Prog Notes S H 03-08-24
12 AM
Alan Watts
Man is a Hoax
Watts reflects on the impact of Western child rearing practices
12:30
Old Radio Break
BBC radio adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novella, The Murder
1:00 AM
Sounds True – Tami Simon
Alexandra Roxo: Dare to Feel
There are valid reasons why we sometimes guard our hearts. Yet when we keep them closed, we diminish our capacity to live life to its fullest. Alexandra Roxo has a gift for helping people “meet the difficult places” within us, to heal and open our hearts and “dare to feel” the emotions that were once too painful or overwhelming.
This episode of Insights at the Edge features Tami Simon in conversation with Alexandra about her new book, Dare to Feel. Inviting us to walk the transformational path of the heart and embrace the totality of our emotional experience, Tami and Alexandra discuss: the emotions of relationship and intimacy; being a warrior of the heart; an overlooked—and wholly avoidable— source of emotional overwhelm; the “spiritual illness” of seeking numbness; the willingness to take risks to nurture and express love, especially with strangers; how contemplative practices help us stay with the full range of our feelings; the intersection of human experience and spiritual experience; pain as a portal to the divine; self-awareness and witness consciousness; emotional resilience and self-trust; practicing feeling; and more.
Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.
Alexandra Roxo is an artist, bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and transformational coach. She has been featured as a guest speaker on many renowned podcasts and at numerous festivals and events worldwide, and she has been featured in multiple TV appearances, including two seasons of Netflix’s hit show Too Hot to Handle. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, the Guardian, Nylon, and Playboy. For more, visit alexandraroxo.com.
2:00 AM
The History of Philosophy without Any Gaps – from Kings College in London
Africana Philosophy
Zora Neale Hurston – author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon – The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (the last enslaved person imported into the US). https://www.zoranealehurston.com/
The Surreal Deal: Aime and Suzanne Cesaire – West Indian theoreticians of decolonization and the theory that fascism represents imperial colonizers bringing home and applying the methods of rule used in the colonies: slave labor, genocide, and corporatization.
3:00 AM
Visionary Activist Caroline Casey
THE STORY IS IN OUR BONES
Caroline welcomes indefatigable Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future.
She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications.
She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. Her latest book is entitled The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. The Story is in Our Bones “reminds readers that another world is possible, and provides an antidote to the pervasive despair of our time.” Osprey lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on Coast Miwok lands. https://www.OspreyOrielleLake.earth
4 – 6:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of Thom’s broadcast from 03-07-24
...
Friday, March 8, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Wednesday Night
Prog Notes S H 03-07-24
12 AM
Dave Emory’s For the Record #843
Dave continues his interview with Peter Levenda, the author of The Hitler Legacy – archival material David Emory asked us to run while he prepares new material and overcomes a painful but not life threatening physical malady.
1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate’
Black White and Red All Over
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate will cover the fallout from Israel's horrific flour massacre in northern Gaza, the continuing scandal over the New York Times' October 7 reporting, and much more.
2 AM
The Final Straw Radio
This week, were sharing audio from anarchist prisoner in the UK, Toby Shone. Toby was arrested in November of 2020 after a car chase and during 5 simultaneous raids on residences in the Forest of Dean outside of Bristol. Toby was accused of being responsible for the insurrectionary counter-info anarchist site 325.NoState.Net as well as participation in the Informal Anarchist Federation " International Revolutionary Front, authoring communiques on behalf of IAF-IRF & the Earth Liberation Front, funding terrorism and being involved in the sabotage of a cellphone tower and having information on explosives. This raid and the case were brought in conjunction with the attempted linking of a diverse array of UK anarchist projects with terrorist charges via Operation Adream, which Toby understands to be conducted in conjunction with intelligence services from the Netherlands and German. The court failed to convict Toby Shone on these charges and only succeeded in convicting him of having and distributing hallucinagens and got 3 years, 9 months. Toby was then re-arressted while out on probation for having a cellphone and attending a prisoner support event.
Youll hear two audios from Toby, first him explaining his conviction and situation during his first incarceration, and then youll hear Toby recently answer a few of our questions and updating listeners about his recent re-imprisonment in HMP Garth, far away from his supporters in the Bristol area. Much thanks to Brighton Anarchist Black Cross for supporting Toby and this conversation. More information at https://brightonabc.org.uk. Brighton ABC and Tobys supporters have noted that hes been receiving pretty spotty treatment for his cancer and not getting a healthy vegan diet and so has lost some weight of recent. Tobys mail, including letters and books havent been making their way to him at HMP Garth. Its requested that supporters consider writing Toby a postcard, letter or email to help him through these next 8 months or so before his scheduled release and to inform his crew at forestcase (at) riseup.net of the mailing so they have a record in case it doesnt get to Toby.
Notably at that website youll see information about an upcoming International Anti-Repression Gathering happening in Brighton from March 30-31st. Theres information about signing up for the event at Brighton Abcs website.
