Prog Notes S H 11-02-23
12 AM
Dave Emory For the Record
At Dave’s request we are running this archival episode, part 2 of a long interview with Fara Mansoor about the “deep October Surprise”, the US involvement in the installation of Khomeini in Iran and the Iranian hostage crisis, as background for the current struggles in the region. Dave has a couple of new episodes in preparation but is dealing with technical issues at the station that produces his podcast. Dave will also be providing archival material later this month in connection with the 60th anniversary of the assassination of JFK on 11/22/1963.
1 AM
Covert Action Bulletin with Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
Palestinian Resistance and (media) Censorship
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/25/covertaction-bulletin-palestinian-resistance-and-censorship/
Protests across the world in solidarity with Palestine are building a support movement for the Palestinian resistance and cause, showing leaders that people from the U.S. to the UK to Yemen and Jordan and beyond stand with the Palestinian people in their fight against the U.S.-backed Israeli occupation. These protests are changing the shape of media coverage and influencing popular opinion and the debate over the issue.
At the same time, social media companies like Twitter and Meta have been attempting to censor pro-Palestinian content. One video listing the hospitals that Israel has bombed was taken off Instagram after gaining 12 million views. The Twitter account for Palestine Action U.S. was not followable for many days. But information continues to spread quickly, keeping the solidarity movement going.
We’re joined by Janine Hourani of the Palestinian Youth Movement in the UK to talk about these movements and developments. https://linktr.ee/CovertActionBulletin
2 AM
It’s Going Down from sister station KPFA
IGD, a current generation anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian media project (https://itsgoingdown.org/) airs a program from Final Straw Radio, a similar East Coast podcast, of a panel at Firestorm Books in Asheville, NC called “Against Genocide: A Palestine Solidarity Panel”, featuring Palestinian and Jewish activists discussing the current events, their historical roots, and effective solidarity actions people are taking.
3 AM
Out-FM
Out-FMs Naomi Brussel speaks with two U.S.-based activists for Palestinian rights, one Palestinian and one Jewish North American about the current Israeli genocidal campaign in Gaza, and what role queers can play in solidarity with Palestine. They will also report on the recent two-day conference of the new Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, held in New York City and Santa Cruz, CA.
Emmaia Gelman is guest faculty in Social Sciences at Sarah Lawrence College and the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the transnational work of Zionist political and ideological institutions. She researches the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights as levers in political culture, and is co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism. She is writing a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League (1913-1990) as a Cold War neoconservative institution. Emmaia is a longtime activist on queer and antiracist issues, primarily in New York City, and the parent of three brilliant and compassionate kids.
Kaleem Hawa is a Palestinian writer and organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, a transnational movement of Arab and Palestinian youth struggling for the liberation of their homeland.
Then, Out-FM associate producer Pauline Park interviews Rohan Zhou-Lee on being of Black and Asian descent.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program – final two hours of non-commercial version from 11-01-23
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Monday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-31-23
12 AM
Scholars’ Circle
Which mistakes Israel is likely to make in Gaza; and Book Author interview – A Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts https://scholarscircle.org/
Rage and a desire for vengeance after 9/11 drove the US to violate human rights on a mass scale. What were those mistakes and what lessons do they offer to others dealing with political violence? How much does rage and demands for vengeance undermine peace? [dur:28mins.]
Steve Swerdlow, esq. is Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California. A human rights lawyer and expert on the former Soviet region, Swerdlow was Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, heading the organization’s work on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and founding its Kyrgyzstan field office. He worked as a human rights monitor for the Union of Council for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) as their Caucasus monitor in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as well as with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Russia.
Brent Sasley is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is the author of the book Politics in Israel: Governing a Complex Society and the book chapter “The End of Oslo and The Second Intifada, 2000-2005.”
Then, How much does race and class determine legal outcomes in the United States? What role does the prosecutor play in the justice system?
We speak with the co-author of a new book A Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts. Co-authors are legendary death penalty opponent Stephen Bright and legal scholar James Kwak. [dur: 28mins.]
Our guest James Kwak is a former professor of law at the University of Connecticut and chairperson of the board of the Southern Center for Human Rights. His co-author is Stephen Bright. He teaches law at Yale and Georgetown Universities. He was director of the Southern Center for Human Rights and won multiple capital cases in the Supreme Court.
From the publisher:
Almost 70 years ago Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote there “can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.” In THE FEAR OF TOO MUCH JUSTICE: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts (The New Press; June 20; 2023), legendary death penalty opponent Stephen Bright and legal scholar James Kwak show the myriad ways the US criminal legal system fails to live up to this ideal of fairness: Innocent people are condemned to death and convicted of crimes because they cannot afford lawyers and because of the color of their skin. Racial discrimination in jury selection still lives in communities that have substantial Black and Latino populations. The mentally disabled are incarcerated instead of given the treatment they need, while the poor are processed through many courts with little or no legal representation in an assembly-line fashion. And many courts act as centers of profit whose main purpose is to raise money by imposing fines on the most vulnerable in their community and jailing them when they cannot pay.
But Bright and Kwak also see the promise of meaningful change on the horizon. They point to jurisdictions across the political spectrum that have made significant progress. The use of the death penalty has plummeted, and the authors see a future where it will remain in only the most ardent holdouts. Public defender offices that protect clients from wrongful convictions have been established across the country, and many places have reduced the use of cash bail and stopped imposing fines and fees on people who cannot afford them.
The book makes the case that prosecutors have too much power and defense lawyers are often out-gunned and incentivized to encourage plea bargains. How should the system rectify this? What is the first step in fixing this imbalance?
This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Mihika Chechi, Melissa Chiprin, and Sudd Dongre.
1 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer
https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza • Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, on Didion’s life and work (53 min)
2 AM
Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Segment 1 – The Stand-Up Strike by UAW with Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers
Segment 2 – Palestine Resistance with Mezin Queziya on the ground from Palestine/Israel
3 AM
Creative Frontline
Mike Miller – Tlinkit on Bio-Diversity and the Coastal Marine Eco-system
Miller is in Sitka, the center of the herring spawn, where traditional Indigenous fishing practices that sustain the fishery are being impacted by commercial fishing operations that deplete it.
Paul De Rienzo interviews Petuuche Gilbert, Laguna and Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (LACSE) which is one of five core groups in the Multi-Cultural Alliance for a Safe Environment ( MASE). MASE is a consortium of indigenous and environmental justice communities that have been adversely impacted by historic uranium mining and milling in the Grants Uranium Belt.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program final two hours from earlier on 10/30
12 AM
Scholars’ Circle
Which mistakes Israel is likely to make in Gaza; and Book Author interview – A Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts https://scholarscircle.org/
Rage and a desire for vengeance after 9/11 drove the US to violate human rights on a mass scale. What were those mistakes and what lessons do they offer to others dealing with political violence? How much does rage and demands for vengeance undermine peace? [dur:28mins.]
Steve Swerdlow, esq. is Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California. A human rights lawyer and expert on the former Soviet region, Swerdlow was Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, heading the organization’s work on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and founding its Kyrgyzstan field office. He worked as a human rights monitor for the Union of Council for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) as their Caucasus monitor in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia as well as with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Russia.
Brent Sasley is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is the author of the book Politics in Israel: Governing a Complex Society and the book chapter “The End of Oslo and The Second Intifada, 2000-2005.”
Then, How much does race and class determine legal outcomes in the United States? What role does the prosecutor play in the justice system?
We speak with the co-author of a new book A Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts. Co-authors are legendary death penalty opponent Stephen Bright and legal scholar James Kwak. [dur: 28mins.]
Our guest James Kwak is a former professor of law at the University of Connecticut and chairperson of the board of the Southern Center for Human Rights. His co-author is Stephen Bright. He teaches law at Yale and Georgetown Universities. He was director of the Southern Center for Human Rights and won multiple capital cases in the Supreme Court.
From the publisher:
Almost 70 years ago Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote there “can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.” In THE FEAR OF TOO MUCH JUSTICE: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts (The New Press; June 20; 2023), legendary death penalty opponent Stephen Bright and legal scholar James Kwak show the myriad ways the US criminal legal system fails to live up to this ideal of fairness: Innocent people are condemned to death and convicted of crimes because they cannot afford lawyers and because of the color of their skin. Racial discrimination in jury selection still lives in communities that have substantial Black and Latino populations. The mentally disabled are incarcerated instead of given the treatment they need, while the poor are processed through many courts with little or no legal representation in an assembly-line fashion. And many courts act as centers of profit whose main purpose is to raise money by imposing fines on the most vulnerable in their community and jailing them when they cannot pay.
But Bright and Kwak also see the promise of meaningful change on the horizon. They point to jurisdictions across the political spectrum that have made significant progress. The use of the death penalty has plummeted, and the authors see a future where it will remain in only the most ardent holdouts. Public defender offices that protect clients from wrongful convictions have been established across the country, and many places have reduced the use of cash bail and stopped imposing fines and fees on people who cannot afford them.
The book makes the case that prosecutors have too much power and defense lawyers are often out-gunned and incentivized to encourage plea bargains. How should the system rectify this? What is the first step in fixing this imbalance?
This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Mihika Chechi, Melissa Chiprin, and Sudd Dongre.
1 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer
https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza • Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, on Didion’s life and work (53 min)
2 AM
Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Segment 1 – The Stand-Up Strike by UAW with Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers
Segment 2 – Palestine Resistance with Mezin Queziya on the ground from Palestine/Israel
3 AM
Creative Frontline
Mike Miller – Tlinkit on Bio-Diversity and the Coastal Marine Eco-system
Miller is in Sitka, the center of the herring spawn, where traditional Indigenous fishing practices that sustain the fishery are being impacted by commercial fishing operations that deplete it.
Paul De Rienzo interviews Petuuche Gilbert, Laguna and Acoma Coalition for a Safe Environment (LACSE) which is one of five core groups in the Multi-Cultural Alliance for a Safe Environment ( MASE). MASE is a consortium of indigenous and environmental justice communities that have been adversely impacted by historic uranium mining and milling in the Grants Uranium Belt.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program final two hours from earlier on 10/30
Friday, October 27, 2023
Thursday Night
Prog notes S H 10-27-23
12 AM
Alan Watts
Summary of Recent Programs
Watts examines the issues around the test of the morality of philosophies of life being based on their impact on the survival of a society or a person.
12:30 AM
Sounds True – Insights at the Edge with Tami Simon
Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth: I’m Here for Love
“If we as a world ever got even a hint of the incredible love with which God loves us, we would be living in such a different world than we do now.” These are the wise words of Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth, Tami Simon’s guest in this deeply moving podcast, an inspiring conversation with the daughter of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and coauthor of the online course Unstoppable Joy.
