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Past Show Rundowns 2007 past shows: current |
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December 30, 2007 END OF THE WORLD (we mean year) SHOW! We check in with John Nirenberg, walking from Boston to Washington D.C., to promote articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney. Kennette Benedict, Executive Director & Publisher of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, joins us to discuss the state of nuclear weaponry, the doomsday clock, and the prognosis for future peace and security.
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December 23, 2007 CHRISTMAS SEX Show Julie Sabatier, producer of D.I.Y. Portland, contributes an interview with a phone sex worker. Conversation with Bill Baird, pro-choice activist and icon of the privacy and reproductive rights movement. Paul Reffel, co-founder of Baring Witness and the Global Orgasm for Peace. Lots of great music including Marvin Gaye, Four Bitchin' Babes and The Bastard Fairies.
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December 16, 2007 David in the studio... Marc wimps out at a little snow and stays home (and on the phone). Recorded bits include Greg Wilpert, author and sociologist, speaking on the recent constitutional reform referendum in Venezuela. Elias Davis, Secretary-Treasurer of the Writer's Guild of America, West (and contributing writer on MASH, Frasier, Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, and The Carol Burnet show) joined us on the phone to give his perspective on the writer's strike. Musically, a couple of mad trax shared by colleague Chuck U., including "For What It's Worth" featuring the Mr. Curt Ensemble. |
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December 09, 2007 Marc travels to New York... David solo. Walden Bello (right), Professor of Sociology, University of the Philippines and Executive Director of Focus on the Global South. He spoke and answered questions at Boston College recently on the topic of global climate change and the integration of environmentalism into democracy movements in developing countries. David directs some critical words at the 911 "Truth" Movement. |
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December 02, 2007 Conversation with author, teacher, and Professor John Nirenberg, currently a faculty member at Marlboro College in Marlboro, VT. John has begun a 40 day/40 night march from Faneuil Hall, Boston to Washington D.C. to demonstrate support for impeachment proceedings against President Bush and V.P. Cheney. [online] Greg Anrig, Vice President for Programs and Policy at the Century Foundation and author of the new book, "The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right Wing Ideas Keep Failing." Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health released a report saying that putting a Level-4 infectious disease laboratory in Boston's South End was no more dangerous that putting it in a suburban or rural area. On November 29th, 2007, in response to a commission from the MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, an independent body, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences issued a review report calling the NIH study "not sound and credible." We'll hear excerpts from a press conference featuring two authors of the NAS report and two plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit - Klare Allen (top right) and Mel King - which seeks to stop the construction of the lab. Boston University has declined an invitation to join us. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. Film review ("Darfur Now") with Bruce "central culturizer" Sylvester. |
Klare Allen of The Safety Net
John Nirenberg in Brattleboro, VT |
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November 25, 2007 Marc drives the show solo this week as David travels for the Thanksgiving holiday. He plays lots of music with a Native American focus and reads from The Progressive and Nation Magazines. |
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November 18, 2007 Special report on the Labor movement and Unions featuring journalist and author Philip Dine and El Salvadoran Union organizer Ricardo Calderon.
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November 11, 2007 Conversation with author and lecturer Jonathan Mooney. His new book is called "The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal." Report on conflict between Veterans for Peace and the American Legion, sponsoring organization of the annual Veterans Day Parade. We heard from John Shoeshard and Nate Goldschlag of Vets for Peace and Arthur Smith of the Boston chapter of the American Legion. Central Culturizer Bruce Sylvester on Napoleonic Art at the MFA; Radio with a View's Marc Stern on musician/performer Ed Hamell. |
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November 04, 2007 WMBR 2007 Annual Beg-A-Thon! Fundraiser "November 1- 7, 2007. Please consider supporting WMBR 88.1 FM and wmbr.org by making a financial donation. As a non-profit, all donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by federal law. In the past, your contributions have helped us increase our power and outreach and improve our studios."
