Latest Programs
Climate Change: What It Means for Wisconsin and the World
May 24, 2016, 2:32 p.m.
Martin: "Systemic Shrinking of the Northern Hemisphere's Wintertime Cold Pool" (One of newest pieces of evidence that suggest the planet is warming.)
Young: "Understanding Extremes: The Seamless World of Weather, Climate Variability and Long-term Global Climate Change"
Cornwell: "Timelines for Climate Change:
Projections of Physical Science and Human Responses"
May 24, 2016, 12:56 p.m.
May 24, 2016, 10:58 a.m.
Offering you the very best of alternative, independent political / social justice championing / status quo-challenging audio media live-streamed from our website (radiofreeradical.org) and NOW IN MP3 HERE ON RADIO4ALL! 12 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING IN JUST THREE FILES! It's all yours!
May 24, 2016, 6:46 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
Episode 44 - That First Piece of Cake!
May 23, 2016, 7:13 p.m.
Wow, what an episode, Happy Birthday with cake crammed in every crevice. We got through it though! Hey, you can listen to us live every Monday night at http://listen.chiampa.info - Visit our blog http://chiampa.info for more!
The Secret Truth: Bilderberg 2016, Is the EU & Euro about to fall apart?
May 23, 2016, 5:55 p.m.
http://www.thesecrettruth.com/
Rev. Gwen's story+GOP conspiracy+global LGBT news!
May 23, 2016, 5:13 p.m.
The transfiguration of an Episcopal transition; U.S. House Republicans vote for discrimination; an international celebration of LGBT rights fights phobias, Bolivia enacts a progressive trans rights bill, 51 Muslim countries ban queer-friendly groups from a major U.N. HIV/AIDS conference, the U.S. finally has an openly gay Secretary of the Army, and more global LGBT news!
Will Brexit trigger end of failed EU? The Covert Report
May 23, 2016, 4:56 p.m.
Robin McDowell: Exposing Modern Slavery
May 23, 2016, 4:32 p.m.
Human slavery. Many of us think of it as a terrible chapter of US history that ended in the 19th century. But, according to the United Nations, slavery is a modern reality for roughly 27 to 30 million human beings living, right now. Our guest today on Sea Change Radio is Associated Press reporter, Robin McDowell, who, along with three colleagues, recently won a Pulitzer Prize, for her teamâs exposé of slavery practices in the Southeast Asian seafood industry. Not only did this investigation receive the highest honor in journalism, it alerted consumers of how we are contributing to the practice by eating slave-produced seafood, and, most importantly, it precipitated the rescue of 2,000 slaves who are now living free after years and even decades of bondage. McDowell breaks down the details of how she and her colleagues uncovered the story, some of the horrors they encountered along the way, and how it sparked action to dismantle similar operations in the region.
A Dialogue on Israel and Palestine with Tariq Ali and Norman Finkelstein
May 23, 2016, 2:53 p.m.
Tariq Ali and Norman Finkelstein spoke on a panel at the 2016 Left Forum, held May 20 - 22, 2016 in New York City. Paul Jay, of the Real News Network, was the moderator.
May 23, 2016, 2:51 p.m.
May 23, 2016, 2:05 p.m.
Pancakes - Sah Boogs
Peep The Form - Classic Material ft. Audessey, U-George, Ghettosocks and Oxygen
Day to Day - Grant Benjamin ft. Sam Stan & James Gardin
Time Difference - Homecut (Testament) ft. J-Live
Water remix - Slipmat Brothers ft. Spliff Hemingway
Unexpected - Classified
01 - Ghostride
Hot-Refill remix - The Mood Doctors ft. Posdnuos, Jarobi, Napoleon Da Legend and Dysfunkshuanal Familee
Boomerang - Pyro Brown
We Go - Cymarshall Law ft. Homeboy Sandman and Eternia
Intouchables - Le Makizar ft. Milk Coffee & Sugar
Nezhno - Sleep Sinatra x Toki Wright
Honestly. Now - Moka Only
Little Sweetness - TempoMental ft. Notion & Nick Easton
Just A Slice (Rich Kidd original/Lancecape's Ethiopian Sunrise/Dark Room remix) - J Shiltz ft. Korry Deez and DJ Docta
Song In A Glass - ScienZe
Mecca - Live Dub - Alexis Davis
May 23, 2016, 12:26 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.
May 23, 2016, 7:50 a.m.
Crossing the Void: A call to Nauru
May 23, 2016, 5:40 a.m.
The Australian Government has done its best to silence the voice of refugees who have arrived by boat. They have isolated them on remote islands and tried to rob them of their humanity.
Thanks to technology these people are able to break through the barrier and use their voices to cross the void.
I spoke to Arash a refugee from Iran. He is living in Nauru in a detention centre. He sleeps in a tent with somewhere between 30 and 40 people.
http://autonomousactionradio.com/2016/05/23/crossing-the-void-a-call-to-nauru/
#429 -- Potpourri 4 (Resisting the Oligarchs)
May 22, 2016, 7:50 p.m.
A bit of this, a bit of that--all loosely connected by the theme of how the Powers That Be wield their power in practice. Includes comic satire by The Final Edition, a new song by David Rovics, and thoughts on Trump and the media by KD.
The real story about Trump, KD argues, is not his personal failings or his unsound policies. The real story is how the US oligarchs--and their mouthpiece, the media--work to destroy politicians who are not reliable servants of the oligarchy.
The Happy Station Show May 22 2016
May 22, 2016, 7:47 p.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0353
May 22, 2016, 7:47 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
Media Network Plus May 21 2016
May 22, 2016, 7:35 p.m.
The Motherland Influence May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016, 6:22 p.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music
The Other Black Music May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016, 6:13 p.m.
Broadcasting from WRIR-LP 97.3 FM and www.wrir.org in Richmond, Virginia USA. "The Other Black Music" broadcast Black music ignored by other Richmond stations. Soul, Zydeco, Funk, Afro-Pop, Blues and more. Every other Sunday 3-5pm EST
Ice Melt Controls World Weather
May 22, 2016, 4:32 p.m.
More on super storms, ice melt & James Hansen, from climate expert Dr. David Archer & anti-nuclear activist Michael Mariotte. New Antarctic melt science w. Dr. Tony Worby & Dr. David Etheridge - some surprises in role of Antarctic ice in world weather.
May 22, 2016, 1:09 p.m.
Airs on WSFM-LP 103.3 in Asheville / streaming at <a href="http://stream.ashevillefm.org/finalstrawstream.m3u">AshevilleFM</a> from 3am EST on May 23rd, 2016, through May 29th, then <a href="">podcasting</a> at radio4all.net. Also airing this week on <a href="http://kowalp.org">KOWA-LPFM</a> in Olympia, WA, <a href="http://kwtf.net/">KWTF</a> in Bodega Bay, CA, KXCF in Marshall, CA, and <a href="http://www.wcrsfm.org">WCRS-LP</a> Columbus Community Radio 98.3 and 102.1 FM. The show will later be archived at <a href="http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org"> TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org</a>. You can email us at thefinalstrawradio@riseup.net and you can send us mail at:
The Final Straw
c/o AshevilleFM
864 Haywood rd
Asheville, NC 28806
This week Bursts spoke with Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, one of five defendants in the Lucasville Uprising case from 1993 facing the death
penalty known collectively as the Lucasville 5. Hasan, calling from Ohio State Prison supermax in Youngstown, Ohio, took the time to talk
about the newly formed Free Ohio Movement, a prison organizing movement based on the Free Alabama Movement which centers on the claim that
prisons in the U.S. are the current site of a continuation of slavery supposedly abolished but really upheld by the 13th Ammendment to the
U.S. Constitution. Hasan talks about prisoner labor & recitivism,
claims of rehabilitation by the state and the organizing towards the
September 9th nationwide prisoner strike on the 45th anniversary of the
Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. More on Hasan's case can be found at
http://lucasvilleamnesty.org and you can hear our previous interviews with
Hasan by searching his name at http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org
