Latest Programs
June 14, 2016, 6:15 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
Bernie vs. Hillary's "Regime Change" policy
June 13, 2016, 9:34 p.m.
Rick Sterling discusses his recent articles about the Bernie Sanders campaign, and also the continuing U.S. campaign to destabilize Syria.
The two issues are related, because Bernie's rival Hillary Clinton is the premier exponent of "regime change," "smart power" and "civil society opposition training" abroad.
The Motherland Influence: June 12, 2016
June 13, 2016, 8:23 p.m.
African, Latin, Caribbean music.
June 13, 2016, 7:34 p.m.
Congolese popular music!
Episode 46 - Naked Towing in the Wild!
June 13, 2016, 6:57 p.m.
Hey, Joe here, hope you're enjoying the show, we've got your usuakl crazy news and we take a moment to pay respects to Pulse and the victims of the horrible massacre of LGBTQ people. Stay tuned!
The Pulse massacre + a Stern worldview + more global LGBT news!
June 13, 2016, 6:08 p.m.
Florida queers are slaughtered in an ISIS-inspired massacre; Western activists gain insight into international activism; Russia leads the "de-gaying" of a U.N. HIV/AIDS resolution, a leading Honduran activist is assassinated, Pink Dot success panics Singapore authorities, Irelandâs Presbyterian Church orders anti-equality wedding vows, Virginiaâs bathroom case heads for the Supremes, and more global LGBT news!
The Pulse massacre + a Stern worldview + more global LGBT news!
June 13, 2016, 6:08 p.m.
Florida queers are slaughtered in an ISIS-inspired massacre; Western activists gain insight into international activism; Russia leads the "de-gaying" of a U.N. HIV/AIDS resolution, a leading Honduran activist is assassinated, Pink Dot success panics Singapore authorities, Irelandâs Presbyterian Church orders anti-equality wedding vows, Virginiaâs bathroom case heads for the Supremes, and more global LGBT news!
June 13, 2016, 2:59 p.m.
June 13, 2016, 1:21 p.m.
June 13, 2016, 1:06 p.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!
June 13, 2016, 10:23 a.m.
1. Locked Down - O-Z
2. Mad Scientist - MC Ren
3. True Honey Buns - Bahamadia
4. Somethin' Gotz to Give - Royal Fam
5. All I Know - Panax ft. Kapok
6. Lost in the Gutter - Gnosis X Microphonist
7. Machine Gun Tongue - QuartzCrystallus C.O.L.D. (opening vocals:Ashra Kwesi)
8. The Mad Scientist - Large Professor
9. Shadowboxin - Genius/Gza ft. Method Man
10. Real Hip Hop - Brian Burns ft. illa ills
11. Classic Presents - Classic Material (Audessey, Oxygen, iLLTreats)
12. Miami Life - Ras Kass
13. Brand New - Noveliss
14. Bubblin' (R&Bubbles mix) - Punk Barbarians
15. Triple Shot of Gin - Cymarshall Law
16. Inside The Spot - Petey Pastel
17. Let It Rain (instrumental) - Funky DL
"A Cool Walk"; 6/12/16; set 1
June 13, 2016, 4:42 a.m.
"A Cool Walk" 6/12/16; set 2
June 13, 2016, 4:38 a.m.
June 13, 2016, 12:37 a.m.
June 5, 2016
GUEST: Margaret Kimberley
TOPIC: Who's the worst fascist? Trump or Clinton?
This week, Cindy chats with Margaret Kimberley of the
Black Agenda Report about her article:
Who's the Fascist? and more.
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Cindy and Margaret also talk about Negroes With Guns by
Robert Williams.
check it out
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/591966.Negroes_with_Guns
June 13, 2016, 12:33 a.m.
May 29, 2016
GUEST: John Parker
Candidate for US Senate in California
TOPIC: True socialism
Today, Cindy welcomes John Parker to the Soapbox.
Even though John is running for Senate here in California, the
issues are indeed national and global.
JOHN PARKER
Campaign office: 323.306.6240
June 13, 2016, 12:25 a.m.
Hillary the Horrible Hawk
Crosstalk re-broadcast with our
engineer and comrade Don Debar
Don's site:
CPR METRO
Media Network Plus June 11 2016
June 12, 2016, 8:33 p.m.
June 12, 2016, 8:23 p.m.
Media Network Plus June 10 2016
June 12, 2016, 7:50 p.m.
Focus Asia Pacific June 10 2016
June 12, 2016, 7:31 p.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0356
June 12, 2016, 7:04 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
JUNE 8, 2016 -MICHAEL SPRINGMANN INTERVIEW PART 1
June 12, 2016, 6:59 p.m.
The is a replay of interview with author Michael Springmann about his book "Visas For Al Queda: CIA Handouts That Rocked The World." Cheryl and Michael discuss the brand name changes of the arab-afghans from "mujahideen" to Al Queda, to ISIS and also discuss who's behind the fraudulent global war on terror. Michael's book "Visas For Al Queda" is a must read for anyone wanting to understand what's really going on in the middle east.
