Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 10-06-23

12 AM

Alan Watts

The Libido for Ugliness – Watts reads from HL Mencken about the ugliness of company towns in industrial sections of Pennsylvania, and reflects on the concept of ugliness.




12:30 AM

Sounds True – Tami Simon

Michael Singer podcast:

Why do we find ourselves worrying all the time? 49 min



According to Michael Singer, it often comes down to the desperate request our hearts have made to the thinking mind:



“Protect us from bad events by dreaming up every scary possibility—then warn us about them all… constantly!”



In this session, Michael shows us how to transform worry into inner freedom.



Michael A. Singer is author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul and the New York Times bestsellers The Surrender Experiment and Living Untethered, all of which are published worldwide. He had a deep inner awakening in 1971 while working on his doctorate in economics and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Along with his nearly five decades of spiritual teaching, Singer has made major contributions in the areas of business, education, health care, and environmental protection.




1:30 AM

Old radio break

Destination Freedom: Premonition of the Panther

Dramatization of the life of Sugar Ray Robinson, welterweight champion. Ray Robinson is portrayed by Oscar Brown Jr in this episode from WMAQ in 1950, that underlines the sometimes deadly cost of battling in the prizefighting ring.




2 AM

The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein

Intersecting Quantum Physics, Gnostic Mysticism, and Jungian Psychology with Peter Canova

Peter Canova is an award winning writer and the host of the Quantum Spirituality podcast, and the author of a an utter fascinating new book Quantum Spirituality: Science, Gnostic Mysticism and Connecting with Source Consciousness, which is a fascinating in depth exploration of Gnostic mysticism, Jungian depth psychology and Quantum Physics to help us understand the mysterious and paradoxical nature of reality and the Universe.




3 AM

Caroline Casey Visionary Activist

Archival episode from a year ago, as KPFA is in their own fund drive, and Caroline Casey aired a different repeat episode pitching a digital download premium for KPFA that we don’t have access to.

ELECTION MAGIC RADIO with the legendary Star Hawk

Caroline hosts long-time indefatigable ally of all life, Star Hawk, whose life-long dedication has been a syncretizing of the political magical realms: myriad ways to participate. Let’s feel ourselves in resonant accord with the Choreography of Creation.

“Tyrants don’t care if they are hated – as long as the people don’t love the Earth.” We love the Earth! And she is voting through us, that we inaugurate Ingenious altruism…

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She is the author or co-author of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel City of Refuge. Her most recent non-fiction book is The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics, power, conflict and communications. Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirituality and with a focus on activism. She travels internationally, lecturing and teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.

https://starhawk.org/




4-6 AM Final two hours of Thom Hartmann from earlier on 10-05-23

Wednesday Night

Prog notes S H 10-05-23




12 AM

Dave Emory – For the Record #1310

Deep Politics and the Death of Iris Chang

https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftrs-1309-and-1310-deep-politics-and-the-death-of-iris-chang-parts-3-and-4/

Dave continues his exploration of the issues around the death of the author of “The Rape of Nanking”. At the time of her death, Iris was working on a book and documentary film project about the survivors of the Bataan Death March. Some of those veterans had been used as slave laborers by Japanese corporations during the war. The Bataan Death March veterans were among those who sued the Japanese corporations that had enslaved them. The presiding judge ruled against the veterans and for the Japanese corporations. For more see the For the Record website or last week’s program notes regarding FTR #1309, which was part 3 of this investigation and analysis.





1 AM

Covert Action Bulletin with Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa

Breaking Through US Propaganda on North Korea

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/07/19/covertaction-bulletin-breaking-through-u-s-propaganda-on-north-korea/

A recent Washington Post article titled “A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story” highlights the many appearances Yeonmi Park has made on right-wing news outlets over the past few years. Scholars and solidarity activists have been pointing out the serious holes in Park’s stories since she started getting attention. But even the Post has pushed her propaganda, running an op-ed by her in 2014 that they admit was co-written with a fellow at the Koch-founded right-wing Atlas Network, calling for a capitalist counterrevolution in the country. Park is part of a long tradition of outright U.S. lies about North Korea, which it is still at war with.

To get deeper into the history, we’re joined by Derek Ford. He’s an author, visiting professor at Korea University in Tokyo, and an organizer with the Global Peace forum on Korea. He also led the last delegation of U.S. citizens to the DPRK before the travel ban.

