Program Notes S H 10-20-23
12 AM
Alan Watts
Review of A Kaplan’s The New World of Philosophy
12:30 AM
Sounds True -Tami Simon
Andrea Gibson: Facing Mortality and Being Adored and Cherished by the Universe
Great poets expand our view—of ourselves, of each other, and of the entire universe. Andrea Gibson was named Colorado’s 2023–25 Poet Laureate for their celebrated verses on love, LGBTQ issues, spirituality, mental health, social justice, and more. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Andrea about their approach to work and how their journey through cancer radically changed that approach.
Listen now to this poignant conversation featuring Andrea’s reading of their poem, “Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps” and exploring spiritual surrender, finding joy in every instant, facing challenges, moving through grief, the life force of the universe within us, self-love and loving the whole world, trying softer (not harder), the power of relaxation, identifying the keys that open your heart, staying with our fear, activism and loosening our attachment to desired outcomes, being yourself fully, the gift of mortality, giving the present moment the cold shoulder, why authenticity is the most important thing when it comes to writing, the pull of creativity, and more.
Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.
Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word poets of our time. Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show.” Gibson’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, gender, feminism, mental health and social justice. The winner of the first Women’s World Poetry Slam, Gibson is the author of seven award winning books and seven full length albums. Their live shows have become loving and supportive ecosystems for audiences to feel seen, heard, and held through Gibson’s art.
1:30 AM Old Radio Break
Lest We Forget: The Story of Joseph Pulitzer
2 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die with Amy Fusselman
Amy Fusselman is a writer, wife and mother, and the author of four books of non-fiction and a novel. Over the course of her career she has devoted herself to a range of interesting jobs, including guitarist in a punk band"all of which help to inspire her writing.
In this interview about her fabulous book Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous and Afraid to Die, we delve into the way we relate, individually and as a culture to play, space and risk in the world around us, and especially with our children. And the unexpected consequences of that.
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact the host at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net
3 AM
Caroline Casey The Visionary Activist
https://coyotenetworknews.com/radio-show/
Pluto Eclipse Radio….
The dedication is more impossible and more necessary…So we convene back-stage in the participatory imaginal realms to conjure the impossible necessary miracle vision…that we then (a la Haruki Murakami) open the sluice gates, and let the desirable pour into incarnational actuality ….
Composting the addiction to having an enemy, on which tyranny feeds….Animating the vision of actual community (that tyranny has always attacked, replacing with the toxic mimic of cults…)
Caroline re-plays segments of July 17, 2008 show… Yehuda Atai, Israeli Peace Activist, Biblical scholar, alchemist, modern computer start-up wizard presenting the One State Solution – the Israeli-Palestinian Democracy!
Because this bold imaginative ingenious experiment will require metabolizing justified bitterness into forgiveness, Caroline welcomes Rod Suskin, traditional Sangoma to offer the medicine of South Africa into our collective brew that we may animate this desirable, and once we hear it, irresistible story.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final 2 hours from the non-commercial version earlier on 10-19-23
Friday, October 20, 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Wednesday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-19-23
12 AM
Dave Emory – For the Record
FTR#1312 Update on the Destabilization of China, Part 1
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr1312-update-on-the-destabilization-of-china-part-1/
Introduction: This program updates the ongoing destabilization of China.
Key Points of Analysis and Discussion Include:
1a.–Presidential emergency declarations have made it legal for the U.S. to test chemical and biological weapons on the American people.
1b.–The importation of solar panels has been made more difficult and opaque by virtue of the “Uighur genocide/human rights violations’ meme.
1c.–A recent op-ed piece in The New York Times reinforced the Uighur genocide meme.
2.–An expert opinion on the Biden administration ban on chips summed up the essence of the ban: “ . . . . Though delivered in the unassuming form of updated export rules, the Oct. 7 controls essentially seek to eradicate, root and branch, China’s entire ecosystem of advanced technology. ‘The new policy embodied in Oct. 7 is : Not only are we not going to allow China to progress any further technologically, we are going to actively reverse their current state of the art,’ Allen says. C.J. muse, a senior semiconductor analyst at Evercore ISI, put it this way: “If you’d told me about these rules five years ago, I would’ve told you that’s an act of war—we’d have to be at war.’. . .”
