Prog Notes S H 12-15-23
12 AM
Alan Watts
Zen Buddhism
The second part of a lecture on Zen by Watts that began last week
12:30 AM
Old Radio break
Frankenstein parts 1 and 2
Radio dramatization of Mary Shelley’s prophetic novel about the consequences of scientists playing god and developing artificial life forms.
1 AM
Sounds True from Tami Simon
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia
https://resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/clay-routledge-the-surprising-powers-of-nostalgia/
Can relishing the past help us create a better future? If we want to move ahead, how does going back support us? Could it be that thinking about the past is inseparable from thinking about the future? These are the questions Dr. Clay Routledge explores in his new book, Past Forward.
In this fascinating and very cool podcast, Tami Simon and Clay consider how a walk down memory lane can lead you to a brighter tomorrow, discussing: agency, action, and the power of a “meaning mindset”; building a culture of agency; existential psychology; the subjective experience of time and the concept of “temporal consciousness”; why it’s important to savor the moment; the characteristics of nostalgia; working with difficult or bittersweet memories; how creativity is facilitated by a sense of security; journaling, playlists, scrapbooks, cooking, and other practical approaches to cultivate nostalgia and its benefits; the “reminiscence bump” and how nostalgia helps us feel younger; becoming our true selves; nostalgia around objects and personal possessions; and more.
Clay Routledge, PhD, is a leading expert in existential psychology. His work has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, Forbes, and more. He is the vice president of research and director of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, and coeditor of Profectus. For more, visit clayroutledge.com.
2 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
A New Language and Way of Thinking About Life
Marshall Rosenberg was the founder of the Center for Non-Violent Communication, and he taught non-violent communication all over the world and in the prison system for many years. He helped create schools that taught non-violent communication for kids.
In this presentation Marshall Rosenberg talks about using a new language of life to think and be more compassionate with ourselves and with each other, and to help create peace in the world.
3 AM
Caroline Casey, Visionary Activist
DIVING INTO THE DARK UNDERWORLD, ANIMATING COMMUNITY
Caroline welcomes spicy, deep-delving Shambhavi Sarasvati
Diving into the Dark Underworld where our souls can speak more deeply to us.
Tyranny seeks to destroy Community, then creates the toxic mimic,
which be a cult…. that must have conflict and cruelty on which to feed….
So we animate Community arising from the Earth, across all borders….
Community be dedicated to collective well-being- democracy- equal rights; a cult be a prison…..
wonder and responsive augury conversing. This ongoing crisis of cruel carnage – reminds us to practice everything we hold dear, & invite in power to resolve.
Shambhavi is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula. Her principal training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism (a.k.a. Kashmir Shaivism or Shaiva Tantra) and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. Shambhavi emphasizes direct encounters with the wisdom of the heart through the more explicitly devotional teachings and practices of Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen. At one time, Shambhavi taught at Northwestern University. She left academia in 2004 in order to devote herself to practice, writing and teaching in her spiritual tradition. Shambhavi is the author of The Reality Sutras: Seeking the Heart of Trika Shaivism (2018), Nine Poisons, Nine Medicines, Nine Fruits (2017), The Play of Awakening: Adventures in Direct Realization Tantra (2012), Pilgrims to Opennness: Direct Realization Tantra in Everyday Life (2009), Returning (2015), and No Retreat: Poems on the Way to Waking Up (2016). In addition, she published an academic book, Avatar Bodies: a Tantra for Posthumanism. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Mills College and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.
jayakula.org
timemedicine.org (a project of Jaya Kula)
kindred108.love (articles)
and her recent article, her shared last week: Mourning the victims of the cult of Israel
https://www.kindred108.love/p/mourning-the-victims-of-the-cult
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of the 12/14/23 non-commercial broadcast
Friday, December 15, 2023
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Wednesday Night
Prog notes S H 12-14-23
12 AM
For the Record – David Emory
Dave is presenting some archival material this week about the recently deceased Daniel Hopsicker. He hopes to have new programs available in a couple of weeks. His flash drive with many hours of conversation with Jim DiEugenio, who wrote the script for and worked with Oliver Stone on JFK Revisited is still available as a thank-you premium for a pledge of $100 to KPFK.