Rachel Hu is a journalist with “BreakThrough News,” a new independent media project, where she hosts the podcast “It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism.” She is also a host on WBAI 99.5FM in NYC and has been an anti-war and anti-racist activist with the ANSWER Coalition for the last decade. Rachel can be reached at: rachel@wbai.org.

Chris Garaffa has been an anti-imperialist and social justice organizer since joining the movement against the Iraq war in 2003. Chris is a weekly guest on Sputnik Radio’s “By Any Means Necessary,” and co-hosts the podcast “The Reboot,” focusing on the intersection between technology and human rights. Chris can be reached at: chris.garaffa@gmail.com.




2 AM

It’s Going Down from sister station KPFA

Interview with Lee Austin, a trans man activist facing serious charges in OH for defending people at a family-friendly drag show against assault by Proud Boys and neo-Nazis in Ohio in March of this year.





3 AM

Out-FM from sister station WBAI with John Riley, Stahimili Mapp, Naomi Brussel

"Margaret Randall Latin America Solidarity Activist P1&2 "

We will present Part 1 and Part 2 of an interview with internationally renowned writer, poet and Latin America solidarity activist Margaret Randall. It was conducted earlier this year by Out-FM producer Bob Lederer and guest co-producer Cloe Loosz.

Margaret Randall is a longtime North American feminist activist who has supported Latin American revolutions, as well as a prolific writer, poet, translator, and photographer, and an out-lesbian. In 2020 she released her memoir titled I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary. She has published nearly 200 books of poetry, prose, oral testimony, and memoir, including two last year, and has made such iconic Latin American poets as Roque Dalton, Otto Rene Castillo, and others available to an English readership. She is now 86 years old.



Part 2: In this concluding segment of the interview, Margaret will explain her epic four-year, late-80s battle -- with huge grassroots support -- to stop the federal government's effort to deport her because her writings allegedly advocated "the doctrines of world communism." She will then talk about her decision to come out soon after winning that victory, her 36-year relationship with her now wife Barbara Byers, and her more recent literary and political activities.



Thanks to John Riley and the other producers of WBAI’s Out -FM for putting this special single-program presentation of this interview together especially for KPFK, as it originally aired in two parts on separate weeks during WBAI’s on-air fund drive.




4-6 AM

Final 2 hours of the Thom Hartmann Program non-commercial version from earlier on 10-04-23

 

Tuesday Night

Prog notes S H 10-04-23



12 AM

About Health: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Health Care

Most likely you’ve heard of ChatGPT. But, you may not know that AI is also being applied in significant ways to healthcare: from smartphone apps, to systems that might eventually be able to offer us healthcare advice without waiting to talk to a doctor, to research applications like drug development. In this episode, we talk with someone whose career has been at the crossroads of medicine and technology for decades. We ask him what healthcare might look like in the future and discuss the promise of AI as well as some of the caution that’s worth observing. Host David B. Feldman speaks with Dr. Mark Braunstein, Emeritus Professor of Practice at Georgia Tech and Visiting Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre.



1 AM

Herbal Highway (KPFA Fund drive edition)

Food Sovereignty part 2

Sarah Holmes interviews Sara Calvosa Olson, author of Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen. Follow their discussion as they explore Native California foods, food sovereignty, recipes, ethics of wildcrafting, community and more.

This is part 2 of a three-part series with Sara Calvosa Olsen. Hosted live by Emiliano Lemus. Fund drive.

Visit Sara’s website at akihsara.com, and follow her on Instagram at @thefrybreadriot. Follow The Herbal Highway on Facebook and Instagram @theherbalhighway.



The Herbal Highway enhances the community’s knowledge of herbal medicine and alternative choices to standard medical practices for healing. In order to have balanced life, The Herbal Highway actively supports and promotes Indigenous land rights, protection of sacred sites and the sustainability of the Earth as integral parts of individual, community and global healing. Follow us on Instagram @theherbalhighway. Hosted and produced by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes. Additionally hosted by Emiliano Lemus and Renee Camila.





2 AM

Green Street News: Pollinators, Pesticides and Politics with Dan Raichel

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about our diminishing water aquifers and microplastic particles in the clouds and the rain. Then NRDC's Dan Raichel talks about neonic pesticides, their devastating impact on our environment and our health, and the proposed legislation in New York to limit their indiscriminate use.



