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Interview with Nikolay Andreevich Mozhenkov - about his relationships
May 30, 2016, 5:24 a.m.
Interview with Nikolay Andreevich Mozhenkov - on building of the house
May 30, 2016, 5:08 a.m.
"Walkin' the Walk"; 5/29/16; set 1
May 30, 2016, 4:54 a.m.
"Walkin' the Walk'; 5/29/16; set 2
May 30, 2016, 4:51 a.m.
The Motherland Influence: May 29, 2016
May 30, 2016, 12:08 a.m.
African, Caribbean, and Latin music
May 29, 2016, 11:58 p.m.
Congolese popluar music.
Dr. Seth Darling- 'The End of Water As We Know it'
May 29, 2016, 10:04 p.m.
Nanoscientist Seth Darling discusses the global water crisis, some of the factors that contribute to it, and research that Argonne Labs is working on to better utilize water as a resource and a human right.
Water is embedded in the products we consume and he
offers some comparisons to better grasp that as well as
why solutions to water shortages will largely be local.
He mentions Israel's achievements in desalination and irrigation technology. Water and energy use are interconnected he explains, industrial agriculture consumes most water while energy production withdraws most water and contributes to thermal pollution of the ecosystem. During the Q&A he is asked about Israel's confiscation of Palestinian water and how that comports with his thoughts that water is a human right. In the talk he refers to waters misuse due to poor planning and policy but fails to note that in Israel, the Jewish National Fund campaign of planting pine forests over the historical sites of Palestinian villages, destroyed by Israel's ethnic cleansing of the native inhabitants, has introduced a nonnative water thirsty species of tree which acerbates the water stress common to the arid geography.
Interview with Nikolay Andreevich Mozhenkov - about life
May 29, 2016, 2:06 p.m.
May 29, 2016, 1:41 p.m.
This week we feature an interview with Freddy, who is a member of the autonomous youth collective in Belgrade, Serbia known as Koko Lepo. We speak about the origins of the collective as growing out of a self organized kindergarten primarily for Roma children, about solidarity between anarchists and Roma people in Belgrade, about some history of the region, and about the complex nature of solidarity itself.
It should be mentioned though, that due to a very unfortunate technical error, we lost the final 13 or so minutes of this interview, many apologies both to you - dear listeners - and to our guest. Just to give you a broad picture of what we talked about, we touched a bit more on the complex nature of actual solidarity, and made the point that sometimes so called "real" solidarity can look somewhat ordinary or boring. We also spoke more about the tour that Freddy just concluded with a stop in Asheville, and about challenges that the various audiences brought to the talks he did, in particular the question of race, racism, and ally complexes. Our guest brought up the point that there have been various conversations about this topic in the US that have not happened - or have not happened in the same way - as they have in Belgrade. He was particularly excited to engage with American audiences about this issue, and said a lot of really cool and poignant things which we are unfortunately unable to share with you. Though if you would like to write to this project you can email them at kokolepo@riseup.net and get in touch with them on facebook by searching kokolepoav
However, all of this perhaps gives us the opportunity to share more in depth than we may originally have been able some of the musical projects that our guest recommended. It also bears mentioning that mutual aid in the form of money donations most often happen for this project in the form of music shows, punk, metal, hardcore, or other varieties. If you feel so moved to, please feel free to make a solidarity show in your town!
The first project we'll share is a Roma language hip hop project called Lord Kastro with Djelem Djelem. The next is a track from a hardcore project called Katma, the singer of which is one of the co-founders of the original kindergarten. The third is another track from Gipsy Mafia (an antifa Roma hip hop group, a track from which opened up the show as well) with "Ava Kari".
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Here is an update from comrades in Czech Republic:
On Friday 5-27-2016 in Pankrác remand prison anarchist Martin Ignacák accused of terrorism went on hunger strike. He did this because on 4-29-2016 the City court in Prague ruled in favour of his release from remand and the stateâs attorney appealed this decision to the High court in Prague. On friday 5-27-2016 the High court in Prague extended the remand. Therefore the anarchist has decided to protest by going on hunger strike and has stopped taking in nutrition and liquids. This type of hunger strike threatens the life of the hunger striker after a week.
