Friday, March 23, 2007

Alternative Radio 3/23 Friday

5:00 pm & 11:00 pm

Where recorded: Boulder, CO
Date recorded: 26 Sep 2006

Journalism is in decline. At the pop tabloid end there is "People" magazine. It assigns seven reporters to cover the latest activities of Britney Spears. Then there is the high brow, serious genre. In this realm, powerful seductive forces lure journalists away from actual journalism. A system of perks and privileges keep reporters tethered. If you don't make waves you'll be invited to all the right parties and state dinners, hobnob with the nabobs and muckamucks, and have the president call you by your first name at press conferences. If you step out of line and rock the casbah? Well, you might soon be covering traffic accidents or sports.

P Sainath
P. Sainath is an award-winning journalist who writes about the crisis in the Indian countryside. He is Rural Affairs Editor of "The Hindu," one of India's most important newspapers. "I cover the people who live at the bottom end of the spectrum," he says. He is author of "Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts."

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

THE PROGRESSIVE RADIO SHOW 3/20

3:00 pm & 10:00 pm

A weekly half-hour radio show hosted by Matthew Rothschild, Editor of The Progressive magazine and former host of "Second Opinion." If you're looking for lively and in-depth conversation about the urgent issues of the day, "Progressive Radio" is perfect for your station. Rothschild interviews activists, scholars, and artists who are making the world a better place. Plus, every week, he ends the show with a hardhitting two-minute commentary--lately on the Bush's reckless war plans for Iraq. Recent guests include Al Franken, Robert Fisk, Grace Paley, Jim Hightower, Sam Hamill, Lois Gibbs, and Alix Olson.


THIS WEEK’S SHOW

Valentino Achak Deng Interview
My guest this week is the Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng, whose life is immortalized in the semi-fictional book by Dave Eggers entitled “What Is the What?”

TWiT March 20th, 2007

4:00 pm & 11:00 pm
Running time: 1:23:18

Your first podcast of the week is the last word in tech. Join Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, and other tech luminaries in a roundtable discussion of the latest trends in high tech. Winner of "People's Choice Podcast" and "Best Technology Podcast" in the 2005 People's Choice Podcast Awards. Released every Sunday at midnight Pacific.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Wil Harris, Alex Lindsay, Robert Scoble, and Doc Searls

Our first show live on Talkshoe.com (but not our last) with our SxSW post mortem, Google vs. Viacom, and the new TechCrunch...

Monday, March 19, 2007

March for Peace

Tuesday, Free Speech TV will be running our video at the following times:

20-Mar-07 03:31:25 March for Peace January, 27 March on Washington
20-Mar-07 06:31:25 March for Peace January, 27 March on Washington
20-Mar-07 10:31:25 March for Peace January, 27 March on Washington
20-Mar-07 15:31:25 March for Peace January, 27 March on Washington
20-Mar-07 17:31:25 March for Peace January, 27 March on Washington
20-Mar-07 22:31:25 March for Peace January, 27 March on Washington

The first two interviews on the clip are of John Kiefer and Kathie Hansen
promoting Farms not Arms.


Alan Graf

The Citizen Against Lies podcast has been discontinued.

Message from Shelie

It began as a weekly podcast in August of 2005 and I produced 97 original episodes, (or about 102 if you count the enhanced versions.)

Due to the costs and large amount of time and work involved with one person (me) doing everything to produce a long weekly podcast, there is no way I could continue doing it as a free podcast without ads. Donations can’t be counted on, I don’t want to beg, and I don’t think people want to hear a lot of ads. There is really only one other way for the podcast to continue and that is for me to get compensated to do it.

So it’s possible that several months from now, I may start a pay subscription (listener supported or “premium”) political podcast. My only other option as I see it would be to do a podcast that is very short, with no music, no interviews, and no in-depth content. If I decide to do either of those, this is the only place it will be announced.

Friday, March 16, 2007

BLAST THE RIGHT! 3/16

3:00 pm
11:00 am Saturday

85 - War On Terrorism Truths: More Of BTR's Interview With Bush-Bashing Conservative Scholar / Email: A Listener Starts Converting A Right-Winger!