After that you'll hear a conversation with a member of Istanbul
Anarchist Black Cross, in Turkey, that Bursts conducted. The
conversation talks about the political prisoner situation in Turkey, the
work of IABC, and the case of vegan anarchist prisoner Osman Evcan, who
recently succeeded to win rights from the state after a 45 day hunger
strike. More on IABC, in Turkish, at abcistanbul.blogspot.fr/
The transcript of this interview can be found here: https://archive.org/download/hasan_on_FOM_and_IABC_on_Osman/abcistanbul032016.txt
A longer, podcast version of the show will be available separately to include a reading of the 2016 June 11th call-out here:
First, here're a few announcements:
At the request of prison organizers in North Carolina, we'd like to share the following information:
Politically active prisoner Stanley Corbett (0716025) has been repeatedly harassed by COs at Alexander CI, in Taylorsville, NC, and is being denied full food portions. Upon Corbett complaining, one CO said, "Y'all n-words always complaining about something." Then later, after filing a grievance, a different CO yelled, "Suck my (BLEEP) n-word, write that up!" Please call in to the prison at (828) 632-1331 and request the administration to feed Corbett and stop this harassment.
Again, that number is 828 632 1331 and Stanley Corbett's number is 0716025, held at Alexander CI in Taylorsville, NC.
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Here is a brief announcement from Save Our Roots: An Indigenous People's Campaign to Protect the Sacred Biodiversity of our Natural Forests:
"[Genetically Engineered] trees pose a very real and significant threat to our natural forests and all Life on ... Earth. It violates Indigenous peoplesâ
fundamental rights to live in harmony with nature and to practice our cultural and spiritual beliefs ... The propagation and use of GE trees as a natural resource and commodity for increased pulp and energy production will
compromise and destroy the delicate regenerative biodiversity and life-cycles of [the] Earth . The growing of GE trees is a risk towards:
the Rights of the Earth; land tenure and subsistence rights of Indigenous Peoples; depletion of precious ground water reserves;
increases the use of deadly herbicides and pesticides; continues the release of greenhouse gas emissions and microscopic pollutants; and
are a false solution towards mitigating climate change."
To learn much more about this topic, for updates on current situations and campaigns, and for interview opportunities for your media project, you can visit http://saveourroots.org/
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On Thursday, May 26, 7-9pm Firestorm Books & Coffee (610 Haywood Road) will host the Anarchy & Anti-Fascism in the Balkans: Koko Lepo Solidarity Tour!
Suggested Donation (no one turned away) to help presenter with travel costs. During this time, a member of Koko Lepo autonomous youth solidarity program in Belgrade, Serbia, attendees can hear from a Koko Lepo member who is visiting the U.S. on a tour to spread awareness of autonomous, anarchist and anti-fascist/anti-racist projects and organizing going on in Belgrade and beyond!
The presenter will narrate the evolution of Koko Lepo from a free kindergarten in the defunct InexFilm squat to a broader youth program. The discussion will focus on issues of anti-ziganism (a term for prejudice against Roma/gypsies), autonomous solidarity efforts in Belgrade, the difference between charity and mutual aid, and the struggle against hierarchy; the presenter welcomes challenges and suggestions for continued solidarity and new connections.â
Koko Lepo youth solidarity collective is a mutual aid program working with the residents of âthe Dumpâ, a 'favela-type slum' in Belgrade inhabited by people usually referred to as âRomaâ or âGypsiesâ. The collective is founded on the principles of equality and mutual aid. It is closely tied to the anarchist and antifascist scene in the Balkans and beyond.
