Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 04-04-2024


12 AM

For the Record with David Emory

Interview with Peter Levenda, author of "Ratline"

Dave has begun producing some new programs which we will start next week, but recommends running this archival episode, a follow-up interview with Peter Levenda, author of "Ratline", which Dave characterizes as a prequel to "Hitler's Legacy", the subject of the interviews the past few weeks. Dave says, "I recommend airing FTR#864, with some important information (recorded in 2015) about Donald Trump as an ideological successor to the Nazi view on immigrants, then airing the new shows."



1:00 AM

Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate'

Licensed to Kill part 2

Max and Aaron continue their discussion and analysis from last week of the apparently Islamist terrorist attack in Moscow, and about the use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime that is resulting in widespread famine, reinforced by Israeli civilians physically blocking humanitarian aid shipments.



2 AM

The Final Straw Radio

Books Through Bars

This week, you'll hear our chat with David Mac Marquis, one of the editors and contributors to the recently published new book Books Through Bars: Stories From The Prison Books Movement out from University of Georgia Press. We talk about prison books projects, what they say about conditions inside, some of the value of this inside-outside organizing and what you can expect to find in the book. David "Mac" Marquis

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.



3AM

Out-FM from sister station WBAI

What you always wanted to know about transgender but were afraid to ask

The program includes some pitching for WBAI, please support KPFK if you can.

Transgender identity is often thought of as a relatively recent phenomenon and right-wing trans-phobes like to characterize it as a 'trendy' fad; but in fact, there are people who anticipate contemporary transgender identities going back millennia.

Veteran transgender activist Pauline Park talks with Naomi Brussel and Stahimili Mapp about what transgender is and isn't and why right-wing Republicans are pushing an unprecedented wave of legislation in state legislatures across the country to limit and roll back the rights of trans people and especially trans youth.


Topics to be discussed:

1) Why are we doing this show?

2) Trans can be defined: legal, sex designation, biology, genetics, chromosomes.

3) Historical background

4) Concentric circles diagram & terminology

5) Trans as an umbrella term

6) Socially acceptable questions re gender identity, trans identity, hormones & surgery, etc.



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program - final two hours from yesterday's live broadcast

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 04-02-24


12 AM

Creative Frontline

The Rights of Nature from Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone

Our conversation today with Drea Burbank set the stage for a deeper dive into the lives and cultural practices of Amazonian Shamans, the Forest they’ve united to protect, and the innovative financial structures they’ve created to compete head on with oil, mining, and logging companies and the western systems which favor and support them.


They’re healers and leaders in a movement known as the Rights of Nature movement, which treats our life giving, and biodiverse natural world as a living and conscious being, one with legal, moral, and ethical rights…

…that ecosystems and species have legal rights to exist, thrive and regenerate.



12:30

Between the Lines radio news magazine



1 AM

Old Radio first Mondays

John Steinbeck’s “Lifeboat”

Introduced by director of the film version, Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Marlene Dietrich, reprising her role from the anti-fascist World War II drama about the survivors of a ship scuttled by a Nazi torpedo sharing a lifeboat and seeking to determine who might be a Nazi saboteur in their midst.



2 AM

The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe

Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled but complex detective, portrayed by Dick Powell, Robert Mitchum, and Humphrey Bogart on the big screen (and much later Elliott Gould and others in more recent adaptations) made it onto the radio. Murder My Sweet was responsible for Marlowe's first appearance on radio when it was presented on Lux Radio Theatre on June 11, 1945 starring Dick Powell and Clair Trevor.


Marlowe was a more complex character than some of his hard-boiled brethren. Sure he could handle a gun and take a beating. But, he was more than just a tough guy, he had gone to college, could play chess, and appreciated classical music. He also had his own strong ethical standards and turned down jobs that didn't measure up to those standards.


In April, 1947 the New York Times announced that the summer replacement for Bob Hope would be a new adventure-mystery series, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Airing on NBC at 10:00 p.m. on June 17th, the show starred Van Heflin with a script by Milton Geiger based on the stories of Raymond Chandler. Most radio shows had live audiences in the studio. The Philip Marlowe producers decided against the common practice because they thought audiences might detract from the show. However 19 of Los Angeles' top detectives were in the studio during the airing of the first show.

Two episodes tonight: “Who Shot Waldo?” and “The Red Wind”



3:00 AM

Equal Rights & Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI

Haiti: A Crisis caused by US imperialism and its oligarchic cronies

Interviews with Jean Saint-Vil, “Jafrikayiti”, co-founder of AKASAN; jaku Konbit, a political analyst and radio host, and Prof. Amy Wilentz, author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier. The West, including the US and France, the former colonial power, have never forgiven Haiti for its successful slave rebellion and successful war for independence, defeating Napoleon, 120 years ago, and have continued to bleed, impoverish, and prop up dictators In Haiti ever since.



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final two hours of the non -commercial version of Thom’s show from earlier on April first.

Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-29-24



12 AM

Alan Watts

The Symbolic and the Real



12:45 AM

Old Radio Break

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with Bob Bailey

The McCormack Affair Episode 2



1:00 AM

The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein

The Web of Meaning, part 1: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the World – Discussion with Jeremy Lent

Jeremy Lent has been described as one the greatest thinkers of our age. Hes the founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth and he's the author The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, and his new book is The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. Part 2 next week.



2 AM

The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Africana Philosophy from Kings College, London

Knowing the Difference; Marginal Comments

Final two episodes in our Women’s History Month review of the philosophical contribution of a number of Black women thinkers and doers – Audre Lorde, noted for her saying that you can’t dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools; and then bell hooks and Patricia Hill Collins



3 AM

Visionary Activist Caroline Casey from sister station KPFA


MAY CO-OPERATION ECLIPSE DOMINATION

May Co-operation Eclipse domination

Caroline welcomes Erica Gies – to guide our rogue species back to collaborative Earth Citizen manners (aka animism)…. by asking “what does water want?” ….

Erica Gies is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about water, climate change, plants and critters for Scientific American, The New York Times, Nature, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Economist, Washington Post, bioGraphic, Wired, and more. Erica is a National Geographic Explorer, served as a staff editor at various publications, and cofounded and edited two environmental news startups, Climate Confidential and This Week in Earth. She has received the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, lectures at the University of Victoria Southam, and was a finalist for the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year Award.

Erica is the author of Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge. The book begins by asking a revolutionary question: What does water want? Most modern development has erased water’s slow phases — wetlands, floodplains, high altitude grasslands and forests — that soften flood peaks, store water for droughts, and keep natural systems healthy. What water wants, say water detectives exploring this question, is a kind of un-engineering that reclaims these slow cycles, offering us greater resilience.


Water Always Wins website: https://slowwater.world/, Erica Gies: www.ericagies.com



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final two hours of Thom’s earlier live non-commercial broadcast from3-28-24

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-28-24



12 AM

For the Record with David Emory

Daves wraps up his (archival) interview with Peter Levenda, author of Hitler’s Legacy, about the incorporation of Nazis and Nazism into the military, espionage and other apparatuses of the national security state of the US and NATO after the end of World War II.



1 AM

Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate’

Programmed to Kill

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the worst terrorist attack in Moscow in two decades, and who or what could be behind it. They will then cover the latest from Gaza, where famine looms as Israel finds itself in a military and political boondoggle. They will also discuss Jeremy Loffredo's shocking video on the grassroots Israeli aid blockade, and Hekmat Aboukhater's undercover report exposing the anti-Syria lobby's latest push in Congress.



2 AM

The Final Straw Radio

Hani Almadhoun on Conditions in Gaza

First up, a conversation with Hani Almadhoun, a Palestinian-American journalist from Gaza and living in Virginia. Mr Almadhoun is also Director of Philanthropy at UNRWA USA, an independent charity to support the UN organization by the same name. In the chat, he speaks about conditions generally and for his family specifically in Gaza as well as the soup kitchen that his brother founded in north Gaza (https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-in-gaza-daily , on Instagram at @GazaSoupKitchen ).

Hani Almadoun on:

Instagram: @myhanitizer

Facebook: @alkabeer.alhani

Jay Ward Struggles To Be Released

Then, you’ll hear from James "Jay" Ward, a long-time abolitionist who has been incarcerated in Ohio for over half his life, since he was 15. Over the years, he has participated in the national prison strike of 2018, various hunger strikes, and other movements against the abuse and mistreatment of incarcerated people.

One of his major political goals is to educate the public about the struggles he and other prisoners face to create systemic change. Without a sentence reduction, Jay will likely spend the next 25 years in prison as well. Jay is currently raising funds to pursue post-conviction relief so that he can reunite with friends and family and begin a new life on the outside. Despite Jays best efforts, he was not able to visit his mother before she died of an illness in 2022. He would like the chance to spend time with his father, who is also in poor health, before he passes.



Jay's links:

GoFundMe link is here: https://gofund.me/60f1291b

His ID # is A517461 for those who want to connect via GettingOut.

Twitter / X: @DecarcerateUS

His mailing address is:

James Ward

A571461

P.O. Box 788

Mansfield, OH 44901



3 AM

Out-FM with John Riley, Stahamili Mapp and others from sister station WBAI

TRIBUTE TO JOAN GIBBS, BLACK LESBIAN MOVEMENT GIANT


Tribute to Joan Gibbs (1953-2024), Black Lesbian Attorney, Activist and Movement Giant


On Tuesday, March 26, Out-FM will present a tribute to the late Black /African-American lesbian leader and lifelong human rights stalwart, Joan Gibbs, who passed on March 14 at age 71. Joan was a brilliant strategic thinker and doer who was a forerunner of the intersectional action that’s now widely considered essential to progressive social change. We will hear several voices explaining her monumental significance to multiple movements. We will also hear Joan talk about her own history

and her views on the activist groups in which she played key roles. This will include her reflections on:

the importance of the late 70s/early 80s group DARE (Dykes Against acism Everywhere), which she co-founded and which, as she explained, fought both racism in the lesbian/gay movement and homophobia in the Black movement.

her representation of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) members at protests and in courtrooms. She considered ACT UP “one of the best expressions of progressive politics in its practice that has existed since the Civil Rights Movement.”


