http://www.radio4all.net/program/59619Podcast for Program: Stop/Frisk - UAVs in USASun, 29 Apr 2012 22:40:47 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/59619 STOPPING ‘STOP AND FRISK’ AT THE ‘HEART OF EMPIRE’ STATE: As trials begin for the dozens arrested at last October’s “Occupy Stop and Frisk” rally in Harlem, we hear: A press conference at the Drum Major Institute [ dmi.org ]with New York’s Manhattan Borough President SCOTT STRINGER and MARTIN LUTHER KING III, discussing the national implications of NYC’s “Stop and Frisk” policy, whose targets are as high as 92 percent youths of color; A retrospective of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “dream” that people be treated by “the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin”; “G1” of the hip-hop duo “REBEL DIAZ” about his community group RDACBX’ [ rdacbx.org ]political and artistic work in New York’s South Bronx, the hardest-hit neighborhood of a nationwide police harassment and data-collecting policy that discriminates against black and Latino youth. REBEL DIAZ and colleagues have recorded a rebel rap on the policy, “STOP STOP AND FRISK”; and REBEL DIAZ , featuring VITHM and LUSS, performing “STOP STOP AND FRISK!” -- a hip-hop rap documenting the issue and salient statistics [EDITORS: Frank language neutralized by acoustic reversal]; and DRONES OVER AMERICA - EFF DOCS DETAIL DOMESTIC SPY-PLANE PLANS: JENNIFER LYNCH is Staff Attorney with the ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION [ eff.org], which used a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the FAA to enumerate the cross-country sites approved so for UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) “drone espionage on U.S. citizens and territories. Lynch details ongoing litigation and the imminence of Predators, Reapers and Snooper-choppers across America’s countryside and in major cities’ concrete canyons; and GIL SCOTT-HERON – “Winter in America.”. Robert KnightSun, 29 Apr 2012 22:40:47 +0000