Build a Movement for Public Ownership and Socialism

NDP MP Niki Ashton and author Linda McQuaig will be leading a meeting in Toronto, Jan. 30, about public ownership. The closure of GM, Leah says, proved you can't protect jobs and save industries by coddling up to corporations. The Canadian government bailed out GM to the tune of 11 billion dollars during the 2008 financial crisis, and never repaid it all. UNIFOR workers gave concessions to GM to stay in Oshawa, as well as UNIFOR retirees who haven't received a cost-of-living increase in pensions since 2008. Green Jobs Oshawa calls for nationalizing GM Oshawa and producing electric vehicles.

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Steve Phillips: How Democrats Take the Senate in 2020

This week on Sea Change Radio, we are talking with civil rights lawyer Steve Phillips, the author of "Brown is the New White" and the host of the Democracy In Color podcast. He lends his expertise as we discuss what it will take for Democrats to regain control of the Senate, analyze races in Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine and Arizona, and tear apart the Democratic establishment's long-held belief that in order to win, the party must focus persuasion efforts on white moderate Democrats.

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Embassy Protection Collective - The People's Forum, NYC

The four arrested Venezuelan Embassy Protectors - Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Adrienne Pine and David Paul - were on an East Coast speaking and fundraising tour from January 24 to January 28, 2020. They are facing trials on the trumped-up charge of "interfering with certain protective functions" of the government for their heroic effort to prevent the transfer of the Venezuelan Embassy to a minority leader illegally appointed by the U.S. government as President of Venezuela. This is a misdemeanor charge that carries a maximum of one-year imprisonment and a $100,000 fine each. The judge has already denied them the ability to present vital evidence in their defense. During the hearing, she referred to the embassy protectors as a "gang," and stated that the facts supported their guilt. She made it clear a trial will result in their conviction, and promptly made rulings that will ensure that outcome. Embassy Protection Collective: https://www.facebook.com/ColectivosporlaPaz/ Popular Resistance: https://popularresistance.org/

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Back in the USSR marks 75 years since soldiers of the Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,000 prisoners from the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. After 1,689 days and more than 1 million dead, the murder, suffering and pain finally came to an end.

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January 27, 2020: Please, machine, make my day

Cuba from son to salsa; the dulcet tones of Congolese singer Wuta Mayi; what's new in Afrobeat; psychedelic cumbia; Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah's Moroccan funk; Dubioza Kolektiv to job-stealing robots: "Go ahead, make my day"

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Bordering on Shame + global LGBTQ news + more!

Transgender migrants trapped by the U.S. asylum crisis speak out; a famed photographer who flirted with sex and gender is celebrated in a “Rainbow Minute”; South Korea’s first transgender soldier fights discharge, Israel abandons Russian orphans to anti-queer bias, Scotland’s Chick-fil-A lays an egg, Aussie Satanists claim rights under the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill, faint Pence praise promotes Trump’s impeachment, and more global LGBTQ news!

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Walkuman Style #250

(1.) Sakura - Blackeyes & Sus Bully (2.) Trackrunners - The Unspoken Heard ft. Grap Luva and J-Live (3.) You Don't Know Me - Darc Mind (4.) Hunger In My Eyes - Lu Chin Chen ft. Kwest Tha Madd Lad (5.) Didn't Even Make Forbes Yet - Jonny Empire (6.) Set It Off - Trademarc ft. Penpals and Lars Viola (7.) Mayday - The Jerzadelphians (8.) Act Of God - Sintax The Terrific (9.) Human Shade Trees - Jess The Facts & A.C. The PD (10.) Success Is A Journey - Emotionz (11.) Prosperity - Hear Me Tho (12.) Baby Seal - Swamp Thing (13.) Sehr Scharf Curry - Pseudo Slang (14.) League of my Own - Sean One (15.) 5th Floor - Funky DL (16.) Soul - Viktor Shade

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Martian Gardens Episode 1006 Hour 3

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Martian Gardens Episode 1006 Hour 2

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Martian Gardens Episode 1006 Hour 1

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Canada and friends put on colonial hat for Iran

Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon discuss the importance of attending the anti-war demonstrations on January 25th, and then discuss the problem of NATO. Letting NATO manage West Asia instead of the U.S. is like letting Uncle Sam's left-hand run something instead of the right-hand. Remarkably, after Trump's aggression against Iran, the European Union states are acting more hostile to Iran than before. Having heeded the call of their master, the European leadership has become more adversarial not only towards Iran, but to Iraq as well. Phil also describes how the Trump administration tore up the JCPOA, and yet 'the West' demands Iran continue to restrict itself under the deal nonetheless. There is a lot to say, as well, about how Canada is addressing the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Interviews Jorge Martin secretariat of Hands off Venezuela

Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to Jorge Martin secretariat of Hands off Venezuela, about popular mobilizations in Latin American that sparked in 2019 in rejection of Capitalism. The massive strikes against right wing governments in Puerto Rico, Haiti, Ecuador, Colombia and Chile marking a wave of resistance rising among the youth. The interview also explores lessons learned as the attempted coup against Venezuela failed, and coup against Bolivia. The limitations of juridical venues to fight back against imperialism and the power of internationalized movements of solidarity.