Then, we were able to get an interview with Nicholas of Buenos Aires, Argentina to catch up on what’s been happening since the presidential election of libertarian capitalist Javier Milei. Mileis presidential campaign was highlighted by his claims to subvert the status quo of Peronism - a socially liberal form of democracy with decades of complicated contexts in the 20th century. Hes claimed to be an anarcho-capitalist, although his policies since election have been nothing short of classic neoliberalism: cuts to social welfare, hamstringing of labor unions rights to strike and picket, and doing away with common regulations of capital. While Americans have sought to understand Milei by comparing him to former U.S. President Trump, Nicholas outlines how this comparison falls short. We also talk about the role of organized anti-fascists in expecting continued clashes with the police, the social space & boxing gym La Cultura Del Barrio, and how the call for a general strike by mainstream labor unions in Argentina largely fell flat.
NACLA article on Millei: https://nacla.org/argentina-shock-therapy-resistance-and-role-left
LCDB on:
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laculturadelbarrio.oficial/
facebook https://www.facebook.com/lacultura.delbarrio/
LCDB Rolling Stone article (in spanish): https://es.rollingstone.com/la-cultura-del-barrio-documental-arg/
3 AM
Out-FM from sister station WBAI
4 – 6:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from 3-6-24
Thom discusses why Trump is going to lose and other matters related to Super Tuesday results
yesterday:
Prog Notes S H 03-06-24
12 AM
About Health
Creativity and health
Join Thuy Nguyen as she discusses a much-neglected topic concerning our health: creativity. We all have creative energy, but for many of us it remains undiscovered, dormant or stagnant. Thuy converses with creatives of all kinds on what might be blocking us creatively, and how to unblock and re-engage our creative energy for health and well-being. Archival episode, as About Health has been preempted on sister station KPFA for their fund drive
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Black Herbalist Voices 2: Michele Lee
Continuing the Black Herbalist Voices series, host Sarah Holmes interviews Michele E. Lee, author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing. Ms. Lee shares some of her process in writing this book; taking oral histories from elders, transcribing hours of recordings and writing a comprehensive herbal. She also shares some remedies as we discuss health and healing. The work this book embodies goes well beyond any mere herbal, it records and celebrates important Black history. Fund drive program for KPFA, so will be trimmed.
Follow The Herbal Highway on Facebook and Instagram @theherbalhighway.
2 AM
Grassroots (formerly Green Street News)
Beware What You Wear
Doug and Patty discuss whether clothing should have ingredient labels and possible threats to your health and the environment from what you wear on your body.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Food recalls
Did you know that food recalls help prevent people from eating a food that could result in illness or injuries? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Richard Raymond, M.D., former Undersecretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Raymond discusses food recalls: reasons why food is recalled, the possible fates of recalled food, and specific cases related to the bacteria, E. coli 0157:H7.
(Part 1 of 2)
Related website: Food Recalls: https://foodprint.org/blog/the-oft-ignored-environmental-impact-of-food-recalls-food-waste/
FSIS: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls
Food Safety News: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/
3 AM
Whole Mother
Tania Zirulik, Luna Homebirth
Tania Zirulnik graduated from midwifery school at the age of 23 in Lima, Peru, her native country. Since then, she has been able to participate in the birthing process in different settings, from hospital to home. Ultimately, it was home birthing that inspired her and brought joy to her work. Additionally, the experience of giving birth to her children at home with the support of her husband deepened her understanding of the birthing process.
Tania’s practice is based on listening to people’s stories and visions of their births and on empowering them to be active participants in the process of their pregnancy and birthing. Her care is personalized and aimed to educate and offer information necessary to build a trustworthy relationship with every pregnant person under her care. She adjusts her care to the needs of every individual so she can support them and contribute towards achieving the goal of a natural and powerful birth experience.
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
The final two hours from Thom’s non-commercial broadcast earlier on 3-5-24
12 AM
Dave Emory’s For the Record #843
Dave continues his interview with Peter Levenda, the author of The Hitler Legacy – archival material David Emory asked us to run while he prepares new material and overcomes a painful but not life threatening physical malady.
1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate’
Black White and Red All Over
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate will cover the fallout from Israel's horrific flour massacre in northern Gaza, the continuing scandal over the New York Times' October 7 reporting, and much more.
2 AM
The Final Straw Radio
This week, were sharing audio from anarchist prisoner in the UK, Toby Shone. Toby was arrested in November of 2020 after a car chase and during 5 simultaneous raids on residences in the Forest of Dean outside of Bristol. Toby was accused of being responsible for the insurrectionary counter-info anarchist site 325.NoState.Net as well as participation in the Informal Anarchist Federation " International Revolutionary Front, authoring communiques on behalf of IAF-IRF & the Earth Liberation Front, funding terrorism and being involved in the sabotage of a cellphone tower and having information on explosives. This raid and the case were brought in conjunction with the attempted linking of a diverse array of UK anarchist projects with terrorist charges via Operation Adream, which Toby understands to be conducted in conjunction with intelligence services from the Netherlands and German. The court failed to convict Toby Shone on these charges and only succeeded in convicting him of having and distributing hallucinagens and got 3 years, 9 months. Toby was then re-arressted while out on probation for having a cellphone and attending a prisoner support event.
Youll hear two audios from Toby, first him explaining his conviction and situation during his first incarceration, and then youll hear Toby recently answer a few of our questions and updating listeners about his recent re-imprisonment in HMP Garth, far away from his supporters in the Bristol area. Much thanks to Brighton Anarchist Black Cross for supporting Toby and this conversation. More information at https://brightonabc.org.uk. Brighton ABC and Tobys supporters have noted that hes been receiving pretty spotty treatment for his cancer and not getting a healthy vegan diet and so has lost some weight of recent. Tobys mail, including letters and books havent been making their way to him at HMP Garth. Its requested that supporters consider writing Toby a postcard, letter or email to help him through these next 8 months or so before his scheduled release and to inform his crew at forestcase (at) riseup.net of the mailing so they have a record in case it doesnt get to Toby.
Notably at that website youll see information about an upcoming International Anti-Repression Gathering happening in Brighton from March 30-31st. Theres information about signing up for the event at Brighton Abcs website.
Then, we were able to get an interview with Nicholas of Buenos Aires, Argentina to catch up on what’s been happening since the presidential election of libertarian capitalist Javier Milei. Mileis presidential campaign was highlighted by his claims to subvert the status quo of Peronism - a socially liberal form of democracy with decades of complicated contexts in the 20th century. Hes claimed to be an anarcho-capitalist, although his policies since election have been nothing short of classic neoliberalism: cuts to social welfare, hamstringing of labor unions rights to strike and picket, and doing away with common regulations of capital. While Americans have sought to understand Milei by comparing him to former U.S. President Trump, Nicholas outlines how this comparison falls short. We also talk about the role of organized anti-fascists in expecting continued clashes with the police, the social space & boxing gym La Cultura Del Barrio, and how the call for a general strike by mainstream labor unions in Argentina largely fell flat.
NACLA article on Millei: https://nacla.org/argentina-shock-therapy-resistance-and-role-left
LCDB on:
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laculturadelbarrio.oficial/
facebook https://www.facebook.com/lacultura.delbarrio/
LCDB Rolling Stone article (in spanish): https://es.rollingstone.com/la-cultura-del-barrio-documental-arg/
3 AM
Out-FM from sister station WBAI
4 – 6:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours from 3-6-24
Thom discusses why Trump is going to lose and other matters related to Super Tuesday results
yesterday:
Prog Notes S H 03-06-24
12 AM
About Health
Creativity and health
Join Thuy Nguyen as she discusses a much-neglected topic concerning our health: creativity. We all have creative energy, but for many of us it remains undiscovered, dormant or stagnant. Thuy converses with creatives of all kinds on what might be blocking us creatively, and how to unblock and re-engage our creative energy for health and well-being. Archival episode, as About Health has been preempted on sister station KPFA for their fund drive
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Black Herbalist Voices 2: Michele Lee
Continuing the Black Herbalist Voices series, host Sarah Holmes interviews Michele E. Lee, author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing. Ms. Lee shares some of her process in writing this book; taking oral histories from elders, transcribing hours of recordings and writing a comprehensive herbal. She also shares some remedies as we discuss health and healing. The work this book embodies goes well beyond any mere herbal, it records and celebrates important Black history. Fund drive program for KPFA, so will be trimmed.
Follow The Herbal Highway on Facebook and Instagram @theherbalhighway.
2 AM
Grassroots (formerly Green Street News)
Beware What You Wear
Doug and Patty discuss whether clothing should have ingredient labels and possible threats to your health and the environment from what you wear on your body.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Food recalls
Did you know that food recalls help prevent people from eating a food that could result in illness or injuries? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Richard Raymond, M.D., former Undersecretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Raymond discusses food recalls: reasons why food is recalled, the possible fates of recalled food, and specific cases related to the bacteria, E. coli 0157:H7.
(Part 1 of 2)
Related website: Food Recalls: https://foodprint.org/blog/the-oft-ignored-environmental-impact-of-food-recalls-food-waste/
FSIS: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls
Food Safety News: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/
3 AM
Whole Mother
Tania Zirulik, Luna Homebirth
Tania Zirulnik graduated from midwifery school at the age of 23 in Lima, Peru, her native country. Since then, she has been able to participate in the birthing process in different settings, from hospital to home. Ultimately, it was home birthing that inspired her and brought joy to her work. Additionally, the experience of giving birth to her children at home with the support of her husband deepened her understanding of the birthing process.
Tania’s practice is based on listening to people’s stories and visions of their births and on empowering them to be active participants in the process of their pregnancy and birthing. Her care is personalized and aimed to educate and offer information necessary to build a trustworthy relationship with every pregnant person under her care. She adjusts her care to the needs of every individual so she can support them and contribute towards achieving the goal of a natural and powerful birth experience.
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
The final two hours from Thom’s non-commercial broadcast earlier on 3-5-24
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Monday Night
Prog Notes S H 03-05-24
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
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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