Weekday World, February 21, 2018

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Black History: "Blood in the Water, The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy" with Author Heather Ann Thompson

An extended conversation with Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water, the first definitive history of the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, the state's savage response, and the prisoners' decades-long struggle for justice.

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Amy Harder: Democrats Debate Energy Policy

The 2016 disagreement between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders over the best energy mix to help us get to a 100% renewable future sure does seem antiquated these days with climate change deniers and fossil fuel interests at the helm in Washington. This week on Sea Change Radio, though, we get an update on the continued divisions within the Democratic Party from Axios energy reporter, Amy Harder. We discuss how the Sanders wing of the Party has been able to carve out a larger piece of the policy pie than many imagined possible, what that means for future elections and try to sort out the stances of the leading voices on the Left when it comes to natural gas and nuclear power. Then, we dig into the Sea Change Radio archives and re-visit our discussion with noted linguist George Lakoff as he gives a primer on climate change messaging - a lesson that's more relevant and important than ever before.

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Michael Parenti: The Face of Imperialism

"The Face of Imperialism will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people around the world - many of them indigenous peoples - who are defending themselves against the Empire." That's what the author Andre Vltchek wrote for the jacket of Dr. Michael Parenti's 2011 book. Parenti has written about empire, history, the media, theology, and socialism in his decades as an activist and teacher. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Parenti says that "Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last .. five centuries, carving up whole continents,.. oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media .., and political leaders." He spoke at a benefit for radio station KZFR in Chico, California.

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CPR News, February 20, 2018

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Movement for Justice in the Barrio

Recorded in 2004 this group is still active on Latin issues.

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Stu's Faves # 10

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

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Quadrophenia - The Who

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If Music Could Talk - Feb 4 2018

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Cognitive Freedom versus Collective Narcissism: Recognising the Difference

SUMMARY: Audio commentary by @TheAngryindian; philosophical grounding culled (largely) from >> Erich Fromm’s ‘Escape from Freedom’ - Wikipedia - Fromm's concept of freedom // Fromm distinguishes between 'freedom from' (negative freedom) and 'freedom to' (positive freedom). The former refers to emancipation from restrictions such as social conventions placed on individuals by other people or institutions. This is the kind of freedom typified by the existentialism of Sartre, and has often been fought for historically, but according to Fromm, on its own it can be a destructive force unless accompanied by a creative element, 'freedom to' the use of freedom to employ spontaneously the total integrated personality in creative acts. This, he argues, necessarily implies a true connectedness with others that goes beyond the superficial bonds of conventional social intercourse: "...in the spontaneous realization of the self, man unites himself anew with the world..." In the process of becoming freed from authority, we are often left with feelings of hopelessness (he likens this process to the individuation of infants in the normal course of child development) that will not abate until we use our 'freedom to' and develop some form of replacement of the old order. However, a common substitute for exercising "freedom to" or authenticity is to submit to an authoritarian system that replaces the old order with another of different external appearance but identical function for the individual: to eliminate uncertainty by prescribing what to think and how to act. Fromm characterises this as a dialectic historical process whereby the original situation is the thesis and the emancipation from it the antithesis. The synthesis is only reached when something has replaced the original order and provided humans with a new security. Fromm does not indicate that the new system will necessarily be an improvement. In fact, Fromm indicates this will only break the never-ending cycle of negative freedom that society submits to. EXTRAS: Socially-conscious PSA’s; ‘Reality Check’ from conscious American rap-artist Maurion AKA Phenomenon (@MaurionGates) and audio of an in-depth Dutch television investigation into the Trump Family’s financial ties to the Netherlands and certain Russian and Ukrainian criminal organisations operation in Europe and the United States finish out this IRB programme. All this and much more on, 4WR. The official internet radio broadcast of the Aboriginal Press News Service/ANG

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Episode 122 - Betty's Up

Hey Guys, thanks for tuning into a recast of the Joe and Anthony show, this was a fun follied show of news and laughter, as per usual. Got a show idea? Give us a call at 813-327-8566 By the way, you can listen live at http://www.chiampa.info