During the year long investigation of the preparation of a supposed terrorist attack the imprisoned anarchist has exhausted all legal options, to achieve objective procedure of the respective organs active in the criminal proceedings. None of them were taken into account. This is why he now chose this radical form of expression, to draw attention to this manipulated police case. â I consider the approach of the investigators and the police to be very problematic, it is a threat to the freedom of every human being, a threat to freedom of speech, a threat to activism that tries to lead to a better world , and this doesnât just involve anarchists.â
Martin has been prosecuted in the so called Fénix case since April 2015, in which 5 people altogether were accused of the preparation and the failure to notify of a terrorist attack on a train. Martin is the only one who has been in remand prison this whole time and his detention has now been extended after the intervention of the stateâs attorney. As a reason for the extension of remand the stateâs attorney used the testimony of a police agent who infiltrated the anarchist movement in 2014. From his testimony the stateâs attorney drew the conclusion that Martin might attempt to escape to Spain. Another reason, according to him, was that Martin â is connected to the so called SÃt revolucnÃch bunek/ The Network of Revolutionary Cells (SRB) and therefore also to similar organizations abroad.â The police spoke about SRB when they began Fénix and provided information to the media. â Any connections between the 5 attacks ascribed to SRB and all the detained and accused have been refuted. The investigators themselves have ruled it outâ says Martin.
At the moment Martin is the second longest detained prisoner in the Pankrác remand prison. For 13 months he has been living there under conditions that negatively affect his psychological and physical state. For example he has been refused food free of animal products, which means he practically doesnât have access to hot food. Friends, who have come to visit him have been mentioned by name in the indictment. Police from the Department for combating organized crime have started to collect information on Martinâs sister, only because she tries to support her brother in whichever way she can.
For Martin parole would mean that after 13 long months he would again see his friends, family, nature, that he wouldnât be exposed to emotional deprivation and physical hardship.
Update Sunday, May 29th: Martinâs sister Pavla B. joined her brother in the protest and this morning she has started hunger strike herself as well.
For more information follow https://antifenix.noblogs.org/
You can also visit The Final Straw at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/ and search "AntiFenix" for interviews that we've done on this topic.
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Extreme Heat Strikes India & Pakistan
May 29, 2016, 1:13 p.m.
Extreme heat strikes India and Pakistan. US climate scientist Michael Wehner on coming heat storms over the world. Pakistani expert Dr. Adil Najam on deadly heat in his country. Indian scientist M. Rajeevan with new research into the hottest days ever, increasing every decade.
Amira Haas and Lisa Majaj: authentic voices parrying the distortions of the Israeli PR machine
May 29, 2016, 12:59 p.m.
Welcome to This Week In Palestine, where we feature the Palestinian voice speaking out of and to the horror of a stifling Israeli occupation which is consuming their homeland and perhaps even their culture. Probably not the latter because of their non-violent resistance to this occupation which slowly but steadily is beginning to gain the attention of the international community. We need to amplify their voice, their story, their cause. We need to make visible their humanity in the face of the overwhelming military subjugation by the United States and Israel. We must challenge the US-Israeli narrative of deception, which would have us believe that Israel is the victim here, that black is white, that myth is reality. The Palestinians are up against not only their military and their bulldozers, but their lies and distortion of the truth reflected in their talking points, which are parroted by the mainstream media and believed by a majority of the American people.
This Week In Palestine tries to parry the distortions of the Israeli public relations machine with authentic voices that reflect the reality of this occupation.
Today we have two of those authentic voices for you, a journalist and a poet. Because of people like journalist Amira Haas and poet Lisa Majaj, there is hope. As long as there are voices to speak the truth, there is hope. Each of these remarkable women struggle with use of language to reflect and ultimately challenge the realities of the Israeli occupation as well as the Palestinian resistance. Journalism certainly, and yes also poetry have a role to play in the use of language to counter the weapons of destruction that consume Palestinian landâ¦but as long as there are the words of Haas, Majaj and their like, never their culture.
Amira Haas is an Israeli journalist who writes for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. However, she does not live in Israel, she lives in Ramallah in the West Bank, and also lived 3 years in Gaza because she feels strongly that to cover the occupation, one must live the occupation, and she does.
Lisa Majaj has a Palestinian father and an American mother, born in Iowa; she was raised in Jordan, but spends much time in Palestine where she finds her true identity.
They both spoke at a forum in Boston sponsored by Consequence magazine where This Week In Palestine recorded their presentations.
We begin with Amira Haas, followed by Lisa Majaj.
May 29, 2016, 12:06 p.m.