Tami and Mpho explore deep faith and finding one’s path to God; the human tendency to act in ways that are counter to love; shifting from unworthiness to unconditional love; having a faith journey and “forging your own way up the mountain”; carrying forth the legacy of Desmond Tutu for a more just and inclusive world; the transformative teaching, “When in doubt, choose love”; real courage; accessing the source of unstoppable joy; disagreeing without being disagreeable; the practice of “disappearing into prayer”; 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.
The Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth is an Episcopal priest, artist, author, accomplished public speaker, and retreat facilitator. She was the founding executive director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. With her wife, Marceline, she has established the Tutu Teach Foundation to enhance access to opportunity for women. Ms. Tutu van Furth and her wife live in the Netherlands. They have four children and two (amazing) grandchildren.
1:30 AM Old Radio Break
Cloak & Dagger – Black Radio
An OSS agents parachutes into Nazi Germany to carry out anti-fascist propaganda broadcasts from behind enemy lines, coordinating with a female European agent who has been secretly setting up locations for the radio broadcasts.
2 AM
Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
Bridging Science and Spirit, and the Genius of Physicist William Tiller. with Nisha Manek
Nisha Manek is a medical doctor and recognized internationally as a leader in the field of integrative medicine. She's also a protege of physicist William Tiller. Her new book is Bridging Science and Spirit: The Genius of William A Tiller's Physics and the Promise of Information Medicine.
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact me at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net
3 AM
Equal Rights & Justice – Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Palestine Special because of the enormity of the moral and humanitarian crisis
An extraordinary roundtable on Palestine for the whole hour – the Question is Still Palestine, and the Answer is Still Liberation, featuring
. Zeiad Abbas, Palestinian refugee, Ex. Dir. of the Middle East Children’s Alliance
. Raed Jarrar, Palestinian, political advocate based in Washington, DC. Advocacy Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
. Saurav Sarkar, journalist who wrote the recent article how “Unconfirmed ‘Beheaded Babies’ Report Helped Justify Israeli Slaughter”.
. Michael Letwin, Labor for Palestine, former Pres. of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys
. Raymond Nat Turner, premieres his newest poem for Palestine Dis-honest Broker (for my friend Farid)
Producer /host Mimi Rosenberg decided given the emergency situation in Gaza not to broadcast a planned segment on police brutality and to do the entire program on Palestine and for a Ceasefire, the immediate release of humanitarian aid, and to stop the forced removal of Palestinian people, the “second Nakba” from Gaza – lift the blockade and for people to return to Israel/Palestinestop the forced removal to Palestinian people, the “second Nakba” from Gaza – lift the blockade and for people to return to Israel/Palestine.
NOTE: Caroline Casey’s The Visionary Activist program normally broadcast at 3 AM Friday, had major audio problems in the original broadcast and recording on sister station KPFA, making the first 16 minutes unintelligible, so we are substituting this program, given the huge moral and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. You can check out the Visionary Activist at https://coyotenetworknews.com/radio-show/
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program, final 2 hours from earlier 10/26/23
12 AM
Alan Watts
Summary of Recent Programs
Watts examines the issues around the test of the morality of philosophies of life being based on their impact on the survival of a society or a person.
12:30 AM
Sounds True – Insights at the Edge with Tami Simon
Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth: I’m Here for Love
“If we as a world ever got even a hint of the incredible love with which God loves us, we would be living in such a different world than we do now.” These are the wise words of Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth, Tami Simon’s guest in this deeply moving podcast, an inspiring conversation with the daughter of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and coauthor of the online course Unstoppable Joy.
Tami and Mpho explore deep faith and finding one’s path to God; the human tendency to act in ways that are counter to love; shifting from unworthiness to unconditional love; having a faith journey and “forging your own way up the mountain”; carrying forth the legacy of Desmond Tutu for a more just and inclusive world; the transformative teaching, “When in doubt, choose love”; real courage; accessing the source of unstoppable joy; disagreeing without being disagreeable; the practice of “disappearing into prayer”; 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.
The Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu van Furth is an Episcopal priest, artist, author, accomplished public speaker, and retreat facilitator. She was the founding executive director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. With her wife, Marceline, she has established the Tutu Teach Foundation to enhance access to opportunity for women. Ms. Tutu van Furth and her wife live in the Netherlands. They have four children and two (amazing) grandchildren.
1:30 AM Old Radio Break
Cloak & Dagger – Black Radio
An OSS agents parachutes into Nazi Germany to carry out anti-fascist propaganda broadcasts from behind enemy lines, coordinating with a female European agent who has been secretly setting up locations for the radio broadcasts.
2 AM
Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
Bridging Science and Spirit, and the Genius of Physicist William Tiller. with Nisha Manek
Nisha Manek is a medical doctor and recognized internationally as a leader in the field of integrative medicine. She's also a protege of physicist William Tiller. Her new book is Bridging Science and Spirit: The Genius of William A Tiller's Physics and the Promise of Information Medicine.
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact me at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net
3 AM
Equal Rights & Justice – Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI
Palestine Special because of the enormity of the moral and humanitarian crisis
An extraordinary roundtable on Palestine for the whole hour – the Question is Still Palestine, and the Answer is Still Liberation, featuring
. Zeiad Abbas, Palestinian refugee, Ex. Dir. of the Middle East Children’s Alliance
. Raed Jarrar, Palestinian, political advocate based in Washington, DC. Advocacy Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
. Saurav Sarkar, journalist who wrote the recent article how “Unconfirmed ‘Beheaded Babies’ Report Helped Justify Israeli Slaughter”.
. Michael Letwin, Labor for Palestine, former Pres. of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys
. Raymond Nat Turner, premieres his newest poem for Palestine Dis-honest Broker (for my friend Farid)
Producer /host Mimi Rosenberg decided given the emergency situation in Gaza not to broadcast a planned segment on police brutality and to do the entire program on Palestine and for a Ceasefire, the immediate release of humanitarian aid, and to stop the forced removal of Palestinian people, the “second Nakba” from Gaza – lift the blockade and for people to return to Israel/Palestinestop the forced removal to Palestinian people, the “second Nakba” from Gaza – lift the blockade and for people to return to Israel/Palestine.
NOTE: Caroline Casey’s The Visionary Activist program normally broadcast at 3 AM Friday, had major audio problems in the original broadcast and recording on sister station KPFA, making the first 16 minutes unintelligible, so we are substituting this program, given the huge moral and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. You can check out the Visionary Activist at https://coyotenetworknews.com/radio-show/
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program, final 2 hours from earlier 10/26/23
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Tuesday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-25-23
12 AM
About Health
Sleep Matters
Although most people spend about a third of their time in bed, all too often people struggle to get deep and restful sleep. Sleep is essential to our bodies for maintaining mental and physical health. It’s reported that 50 to 70 million Americans have chronic sleep disorders, with the most common sleep disorders being insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy. Join Nurse Rona and Dr. Kin M.Yuen to answer your questions about sleep.
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Asian-American Herbalism
Join Renée Camila in conversation with Asian American herbalist, acupuncturist, and educator Erin Masako Wilkins about identity herbalism, traditional Asian energetics, and her personal story in weaving her Japanese heritage into her practice. During their discussion Erin draws from 13 years experience as a practitioner and shares formative plant stories from childhood. Erin is also the author of Asian American Herbalism: Traditional and Modern Healing Practices for Everyday Wellness, released October 17th of 2023. Follow us on Instagram @theherbalhighway. Hosted and produced by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes. Additionally hosted by Emiliano Lemus and Renee Camila.
2 AM
Green Street News
Environmental threats to health and wellness
This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about Wi-Fi on school buses, making big oil companies pay for climate change, and how the rain is now contaminated with PFAS chemicals. Then Ellen Marks, founder of the California Brain Tumor Association, tells her personal story about cell phones and her husband's brain cancer.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Brad Reubendale, CEO of So All May Eat, and the SAME Caf
Investigative Nutrition with Melinda Hemmelgarn, MS, RD
Did you know that we can build community through good food?
Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Brad Reubendale, CEO of So All May Eat, and the SAME Caf. Reubendale discusses the mission of SAME Cafs: to create community through healthy food access. He describes the unique and sustainable participatory model of the Cafs, trauma-informed environments, and the unique expansion of SAME Cafes into libraries. More information at: https://www.soallmayeat.org/ courses.soallmayeat.org
Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners "think beyond their plates," connect the dots between food, health and agriculture, and find food truth.
3 AM
Whole Mother
Pat Jones interviews a father, stepfather and professional counselor, Rhett Edwards, MA
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
Rhett Edwards, MA, is a native Ohioan who has lived in Texas for the last 8 years. Married for 9 years, has a 15-year-old stepdaughter, 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son. Has an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor – Associate, Supervised by Matt Whalen and works with Matt at Changing Tides Counseling, in Katy, TX.
Before entering the mental health field, he spent nearly twenty years working with teenage and young adult populations in non-profits, higher education, and most recently teaching high school psychology in a public charter school. Clientele focus is around teenagers’ development and mood regulation, twenty somethings life transitions, and adult men navigating family, fatherhood and career.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program, final 2 hours of non-commercial version from earlier on 10/24/23
12 AM
About Health
Sleep Matters
Although most people spend about a third of their time in bed, all too often people struggle to get deep and restful sleep. Sleep is essential to our bodies for maintaining mental and physical health. It’s reported that 50 to 70 million Americans have chronic sleep disorders, with the most common sleep disorders being insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy. Join Nurse Rona and Dr. Kin M.Yuen to answer your questions about sleep.
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Asian-American Herbalism
Join Renée Camila in conversation with Asian American herbalist, acupuncturist, and educator Erin Masako Wilkins about identity herbalism, traditional Asian energetics, and her personal story in weaving her Japanese heritage into her practice. During their discussion Erin draws from 13 years experience as a practitioner and shares formative plant stories from childhood. Erin is also the author of Asian American Herbalism: Traditional and Modern Healing Practices for Everyday Wellness, released October 17th of 2023. Follow us on Instagram @theherbalhighway. Hosted and produced by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes. Additionally hosted by Emiliano Lemus and Renee Camila.
2 AM
Green Street News
Environmental threats to health and wellness
This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about Wi-Fi on school buses, making big oil companies pay for climate change, and how the rain is now contaminated with PFAS chemicals. Then Ellen Marks, founder of the California Brain Tumor Association, tells her personal story about cell phones and her husband's brain cancer.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Brad Reubendale, CEO of So All May Eat, and the SAME Caf
Investigative Nutrition with Melinda Hemmelgarn, MS, RD
Did you know that we can build community through good food?
Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Brad Reubendale, CEO of So All May Eat, and the SAME Caf. Reubendale discusses the mission of SAME Cafs: to create community through healthy food access. He describes the unique and sustainable participatory model of the Cafs, trauma-informed environments, and the unique expansion of SAME Cafes into libraries. More information at: https://www.soallmayeat.org/ courses.soallmayeat.org
Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners "think beyond their plates," connect the dots between food, health and agriculture, and find food truth.
3 AM
Whole Mother
Pat Jones interviews a father, stepfather and professional counselor, Rhett Edwards, MA
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
Rhett Edwards, MA, is a native Ohioan who has lived in Texas for the last 8 years. Married for 9 years, has a 15-year-old stepdaughter, 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son. Has an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor – Associate, Supervised by Matt Whalen and works with Matt at Changing Tides Counseling, in Katy, TX.
Before entering the mental health field, he spent nearly twenty years working with teenage and young adult populations in non-profits, higher education, and most recently teaching high school psychology in a public charter school. Clientele focus is around teenagers’ development and mood regulation, twenty somethings life transitions, and adult men navigating family, fatherhood and career.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program, final 2 hours of non-commercial version from earlier on 10/24/23
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Monday Night
Program notes S H 10-24-23
12 AM
Capitalism Race & Democracy
Special broadcast on Palestine (fund drive version with pitching for KPFK)
1 AM
Scholars’ Circle
Crisis in choosing Speaker of the House; Power of Cities and its future in 21st century
The US House of Representatives is in a crisis with no Speaker of the House (3rd in line of succession to the Presidency), which means they cannot do business. What led to this crisis? Is there anything in history that can guide the US though this chaos?
Jeremi Suri is Professor in the Department of History at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office and his latest book Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He hosts the podcast This is Democracy.
Then, how were cities born? And how have they affected culture, economies, politics, and societies? What changed in the 21st century, especially after the pandemic? Which cities are best for quality of life? and how can cities offer a sustainable and fulfilling future? We interview Ian Goldin, author of Age of the City.
Ian Goldin is Professor of globalization and development at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Age of the City, Rescue from Global Crisis to a Better World and Terra Incognota 100 maps to survive the next 100 years.
This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Mihika Chechi, Melissa Chiprin, and Sudd Dongre.
2 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, a book on lessons from the decade of protest movements 2010-2020, that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse • Haggai Matar, Israeli peace activist and executive director of +972 Magazine, on the latest horror in Israel–Palestine
3 AM
Creative Frontline
Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Gathering Fire, Sacred Sites and Lithium Extraction (parts 2 and 3 of an interview with Robert Lundahl)
Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature.
What Are the Rights of Nature in Indian Country?
Rights of Nature is a global movement spreading across Indian Country to protect our lands and natural resources for generations to come by recognizing nature’s legal rights. At its core, Rights of Nature law codifies Indigenous values for caring for Mother Earth. For the last 4 years, the Bioneers Indigeneity team has been exploring how Rights of Nature can be implemented by Tribes in the United States.
We ran our strategy across a working group of Tribal leaders, attorneys, and organizers. We meticulously researched intersections of the law to anticipate ways to bring about Rights of Nature in Indian Country.
We developed a guide for Tribal organizers to build capacity to present and pass a Rights of Nature law to protect lands, waters, and key species. And, we have begun to share information with Tribes interested in exploring Rights of Nature through regional workshops in the Southwest and Northeast. #Bioneers #Cahuilla #Chemehuevi
4-6 AM
Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-23-23
12 AM
Capitalism Race & Democracy
Special broadcast on Palestine (fund drive version with pitching for KPFK)
1 AM
Scholars’ Circle
Crisis in choosing Speaker of the House; Power of Cities and its future in 21st century
The US House of Representatives is in a crisis with no Speaker of the House (3rd in line of succession to the Presidency), which means they cannot do business. What led to this crisis? Is there anything in history that can guide the US though this chaos?
Jeremi Suri is Professor in the Department of History at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office and his latest book Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He hosts the podcast This is Democracy.
Then, how were cities born? And how have they affected culture, economies, politics, and societies? What changed in the 21st century, especially after the pandemic? Which cities are best for quality of life? and how can cities offer a sustainable and fulfilling future? We interview Ian Goldin, author of Age of the City.
Ian Goldin is Professor of globalization and development at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Age of the City, Rescue from Global Crisis to a Better World and Terra Incognota 100 maps to survive the next 100 years.
This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker, Mihika Chechi, Melissa Chiprin, and Sudd Dongre.
2 AM
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, a book on lessons from the decade of protest movements 2010-2020, that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse • Haggai Matar, Israeli peace activist and executive director of +972 Magazine, on the latest horror in Israel–Palestine
3 AM
Creative Frontline
Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Gathering Fire, Sacred Sites and Lithium Extraction (parts 2 and 3 of an interview with Robert Lundahl)
Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature.
What Are the Rights of Nature in Indian Country?
Rights of Nature is a global movement spreading across Indian Country to protect our lands and natural resources for generations to come by recognizing nature’s legal rights. At its core, Rights of Nature law codifies Indigenous values for caring for Mother Earth. For the last 4 years, the Bioneers Indigeneity team has been exploring how Rights of Nature can be implemented by Tribes in the United States.
We ran our strategy across a working group of Tribal leaders, attorneys, and organizers. We meticulously researched intersections of the law to anticipate ways to bring about Rights of Nature in Indian Country.
We developed a guide for Tribal organizers to build capacity to present and pass a Rights of Nature law to protect lands, waters, and key species. And, we have begun to share information with Tribes interested in exploring Rights of Nature through regional workshops in the Southwest and Northeast. #Bioneers #Cahuilla #Chemehuevi
4-6 AM
Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-23-23
Friday, October 20, 2023
Thursday Night
Program Notes S H 10-20-23
12 AM
Alan Watts
Review of A Kaplan’s The New World of Philosophy
12:30 AM
Sounds True -Tami Simon
Andrea Gibson: Facing Mortality and Being Adored and Cherished by the Universe
Great poets expand our view—of ourselves, of each other, and of the entire universe. Andrea Gibson was named Colorado’s 2023–25 Poet Laureate for their celebrated verses on love, LGBTQ issues, spirituality, mental health, social justice, and more. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Andrea about their approach to work and how their journey through cancer radically changed that approach.
Listen now to this poignant conversation featuring Andrea’s reading of their poem, “Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps” and exploring spiritual surrender, finding joy in every instant, facing challenges, moving through grief, the life force of the universe within us, self-love and loving the whole world, trying softer (not harder), the power of relaxation, identifying the keys that open your heart, staying with our fear, activism and loosening our attachment to desired outcomes, being yourself fully, the gift of mortality, giving the present moment the cold shoulder, why authenticity is the most important thing when it comes to writing, the pull of creativity, 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.
Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word poets of our time. Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show.” Gibson’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, gender, feminism, mental health and social justice. The winner of the first Women’s World Poetry Slam, Gibson is the author of seven award winning books and seven full length albums. Their live shows have become loving and supportive ecosystems for audiences to feel seen, heard, and held through Gibson’s art.
1:30 AM Old Radio Break
Lest We Forget: The Story of Joseph Pulitzer
2 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die with Amy Fusselman
Amy Fusselman is a writer, wife and mother, and the author of four books of non-fiction and a novel. Over the course of her career she has devoted herself to a range of interesting jobs, including guitarist in a punk band"all of which help to inspire her writing.
In this interview about her fabulous book Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous and Afraid to Die, we delve into the way we relate, individually and as a culture to play, space and risk in the world around us, and especially with our children. And the unexpected consequences of that.
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact the host at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net
3 AM
Caroline Casey The Visionary Activist
https://coyotenetworknews.com/radio-show/
Pluto Eclipse Radio….
The dedication is more impossible and more necessary…So we convene back-stage in the participatory imaginal realms to conjure the impossible necessary miracle vision…that we then (a la Haruki Murakami) open the sluice gates, and let the desirable pour into incarnational actuality ….
Composting the addiction to having an enemy, on which tyranny feeds….Animating the vision of actual community (that tyranny has always attacked, replacing with the toxic mimic of cults…)
Caroline re-plays segments of July 17, 2008 show… Yehuda Atai, Israeli Peace Activist, Biblical scholar, alchemist, modern computer start-up wizard presenting the One State Solution – the Israeli-Palestinian Democracy!
Because this bold imaginative ingenious experiment will require metabolizing justified bitterness into forgiveness, Caroline welcomes Rod Suskin, traditional Sangoma to offer the medicine of South Africa into our collective brew that we may animate this desirable, and once we hear it, irresistible story.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final 2 hours from the non-commercial version earlier on 10-19-23
12 AM
Alan Watts
Review of A Kaplan’s The New World of Philosophy
12:30 AM
Sounds True -Tami Simon
Andrea Gibson: Facing Mortality and Being Adored and Cherished by the Universe
Great poets expand our view—of ourselves, of each other, and of the entire universe. Andrea Gibson was named Colorado’s 2023–25 Poet Laureate for their celebrated verses on love, LGBTQ issues, spirituality, mental health, social justice, and more. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Andrea about their approach to work and how their journey through cancer radically changed that approach.
Listen now to this poignant conversation featuring Andrea’s reading of their poem, “Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps” and exploring spiritual surrender, finding joy in every instant, facing challenges, moving through grief, the life force of the universe within us, self-love and loving the whole world, trying softer (not harder), the power of relaxation, identifying the keys that open your heart, staying with our fear, activism and loosening our attachment to desired outcomes, being yourself fully, the gift of mortality, giving the present moment the cold shoulder, why authenticity is the most important thing when it comes to writing, the pull of creativity, 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.
Andrea Gibson is one of the most celebrated and influential spoken word poets of our time. Best known for their live performances, Gibson has changed the landscape of what it means to attend a “poetry show.” Gibson’s poems center around LGBTQ issues, gender, feminism, mental health and social justice. The winner of the first Women’s World Poetry Slam, Gibson is the author of seven award winning books and seven full length albums. Their live shows have become loving and supportive ecosystems for audiences to feel seen, heard, and held through Gibson’s art.
1:30 AM Old Radio Break
Lest We Forget: The Story of Joseph Pulitzer
2 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous, Distracted and Afraid to Die with Amy Fusselman
Amy Fusselman is a writer, wife and mother, and the author of four books of non-fiction and a novel. Over the course of her career she has devoted herself to a range of interesting jobs, including guitarist in a punk band"all of which help to inspire her writing.