Bruce Fein, a conservative scholar who's none too happy with George Bush, makes these three points in the concluding part of our interview:

1. the threat level from terrorism is not insignificant, but nowhere near the threat levels we faced in WWII or the Cold War;

2. civil liberties violations are clearly not justified by any such honest evaluation of the threat level; and

3. the civil liberties violations by the Bush administration, along with the Iraq War, have made us less, not more safe, because these violations and the war have expanded the pool of potential terrorists.
In our email segment, a listener relates how a right-winger at work is beginning to see the light, at least in part from being repeatedly exposed to Blast The Right!

(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine, but at least do me the courtesy of listening to the podcast first. Please don't respond just on the basis of the brief preview above. Thanks!)

For the Love of Produce Friday 3/16

SPECIAL SHOW!

KSVY Sonoma Community Radio

For the Love of Produce
11:00 am & 11:00 pm
1:00 pm Saturday

COWS, CLONING AND CLIMATE! During the first part of the show our guest Daniel Solnit, Executive Director of the Institute for Local Economic Democracy, talks about the recent FDA decision to approve cloned livestock for meat and dairy, with no testing, labeling or public notification. As well as the UN report citing the livestock industry as one of the leading sources of global greenhouse gas emissions.

On the second half of the show Linda Speel and Michael Traugot from Farms Not Arms tell us about their work. They are an organization of farmers and farm workers dedicated to making sure everyone is fed and our land is protected for future generations. They are doing ‘real live’ swords to plowshares work with veterans.

http://www.farmsnotarms.org

Thom Hartmann Thursday's show 3/15

Thom's show didn't download Thursday night, there's no Friday morning show as well. Hopefully everything goes right and we have Friday and Monday morning's show on time.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Fri 3/16 Alternative Radio

8:00 am, 5:00 pm & 10 pm

Where recorded: Memphis, TN
Date recorded: 12 Jan 2007

A vibrant media is the oxygen of a living democracy. When the media are dominated by a handful of big corporations, citizens of a democracy are on a respirator gasping for air. James Madison, founding father, understood this well when he said, " A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but the prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives." Today, media reform, once thought to be impossible, is an important issue. A growing grassroots movement is demanding change.

Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is one of America's best known and respected journalists. He was senior correspondent for CBS News, and producer and host of many of public television's most heralded documentaries and interview series. He is the winner of the more than 30 Emmy Awards, and the author of several bestsellers including "Moyers on America." A longtime fixture on PBS, his new program is "Bill Moyers' Journal."

Wed, 3/14 Third Planet Report

5:00 pm & 10 pm

Third Planet Report 3/13/07 with host hippielawyer Alan Graf

This week's show features:

1. The Third Planet Review, panel discussion with Ina May Gaskin, midwife,
Albert Bates, eco-village founder and peak oil expert, and Peter Schweitzer,
executive director of Plenty International, a grassroots relief and
development agency on contemporary news issues;

2. Songs and music from hippielawyer and James Kohn including an electric
version of Doorstep of the Man;

3. Commentary by hippielawyer.



Direct download: third_planet_report.3.13.07.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:11 AM

Wed 3/14 National Radio Project

3:00pm & 11:00pm

Brothers at Odds: The U.S. Army vs. Lt. Ehren Watada

The Fourth Anniversary of the Iraq War is upon us, and more than eight thousand members of the U.S. military are officially unaccounted for. Many other soldiers are publicly opposing the war and refusing to deploy. Lieutenant Ehren Watada is among them. He's the first Army officer to be tried for refusing to deploy to Iraq.

On this edition, Aaron Glantz sheds light on the events and issues surrounding the recent court martial of Lt. Watada. We'll hear from those supporting him, from analysts following the case and from the accused Army officer himself.

Featuring:

Anne Wright, Retired Army Colonel and Ambassador; Lieutenant Ehren Watada, first Army officer to be tried for refusing to deploy to Iraq; Benjamin Ferencz, one of the chief prosecutors at Nuremberg; Eric Seitz, Lt. Watada's attorney; Geoff Millard, Iraq war veteran who covered trial for truthout.org; Jeff Patterson, Courage to Resist member and former Marine who refused to fight in the first Gulf War; Joe Piek, Fort Lewis spokesperson; Carolyn Ho, Lieutenant Watada's mother; Staff Sergeant Don Hanks, served fifteen years in Army; Michael Wong, social worker, Veterans for Peace member; Helga Aguayo, wife of Augustin Aguayo, army medic facing seven years in prison for going AWOL (absent without leave).