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October 28, 2007 Excerpts from speeches made at the New England United / United for Peace and Justice National Day of Action anti-war rally. Including Howard Zinn, Medea Benjamin, Shep Gurwitz, Anne Diamond, Rastom Pourzal, Merrie Najimy. Conversation with independent journalist Dahr Jamail (right), author of "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Iraq." Listener phone calls... |
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October 21, 2007
Jim Morris
(right), political satirist and
impressionist. |
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October 14, 2007 Angela Kelly from Mass Peace Action joins us to discuss anti-war activism including an event with author and Boston Globe Columnist James Carroll and the New England region wide peace demonstration on Oct 27. Lots of music and discussion. |
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October 07, 2007 Cheryl Smith, Executive V.P. of Trillium Asset Management Corporation and board member of the Social Investment Forum, on changes to SEC rules that would curtail rights of shareholders to participate in corporate annual meetings and choose members of boards of directors. Local Buddhist monks react to situation in Burma... And receive Courage of Conscience Award from The Peace Abbey. Plus local Burmese and their supporters - including State Rep. Byron Rushing - rally in Boston and call for divestment from state pension funds of companies doing business in Burma. "Grace Notes" with Grace Ross. |
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September 30, 2007 "Over the Radar" Headline News: Burma Campaign UK reports government authorities plan on infiltrating Monk peace marches for the purpose of provoking violence... [Burmese bloggers] U.S. Senate resolves that Iraq should be partitioned rather than seek unified national government... A group of Methodist Bishops vow to fight plans by Southern Methodist University in Dallas to host a George W. Bush presidential library and conservative think tank on campus... In Boston, MA, tenant organizers prepare to block evictions of families living in foreclosed homes currently owned by Deutsche Bank... Professor Aviva Chomsky (right), on immigration. Author of the book, “They Take Our Jobs: And 20 Other Myths About Immigration” [appearing at Jamaica Plain Forum on Oct. 4, 2007 John Bell and Kevin Leppman of the HONK! Festival. Musician SONiA of disappear fear... |
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September 23, 2007 "Over the Radar" headline news: Gold Star father, Carlos Arredondo attacked in Washington, DC; Federal District Judge rules against National Security Letters; Kuwaiti construction company building US embassy in Baghdad coercing Asian workers and forcing them to work under brutal conditions; and in local MA news, Governor Patrick administration says more study needs to be done on CORI reform; legislators and activists testify in support of several reform-minded bills. A conversation with Boston Globe National Legal Affairs Correspondent Charlie Savage (right). His reports on presidential abuse of power won him the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He will appear at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston on Thursday October 4, 2007. Candidate's for Boston City Council race District 7. Only incumbent councilor Chuck Turner agrees to our invitation. Great conversation with him on issues such as violence and economic development in the city. Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ |
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September 16, 2007 "Over the Radar" headline news: Project Censored 2008, Pentagon miscounting Iraqi dead, Rabbi Michael Lerner criticizes anti-war movement, Leonard Peltier turns 63 in prison. A conversation with former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and author of the book "Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement" [Ritter at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater on Sept 19, 2007] Author and media critic Norman Solomon. His new book is called "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State." [on the web] Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ |
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September 09, 2007 Remembrance of 9/11 and the fallout featuring eyewitness accounts and impressions from the Sonic Memorial and the CNN archives. Plus musical selections from David Rovics, Magpie, Jamaladeen Tacuma, and Joanne Shenandoah. Discussion about the war and occupation in Iraq with sociologist and SUNY Stony Brook Professor Michael Schwartz. Mike Lapham, UFE and Sarah Anderson, IPS, co-authors of the 14th Annual Report on CEO salaries: "Executive Excess 2007." Bruce "the central culturizer" Sylvester with an Art Review. |
"Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by
history to be a model to the world...." |
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September 02, 2007 Labor Day / Economic Democracy Mix featuring historians Blanche Wiesen Cook and Howard Zinn. In the News: Tenant Rights activists agree to suspend protests of the Deutsche Bank Golf Tournament as long as the company negotiates in good faith over local foreclosures and evictions... Congressman Michael Capuano encouraged to join serious effort to impeach Bush and Cheney... Hartley Pleshaw of the Bread and Roses Organizing Committee with a preview of the 23rd Annual Bread and Roses Festival in Lawrence, MA. |
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August 26, 2007 Report and audio diary from the "Stop the War - Impeach Bush" march and rally in Kennebunkport, Maine on Sat. August 25th. Professor Vicky Steinitz, organizer against the Boston University Level 4 Infectious Disease Bio-Lab reports on the current state of activities. [Council for Responsible Genetics describes the Roxbury Safety Net] "Making Contact" and The National Radio Project present: "Two Years After Katrina: Still Weathering The Storm" |
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August 19, 2007 Activist Joe Szakos, co-author of the book: "We Make Change - Community Organizers Talk About What They Do and Why." [bio via publisher] Cynthia Mckinney, firebrand former Congresswoman from Atlanta, GA, joined us to talk about the war, impeachment of George Bush, voter disenfranchisement and the upcoming peace rally in Kenenbunkport, ME. Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ Bruce "The Culturizer" Sylvester reviews the new film, "September Dawn." [review] |
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August 12, 2007 Marc away visiting his daughter. News report on the Boston City Council vote against the Tenants Collective Bargaining Ordinance. Plus segments from Councilors Felix Arroyo, Chuck Turner, and Michael Ross. [City Life/Vida Urbana] Felicia Kornbluh, author of "The Battle over Welfare Rights - Poverty and Politics In Modern America." [Bio] A conversation with Times of London reporter Oliver August. His new book is called "Inside the Red Mansion." It reads like a mystery novel and reveals in great detail how the culture and economy in China have been transformed since the death of Mao. [Review] Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ |
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August 05, 2007 We started with "impeachment" and heard from the late Barbara Jordan, (D-Texas) who opened the Nixon impeachment hearings in 1974 and Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor who has written a book, "U.S. vs. Bush." Discussion of roads, bridges, government de-regulation, the war economy, and preventable catastrophes. Deb Farrar-Parkman, Janet Cormier, and Sandy Asai, comedians all, in the studio to discuss their upcoming show COLORSTRUCK: 8th Annual Women of Color in Comedy at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater in Somverville, MA. "Addicted to Failure: Exporting the Drug War" with Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project of the Institute for Policy Studies. Presentation sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Forum. Recorded July 27th, 2007. The Boston City Council recently passed a bill adding a minimum 18 month sentence for the crime of storing illegal guns at home and in the workplace. We hear testimony in favor of the bill from "Stop Handgun Violence" founder Jon Rosenthal. Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/
Bruce "The Culturizer" Sylvester
reviews the new film, "No End in Sight" about the war
in Iraq. |
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July 29, 2007 Progressive Government Institute Founder and Democratic Party presidential candidate Dal LaMagna. Walda Barrios, candidate for Vice President in Guatemala on the URNG-MAIZ party ticket, recorded in Cambridge on 7.23.07. Translations by Kit Barron of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Irish comedian and writer Abie Philbin Bowman (right) discusses his play "Jesus: The Guantanamo Years." Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ |
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July 22, 2007 Marc away one more week... First hour: David Speaks with Marquis Tucker, Associate Program Coordinator at the Center for Teen Empowerment. The organization recently received a grant from the Boston Globe Foundation the purpose of which is to help reduce youth violence and increase prospects for young people in the city. Second hour: Re-broadcast of the 2007 Declaration of INTER-dependence. Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/
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July 15, 2007 Dave & Marc travelling...
Filling in Jacques Antoine Jean of Haiti Focus
and Brutus Leaderson of World Beat. Enjoy the music! |
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July 08, 2007 David solo while Marc travels... Maria Elena Letona, Executive Director of Centro Presente, on immigration and media response. Recorded at the Grassroots Radio Conference, June 24, 2007. [listen or download here: UMASS Lowell Communications - scroll down a bit] David ruminates on the presidential election race, god and Harry Potter, and repression in El Salvador.
Grace Notes
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.
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July 01, 2007 Marc solo while David travels... July 4th DECLARATION of INTERdependence... our annual tribute to the U.S. and the evil it spreads... [to download and listen to this special hour long mix, please browse over to: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23709] This year we feature William Rivers Pitt, Ed Kinane, Anne Lambert and Nancy Murray, Zia Mian, and Joseph Gerson on "empire and fascism." Music and poetry provided by John Lilly, Stephen Marley, Jim's Big Ego, Dr. Didg, Girlyman, The Android Sisters, Steve Connell, and the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band. Neighbor to Neighbor Communications Director Carl Nilsson joins Marc in the studio to discuss corporate tax loopholes and the state of the budget.