In this interview about her fabulous book Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space and Risk for Americans Who are Nervous and Afraid to Die, we delve into the way we relate, individually and as a culture to play, space and risk in the world around us, and especially with our children. And the unexpected consequences of that.
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact the host at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net
3 AM
Caroline Casey The Visionary Activist
https://coyotenetworknews.com/radio-show/
Pluto Eclipse Radio….
The dedication is more impossible and more necessary…So we convene back-stage in the participatory imaginal realms to conjure the impossible necessary miracle vision…that we then (a la Haruki Murakami) open the sluice gates, and let the desirable pour into incarnational actuality ….
Composting the addiction to having an enemy, on which tyranny feeds….Animating the vision of actual community (that tyranny has always attacked, replacing with the toxic mimic of cults…)
Caroline re-plays segments of July 17, 2008 show… Yehuda Atai, Israeli Peace Activist, Biblical scholar, alchemist, modern computer start-up wizard presenting the One State Solution – the Israeli-Palestinian Democracy!
Because this bold imaginative ingenious experiment will require metabolizing justified bitterness into forgiveness, Caroline welcomes Rod Suskin, traditional Sangoma to offer the medicine of South Africa into our collective brew that we may animate this desirable, and once we hear it, irresistible story.
4-6 AM
The Thom Hartmann Program
Final 2 hours from the non-commercial version earlier on 10-19-23
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Wednesday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-19-23
12 AM
Dave Emory – For the Record
FTR#1312 Update on the Destabilization of China, Part 1
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr1312-update-on-the-destabilization-of-china-part-1/
Introduction: This program updates the ongoing destabilization of China.
Key Points of Analysis and Discussion Include:
1a.–Presidential emergency declarations have made it legal for the U.S. to test chemical and biological weapons on the American people.
1b.–The importation of solar panels has been made more difficult and opaque by virtue of the “Uighur genocide/human rights violations’ meme.
1c.–A recent op-ed piece in The New York Times reinforced the Uighur genocide meme.
2.–An expert opinion on the Biden administration ban on chips summed up the essence of the ban: “ . . . . Though delivered in the unassuming form of updated export rules, the Oct. 7 controls essentially seek to eradicate, root and branch, China’s entire ecosystem of advanced technology. ‘The new policy embodied in Oct. 7 is : Not only are we not going to allow China to progress any further technologically, we are going to actively reverse their current state of the art,’ Allen says. C.J. muse, a senior semiconductor analyst at Evercore ISI, put it this way: “If you’d told me about these rules five years ago, I would’ve told you that’s an act of war—we’d have to be at war.’. . .”
3.–The U.N. report on alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang was fundamentally flawed: “ . . . .It is well known but worth noting, that no Islamic country has criticized China for human rights abuses and, despite many visits, none have alleged crimes against humanity by China . . . . optimism was dashed by this report being released around midnight on her last day in office and without any signature or commentary from her interestingly, it is not signed by anyone, let alone anyone in authority; the authors, like many of the witnesses, remain anonymous. . . .”
4.–Despite sanctions, Huawei has developed a new 7nm chip for its latest mobile phone.
1 AM
Covert Action Bulletin with Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/18/covertaction-bulletin-zionism-is-racism-a-history-of-occupation/
As the Israeli military continues its bombardment of Palestine and prepares for a possible ground invasion, protests across the world continue to oppose the apartheid Israeli government and those who are complicit or active in supporting it—like the United States with its $3.8 billion in aid as well as immeasurable political and media support.
With these protests have come countless solidarity statements and other actions. They are all calling out Zionism, the racist ideology at the basis of the Israeli state. Zionism claims to represent Jewish people around the world but, as we discuss, only serves the interests of imperialism. We’re happy to welcome Morgan Artyukhina, a Jewish anti-imperialist journalist and transgender rights activist to talk about the latest moves in the war and a history of Zionism.
Read the interview we mention at Electronic Intifada: Electronicintifada.net.
2 AM
It’s Going Down
The Rojava Revolution in northern Syria
The Final Straw Radio podcast interviewed several activists around the US about the Emergency Committee for Rojava, including Anya in North Carolina, Elena in NY and Arthur in Seattle. Rojava is a Kurdish-led, internationalist, pro-feminist, anti-authoritarian project in part of Syria that has been under attack by various reactionary forces in the region, including Turkey and ISIS.
3 AM
Building Bridges from Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash at sister station WBAI
Too Many Martyrs, Too Many Dead: exclusive new evidence revealing the targeted killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with Palestinian Journalist Shatha Hanaysha targeted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), to prevent her reporting on a raid by the Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank City of Jenin and delivering the news to Arabic-speaking audiences
Mazin Qumsiyeh, professor at Bethlehem University, his books include Sharing the Land of Canaan. He is founding director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability he just wrote the piece Al-Aqsa Flood.
4-6 AM
Final two hours of The Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-18-23
...
12 AM
Dave Emory – For the Record
FTR#1312 Update on the Destabilization of China, Part 1
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr1312-update-on-the-destabilization-of-china-part-1/
Introduction: This program updates the ongoing destabilization of China.
Key Points of Analysis and Discussion Include:
1a.–Presidential emergency declarations have made it legal for the U.S. to test chemical and biological weapons on the American people.
1b.–The importation of solar panels has been made more difficult and opaque by virtue of the “Uighur genocide/human rights violations’ meme.
1c.–A recent op-ed piece in The New York Times reinforced the Uighur genocide meme.
2.–An expert opinion on the Biden administration ban on chips summed up the essence of the ban: “ . . . . Though delivered in the unassuming form of updated export rules, the Oct. 7 controls essentially seek to eradicate, root and branch, China’s entire ecosystem of advanced technology. ‘The new policy embodied in Oct. 7 is : Not only are we not going to allow China to progress any further technologically, we are going to actively reverse their current state of the art,’ Allen says. C.J. muse, a senior semiconductor analyst at Evercore ISI, put it this way: “If you’d told me about these rules five years ago, I would’ve told you that’s an act of war—we’d have to be at war.’. . .”
3.–The U.N. report on alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang was fundamentally flawed: “ . . . .It is well known but worth noting, that no Islamic country has criticized China for human rights abuses and, despite many visits, none have alleged crimes against humanity by China . . . . optimism was dashed by this report being released around midnight on her last day in office and without any signature or commentary from her interestingly, it is not signed by anyone, let alone anyone in authority; the authors, like many of the witnesses, remain anonymous. . . .”
4.–Despite sanctions, Huawei has developed a new 7nm chip for its latest mobile phone.
1 AM
Covert Action Bulletin with Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/18/covertaction-bulletin-zionism-is-racism-a-history-of-occupation/
As the Israeli military continues its bombardment of Palestine and prepares for a possible ground invasion, protests across the world continue to oppose the apartheid Israeli government and those who are complicit or active in supporting it—like the United States with its $3.8 billion in aid as well as immeasurable political and media support.
With these protests have come countless solidarity statements and other actions. They are all calling out Zionism, the racist ideology at the basis of the Israeli state. Zionism claims to represent Jewish people around the world but, as we discuss, only serves the interests of imperialism. We’re happy to welcome Morgan Artyukhina, a Jewish anti-imperialist journalist and transgender rights activist to talk about the latest moves in the war and a history of Zionism.
Read the interview we mention at Electronic Intifada: Electronicintifada.net.
2 AM
It’s Going Down
The Rojava Revolution in northern Syria
The Final Straw Radio podcast interviewed several activists around the US about the Emergency Committee for Rojava, including Anya in North Carolina, Elena in NY and Arthur in Seattle. Rojava is a Kurdish-led, internationalist, pro-feminist, anti-authoritarian project in part of Syria that has been under attack by various reactionary forces in the region, including Turkey and ISIS.
3 AM
Building Bridges from Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash at sister station WBAI
Too Many Martyrs, Too Many Dead: exclusive new evidence revealing the targeted killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with Palestinian Journalist Shatha Hanaysha targeted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), to prevent her reporting on a raid by the Israeli Defense Forces in the West Bank City of Jenin and delivering the news to Arabic-speaking audiences
Mazin Qumsiyeh, professor at Bethlehem University, his books include Sharing the Land of Canaan. He is founding director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability he just wrote the piece Al-Aqsa Flood.
4-6 AM
Final two hours of The Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-18-23
...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Tuesday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-18-23 Holistic Health
12 AM
About Health
David Feldman Ph.D. interviews Dr. Kim Rockwell-Evans who has specialized in treatment of OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for 20 years, and is the author of “Breaking the Rules of OCD”. Learn more about her practice here: https://ocdanxietydallas.com/
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Join Sarah Holmes and her guest Greg Sarris for an exploration of home and land and place from an Indigenous perspective. Greg is Chairman of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria and also the author of Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees and Ancestors. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway. Originally aired in June on KPFA.
2 AM
Green Street News
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about California banning red dye #3 (good), plastic cutting boards (bad), and what you need to know about endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Then Dr. Laura Vandenberg talks about five strategies industries use to spin science to their own advantage and preserve profits. Learn more here: https://toxicfreefuture.org/blog/recognizing-women-leaders-laura-vandenberg-phd/
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Did you know that climate change is water change? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. Gies, an independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer, writes extensively about water, climate change and biology. She discusses how development, climate change, and our illusion of control impact our relationship with water. She defines slow water; explains how and why the water we see today is not in its natural state; and supports changing how we relate to water. Related website: https://slowwater.world/
3 AM
Whole Mother
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
John V. Geisheker, JD, LL.M, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer, for over 30 years. He is currently the full-time pro bono Executive Director and General Counsel for Doctors Opposing Circumcision, an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose merely cultural, non-therapeutic, genital cutting of children, male, female or intersex, on human rights’ grounds.
John is a native of New Zealand, a country that fully abandoned medicalized male circumcision in the 1960’s. He hopes his adopted U.S.A. will someday follow that principled example. More information here: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/07/10/an-age-of-consent-for-circumcision/boys-should-be-protected-as-girls-are
4-6 AM
Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 10-17-23
12 AM
About Health
David Feldman Ph.D. interviews Dr. Kim Rockwell-Evans who has specialized in treatment of OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder for 20 years, and is the author of “Breaking the Rules of OCD”. Learn more about her practice here: https://ocdanxietydallas.com/
1 AM
Herbal Highway
Join Sarah Holmes and her guest Greg Sarris for an exploration of home and land and place from an Indigenous perspective. Greg is Chairman of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria and also the author of Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees and Ancestors. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway. Originally aired in June on KPFA.
2 AM
Green Street News
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about California banning red dye #3 (good), plastic cutting boards (bad), and what you need to know about endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Then Dr. Laura Vandenberg talks about five strategies industries use to spin science to their own advantage and preserve profits. Learn more here: https://toxicfreefuture.org/blog/recognizing-women-leaders-laura-vandenberg-phd/
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio
Did you know that climate change is water change? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge. Gies, an independent journalist and National Geographic Explorer, writes extensively about water, climate change and biology. She discusses how development, climate change, and our illusion of control impact our relationship with water. She defines slow water; explains how and why the water we see today is not in its natural state; and supports changing how we relate to water. Related website: https://slowwater.world/
3 AM
Whole Mother
https://wholemothershow.com/allshows/
John V. Geisheker, JD, LL.M, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer, for over 30 years. He is currently the full-time pro bono Executive Director and General Counsel for Doctors Opposing Circumcision, an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose merely cultural, non-therapeutic, genital cutting of children, male, female or intersex, on human rights’ grounds.
John is a native of New Zealand, a country that fully abandoned medicalized male circumcision in the 1960’s. He hopes his adopted U.S.A. will someday follow that principled example. More information here: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/07/10/an-age-of-consent-for-circumcision/boys-should-be-protected-as-girls-are
4-6 AM
Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 10-17-23
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Monday Night
Prog notes S H 10-17-23
12 AM
Creative Frontline – Matthew Leivas Sr part 2, Sean Milanovich part 1
Matthew Leivas Sr. Chemehuevi NuWu Elder and Leader. #environmental #whistleblower and #protector of the Colorado River. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8I9FN9a7g
Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Making the Connection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RVr63bGJc&list=PLFkl1-1Z2gblgmHVZHzcRWqu94JMiqSoH&index=2
Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature.
What Are the Rights of Nature in Indian Country?
Rights of Nature is a global movement spreading across Indian Country to protect our lands and natural resources for generations to come by recognizing nature’s legal rights. At its core, Rights of Nature law codifies Indigenous values for caring for Mother Earth. For the last 4 years, the Bioneers Indigeneity team has been exploring how Rights of Nature can be implemented by Tribes in the United States. We ran our strategy across a working group of Tribal leaders, attorneys, and organizers.
We meticulously researched intersections of the law to anticipate ways to bring about Rights of Nature in Indian Country. We developed a guide for Tribal organizers to build capacity to present and pass a Rights of Nature law to protect lands, waters, and key species. And, we have begun to share information with Tribes interested in exploring Rights of Nature through regional workshops in the Southwest and Northeast. #Bioneers #Cahuilla #Chemehuevi
1 AM
Scholars Circle – Understanding Disinformation in our time – October 8, 2023
https://scholarscircle.org/
With the news that Elon Musk purchased Twitter (re-branded as X ) and that the social media company will allow a wider range of content, including some that was previously banned as hate speech, disinformation, or conspiracy-centric, concerns over disinformation in political discourse have been heightened. But the challenge of democratic discourse in light of misinformation and disinformation is a historic challenge. Social media just speeds the process. Yet a significant concern is discerning who best to regulate what constitutes disinformation, in light of the political power of censorship.
We look at how disinformation has spread worldwide, shifting politics and challenging democracies. What are the most effective ways to counter disinformation? How might it be different for states, than for individuals? [ dur: 58mins. ]
Elzbieta Drazkiewic is Senior Research Fellow at the Slovak Academy of the Sciences. She is the author of “Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunization programs in Ireland” and co-author of “What Should Academics Do About Conspiracy Theories? Moving Beyond Debunking to Better Deal with Conspiratorial Movements, Misinformation and Post-Truth” (with Jaron Harambam).
Nora Benavidez is Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice & Civil Rights at Free Press. She also serves as Faculty Associate at Arizona State University’s Cronkite Institute. She is the author of “Now What? Fixing Facebook to Protect Us All” and “Facebook Ought to be Protecting Democracy Every Day.”
Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. He is the author of Digital Diplomacy and International Organizations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation (with R Zaiotti) and Countering Online Propaganda and Violent Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy (with J. Pamment). Recorded May 2022.
2 AM
Out FM- from sister station WBAI
http://www.outfm.org
"Queer API History: Why It's Vitally Relevant for Today's Struggle for Social Justices in the United States and Beyond." Few people -- even in the LGBTQ/queer Asian/Pacific Islander (API) community -- know the long history of people in the Asia/Pacific region who anticipate contemporary LGBTQ identities. This history should be of far more than academic interest and of interest far beyond the queer API community. It goes to the heart of the strategy that LGBTQ communities of color and human rights activists can and should use in challenging homophobic and transphobic reactionaries both in the United States and in the Asia/Pacific region.
On this program, transgender activist Pauline Park will engage in a conversation with Out-FM about this fascinating hidden history and how it can be used to illuminate contemporary debates and inspire effective action to advance a progressive agenda of social justice and social change. For more on trans history, go to Pauline's website.
Murder of Sakia Gunn Commemoration by Newark NJ LGBTQ Center
Naomi Brussel interviews Denise Hinds, President, and Beatrice Simpkins, Executive Director, of the Newark LGBTQ Center about the commemoration of the 2003 murder of 15-year-old lesbian Sakia Gunn, planned for October 28th, 2023. They talk about the impact of this killing on the Newark queer community then and now.
3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice – Book banning; Palestine: reports on the ground
What the Battle Over Banning Books Is Really About
As Ray Bradbury depicted in “Fahrenheit 451,” a book targeted by book banners, book burning is meant to stop people from thinking, which makes them easier to govern, to control and .... In the 2022–23 school year 3,362 books in public school classrooms and libraries are banned. Kasey Meehan, dir. Of PEN America's Freedom to Read Project. and Nadine Farid Johnson, PEN DC, discuss the “clap back” and a 1st Amendment suit against Escambia County, FL for scrubbing library shelves of books.
Resistance is justified when people are occupied!
Standing with the people of Palestine as they resist over 75 years of brutal and illegal occupation by the Israelis. We will not remain silent to Palestinian oppression and genocide, but will stand up and speak out for Palestinian rights and justice – for a FREE, FREE PALESTINE with MAZIN QUMSIYEH, professor at Bethlehem University. His books include Sharing the Land of Canaan. He is founding director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability. He just wrote the piece "Al-Aqsa Flood."
4-6 AM
Final 2 hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 10-16-23 non-commercial version
12 AM
Creative Frontline – Matthew Leivas Sr part 2, Sean Milanovich part 1
Matthew Leivas Sr. Chemehuevi NuWu Elder and Leader. #environmental #whistleblower and #protector of the Colorado River. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8I9FN9a7g
Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla), Making the Connection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RVr63bGJc&list=PLFkl1-1Z2gblgmHVZHzcRWqu94JMiqSoH&index=2
Sean Milanovich is a former Chairman of the Agua Caliente Tribe of Cahuilla Indians, and current Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy. He recently participated in the Indigenous led Bioneers convention in Rancho Mirage/Palm Springs on the Rights of Nature.
What Are the Rights of Nature in Indian Country?
Rights of Nature is a global movement spreading across Indian Country to protect our lands and natural resources for generations to come by recognizing nature’s legal rights. At its core, Rights of Nature law codifies Indigenous values for caring for Mother Earth. For the last 4 years, the Bioneers Indigeneity team has been exploring how Rights of Nature can be implemented by Tribes in the United States. We ran our strategy across a working group of Tribal leaders, attorneys, and organizers.
We meticulously researched intersections of the law to anticipate ways to bring about Rights of Nature in Indian Country. We developed a guide for Tribal organizers to build capacity to present and pass a Rights of Nature law to protect lands, waters, and key species. And, we have begun to share information with Tribes interested in exploring Rights of Nature through regional workshops in the Southwest and Northeast. #Bioneers #Cahuilla #Chemehuevi
1 AM
Scholars Circle – Understanding Disinformation in our time – October 8, 2023
https://scholarscircle.org/
With the news that Elon Musk purchased Twitter (re-branded as X ) and that the social media company will allow a wider range of content, including some that was previously banned as hate speech, disinformation, or conspiracy-centric, concerns over disinformation in political discourse have been heightened. But the challenge of democratic discourse in light of misinformation and disinformation is a historic challenge. Social media just speeds the process. Yet a significant concern is discerning who best to regulate what constitutes disinformation, in light of the political power of censorship.
We look at how disinformation has spread worldwide, shifting politics and challenging democracies. What are the most effective ways to counter disinformation? How might it be different for states, than for individuals? [ dur: 58mins. ]
Elzbieta Drazkiewic is Senior Research Fellow at the Slovak Academy of the Sciences. She is the author of “Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunization programs in Ireland” and co-author of “What Should Academics Do About Conspiracy Theories? Moving Beyond Debunking to Better Deal with Conspiratorial Movements, Misinformation and Post-Truth” (with Jaron Harambam).
Nora Benavidez is Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice & Civil Rights at Free Press. She also serves as Faculty Associate at Arizona State University’s Cronkite Institute. She is the author of “Now What? Fixing Facebook to Protect Us All” and “Facebook Ought to be Protecting Democracy Every Day.”
Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. He is the author of Digital Diplomacy and International Organizations: Autonomy, Legitimacy and Contestation (with R Zaiotti) and Countering Online Propaganda and Violent Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy (with J. Pamment). Recorded May 2022.
2 AM
Out FM- from sister station WBAI
http://www.outfm.org
"Queer API History: Why It's Vitally Relevant for Today's Struggle for Social Justices in the United States and Beyond." Few people -- even in the LGBTQ/queer Asian/Pacific Islander (API) community -- know the long history of people in the Asia/Pacific region who anticipate contemporary LGBTQ identities. This history should be of far more than academic interest and of interest far beyond the queer API community. It goes to the heart of the strategy that LGBTQ communities of color and human rights activists can and should use in challenging homophobic and transphobic reactionaries both in the United States and in the Asia/Pacific region.
On this program, transgender activist Pauline Park will engage in a conversation with Out-FM about this fascinating hidden history and how it can be used to illuminate contemporary debates and inspire effective action to advance a progressive agenda of social justice and social change. For more on trans history, go to Pauline's website.
Murder of Sakia Gunn Commemoration by Newark NJ LGBTQ Center
Naomi Brussel interviews Denise Hinds, President, and Beatrice Simpkins, Executive Director, of the Newark LGBTQ Center about the commemoration of the 2003 murder of 15-year-old lesbian Sakia Gunn, planned for October 28th, 2023. They talk about the impact of this killing on the Newark queer community then and now.
