Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 10 15 24

12 AM
Le Show with Harry Shearer
Part-time New Orleans resident Harry Shearer hosts a look at the worlds of media, politics, cyberspace, sports and show business while providing an eclectic array of music along the way.
Join Harry Shearer for another edition of Le Show! This week Harry brings us News of A.I., News of Musk Love, News of Forever Chemicals, Truth Social Audio with Donald Trump, News of Birds, News of Smart World, The Apologies of the Week, News of Crypto-Winter, News of Inspectors General, great music and more.

1 AM
Code Pink
One Year of Genocide, One Year of Resistance:
In this episode, Tim talks with CODEPINK co-founders and organizers across the country about the past year of organizing since October 7th and how they took action this past week.

2 AM
Project Censored
Julian Assange has been a free man since June, but the issue of his long confinement in a UK prison is still in the news. Recently he testified before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and the Council then passed a resolution declaring that Assange could be designated a political prisoner. Independent journalist Kevin Gosztola joins Mickey to examine the implications of the PACE decision.
They also discuss other press-freedom issues, notably the unprecedented death toll among journalists in the Gaza Strip, at the hands of Israeli forces there.
Then Steve Macek looks at foreign campaign spending in US elections, taking note both of its widespread presence as well as the relative lack of interest by corporate media in reporting on the subject. He observes that only occasional stories about individual politicians' potential campaign funding transgressions (such as those of NYC Mayor Eric Adams) make the news, but the system itself is seldom covered

Kevin Gosztola is the editor of the Dissenter newsletter, www.thedissenter.org His book on the Julian Assange case, "Guilty of Journalism," was published in 2023. Steve Macek teaches communications and media studies at North Central College in Illinois. He's also the co-coordinator of Project Censored's Campus Affiliates Program. His recent article on widespread foreign spending on US political campaigns is on the Project Censored web site at www.projectcensored.org/foreign-influence-elections-russia

Campaign-finance watchdog organizations mentioned on this week's program:
www.opensecrets.org
www.commoncause.org
www.citizen.org (Public Citizen)
www.citizensforethics.org

3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Stand with Palestine - Stop the US-Israel War Machine; Distorted Definition - Antisemitism Redefined to Silence Advocacy for Palestinian Rights
Mimi talks with Alissa Wise of Rabbis for a Ceasefire, Palestinian activist Rajah Abdulhaq, Haitian activist Audrey Joseph, and more.

4 AM
Alternative Radio with David Barsamian
Russell Means and the American Indian Movement
David requested that we run this archival episode in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day. For years the indigenous peoples of the U.S., after having been dispersed and decimated and relegated to reservations, were reduced to caricatures. We all knew Indian cultural stereotypes. There was the familiar medicine man, the trading post, Geronimo and Crazy Horse, papooses and squaws, tepees and tomahawks, war dances and war parties. Tonto was the epitome of faithfulness and subservience. The formation and rise of the American Indian Movement, AIM, in the late 1960s and early 1970s did much to break down these conventional tropes. AIM, through its actions at Wounded Knee, Alcatraz, Mount Rushmore and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, demonstrated that Native Americans could and would fight back against colonialism, racism and oppression.
Russell Means was a renowned activist for Indigenous rights. An Oglala Lakota, he was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was a founding member of the American Indian Movement and its first national director. His autobiography is Where White Men Fear to Tread. He passed away in 2012.

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is an award-winning weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in corporate media. With headquarters based in Boulder, Colorado and with only two full-time and two part-time paid staff, AR airs on over 200 radio stations, and regularly on KPFK on Friday mornings at 10 AM, as Mitch Jeserich only produces Letters and Politics 4 days a week.

5 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Just one hour of Hartmann today from his non-commercial broadcast yesterday, as we ran the previous special edition of Alternative Radio featuring the late leader of the American Indian Movement, Russell Means, in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day.