In this segment, Sean Swain calls out from Warren CI (Lebanon, Ohio) to update listeners on his bid for U.S. President in 2016, his undermining of J-Wow Kasich's bid for the Republican candidacy and a brief update on his situation.
To check out his election shirts, you can visit: http://pdxabc.org/products-page/product-category/sean-swain-t-shirt/
May 29, 2016, 6:11 a.m.
Analyst Eric Draitser discusses international news and developments with host Don DeBar
Interview with Lubov Vladimirovna Mozhenkova (Trofimova) - about beloved brother
May 28, 2016, 10:44 p.m.
May 28, 2016, 8:40 p.m.
MW: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice by Wen Stephenson, May 17 2016, Exeter NH; NH Gazette Rant: Run Over By A Trumpcycle, May 13 2016; Mumia Abu-Jamal: Trump's Running Mate; Jim Hightower: A news media betrayal of journalism; Jim Hightower: Who says crime doesn't pay; Outside The Box: Misused Words; music.
575 - Peace Can't Be Kept By Force
May 28, 2016, 8:30 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Allies that Act Like Enemies; Mind Over Matters: Phyllis Bennis on "Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror" Feb 2, 2016; Outside The Box: Taxed for Being Different; music.
Anarchic UK satirist/comedian Chris Morris
May 28, 2016, 2:36 p.m.
Interview with Veronika Haritonovna Kurohta (Kumaritova) - listing the relatives
May 28, 2016, 11:11 a.m.
Interview with Lubov Vladimirovna Mozhenkova (Trofimova) - about life
May 28, 2016, 10:05 a.m.
#430 -- The Slippery Slope of Memorial Day (R)
May 28, 2016, 8:54 a.m.
An anti-war, anti-militarism perspective on Memorial Day.
Journalist ROBERT FISK explains that (and why) there's been no "Good War" after 1945. KD reads HOWARD ZINN's famous 1976 column on Memorial Day (which got Zinn fired from the Boston Globe). KD also reads and demolishes the beloved war poem, "In Flanders Fields." Plus Steppenwolf's antiwar rock classic of the 1970s, "Monster."
Interview with Varvara Andreevna Efremenko (Mozhenkova) - about life
May 28, 2016, 5:18 a.m.
May 28, 2016, 5:11 a.m.
An hour of Old Time Radio. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Sounds From the Global Village 1613
May 28, 2016, 2:33 a.m.
A musical trip around the world. Info and playlists: http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com
Interview with Lubov Vladimirovna Mozhenkova (Trofimova) - about family
May 27, 2016, 11:41 p.m.
May 27, 2016, 7:08 p.m.
Classic Media Network May 27 2016
May 27, 2016, 7:04 p.m.
Focus Asia Pacific May 27 2016
May 27, 2016, 6:53 p.m.
Switzerland In Sound May 26 2016
May 27, 2016, 6:48 p.m.
May 27, 2016, 2:13 p.m.
Anthony Enman & Brian Cleveland count down the Top 20 albums charting this week from earshot-online.com, take a look at music news with Stephen Carlick of Exclaim!, chat with Justin Murphy of Walrus, and much more.
Workers Intensify Call for $15 and a Union
May 27, 2016, 1:42 p.m.
Following $15/Hour Victories in CA, NY, PA, Underpaid Workers Intensify Call for $15, and Union Rights Nationwide with Record 300-City Strike, and Protests!
Fast-food, home care, child care, airport, higher education, hospital & other under-paid workers in the Biggest-ever day of global strikes and protests demanded 15 dollars and hour and union rights for workers everywhere. The workers and their supporters swept the country in protest to demand corporations pay workers wages they can live on and that giant companies like McDonald s pay their fair share of taxes. The workers zeroed in on McDonald s, the world s second largest employer and industry leader, as a symbol of what is wrong with the economy.
In New York and California, where workers already won $15, the protest was focused on the demand for union rights and on supporting the call for $15 by workers all across the country. Around the world, workers rallied in more than 40 countries on six continents, including a blockade at the McDonald s in Disneyland Paris; protests in the United Kingdom against zero-hour contracts, failing to guarantee workers a minimum number of hours; protests in Korea against unpaid hours and unsafe working conditions; and a series of marches against unfair labor practices in Brazil.
In New York City, the rally for $15 and a union was capped off by the thousands who marched from McDonalds, where the Fight for $15 started more than three years ago, across town to a $1,000/plate GOP gala, protesting against Donald Trump's opposition to raising minimum wages.