3.–The U.N. report on alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang was fundamentally flawed: “ . . . .It is well known but worth noting, that no Islamic country has criticized China for human rights abuses and, despite many visits, none have alleged crimes against humanity by China . . . . optimism was dashed by this report being released around midnight on her last day in office and without any signature or commentary from her interestingly, it is not signed by anyone, let alone anyone in authority; the authors, like many of the witnesses, remain anonymous. . . .”
4.–Despite sanctions, Huawei has developed a new 7nm chip for its latest mobile phone.
1 AM
Covert Action Bulletin with Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/18/covertaction-bulletin-zionism-is-racism-a-history-of-occupation/
As the Israeli military continues its bombardment of Palestine and prepares for a possible ground invasion, protests across the world continue to oppose the apartheid Israeli government and those who are complicit or active in supporting it—like the United States with its $3.8 billion in aid as well as immeasurable political and media support.
With these protests have come countless solidarity statements and other actions. They are all calling out Zionism, the racist ideology at the basis of the Israeli state. Zionism claims to represent Jewish people around the world but, as we discuss, only serves the interests of imperialism. We’re happy to welcome Morgan Artyukhina, a Jewish anti-imperialist journalist and transgender rights activist to talk about the latest moves in the war and a history of Zionism.
Read the interview we mention at Electronic Intifada: Electronicintifada.net.
2 AM
It’s Going Down
The Rojava Revolution in northern Syria
The Final Straw Radio podcast interviewed several activists around the US about the Emergency Committee for Rojava, including Anya in North Carolina, Elena in NY and Arthur in Seattle. Rojava is a Kurdish-led, internationalist, pro-feminist, anti-authoritarian project in part of Syria that has been under attack by various reactionary forces in the region, including Turkey and ISIS.
3 AM
Building Bridges from Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash at sister station WBAI
Too Many Martyrs, Too Many Dead: exclusive new evidence revealing the targeted killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with Palestinian Journalist Shatha Hanaysha targeted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), to prevent her reporting on a raid by the Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank City of Jenin and delivering the news to Arabic-speaking audiences
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 two hours of The Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-18-23
...
12 AM
Dave Emory – For the Record
FTR#1312 Update on the Destabilization of China, Part 1
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr1312-update-on-the-destabilization-of-china-part-1/
Introduction: This program updates the ongoing destabilization of China.
Key Points of Analysis and Discussion Include:
1a.–Presidential emergency declarations have made it legal for the U.S. to test chemical and biological weapons on the American people.
1b.–The importation of solar panels has been made more difficult and opaque by virtue of the “Uighur genocide/human rights violations’ meme.
1c.–A recent op-ed piece in The New York Times reinforced the Uighur genocide meme.
2.–An expert opinion on the Biden administration ban on chips summed up the essence of the ban: “ . . . . Though delivered in the unassuming form of updated export rules, the Oct. 7 controls essentially seek to eradicate, root and branch, China’s entire ecosystem of advanced technology. ‘The new policy embodied in Oct. 7 is : Not only are we not going to allow China to progress any further technologically, we are going to actively reverse their current state of the art,’ Allen says. C.J. muse, a senior semiconductor analyst at Evercore ISI, put it this way: “If you’d told me about these rules five years ago, I would’ve told you that’s an act of war—we’d have to be at war.’. . .”
3.–The U.N. report on alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang was fundamentally flawed: “ . . . .It is well known but worth noting, that no Islamic country has criticized China for human rights abuses and, despite many visits, none have alleged crimes against humanity by China . . . . optimism was dashed by this report being released around midnight on her last day in office and without any signature or commentary from her interestingly, it is not signed by anyone, let alone anyone in authority; the authors, like many of the witnesses, remain anonymous. . . .”
4.–Despite sanctions, Huawei has developed a new 7nm chip for its latest mobile phone.
1 AM
Covert Action Bulletin with Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/18/covertaction-bulletin-zionism-is-racism-a-history-of-occupation/
As the Israeli military continues its bombardment of Palestine and prepares for a possible ground invasion, protests across the world continue to oppose the apartheid Israeli government and those who are complicit or active in supporting it—like the United States with its $3.8 billion in aid as well as immeasurable political and media support.
With these protests have come countless solidarity statements and other actions. They are all calling out Zionism, the racist ideology at the basis of the Israeli state. Zionism claims to represent Jewish people around the world but, as we discuss, only serves the interests of imperialism. We’re happy to welcome Morgan Artyukhina, a Jewish anti-imperialist journalist and transgender rights activist to talk about the latest moves in the war and a history of Zionism.
