Sullivan, Michael Gene — Political Theater, Black Men and the Police

Theatre as a commentary on the condition of society is the subject of this edition of Radio Curious. The topic is the relationship of police and black men in America in 2015. Our guest is Michael Gene Sullivan, the resident playwright, director and a principal actor in “2015: Freedomland,” this year’s production by the San Francisco Mime Troupe. The first question and answer on the frequently asked questions page on the San Francisco Mime Troupe website is: “Why do you call yourself a Mime Troupe if you talk and sing?” The answer is: “We use the term mime in its classical and original definition, ‘The exaggeration of daily life in story and song.'” When Michael Gene Sullivan and I visited by phone from his home in San Francisco on June 29, 2015, I asked him if “2015: Freedomland” was an exaggeration of daily life in story and song from his perspective. The book Michael Gene Sullivan recommends is “The Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Force,” by Redley Balko.

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CPR News, February 6, 2018

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Maya van Rossum and the Green Amendment Movement

When the crafters of the Declaration of Independence affirmed “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as inalienable rights, they could not have known that private industry practices like fracking would one day pose grave dangers to the holders of those rights. Our guest today on Sea Change Radio, Maya van Rossum, asserts not only that protection from these dangers should be understood as inalienable, but that environmental protections should be explicitly named in our constitution. Van Rossum is the executive director of Delaware Riverkeepers and the author of a new book, The Green Amendment. We talk about her organization’s success in curbing fracking in Pennsylvania, how her work serves as a potential template for fighting fracking elsewhere, and the movement underway to pass a constitutional amendment for a healthy environment.

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Black History Month and Political Prisoners USA

Back in the USSR begins Black History Month by focusing on the bitter truth of how African-Americans remain a colonized people within a racist American society. Racism exists and remains virulent in this age of Trump, rising fascism, hate and escalating violence. Afro-Americans continue to be killed by the police. Working class black people in particular continue to live in poverty and continue to face systemic discrimination in schools, in housing, and on the job market. America’s prisons remain disproportionately packed with black people and African-American political prisoners remain behind bars. It’s this issue of political prisoners that I want to begin with tonight, because America has them and has them in considerable numbers in spite of the American government’s wholesale denial of this fact.

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Law and Order - Part 2

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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Back 'N' The Day - SBBradio

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Weekday World, February 6, 2018

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Episode 121 - I'm having 7/11 Attack

What a news night and issues night too! Joe is in Illinois and it's a full of political tomfuckery on the aire and news media. Anthony had plenty of crazy and nude florida news! Thanks for listening to this recast and if you want, listen live every Monday night at 8pm eastern at http://www.chiampa.info

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Sydney Koori Gras Days of Future Past + global LGBTQ news!

A queer Koori component adds color to Sydney’s Mardi Gras; Indonesian lawmakers pursue broad restrictions on sex, Myanmar Pride doubles in the daylight, Tunisia closes its mind to Free Thinkers’ Pride attempt, Jamaica rejects an evangelically homophobic U.S. preacher, El Salvador’s top court denies lawmakers’ hetero definition of marriage, leading Aussie marriage equality opponent Tony Abbott is all smiles at his lesbian sister’s wedding, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

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Walkuman Style #193

1. TV Is Dead - Hugo Monster 2. The Shoes - ChanHays (feat. Homeboy Sandman, Ghettosocks & John Robinson) 3. Destiny N Stereo - Chris Dave & The Drumhedz feat. Elzhi, Phonte Coleman & Eric Roberson 4. 5 Seconds - DJ Honda ft. Black Attack 5. Build & Destroy - DJ Dlux & Lyve Kaos ft. Dialekt 6. Fallin' Up - Black Eyed Peas 7. Nuevo Comienzo - Cidtronyck ft. Portavoz 8. Blow The Spot - MZ Boom Bap & Ryler Smith 9. Body Rock - Mos Def ft. Tash and Q-Tip 10. Crescer - Primeira Audição 11. Too Many - Killz & Baracuda ft. Knewrawtick 12. 10,000 Hours - Evidence 13. God, The Devil and Man - Krumbsnatcha 14. Blue - Frizzy P & Mister Cole 15. Damn That Dream - Loop.holes 16. Sailing Above - Flitz&Suppe

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The Motherland Influence: February 4, 2018

African, Latin & Caribbean music

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CPR News, February 5, 2018

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Ambiance Congo: February 4, 2018

Congolese popular music

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Martian Gardens Episode 920 Hour 3

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Martian Gardens Episode 920 Hour 2

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Martian Gardens Episode 920 Hour 1

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Fresh New Sounds; 2/4/18; set 1

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Fresh New Sounds; 2/4/18; set 2

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Weekday World, February 5, 2018

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0442

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Weather Bomb

Following another record year of "natural" catastrophes, Canadian climate scientist and You tube activist Paul Beckwith works over our tenuous situation with host Alex Smith.