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Joseph Massad on "Trump's Deal Of The Century"

Our featured speaker today is Joseph Massad, one of our clearest and most articulate voices. Massad discusses "Trump's Deal of the Century: the Final Phase of the Oslo Accords." Here's an informal summary of the "deal": (1) the PLO, or now, PA is designated as the sole representative of all Palestinians, of course snuffing out Hamas and all dissenters; then (2) in "exchange" for a devastating package of even more crippling one-sided concessions by the PA, all remaining Palestinian hopes for a viable future (not to mention equal rights) are simply extinguished forever, thus achieving "peace"! Before Massad's talk, we report on the Israel Lobby's continued efforts to punish or prohibit BDS or Palestine support or even an honest discussion of Israel's deadly oppression of Palestinians, particularly at universities. They continue to succeed in the enactment, temporarily, of blatantly unconstitutional laws with this goal.

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#621 -- Potpourri 7 (Football & Other Offenses)

A bit of this and that, with much of the "this" being football. Features Progressive commentator Dave Zirin (with Ralph Nader); George Carlin; radical Black activist and writer Mumia Abu-Jamal; yours, truly; and a satiric song by Tom Lehrer.

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Climate Denial In The Face Of The Fire

How did one country, so deeply damaged by global warming, deny it all along? Marc Hudson studied that for his Doctorate, and speaks to us from his new home in Manchester UK. Then independent energy journalist Nick Cunningham explains why the biggest fracking site in the world is just blowing valuable natural gas straight into the atmosphere, warming us even more.

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0545

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Alan Syliboy and The Thundermakers in our Spotlight Interview (Rock) Hour 2

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Alan Syliboy and The Thundermakers in our Spotlight Interview (Rock) Hour 1

Welcome to Indigenous in Music! This week Larry welcomes from Millbrook First Nation, Mr. Alan Syliboy group leader of the “Thundermakers.” They have just released the latest album “Signal Fire.” Find out about them and hear their music on their homepage at www.alansyliboy.ca. Music from Alan Syliboy & The Thundermakers, Darren Geffre, Def Jef, Tracy Bone, Bluedog, Desiree Dorion, The Cody Blackbird Band, Son of Hweeld, Centavrvs, Redbone, Irv Lyons Jr, Sihasin, Jessica Hernandez, Rosalia De Souza, Janet Panic, Shon Denny, Wolf Den, Injunuity, Tchutchu, Dj Javier Estrada, Mike Bern, Brian Hedges, nehiyawak, Khu.eex', The Bahama Soul Club, Matt Comeau, Judie Acuquin and much much more. Visit us on our music page at IndigenousinMusic.com and our homepage at indigenousinmusicandarts.org. We have underwriting opportunities available. Indigenous in Music, a non-profit, section 501(c)(3).

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Broadcast 468

Radio Thrift Shop features a flexible format & is an homage to the "underground" era of broadcasting of the 1960's and 1970's that DJ Frederick grew up with. RTS features a homegrown mix of vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of cassette tapes and homemade / self released cds. Each broadcast of Radio Thrift Shop features an improvised playlist from DJ Frederick's music library

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Long Haul Show Pt 1

The opening hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

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Long Haul Show Pt 2

The second hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

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Long Haul Show Pt 3

The third hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

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Long Haul Show Pt 4

The fourth hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; KOCF Radio, Vernan, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband + other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series for full archive.

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Eugene Maker Space

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Political Cartoons

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UpFront Soul #2020.04 - January 27-February 2, 2020

We'll kick off with a set of new releases by Omar, LaRombe, and David Walters, hear a set of Aretha (and a poem to Aretha by Nikki Giovanni) by request, and we'll hear songs for & about children by La Mont Zeno Theater and Loretta Long- also known as Susan from Sesame Street!

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UpFront Soul #2020.04 - January 27-February 2, 2020

We'll kick off with a set of new releases by Omar, LaRombe, and David Walters, hear a set of Aretha (and a poem to Aretha by Nikki Giovanni) by request, and we'll hear songs for & about children by La Mont Zeno Theater and Loretta Long- also known as Susan from Sesame Street!