3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice – Book banning; Palestine: reports on the ground
What the Battle Over Banning Books Is Really About
As Ray Bradbury depicted in “Fahrenheit 451,” a book targeted by book banners, book burning is meant to stop people from thinking, which makes them easier to govern, to control and .... In the 2022–23 school year 3,362 books in public school classrooms and libraries are banned. Kasey Meehan, dir. Of PEN America's Freedom to Read Project. and Nadine Farid Johnson, PEN DC, discuss the “clap back” and a 1st Amendment suit against Escambia County, FL for scrubbing library shelves of books.
Resistance is justified when people are occupied!
Standing with the people of Palestine as they resist over 75 years of brutal and illegal occupation by the Israelis. We will not remain silent to Palestinian oppression and genocide, but will stand up and speak out for Palestinian rights and justice – for a FREE, FREE PALESTINE with MAZIN QUMSIYEH, professor at Bethlehem University. His books include Sharing the Land of Canaan. He is founding director of the Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability. He just wrote the piece "Al-Aqsa Flood."
4-6 AM
Final 2 hours of Thom Hartmann Program from 10-16-23 non-commercial version
Friday, October 13, 2023
Thursday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-13-23
12 AM
Alan Watts – Karma the Law of Retribution
Watts reflects on the Buddha’s understanding of karma and the way it is seen by ordinary Indians more as a kind of causality related to suffering in one incarnation being related to actions in a prior one.
12:30 AM
Sounds True (Tami Simon) – Michael Singer podcast
“Experiencing Love and Joy instead of Fear and Desire”
“When your personal self isn’t taking over,” teaches Michael Singer, “your heart is full and your mind is clear.” So what stops this from happening? Our fears and our desires.
https://resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/s3-e5-experiencing-love-and-joy-instead-of-fear-and-desire/
In this episode, Michael shows us how to replace the never-ending pursuit of what you think will make you OK with that which will actually fill you with unconditional love and joy.
Michael A. Singer is author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul and the New York Times bestsellers The Surrender Experiment and Living Untethered, all of which are published worldwide. He had a deep inner awakening in 1971 while working on his doctorate in economics and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Along with his nearly five decades of spiritual teaching, Singer has made major contributions in the areas of business, education, health care, and environmental protection.
1:30 AM – Old Radio break
The Green Hornet – Torpedo on Wheels
2 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
“Psychedelics in Human Evolution”
Terence McKenna was a mathematician and ethnobotanist, and a brilliant out of the box thinker. He was a very prolific speaker and author of Fruit of the Gods. In this fascinating presentation he talks about how psychedelics likely played a crucial role in the most major advances in human evolution, and how we are currently at another critical juncture in our history and how psychedelics may be the only way that humanity will be able to change its thinking and how it relates to the world quickly enough to avoid extinction.
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact host Tonio Epstein at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net
3 AM
Caroline Casey – Visionary Activist
“LIBERATING LIGHTNING” with guest Mary K Greer
Caroline hosts Mary Greer, long-time, since 1971, divinatory ally, to honor her colleague, Rachel Pollack, whose book, The Beatrix Gate, KPFA was offering as a pledge incentive. (Not available from KPFK).
Mary K. Greer is one of the world’s leading Tarot scholars and experts, famous for her Tarot blog. She is an author, teacher, and professional tarot consultant known for her innovative teaching techniques.
https://marykgreer.com/
Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77 (NY Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/arts/rachel-pollack-dead.html
“Each card seemed a frozen moment in a story,” Ms. Pollack wrote in a 2015 essay for the Tarosophy Tarot Association. “The cards originated as images, not doctrines or the set of meanings we attach to them. This allows them to pull together strands and possibilities, to create stories that are meaningful in people’s lives.”
In 1993, Ms. Pollack created DC Comics’ first transgender hero: Kate Godwin, also known as Coagula.
(the attached photo is Mary Greer, the guest)
4-6 AM The Thom Hartmann Program – final two hours from 10-12-23
12 AM
Alan Watts – Karma the Law of Retribution
Watts reflects on the Buddha’s understanding of karma and the way it is seen by ordinary Indians more as a kind of causality related to suffering in one incarnation being related to actions in a prior one.
12:30 AM
Sounds True (Tami Simon) – Michael Singer podcast
“Experiencing Love and Joy instead of Fear and Desire”
“When your personal self isn’t taking over,” teaches Michael Singer, “your heart is full and your mind is clear.” So what stops this from happening? Our fears and our desires.
https://resources.soundstrue.com/podcast/s3-e5-experiencing-love-and-joy-instead-of-fear-and-desire/
In this episode, Michael shows us how to replace the never-ending pursuit of what you think will make you OK with that which will actually fill you with unconditional love and joy.
Michael A. Singer is author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul and the New York Times bestsellers The Surrender Experiment and Living Untethered, all of which are published worldwide. He had a deep inner awakening in 1971 while working on his doctorate in economics and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Along with his nearly five decades of spiritual teaching, Singer has made major contributions in the areas of business, education, health care, and environmental protection.
1:30 AM – Old Radio break
The Green Hornet – Torpedo on Wheels
2 AM
The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein
“Psychedelics in Human Evolution”
Terence McKenna was a mathematician and ethnobotanist, and a brilliant out of the box thinker. He was a very prolific speaker and author of Fruit of the Gods. In this fascinating presentation he talks about how psychedelics likely played a crucial role in the most major advances in human evolution, and how we are currently at another critical juncture in our history and how psychedelics may be the only way that humanity will be able to change its thinking and how it relates to the world quickly enough to avoid extinction.
The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. New shows are available weekly by Monday. Feel free to contact host Tonio Epstein at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net
3 AM
Caroline Casey – Visionary Activist
“LIBERATING LIGHTNING” with guest Mary K Greer
Caroline hosts Mary Greer, long-time, since 1971, divinatory ally, to honor her colleague, Rachel Pollack, whose book, The Beatrix Gate, KPFA was offering as a pledge incentive. (Not available from KPFK).
Mary K. Greer is one of the world’s leading Tarot scholars and experts, famous for her Tarot blog. She is an author, teacher, and professional tarot consultant known for her innovative teaching techniques.
https://marykgreer.com/
Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77 (NY Times):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/arts/rachel-pollack-dead.html
“Each card seemed a frozen moment in a story,” Ms. Pollack wrote in a 2015 essay for the Tarosophy Tarot Association. “The cards originated as images, not doctrines or the set of meanings we attach to them. This allows them to pull together strands and possibilities, to create stories that are meaningful in people’s lives.”
In 1993, Ms. Pollack created DC Comics’ first transgender hero: Kate Godwin, also known as Coagula.
(the attached photo is Mary Greer, the guest)
4-6 AM The Thom Hartmann Program – final two hours from 10-12-23
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Wednesday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-12-23
12 AM
Dave Emory – For the Record #1311
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr1311-how-many-lies-before-you-belong-to-the-lies-part-26/
excerpts:
Introduction: The war in Ukraine has served to make the normalization of Nazis almost routine. This broadcast highlights that normalization, places it in a broader historical context and sets forth essential background information that fleshes out understanding of the phenomenon.
Points of Analysis and Discussion Include:
1a.–The program begins with review of a critical insight made by Glenn Pinchback, an officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. This insight encapsulates an ideological dynamic that has, in part, resulted in the normalization of Nazis via the Ukraine war.
1b.–Exemplifying the normalization of Nazis is the whitewashing of the Plast organization by the New York Times, which presents it as a normal summer camp.
2.–A more accurate portrayal of the Plast organization was presented by Scott Ritter: “ . . . . Plast is to Ukrainian nationalists like the Hitler Youth was to German Nazis. . . .”
3.–The whitewashing of Plast can be seen as deriving from the cultivation of Ukrainian and other Eastern European fascist groups by the Gehlen organization.
4.–For the second time this year, Azov Nazis were feted as heroes at Stanford University.
5.–Stanford fellow and conservative luminary Francis Fukuyama was among those who celebrated the Azov Nazis.
6.–Azov’s Nazis evolved directly from the Third Reich collaborationist government of Ukraine. Roman Svarych, WWII Ukrainian Nazi satrap Yaroslav Stetsko’s personal secretary in the 1980’s, was instrumental in the spawning of Azov. Svarych was the Minister of Justice of Ukraine under three different administrations. (That is the equivalent of U.S. Attorney General.)
7.–Ukrainian revisionist Volodymyr Viatrovych served as Minister of Education in Ukraine.
8.–Ukrainian school children are now taught the doctrine of fascist and anti-Semitic ideologue Ulas Samchuk.
1 AM
Covert Action Bulletin with Chris Garaffa and Rachel Hu
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/11/covertaction-bulletin-eyewitness-gaza-why-the-resistance-is-justified/
On October 7th, the Palestinian resistance launched its Al-Aqsa Flood uprising against the decades-long occupation by Israel. Despite $3.8 billion every year in military aid from the U.S. and a vast military and surveillance state, the Israeli government seemingly had no warning to this carefully-planned advance.
In response, Israel has declared a “total war” on Gaza. It’s shut down access to electricity and the Internet and more. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting animals and we act accordingly.” Israel has bombed the Rafah crossing into Egypt, leaving Gazans with no way to exit.
Within 4 days, the Israeli bombardment has left nearly 200,000 more people displaced in the Gaza strip, according to the UN, which also warns of a deepening of the already disastrous water crisis in Gaza. Western politicians in the U.S. and EU have been quick to condemn the Palestinian resistance and pledge their support to Israel. But across the United States and the world, protests have broken out in support of Palestine and the right of people to resist occupation and apartheid.
We’re joined by Yara Shoufani, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which is a transnational organization with chapters across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, that is struggling for the liberation of Palestine. Find PYM on social media and at their website palestinianyouthmovement.com
For an on-the-ground report from Gaza, we are also joined by Wafa Aludaini, a Gaza-based journalist and activist and the 15th October Media Group’s manager. Wafa also works as an international correspondent with several international publications. Trimmed from their podcast to fit within radio format. See the website for the full program.
2 AM
It’s Going Down
Interview libertarian socialist/anarchist author and YouTuber Zoe Baker
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/zoe-baker
3 AM
The Final Straw Radio
This week, were sharing an interview with Matthew N Lyons of Three Way Fight blog about the political legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, cultic leftist turned fascist US political figure from the 1970s through his death in 2019. For the hour, Matthew and I talk about the network of organizations and publications of the LaRouche movement, some of their approaches toward peeling adherents from the left, antisemitic conspiracy theories he innovated, methods his movement used to control followers and some of the ripples of LaRouche you can find today. We also speak briefly about the Three Way Fight book due out in the spring via Kersplebedeb and PM Press.