Joan was also an occasional contributing producer to Out-FM and a dear friend whom we miss tremendously. Joan Gibbs, Presente!

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Just a few highlights of Joan's long and illustrious career (thanks to Rosemari Mealy, Karen D. Taylor, and other colleagues for this information):


Over the years Joan Gibbs worked at the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and for 28 years was general counsel for the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. In the

1970s, she was a key member of the National Lawyers Guild’s Grand Jury Project defending activists against intense grand jury abuse. Later, she became a leader in the National Conference of Black Lawyers and was co-chair of the Brecht Forum (sponsor of leftist educational and organizing events and courses) during the 2000s-2010s.


She not only litigated cases involving gender and racial justice, she represented organizations and political activists such as ACT UP (the overwhelmingly queer AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and Black Liberation leader Herman Ferguson. As an independent attorney, she also represented former members of the Black Panther Party such as Sundiata Acoli (co-defendant of Assata Shakur) in their efforts to overturn unjust convictions. In the 1990s, she played a key role in the legal and

political defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal, at a time he was facing execution.


Look for an announcement later about plans for a memorial in May.


Send messages of condolence to the family c/o: Maferefun (Mafe) Lavezzari, 487 Lincoln Place-Apt. 1D, Brooklyn, NY 11238



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of Thom’s earlier live broadcast of his non-commercial version from 3/27/24

Tuesday Night

Holistic health focus


Prog Notes S H 03-27-24



12 AM

About Health from sister station KPFA

Letting Go

Nurse Rona Renner discusses facing death and helping loved ones do so. Her anticipated guest turned out not to be available to discuss his book on the topic, so she took listener calls on the matter. Note: She gave a trigger warning at the start that there might be discussion of suicide.



1 AM

Herbal Highway

Allergies

Host Emiliano Lemus discusses allergies and herbs that can be used to deal with symptoms like itchy eyes and skin.



2 AM

Grassroots (formerly Green Street News)

H2O

We all need clean water. This week, after the headlines, Patti and Doug speak with attorney and Environment America's water specialist John Rumpler about water quality, the Clean Water Act, Congress, lead pipes, PVC, PFAS and other things that threaten our water supply.



2:30 AM

Food Sleuth Radio

Heavy Metals in our Foods

Did you know that heavy metals are present in a wide variety of our foods? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Conrad Choiniere, Ph.D. Director, Office of Analytics and Outreach, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Choiniere discusses common heavy metals in our food supply, and specifically the recent investigation into lead-contaminated cinnamon applesauce. Choiniere chairs FDA's Toxic Elements Working Group, which prioritizes the Administration's efforts to reduce exposures to lead, arsenic, and other heavy metals from foods to the greatest extent feasible.

Related website: Closer to Zero: https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/closer-zero-reducing-childhood-exposure-contaminants-foods

https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/investigation-elevated-lead-chromium-levels-cinnamon-applesauce-pouches-november-2023



3:00 AM

Whole Mother from sister station KPFT

Marya Axner has spent the past 30 years as an activist working against oppression of all kinds and also working as parent educator. She speaks and leads workshops on the topic of anti-Semitism and racism, at social justices organizations, worker organizations, and religious institutions. She currently is active in Fix the Grid, a network of organizations trying to make the governance of our electric grid in New England more democratic and more responsive to climate change issues. She has been the Director of a parents’ program in the Somerville Public Schools, supporting parents to be involved in their children’s education. More recently, she was the Director of the New England Jewish Labor Committee, where she organized the Jewish Community to stand up with workers for their rights.


Marya Axner has taught listening skills through Re-evaluation Counseling for many years. Axner has also been active in Sustaining All Life (SAL) and United to End Racism (UER) both projects of Re-valuation Counseling. She leads Family Workshops for Sustaining all Life (SAL) whose mission is to end human caused destruction of the environment and end the exploitation and oppression of people most affected by climate change. She leads workshops on how to use listening tools to empower people in the Climate Change movement.



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of Thom’s non-commercial version from the earlier broadcast on 3-26-24

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-26-24



12 AM

Creative Frontline

“The Water Cycle”

Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone are excited to present this week's further expression and exploration of what may be a new landscape to some.

It's a surprisingly rewarding journey, as the desert itself puts Biodiversity under a "microscope." The intricacy of species and their biological niches, their interdependence and dependence on systems interactions revealed, guide us in our steps forward, gaining new knowledge, moving into a world of adaptation to climate change and into our own ever evolving thinking.