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Canada Out of NATO!

Tamara Lorincz of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW Peace) discusses with Phil the destabilizing effect of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in Central and Western Asia. NATO (under a different name) has been the occupying force in Afghanistan for 19 years, and threatening neighbouring Iran. For some time, NATO has also been the backbone of the US Coalition occupying Iraq and Syria, despite the fact that, for years, the Iraqi people have been demonstrating for all foreign forces to leave. The Trudeau government of Canada stationed hundreds of troops in a training role around Baghdad, but there are unknown numbers of Canadian 'JTF2' Special Forces in the Kurdish north. These commandos are not overseen by the Canadian Parliament, and report to no one outside the military brass. NATO has been pressuring Canada to do more in Iraq. But, Lorincz says, Canadians should resist this pressure and demand our government respect the wishes of the Iraqi Parliament and bring all our troops home. Our troops aren't helping the situation, and could be caught up in a war between the US and Iran. Last year, the Trudeau government celebrated the 70th anniversary of NATO with its "We Are NATO" campaign. Lorincz recounts that she started picketing the NATO Association Office in Toronto at that point, which is directly funded by US arms makers Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. Lorincz says Canadians have spoken. They don't want F-35 fighter jets and new warships. Instead, they want social programs, social housing, climate action, and peace. Lorincz and many others will be out demonstrating on January 25th. Check your local anti-war organization for details on protests near you.

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The Revolutionary King: MLK's The Three Evils of Society, "the sickness of racism, materialism & militarism"

The Revolutionary King: MLKs The Three Evils of Society, "the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism" and his prophetic work then for the path forward today! with Dr. Clayborne Carson, African American professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Since 1985 he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. For anyone that is preoccupied with the current local-global condition affecting the human family with the visible ravages of racism eating at our soul, poverty's death march and the ever expanding military industrial complex cancer devouring everything in sight our two-hour special The Revolutionary King will truly aid us on our journey to become more affective agents for social change. On Aug. 31, 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King delivered The Three Evils of Society speech at the National Conference on New Politics, which is the most prophetic and revolutionary address to date on the questions of militarism, poverty, and racism. "We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness" was how MLK framed the problem that "has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning." Identifying "the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism" and considering the three problems as the "plaque of western civilization." Dr. King understood that the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement was from the outset a battle against the system itself. At the time of the speech, MLK was facing increasing white opposition to black empowerment and equality, an expansion of crony capitalism and open ended commitment to military expenditures on the Vietnam war that all together led to deepening poverty and rising discontent in the African American community. The conditions in today's America and the world resemble what MLK described in "The Three Evils of Society" speech in 1967. MLK spoke of America's "schizophrenic personality on the question of race" with two conflicting personalities. One professing "the great principles of democracy" and another that practices its antithesis. Every step forward in confronting racism in America has an equal step backward, which MLK perceptively identified as the white backlash -- the "old prejudices, hostilities and ambivalences that have always been there. The white backlash of today is rooted in the same problem that has characterized America ever since the black man landed in chains on the shores of this nation." Racism, for MLK, was that "corrosive evil that will bring down western civilization" and white backlash was nothing more than good old White Supremacy that is never content with equality. Dr. King was a great leader in the Black Revolutionary Tradition whose work should help shape our understanding of capitalism and organizing today. Now is precisely the time to recount and be instructed by Dr. Kings revolutionary legacy against the systems efforts to white wash and degrade his frontal challenge to its crimes. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great revolutionaries in U.S. and world history. He was a leader of the Civil Rights and Black Liberation Movement, a fierce internationalist, anti-imperialist, and Pan Africanist, a Black militant, a socialist, and part of The Movement that was far to the left of the Democratic Party. Since 1980, with the rise of Ronald Reagan, the two party system, aka U.S. imperialism, has waged a counter-revolution against the great victories of the revolutionary sixties, where the revolutionary left won so many of the ideological battles against U.S. hegemony. In the past 40 years, in particular, it has been profoundly painful to witness, and difficult to combat, the lies and slanders against the historical, and political achievements of the Black and Third World led movements. In the case of Dr. King, the establishment has tried to distort Kings life by putting him forth as an accommodating, dreamer and use him as a counterforce against Malcolm X, Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Fidel Castro, Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the great Third World revolutionaries throughout history. In truth, Dr. King was one of their colleagues and comrades and in turn, they all had great appreciation of his unique and courageous role in history.

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Lady Arbuthnot case unsound: Prosecutors/CIA spied on Julian Assange and his lawyers

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-176/

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