1 AM
The Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON OCTOBER 7
Part 1:
Max Blumenthal on The Chris Hedges Report:
For all the sensationalism surrounding the events of Oct. 7, when Hamas broke through the Gaza fence and seized territory in the Gaza Envelope as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, there is still much that we do not know. The official Israeli death toll from the attack is estimated at 1,200 civilians, revised from an initial estimate of 1,400. Among this figure are several hundred civilians, which Israel says were killed by Hamas militants. Other testimony from survivors of Oct. 7 suggests an alternative explanation"that in its fervor to defeat Hamas, Israeli commanders may have willingly targeted and sacrificed Israeli soldiers and civilians in the crossfire. Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone joins The Chris Hedges Report for an in-depth look.
Part 2:
Max Blumenthal on “Going Underground”:
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal, who joins us for a special interview. He describes a trail of lies and deceit by the Israeli government and the Biden administration on what really happened in the Hamas Al-Aqsa Flood raid on October 7. He claims the evidence points to Israel killing its own civilians while attempting to stop Hamas from taking hostages, and accuses Israel of atrocity propaganda that has been regurgitated by Bidens State Department to justify Israels genocidal destruction of Gaza, using Israels manipulation of evidence which has been shown across TV screens in NATO nations. He also points to racist double standards in the US, UK and European media in their coverage of Israels war on Gaza.
Grayzone Radio is a production of The Grayzone, an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire. Washington DC-based independent journalist and author, Max Blumenthal, founded The Grayzone and is your host on Grayzone Radio.
For more info on The Grayzone and their reporting, please go to https://thegrayzone.com
2 AM
The Final Straw Radio
Anti-Militarist & Feminist Resistance in Azerbaijan
Following up on KPFK’s coverage of the genocidal displacement of Armenians in Artsakh, an interview with Lala, an anarcha-feminist in the Azerbaijani group Feminist Peace Collective, about the country’s recent war against and expulsion of ethnic Armenians, about the Aliyev regime and patriotic elements in Azerbaijan’s reaction against anti-militarist voices, conspiracy theories and real critiques of non-profit NGOs versus grassroots lgbtq+ and feminist organizing, and other topics. You can learn more about Lala’s group at FeministPeaceCollective.Com.
On December 19th at 8pm Caucasus time / UTC+4 (11 am Eastern Standard or 8 am Pacific Standard time) Feminist Peace Collective is hosting an online discussion with Dr. Chiara Bottici via zoom called Anarchafeminism in troubled times and with a focus on antifeminist and anti-queer backlash and war in the South Caucasus, central Asia, Turkey and Russia. There’s a registration link at their website.
The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, weve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.
3 AM
Out-FM from sister station WBAI
Queer Supporters of Palestine at Protest of Israeli Pinkwasher's Presentation, at Museum of Jewish Heritage
Queer cultural worker Rosza Daniel Lang /Levitsky describes 12/9/23 informational picket against Hen Massig, Israeli apologist and pinkwasher. An LGBTQ group exposed Massig's Israeli propaganda work outside a performance of "Amid Falling Walls," Folksbiene Yiddish Theater's production about the Nazi Holocaust.
Queers For a Liberated Palestine Rally in Brooklyn 12/11/23
On 12/11/23 about 1,000 protesters rallied at Barclay Center in support of Palestinians. We play two speeches from the event, one from a Queer cultural worker, the other from a queer relative of the martyred Palestinian journalist Shaneen Abu Akleh. The other is Panushka from Queers for a Liberated Palestine
More at: #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
Lyrics for the Shondas "I Watched the Temple Fall":
[Verse 1]
This year a fast of witness
I long and crave but with this
Long to know what longing's for
(I know this is a time thick with dying)
Remembering temples falling
I watched the wall ascending
(The names and places are erased, replaced)
I watched cities consume cities
(Killing history)
(And yet today my people are mourning)
With each village they're erasing
I'll witness them replacing it
With new walls in new tongues
(An endless, timeless span of tragedy)
We can't see the chance that's there
To build temples everywhere
Not in space but in time
(I know this is a time thick with dying)
[Hook]
We live like we’re always afflicted (I watched the temple fall)
But I’m not, I’m sick (I watched the temple fall)
From the blood all over our hands (The borders of my heart)
How the land soaks it in (Release and come apart)
So the desert can finally bloom with this colonial hate
No heart, no heart could really beat love for this state
(The state is not my temple)
The People’s Bubbie: An Anti-Zionist Love Story"
We will also run a beautiful segment that our sibling producers of WBAI's Beyond the Pale program, home of the Jewish Left, aired last Friday. It's an interview by hosts Shoshana Brown and Rafael Shimunov with filmmakers Julia Sharpe-Levine (@ailoojailooj) and Fivel Rothberg (@fivelrothberg) to talk about the legacy of Shatzi Weisberger and their new film in development, "The People’s Bubbie: An Anti-Zionist Love Story" (@thepeoplesbubbiefilm).