June 12, 2016, 5:40 p.m.
World's greatest authority on coral, Charlie Veron reports from dying Great Barrier Reef. Good news: Martin Stute on CO2 successfully stored as stone in Iceland. Kasia Tokarska on what happens if we burn all fossil fuels. Plus climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf.
An interview with members of DAF, an anarchist collective in Istanbul, plus words from Sean Swain
June 12, 2016, 2:41 p.m.
******A quick announcement: There will be a vigil tonight at 9pm at Firestorm Books and Coffee at 601 Haywood Rd in West Asheville for the victims and community affected by the shooting that occurred last night in Orlando, Florida. The shooting occurred at the Gay dance club called The Pulse and media outlets are announcing that there were 50 people killed in what appears to have been a targeted attack by someone from outside of the area wielding an assault rifle and a handgun. The hostage situation that developed was ended by a SWAT invasion at 5AM this morning (6-12-1016). Come out tonight and support this community.******
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This week, we present the first part in a short serialization of an interview with Merve Arkun, Hüseyin & Ãzgür, members of Devrimci AnarÅist Faaliyet, or DAF. DAF translates to Revolutionist Anarchist Action and is a network of overlapping collectives in Turkey. They are based out of Istanbul and run an office and two cafe's, both called 26A, which is a meeting space and employer for collective members. This conversation was conducted on March 19, 2016, a few short hours after a DAESH (ISIS) bombing occurred in the BeyoÄlu neighborhood of Istanbul, on the touristy street called Ä°stiklal Avenue, just a few blocks from one of the collective's cafe's and their newspaper office.
The bomb killed 5 people (4 tourists plus the bomber), and injured some 36 more. The tension in the city in the days before the bombing was palpable as trucks of riot police roved around the neighborhood, and embassies and foreign schools closed for security reasons. The approaching Newroz celebrations, or Kurdish New Years, were slated to take place a mere 2 days after this attack in the contentious Taksim Gezi Park so recently after the resumption of military and legal hostilities between Kurdish groups and aligned leftists and the Turkish government headed by the AK Party of President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan. This decision most certainly would promise demonstrations and conflict between security forces and civil society around the right to the contentious park, and against the war on the Kurds both in Syria and Turkey by ErdoÄan's government.
Besides the 26A cafes, DAF includes an Anarchist Women's collective, a publishing project in the form of the Meydan Gazette (published monthly in paper form), and a youth collective, the Lycee (or High School) Anarchist Federation called LAF. In addition it organizes arts events and projects, and participates in labor organizing and solidarity with Kurdish resistance and the Rojava Revolution. DAF also organizes in tandem though autonomously with anti-militarist and anti-conscription activists in Turkey.
Merve is an active member of the Meydan Gazette publishing crew, the Anarchist Women's collective and also in a seperate but related anti-militarist group. Hüseyin is a main editor of the Meydan Gazette and involved in the 26A cafes. Ãzgür is involved in Meydan & the self-defense program and the PATIKA ecological collective.
Throughout this first hour: Merve, Hüseyin & Ãzgür talk about the collectivized economic and living structures of DAF and how that pans out to support collective members and build collectivized models for survival within and against capitalism.
If you would like to hear the extended version of this interview, please visit our website at https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/ or go to the radio4all link and download the version labeled "podcast".
In the second hour, labeled DAF2, you'll hear the activists talk about:
PATIKA Ecological Collective and their publication, organizing with communities in the Black Sea region against a hydro-electric dam, and more;
Merve's work with the Conscientious Objector Association against militarism and conscription; Meydan Gazette and their other publication projects; the modern anarchist movement in Turkey since 1989; solidarity with Kurdish populations in Turkey; organizing material support for the Rojava Revolution and aiding in helping anarchists join the struggle there; and more.
To see an article (in Turkish) about Esra Ankan, you can visit the Meydan Gazette's article here: http://meydangazetesi.org/gundem/2016/02/trans-tutsak-esrayla-dayanismaya/
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Sean Swain speaks about a comrade of his in his facility, a trans woman who was put away for defending herself against an assaulter. Her government name is Adam Bockerstette, and while she can receive mail under her chosen name (which is Kara), we were unsure about how to spell that. So if you do choose to write to her, your letters can be addressed to Kara Bockerstette, but note that your envelopes should be addressed to:
Adam Bockerstette
#606000
PO Box 120
Lebanon, OH 45036
Also keep an eye peeled at http://seanswain.org/ for more updates about Kara and her situation.
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Good news for our comrade on the inside, Oso Blanco, who was sentenced to 80 years in maximum security prison for a series of bank robberies and a firearms violation. Oso Blanco is someone of Cherokee descent, and has been politicized during his time in prison and before. Recently there has been a massive fundraising effort on the part of his support team to get him transferred out of his former facility, and for legal fees to get his sentenced reduced. Both of these efforts have been successful!