With the brilliant and fascinating Andy ZDon.



12:30 AM

Between the Lines radio newsmagazine with Scott Harris

Biden's Contradictory, Deadly Gaza Policies Prioritize Rhetoric Over Action; US, Other Nations Intervene Again in Haiti to Address Crisis They Helped Create; Elder Climate Activist Risks Freedom and Health in Mountain Valley Pipeline Protest

Guests: Jack Mirkinson, The Nation senior editor and cofounder of Discourse Blog; Jake Johnston, Center for Economic and Policy Research senior research associate; Karen River Bixler, 81-year-old Vermont climate activist



1:00 AM

Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer

Three interviews on this episode: David Moore on how AIPAC is using GOP contributors’ money to go after progressive Dems; Meron Rapoport on how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel; Jamieson Webster on the social/societal aspects of mental disorders among young people.


Interlude: Rick Smith with Labor History in 2:00 Minutes



2:00 AM

Project Censored

Banned Books Back! Project, and “We are All Sacrifice Zones”

In the first half of the show, Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein join host Eleanor Goldfield to talk about how a small coop bookshop in Asheville, NC came to be the keeper of more than 20,000 youth books banned in Florida, the emergence of the Banned Books Back! initiative, and how a growing connection of people across state lines are finding creative ways to circumvent the rise of book bans.

Next up, professor, author and organizer Nicole Fabricant joins the show to talk to us about Curtis Bay: a sacrifice zone microcosm, one that is mirrored all over the nation and indeed the world. Nicole highlights how primarily black and brown communities are overburdened not just by pollution and corporate malfeasance but by the need to become their own scientists, doctors and advocates. She shares powerful stories of autonomous youth organizing, and how we are in fact, all sacrificed to corporate greed.


Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein work at Firestorm, an anarchist co-op bookstore in Asheville, NC. Their bookstore accepted 22,500 copies of books banned from Duval County elementary schools and are donating the books to families in Duval County. Many of the banned titles feature Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous or LGBT characters. More information is available at the bookstore’s web site, https://firestorm.coop/.


Nicole Fabricant teaches at Towson University in the Baltimore area. She’s the author of Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth Activism In Baltimore.



3:00 AM

Equal Rights & Justice with Mimi Rosenberg of sister station WBAI

“Haiti: The Revolution Continues” – Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti Action Committee and Christian Lemoine of Batay Ouvriye discuss years of US support for corrupt regimes in Haiti connected to the PHTK Party, and the resultant current political and economic crisis in Haiti.

Then, a conversation with Prof. Rashid Khalidi, author of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine,” about the US-Israeli war on Palestine as ethnocide, in which “They’re killing our children, body and spirit to steal our future.”



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final two hours from the earlier non-commercial broadcast on 3/25/24

Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-22-24



12 AM

Alan Watts

Eastern Orthodox Spirituality



12:30 AM

Old radio break

The Lone Ranger

The Origin of Tonto



1 AM

The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Africana Philosophy:

Silvia Winter and the birth of philosophy in the African past

Sun Ra, Afro-futurism and Octavia Butler (opens with musical interlude by Sun Ra – Strange Worlds Black Myth)

1:55 AM

Your Health Kit with Dr. Rebecca Hoffman, MD

Intermittent fasting



2 AM

The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein

Facilitating & Making Psychedelic Medicine Available for Marginalized Communities with Rebecca Martinez

Rebecca Martinez is a Xicana writer & community organizer whose work explores the intersections between collective healing, systems design and expanded states of consciousness. She’s a student of transformative justice, emergent strategy, and somatic abolitionism. She’s the founder and executive director of Alma Institute, a nonprofit educational institution that equips students from marginalized communities to become legal psychedelic facilitators. She worked on the Measure 109 campaign that produced the Psilocybin Services Act, the first ever state program to provide community-based, legal access to psilocybin services. She served as an advisor to the National Psychedelics Association, the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, and the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, and is a prominent voice on psychedelic justice. And she’s the author of a new book we discuss in this interview, Whole Medicine: A Guide to Ethics and Harm Reduction for Psychedelic Therapy and Plant Medicine Communities.coyo

In this interview we talk about all aspects around facilitating psychedelic medicine journeys, from the tremendous benefits and risks involved, to consent and creating safety & reducing the chance of harm, and training facilitators from marginalized communities to serve those who may not usually be able to access psychedelic medicine services.

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



3:00 AM

Caroline Casey, Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA

St Patrick*Stormy Daniels*Equinox*Eclipse-

Caroline re-re-re cahoots with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue, as the Celtic Car Talk Gaias, with this week’s puzzler (so many)

Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, writer, and teacher, and an initiated Priest in two traditions. He lives in the mountains of western Maine. Seán’s approach to healing weaves together the insights of traditional western herbalism and contemporary science. He regards physical, spiritual, and emotional healing as deeply intertwined.

