Posted in Politics on Dec 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Ho Ho HO - Merry Christmas. Today is first amendment Friday and our last official show of the year. Do call in !! Stay tuned as we will be screening documentaries for the next few weeks and you may see some live music as well. I’ll post a blog entry each day and let you know what’s happening that day.
At 5 PM Lt Eric Shine with an update on his case.
At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases.
Perhaps we will get a visit from our friend Leonard Clark.
I will be doing Lt Shine’s show IN THE ZONE on Saturday afternoons from 4 - 6 EST
www.gcnlive.com
for the next month or so. Tomorrow is the first episode. Do tune in and call.
Tomorrow morning Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 I will be speaking at the East Valley Democratic Breakfast Club Dobson Ranch Golf Course Dobson Rd - 1/4 mile south of Baseline Rd. 7:30 AM The topic as requested is what the hell happened with me and KPHX.
Saturday night - I will be performing with Europa at the Winter Solstice celebration at the UU Church 41st and Lincoln Drive 7 PM Be prepared to dance.
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Posted in Politics on Dec 20th, 2008 No Comments »
So Sheriff Joe is getting a reality show on Fox. I kid you not! I know what your thinking it must be some sort of ‘when Nazis attack’ or ‘America’s dumbest cops’ debacle where we get a behind the scenes look at law enforcement gone bad. But no, it’s called Smile Your Under Arrest. You don’t believe me? It’s right here -
http://www.foxreality.com/page.php?id=84499
. Apparently they create elaborate film setups and dupe outstanding warrants into a screen test where they get nabbed. With tens of thousands outstanding warrants on the sheriff’s docket the show could have a long run. As I’ve always said need Sheriff Joe’s help – set up a camera.
At 5 PM Dalia Hashad is Amnesty International’s Director of the USA Program focusing on Domestic Human Rights. She works on a wide variety of issues including the War on Terror, Prison Conditions and Police Misconduct. Previously, Dalia was an Attorney Advocate for the ACLU focusing on civil liberties and human rights abuses post-9/11.
http://www.aiusa.com
At 6 PM Maria Amuchastegui is a Toronto writer who specializes in Latin America. She was born in the U.S. to Argentine parents and raised in Canada. She has written about Mexican migrant workers in Canada, the mining industry in Guatemala and tourism in Cuba. Her work has been published in This Magazine, The Beaver, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and NOW Magazine. Her recent article for This Magazine, “Last Resorts,” was cited by both the Globe and the Star as one of the best magazine reads of the week.
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Posted in Politics on Dec 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Today, President Elect Obama selected Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior and appointed former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary. Can you say ethanol ? Salazar wore a grey cowboy hat. The legacy spin tour continues in bushworld. The good news for bush is that the secret service has kept bush safe from shoe throwers. There has not been a single shoe throwing attack for three days straight. We also learned that if you throw some good scotch at former CIA director and Presidential Medal of Freedom award winner George Tenet - he’ll tell you how angry he is at all ‘the neocon Jews’.
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Posted in Politics on Dec 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Representatives of the bush crime syndicate are aggressively working the media in a vile attempt to re-write history and redefine its dismal legacy. The reclusive dick cheney as well as bush himself are talking to anyone in the media willing to listen. Whether they know they are lying or are delusional is uncertain. We can react accordingly. Code Pink is organizing a ’Shoes for Solidarity’ effort that you can link to on our community pages in the ‘general politics‘ section.
At 5:30 Cyril Mychalejko is the editor of UpsidedownWorld an online magazine covering politics and activism in Latin America.
http://www.upsidedownworld.org
At 6 PM Peter Cole, Associate Professor of History, Western Illinois University and author of Wobblies on the Water Front: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
At 6:30 Paul Buhle lecturing Professor at Brown University and author of Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World will discuss the history and significance of the IWW and his work introducing the history and importance of organized labor to a new generation.
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Posted in Politics on Dec 16th, 2008 No Comments »
DUCK !!! You lame Duck SOB. Yesterday an Iraqi national hero was born. Journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi stood up and expressed the sentiment of a people devastated by a war of choice based on lies. He threw not one, but two shoes at lame duck Bush during a press conference on a surprise visit to Baghdad. Still president bush seemed oblivious to the significance of the gesture.
At 4:30 Amos Tevelow from Media matters for America Amos Tevelow is a communication scholar with extensive experience in government and academia. He received a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied rhetoric and media/cultural studies, authored numerous articles and book chapters, and wrote a dissertation on the evolution of public policy think tanks in America. As an assistant professor at Ithaca College, he taught courses on transnational social movements, the war on terrorism, and argumentation. Tevelow was most recently a communication analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
At 5 PM John Anthony West - Independent Egyptologist - Won Emmy award for his documentary “Mystery of the Sphinx” hosted by Charlton Heston. Author of best selling books “Serpent in the Sky” and “The Travelers Key to Ancient Egypt”. Mr. West leads tours to Egypt as a guide and lecturer. We present an analysis & discussion with John Anthony West discussing his collaboration with Dr. Robert Schoch (geologist/geophysicist, from Boston University) presented the research that the weathering on the body of the Sphinx significantly moves backward the dating of Sphinx.What happened when they presented their data to the academic community… became History.
http://www.jawest.net
At 6 PM Paul Armentano from NORML on his organizations efforts to lobby the Obama administration for sensible drug policy reform.
http://norml.org/
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Posted in Politics on Dec 14th, 2008 No Comments »
12/12/2008
It’s First Amendment Friday. All topics are on the table. The union busting GOP killed the auto bridge loan bill and voted against blue collar workers around the country. The Fed is refusing oversight on billions in the banking bailout. Can you say ‘juxtapositioning’. I knew you could.
at 4:30 Curtis White’s essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the Village Voice, and In These Times. He is the author of The Middle Mind, Requiem, and The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work. He teaches at Illinois State University
At 5 PM Lt Eric Shine updates us on his case. Our good buddy Sarge will be guest hosting on Lt Shine’s Saturday show on Genesis Communications Network found at http://www.gcnlive.com for the from 1-3 pm PACIFIC and 2-4 pm MST.
