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March 19, 2017, 2:29 p.m.
Here's a new season of Radio Thrift Shop shows for 2017. Radio Thrift Shop evolves and changes every few months! Radio Thrift Shop is an homage to the underground era of broadcasting & the freeform radio broadcasts of the 1960's and 1970's & features a homegrown mix of old radio shows and documentaries, vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of cassette tapes and homemade / self released cds. Each edition features a unique playlist of music released between the early 20th century & next week
March 19, 2017, 1:45 p.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.
March 19, 2017, 1:40 p.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.
#472 -- Is Water the New Oil? (Part 2)
March 19, 2017, 10:31 a.m.
Scientist Seth Darling looks at an endangered vital resource: fresh water. He surveys society's water policies and the probable disastrous results of failing to change them.
This week, in Part 2, Darling accentuates the positive. He discusses advances in water-purification technology ... some cutting-edge science at the Argonne National Laboratory ... and the huge--and successful--water projects in Chicago over the past 130 years.
Plus a song on pollution by Tom Lehrer (1965).
Episode 2017.07 - The Green Economy, Considering a Plan for the Future
March 19, 2017, 3:32 a.m.
I have mulled over completing this episode for nearly 4 years, every time I started it I abandoned it, believing the content not appropriate or lacking in some way. Today I am pleased to place forward this episode, still rambling, but with some hard core solutions which may reignite the economic engine most rely on for sustenance. Included in the content are three independent segments unrelated to the topic, but necessary nonetheless. I hope you find this episode titillating and can find some time this week to further research cooperatives, the green new deal and possibly listen to the wonderful podcasts Economic Update and The Bradcast (if you already donât) which both deal with hardcore political and economic realities. I would also encourage you to inquire on local currencies and the foundations made necessary by their implementation. Thank you for listening today â Peace!
March 18, 2017, 7:51 p.m.
Encore for WRFI
March 18, 2017, 7:48 p.m.
Encore for WRFI
Israeli attorney Gaby Lasky describes her work defending resisters of Israeli tyranny
March 18, 2017, 12:59 p.m.
Our feature presentation this week is a recording of Israeli attorney Gaby Lasky talking to a group visiting the West Bank and Israel from the Boston area, sponsored by the GRALTA Foundation. (Recently formed in Lincoln, MA, GRALTA stands for Grass Roots Awareness / Learning / Travel / Advocacy.)
Lasky introduces herself and talks about the cases she takes defending both Palestinians and Israelis who are prosecuted for the roles they play in resisting the occupation.
Before that, we start with a tribute to Gerald Kaufman, the British lawmaker who famously compared Israelâs actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis who murdered his grandmother. He died recently at the age of 86 after a long illness. It was undoubtedly because of Kaufmanâs Jewish background that his comments drew particular ire from Israelâs surrogates. â including the speech he gave in the House of Commons on January 15, 2009, two weeks after Israel began its bloody assault on Gaza known as âOperation Cast Lead.â He spoke truth to power. We play that speech now, and while you listen, please imagine a U.S. President, or at least a member of our Congress, having the courage to do the same!
Women and Immigrants Organizing and Striking - Now and Then
March 18, 2017, 11:23 a.m.
Women and Immigrants
from Unity Marches To Preventing Business as Usual
with
Nelson Lichtenstein, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Center for the
Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is a labor historian who has authored or edited 16 books, including his most recent book Achieving Workers Rights in the Global Economy (2016), hes also written about 20th-century American political
economy
There are important questions facing all those seeking the best way to protest President Trump, the GOP-led Congress, and the immigration, health care, environmental policies, womens and Black Lives Matters on issues the new administration seeks to impose upon a reluctant populace:as to what is the meaning of a strike, demonstration, or
protest march? The brilliance of strikes and stoppages like the Day Without Immigrants and the Womens Strike lies in organizers willingness to halt business as usual.
Labor Historian Nelson Lichtenstein talks about a strike " not calling in sick, not taking paid time off, but an actual work stoppage " which will not only demonstrate a sense of inclusive solidarity. It will also have the potential to put enterprises and institutions that
employ a cosmopolitan, multicultural and multinational workforce " Hollywood studios, Silicon Valley, higher education, hospitals and clinics, ports and warehouses, municipal government, and even the world of fast food and retail trade " in at least symbolic opposition
to the Trump regime. It will demonstrate the meaning of solidarity to millions entirely unfamiliar with unions or any other form of collective action and make clear that employees themselves can have a loud and independent voice. Such a movement will demonstrate once
again that work and politics are indistinguishable and inseparable.
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Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike - 1912
The Lawrence Textile Strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by one mill owner's decision to lower wages when a new law shortening the workweek went into effect in January, the
strike spread rapidly through the town, growing to more than twenty thousand workers at nearly every mill within a week. The strike, which lasted more than two months and which defied the assumptions
of conservative trade unions within the American Federation of Labor that immigrant, largely female and ethnically divided workers could not be organized, was successful.
March 17, 2017, 6:59 p.m.
On this week's Global Research News Hour, we continue a conversation on the state of the nuclear industry and nuclear power six years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe by speaking with two experts. First up, Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility explains the Canadian government's 70 year embrace of the atom. And later Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education discusses the state of nuclear reactors and regulation in both Canada and the US, before bringing us up to date on Japanese government's efforts to protect the public as well as the nuclear sector.
March 17, 2017, 5:05 p.m.
Classic Media Network March 17 2017
March 17, 2017, 4:50 p.m.
Focus Asia Pacific March 17 2017
March 17, 2017, 4:46 p.m.
Switzerland In Sound March 16 2017
March 17, 2017, 4:40 p.m.
The Kelly Alexander Show March 15 2017
March 17, 2017, 4:31 p.m.
