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Let's Have Homecoming - Episode 30
April 4, 2018, 6:29 a.m.
April 4, 2018, 6:16 a.m.
April 3, 2018, 8:55 p.m.
Journalist Gareth Porter on Bolton, Trump's Consolidation of a Whole New War Cabinet, and the Danger It Poses. Bob Avakian, How is it possible to maintain the kind of movement that can get rid of the Trump/Pence Regime? From The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America, A Better World IS Possible. Steve Fishman, journalist & narrator of Empire On Blood, a seven-part serialized podcast about Calvin Buari's struggle against wrongful conviction.
The West Virginia Wildcat Strike of 2018 - Olivia Morris
April 3, 2018, 8:25 p.m.
West Virginia teacher and grassroots strike leader, Olivia Morris, talks about the historic 9 day wildcat strike that lasted from February 22 to March 7, 2018. She is in conversation with Stacy Davis Gates, political director for the Chicago Teachers Union.
This is a personal, very candid conversation about a strike in an anti union right to work state, about alliances between teachers and public workers, a broken down health care system, how low or no taxes for coal and gas extraction diminish the money needed for education and more.
The Chicago Teachers Union described the event this way: "The wildcat strike by West Virginia teachers, among the lowest paid teachers in the nation, has ignited public support across the state and the nation, with teachers in states from Oklahoma to Kentucky looking at strategies to bring the West Virginia model of strike resistance and rank and file democracy to their states."
"In West Virginia, teachers rejected efforts by political leaders and top union officials to convince them to settle without an iron clad guarantee of improved wages, enshrined in legislation, not just for them but for all state public employees. Teachers struck for those guarantees even though West Virginia is a 'right-to work' state which bans strikes by public workers."
The wildcat strike derailed plans by state legislators to jack up health insurance premiums in the Public Employee Insurance Agency (PEIA) and to jam through a charter school bill being promoted by corporations.... Teachers and their supporters are demanding West Virginia legislators reverse corporate tax cuts, raise gas severance tax and hold harmless any public programs that prioritize the needs of struggling state residents in any plan to fund their raises."
Lisa Song: Mississippi Levee Wars
April 3, 2018, 5:59 p.m.
Sometimes we lose sight of what Audrey Hepburn called "that old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second." This week on Sea Change Radio, we hear from ProPublica reporter Lisa Song who has done some recent reporting on a little known problem that could have very big effects: the impact of illegal overbuilding of levee systems in the Midwestern flood-prone regions of the Mississippi River. The folks responsible are flouting the rules and lobbying to have them changed. Their argument is that they're just trying to protect the communities they represent, but the effect is to make other communities far more vulnerable to flood. The valuable reporting that Song and her colleagues are doing to expose the issue will hopefully help to arm future flood victims against the rising tide of these water district bullies.
Houston Indymedia's Last Show on KPFT Pacifica Radio?
April 3, 2018, 5:37 p.m.
Houston Indymedia Radio violated KPFT censorship rules by talking about KPFT censorship rules. A few days later, the show was kicked off the air. Listen to the show now!
April 3, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
A lawyers' organization involved with UN established courts is asking why the UN does nothing to help released prisoners to return to their families. The countries who turned over these individuals to the UNICTR do not take them back. All the problems, says Jacobs, are traceable to the fact of demonization of the accused, and the non-presumption of innocence by those who established the court.
April 3, 2018, 11:28 a.m.
April 3, 2018, 7:29 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
April 3, 2018, 3:34 a.m.
April-Sept 1988: Our 1st 6 months + global LGBTQ news!
April 2, 2018, 5:02 p.m.
The Motherland Influence: Aril 1, 2018
April 2, 2018, 3:22 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music.
April 2, 2018, 3:17 p.m.
Congolese popular music.
"Music to Lose Your Mind to"
April 2, 2018, 3:08 p.m.
If you're going to lose your mind, you might as well lose it whilst listening to this program.
April 2, 2018, 1:26 p.m.