At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases.
At 6 PM Mira Kamdar author of Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World.
At 6:15 We will present a powerful documentary Voices in Exile: Stories of Mormon Lesbians To order a DVD copy contact filmmaker at srandall@boisestate.com For more info and support groups go to http://www.goaffirmations.org and http://www.ldsreconciliation.org
At 8 PM it’s the CD Release Party for Tammy Patrick’s newest release Red River Valley. We plan to simulcast the event live from Modified Arts in Phx at 407 East Roosevelt
Don’t forget to checkout David Link’s show Saturday at 6 pm MST http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-david-link-show
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Posted in Politics on Dec 14th, 2008 No Comments »
GOP Senators are threatening a filibiuster on the bridge loans proposed by the White House and Congress. What this group of mostly southern Senators are really after is union busting. Some new appointments from Obama’s transition team were largely ignored by the media in efforts to beat the Blagojevich story into the ground. Also form Chicago the striking employees at Republic Window and Door have declared victory, ended their action, and accepted a settlement
If you are looking for bargains the McCain campaign is selling off lots of electronics and other items at pennies on the dollar.
At 5 PM Kim Bobo Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice and author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid - And What We Can Do About It. The New Press. 2008. Available at http;//www.iwj.org or
http://www.wagetheft.org
At 6 PM Monique Tilford co-author of Your Money Or Your Life (for the 21st Century)
an update on the classic book from the early 90’s on re-assessing your relationship with money.
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Posted in Politics on Dec 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Today is the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Canadian John Peters Humphrey was called upon by the United Nations Secretary-General to work on the project and became the Declaration’s principal drafter. At the time Humphrey was newly appointed as Director of the Division of Human Rights within the United Nations Secretariary. The Commission on Human Rights, a standing body of the United Nations, was constituted to undertake the work of preparing what was initially conceived as an International Bill of Rights. Well known members of the Commission included Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, who was Chairman, Jacques Maritain and René Cassin of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, and P. C. Chang of China among others. Humphrey provided the initial draft which became the working text of the Commission. For more inforamtion check out these sites.
http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2008/index.shtml
http://worldvoicesproject.org/installation
At 4:30 Doug Schenkelberg is the Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy for Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, a service-based human rights organization attending to the needs of the most vulnerable in our society. We will reflect on today being the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights.
www.heartlandalliance.org
At 5 PM Judy Rebick is the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University in Toronto. Judy was the founding publisher of rabble.ca, Canada’s most popular progressive online publication. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution.
At 6 PM Bob Cesca ONE NATION UNDER FEAR: Scaredy Cats and Fear-Mongers in the Home of the Brave This is obviously a very timely book that is not only laugh-out-loud funny, but is a useful, in-depth expose of the abuses of power in Washington and the media in our post- 9/11 society.
http://www.sterlingandross.com/
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Posted in Politics on Dec 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Shocker - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff John Harris were arrested this morning in Chicago charged with corruption. His impeachment or resignaion is imminent. Shocker 2 – Bank of America has announced it WILL extend a line of credit to the Chicago-based Republic Windows and Doors. The workers win !!!!!!
At 5 PM artist, activist, organizer Joseph DeLappe http://saltmarchsecondlife.wordpress.com/ http://www.iraqimemorial.org/
At 6 PM Professor Stuart Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College.. His research interests center around three program areas: cellular and molecular mechanisms of vertebrate limb development, physical mechanisms of morphogenesis, and mechanisms of morphological evolution. He also writes extensively about social and cultural aspects of biological research and technology. We will discuss his work rethinking Darwinian evolution.
I spoke with Alex van Eesteren, New Business & Media manager at search engine Ixquick.com . He believes in the right of Privacy for every individual. Searching the web is sharing your most private thoughts to your computer, and these thoughts must stay private under all circumstances! Alex made privacy to a mission… http://ixquick.com/eng/protect_privacy.html
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Posted in Politics on Dec 9th, 2008 No Comments »
President-Elect Obama unveiled his Public Works Plan this weekend in an on-line video statement. He also appeared on Meet the Press to discuss economic and security issues. Obama also named General Eric Shinseki to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. You may remember it was Gen Shinseki who was forced into early retirement for standing up to the Bush administration on the number of troops needed in Iraq. Obama has also issued a statement in support of the Chicago workers protesting at Republic Windows. Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich has suspended all state business with Bank of America for their role in the stand-off.
At 6 PM Min Sook Lee filmmaker of Tiger Spirit: A unification Road Trip Through Two Koreas Trailer:
http://www.tigerspirit.ca/trailer.html
“Korea is a divided nation. The psychic scar shared by millions of people, separated from their families during the Korean War in the 1950s, is symbolized by the ‘DeMilitarized Zone’ (DMZ) dividing communist North from capitalist South. Here, along this infamous border, award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee sets out on a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.
www.tigerspirit.ca
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