Jazz For The Asking March 14 2017
March 17, 2017, 4:23 p.m.
March 17, 2017, 12:49 p.m.
A look in the rearview to St Patrick's w/ Barleyjuice, in the crystal ball to the Week Before Easter w/ Jim Moray AND all around at the Rain & Snow.
worldbeatcanada radio march 18 2017
March 17, 2017, 11:52 a.m.
Sultans of String dish on the Juno Awards, Franco- experimental from Aquaserge, 10,000 Scarabs fr. Five Alarm Funk +Rock El Casbah
Interviews Ben West from Tanker Free BC
March 17, 2017, 10:15 a.m.
One of Vancouver's best-known environmentalists has a new job , Ben West has been appointed as executive director of Tanker Free B.C. Co-host of Latin Waves Stuart Richardson speaks to Ben about the recently approved expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and what that means for BC and our future energy needs, the politics around pipeline approval and what citizens can do to protect their communities.
We touch on some of the biggest misconceptions and mistruths people are told when it comes to charting our economic future in regards to energy.
From the Margins - Mar 12, 2017
March 17, 2017, 8:20 a.m.
On this episode of From the Margins, host Asaf Rashid, also a member of No One is Illegal Fredericton (NOII Fredericton), and fellow NOII Fredericton member Nigam Khanal will discuss Sanctuary City and its importance, efforts by NOII Fredericton to make Fredericton a safer place for undocumented people, some challenges to implementing sanctuary city, and challenges with immigration status.
UpFront Soul #2017.12 - Hour 2- March 20-26, 2017
March 17, 2017, 8:16 a.m.
We'll hear new music from Nicole Willis and Rasheed Ali, check out some Indigenous sounds from Prolific the Rapper and A Tribe Called Red, and celebrate soul with Dyke & the Blazers.
UpFront Soul #2017.12 - hour 1- March 20-26, 2017
March 17, 2017, 7:51 a.m.
We'll hear new music from Nicole Willis and Rasheed Ali, check out some Indigenous sounds from Prolific the Rapper and A Tribe Called Red, and celebrate soul with Dyke & the Blazers.
March 17, 2017, 6:53 a.m.
TB 170317 The Thing About Russia
March 17, 2017, 3:37 a.m.
We start off this weekâs Thunderbolt radio program with a lighthearted contemplation of the end of the world!
Then, in celebration, we take our listeners out to a free performance at the Security Theater, featuring a small army of very bored marshals â and set in the truly exotic locale of a Potemkin checkpoint that is located in an airport near you!
We then return to our âend of the worldâ meme by describing the nature of the foxes that the Rump is putting in charge of our public henhouses.
Then â for the grand exclusive explosive incendiary conclusion to this explosive incendiary episode of this explosive and incendiary radio program, the Thunderbolt exposes the context of Russia in their role as Americaâs both old and newest bogeyman de jour for the New American Century! (Hey! You canât just leave a bunch of unemployed soldiers laying around!)
To quote that explosive and incendiary (if somewhat hackneyed) radio program: At the Thunderbolt we are truly non-partisan! We trash EVERYONE!
Listen at your own riskâ¦
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkwxeuyw5czn977/TB%20170317%20The%20Thing%20About%20Russia.mp3?dl=0
March 17, 2017, 2:51 a.m.
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Sunrise Ocean Bender airs in the flesh Thursdays 9-11pm EST on WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond, Virginia. Downloads are for rebroadcast on other non-profit radio stations. wrir.org
Earth First! Update - 16 Mar, 2017
March 16, 2017, 8:28 p.m.
Radical, No Compromise Environmental News with an emphasis on Biodiversity and Direct Action
Out of the Woods - Show #363 - 3-25-17
March 16, 2017, 4:11 p.m.
This version of the program is divided into 6 segments so broadcasters who desire to use this content can insert your station info, etc. The segments vary in length.
Out of the Woods is an earthy, wires and wood, mostly acoustic program featuring some of the best new and established artists from the worlds of folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriters, alt.country, Americana, classic country, old-time, Celtic, and everything that falls in between. The show is an unpredictable mix flowing like a river between moods, often with an edge or in a melancholy minor key. On occasion, Out of the Woods features interviews and live in-studio performances with national and international touring musicians. Past guests have included artists such as Bela Fleck, Si Kahn, Brown Bird, Dana Robinson, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Kate MacLeod, Bill Bourne, Karl Shiflett, Rachel Bissex, Darryl Purpose, Bow Thayer, Cosy Sheridan and many others. Out of the Woods grew out of Jon 'Chip' Colcord's former acoustic programs, The Song Swap and Music For The Mountain, separate folk and bluegrass programs which aired in New Hampshire during the 1990s. As a child, Colcord grew up a ravenous music fan with an ear for both rock and folk. All of these influences converge on Out of the Woods to bring you a mix which is as much on the edge as it is down home. Folk music with a rock 'n' roll soul
The Shortwave Report 03/17/17 Listen Globally!
March 16, 2017, 4:11 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, NHK World Radio Japan, and Sputnik Radio.
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #147 - 3-24-17
March 16, 2017, 4:09 p.m.
Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull.
The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week
March 16, 2017, 4:05 p.m.
Sounds Irish is a weekly program coming straight from County Wicklow in Ireland, hosted by Joe Bollard, one of the elder statesmen of the Irish show band scene. Each program features a variety of Irish and Irish-related songs from many different genres, along with a healthy dose of banter from your host. Please consider adding Sounds Irish to your stations' weekly lineup of programs. All we ask is that we know where the show is being aired so that we can give mention on the program. To contact the show, it is best to send email to Joe Bollard directly at everton274@sky.com
The 2-hour program is posted weekly in multiple parts for broadcasters to insert their own breaks.