Prior to becoming an herbalist, Seán was a political organizer in movements for peace, human rights, and global economic justice, and a freelance journalist documenting the human and ecological impacts of U.S. policies in Latin America.

He grew up near Boston, a short distance from where his great-grandparents first landed when they arrived from Ireland. Since childhood, he has been an avid student of Irish history and folklore. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1996 with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. https://otherworldwell.com/



4-6:00 PM

The Thom Hartmann Program

The final two hours from Thom’s earlier live non-commercial broadcast on 03-21-24

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-21-24


12:00 AM

For the Record #845 with David Emory

Dave continues his archival interview with Peter Levenda, author of “The Hitler Legacy,” on the subject of the incorporation of Nazi networks into Western national security, counter-insurgency, weapons and rocketry programs, like the CIA, NSA and NASA, after the end of World War II. Dave asked us to run this material and hopes to be back with new material soon.



1 AM

Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate’



2 AM

Final Straw Radio

This week, were sharing an interview with Xinachtli, an anarcho-communist Chicano political prisoner held in the McConnell Unit of the Texas prison system. Xinachtli, whose name is Nahuatl for seed is also known by his state name of Alvaro Luna Hernandez. Xinachtli spoke to us recently about his views on the white supremacist, colonial system of the so-called USA, the legacy of genocide of indigenous peoples in the southwest of Turtle Island, his jailhouse lawyering and his upcoming parole bid.

From our prior interview intro:


Xinachtli is serving a 50-year sentence since 1996 in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for aggravated assault on a Sheriff in Alpine, Texas. The Sheriff was serving a warrant for Xinachtlis re-arreast at Xinachtlis home. When questioned on the nature of the warrant, the Sheriff pulled a gun and Xinachtli was able to disarm him and make an escape without harming the Sheriff significantly.

After a few days of manhunt, his mother’s house was surrounded by numerous local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and the house was besieged. It was only a 9-1-1 call from Xinacthli made stating that he was not being allowed to surrender that caused the troops to stand down and he allowed himself to be taken into state custody.

The grounds for the arrest warrant have since been overturned, but based on the post-facto word of the Sheriff that Xinachtli had pointed the gun at him, Xinachtli was sentenced to 50 years. He’s been determined to be a political prisoner based on his participation in multiple cases against abuse by prison officials and police, his jailhouse lawyering, advocacy for Latinx and other marginalized people in Texas and his political stance that the US and state governments occupying the Southwest of Turtle Island is a racist and illegitimate regime.



Xinachtli links:

- Website: FreeAlvaro.Net

- Xinachtli speaking about his life and case up to roughly 2010: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2021/06/27/free-xinachtli-and-updates-from-greece/



A few notes from Xinacthli's Support Team:

Xinachtlis support team is undergoing a transition and expansion, at the moment, which is why the ways to donate aren’t more formal.

Per Xinachtlis request, donations would go to: fundraising materials, commissary, potential podcast (if the institution approves), movement building, some core team needs, jailhouse lawyer work, and for post-release support if he gets out.

If you want to donate a larger amount or have any questions prior to donating, please contact:-2024xinachtlifreedomcampaign ( at) gmail.com (preferred) or via +1 (773) 688-4329



When donating PLEASE write as a message: X, Xinachtli or an emoji that has some type of X in it.



- Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/u/martiresmcneil

- Paypal: preciado.christopher@gmail.com (paypal.me/merziado)

- CashApp: https://cash.app/$varlam

- Zelle: x363823@gmail.com ; 210.780.9996 Xinachtli (aka Alvaro Luna Hernandez)

The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. Since 2010, weve been broadcasting from occupied Tsalagi land in Southern Appalachia (Asheville, NC). We also frequently feature commentary (serious and humorous) by anarchist prisoner, Sean Swain.



3:00 AM

Out FM with John Riley, Stahamili Mapp and others from sister station WBAI

#QueersForPalestine

Queer Palestinian and Arab Identity, Pinkwashing, the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine.



Out-FM collective member Pauline Park speaks with two openly gay Arabs: Afeef is an openly gay Lebanese American media professional living in Brooklyn while Fouad is an openly gay Jordanian public health professional of Palestinian descent living in Amman Jordan and directly participating in humanitarian relief efforts aimed at getting desperately needed food and humanitarian aid to Gaza in the midst of the genocide. They discuss queer Palestinian and Arab identity, the “pinkwashing” of Zionism and the state of Israel, the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the worst genocide of the century, to date, unfolding now in Gaza. Music is Palestine Will Never Die by Lowkey and Mai Khalil.



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartman Program
Final two hours of Thom’s earlier broadcast on 03-20-24
...

Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-20-24



12 AM

About Health from sister station KPFA

Dr. David Feldman talks with Dr. Shauna Shapiro, a professor of psychology and published author, about self-compassion as a way to deal with the growing incidence of youth depression and anxiety. https://drshaunashapiro.com for more information.



1 AM

The Herbal Highway

Join Sarah Holmes and her guest, Tanya Henderson of Sacred Roots Wellness for a look at preparing for spring with a focus on spring cleanses. Tanya is an herbalist, holistic nutritionist as well as a yoga instructor. Find more info HapiRootsInc@gmail.com and @sacredrootswellness Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway.



2 AM

Grassroots

Forever Chemicals

This week on Grassroots Patti and Doug talk with Dr. David Bond from Bennington College about “forever chemicals”, how (and why) they were created, what the manufacturers knew about their toxicity, and what consumers should know about avoiding them whenever possible.





2:30 AM

Food Sleuth Radio

Regenerative Agriculture and Free-Range Chickens

Did you know that regenerative agriculture includes indigenous practices of land stewardship? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Co-founder and CEO of Tree-Range Farms based in Northfield, MN, and founder of the non-profit Regenerative Agriculture Alliance. Haslett-Marroquin discusses key features of regenerative agriculture. He also describes unique features of his poultry operation, including agro-forestry, silvo-pasture, and indigenous insights.



Related website: Tree Range Chickens: www.treerangefarms.com

Regenerative Agriculture Alliance: https://www.regenagalliance.org/



3 AM

Whole Mother with Pat Jones from sister station KPFT



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

The final two hours from Thom’s earlier broadcast on 3/19/2024

Monday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-19-24




12 AM

Creative Frontline from Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone

“Water, Springs and Biodiversity,” with geologist Andy Zdon about the complex interrelationship between water, ecology, and geology that forms and informs the delicate ecological balance supporting wagon trains and tribal communities alike, including the Paiute, Shoshone, and Chemehuevi peoples, since time immemorial.



12:30 AM

Between the Lines with Scott Harris

Newsmagazine

Humanitarian Crisis & Starvation Used as a Weapon of War in Gaza Demands Immediate Ceasefire; Beyond the Devastation in Gaza, Repression & Violence Impact Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank; Corporate Media Coverage of Election 2024 is Riven by Journalistic Malpractice.

Guests: Abby Maxman, Oxfam America's Pres. & CEO, Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle a member of Doctors Against Genocide.



1 AM

Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer

Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos • Steve Fraser, author of this article in Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-politics-future-history-capitalism-progress, analyzes and mourns the death of any sense of a better future



2 AM

Project Censored

In the first half of the show, we welcome back Hassan Ben Imran, board member at the Law for Palestine organization. Hassan gives host Eleanor Goldfield updates on the ICJ case of genocide and how he believes the case is pushing the movement for Palestinian rights from the streets into the halls of policy and legislative power. Hassan also sheds light on the attack against UNWRA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and how Israel used a media propaganda campaign to smear the agency so as to both shift focus from Israel’s crimes and get rid of a thorny agency whose very existence represents Palestinian’s right of return. In the second half of the show, we are all Julian Assange. As we mark the anniversary of the release of frequent guest Kevin Gosztola’s book Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, we wait with baited breath to see if his last appeal in the UK courts will be heard or if he will soon find himself on US soil facing charges of telling the truth. Chris Hedges, George Galloway, Margaret Kimberley, John Kiriakou and more send a message to our listeners about Julian and the importance of fighting for what this one man represents.



3 AM

Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI

On the ground in occupied Palestine, a rolling holocaust, with journalist Demetri Lascaris and in the second half, Haiti -- the struggle continues, with the Exec. Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, Brian Concannon.



4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final two hours of Thom’s non-commercial program broadcast earlier on 3/18/24
...

Thursday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-15-24



12 AM

Alan Watts

Mysticism and Morals

Part 1



1:00 AM

The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein

Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World w Abigail Rose Clarke

Abigail Rose Clarke is a somatic educator, writer, and artist. She's the creator of The Embodied Life Method which she has been teaching in the US and internationally since 2014, which aims to help people return to their bodies to find ease and comfort, even when life is difficult and the changes are extreme and fast approaching, and helping people navigate conflict in ways that transcend the models of domination and control many of us have been taught. She is also the creator of The Somatic Tarot and The Body Oracle deck. And her new book is Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World.



2:00 AM

The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps from Kings College London

Or Does It Explode? – Lorraine Hansberry

Double Jeopardy – Black Feminism



2:45 AM

Old Radio Break

Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

The McCormack Matter episode 1 with Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar

Opening episode of a serial with the intrepid insurance investigator



3:00 AM

Visionary Activist Caroline Casey

THE LAND IN OUR BONES

Dark o Moon – before New Moon and Ramadan… Land Sovereignty….