Grace Ross calls in from
Atlanta, with a live report from the U.S. Social forum. |
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June 24, 2007 Marc and David on the road this week but in our place, a mix of great topical music and excerpts from a public forum in Natick, MA featuring MA Senator John Kerry. Bruce "The Culturizer" Sylvester reviews Michael Moore's new film, "Sicko."
Brutus
Leaderson fills the second hour of the show with World Beat
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June 17, 2007 Excerpts from MA Statehouse hearings on proposed legislation to replace toxic chemicals used in factories and in consumer products with safer alternatives. (web) Guy Dauncey (top right), ecologist, environmental activist and co-founder of the British Columbia, Canada based Solutions Project. His most recent book is called "CANCER: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic." Soldier and conscientious objector Camilo Mejia. His new memoir is called "Road From Ar Ramadi." (essay from Citizen Soldier)
Grace Notes
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.
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June 10, 2007 Greg Palast (right), investigative journalist and author of the books "best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Armed Madhouse." (web) Feature interview with Melanie Perkins, writer and Director of the film "Have You Seen Andy?" (web) Liam Madden, Appeal for Redress and Boston Iraq Veterans Against the War, Tony Flaherty, Veterans for Peace/ Smedley Butler Brigade, and Nate Goldschlag, Vets for Peace and Occupation Project Coordinator on the war and free speech. Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/
Film Review
with "The Culturizer" Bruce Sylvester. |
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June 03, 2007 David solo... Ellen Bravo (right), former Director 9to5, teaches Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has written the book, Taking On The Big Boys: Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation. (bio) Excerpt from May 11, 2007 speech by Liam Madden, Co-founder, Appeal for Redress. Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/
Art Review
with "The Culturizer" Bruce Sylvester. |
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May 27, 2007 Matthew Rothschild, Editor of The Progressive Magazine, joined us to discuss freedom of speech issues, censorship, and Bush administration abuses. Jeff Schmidt, physicist and former editor at Physics Today and author of the book "Disciplined Minds," and Sanjoy Mahajan, physicist and Associate Director for Teaching Directives at MIT, on academic free speech and the politics of work. Comedian, author, social satirist, Barry Crimmins! Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ |
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May 20, 2007 Shuya Ohno, Communications Director, MIRA Coalition, (Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy) with an update on immigration issues including Congressional action proposed by Senator Ted Kennedy. Charlie Richardson, co-founder of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), recorded on May 11, 2007 as part of the Jamaica Plain Forum. Grace Notes commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ Film Review with "The Culturizer" Bruce Sylvester NOTE: Greg Palast conversation postponed... |
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May 13, 2007 Marc and Dave spend the weekend with their wives and mums. Chuck U fills-in. Good sh*t happens.
Grace Notes
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.
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May 6, 2007 Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor, and author of a new book that lays out a case for impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney. *Sample writings*
Part 2 of Marc's interview
with
Bettina Aptheker, author of the memoir Intimate
Politics:
How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist
Rebel,
a
revealing look behind the public faces of two famous Communist
Party leaders (Fay, a union organizer and Herbert Aptheker, who
testified on TV during the McCarthy hearings and counted among
their friends W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson) and their
family... Grace Notes: commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ Art Review with "The Culturizer" Bruce Sylvester |
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April 29, 2007 One Family Inc. Directors of film about Nazi father.
Part 1 of Marc's interview
with
Bettina Aptheker, author of the memoir Intimate
Politics:
How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist
Rebel,
a
revealing look behind the public faces of two famous Communist
Party leaders (Fay, a union organizer and Herbert Aptheker, who
testified on TV during the McCarthy hearings and counted among
their friends W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson) and their
family... |
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April 22, 2007 Maria Aguiar from Grassroots International and Jon Santiago of the MIT Young Democratic Socialists talk about political and social resistance and regeneration in Latin America. For details on upcoming DSA Boston events, browse here. Joseph Gerson, Director of Programs, American Friends Service Committee and author of the book, Empire and the Bomb, joins Zia Mian of Princeton University to discuss, well, US empire and nuclear weapons. Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor of The New Republic and author of the book Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price. (bio)
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.