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Kupers, Dr. Terry: Solitary Confinement and How to End It

In this edition we again visit with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic psychiatrist and the author of “Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It." In our first visit, available on line at radiocurious.org, Dr. Kupers describes the abysmal conditions in which an estimated 100,000 incarcerated people, both men and women are held in solitary confinement in the United States. Kept in dark, cold, and often wet cells, more or less eight feet by ten feet in size, they have little or no human contact, sometimes for years on end. Many suffer from mental illness, prior to or as a result of living solitary confinement. This results in significant long term damage to these people as individuals and to our society as a whole. In this second of our two part series, Dr. Kupers shares stories of prisoners held in solitary confinement and what he believes is necessary to achieve meaningful rehabilitation for people who have committed crimes and sentenced to prison. When Dr. Terry Kupers and I visit by phone from his home in Oakland, California, on February 14, 2018, we began this second visit when I asked him to describe what he calls a rehabilitative attitude. The book Dr. Kupers recommends is: Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement,” edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway and Sarah Shourd This program was recorded on February 14, 2018.

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Riotous Sydney Mardi Gras Origins + global LGBTQ news + more!

"78ers" recall the Sydney Mardi Gras’ brutal beginnings; a "Rainbow Minute" remembers out Australian poet Dorothy Porter; Malaysia’s press parrots the government’s pathetic homophobia, rights advocates condemn Indonesia’s anti-queer attacks, Bermuda is sued anew over marriage inequality, Trump’s Education Department denies bathroom passes to trans students, LGBT Olympians add lavender to gold, silver and bronze, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

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The Motherland Influence: February 18, 2018

African, Latin & Caribbean music

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Ambiance Congo: February 18, 2018

Congolese popular music.

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Martian Gardens Episode 922 Hour 3

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Martian Gardens Episode 922 Hour 2

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Martian Gardens Episode 922 hour 1

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Let's Have Homecoming

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Radio Free Radical

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The Colors of Jazz; 2/18/18; set 1

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The Colors of Jazz; 2/18/18; set 2

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Weekday World, February 19, 2018

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North Korea's Smart Role at the Winter Olympics

Peace could be achieved in short order in Korea if the governments of North and South were left to sort out matters themselves. But the "indispensable nation," the US, insists political solutions must be vetted in Washington. At the Winter Olympics Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a very impressive diplomatic appearance that put Cold War advocates in the shade.

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PCJ Radio International February 12 to February 19 2018

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interviews Author/Educator Dr Robert Jensen

Robert Jensen, professor in the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin College of Communication, is the author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User s Guide to Constructive Dialog, (City Lights Publishers, March 2013). The book explores issues with public discourse, trust in the leadership of elected officials and what Jensen calls an Age of Anxiety. It also offers strategies for addressing these crises. We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The news has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites, and the idea of debate has become a polarized shouting match that precludes any meaningful discussion. It s also a time of anxiety, as we re faced with economic and ecological crises on a global scale, with stakes that seem higher than ever before. In times like these, it s essential that we be able to think and communicate clearly. Sylvia speaks to Dr Jensen about traditional struggles, internal domination and a way forward. Also Drop of Water by Dana Lyons

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0444

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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#520 -- The Hidden Ideology of the News Media, Part 1 (R)

Another in our series of classic talks by Progressive political scientist MICHAEL PARENTI. This one--one of his best--dates from 1997. Parenti demolishes the myth of "the liberal media." With wit, humor, facts, and examples, he shows the US news media to be little more than the propaganda arm of the the most powerful corporations. Recorded live in Burlington, Vermont--at the same university that had fired him for his antiwar activism 25 years earlier.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2

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Dirty Air or Sudden Heat?

If we clean up air pollution, the weather gets hotter and wilder. From Norway, Dr. Bjorn Hamset explains the stakes. Then from Harvard, Dr. Francesca Dominici reveals shocking new science: just a short exposure to bad air kills seniors. This is Radio Ecoshock clearing the air.

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