Weaving guiding myth with Fund Drive show, honoring The Land in Our Bones: Plantcestral Herbalism and Healing Cultures from Syria to the Sinai by Layla K Feghali…

also learning about, and dedicating to composting, the planned illegal sale of West Bank property in NJ and NY synagogues…

In The Land in Our Bones, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and explores ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement. Recounting vivid stories, Feghali shares lineages of folk healing and eco-cultural stewardship — including those passed down by matriarchs, plants and practices of prenatal and postpartum care, mystical traditions for spiritual healing, earth-based practices for emotional wellness, plant tending for bioregional regeneration, medicinal plants and herbal protocols, cultural remedies and recipes, and more.

Edited down as this was a KPFA fund drive episode with extensive pitching by Caroline Casey and Laura Privas.


Layla K Feghali’s website: https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/



4 – 6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program
Final two hours of Thom’s progr

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 03-14-24


12 AM

For the Record with David Emory


Continuing Dave’s archival interview on the continuation of Hitler’s Nazi apparatus within the Western national security state apparatus post World War II, at Dave’s request. He hopes to resume new content production soon, but feels this background is important for listeners who are not fully aware of it.




1 AM

Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate’

Part 1: The Genocide Democrats: Max Blumenthal speaks at WNDC

At the Woman's National Democratic Club in Washington DC on March 7, 2024, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal discussed the crisis within the Democratic Party as the party grassroots revolts against President Joe Biden's vehement support for Israel's rampage in the besieged Gaza Strip, where at least 30,000 have been killed to date - mostly women and children.

Blumenthal points the finger at the Democratic Party establishment for crushing any and all iterations of antiwar politics, and illustrates how its most prominent figures have been bought off by the Israel lobby.


Part 2: Assange's brother: "Julian could receive the death penalty" if extradited

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviews Gabriel Shipton, film producer and brother of Julian Assange, during his latest visit to Washington DC, where he was pushing lawmakers to oppose the Biden administration's prosecution of the jailed Wikileaks publisher.




2 AM

The Final Straw Radio

This week, featuring three segments. First up, you’ll hear a chat with organizers of the 2024 Heart of the Valley Anticapitalist Bookfair which ran its first iteration in Corvallis, Oregon from January 19-21st. A zine of their experiences will appear on that blog soon.

Then, you’ll hear a brief segment updating listeners on the conspiracy case against six anarchists and antifascists in Russia known as the Tyumen case (for where it initiated). The six anarchists, some of whom barely knew each other, were tortured into confessions of conspiracy to further anarchist ideology and damage the Russian war machine. Transcription at our website

Finally, we spoke with Aster, a European anarchist involved in the counter-surveillance and anti-repression project known as the No Trace Project which works to share information about known methods and cases of state surveillance. The project does this in order to improve and expand our collective knowledge, tools and abilities at evading state crackdowns as we organize and act. This interview was conducted via encrypted messages and Aster's portion is being read by an unrelated volunteer. Transcript at our website

If you plan to visit their site, we suggest at least running a VPN (riseup.net has a free one) and using an anonymized browser. One method is to download the tor browser (find your device/operating system at ssd.eff.org for some tips) and visit the NoTrace Project tor address. Their website can also be found at https://NoTrace.How


Tyumen Links

Tyumen Case Support Crew's Russian-language Telegram: https://t.me/tumenskoedelo


Articles on the case and individuals on Avtonom: https://avtonom.org/en/taxonomy/term/1761


Music by some of the imprisoned men appear in a compilation to fundraise for their legal funds: https://blackploshad.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-antifascist-prisoners-tortured-by-the-police-tyumen-case


Featured Tracks:

( Deserter's Day) by Rasputin, (Melancholy) by Rocker Balboa




3 AM

Covert Action Bulletin

Millions Mobilize for Palestine

Millions of people took to the streets around the world on March 2nd in solidarity with the people of Gaza as Israel is reportedly preparing an invasion of Rafah later this week, just before the start of Ramadan. In New York City, Havana, Albuquerque, Caracas, British Columbia, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and beyond, the massive day of mobilization shows that the movement against the Israeli genocide in Palestine will not slow down until the attacks are over.

Even the Democratic Party is being forced to shift its rhetoric in the face of mounting pressure, though it remains steadfast in its support for Israel. Biden’s recent statements about increasing aid to Gaza, and Kamala Harris’ comment that we need an “immediate cease-fire for at least six weeks” come while the U.S. continues to veto ceasefire resolutions in the UN. But new surveys show that more than two thirds of the people in the U.S. support the call for a permanent ceasefire and de-escalation of violence.

And in a brand new Center for Economic and Policy Research/YouGov study, 62 percent of respondents who voted for President Biden in 2020 agree with the statement, “The U.S. should stop weapons shipments to Israel until Israel discontinues its attacks on the people of Gaza.”

We’re joined by Miriam Osman, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.

Rachel Hu is a journalist with “BreakThrough News,” a new independent media project, where she hosts the podcast “It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism.” She is also a host on WBAI 99.5FM in NYC and has been an anti-war and anti-racist activist with the ANSWER Coalition for the last decade. Rachel can be reached at: rachel@wbai.org.

