Script/Transcript for program: 440 - Challenging Root Causes
JULY 20, 2013 â MW440
Welcome to Making Waves: Independent Voices for Peace & Justice, your local connection to the world produced on WSCA LP 106.1FM Portsmouth Community Radio! This is Amy Antonucci and I am happy to introduce our show to you today, July 20, 2013.
Hereâs what we have coming up for you: After News You Need to Know, Talk Nation Radio brings us an in-depth interview of Gar Alperovitz about his new book, What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. The latest Fortnightly Rant from the New Hampshire Gazette brings us Planet of the Tapes and Outside The Box with Larry Dansinger looks at Root Causes. Weâll also have music and more, so stay with us. First for some newsâ¦
-News You Need to Know â10 min
Part one of -Talk Nation Radio interviews Gar Alperovitz about his new book, What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution.
Alperovitz points to long-term trends in wealth and income inequality, environmental destruction, civil liberties loss, incarceration rates, and others, to argue that ordinary political change is not enough, that systemic changes in the distribution of power are badly needed. See http://www.garalperovitz.com
28m4s-31m33s: SONG: Evening Stars â Alice Gomez; album: While The Eagle Sleeps; label: 80-Minutes of Music/Talking Taco Music; genre: world
(28 min) --- Musical Break --- LIVE: Announcements â 5-10 minutes
Part two of -Talk Nation Radio interviews Gar Alperovitz about his new book, What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution.
-The latest fortnightly Rant from The NH Gazette, The Nationâs Oldest Newspaper, based in Portsmouth NH: Planet of the Tapes, July 12, 2013
To find out more about the NH Gazette, including subscription info, see www.nhgazette.com
âAnd now for Outside the Box, brought to us by social justice activist Larry Dansinger with Resources for Organizing and Social Change and WERU in Blue Hill Maine."
-Outside The Box with Larry Dansinger: Root Causes, September 2012
"Thanks to our friend and Maine activist Larry Dansinger with Resources for Organizing and Social Change and WERU in Blue Hill Maine for that episode of Outside the Box.â
www.resourcesforsocialchange.org/
Ending: Thanks for listening to Making Waves: Independent Voices for Peace and Justice!
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Our theme music is by NH womenâs drum group, Tabbalat, and our mid-show music is Evening Stars by Alice Gomez and our ending music is Avalon by Amethystium.
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We leave you with this quote: Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama