12 AM
Creative Frontline
Sucking California Dry
Co-producer and co-host Robert Lundahl talks with botanist, biologist, and environmental justice activist Pat Flanagan. They have a process together of writing and checking each other’s facts. Since she’s on the board of Morongo Basin Conservation Assn., and a scientist, she has a history with the Cadiz Inc. water marketing scheme and its new CEO, Susan Kennedy, who was formerly Chief of Staff to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pat has followed the struggle over water in the high desert since the beginning.
Sucking California Dry is about Cadiz primarily but questions California’s commitment to and implementation of the 30X30 Biodiversity policy mandate in light of the water harvesting and marketing. They compare Cadiz with the enlargement of Pacheco Reservoir by China in anticipation of having water rights and potentially water sales to China and/or elsewhere. To be continued with part 2, Water & Power, about massive solar arrays and why they don’t make sense, next week.
12:30
UN Conference on the Oceans
Testimony of Sylvia Earle on life in the oceans and the role of the oceans in life on Earth
1-2:45 AM
Old radio Specials
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck’s The Pearl
2:45 AM
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -read by a variety of international voices, the UDHR is far more expansive and positive on human rights than the US Constitutional Bill of Rights, which mainly place constraints on government power.
3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice
Jamal Juma direct from Palestine on the ongoing Nakba: Palestinian Resistance in the face of ongoing ethnic cleansing and killings.
Jamal Juma is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid-Wall campaign, coordinator of the Land Defense Coalition, and member of several other key civil society networks, such as the Palestinian Agrarian Relief Committee
4 AM
Revolutionary Poet’s Brigade
Fund Drive Special with Mark Lipmann and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade
Through the organizational efforts of the Cultural Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, on Nov. 11th 2023 a global conference entitled, Culture and R/Evolution: A Dialogue of Visionaries was convened bringing together over a hundred poets, artists and leading thinkers of this generation from around the planet to discuss the situation of this world and what, as artists, we can do to respond to that. The Conference was moderated by Lew Rosenthal and Sarah Menefee who will introduce the speakers.
Jerome Scott was a labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-70s, and a community organizer, popular educator and author in the South since the 1970s, was a founding member and former director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide in Atlanta, GA. He served on the National Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum, has been active in Grassroots Global Justice and other organizations. He serves on the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. He is author/co-author of numerous chapters and articles on race, class, movement building and the revolutionary process, and is a contributing editor to four popular education toolkits including The Roots of Terror and Today's Globalization. He was co-recipient of the American Sociological Association’s 2004 Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. He is working on a book tracing the history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, forthcoming from U. Georgia Press.
Followed by guest respondents to the following questions (bios below):
• Can you describe briefly how your cultural engagement has responded to poverty, racism, environmental devastation and the war economy?
• With the ever changing landscape of the world in which we live, in your opinion, what is the needed focus for cultural workers in building that vision for a better world?
Francis Combes was born in 1953, in the South of France. Now, he lives with his wife, in Aubervilliers, near Paris. He studied at Sciences Po University in Paris and Langues Orientales (Russian, Hungarian and Chinese). At that time, he was the general secretary of French communist students Union and he is still very involved in politics. In 1993, he founded the press, “le Temps des Cerises”, from the title of a well-known song of the Commune de Paris, and left it in 2021. He was also the organizer of a campaign of poetry posters in the Paris’ Metro, for fifteen years. Now he is one of the founders of the international network, « Poets of the Planet ». In March 2022, he launched a call for a Worldwide chain of poems for Peace. As a poet, he published about 30 books, as : Cause commune, le Cahier bleu de Chine, La France aux quatre vents, Lettres d’amour porte restante, La face cachée de la Lune, Comment faire la paix… For four years, (till 2021) he taught poetry and creative writings at Sciences Po Paris. He has been translated into English, Spanish, Arabic, German, Italian, Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian, Chinese, Turkish… And he translated into French books by Heinrich Heine, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Attila József, Jack Hirschman…
samantha herrera is a multi-media artist and art educator located in chicago, il. she is finishing a short film about high school created as a collaboration between chicago public school students, educators, + professional filmakers. the film is a dark comedy about tampons, dress code, and friendship. she also makes baskets using pine needles that has amassed a weirdly large tiktok following. her work aims to make her life more livable and to disrupt the horrors of capitalism through collectivity and joy. she is most proud of her work as a mom and stepmom
El Habib Louai is a Moroccan poet, translator, musician and assistant professor of English Literature at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. His research focuses on the cultural encounters, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory and he worked the Beats’ archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Fulbright grantee. He took creative writing courses at Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado where he performed with Anne Waldman and Thurston Moore. His articles, poems and Arabic translations of Beat writers appeared in various literary magazines, journals and reviews.