Chris Garaffa has been an anti-imperialist and social justice organizer since joining the movement against the Iraq war in 2003. Chris is a weekly guest on Sputnik Radio’s “By Any Means Necessary,” and co-hosts the podcast “The Reboot,” focusing on the intersection between technology and human rights. Chris can be reached at: chris.garaffa@gmail.com.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/06/covertaction-bulletin-millions-mobilize-for-palestine/




3:30 AM

Sprouts: Josephine Baker: The Spy Who Hid in Plain Sight

During WWII, the glamorous entertainer, Josephine Baker, worked as a spy for the French Resistance, while “hiding in plain sight” as a renowned night club performer and recording artist. Ursula Ruedenberg, head of the Pacifica affiliates unit, talks with author Christopher Klein about Josephine Baker's course from humble beginnings to international superstardom, and her unexpected turn in aiding the war effort against the Nazis. Sprouts revived this episode for Black History Month, but it certainly applies for Women’s History Month as well. Baker was a Black expatriate from the US, who renounced her citizenship and became French. She won the Croix de Guerre for her wartime exploits with the Resistance. More about Baker here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker




4-6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann program
Final two hours from earlier broadcast on 3-13-24

Monday Night

Program Notes Something’s Happening 03-12-24



12:00 AM

Creative Frontline

Water and Power

Robert Lundahl interview biologist and botanist Pat Flanagan, following up on last week’s episode about Cadiz. Water and Power tackles 10 years of solar development in the desert and its ever-expanding water usage profile in addition to a comparison and contrast with the Cadiz Inc. operation, examples of encroachment and settler disruption of Indigenous cultural norms and practices. Produced by Robert Lundahl and Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone.

Several springs in the Mojave Trails National Monument are connected to an underground aquifer being drawn upon for a water marketing scheme. Meanwhile, on the surface, lands graded for Utility Scale Solar, located on pristine desert require massive amounts of water to "tamp down" sand and dust that have buried homes in Daggett and other rural communities.

Springs are sacred to the Chemehuevi and Paiute peoples. Bighorn sheep and other protected species depend on these remote springs for life and habitation. Pat gives us the dirt on the development of these remote and beautiful natural ecological treasures. Individual rain fed springs exist in a water cycle of evaporative transpiration potentially disrupted by Cadiz Inc.'s "billion dollar" water for profit plan.

Water and power are "gold" in California

More info: https://CreativeFRONTLINE.com; https://Agence-RLA.com



12:30 AM

Between the Lines

Radio newsmagazine with Scott Harris

Ongoing Gaza Catastrophe Rouses Michigan Primary Voters to Send Biden a Message; The World and Americans Must Hold all Israeli Institutions Accountable for Occupation, Apartheid, and Genocide; Review of Trump's Total Immunity Claim, Effectively Delays Jan 6 Trial Until After Election.

Guests: James J. Zogby PhD, co-founder and president of the Arab American Institute; Ofer Neiman, a Jewish Israeli anti-apartheid activist living in Jerusalem; Thomas G. Moukawsher, a former Connecticut complex litigation judge.



1:00 AM

Behind the News with Doug Henwood of the Left Business Observer

Historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party. Then Saadia Toor and Rabia Mehmood discuss what’s happening in Pakistan, where Imran Khan’s party bested the military- and US-backed politicians. More information here: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871133/living-for-the-city/ and here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/saadia-toor, https://twitter.com/Rabail26



2:00 AM

Project Censored

On this week’s program, Mickey Huff talks with communications professor and filmmaker Roger Stahl about his most recent documentary, Theaters of War: How The Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood. They discuss how the military entertainment complex works, showcasing its vast propaganda influence on mass media.

Legal analyst and author Barbara McQuade joins the show to discuss her new book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America. McQuade gives an overview of the increasing challenges we face around information integrity and suggests what we need to do about it.

Speaking of solutions around fake news moral panics, media scholar Nolan Higdon returns to the show to highlight why we desperately need more critical media literacy education in the US and also critiques the reprise of Russia-gate type McCarthyism as the election season picks up pace.

Roger Stahl is Professor of Communication at the University of Georgia, an author, and a documentary filmmaker. His 2022 film, Theaters of War, is available from the Media Education Foundation. Barbara McQuade is a law professor at the University of Michigan, and a former U.S. Attorney. Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in Education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, and a prolific author on media issues; his books include The Anatomy of Fake News and the forthcoming edited volume, Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression.



3:00 AM

Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg from sister station WBAI

Two segments: a) Veterans Call for Criminal Investigation of Illegal Biden Weapons Transfer to Israel; and b) Protestors arrested for Taking On the Pro-Israel Lobby AIPAC and the Senators They Fund to Support Genocide.



4 – 6:00 AM

The Thom Hartmann Program

Final two hours from the non-commercial broadcast earlier on 3-11-24