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May 23, 2017, 10:46 p.m.
Carl Dix brings us into the battle grounds of Chicago where Black youth are killing each other while Trump and the police line up to arrest and kill from their side. Dix talks about the work of the Revolution Club in Chicago to bring people into fighting for the future and not against each other. Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, argues a better world is possible. Scientist and Science Popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson spends a half hour talking about his new book, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
Stephen Zarlenga The American Monetary Act (Part TWO of TWO)
May 23, 2017, 8:02 p.m.
This is Part TWO of a celebration of the work of an extraordinary man, Stephen Zarlenga, author of the book The Lost Science of Money and founder of the American Monetary Institute. Stephen Zarlenga died on April 25, 2017.
I interviewed Zarlenga in May 2009 when the consequences of the financial crisis of 2007/08 had become obvious and his reform ideas were in demand.
Working with Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Zarlenga helped develop legislative language for a major reform of the Federal Reserve system.
In 2011 Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers introduced HR 2990, the N.E.E.D. Act, that stands for National Emergency Employment Defense.
The organization that Zarlenga built, the American Monetary Institute continues and the annual conference of 2017 is going forward as planned in early September in Chicago. The web site is monetary.org/
At the 2016 AMI conference, Dennis Kucinich gave a talk in Zarlenga's honor. And he made an appeal to all to move forward with the Monetary Reform legislation developed by Zarlenga.
Dennis Kucinich served as U.S. Representative of Ohio from 1997-2013 and has been a strong voice in the anti-war movement. He was co-sponsor of HR 676, the Universal Single-Payer Healthcare Act.
Dvorak, John Ph.D. - Earthquakes: Why and When? (Archive)
May 23, 2017, 6:15 p.m.
To many of us who live along the coast of California, earthquakes are a living legend. Much of that legend is closely associated with the San Andreas Fault, a line that runs roughly 800 miles through California, forming the tectonic boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates. Todayâs edition of Radio Curious is about those legendary earthquakes. Our guest is John Dvorak, Ph.D., a geophysicist and author of Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault.
California Recycling Program in Decline
May 23, 2017, 3:34 p.m.
In 2013 California boasted a recycling rate of 85%. In 2017 that number is now 79% â that is the first time it has dipped below 80% since 2008. Why is the most populous state in the union moving in the wrong direction on this important indicator? This week on Sea Change Radio we speak with Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste, a nonprofit environmental group that was founded forty years ago to advocate for beverage container recycling in the state. He will explain this troubling trend and talk about what can be done to get Californiaâs recycling program back on its previous trajectory.
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May 23, 2017, 9:47 a.m.
Brian Cleveland plays a selection of new Canadian music. This week's episode features tracks from Usse, KILLDEVILS, DenMother, Hooded Fang, Not You, and more.
Time Again Radio - Goes Electric
May 23, 2017, 9:25 a.m.
Time Again Radio airs every Monday night on WRIR from 11 PM until 1 AM. This is the perfect show for the fellas and ladies who are looking to get their folk, old time, country blues, jug band, ragtime and jazz fixes satisfied.
May 23, 2017, 8:44 a.m.
Wide ranging discussion of issues from a labor perspective
May 23, 2017, 8:11 a.m.
ATT strike. Nafta renegotiation. Historical discussion of union activism in the late 1990s obscured by 9/11. Labor's spokesmen compromised by Carey/Hoffa election scandal. The AFL's historical discrimination and class collusion starting with Gompers. The CIO shook things up.
Republican bill to cripple AFGE. Insidious effects of seemingly pro-union policies. How a workers' coop movement is better for repressed groups than their own form of capitalism. The horror of private nursing homes.
Trump shenanigans leading to near-term impeachment? Maybe there's fire where there's Russian smoke. Smokescreen hiding Dems not fighting for workers. Trump demnted and off the reservation, but Reagan went along with the program and his dementia and the October Surprise were covered up. We give our suggestions for good news sources.
Recent pardons and commutations. Peltier and Mumia still jailed.
Flint is a "disaster zone." People poisoned to pay off bondholders. Environmental degradation leading to mutations and health problems. Corporations are living systems out of human control.
Recent ICE arrestee deaths.
Virginia Tilley, co-author of now-trashed UN report on apartheid, explains its study methods
May 23, 2017, 8:05 a.m.
Israel and the United States have once again exercised their bully status at the United Nations by trashing, and ultimately forcing the deletion from the UN website of, a report by Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley that they had commissioned. It was a serious academic study which examined the question: In Israel/Palestine, does apartheid exist, or does it not exist?
