Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Monday Night

Notes S H 06-11-24


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12 AM
Creative Frontline
Last Chance for Freedom for Leonard Peltier, part 2
More from Lenny Foster and others about the long-held Indigenous political prisoner, Leonard Peltier of the American Indian Movement. His parole hearing before the US Parole Commission was scheduled for June 10.


1 AM
TUC radio: Ilan Pappe
"The US has NO LIMITS when it comes to ISRAEL"
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and political scientist. He is now a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
His best known book is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Based on declassified British and Israeli government documents, the book explains that the expulsions of Palestinians were executed based on a plan drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. Ilan Pappe left Israel in 2008 after being condemned in the Knesset. A minister of education had called for him to be sacked.
Frank Barat, the French activist, author and film producer and long-time friend of Ilan Pappe spoke with Pappe on his podcast on May 26, 2024. This was within days of the missile launch into Israel, the International Criminal Court request for arrest warrants, and Pappe's detention by the FBI when he arrived in Detroit for a speaking tour.
You can find the full 29 minute talk on YouTube under the title: ILAN PAPPE: The US has no limits when it comes to Israel.


1:45 AM
Omali Yeshitela interviewed by Paul di Rienzo (Archival from 2022)
In Aug. 2022, FBI agents launched raid in three cities.. a move reminiscent of COINTELPRO.. the secret government program that targeted progressive activist in the 1960s and 70s..
The agents came in the early morning hours.. without notice using flash-bang grenades, they smashed windows and sent in drones targeting the homes and offices of the US based African Peoples Socialist Party.. in St Louis.. Missouri, St. Petersburg, Florida and Sacramento, California..
The organization's Chairman Omali Yeshitela spoke exclusively with the exile news today he described the sudden invasion that occurred early in the morning.


The upshot of these raids is that Yeshitela, the chair of the African Peoples Solidarity Committee Penny Hess, and Jesse Nevel, chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, known as the Uhuru 3 are facing federal prosecution in September in Florida on charges that they are Russian agents (!) for opposing US and NATO militarism. More information here: https://handsoffuhuru.org/


2 AM
Project Censored
Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield co-host this week's Project Censored Show. In the first half of the program, we learn about the ongoing campaign to defend Oak Flat, a region of Arizona's Tonto National Forest sacred to the Apache and other Native peoples of the region. Federal authorities want to allow a large copper mine to be dug there. The San Carlos Apache say the struggle is about both land defense and religious freedom. The Supreme Court is slated to hear the case.
In the second half of the program, Mickey and Eleanor critique the recent performance of media in covering Israel's ongoing massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Among other observations, they take note of an article explaining the bizarre tactics Palestinian journalists must use to avoid having their reporting censored by social-media algorithms.
Vanessa Nosie is a member of Apache Stronghold (www.apache-stronghold.com), an organization working to defend Oak Flat (Chi'chil Bildagoteel). She is also an archeology aide with the San Carlos Apache.


3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Immigration Repression, Palestine, and more
Oscar Chacon, Executive Director of Alianza Americas, discusses Biden's new draconian border closures as dehumanizing and white supremacist. Then, Richard becker discusses Palestine, Israel and the US Empire.


4-6 AM
MOATS: The Mother Of All Talk Shows with George Galloway
Continuing the trial run of the international podcast talk show with the leader of the pro-socialist Workers Party, who was elected to the British Parliament and is standing for election again in the elections scheduled for July 4 in England. This is a delayed broadcast; to call in you would have to do so on Sunday early afternoon when his YouTube/podcast is live.
Galloway discusses the results of the European parliament elections in Germany and a number of other EU countries, where the extreme right parties such as AfD in Germany and the FN in France won big. He also looks at the British elections where the ruling Conservatives are likely to get swept from power, and where his own Workers Party but also right wing forces are likely to make gains.
We want and need your feedback on whether or not to continue airing Galloway and MOATS. Email comments@kpfk.org with your opinions. Ideally we would prefer a program where we could take calls ourselves and hear from listeners live on the air, but we have to run both MOATS and Hartmann as delayed broadcasts, and run the overnight programming on automation, without a board operator or live host because of financial constraints.


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