Monday Night

Prog notes S H 09-19-23



12 AM

Behind the News with Doug Henwood

Two interviews:

Jodi Dean, author of this review, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-not-my-friend-on-sohrab-ahmaris-tyranny-inc-and-patrick-j-deneens-regime-change/ on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. • Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute on the G20, the BRICS, and the erosion of US imperial power




1AM

Scholars’ Circle – 58 min

History of Queer culture in Germany; LGBTQ rights struggle in US

What was the experience of gay people in East and West Germany during the Cold War? We speak with Samuel Clowes Huneke author of States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. [ dur: 32mins. ]



Samuel Clowes Huneke is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University. He is also the author of Heterogeneous Persecution: Lesbianism and the Nazi State.



Since the 2020 election, anti-transgender campaigns have been growing in the United States. What are these efforts? We look at the campaigns to curtail and reverse gay and transgender rights, in particular we explore campaigns such as Florida’s Parental Rights in Education act (dubbed by critics as “Don’t Say Gay” bill) and attempts to ban trans athletes in all levels of competition. [ dur: 25mins. ]



Clifford Rosky is Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. He is the author of Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws, Fear of the Queer Child, “Still Not Equal: A Report from the Red States,” and co-author of the opinion article After 50-year stalemate, it’s time to pass federal LGBTQ nondiscrimination law.


This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Melissa Chiprin and Sudd Dongre.




2 AM

Project Censored, Ellen Goldfield hosts

Resilience Amidst Controversy: Unveiling the Struggles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Unearthing Adult Supremacy

https://www.projectcensored.org/resilience-amidst-controversy-unveiling-the-struggles-of-the-mountain-valley-pipeline-and-unearthing-adult-supremacy/

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain and people of Appalachia. Crystal Mello, mom and pipeline fighter joins the show to discuss the intense and exhausting process of fighting these projects all amidst a media storm of misinformation and the demonization of frontline activists. In the second half of the show, mom and storyteller carla bergman joins the show to bring from the shadows the nary-discussed issue of adult supremacy as a system of oppression. she discusses trust, love, responsibility and autonomy through this lens, highlighting the importance of of starting now, with solidarity, in order to build the future of justice and freedom that we all, including kids, want and deserve.





3 AM

Creative Frontline

Shelley Harjo speaks out against the impact of mining and extractivism on Native lands and cultures.




3:30 AM

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz responding to questions from Nick Estes about the Green Corn Rebellion

This is the last of three programs on the Indigenous People's History of the US. On October 11, 2017 Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz gave a talk at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe New Mexico. In this last segment Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz makes inspiring comments on two questions asked by Nick Estes. He is member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico.



First she remembers the forgotten history of the Green Corn Rebellion in Oklahoma. When Woodrow Wilson declared war in 1917 the poor tenant farmers in Oklahoma forged a coalition of Whites, African Americans and Indians. They were united by the recognition that the family would starve if they lost their sons. Under leadership of the Seminole Indians they wrote a manifesto, created a liberated zone by blowing up bridges and tried to embark on an anti-war march through the South with the goal to establish a socialist commonwealth. Their movement was betrayed by an informer and mostly white militia members confronted them and ended the uprising.



This program ends with a moving argument that the tending of corn and most vegetables that are know today by peoples in the Western Hemisphere had created extraordinary civilizations from Terra de Fuego to the Subarctic. They were on par with the other - more famous - civilizations in the Middle East as well as China. European Colonialism appropriated these already existing civilizations, shoved the people aside, and then privatized the wealth.



Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz is not only professor emerita of ethnic studies with a focus on history but has also been part of the International Indigenous movement for more than four decades. Along with groups such as the International Indian Treaty Council she advocated up to the level of the United Nations for indigenous sovereignty and land rights.



She is the author of many books including Roots of Resistance, The Great Sioux Nation, and An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States. Another recent book is Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment - published by City Lights.

Thanks to the Lannan Foundation for permission to use the audio from the pod-cast they produced. It was recorded in Santa Fe on October 11, 2017. You can find the pod-cast or film at their web site lannan.org/




4-6 AM Final 2 hours of the Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 9-18-23, non-commercial version