The moment that the report was issued, which affirmed that apartheid, as defined by the UNâs own protocols of apartheid, does indeed exist according to the objective data, the attacks began.
Today we feature a speech by one of the authors of that report, Virginia Tilley, who meticulously defines the process of the study as well as its conclusions. Virginia Tilley recently spoke at Harvard University via Skype as part of the anti-apartheid weekâs presentations sponsored by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee.That speech is what we present.
Virginia Tilley is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Illinois, where she focuses on the Comparative Study of Racial and Ethnic Conflict. The study she authored with Richard Falk is titled "Israeli Practices Toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid."
You will need to listen more carefully than usual because of strained audio quality. That's because Tilley's voice reached us via Skype, played on poor quality overhead loudspeakers in Harvard's poorly designed room.
If Music Could Talk - May 21 2017 - guest DJ set by Joshua AC Newman
May 23, 2017, 7:28 a.m.
May 23, 2017, 7:10 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
May 23, 2017, 3:10 a.m.
This episode of GroundWire was produced on Anishinabe territory in Thunder Bay, ON part of the Robinson Superior Treaty, home of the Fort William First Nation
Headlines
Mi'kmaq communities protect the Sipekne'katik River from Alton gas | Gretchen King, CKUT
Constitutionality of indefinite immigration detention heard in Canadian Federal Court | Carly Forbes, GroundWire
Features
Parkdale community members enter 4th week of rent strike | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GroundWire
Radio Free Palestine: A 12 hour broadcast commemorating the Nakba | Laith Marouf, CKUT
Community Radio Report
Highlights from the Future of First Nations, Inuit and Métis broadcasting convergence in Edmonton | Carly Forbes, GroundWire with files from http://www.indigenousradio.ca/Edmonton.php
Producer Carly Forbes
Hosts Courtney Harrop and Carly Forbes
Music Tiny hands by Quantum Tangled from the album Tiny Hands and How to steal a canoe by Leanne Simpson from the album f(l)ight
Download at groundwirenews.ca Pitch to the next episode by Monday May 29th.
The Happy Station Show May 21 2017
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Focus Asia Pacific May 19 2017
May 22, 2017, 10:22 p.m.
Classic Media Network May 19 2017
May 22, 2017, 10:08 p.m.
SwItzerland In Sound May 18 2017
May 22, 2017, 9:50 p.m.
The Kelly Alexander Show May 17 2016
May 22, 2017, 9:24 p.m.
Jazz For The Asking May 16 2017
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Episode 88 - Happy Third Anniversary
May 22, 2017, 6:23 p.m.
It's really the second anniversary, but that's how it works around here. We have some fun on air and discuss the latest and greatest with Joe's grab bag mix of news and Anthony's cRaZy Florida News Stories. Do you want to be a guest on the show? Give us a call at 813-327-8566
An Oz 20th + Peter Allen celebrated + Chechnya crisis update + more!
May 22, 2017, 4:55 p.m.
The 20th anniversary of Tasmaniaâs triumph teaches timely tactics; a "Rainbow Minute" celebrates "Boy from Oz" icon Peter Allen; Chechen genocide continues amid denials and denunciations, 27 young gay men are netted in the raid of a Bangladesh community center and a young gay Indonesian couple faces 85 lashes for private consensual lovemaking, while IDAHOT is observed around the world â not always peacefully, Chelsea Manning is finally a free woman, and more LGBT news from around the world!
May 22, 2017, 7:30 a.m.
Journey Without Maps brings you vintage, rare, and underground global music from uncharted sonic territories. Every week, I unearth a new musical landscape: African soul & funk, Latin rhythms, eastern European electronica, Middle East psychedelic, Asian surf rock ⦠and more.
May 22, 2017, 6:34 a.m.
The Artistry of Alan Broadbent; 5/21/17; set 1
May 22, 2017, 4:07 a.m.
The Artistry of Alan Broadbent; 5/21/17; set 2
May 22, 2017, 4:05 a.m.
#481 -- The Empire Turns on its Citizens (R)
May 21, 2017, 7:44 p.m.
Two short talks by journalist/essayist Chris Hedges on the bad effects of empire at home.
As empires buckle under their own weight, the harsh measures of control they use to subjugate countries abroad are turned on their own citizens. We see the evidence all around us: government spying on everyone, economic plunder, militarized police, trumped-up charges against dissenters, and the world's largest prison system.
The goal of the repression is to crush dissent and opposition, says Hedges.