April 2, 2018, 7:19 a.m.
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April 2, 2018, 5:33 a.m.
Swing into Spring; 4/1/18; set 1
April 2, 2018, 4:35 a.m.
Swing into Spring; 4/1/18; set 2
April 2, 2018, 4:32 a.m.
Dan Kovalik: US Double Standard on Colombia vs Venezuela
April 1, 2018, 9:14 p.m.
Following the Cuban revolution the US Government under Kennedy developed a program of "State Terror" to deal with the aspirations of peasants and workers in Latin America whose needs could only be answered by ending exploitation by US corporations and the local feudal landlord class. Set up under the guise of National Security it was first fully implemented by the US Army in Colombia. Kovalik compairs the news coverage of Colombia and Venezuela. They are neighboring countries that receive extremely different treatment by the US Empire and the mass media. While Colombia is known for one of the worst human rights records in the world (killing priests, trade unionists, indigenous, journalists the poor) it remains a top recipient of US military aid and enjoys uncritical press coverage in Western media--all while Trump imposes sanctions and threatens military intervention against Venezuela over unsubstantiated allegations. (program)
#526 -- How 'The System' Causes Addiction (R)
April 1, 2018, 8:32 p.m.
A good introduction to Dr. Gabor Mate's insights into addiction. Mate (mah-TAY) shows that addiction is caused not by chemical substances but by the complex interaction of brain, experience, the environment (including society & the economy), and chemical substances. Our stressful, exploitative economic system is a major factor causing addiction. And since The System's "War on Drugs" does little good and much harm, could its REAL goals be more sinister than its professed goals?
Gideon Levy explains The Zionist Tango: Step Left, Step Right
April 1, 2018, 7:28 p.m.
In what is becoming an annual event, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs holds a conference where it discusses the Israeli Lobby and its impact on American Policy. The conference brings together a treasure trove of amazing speakers and each year we bring those speakers to you on this radio program. The conference this year, 2018, was held March 2nd in Washington DC. Over the next several weeks we will broadcast many of the presentations from the conference, beginning this morning with the keynote address delivered by the intrepid Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, whose incisive, critical, courageous columns appear each week in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz.
So today we bring you Gideon Levy delivering the keynote address, entitled The Zionist Tango: Step Left, Step Right.
interviews author Derrick Jensen
April 1, 2018, 4:15 p.m.
Sylvia Richardson and author Derrick Jensen make visible the unspoken hierarchical structures of power and violence. Why in a capitalist, patriarchal system violence against women, people of colour and against nature is the norm not the exception.
Derrick advises both men and women as to what their role is in this culture of violence.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0450
April 1, 2018, 4:06 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
Fukushima's Ongoing Impact
April 1, 2018, 3:56 p.m.
Talk by Helen Caldicott, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility on "Fukushima's Ongoing Impact" recorded September 28, 2014.
April 1, 2018, 2:23 p.m.
News of heat records set in Australia & New Zealand. Killer heat in India, with clips from news Down Under. Pipeline news and court victory, with Karenna Gore clip. Interview with Larry Shoup on the failure of capitalism on climate, the CFR and conspiracy of inaction. Audio from Derrick Jensen's new video.
African Americans Against the Bomb
April 1, 2018, 12:49 p.m.
Interview with Vincent J. Intondi author of "African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement"
The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2
April 1, 2018, 9:34 a.m.
The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1
April 1, 2018, 7:18 a.m.
Ezel - Anarchist & YPJ Fighter in Rojava
April 1, 2018, 4:57 a.m.
https://subversion1312.tk/2018/04/01/ezel-anarchist-ypj-fighter-in-rojava/
With the help of a Kurdish comrade Hafez Rahimi we were able to obtain this interview with a woman fighting on the front line with the YPJ in Rojava Syria..
The interview was recorded in Kurmanji This is an English recreation of the interview.
In the interview Ezel speaks about her life and what the situation in Rojava means for women.
Ezel also talks about what is drawing people from all over the world to Rojava.