12 AM
For the Record with David Emory
The Ukraine War and the Oswald Institute of Virology
Part 2 of three of an archival mini-series Dave asked us to play. He says he will be producing new material again shortly. The title refers to the didea that the Wuhan Institute was set up as a patsy or fall guy for COVID-19, as Oswald was for the JFK assassination.
1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate'
Graduation Day
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss rising repression against student protest encampments, the looking Israeli assault on Rafah and Biden's pathetic attempts to limit its savagery.
2 AM
Final Straw Radio
"Clean for Who? Safe for Who?"
We sat down with three local activists to talk about the proposed Asheville (North Carolina) Business Improvement District, a model of service provision using public funding to increase policing in downtown by an unelected and unaccountable body of largely business and property owners. For the hour, Grace, Madison and Elliot talk about attempts to ram the BID through public process, some of the businesses and individuals behind it, how bids have panned out in other cities around the country and what space there is left to oppose this further privatization of public space in Asheville. We didn't mention it here, but there have also been rumblings of the BID model, a version of which was fought and never funded in 2012, being applied to other parts of Asheville, for example West Asheville. You can find more information and ways to get involved with folks organizing against the Business Improvement District at AshevilleBID.com and on Instagram at @NoAVLBid. This is our show for the week of May 12th.
As a quick note, there are a few acronyms frequently used in this conversation. One is RFP, which stands for Request for Proposals and is a process of contracting out an element of a project. Another acronym is ADA, in this case Asheville Downtown Association which is an independent pressure group made up of individuals, business and property owners. Not to be confused with the Asheville Downtown Commission, which was created by the City Council and contains appointed representatives from the ADA, city council, Buncombe County Board of Commissioners and few other community members including business owners.
Curator's note: This will sound quite familiar to listeners in Los Angeles, where the Central City Association Business Improvement District (BID) hires its own private security on bikes to police DTLA and Skid Row to supplement the LAPD, and public-private partnerships involving non-profits associated with individual city councilmembers ally with BIDs and city agencies to shape public spaces and resources in alignment with private developers' needs and desires.
3 AM
Out-FM
Queer Participation in Palestine Solidarity
Queer Campus Activists Against Gaza Genocide
On the afternoon of May 1, SUNY New Paltz students began a peaceful encampment to urge the SUNY New Paltz administration to stop financially supporting companies that contribute to israeli apartheid. 36 hours later, over 50 state troopers entered campus and began violently arresting students. Queer students and faculty from schools in New York and California describe their experience of intimidation, suppression and violence as they support Palestinians. They challenge the way their colleges collude with the Zionist system of persecution and mass murder. They themselves are punished for fighting for Palestinian liberation.
Google Fires Anti-Apartheid Workers
In mid-April, Google abruptly terminated at least 50 workers for protesting Project Nimbus which has made the tech giant complicit in Apartheid Israel's Gaza genocide " though the organizers insist that some of the workers who were fired were simply observing the demonstration; on Tuesday's show, two of the terminated ex-Googlers will talk about the #NoTechForApartheid campaign and their legal challenge to Google's unfair labor practices.
Queers Protest LGBTQ Advocacy Group's Collaboration with Pro-Israel Propaganda Organization
We will present voices from the protest of the Gaza genocide last Saturday during the annual Media Awards ceremony of one of the largest, best-funded LGBTQ defense organizations, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation or GLAAD. GLAAD is a 40-year-old media watchdog against negative representations of queer and trans people. The 150-strong rally outside the New York City Hilton Hotel was sponsored by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power or ACT UP, and Jewish Voice for Peace. It demanded the severing of GLAAD's joint work with the Anti-Defamation League or ADL, which decided last fall to add ALL Palestine solidarity events to its tallies of anti-semitic incidents. The ADL also brings U.S. police to Israel to be trained in crowd control by high-level military personnel.
4-6:00 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of Thom earlier non-commercial broadcast on 5/15/24
Thom examines corruption concerns at the Supreme Court and wonders whether the GOP is planning to outlaw divorce.
