The Jeff Farias Show

Tuesday, January 6 2009

A man-made disaster of epic proportions has descended on the people of Kingston, Tennessee. The mainstream media has all but ignored the implications of a toxic coal ash spill. The EPA and the Tennessee Valley Authority are doing their best to assure citizens that health risks are under control but many questions remain. an interesing video from an activist in a canoe in the spill. http://trumanstake.blogspot.com/2008/12 … -site.html

at 5 PM Nina Planck is a food writer and farmers’ market entrepreneur. She was born in Buffalo, New York in 1971 and was brought up on an ecological vegetable farm in Loudoun County, Virginia. Planck adopted her career in food following a period in politics, working first for Dick Gephardt and then for the American Ambassador to Britain. In 1999, she opened the first farmers’ market in London, UK, London Farmers’ Market, a company that now runs 14 farmers’ markets in London.

We spoke with Sonia Shah author of The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients. Imagine the uproar if dozens of drug-trial patients in America were to perish from deadly side effects known to the FDA. Consider the commotion if AIDS babies in Europe were to die while being administered placebos rather than potentially life-saving drugs. These scandals did happen—just elsewhere. In The Body Hunters, investigative journalist Sonia Shah describes drug trials in places like India and Zambia that would have occasioned outrage if conducted in the developed world.

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Welcome back ! I hope you enjoyed the holidays. Today we focus on creativity and artistic expression.

At 4:30 PM Tom Loret Writer, poet and artist Tom Loret lives in Yucca Valley, CA. “As an artist I seek to create a plateau of mind that depicts and confirms the principles of unabridged creation. To do this I paint out all the baggage of mind that develops in the painting process. When a passage of paint evokes a familiar, sentimental, or twice-seen reference I get rid of it with a loaded brush or with a sweep of the palette knife. The final canvas is the result of these encounters. I find this approach more alive than all the unending repetitions of commonplace designs, symbols, personal reflections, and insane compulsions that would otherwise keep me locked in a scrapbook of my own biography”.

http://www.tomloret.com

At 5:30 Fred Benenson Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

http://creativecommons.org/

This video provides a great explanation

http://www.youtube.com/v/io3BrAQl3so&hl=en&fs=1

At 6 PM Mato Atom director art director, and video/graphic designer. We will discuss this piece called Champions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8F6NH3sc18&fmt=6

and political art.

http://www.matoatom.net/work/

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