As “The People’s Bubbie,” 92-year-old Shatzi Weisberger became an unexpected symbol of resistance. This outspoken Jewish, lesbian, anti-Zionist, lifelong New Yorker embraced her flaws and faced her fears. With her captivating spirit, she forged powerful bonds with young queer activists to unlock a profound love that transformed her final weeks into an extraordinary journey of joy and loss.
Julia is a Brooklyn based artist, editor, and educator working at the intersection of multidisciplinary arts and social justice movement building.
Fivel is a location sound mixer and filmmaker who has lived in NYC for 17 years but still says "wooder" like a good Philadelphian.
(Beyond the Pale airs weekly on WBAI on Fridays at 9 AM EST, and is archived at BeyondThePale.fm).
#jewishresistance #jewishvoiceforpeace
About Out-FM
Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 FM and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. Please support us by calling 212-209-2950 and let the station know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station with a donation. Be sure and mention our show when you donate. Sign up for Out-FM's Weekly Newsletter with show announcements. The producers send a version for KPFK which airs as part of Something’s Happening, usually 3 AM Thursday mornings.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from earlier on 12-13-23
12 AM
For the Record – David Emory
Dave is presenting some archival material this week about the recently deceased Daniel Hopsicker. He hopes to have new programs available in a couple of weeks. His flash drive with many hours of conversation with Jim DiEugenio, who wrote the script for and worked with Oliver Stone on JFK Revisited is still available as a thank-you premium for a pledge of $100 to KPFK.
1 AM
The Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON OCTOBER 7
Part 1:
Max Blumenthal on The Chris Hedges Report:
For all the sensationalism surrounding the events of Oct. 7, when Hamas broke through the Gaza fence and seized territory in the Gaza Envelope as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, there is still much that we do not know. The official Israeli death toll from the attack is estimated at 1,200 civilians, revised from an initial estimate of 1,400. Among this figure are several hundred civilians, which Israel says were killed by Hamas militants. Other testimony from survivors of Oct. 7 suggests an alternative explanation"that in its fervor to defeat Hamas, Israeli commanders may have willingly targeted and sacrificed Israeli soldiers and civilians in the crossfire. Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone joins The Chris Hedges Report for an in-depth look.
Part 2:
Max Blumenthal on “Going Underground”:
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal, who joins us for a special interview. He describes a trail of lies and deceit by the Israeli government and the Biden administration on what really happened in the Hamas Al-Aqsa Flood raid on October 7. He claims the evidence points to Israel killing its own civilians while attempting to stop Hamas from taking hostages, and accuses Israel of atrocity propaganda that has been regurgitated by Bidens State Department to justify Israels genocidal destruction of Gaza, using Israels manipulation of evidence which has been shown across TV screens in NATO nations. He also points to racist double standards in the US, UK and European media in their coverage of Israels war on Gaza.
Grayzone Radio is a production of The Grayzone, an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire. Washington DC-based independent journalist and author, Max Blumenthal, founded The Grayzone and is your host on Grayzone Radio.
For more info on The Grayzone and their reporting, please go to https://thegrayzone.com
2 AM
The Final Straw Radio
Anti-Militarist & Feminist Resistance in Azerbaijan
Following up on KPFK’s coverage of the genocidal displacement of Armenians in Artsakh, an interview with Lala, an anarcha-feminist in the Azerbaijani group Feminist Peace Collective, about the country’s recent war against and expulsion of ethnic Armenians, about the Aliyev regime and patriotic elements in Azerbaijan’s reaction against anti-militarist voices, conspiracy theories and real critiques of non-profit NGOs versus grassroots lgbtq+ and feminist organizing, and other topics. You can learn more about Lala’s group at FeministPeaceCollective.Com.
