
Marty Conlisk from Labor Beat Television - 3/7/09
March 10, 2009, 10:38 p.m.
David Johnson hosts this week's labor news. We have 2 guests in studio, Marty Conlisk from Labor Beat TV in Chicago, and Dave Sladky involved with Public Access television in the St. Louis area. Tom Thomas adds labor news and his weekly poem in this week's "Cultural Corner".
March 10, 2009, 10:27 p.m.
News Report for GroundWire 2009.
March 10, 2009, 10:08 p.m.
Recorded from the weekly 40ACM show on KUOI-FM / www.kuoi.com (Fridays 3:30 pm PT). FCC compliant for daytime play. Station ID's, time checks and local references have been scrubbed. Slowly stir in and enjoy.
Caldicott Lecture for David Barsamian
March 10, 2009, 8:39 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.
Rebuilding community in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
March 10, 2009, 6:36 p.m.
Twenty years ago the Exxon Valdez dumped millions of litres of oil in Prince William Sound. It was an accident that not only damaged the enviornment. It also changed forever the lives of the inhabitants of that area. Riki Ott is a resident of Cordova, one of the affected areas. She is also the author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
Fighting the banks over home foreclosures
March 10, 2009, 6:28 p.m.
People across the United States are pressuring governments and banks to make it easier to people to keep their homes. We speak with community organizer Mary Rabon from Kansas City, Missouri.
Premier Danny Williams seizes assets of paper mill
March 10, 2009, 6:19 p.m.
Danny Williams is the Progressive Conservative premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. He recently expropriated the assets of a paper mill, AbitibiBowater Inc., which had announced hundreds of layoffs in December after receiving generous perks from the provincial government.
Five years after the coup in Haiti
March 10, 2009, 6:09 p.m.
Five years ago on the last day of February 2004, the elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown. Following the coup and forced exile of Aristide, a United Nations military force has been occupying and intervening in Haitian affairs.
Miscellaneous Labor News - 2/28/09
March 10, 2009, 5:59 p.m.
Bob Paleczny host this week's labor news. Tom Thomas reports news and offers his weekly poem in the "Cultural Corner".
Fighting apartheid in South Africa and Israel
March 10, 2009, 5:56 p.m.
Ronnie Kasrils, a leader in the struggle against apartheid South Africa and member of the Mandela government, discusses Israeli apartheid and the need for boycott campaigns.
March 10, 2009, 5:38 p.m.
Maher Arar is a Canadian businessman who was arrested at JFK airport in 2002 and taken to Syria where he was tortured. When he was finally released, a Canadian commission of inquiry found no wrong-doing on his part. He speaks about the state of human rights post 9/11.
Paying for Nuclear Decommissioning and Free Home Energy Audits
March 10, 2009, 12:32 p.m.
A Vermont-centric program this week: House Natural Resources and Energy Committee chair Tony Klein explains why he wants Entergy Corporation to start paying into the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Fund. And East Montpelier Energy Committee chair Dave Grundy is the local coordinator for the neighbor-helping-neighbor pilot program Vermont Community Energy Mobilization Project.
Radiotepec - 05 // Marzo/March // 2009
March 10, 2009, 11:38 a.m.
Radiotepec es un programa de musica Latinoamericana y del mundo. Se transmite en vivo desde St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada por CHMR 93.5 FM Radio Universitaria/Comunitaria, todos los jueves a las 13;30 hora del pacifico, 15;30 Centro y 18;00 Newfoundland.
Prof. Peter Cole - African Americans in Labor - 2/14/09
March 10, 2009, 11:37 a.m.
David Johnson host the weekly labor news. Professor Peter Cole is interviewed by phone on the history of African Americans in the labor movement. In particular he discusses Ben Fletcher, President of the Philadelphia IWW Dockworkers Union. Tom Thomas contributes his weekly poem in the "Cultural Corner".
If Music Could Talk March 8, 2009
March 10, 2009, 10:29 a.m.