Koko Lepo began in 2013 as a free kindergarten program in the InexFilm squat in the Karaburma neighborhood of Belgrade. Its students were picked up three to five days a week from their homes in the settlement and walked to the kindergarten where we had a three to four hour program with them before walking them back home. The program was focused on autonomy, respect for others, and making a safe space for the young children to explore their identities. We placed a strong emphasis on undermining 'traditional' gender dynamics and breaking down other divisions in the settlement. Over time, we developed very strong ties with our families in the settlement which allowed us to start a broader program for older children. This was called Å kolica and began as a weekend study program. This quickly expanded however and started to host film nights, excursions, and other activities.
When the squat was taken from us in October last year, we lost our ability to do the kindergarten so we redoubled our efforts with Å kolica. Now Koko Lepo occurs at least once a week all over the city with either our younger group (aged 7-10) or our older group (11-14) totaling around 50 kids (the kindergarten had another 20 or so). All of our funding comes from anarchist and antifascist groups in Europe as well as some odd individual donations here and there.
Check it out
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From http://feralfutures.wordpress.com:
We are very happy to announce that, for the 8th year running, the Wild Roots Feral Futures (WRFF) eco-defense, direct action, and rewilding encampment will take place in the forests of Southwest Colorado this coming June 18-26, 2016 (exact location to be announced). WRFF is an informal, completely free and non-commercial, and loosely organized camp-out operating on (less than a) shoe-string budget, formed entirely off of donated, scavenged, or liberated supplies and sustained through 100% volunteer effort. Though we foster a collective communality and pool resources, we also encourage general self-sufficiency, which lightens the burden on communal supplies, and which we find to be the very source and foundation of true mutual sharing and abundance.
We would like to begin by acknowledging that Wild Roots Feral Futures takes place on occupied/stolen indigenous territory, primarily of the Nuutsiu (occasionally spelled Nuciu or Nuchu, aka âUteâ) people, as well as Diné [âNavajoâ], Apache, and others. In recognition of this reality and as a first step in confronting it, we seek to establish proactive working relationships with those whose stolen land we gather upon, and open the space we temporarily gather in to the centering and amplification of indigenous voices and struggles. Our understanding is that any community of resistance that doesnât center the voices of indigenous people and put their leadership in the forefront is a movement that is part of the problem. [Read more hereâ¦]
We would like to invite groups and individuals engaged in struggles against the destruction of the Earth (and indeed all interconnected forms of oppression) to join us and share your stories, lessons, skills, and whatever else you may have to offer. In this spirit we would like to reach out to frontline community members, local environmental groups, coalitions, and alliances everywhere, as well as more readily recognizable groups like Earth First!, Rising Tide North America, and others to come collaborate on the future of radical environmentalism and eco-defense in our bio-regions and beyond.
We would also like to reach out to groups like EF!, RTNA, and the Ruckus Society (as well as other groups and individuals) in search of trainers and workshop facilitators who are willing to dedicate themselves to attending Wild Roots Feral Futures and sharing their skills and knowledge (in a setting that lacks the financial infrastructure to compensate them as they may have come to expect from other, more well-funded groups and events). We are specifically seeking direct action, blockade, tri-pod, and tree climbing/sitting trainers (as well as gear/supplies).
Regarding the rewilding and ancestral earth skills component of WRFF, we would like to extend a similar invitation to folks with skills, knowledge, talent, or specialization in these areas to join us in the facilitation of workshops and skill shares such as fire making, shelter building, edible and medicinal plants, stalking awareness, tool & implement making, etc. We are also seeking folks with less âancestralâ outdoor survival skills such as orienteering and navigation, etc.
Daily camp life, along with workshops, skill shares, great food, friends, and music, will also include the volunteer labor necessary to camp maintenance. Please come prepared to pitch in and contribute to the workload, according to your abilities. We encourage folks who would like to plug in further to show up a few days before the official start of the event to begin set-up and stay a few days after the official end to help clean up.
Site scouting will continue until early June, at which point scouts and other organizers will rendezvous, report-back their scouting recon, and come to a consensus regarding a site location. We are also planning on choosing a secondary, back-up site location as a contingency plan for various potential scenarios. Email us for more info on getting involved with scouting and site selection processes.