On December 19th at 8pm Caucasus time / UTC+4 (11 am Eastern Standard or 8 am Pacific Standard time) Feminist Peace Collective is hosting an online discussion with Dr. Chiara Bottici via zoom called Anarchafeminism in troubled times and with a focus on antifeminist and anti-queer backlash and war in the South Caucasus, central Asia, Turkey and Russia. There’s a registration link at their website.
The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, weve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.
3 AM
Out-FM from sister station WBAI
Queer Supporters of Palestine at Protest of Israeli Pinkwasher's Presentation, at Museum of Jewish Heritage
Queer cultural worker Rosza Daniel Lang /Levitsky describes 12/9/23 informational picket against Hen Massig, Israeli apologist and pinkwasher. An LGBTQ group exposed Massig's Israeli propaganda work outside a performance of "Amid Falling Walls," Folksbiene Yiddish Theater's production about the Nazi Holocaust.
Queers For a Liberated Palestine Rally in Brooklyn 12/11/23
On 12/11/23 about 1,000 protesters rallied at Barclay Center in support of Palestinians. We play two speeches from the event, one from a Queer cultural worker, the other from a queer relative of the martyred Palestinian journalist Shaneen Abu Akleh. The other is Panushka from Queers for a Liberated Palestine
More at: #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
Lyrics for the Shondas "I Watched the Temple Fall":
[Verse 1]
This year a fast of witness
I long and crave but with this
Long to know what longing's for
(I know this is a time thick with dying)
Remembering temples falling
I watched the wall ascending
(The names and places are erased, replaced)
I watched cities consume cities
(Killing history)
(And yet today my people are mourning)
With each village they're erasing
I'll witness them replacing it
With new walls in new tongues
(An endless, timeless span of tragedy)
We can't see the chance that's there
To build temples everywhere
Not in space but in time
(I know this is a time thick with dying)
[Hook]
We live like we’re always afflicted (I watched the temple fall)
But I’m not, I’m sick (I watched the temple fall)
From the blood all over our hands (The borders of my heart)
How the land soaks it in (Release and come apart)
So the desert can finally bloom with this colonial hate
No heart, no heart could really beat love for this state
(The state is not my temple)
The People’s Bubbie: An Anti-Zionist Love Story"
We will also run a beautiful segment that our sibling producers of WBAI's Beyond the Pale program, home of the Jewish Left, aired last Friday. It's an interview by hosts Shoshana Brown and Rafael Shimunov with filmmakers Julia Sharpe-Levine (@ailoojailooj) and Fivel Rothberg (@fivelrothberg) to talk about the legacy of Shatzi Weisberger and their new film in development, "The People’s Bubbie: An Anti-Zionist Love Story" (@thepeoplesbubbiefilm).
As “The People’s Bubbie,” 92-year-old Shatzi Weisberger became an unexpected symbol of resistance. This outspoken Jewish, lesbian, anti-Zionist, lifelong New Yorker embraced her flaws and faced her fears. With her captivating spirit, she forged powerful bonds with young queer activists to unlock a profound love that transformed her final weeks into an extraordinary journey of joy and loss.
Julia is a Brooklyn based artist, editor, and educator working at the intersection of multidisciplinary arts and social justice movement building.
Fivel is a location sound mixer and filmmaker who has lived in NYC for 17 years but still says "wooder" like a good Philadelphian.
(Beyond the Pale airs weekly on WBAI on Fridays at 9 AM EST, and is archived at BeyondThePale.fm).
#jewishresistance #jewishvoiceforpeace
About Out-FM
Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 FM and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. Please support us by calling 212-209-2950 and let the station know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station with a donation. Be sure and mention our show when you donate. Sign up for Out-FM's Weekly Newsletter with show announcements. The producers send a version for KPFK which airs as part of Something’s Happening, usually 3 AM Thursday mornings.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from earlier on 12-13-23
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Tuesday Night
Prog Notes S H 12-13-23
12 AM
About Health
Dealing with Emergencies
Nurse Rona Renner looks at first aid and other measures to minimize damage and aid recovery from injuries or other emergency situations. Archival episode, as KPFA is in their own fund drive and airing special fund drive material with their premiums and phone number.