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April 15, 2007 $88.10 pledger (actually $150) Charles Freifeld and his special guest Laura Chasin of the Public Conversations Project. No
Grace Notes this week. |
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April 8, 2007 Basically, David rants again... Grace Notes: commentary by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. /text/ |
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April 1, 2007 Basically, David rants...
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.
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March 25, 2007 Marc in Bahrain, Dave in Maine. So Chuck U. and Linda P. take over with a reunion show of the old "NO CENSORship Radio."
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.
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March 18, 2007
Three hour "RADIO with a LEFT VIEW"
extravaganza including:
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.
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March 11, 2007 A discussion of the continuing human rights crisis in New Bedford, MA following the Bureau of Immigration and Customs enforcement raid on a leather factory and detention of hundreds of undocumented workers. With correspondent Sofia Jarrin-Thomas. Soul Brown of The Griot House and Touch FM Radio joined us to talk about the "Peace Broadcast" and the related Peace Pagoda-sponsored "Walk for a New Spring." It's all about ending war overseas and bringing peace to our streets here in the city. Weylin Symes, Director of the play "Grapes of Wrath" presented by the Stoneham Theatre. Marc reviewed the play "Brendan Behan." Bruce Sylvester culturized us with an art review
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. (this
week Grace gets angry over the BICE raid on immigrant workers in New
Bedford, MA) /text/ |
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March 04, 2007 A report on the Occupation Project sit-in at Senator John Kerry's office in Boston, MA with correspondent Home Fries. Journalist, political activist, press secretary (for Dennis Kucinich in 2004) and contributing writer and editor, William Rivers Pitt (right), joins us with his new book of columns House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation.
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. (this
week an introduction to women's history month and the urgent need to
NOT be silent.) /text/ |
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February 25, 2007 A report on the Occupation Project sit-in at Congressman Ed Markey's office in Medford, MA. Joseph Romm (right), Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions and author of the book, Hell and High Water: Global Warming - the Solution and the Politics - and what we should do. // (Romm's blog) An excerpt from the Feb. 22, 2007 presentation of nuclear proliferation and foreign policy expert, Joseph Cirincione; who predicts a 40% likelihood the Bush administration will go to war with Iran. [entire speech here]
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. (this
week with some personal and political comments on black history
month) /text/ |
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February 18, 2007 Nate Goldschlag of Massachusetts Veterans for Peace on his group's efforts through the Occupation Project to convince Congress to stop funding the war in Iraq. [Hear the discussion with Nate, David, Marc right here] Peter Schumann, founder and maestro of the Bread and Puppet Theater holds court during a Symposium on Subversive Papier-Mache at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama. Marc Stern reviews "Marx in Soho," performed by Bob Weick. Thanks to Chuck U. Rosina for recording the play at Jimmy Tingle's off Broadway Theater and a Q & A session with playwright Howard Zinn.
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. (this
week on the efforts of social activists to ask for and receive
sufficient funding and resources from the state and Governor
Patrick) /text/ |
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February 11, 2007 Mary Curtin, public relations expert and John Bell, Assistant Professor, Emerson College, joined us to promote the upcoming visit to Boston of BREAD & PUPPETS Theater. Joseph Gerson (right), Program Director, American Friends Service Committee, New England, Peace and Economic Security Program, helped us break-down the president's Sate of the Union speech and analyze our domestic and global crises.
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. (this
week on the recent international report that global climate change
is significantly affected by human activities) /text/ |
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February 4, 2007 Jeff Chester (right), founder and Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy and author of Digital Destiny, joins us to talk about mass media and politics, net neutrality and democracy, and the future of the internet. 2006 CHUTZPAH Awards, recorded Jan. 21, 2007 at Jimmy Tingle's OFF BROADWAY Theater in Somerville, MA.
Grace Notes:
commentary
by activist and former MA gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. (this
week on efforts to stop gun violence in Boston) /text/ |
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January 28, 2007
Presentation of "COME SEE WHAT
WE SAY" our live taping of the radio show and fundraiser at
Jimmy Tingle's OFF BROADWAY Theater on Jan, 21st, 2007. |
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January 21, 2007 Marc presents a recording of sociologist and Tufts University Professor Paul Joseph (right) addressing the question: are Americans becoming more peaceful? David brings an interview with the band Prince Myshkins recorded at the Workman's Circle in Brookline, MA.
