Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 12-21-23



12 AM

For the Record with David Emory

At Dave’s suggestion because of some personal and technical issues, we are running two further parts of his archival material regarding Daniel Hopsicker, who passed away recently. Dave hopes that new episodes will be available soon. The flashdrive of many hours of his interviews with Jim De Eugenio, who wrote the script for and worked with Oliver Stone on JFK Revisited, is still available as a thank-you premium for a $100 donation to KPFK



1 AM

The Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate

Max and Aaron have adapted their popular podcast into a radio show at the request of KPFK and now offer it to Pacifica stations and affiliates. We now carry it as part of the inter-generational anti-fascist block of programming on Something’s Happening, Wednesday overnight to Thursday, along with David Emory’s long running “For the Record”, and the followed by the new generation of anti-fascists and anti-authoritarians represented by Its Going Down and The Final Straw Radio (both of whom also blog and podcast their content).



2 AM

The Final Straw radio

This week, we dig into the pre-trial hearings and jury selection for Ayla King, Stop Cop City movement's first and only co-defendant so far to be granted a speedy trial. We're joined by Silver, an on-the-ground correspondent among many in Atlanta focused on supporting the collective defense against the State of Georgia's RICO indictment. Stay tuned for future coverage of the trials as they unfold.



We will be focusing on the pretrial proceedings of defendant Ayla King, who has bravely flexed their right to a speedy trial and whose case we will be following more in-depth when opening arguments begin on January 10th. To help us unpack some of the media and legal intricacies in this case we will hear from Jewel, a North Carolina based lawyer (member of NLG Mass Defense) followed by an interview with Matt from Atlanta Community Press Collective. Jewel will help us understand some of the strategy of exercising a right to speedy trial while Matt will speak as one of the only members of local media to actively cover jury selection.



First, some background to this case for listeners less familiar:



- On August 29th the State of Georgia filed an indictment against 61 people in the movement to Stop Cop City and defend Weelaunee people's park. The state alleges that music festival attendees and protestors engaged in racketeering, domestic terrorism, arson and money laundering-- all as part of a so called mob conspiracy to halt construction of the massively unpopular expansion of police traning grounds in Southeast Atlanta-- also known as Cop City.



- This indictment follows a years-long, powerful and popular struggle against the city of Atlanta and their Police Foundation's attempts to build the 90 million dollar training grounds. The expansion of this site not only follows the widespread anti-police movements of 2020 but further bolsters US backed military training such the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (aka GILEE) - a direct exhange program between Atlanta police and the Israeli Occupational Forces, who are currently waging genocide in the occupied Gaza strip of Palestine.



- We have experienced the unrelenting and escalating criminal charges (such as domestic terrorism charges for so called trespassing on public land, racketeering charges for mutual aid), raids of collective organizing and healing spaces, and even the assassination of a beloved comrade, Tortuguita. Not only have these atrocities failed to stop the movement against Cop City, but they have inspired renewed resistance and solidarity from across the country and across the world.



3 AM

Covert Action presentation at The Left Forum in NYC

"Covert Action: Persistent U.S. Attacks against 'Democracy and Freedom,' Past and Present" was the topic of a Left Forum panel in 2018 which makes up this program. It was presented by Covert Action Magazine which has relaunched recently. We hear Chris Agee, yes the son of Philip Agee, Lou Wolff, one of Covert Action's founders, and author, historian, and U.S. foreign policy critic Wiliam Blum.



3:30 AM

Wider View Radio interview with Jeremy Kuzmarov of Covert Action

Jeremy Kuzmarov is back on Wider View. Jeremy has taught in history in colleges, written 4 books including Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State with Glen Ford, and The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce with John Marciano, and was recently named Managing Editor of Covert Action Magazine.

Wider View originates in Eugene, Oregon. We interview activists, academics, and analysts who present perspectives not found in the mainstream media. Our focus is on the United States role in the world and the political stagnation in our country that maintains that role.



4-6 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

The final two hours from Thom’s non-commercial broadcast earlier on 12-20-23

Picking up on the anti-fascist theme of this overnight, Thom talks with Michael Tomasky of The New Republic, hardly a radical or left publication, who talks about the distinct possibility that democracy will die in the US in his lifetime.