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Discerning Nervine herbals
2 AM
Green Street News
This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about the COP 28 debacle, the plastic recycling hoax and state bans on PFAS chemicals. Then Jackie Bowen, executive director of Clean Label Project, talks about the organization's mission to clean up our food supply using data, science, and transparency, starting with baby food. Learn more at www.CleanLabelAction.org.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) AKA food stamps
Did you know that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves more than 40 million Americans, or about 1 in 8 people living in poverty in the U.S.? However, large corporations also benefit from the program. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Jennifer Wilkins, Ph.D., RD, a leader in sustainable, community-based food systems. Wilkins discusses SNAP funding, spending, and how the program could be improved to better match U.S. Dietary Guidelines and support both public and planetary health.
Related website: How Big Food Corporations Take Advantage of SNAP: https://blog.ucsusa.org/alice-reznickova/how-big-food-corporations-take-advantage-of-snap/
https://civileats.com/2017/08/28/congress-could-cut-soda-and-candy-from-snap-but-big-sugar-is-pushing-back/
SNAP Nutrition Security Act: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/eating-well-living-well-enhancing-nutritious-food-access/
3 AM
Whole Mother
Eden MacAdam-Somer and Aaron Hartley
Composer/performer/improviser Eden MacAdam-Somer (b. 1979) is one of today’s most exciting and versatile artists. Hailed by the New York Times as reflecting “astonishing virtuosity and raw expression” her music challenges the boundaries of composition and improvisation and transcends genre, weaving in and out of the many cultures that have formed her experience. Eden has written numerous works for solo artist on voice, violin, and body percussion, such as ‘Rumi Songs’, a partially composed, partially improvised song cycle. Her works are performed internationally, and she has received commissions by such groups as the New Gallery Concert Series, Cuatro Puntos Resident Artists, the Providence Mandolin Orchestra, and the AURA Ensemble. Her 2015 live solo album, My First Love Story, was listed as one of the top ten jazz albums of the year in the Boston Globe.
While growing up in Houston, Texas, Eden studied classical music formally, spending her free time at the local folk music sessions and working as an arranger and studio musician. She attended Houston’s High School for Performing and Visual Arts, winning the Music Teacher’s National Association State Division and the Lennox Young Artists Competitions. In 1993, she was introduced to contra-dancing in Amherst, MA, on a night out at Musicorda Chamber Music festival. When she got back to Houston, Eden tracked down the local dance community and began playing for dances. Thanks to the support of the Houston Area Traditional dancers, she was soon brought to the local Irish session, where she connected with members of an international music party band, the Gypsies, who took her under their wing. While earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in classical violin performance, she was spending nights playing music of all kinds: Balkan, Eastern European, Klezmer, Jazz, Bluegrass, DAWG, and more. Meanwhile, she earned her BM and MM in classical performance from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, as a student of Fredell Lack, and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, as a student of Kenneth Goldsmith.
Eden is a full-time faculty member at New England Conservatory, where she teaches courses, ensembles, and studio lessons, in addition to serving as Co-Chair of the Department of Contemporary Improvisation. A dynamic and passionate teacher, Eden works with each student to attain the skills they need to become creative and successful artists, strengthening unique personal style with a good foundation in aural skills and technical facility. Outside of the classroom, Eden maintains an active, eclectic international performance and recording career as a soloist and with such bands as Notorious Folk and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. She lives in Boston with her husband, (trombonist, artist manager, and videographer Aaron Hartley) and two children.
Videographer/artist manager Aaron Hartley grew up photographing weddings as a second shooter with his father at Lakeside Photography in Tampa, FL. While attending New England Conservatory of Music for Jazz Performance, Aaron co-created Boston’s legendary Film Noir Series that was featured in Jordan Hall for 15 years, which jump-started his career in videography. Now, Aaron is a full-time videographer and film editor, capturing weddings, concerts, and other events. In his free time, he loves learning new juggling tricks (both clubs and balls), taking care of his flock of chickens, practicing trombone, taking footage of his kids playing, sailing with his brother, Greg, or woodworking.