WRFF is timed to take place before the Earth First! Round River Rendezvous, allowing eco-defenders to travel from one to the other. Thus we encourage the formation of a caravan from WRFF to the EF! RRR (caravans and ride shares can be coordinated through our message board at feralfutures.proboards.com.
We are currently accepting donations in the form of supplies and/or monetary contributions. Please email us for details.
Please forward this call widely, spread the word, and stay tuned for more updates!
For The Wild,
~The Wild Roots Feral Futures organizersâ collective
Email: feralfutures(at)riseup(dot)net
And now the call-out for this year's June 11th: International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners
May 2, 2016
The podcast version of this episode includes a reading of the June 11th Statement for 2016, a rather lengthy one at about 20 minutes, prior to us playing the interview with Hasan. The text from that announcement can be found here: http://june11.org/june_11_2016_callout_Read.pdf
For a zine version, check out this link: http://june11.org/june_11_2016_callout_Print.pdf
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In Asheville, on June 10th the Odditorium will host a punk and metal benefit concert. Bands and costs, TBA, with all proceeds going to long term Anarchist and Eco prisoners commissary and legal funds. Tabling by relevant local groups. Swag and good times to be had by all! More info forthcoming!
Playlist pending
May 22, 2016, 9:41 a.m.
May 22, 2016, 7:47 a.m.
Toni Solo reports from Managua on news and events in Latin America and the Caribbean. Hosted by Don DeBar.
Classic Media Network May 20 2016
May 21, 2016, 6:56 p.m.
Focus Asia Pacific May 20 2016
May 21, 2016, 6:47 p.m.
May 21, 2016, 6:20 p.m.
In the May 2016 Taxcast: What is corruption? Well, that's a political question, and the answer depends on who you ask. We discuss the anti-corruption summit in the City of London, the world's capital of sleaze and ask if the sun ever set on the colonial era and the idea that corruption is a poor country issue. We explore extortive corruption versus collusive corruption and look at a new Poll which indicates for the first time the vast gulf between what the British people consider corrupt, and what has become a 'normal' way of doing business and politics. The overlap between the public and private spheres raises serious questions about democracy â and the nature of global fraud.
Immigration and the American Economy
May 21, 2016, 1:26 p.m.
Immigration and the American Economy
with
Dave Dyssegaard Kallick, with the Fiscal Policy Institute s Immigration Research Initiative that examines the role of immigrants in the New York State economy and beyond
and
Cal Soto, National Rights Coordinator with the National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) committed to improve the lives of day laborers in the United States - to protect and expand their civil, labor and human rights.
Few government policies can have so profound an impact on a nation as
immigration. Large numbers of immigrants and their descendants have a significant impact on the cultural, political, and economic situation in their new country. Over the last three decades, socio-economic conditions, and the scourge of war and terror campaigns against the population have caused 25 million people to leave their homelands and emigrate legally to the United States. Additionally, it s estimated that the undocumented population grows by 400,000 to 500,000 each year.
As in the past, immigration has sparked an intense debate over the costs and benefits of such a large number of people entering the country. One of the central aspects of the immigration debate is its impact on the American economy. Presently the debate has been controlled by the white nationalist rants of Donald Trump and others in the Republican Party. But, we re here to debunk the myths, counter the lies, repudiate the vitriol and reset the discussion
There is a poster that s stayed in my mind s eye for years " it s a portrait of a Native American, which says if your so against immigration, splendid when do you leave?
#734 - The Case of The Missing Inquest
May 21, 2016, 6:25 a.m.
Did you know that Dr. David Kelly is perhaps unique among UK citizens in that his obviously unnatural death has never been the subject of an inquest? The "inquiry" tasked with investigating it did not take testimony under oath, left many questions not unanswered but unasked (such as why there where no fingerprints on the knife!) and was headed by a hand-picked appointee of war criminal Tony Blair. A solid introduction to the case by Norman Baker MP is followed by a range of other voices that helps explain why the UK government has chosen to sidestep the circumstances of Dr. Kelly's death.