Our past interview with Matthew on Christian Nationalism(s): https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/20/matthew-lyons-on-christian-nationalisms/
Lyons’ articles on LaRouche (in addition to the chapter in Insurgence Supremacists on the movement):
"The LaRouche Network's Russia Connection" (July 2015) -http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-larouche-networks-russia-connection.html
"Meditations on a Dead Fascist" (March 2019) - http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2019/03/meditations-on-dead-fascist.html
Books critiquing LaRouche from an antifascist position:
Dennis King’s Lydon Larouche and the New American Fascism: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307091850/http://lyndonlarouche.org/newamericanfascism.htm
Kevin Coogan’s (as Hylozoic Hedgehog) Smiling Man From A Dead Planet: The Mystery of Lyndon LaRouche: https://archive.org/details/smiling-man-from-a-dead-planet-the-mystery-of-lyndon-la-rouche-by-hylozoic-hedge
Some current political figures appearing to relate to the legacy of LaRouche’s red-brown politics:
Jackson Hinkle: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Jackson_Hinkle
showing how he publishes with EIR, a LaRouchite journal: https://twitter.com/MaupinAFA/status/1537791876106952705
Caleb Maupin: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Patriotic_Socialists
Related:
A longer study of red-brown politics on LibCom: https://libcom.org/article/investigation-red-brown-alliances-third-positionism-russia-ukraine-syria-and-western-left
Sophie From Mars on left conspiracy theories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZyIjBxxpTY
Sophie speaking on I Don’t Speak German podcast about this topic: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/idontspeakgerman/IDSG_Ep120_Caleb_Maupin_and_the_Conspiracy_Left_with_Sophie_From_Mars.mp3
brief write-up about the Rage Against The War Machine rally from IGD: https://itsgoingdown.org/dungeons-dugin-red-brown-alliance-interview/
The Right Podcast talking about RATWM rally: https://audioboom.com/posts/8249669-rage-against-the-war-machine-explained
Vice covering the idea of #MAGACommunism: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qk4b/what-the-hell-is-magacommunism
The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, we’ve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.
4-6 AM The Thom Hartmann Program – final two hours of non-commercial version from 10-11-23
12 AM
Dave Emory – For the Record #1311
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr1311-how-many-lies-before-you-belong-to-the-lies-part-26/
excerpts:
Introduction: The war in Ukraine has served to make the normalization of Nazis almost routine. This broadcast highlights that normalization, places it in a broader historical context and sets forth essential background information that fleshes out understanding of the phenomenon.
Points of Analysis and Discussion Include:
1a.–The program begins with review of a critical insight made by Glenn Pinchback, an officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. This insight encapsulates an ideological dynamic that has, in part, resulted in the normalization of Nazis via the Ukraine war.
1b.–Exemplifying the normalization of Nazis is the whitewashing of the Plast organization by the New York Times, which presents it as a normal summer camp.
2.–A more accurate portrayal of the Plast organization was presented by Scott Ritter: “ . . . . Plast is to Ukrainian nationalists like the Hitler Youth was to German Nazis. . . .”
3.–The whitewashing of Plast can be seen as deriving from the cultivation of Ukrainian and other Eastern European fascist groups by the Gehlen organization.
4.–For the second time this year, Azov Nazis were feted as heroes at Stanford University.
5.–Stanford fellow and conservative luminary Francis Fukuyama was among those who celebrated the Azov Nazis.
6.–Azov’s Nazis evolved directly from the Third Reich collaborationist government of Ukraine. Roman Svarych, WWII Ukrainian Nazi satrap Yaroslav Stetsko’s personal secretary in the 1980’s, was instrumental in the spawning of Azov. Svarych was the Minister of Justice of Ukraine under three different administrations. (That is the equivalent of U.S. Attorney General.)
7.–Ukrainian revisionist Volodymyr Viatrovych served as Minister of Education in Ukraine.
8.–Ukrainian school children are now taught the doctrine of fascist and anti-Semitic ideologue Ulas Samchuk.
1 AM
Covert Action Bulletin with Chris Garaffa and Rachel Hu
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/11/covertaction-bulletin-eyewitness-gaza-why-the-resistance-is-justified/
On October 7th, the Palestinian resistance launched its Al-Aqsa Flood uprising against the decades-long occupation by Israel. Despite $3.8 billion every year in military aid from the U.S. and a vast military and surveillance state, the Israeli government seemingly had no warning to this carefully-planned advance.
In response, Israel has declared a “total war” on Gaza. It’s shut down access to electricity and the Internet and more. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting animals and we act accordingly.” Israel has bombed the Rafah crossing into Egypt, leaving Gazans with no way to exit.
Within 4 days, the Israeli bombardment has left nearly 200,000 more people displaced in the Gaza strip, according to the UN, which also warns of a deepening of the already disastrous water crisis in Gaza. Western politicians in the U.S. and EU have been quick to condemn the Palestinian resistance and pledge their support to Israel. But across the United States and the world, protests have broken out in support of Palestine and the right of people to resist occupation and apartheid.
We’re joined by Yara Shoufani, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which is a transnational organization with chapters across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, that is struggling for the liberation of Palestine. Find PYM on social media and at their website palestinianyouthmovement.com
For an on-the-ground report from Gaza, we are also joined by Wafa Aludaini, a Gaza-based journalist and activist and the 15th October Media Group’s manager. Wafa also works as an international correspondent with several international publications. Trimmed from their podcast to fit within radio format. See the website for the full program.
2 AM
It’s Going Down
Interview libertarian socialist/anarchist author and YouTuber Zoe Baker
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/zoe-baker
3 AM
The Final Straw Radio
This week, were sharing an interview with Matthew N Lyons of Three Way Fight blog about the political legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, cultic leftist turned fascist US political figure from the 1970s through his death in 2019. For the hour, Matthew and I talk about the network of organizations and publications of the LaRouche movement, some of their approaches toward peeling adherents from the left, antisemitic conspiracy theories he innovated, methods his movement used to control followers and some of the ripples of LaRouche you can find today. We also speak briefly about the Three Way Fight book due out in the spring via Kersplebedeb and PM Press.
Our past interview with Matthew on Christian Nationalism(s): https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/20/matthew-lyons-on-christian-nationalisms/
Lyons’ articles on LaRouche (in addition to the chapter in Insurgence Supremacists on the movement):
"The LaRouche Network's Russia Connection" (July 2015) -http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-larouche-networks-russia-connection.html
"Meditations on a Dead Fascist" (March 2019) - http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2019/03/meditations-on-dead-fascist.html
Books critiquing LaRouche from an antifascist position:
Dennis King’s Lydon Larouche and the New American Fascism: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307091850/http://lyndonlarouche.org/newamericanfascism.htm
Kevin Coogan’s (as Hylozoic Hedgehog) Smiling Man From A Dead Planet: The Mystery of Lyndon LaRouche: https://archive.org/details/smiling-man-from-a-dead-planet-the-mystery-of-lyndon-la-rouche-by-hylozoic-hedge
Some current political figures appearing to relate to the legacy of LaRouche’s red-brown politics:
Jackson Hinkle: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Jackson_Hinkle
showing how he publishes with EIR, a LaRouchite journal: https://twitter.com/MaupinAFA/status/1537791876106952705
Caleb Maupin: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Patriotic_Socialists
Related:
A longer study of red-brown politics on LibCom: https://libcom.org/article/investigation-red-brown-alliances-third-positionism-russia-ukraine-syria-and-western-left
Sophie From Mars on left conspiracy theories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZyIjBxxpTY
Sophie speaking on I Don’t Speak German podcast about this topic: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/idontspeakgerman/IDSG_Ep120_Caleb_Maupin_and_the_Conspiracy_Left_with_Sophie_From_Mars.mp3
brief write-up about the Rage Against The War Machine rally from IGD: https://itsgoingdown.org/dungeons-dugin-red-brown-alliance-interview/
The Right Podcast talking about RATWM rally: https://audioboom.com/posts/8249669-rage-against-the-war-machine-explained
Vice covering the idea of #MAGACommunism: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qk4b/what-the-hell-is-magacommunism
The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, we’ve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.
4-6 AM The Thom Hartmann Program – final two hours of non-commercial version from 10-11-23
https://youtu.be/aZyIjBxxpTY
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Tuesday Night
Prog notes S H 10-11-23
12 AM
About Health with Rona Renner, RN from KPFA
Interview with Dr. Rachel Zofness of UCSF about pain as a bio-social-psychological phenomenon.
More information here: https://www.zoffness.com/ and here: https://aapainpsychology.org/team/rachel-zoffness-phd/
Rachel Zoffness PhD is a pain psychologist, medical educator, consultant and author. She is a Visiting Professor at Stanford and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Zoffness co-hosts the podcast “Pain Points” with ZDoggMD, and serves on the Board of Directors of USASP and the Society of Pediatric Pain Medicine. She is the author of The Pain Management Workbook, a treatment protocol for adults living with chronic pain; and The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens, the first pain workbook for youth. She also writes the Psychology Today column “Pain, Explained.” Dr. Zoffness conducts workshops for multidisciplinary healthcare providers, and consults on the development of integrative pain programs around the world. She served on the AAPP board for 5 years, and is the founder of AAPP’s Pediatric Division.
About Health is a program designed to give listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts who understand traditional and non-traditional medicine, health, and well-being. If you have suggestions for programs or questions about KPFA, please contact Rona Renner, RN, at Rona@NurseRona.com or Dr. David Feldman, PhD, at davidf@kpfa.org.
1 AM
Herbal Highway with Sarah Holmes from KPFA
A discussion of kidney and bladder support with herbs and other forms of holistic self care and awareness.
2 AM
Green Street News from the Pacifica affiliates
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about burning tires to power cryptocurrency data mining, tax breaks for plastic manufacturing, and PFAS in fast food. Then scientist Cheri Peele from Toxic Free Future talks about the array of chemicals in everyday products and how some retailers are helping to reduce our body burden.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio with Melinda Hemmelgarn, dietition and nutritionist
Did you know that childrens health is dependent upon their environmental conditions? Join Melinda Hemmelgarn, Registered Dietitian and Food Sleuth Radio host for her interview with Nse Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director of the Childrens Environmental Health Network and co-leader of the science and health arm of the Cancer Free Economy Network. Witherspoon describes the Eco-Friendly childcare initiative that protects children in daycare settings, and explains why and how protecting children from pesticides and other toxins is critical to their lifelong health and well-being.