Aaron and Eden live in Boston with their three children, Gideon (6), Ida Lu (4), and Ori Tov (10 months). As a family, they enjoy baking, hiking, gardening, reading, playing music, dancing, tending their chickens, and exploring the world around them.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from 12-12-23
12 AM
About Health
Dealing with Emergencies
Nurse Rona Renner looks at first aid and other measures to minimize damage and aid recovery from injuries or other emergency situations. Archival episode, as KPFA is in their own fund drive and airing special fund drive material with their premiums and phone number.
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Discerning Nervine herbals
2 AM
Green Street News
This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about the COP 28 debacle, the plastic recycling hoax and state bans on PFAS chemicals. Then Jackie Bowen, executive director of Clean Label Project, talks about the organization's mission to clean up our food supply using data, science, and transparency, starting with baby food. Learn more at www.CleanLabelAction.org.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) AKA food stamps
Did you know that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves more than 40 million Americans, or about 1 in 8 people living in poverty in the U.S.? However, large corporations also benefit from the program. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Jennifer Wilkins, Ph.D., RD, a leader in sustainable, community-based food systems. Wilkins discusses SNAP funding, spending, and how the program could be improved to better match U.S. Dietary Guidelines and support both public and planetary health.
Related website: How Big Food Corporations Take Advantage of SNAP: https://blog.ucsusa.org/alice-reznickova/how-big-food-corporations-take-advantage-of-snap/
https://civileats.com/2017/08/28/congress-could-cut-soda-and-candy-from-snap-but-big-sugar-is-pushing-back/
SNAP Nutrition Security Act: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/eating-well-living-well-enhancing-nutritious-food-access/
3 AM
Whole Mother
Eden MacAdam-Somer and Aaron Hartley
Composer/performer/improviser Eden MacAdam-Somer (b. 1979) is one of today’s most exciting and versatile artists. Hailed by the New York Times as reflecting “astonishing virtuosity and raw expression” her music challenges the boundaries of composition and improvisation and transcends genre, weaving in and out of the many cultures that have formed her experience. Eden has written numerous works for solo artist on voice, violin, and body percussion, such as ‘Rumi Songs’, a partially composed, partially improvised song cycle. Her works are performed internationally, and she has received commissions by such groups as the New Gallery Concert Series, Cuatro Puntos Resident Artists, the Providence Mandolin Orchestra, and the AURA Ensemble. Her 2015 live solo album, My First Love Story, was listed as one of the top ten jazz albums of the year in the Boston Globe.
While growing up in Houston, Texas, Eden studied classical music formally, spending her free time at the local folk music sessions and working as an arranger and studio musician. She attended Houston’s High School for Performing and Visual Arts, winning the Music Teacher’s National Association State Division and the Lennox Young Artists Competitions. In 1993, she was introduced to contra-dancing in Amherst, MA, on a night out at Musicorda Chamber Music festival. When she got back to Houston, Eden tracked down the local dance community and began playing for dances. Thanks to the support of the Houston Area Traditional dancers, she was soon brought to the local Irish session, where she connected with members of an international music party band, the Gypsies, who took her under their wing. While earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in classical violin performance, she was spending nights playing music of all kinds: Balkan, Eastern European, Klezmer, Jazz, Bluegrass, DAWG, and more. Meanwhile, she earned her BM and MM in classical performance from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, as a student of Fredell Lack, and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, as a student of Kenneth Goldsmith.
Eden is a full-time faculty member at New England Conservatory, where she teaches courses, ensembles, and studio lessons, in addition to serving as Co-Chair of the Department of Contemporary Improvisation. A dynamic and passionate teacher, Eden works with each student to attain the skills they need to become creative and successful artists, strengthening unique personal style with a good foundation in aural skills and technical facility. Outside of the classroom, Eden maintains an active, eclectic international performance and recording career as a soloist and with such bands as Notorious Folk and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. She lives in Boston with her husband, (trombonist, artist manager, and videographer Aaron Hartley) and two children.