Thanks to fundraising efforts and donations, they have reached their fundraising goal at this time. Of course, money will always be needed until Oso Blanco is completely free - donations are always welcome. The support in donations and spreading the word was fast and amazing! Oso Blanco has been assigned a lawyer who he feels comfortable with and he is moving quickly to make sure the motion is filed by June 25th, 2016. Communication with Oso Blanco has been iffy at best. Please write him to show support. If you donated, write and let him know as it will help immensely to raise his spirits. If you would like to donate further, and for guidelines on what mail will and won't get into his facility, you can visit his support website at: http://freeosoblanco.blogspot.com/
To write Oso Blanco at his new location, you can address letters to:
Byron Chubbuck
#07909051
USP Lewisburg
PO BOX 1000
Lewisburg, PA 17837
June 12, 2016, 9:28 a.m.
Political analyst Eric Draitser discusses Russia, Syria, US elections and much more. Hosted by Don DeBar
Proletarian God: Building the Socialist Future Part 2
June 11, 2016, 10:35 p.m.
In this episode of Back in the USSR I continue to discuss my book, Proletarian God: Building the Socialist Future, focusing in particular on class consciousness and how the ruling class in capitalist society instills false consciousness in the working people it oppresses and exploits: "Just because the working man or woman is materially bound to oppose the interests of the capitalist does not necessarily spur him or her to actively work for the overthrow of a class system that keeps working class people in bondage. From the rise of slavery in the early years of civilization, to the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the modern world, those who support the interests of the ruling elite have understood their dependence on the labor of the masses and have worked tirelessly to keep working people divided, repressed, weak, docile, indoctrinated, in conflict with one another, and unaware of their shared class interests in opposing the overlords who keep them in chains."
Rev. Susie the Floozie's Greatest Tits Show
June 11, 2016, 10:12 p.m.
Tonight, Evil Susie and I go plunging into the vaults to create a show so recursive it violates the space-time continuum into an inflamed anal ring! You will actually hear a rerun of a rerun that is once again being rerun--but considering these gems are from the first three years of the FUNHOUSE (I'm talkin' BSTFs #39, #61, #101, #135...), chances are good you haven't heard this stuff before. It's a night of famous burns--like my too-snarky Anti-Olympics rant from 1996 along with my richly rewarding trolling burnjob on Doktor Legume! Payback was a bitch as I got revenge for pulling that death hoax on us in 1997. Believe me, seekers, I got that fucker GOOD for all of us--and I unwittingly did it thanks to ZONTAR(!!) (loooong before we ever met!), whose Christian Kook Kiddy Show vid provided me with Legume's shocking xtian "testimony."
So welcome to WEIRDSVILLE, courtesy of George Ross and the Red Tops! We also have Wazmo Nariz with "Stubbies," Race Marbles and his lovely nonsense rap-patter song "Like a Dribbling Fram," and a particular favorite theme of mine by Bob Lee called "Wanted for Questioning"... "MAN! How she LIES!!!"
578 - People Finding Their Power and Making Change
June 11, 2016, 6:24 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Stop Picking a Losing Fight; Mumia Abu-Jamal: Muhammad Ali; Between the Lines interview: What's Next for the Movement Behind Bernie Sanders?; Jim Hightower: Bill Clinton; Between the Lines interview: Single-Payer Health Care in CO?; Jim Hightower: Burping Bovines & Free Fruit; Outside The Box: Group Think; music.
Rev. Susie the Floozie's "American Junk Culture" Show
June 11, 2016, 4:49 p.m.
Going all the way back to BSTF #466, tonight's show features no heavy lifting! Well, at least for you--it took an all-nighter-and-most-of-the-dayer to put it to rights, but it was eminently worth it. Tonight we analyze the horrible crap that pours out of your radio speakers when you have it tuned to the WRONG station--that pervasive mainstream ooze that you can't entirely escape no matter how hard you try! The dinosaurs of rock will crush you underfoot while idiots hold up their lighters and shout for "'Freebird!!'" With some classic perspective provided by The Simpsons, Jimmy Swaggart, Jack Van Impe, Brother Maze Jackson, the Holy Ghost Players, Del Close from "How to Speak Hip," traveling rock-music scare preacher Tom Garguilo milking his stint as a temporary ringer in Wild Cherry (the "Play That Funky Music White Boy" band--he's not listed in any official Wild Cherry stuff online, but he is mentioned in this guy's blog from when he did the church-scam circuit--http://sirkowski.tumblr.com/post/102541454199/ghastly-h-crackers-sirkowski). And there are songs like "Caped Crusader" by lesbian guitarist Phranc, "Alternateen" by Wally Pleasant, and...and...and SHIT. I don't know--I was up to my eyeballs in soundwaves taking out pops, but it was on a subatomic level and I'll be fucked if I can remember what more of the songs were. I guess we'll find out together.
June 11, 2016, 2:02 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a show that evolves and changes every few months. It is primarily an homage to freeform radio broadcasts of the 1960s and early 1970s. Radio Thrift Shop features a homegrown mix of vinyl records, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of tapes and homemade / self released cds. Each edition features a unique playlist of music released between the early 20th century & next week.