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The Vietnam War and the Whitewashing of History

On this episode of Back in the USSR, me and a very special guest are going to talk about the Vietnam War. Why? Because here at Back in the USSR we are very sensitive to the distortion and re-writing of history by the powers that be, and that’s exactly what’s been going on with how the Vietnam War has been portrayed in Western media. And while this certainly isn’t new, some very blatant examples have emerged recently, including a PBS documentary series which we’re going to talk about, that effectively whitewashes what was in fact one of the most horrendous and terrifying atrocities ever committed by an imperial power against a Third World nation in modern history. Tonight, we set the record straight.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1

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Radio Free Radical

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Let's Have Homecoming - Episode 22

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PCJ Radio International January 30 to February 4 2018

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SE Asia roundup: 'Hong Kong's Private Eye' editor Gui Minhai arrested in mainland China

Bookmark this brilliant analysis of the criminal elite tax evasion schemes that will have to go if our indebted, enslaved world is to get lighter to walk on https://financialsecrecyindex.com/ Theresa May silent during visit on China's arrest of 'Hong Kong political publisher Gui Minhai, author of salacious books on China’s poitical elite. Public discussion of the rivalries/private lives of top Communist Party officials is strictly prohibited in China http://thediplomat.com/2018/02/the-strange-and-sad-case-of-gui-minhai/ Former Associated Press journalist Robert Parry, who was smeared by Google as 'fake news' has died One of the world's greatest investigative journalists just passed away. RIP Robert Parry, who exposed the Iran-Contra CIA drug running scandal in the 1980s, then got permanently blacklisted by the corporate #FakeNews media, who have ignored his passing https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/robert-parrys-legacy-and-the-future-of-consortiumnews/ Contra-Cocaine and October Surprise Parallel to the illegal arms shipments to Iran during those days was a cocaine trafficking operation by the Nicaraguan contras and a willingness by the Reagan administration and the CIA to turn a blind eye to these activities. This, despite the fact that cocaine was flooding into the United States while Ronald Reagan was proclaiming a “war on drugs,” and a crack cocaine epidemic was devastating communities across the country. Bob and his colleague Brian Barger were the first journalists to report on this story in late 1985, which became known as the contra-cocaine scandal, and became the subject of a congressional investigation led by then-Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) in 1986. Continuing to pursue leads relating to Iran-Contra during a period in the late 80s when most of Washington was moving on from the scandal, Bob discovered that there was more to the story than commonly understood. He learned that the roots of the illegal arm shipments to Iran stretched back further than previously known – all the way back to the 1980 presidential campaign. That electoral contest between incumbent Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan had come to be largely dominated by the hostage crisis in Iran, with 52 Americans being held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Iranian hostage crisis, along with the ailing economy, came to define a perception of an America in decline, with former Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan promising a new start for the country, a restoration of its status as a “shining city on a hill.” The hostages were released in Tehran moments after Reagan was sworn in as president in Washington on January 20, 1981. Despite suspicions for years that there had been some sort of quid pro quo between the Reagan campaign and the Iranians, it wasn’t until Bob uncovered a trove of documents in a House office building basement in 1994 that the evidence became overwhelming that the Reagan campaign had interfered with the Carter administration’s efforts to free the hostages prior to the 1980 election. Their release sooner – what Carter hoped would be his “October Surprise” – could have given him the boost needed to win. Examining these documents and being already well-versed on this story – having previously travelled three continents pursuing the investigation for a PBS Frontline documentary – Bob became increasingly convinced that the Reagan campaign had in fact sabotaged Carter’s hostage negotiations, possibly committing an act of treason in an effort to make sure that 52 American citizens continued to be held in a harrowing hostage situation until after Reagan secured the election. Needless to say, this was an inconvenient story at a time – in the mid-1990s – when the national media had long since moved on from the Reagan scandals and were obsessing over new scandals, mostly related to President Bill Clinton’s sex life and failed real estate deals. Washington also wasn’t particularly interested in challenging the Reagan legacy, which at that time was beginning to solidify into a kind of mythology, with campaigns underway to name buildings and airports after the former president. At times, Bob had doubts about his career decisions and the stories he was pursuing. As he wrote in Trick or Treason, a book outlining his investigation into the October Surprise Mystery, this search for historical truth can be painful and seemingly thankless. “Many times,” he wrote, “I had regretted accepting Frontline’s assignment in 1990. I faulted myself for risking my future in mainstream journalism. After all, that is where the decent-paying jobs are. I had jeopardized my ability to support my four children out of an old-fashioned sense of duty, a regard for an unwritten code that expects reporters to take almost any assignment.” Nevertheless, Bob continued his efforts to tell the full story behind both the Iran-Contra scandal and the origins of the Reagan-Bush era, ultimately leading to two things: him being pushed out of the mainstream media, and the launching of www.Consortiumnews.com

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"Wall Streets Think Tank" - CFR Decides To Let the Earth Burn

Interview with historian Laurence Shoup about his recent book “Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014”. Shoup explains how the CFR has influenced U.S. Government policy on behalf of it's Capitalist Class and Corporate members from it's beginning, following the First World War, until present. The CFR is dominated by oil corporations, banks and oligarchs with investments in energy and petrochemicals. Beginning in 1990 the CFR initiated a series of studies to determine their role in the ecological crisis and climate change resulting from its members business model and the production and consumption of fossil fuels. In Chapter 8, “Fiddling While the Earth Slowly Burns: The Council and The Ecological Crisis, 1990-2014,” he reveals that the CFR studies show that “....solving the ecological crisis meant questioning the future use of fossil fuels and capitalism itself,....” By 2014 they concluded that their business interests depended on accelerating fossil fuel production, while promoting “adaptation” to the extreme weather events that trapping more energy in the Earth's atmosphere would result in. Shoup offers alternatives to the CFR's “...continuing injustice and ecocide” and speaks of what might be done.

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#518 -- Things Fall Apart (R)

The economy ... American political democracy ... the climate ... the whole ecosystem--all seem to be collapsing at once. In a poem of 1920, W.B. Yeats noted, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." The show features a great routine on the very subject by GEORGE CARLIN (early 1990s), music by JAMES McMURTRY ("Ruins of the Realm"), Yeats's poem, and somewhat-humorous reflections by K.D.

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