Note: October is Child Health Month; and, October 12th is Childrens Environmental Health Day.
Related website: Childrens Environmental Health Network: https://cehn.org/
Cancer Free Economy Network: https://www.cancerfreeeconomy.org/
3 AM
Whole Mother from KPFT with Pat Jones
Gabriela Gerhart
Gabriela Gerhart was born in a small mountain village in the Czech Republic. She is an entrepreneur,
speaker, author, and the Founder and President of Motherhood Center. She has always loved babies and children and knew from an early age that it would influence her career path. Due to Gabriela’s love of children and helping others, she pursued degrees in both pediatric nursing and physical therapy from 1991-1997. When Gabriela moved to the US she began working as an au pair to four boys, ranging from newborn to elementary age, from 1998-1999.
Gabriela soon noticed there was a void in the market for families of newborns and young children looking to find nannies for their children. She then realized the even greater need – a place where pregnant women and new mothers could go for advice, classes, and support. It was from this realization that Motherhood Center was born in 2000, and it has served more than 40,000 clients and counting since its beginning. Over twenty years have passed and it is still Gabriela’s passion project. She is constantly working to customize the Motherhood Center’s services and working to collaborate with others to best serve mothers and their families in our surrounding community and all over the world. Her goal is to build a cohesive network of support for new parents to turn to – the ultimate village, if you will.
Gabriela is recognized as an expert in the field of pregnancy and early-stage child development. She has intimate knowledge of the childcare and newborn care industry, as well as in-home staffing (nannies,
family assistants, and newborn care specialists), massage, yoga, and pregnancy education. She recently
launched Motherhood Network which allows families virtual access to the services and classes offered at Motherhood Center. This was a dream of Gabriela’s since she started the Motherhood Center and she is beyond elated to be able to extend support to families across the country and world.
Gabriela is passionate about supporting her community and regularly provides donations of pregnancy and parenting services and products to countless causes around Houston to assist with fundraising efforts and to better the community as a whole. To name just a few, she has supported the Children’s Museum, Junior League, The Women’s Fund, Crime Stoppers of Houston, L.I.F.E. Houston, and many elementary and preschools in and around Houston.
Gabriela is excited to have recently published her first book titled, “After the Fall,” a memoir in which she shares her journey growing up amidst communism, coming to America, and living the American dream.
4-6 AM Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-10-23
12 AM
About Health with Rona Renner, RN from KPFA
Interview with Dr. Rachel Zofness of UCSF about pain as a bio-social-psychological phenomenon.
More information here: https://www.zoffness.com/ and here: https://aapainpsychology.org/team/rachel-zoffness-phd/
Rachel Zoffness PhD is a pain psychologist, medical educator, consultant and author. She is a Visiting Professor at Stanford and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Zoffness co-hosts the podcast “Pain Points” with ZDoggMD, and serves on the Board of Directors of USASP and the Society of Pediatric Pain Medicine. She is the author of The Pain Management Workbook, a treatment protocol for adults living with chronic pain; and The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens, the first pain workbook for youth. She also writes the Psychology Today column “Pain, Explained.” Dr. Zoffness conducts workshops for multidisciplinary healthcare providers, and consults on the development of integrative pain programs around the world. She served on the AAPP board for 5 years, and is the founder of AAPP’s Pediatric Division.
About Health is a program designed to give listeners an opportunity to talk directly with experts who understand traditional and non-traditional medicine, health, and well-being. If you have suggestions for programs or questions about KPFA, please contact Rona Renner, RN, at Rona@NurseRona.com or Dr. David Feldman, PhD, at davidf@kpfa.org.
1 AM
Herbal Highway with Sarah Holmes from KPFA
A discussion of kidney and bladder support with herbs and other forms of holistic self care and awareness.
2 AM
Green Street News from the Pacifica affiliates
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about burning tires to power cryptocurrency data mining, tax breaks for plastic manufacturing, and PFAS in fast food. Then scientist Cheri Peele from Toxic Free Future talks about the array of chemicals in everyday products and how some retailers are helping to reduce our body burden.
2:30 AM
Food Sleuth Radio with Melinda Hemmelgarn, dietition and nutritionist
Did you know that childrens health is dependent upon their environmental conditions? Join Melinda Hemmelgarn, Registered Dietitian and Food Sleuth Radio host for her interview with Nse Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director of the Childrens Environmental Health Network and co-leader of the science and health arm of the Cancer Free Economy Network. Witherspoon describes the Eco-Friendly childcare initiative that protects children in daycare settings, and explains why and how protecting children from pesticides and other toxins is critical to their lifelong health and well-being.
Note: October is Child Health Month; and, October 12th is Childrens Environmental Health Day.
Related website: Childrens Environmental Health Network: https://cehn.org/
Cancer Free Economy Network: https://www.cancerfreeeconomy.org/
3 AM
Whole Mother from KPFT with Pat Jones
Gabriela Gerhart
Gabriela Gerhart was born in a small mountain village in the Czech Republic. She is an entrepreneur,
speaker, author, and the Founder and President of Motherhood Center. She has always loved babies and children and knew from an early age that it would influence her career path. Due to Gabriela’s love of children and helping others, she pursued degrees in both pediatric nursing and physical therapy from 1991-1997. When Gabriela moved to the US she began working as an au pair to four boys, ranging from newborn to elementary age, from 1998-1999.
Gabriela soon noticed there was a void in the market for families of newborns and young children looking to find nannies for their children. She then realized the even greater need – a place where pregnant women and new mothers could go for advice, classes, and support. It was from this realization that Motherhood Center was born in 2000, and it has served more than 40,000 clients and counting since its beginning. Over twenty years have passed and it is still Gabriela’s passion project. She is constantly working to customize the Motherhood Center’s services and working to collaborate with others to best serve mothers and their families in our surrounding community and all over the world. Her goal is to build a cohesive network of support for new parents to turn to – the ultimate village, if you will.
Gabriela is recognized as an expert in the field of pregnancy and early-stage child development. She has intimate knowledge of the childcare and newborn care industry, as well as in-home staffing (nannies,
family assistants, and newborn care specialists), massage, yoga, and pregnancy education. She recently
launched Motherhood Network which allows families virtual access to the services and classes offered at Motherhood Center. This was a dream of Gabriela’s since she started the Motherhood Center and she is beyond elated to be able to extend support to families across the country and world.
Gabriela is passionate about supporting her community and regularly provides donations of pregnancy and parenting services and products to countless causes around Houston to assist with fundraising efforts and to better the community as a whole. To name just a few, she has supported the Children’s Museum, Junior League, The Women’s Fund, Crime Stoppers of Houston, L.I.F.E. Houston, and many elementary and preschools in and around Houston.
Gabriela is excited to have recently published her first book titled, “After the Fall,” a memoir in which she shares her journey growing up amidst communism, coming to America, and living the American dream.
4-6 AM Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 10-10-23
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Monday Night
Prog Notes S H 10-10-23
12 AM
Creative Frontline:
Film-maker and journalist Robert Lundahl interviews Chemehuevi NuWu Elder and Leader. Also known as Matthew Leivas, Sr. Environmental Whistleblower and Protector of the Colorado River. Part 1 of 2. The interview can also be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8I9FN9a7g
The Indian Reservation he is describing, and where he protects the Colorado River, begins on the California side and continues for 30 miles on the California side to approximately one mile south of the
Havasu Palms Resort. We will air part 2 of this interview next week.
To round out the hour, we will rerun an interview with Mahlee Yellowfeather, an Apache descendant of Geronimo, about the struggle over Oak Flat, which an act of Congress “exchanged” to Resolution Copper for the exploitation of an enormous copper deposit.
According to an article in The Intercept, “The legislation in question — the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act — was the product of a proposal then-Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake added to a must-pass defense authorization bill late one night in 2014. The addendum, known as a rider, incurred no congressional debate. Described by the San Carlos Apache as a “midnight backroom deal,” the law transferred Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a British-Australian concern jointly owned by the extractive giants Rio Tinto and BHP, both of which had sought access to the wildly lucrative ore deposit for years.
“The project centers on a 2,200-acre area known as Oak Flat Campground, part of the Tonto National Forest, that has served as a centerpiece of Apache religious ceremony and cosmology since before settler expansion into the West. To access the ore underneath, Resolution Copper will use a technique known as block cave mining, which over several years will turn the sacred mountain into a two-mile-wide crater deep enough to hide a skyscraper.”
1 AM
Resistance Radio with John Kane from WPFW
Native broadcaster John Kane examines issues related to Indigenous Peoples Day. New York school districts are suing to keep their Native mascots right as we head into Indigenous Peoples Day.
2 AM
Project Censored:
https://www.projectcensored.org/unveiling-mauis-unheard-voices-indigenous-and-mutual-aid-activists-speak-out/
You’ve likely heard a lot about Maui in recent weeks, but chances are you haven’t heard a lot from Indigenous or frontline mutual aid activists working to protect and support their communities in the dearth of government support and protection.
In the first half of the show, Native Hawaiian Kamiki Carter joins the show to talk about the impact of the fires as well as the impact of widespread community organizing with Maui Rapid Response.
In the second half of the show, mutual aid and land stewardship organizer Summer Starr joins the show to discuss the censored sources of the fires, namely capitalism and colonialism. She explains the predatory push of disaster capitalists and how folks on the ground are instead pushing for decolonization and land back.
For more on community organized aid efforts in Maui, visit Maui Rapid Response: https://mauirapidresponse.org/
3 AM
Equal Rights and Justice – Radio Rally to Free Leonard Peltier, with Mimi Rosenberg
Join our radio/rally to Free, Free, Leonard Peltier, who just turned 79; Indigenous warrior for equal rights and justice, and the longest held political prisoner in the country, behind the walls for 48 years. Leonard Peltier and his long walk to freedom, a case of innocence!
SPEAKERS for EQUAL RIGHTS & JUSTICE RADIO/RALLY:
Paulette D’Auteuil-Robideau, thejerichomovement.com
Cousin of Leonard Peltier, Ad Hoc Committee, Jericho Movement to free all political prisoners
Dan Battaglia dpbattaglia@outlook.com
Assistant Director - Official Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee & Leonard's adopted nephew
Joelle Clark Kills Crow Indian joelle.clark@gmail.com
Director - Official Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee & Member of Lakota tribe
Dawn Lawson dawn@allfiredup.blue
Secretary - Official Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee, Leonard Peltier's Personal Assistant, writer and community advocate
Jenipher R. Jones jenipherj@dolawllc.com Counsel for Leonard Peltier
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