2:30 AM

Food Sleuth Radio

Elizabeth Henderson, farmer, writer and agrarian leader discusses food justice issues

Did you know that agriculture is not sustainable without fair wages? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Elizabeth Henderson, award-winning farmer, writer, activist, and agrarian leader best known for her decades of support of and contributions to organic and sustainable agriculture. She is a founding member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and has been a pioneer of the CSA model in the United States. She is committed to resisting the many injustices of a cheap food system through the power of cooperation. Shes the author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizens Guide to Community Supported Agriculture; and a core leader of the Agricultural Justice Project.

https://youtu.be/MA26cX2i9lg?si=1NHb_tmBmyQCKF3G

Related website: Agricultural Justice Project and certification: https://www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org/en/

Elizabeth Henderson papers at U. of MA " Amherst: http://findingaids.library.umass.edu/ead/mums746

Real Organic Project interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA26cX2i9lg





3 AM

Whole Mother from KPFT

Ellie Davis, RN, and Giuliana Davis, HypnoBirthing



Ellie Davis is a wife, mom, registered nurse, and a HypnoBirthing childbirth educator. She graduated from nursing school in May of 2021 and worked in pediatrics after graduation. She began birth work and teaching HypnoBirthing in September of 2022, after utilizing the program for the birth of her own daughter. Her devotions include faith, time with family, and caring for those who are unable to care for themselves.



Giuliana Davis works joyfully around the clock as a stay-at-home mom, wife, and cat-doorwoman in Montgomery, TX. Between nursing, nap times and nature walks, she can be found alongside her husband either at the coffee table or on the field running their business, Genesis Homesteads. Utilizing her background in sustainable agriculture and art, she designs, builds and staffs small regenerative farms for other freedom-loving families across the country.


Check out hypnobirthing.com for more info.




4-6 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-03-23

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 10-03-23




12 AM

Scholars Circle

Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians from Artsakh

Azerbaijan has attacked the indigenous Armenian people in an area known internationally as Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing them to flee from their ancestral homelands. Over hundred thousand have fled the region they know as Artsakh. Why has the international community failed to do anything to protect this population who left behind their homes, communities, belongings, and historical heritage?

Russia has abandoned its role of protector of Armenians, who are now victims to atrocities and grave human rights violations.

And the US has failed to act on the warnings about Azerbaijan's aggression toward the civilian population. What should now be done to address Azerbaijan's campaign of ethnic cleansing and atrocities?



Stephan Astourian recently retired as the William Saroyan Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He is now Professor in the International Relations and Diplomacy Program at American University of Armenia and the Director of the Turpanjian Center for Policy Analysis. He is the author of State, homeland, and diaspora: The Armenian and Azerbaijani cases and On the Genealogy of the Armenian–Turkish Conflict, Sultan Abdülhamid and the Armenian Massacres.



Vahram Ter-Matevosyan is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the American University of Armenia.

He is the co-author of the monographs “Turkey, Kemalism, and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation,"

“Islam in the Social and Political Life of Turkey, 1970-2001”, and

“Navigating between international recognition paradigms: prospects and challenges for Nagorno Karabakh”,(with Edita Ghazaryan).



Steve Swerdlow, esq. is Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California. A human rights lawyer and expert on the former Soviet region, Swerdlow was Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, heading the organization’s work on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and founding its Kyrgyzstan field office. He worked as a human rights monitor for the Union of Council for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) as their Caucasus monitor in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as well as with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Russia.



Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the

University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of

The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment,

and editor of Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social Change: Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.





1-3 AM Old Radio first Monday night of the month

1 AM Cloak and Dagger: Roof of the World 28 min

1:30 AM Dimension X – The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury) 25 min

2 AM Have Gun Will Travel (Paladin) – Winchester Quarantine 25 min

2:30 AM Jack Benny – Jack and Mary See Colman’s Movie 28 min




3 AM

Equal Rights & Justice – with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, addresses a crowd of more than 1000 proclaiming the U.S. 60 year embargo against the island nation is “genocidal,” it’s the “politics of economic asphyxiation,” and similarly condemns the US-led “starve the people sanctions,” against Venezuela as “devastating’ to human rights,” and to build support for the US to lift the blockade and, remove Cuba from its “terrorist” list, to let Cuba live and for self-determination.



And, Benjamin Zinevich, with the HATUEY Project talks about the firebombing of the Cuban Embassy, in DC following the President’s speech and the response to it and role of the US in supporting acts of terrorism against the Cuban government. Zinevich also talks about the work of HATUEY to lift the blockade and provide material assistance to the Island Nation.




4-6 AM

Final 2 hours of The Thom Hartmann Program (non-commercial version) from earlier on 10/02/23

Equal Rights & Justice