Closing with a song by Scott Bird, a poet, painter and musician in San Francisco. He is one of the cofounders of the Coit Tower Poetry Club a group which celebrates North Beach poet legends. He is also editing the upcoming magazine Apocrypha, a journal of the Coit Tower poets. His works have appeared in Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthologies, for which he also served as editor and co-designed the covers with Agneta Falk (http://revolutionarypoetsbrigade.org/). He is originally from western Colorado.
5 AM
The Best of Thom Hartmann – one hour
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -read by a variety of international voices, the UDHR is far more expansive and positive on human rights than the US Constitutional Bill of Rights, which mainly place constraints on government power.
3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice
Jamal Juma direct from Palestine on the ongoing Nakba: Palestinian Resistance in the face of ongoing ethnic cleansing and killings.
Jamal Juma is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid-Wall campaign, coordinator of the Land Defense Coalition, and member of several other key civil society networks, such as the Palestinian Agrarian Relief Committee
4 AM
Revolutionary Poet’s Brigade
Fund Drive Special with Mark Lipmann and the Revolutionary Poets Brigade
Through the organizational efforts of the Cultural Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, on Nov. 11th 2023 a global conference entitled, Culture and R/Evolution: A Dialogue of Visionaries was convened bringing together over a hundred poets, artists and leading thinkers of this generation from around the planet to discuss the situation of this world and what, as artists, we can do to respond to that. The Conference was moderated by Lew Rosenthal and Sarah Menefee who will introduce the speakers.
Jerome Scott was a labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-70s, and a community organizer, popular educator and author in the South since the 1970s, was a founding member and former director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide in Atlanta, GA. He served on the National Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum, has been active in Grassroots Global Justice and other organizations. He serves on the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. He is author/co-author of numerous chapters and articles on race, class, movement building and the revolutionary process, and is a contributing editor to four popular education toolkits including The Roots of Terror and Today's Globalization. He was co-recipient of the American Sociological Association’s 2004 Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology. He is working on a book tracing the history of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, forthcoming from U. Georgia Press.
Followed by guest respondents to the following questions (bios below):
• Can you describe briefly how your cultural engagement has responded to poverty, racism, environmental devastation and the war economy?
• With the ever changing landscape of the world in which we live, in your opinion, what is the needed focus for cultural workers in building that vision for a better world?
Francis Combes was born in 1953, in the South of France. Now, he lives with his wife, in Aubervilliers, near Paris. He studied at Sciences Po University in Paris and Langues Orientales (Russian, Hungarian and Chinese). At that time, he was the general secretary of French communist students Union and he is still very involved in politics. In 1993, he founded the press, “le Temps des Cerises”, from the title of a well-known song of the Commune de Paris, and left it in 2021. He was also the organizer of a campaign of poetry posters in the Paris’ Metro, for fifteen years. Now he is one of the founders of the international network, « Poets of the Planet ». In March 2022, he launched a call for a Worldwide chain of poems for Peace. As a poet, he published about 30 books, as : Cause commune, le Cahier bleu de Chine, La France aux quatre vents, Lettres d’amour porte restante, La face cachée de la Lune, Comment faire la paix… For four years, (till 2021) he taught poetry and creative writings at Sciences Po Paris. He has been translated into English, Spanish, Arabic, German, Italian, Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian, Chinese, Turkish… And he translated into French books by Heinrich Heine, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Attila József, Jack Hirschman…
samantha herrera is a multi-media artist and art educator located in chicago, il. she is finishing a short film about high school created as a collaboration between chicago public school students, educators, + professional filmakers. the film is a dark comedy about tampons, dress code, and friendship. she also makes baskets using pine needles that has amassed a weirdly large tiktok following. her work aims to make her life more livable and to disrupt the horrors of capitalism through collectivity and joy. she is most proud of her work as a mom and stepmom
El Habib Louai is a Moroccan poet, translator, musician and assistant professor of English Literature at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. His research focuses on the cultural encounters, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory and he worked the Beats’ archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Fulbright grantee. He took creative writing courses at Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado where he performed with Anne Waldman and Thurston Moore. His articles, poems and Arabic translations of Beat writers appeared in various literary magazines, journals and reviews.
Closing with a song by Scott Bird, a poet, painter and musician in San Francisco. He is one of the cofounders of the Coit Tower Poetry Club a group which celebrates North Beach poet legends. He is also editing the upcoming magazine Apocrypha, a journal of the Coit Tower poets. His works have appeared in Revolutionary Poets Brigade anthologies, for which he also served as editor and co-designed the covers with Agneta Falk (http://revolutionarypoetsbrigade.org/). He is originally from western Colorado.
5 AM
The Best of Thom Hartmann – one hour
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