March 10, 2009, 10:11 a.m.
Ãmission d'éducation aux droits des travailleurs-travailleuses non-syndiquées au Qc. Illusion Emploi anime La complainte ouvrière, il s'agitt d'un groupe créé par la Table Ronde des Organismes Volontaires en Ãducation Populaire de l'Estrie (TROVEPE). Membre du front de défense des non-syndiquées. Pour rejoindre l'organisation? illusionemploi.org
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March 10, 2009, 10:10 a.m.
March 10, 2009, 5:15 a.m.
In his 2005 book The Long Emergency, author James Howard Kunstler describes a future in which suburbia meets what he calls âa tragic destiny.â Detroit is helping us see some of the details of that destiny.
9 March 09 - Womens Liberation is Workers' Liberation
March 9, 2009, 11:03 p.m.
On this show we interview Keerthy Narayanan of the Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for the Relief of Tamils and Cynthia Palmaria of Migrante-Ontario - two of the women who are part of the Migrant Womenâs Co-ordinating Body for this yearâs International Women's Day activities in Toronto, on our show to discuss the relationship between women's oppression and imperialism. We also sample some music from Brooklyn-based, Canadian-raised, Jamaican-born artist Melodic.
Killadelphia: Interview with playwright Sean Lewis
March 9, 2009, 10:43 p.m.
Interview with Philadelphia actor and playwright Sean Lewis. He talks about his play, Killadelphia, which documents his interviews with prisoners, politicians, and pundits about the violence in Philadelphia.
March 9, 2009, 8 p.m.
Bucky Buckaw has an agenda to replace factory farming with backyard agriculture - one coop at a time. In this urgent Bulletin, Bucky warns of the reemergence ot the NAIS (National Identification System) legislation which threatens the local, small, organic and sustyainable food movements and urges grassroot action.
March 9, 2009, 5:41 p.m.
March 9, 2009, 5:21 p.m.
Feb2009 race results, upcoming events, Sports Psychology
"11 Minutes" & Gay in Turkey
March 9, 2009, 2:16 p.m.
"Project Runway" reality TV show winner Jay McCarroll faces fashion's real world; Turkish gays navigate a complex culture; Freddie Mercury bio. Plus Jamaica's P.M. won't budge on buggery, Britain's P.M. hosts LGBT equality advocates at 10 Downing Street, California's Supremes hear the pros and cons of Prop 8, Belarus activists sue over a banned anti-homophobia rally, and more news.
3P-017 Love 'Em & Eat 'Em: the Art of Animal Husbandry
March 9, 2009, 1:21 p.m.
Reads four poems about farming by Wendall Barry, Miguel De Unamuno, and William Stafford. Reviews the book Righteous Porkchop by Nicolette Hahn Niman, environmentalist lawyer who investigated factory farms under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Explores the parallels between Big Ag extremists and vegan animal liberationists. Gives a hopeful history and a dismal past and a hopeful future for backyard chickens. Introduces a program called "Food in the 'Hood" being started on the Westside.
Jacqueline House, Six Nations Elder, on Empire House Resistance
March 9, 2009, 1:04 p.m.
Jacqueline House, Six Nations Elder and defender of the land, speaks on a recent attempt by Empire Homes to develop on their traditional territory and their resistance to the development.
March 9, 2009, 12:31 p.m.
Info form The Slingshot Organizer, and the Daily Bleed the Peoples Calendar web site. Audio borrowed from the Radio Rootz Crew at WBAI, NY. And the Neighborhood Network of Columbus Ohio.
March 9, 2009, 11:33 a.m.
4 hours of power. 5 years of resistance. An in-depth look at Haiti since the Coup.
Observing International Women's Day...and Stop Recruiting Kids
March 8, 2009, 9:11 p.m.
A view of International Women's Day in Russia, Iran, and Haiti. Also, a presentation by Dave Meserve on the Stop Recruiting Kids program.