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The Underground Railroad in New Bedford, Massachusetts
July 3, 2018, 11:58 p.m.
Radio Curious tours the town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a safe haven for black slaves seeking refuge from the south through the underground railroad during the 1800's. National Park Ranger Mark Mello is the tour guide.
July 3, 2018, 8:04 p.m.
Aziz Huq the US Supreme Court decision on Trump's anti-Muslim travel ban -- echoes of past unjust decisions. Karen J. Greenberg,Trumpâs Border: Gitmo for Kids, about the incarceration of immigrant children in prison camps on US military bases. Bob Avakian, "What to the slave is your fourth of July? From the past to the present," from "Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About." Actors Christopher W. Jones and Melora Marshall, The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller.
July 3, 2018, 7:42 p.m.
The diagnosis: colonialism. The prognosis: full recovery. The treatment: resistance. And the formula for successful recovery: diversity.
Among Mazin Qumsiyeh's impressive qualifications are his MD degree and genetics professorship at Yale School of Medicine. Thus the basic outline summarized above. In this riveting presentation recently at the Community Church of Boston, he explains why we must recognize, celebrate, and cultivate diversity in all matters. This applies to the environment and to human community building. It also means one democratic state for Palestine/"Israel", ending apartheid forever.
For some background on Qumsiyeh and his primary love, we quote from thisweekinpalestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-Palestine-Museum-of-Natural-History.pdf: "As a child, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, the founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) at Bethlehem University, used to accompany his uncle Sana to the field and thus fell in love with nature. Qumsiyeh was 13 years old when his uncle died, and that is when he resolved to fulfill not only his uncleâs mission of doing research on mammals but also his dream of building a museum. Qumsiyeh, who has taught at Duke and Yale universities, now teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit universities. He has published more than 140 scientific papers on topics ranging from systematics to biodiversity to cancer. He has also published several books, including Bats of Egypt, Mammals of the Holy Land, Sharing the Land of Canaan, and Popular Resistance in Palestine.â
For those interested, we have included separately a raw unedited recording of the 35-minute Q&A session. Finally, go to youtube.com/watch?v=4xTTHYOvwgU to see an informal video of this event, including some of his slides. Qumsiyeh is a passionate, tireless, and also fun presenter!
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?
July 3, 2018, 7:25 p.m.
The two June 2018 programs by TUC radio with the economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis drew such a huge response that we are following up with an extraordinary excerpt from a May 9, 2018, talk at the Cambridge Forum.
In that talk Yanis Varoufakis makes the point that democracy and capitalism are incompatible. However capitalism also can't maintain itself - he says - it is a self devouring system. And he invites us today to resolve the question of who is going to survive, democracy or the global financial system.
In this excerpt of his near two hour talk Varoufakis traces the origins of the current economic crisis from 1929 through the New Deal through WWII through Bretton Woods to 2008 and beyond.
Varoufakis is weaving in illuminating historic facts such as why bankers were not allowed to participate in the drafting of Bretton Woods, how the Marshall Plan saved the US economy, how Bretton Woods collapsed in the 1970s, and why and how bankers became instrumental in rescuing the US from collapse after the US bankrupted itself by going on a global shopping spree - and why we need a new New Deal.
Yanis Varoufakis was already an internationally known economist and academic when he was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Syriza party. At the height of the Greek debt crisis he served as Minister of Finance in 2015. He resigned in protest over the imposition of structural adjustment and bailout loans on the Greek people.
Varoufakis had been invited to the US to talk about his most recent book: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy. Among his other books are: Adults in the Room, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, and The Global Minotaur, America, the True Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy.
Yanis Varoufakis is a cofounder of an international grassroots movement, DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025). After teaching for many years in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia, he is currently a professor of economics at the University of Athens.
July 3, 2018, 10:59 a.m.
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
PCJ Radio International June 25 to July 2 2018
July 2, 2018, 7:14 p.m.
Episode 139 - Four Badluck Bobcats Dancing Naked
July 2, 2018, 6:07 p.m.
What a fun episode, Joe gets better with his video on and off game and lots of laughs all over the place. Find out what strains you need for July 4th or any holiday for that matter! Tune in live every Monday night at 8pm eastern http://www.chiampa.info
Queers on ICE + global LGBTQ news!
July 2, 2018, 5:57 p.m.
Queer asylum seekers are trapped by Trumpâs immigration crisis; U.S. Supremes toss a wedding bouquet back to Washington state jurists, Angola grants legal recognition to its first LGBTQ rights group, Kyiv cops bust homophobic protesters, queers brave death threats to celebrate Pride in a Kenyan refugee camp, Pride finally comes to Deadwood, and more LGBTQ news from around the world â plus the witty tale of a little Red Hen!