Read the interview we mention at Electronic Intifada: Electronicintifada.net.
2 AM
It’s Going Down
The Rojava Revolution in northern Syria
The Final Straw Radio podcast interviewed several activists around the US about the Emergency Committee for Rojava, including Anya in North Carolina, Elena in NY and Arthur in Seattle. Rojava is a Kurdish-led, internationalist, pro-feminist, anti-authoritarian project in part of Syria that has been under attack by various reactionary forces in the region, including Turkey and ISIS.
3 AM
Building Bridges from Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash at sister station WBAI
Too Many Martyrs, Too Many Dead: exclusive new evidence revealing the targeted killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with Palestinian Journalist Shatha Hanaysha targeted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), to prevent her reporting on a raid by the Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank City of Jenin and delivering the news to Arabic-speaking audiences
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 two hours of The Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-18-23
...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Tuesday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-18-23 Holistic Health
12 AM
About Health
David Feldman Ph.D. interviews Dr. Kim Rockwell-Evans who has specialized in treatment of OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for 20 years, and is the author of “Breaking the Rules of OCD”. Learn more about her practice here: https://ocdanxietydallas.com/
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Join Sarah Holmes and her guest Greg Sarris for an exploration of home and land and place from an Indigenous perspective. Greg is Chairman of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria and also the author of Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees and Ancestors. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway. Originally aired in June on KPFA.
2 AM
Green Street News
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about California banning red dye #3 (good), plastic cutting boards (bad), and what you need to know about endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Then Dr. Laura Vandenberg talks about five strategies industries use to spin science to their own advantage and preserve profits. Learn more here: https://toxicfreefuture.org/blog/recognizing-women-leaders-laura-vandenberg-phd/
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Did you know that climate change is water change? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. Gies, an independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer, writes extensively about water, climate change and biology. She discusses how development, climate change, and our illusion of control impact our relationship with water. She defines slow water; explains how and why the water we see today is not in its natural state; and supports changing how we relate to water. Related website: https://slowwater.world/
3 AM
Whole Mother
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
John V. Geisheker, JD, LL.M, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer, for over 30 years. He is currently the full-time pro bono Executive Director and General Counsel for Doctors Opposing Circumcision, an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose merely cultural, non-therapeutic, genital cutting of children, male, female or intersex, on human rights’ grounds.
John is a native of New Zealand, a country that fully abandoned medicalized male circumcision in the 1960’s. He hopes his adopted U.S.A. will someday follow that principled example. More information here: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/07/10/an-age-of-consent-for-circumcision/boys-should-be-protected-as-girls-are
4-6 AM
Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 10-17-23
12 AM
About Health
David Feldman Ph.D. interviews Dr. Kim Rockwell-Evans who has specialized in treatment of OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for 20 years, and is the author of “Breaking the Rules of OCD”. Learn more about her practice here: https://ocdanxietydallas.com/
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Join Sarah Holmes and her guest Greg Sarris for an exploration of home and land and place from an Indigenous perspective. Greg is Chairman of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria and also the author of Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees and Ancestors. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway. Originally aired in June on KPFA.
2 AM
Green Street News
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about California banning red dye #3 (good), plastic cutting boards (bad), and what you need to know about endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Then Dr. Laura Vandenberg talks about five strategies industries use to spin science to their own advantage and preserve profits. Learn more here: https://toxicfreefuture.org/blog/recognizing-women-leaders-laura-vandenberg-phd/
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Did you know that climate change is water change? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. Gies, an independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer, writes extensively about water, climate change and biology. She discusses how development, climate change, and our illusion of control impact our relationship with water. She defines slow water; explains how and why the water we see today is not in its natural state; and supports changing how we relate to water. Related website: https://slowwater.world/
3 AM
Whole Mother
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
John V. Geisheker, JD, LL.M, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer, for over 30 years. He is currently the full-time pro bono Executive Director and General Counsel for Doctors Opposing Circumcision, an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose merely cultural, non-therapeutic, genital cutting of children, male, female or intersex, on human rights’ grounds.
John is a native of New Zealand, a country that fully abandoned medicalized male circumcision in the 1960’s. He hopes his adopted U.S.A. will someday follow that principled example. More information here: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/07/10/an-age-of-consent-for-circumcision/boys-should-be-protected-as-girls-are
4-6 AM
Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 10-17-23
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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
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
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