Videographer/artist manager Aaron Hartley grew up photographing weddings as a second shooter with his father at Lakeside Photography in Tampa, FL. While attending New England Conservatory of Music for Jazz Performance, Aaron co-created Boston’s legendary Film Noir Series that was featured in Jordan Hall for 15 years, which jump-started his career in videography. Now, Aaron is a full-time videographer and film editor, capturing weddings, concerts, and other events. In his free time, he loves learning new juggling tricks (both clubs and balls), taking care of his flock of chickens, practicing trombone, taking footage of his kids playing, sailing with his brother, Greg, or woodworking.
Aaron and Eden live in Boston with their three children, Gideon (6), Ida Lu (4), and Ori Tov (10 months). As a family, they enjoy baking, hiking, gardening, reading, playing music, dancing, tending their chickens, and exploring the world around them.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from 12-12-23
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Monday Night
Prog Notes S H 12-12-23
12 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer & Jacobin
Trita Parsi on the global context of the Gaza war • James Bamford, author of this article, https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists/ on how Israel spies on US campuses • Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, on the latest iteration of the rough beast
1 AM
Project Censored
In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with bestselling author and Emmy-nominated filmmaker James Bamford to discuss Israel’s nefarious attacks on our rights to free speech and assembly here in the US. Bamford shares details about the clearly illegal activity of foreign agents working to suppress movements and actions for Palestinian rights, and how our government turns a blind eye to all of this in the name of supporting Israel. Next up, Mickey Huff sits down with seasoned journalist and science writer Peter Byrne to talk about the media censorship of one of his recent articles which covered protests against the genocide in Gaza. Byrne discusses the sad habit that many local media outlets have of caving to pressure on the Israel/Palestine issue, how ad dollars drive news, and more.
2 AM
Equal Rights and Justice
Palestinian residents of NYC Rally in Brooklyn to plead for their families’ lives; Messianic Evangelical Christians lobby Congress for ethnic cleansing in Gaza; Demanding the “Right to Shelter” from government officials.
3 AM
Creative FRONTLINE
The Economics of Greenwashing
Clifford Humphrey started Ecology Action recyclers in Berkeley in 1968. He's one of the true founders of the environmental movement. Here he carries a message from the inspired elders who conceived of a better world in the midst of war and chaos like we have today. We began a general conversation about the economics of “greenwashing”, corporate public relations around phony environmentalism to cover their culpability in environmental damage, which we circled and snuck up on from behind in this, Clifford's gift to us all during the holiday season.
3:30
Indigenous Climate Action and Indigenous Environmental Network members present in a webinar on false climate solutions being promoted by corporate and state interests. From TUC.
4-6 PM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of his non-commercial version from earlier on 12-11-23
12 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer & Jacobin
Trita Parsi on the global context of the Gaza war • James Bamford, author of this article, https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists/ on how Israel spies on US campuses • Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, on the latest iteration of the rough beast
1 AM
Project Censored
In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with bestselling author and Emmy-nominated filmmaker James Bamford to discuss Israel’s nefarious attacks on our rights to free speech and assembly here in the US. Bamford shares details about the clearly illegal activity of foreign agents working to suppress movements and actions for Palestinian rights, and how our government turns a blind eye to all of this in the name of supporting Israel. Next up, Mickey Huff sits down with seasoned journalist and science writer Peter Byrne to talk about the media censorship of one of his recent articles which covered protests against the genocide in Gaza. Byrne discusses the sad habit that many local media outlets have of caving to pressure on the Israel/Palestine issue, how ad dollars drive news, and more.
2 AM
Equal Rights and Justice
Palestinian residents of NYC Rally in Brooklyn to plead for their families’ lives; Messianic Evangelical Christians lobby Congress for ethnic cleansing in Gaza; Demanding the “Right to Shelter” from government officials.
3 AM
Creative FRONTLINE
The Economics of Greenwashing
Clifford Humphrey started Ecology Action recyclers in Berkeley in 1968. He's one of the true founders of the environmental movement. Here he carries a message from the inspired elders who conceived of a better world in the midst of war and chaos like we have today. We began a general conversation about the economics of “greenwashing”, corporate public relations around phony environmentalism to cover their culpability in environmental damage, which we circled and snuck up on from behind in this, Clifford's gift to us all during the holiday season.
3:30
Indigenous Climate Action and Indigenous Environmental Network members present in a webinar on false climate solutions being promoted by corporate and state interests. From TUC.
4-6 PM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of his non-commercial version from earlier on 12-11-23
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