Monday Night

Prog notes S H 10-17-23





12 AM

Creative Frontline – Matthew Leivas Sr part 2, Sean Milanovich part 1



Matthew Leivas Sr. Chemehuevi NuWu Elder and Leader. #environmental #whistleblower and #protector of the Colorado River. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8I9FN9a7g



Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Making the Connection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RVr63bGJc&list=PLFkl1-1Z2gblgmHVZHzcRWqu94JMiqSoH&index=2

Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature.



What Are the Rights of Nature in Indian Country?

Rights of Nature is a global movement spreading across Indian Country to protect our lands and natural resources for generations to come by recognizing nature’s legal rights. At its core, Rights of Nature law codifies Indigenous values for caring for Mother Earth. For the last 4 years, the Bioneers Indigeneity team has been exploring how Rights of Nature can be implemented by Tribes in the United States. We ran our strategy across a working group of Tribal leaders, attorneys, and organizers.

We meticulously researched intersections of the law to anticipate ways to bring about Rights of Nature in Indian Country. We developed a guide for Tribal organizers to build capacity to present and pass a Rights of Nature law to protect lands, waters, and key species. And, we have begun to share information with Tribes interested in exploring Rights of Nature through regional workshops in the Southwest and Northeast. #Bioneers #Cahuilla #Chemehuevi



1 AM

Scholars Circle – Understanding Disinformation in our time – October 8, 2023

https://scholarscircle.org/

With the news that Elon Musk purchased Twitter (re-branded as X ) and that the social media company will allow a wider range of content, including some that was previously banned as hate speech, disinformation, or conspiracy-centric, concerns over disinformation in political discourse have been heightened. But the challenge of democratic discourse in light of misinformation and disinformation is a historic challenge. Social media just speeds the process. Yet a significant concern is discerning who best to regulate what constitutes disinformation, in light of the political power of censorship.

We look at how disinformation has spread worldwide, shifting politics and challenging democracies. What are the most effective ways to counter disinformation? How might it be different for states, than for individuals? [ dur: 58mins. ]



Elzbieta Drazkiewic is Senior Research Fellow at the Slovak Academy of the Sciences. She is the author of “Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunization programs in Ireland” and co-author of “What Should Academics Do About Conspiracy Theories? Moving Beyond Debunking to Better Deal with Conspiratorial Movements, Misinformation and Post-Truth” (with Jaron Harambam).

Nora Benavidez is Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice & Civil Rights at Free Press. She also serves as Faculty Associate at Arizona State University’s Cronkite Institute. She is the author of “Now What? Fixing Facebook to Protect Us All” and “Facebook Ought to be Protecting Democracy Every Day.”

Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. He is the author of Digital Diplomacy and International Organizations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation (with R Zaiotti) and Countering Online Propaganda and Violent Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy (with J. Pamment). Recorded May 2022.



2 AM

Out FM- from sister station WBAI

http://www.outfm.org

"Queer API History: Why It's Vitally Relevant for Today's Struggle for Social Justices in the United States and Beyond." Few people -- even in the LGBTQ/queer Asian/Pacific Islander (API) community -- know the long history of people in the Asia/Pacific region who anticipate contemporary LGBTQ identities. This history should be of far more than academic interest and of interest far beyond the queer API community. It goes to the heart of the strategy that LGBTQ communities of color and human rights activists can and should use in challenging homophobic and transphobic reactionaries both in the United States and in the Asia/Pacific region.

On this program, transgender activist Pauline Park will engage in a conversation with Out-FM about this fascinating hidden history and how it can be used to illuminate contemporary debates and inspire effective action to advance a progressive agenda of social justice and social change. For more on trans history, go to Pauline's website.



Murder of Sakia Gunn Commemoration by Newark NJ LGBTQ Center

Naomi Brussel interviews Denise Hinds, President, and Beatrice Simpkins, Executive Director, of the Newark LGBTQ Center about the commemoration of the 2003 murder of 15-year-old lesbian Sakia Gunn, planned for October 28th, 2023. They talk about the impact of this killing on the Newark queer community then and now.



3 AM

Equal Rights and Justice – Book banning; Palestine: reports on the ground



What the Battle Over Banning Books Is Really About



As Ray Bradbury depicted in “Fahrenheit 451,” a book targeted by book banners, book burning is meant to stop people from thinking, which makes them easier to govern, to control and .... In the 2022–23 school year 3,362 books in public school classrooms and libraries are banned. Kasey Meehan, dir. Of PEN America's Freedom to Read Project. and Nadine Farid Johnson, PEN DC, discuss the “clap back” and a 1st Amendment suit against Escambia County, FL for scrubbing library shelves of books.

Resistance is justified when people are occupied!



Standing with the people of Palestine as they resist over 75 years of brutal and illegal occupation by the Israelis. We will not remain silent to Palestinian oppression and genocide, but will stand up and speak out for Palestinian rights and justice – for a FREE, FREE PALESTINE with MAZIN QUMSIYEH, professor at Bethlehem University. His books include Sharing the Land of Canaan. He is founding director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability. He just wrote the piece "Al-Aqsa Flood."





4-6 AM

Final 2 hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 10-16-23 non-commercial version