July 2, 2018, 11:15 a.m.
(1.) Choose Your Own Avenger (Ultimate Version) - Ultra Magnus ft. Lex Lingo, Schaffer the Darklord, Shubzilla, Sulfur & Primordial Emcee
(2.) React - Onyx ft. Bonnifuco, 50 Cent, and X-1
(3.) Wide Awake - DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. The Trinity (Rhymefest, Dayne Jordan & Uhmeer)
(4.) The Get-Up - Little Brother
(5.) Paid Dues - Does Bros ft. DFACEDXA
(6.) Magnificent - Moka Only ft. Ishkan
(7.) Elevated - Decaf Black ft. Rkitech (cuts by DJ VR)
(8.) Remember When - C Keys & Kazi ft. DJ Grazzhoppa
(9.) Tel-Eye-Vision - Crew54 & Cientifiq ft. Planet Asia
(10.) Any Other Place - Pseudo Slang
(11.) Sentinel - Lee Ricks ft. DJ Fellbaum
(12.) I Don't Know - Elements Of Music ft. aDaD
(13.) Brighter Than Gold - Mr Slipz ft. illiterate and Freedom
(14.) Clay Davis - Face & Miz
(15.) Mad Lethal - Awon & Phoniks ft. Ill Conscious and Hex One
(16.) When The Stars Begin To Fall... - Mr. ASD
(17.) Frontin Foes - Blame One
(18.) When Dope Was Fresh - The I.M.F and Lmt Break ft. Roc Marciano
(18.) Sundays - Aso
July 2, 2018, 11:10 a.m.
Monica Farrell's record of bloodshed and murder committed by Roman Catholic Actionists during the years 1941-43 in Europe
July 2, 2018, 10:20 a.m.
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Swingin' into our 9th; 7/1/18; set 1
July 2, 2018, 4:26 a.m.
Swingin' into our 9th; 7/1/18; set 2
July 2, 2018, 4:23 a.m.
2018-06-29 - Animal Cruelty Whistleblower Malcolm Klimowicz
July 1, 2018, 10:28 p.m.
On this episode of AW@L Radio we are joined by animal-cruelty and fur-farm whistleblower Malcolm Klimowicz to discuss his arrest and censoring, his work with the endfurmfarming.com campaign, and the first day of the #minktrial, which is scheduled for July 5th 2018.
Malcolm also shares how people can support his legal defense and stay updated on the actions of the Kitchener Ontario Animal Liberation Alliance (KOALA). Among much else, we discuss the importance of intersectional approaches to activism, the promotion the corporate normalisation of veganism, and the recent citywide fur-sale ban in San Francisco.
#539 -- Chris Hedges Ad Lib (R)
July 1, 2018, 5:33 p.m.
Unscripted but incisive discussion of a range of issues by the celebrated Progressive journalist, essayist, and activist.
Topics include the corruption of the judiciary ... the mass media as the propaganda organ of the Corporate State ... how the Democratic Party has betrayed its constituents ... the false promises of Barack Obama ... the growing public opposition to Israel's Palestine policies ... and (relatedly) the increasing attacks on free speech.
July 1, 2018, 5:13 p.m.
Given the record heat in both East and West, plus Europe - this looks like a great time to review what we know about how heat kills. Dr. Robert Kopp explains why humans die in heat waves, and why that will get worse as climate change develops. Dr. Jeremy Leggett on "Winning the Carbon War".
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0463
July 1, 2018, 4:59 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
July 1, 2018, 10:25 a.m.
This event, one of several but elusive "public hearings", likely to justify new legislation from Congress for conscripting youth into the military or publicly funded corporate purposed nonprofit training programs, all euphemistically branded "service" to the nation. This hearing was themed "Pathways to Employment".
Panelist selected by the commission work with Veterans and prominently African-American youth on Chicago's south and west sides through NGOs. One is a commentator on the most widely listened to radio station in Chicago's black community, WVON 1690AM.
The audience of, aprox 40, was composed of people representing NGOs seeking additional funding for their "good works" and opponents to compulsory registration, selective service, nationalism and US militarism. Several traveled from out of state to attend and testify; one even reminding the Commission that the most recent U.S. wars were based on lies and deception. Praise for military "service" was regularly expressed from the front of the room, as if mindless and amoral obedience is not its subtext. Witness the experience of Chelsea Manning and James Snowden and the venom they received from the government for what in reality was heroic and selfless service. Funding for citizens and the commons in what still claims to be a democratic republic experiences the "Israeli diet", while the Pentagon and Death Enabeling Corporations engorge themselves on public money at a vomitorium known as "national defense".
Intro and panel 0:0:0 - 1:04:16
Q&A and Public Comments 1:04:16 - 1:47:46
Introduction: Debra Wada, Vice-Chair and Commissioner
Remarks: Evelyn Sanguinetti, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
Panelists:
Leah Eggers, Program Manager of Youth
WorkforceDevelopment, Youth Guidance:
Americacorps Alum: and Returned Peace Corps
Volunteer
Ruthie Moore, Contributor, WVON 1690 AM
Eli Williamson, Co-Founder/Board President, Leave No Veteran Behind
The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2
July 1, 2018, 9:26 a.m.
The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1
July 1, 2018, 7:17 a.m.
#342 Alternative To Profit Growth
June 30, 2018, 11:03 p.m.
A presentation of an article by Graham Ferguson
Settler-Colonialism and Genocide in Canada
June 30, 2018, 10:15 p.m.
Siegfried Barazov and Brendan Campisi discuss the brutal reality of settler-colonialism in Canada. From Residential Schools that kidnapped and brutalized aboriginal children to the Reserve system that reduced their peoples to desperate poverty, from pipelines built on stolen land to hollow apologies from a government that continues to run roughshod over treaty rights and the self-determination of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide was and continues to be the order of the day in "British North America".
Sanctions Against Syria Are Illegal and Destructive War by Other Means
June 30, 2018, 7:55 p.m.
Sanctions are not very visible or alarming when viewed from abroad, but their effects are equivalent to military intervention. Stephen Gowans discusses how the sanctions on Syria are illegal and incredibly harmful, despite the pretexts employed by the Anglo-American coalition. The U.S. has subverted rules regarding sanctions, and hardly anyone is brave enough to publicly stand up to them.
Gowans ties the sanctions regime to Washington's long war on Syria, partly motivated by Syria's socialist policies. Syria has the right under the United Nations to pursue its own form of development. Meanwhile, countries who are allied to Saudi Arabia have the temerity to sit in judgement and call Syria a regime. The overall Western intervention contributes to the refugee crisis.
Sounds From the Global Village 1406
June 30, 2018, 7:01 p.m.
June 30, 2018, 6:58 p.m.
June 30, 2018, 6:57 p.m.
Norman Solomon and Lee Lew Lee
June 30, 2018, 2:44 p.m.
Media Activist Norman Solomon and Documentarian Lee Lew Lee spoke at the Conference to End Corporate Dominance in Seattle in 1999. What they said is still poignant today.
Welcome Home Rally for Survivors of Chicago Police Torture
June 29, 2018, 4:03 p.m.
Speakers and performers listed in notes.
Program to welcome home people convicted and imprisoned - some sentenced to death - as a result of the systemic use of torture by the Chicago Police Department to obtain confessions.
Torture and framing of Black and Latino youth by corrupt, criminal cops took place over a 40 year period and still continues, tainting the entire department as perpetrators are protected by the Fraternal Order of the Police, and a code of silence rarely broken. Chicago's merchant and money elites prop up the majority of alderman who have failed their oath of office by continuing to protect the existing order where corrupt cops operate with impunity and cops that obtain confessions with torture are kept on the force.
This program celebrates 45 years of Unity, Organization and Struggle in the fight for justice, human rights and an end to the impunity that has existed under the corrupt political power structure that Chicago suffers..
Survivors of police torture, cultural performers, a little history on how the United Nations was brought to bare when the racist Mayor and States Attorney refused to prosecute criminal cops , and an acknowledgement of the unique women, the founding members of the Alliance, precede the key note by Angela Davis.
Rethinking Europe's Migrant Crisis: Weapons of Mass Movement?
June 29, 2018, 3:48 p.m.
On this weekâs Global Research News Hour, we examine the European migrant crisis from the perspective of geo-strategy. Former U.S. State Department Official, whistleblower and author J Michael Springmann sees the mass movement of peoples from militarily compromised countries in North Africa and Southwest Asia as not only a consequence, but a deliberate instrument of US geo-strategy. We discuss his 2017 book: âGood-Bye Europe, Hello Chaos? Merkelâs Migrant Bombâ with the author himself, and with Toronto based writer, journalist, and media critic Barrie Zwicker.
How Israel lobby went from zero to total control of US government in thirty years
June 29, 2018, 2:37 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-109/