WMBR-News correspondent Home Fries and
Food Not Bomb volunteer Dee reminisce on the life and friendship
they shared with
Eric Weinberger. |
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January 14, 2007 Novelist Elizabeth Laird speaks to us about her book A Little Piece of Ground. It's a story about trying to survive as told through the perspective of a young Palestinian boy. The book has received criticism for not being balanced (i.e. telling the Israeli side of the story in a certain way).
Workman's Circle Boston
chapter Executive Director Lisa Galatin
joins us to promote their upcoming music show with the Prince
Myshkins. |
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January 07, 2007 Musician and activist Ray Korona joins us in the studio to discuss politics and music, play a few tunes, and change the world! David Graber, scientist and lecturer discusses his recent talk: Science, Pseudoscience and Religion.
New feature: "Somewhere
Over The Radar" ...stories that must not, under any circumstances,
"fly under the radar." |
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December 31, 2006 David drives the show solo and remembers all the US presidents to whom he would not have given the death penalty despite their crimes against humanity. Journalist Steve Hendricks discusses his new book The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and struggle for the soul of Indian country. WAR News Radio talks to Howard Zinn.
Bruce Sylvester culturizes us
with an art review. |
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December 24, 2006 ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SEX SHOW, featuring Donna Sheehan & Paul Reffell of Global Orgasm for Peace and Lena X. Chen aka Elle of the blog Sex and the Ivy. |
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December 17, 2006 We feature a presentation by author, historian, activist, Blanche Wiesen Cook. Speech recorded by I.B.I.S. at the Boston Public Library, Sunday Dec. 10, 2006. Issues include war and peace, human rights, and social economy.
Condolences to the family and friends
of human and civil rights activist and co-founder of
FOOD Not BOMBS Eric Weinberger. Eric passed away on
12/15/06. |
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December 10, 2006 We'll speak with Rabbi Gerry Serotta, Co-chair of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, as that organization prepares for a major conference on Judaism and human rights December 10-12, 2006 in New York City. MIT student Christopher Sequeira joins us to talk about the work of MIT Pugwash, an organization that promotes social responsibility in science and technology.
Bruce Sylvester "culturizes" us
with a review of the film "F*CK." |
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December 03, 2006 (3 hour version) Cynthia Tschampl, Senior Legislative Organizer for the MIRA Coalition (Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy), visits the show to discuss Mitt Romney's undocumented workers, newly revised questions for the U.S. citizen's exam, and the impact of immigration issues on the mid-term election. Members of the organization, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, are working to convince city officials to declare Dec. 1 a city-wide holiday. (Marking the day in 1955 Ms. Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white man). We speak with Rhea McCauley, a niece of Rosa Parks, in town to help raise support for the effort. Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis of the progressive journal and website Free Press join us to discuss election fraud and disenfranchisement during the past election and to take a look ahead to the presidential vote in 2008.
A look at "conscientious consumerism"
and the Boston Alternative Gift Fair. |
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November 26, 2006 Marc drives the show solo this week, while Dave visits family in Baltimore. So look forward to lots of topical music, readings from the progressive left press, and Marc's unique historical perspective. |
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November 19, 2006 An update on the violence and destruction in Sudan and Chad with Ricken Patel, Co-Director, Darfurgenocide.org. WAR News Radio correspondents on the Iraqi and Arab reaction to the US election (produced by students at Swarthmore College). A report on anti-war protests in Cambridge and a speech by US Central Command chief, General John Abizaid who spoke at Harvard's JFK School of Government on Friday, Nov. 17th. Culture Critic Bruce Sylvester on the new Dixie Chicks film documentary "Shut Up and Sing."
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November 12, 2006 WMBR Fundraising Show Interview with Klare Allen of the Safety Net on their upcoming fundraiser at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theatre in Somerville, MA, and the Biosafety Lab being built at Boston University Medical Center's Biosquare in Boston. Interview with Jo | |
