Red List Radio – 05/08/12
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May 8, 2012
Political Analysis – 05/08/12
Guest: Al Weinrub, author of “Community Power: Decentralized Renewable Energy in California” Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest in conversation with energy democracy advocate and author Al Weinrub, whose groundbreaking book, “Community Power: Decentralized Renewable Energy in California” lays out in a concise and accessible way, the ways in which communities …
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The Burt Cohen Show – 05/08/12
Vatican Aims to Muzzle American Nuns But They Don’t Surrender. In late April the Vatican issued a decree which clamps down hard on the nuns of America for being “radical feminists.” I’m not kidding. Mary Johnson, who was a nun for 20 years and a friend of Mother Theresa, is …
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Lost In New York: Can Occupy Find Its Way Back To Prominence In The Crowded, Distracted City
You can still see traces of the Occupy Wall Street encampment that once stood in Zuccotti Park—a contingent of police officers by the plaza’s entrance and an NYPD watchtower standing guard on Zuccotti’s northern edge. However, the protesters who made this park their home before being evicted by the police …
Twitter fights government subpoena demanding Occupy Wall Street protester info
Twitter has asked a New York state judge to throw out a court order requiring it to turn over three months worth of messages posted by an Occupy Wall Street protester being prosecuted for disorderly conduct. In a motion (PDF) filed on Monday in New York City Criminal Court, Twitter …
Black Agenda Radio – 05/08/12
New York Stop-and-Frisk Trial Ends in Convictions After a 5-day trial, 20 activists were convicted of disorderly conduct charges in a protest at a Harlem police precinct, last October. “This was a political showcase, in which not only stop-and-frisk was on trial, but our First Amendment rights,” said defendant Nellie …
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Green Power and Wellness – 05/08/12
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF NUCLEAR ENERGY is on Harvey Wasserman’s Green Power & Wellness Show on www.progressiveradionetwork.com Tuesday, May 8, 2-3pm EST. We join the expert Ace Hoffman to talk about California’s San Onofre nuclear reactors, currently shut, and the amazing Solartopian victories in Japan, where all reactors are …
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[Video] From ECOTOPIA to SOLARTOPIA – A Visionary Conversation
Ernest Callenbach (ECOTOPIA, 1975) and Harvey Wasserman (SOLARTOPIA, 2007) discuss the role of the visionary novelist in opening public discourse to ‘outside the box’ possibiltiies. They look at the many elements of Callenbach’s Ecotopian vision have actually come into being (and some that haven’t yet) and explore the catalytic power …
Honesty Without Fear – 05/08/12
David Lewis is the guest host for today’s show. He interviews fellow EPA whistleblower Bill Sanjour about his recent article in Independent Science News. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.9MB) | Embed
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Danny Schechter – ICEBERG AHEAD: The Big Money That is Sinking Democracy
Listen to Danny’s Radio show “The News Dissector” weekly on Friday’s at 1pm (Eastern Time) I keep thinking of that clear April night 100 years ago when the unsinkable HMS Titanic steamed towards New York. It was actually on its way to dock just a few blocks from where I live at …
The Gary Null Show – 05/08/12
Global toxicity and the science and simple ways to detox ourselves Dr. Alejandro Junger has been an international visionary doctor in cardiology over the years. He is a board certified physician in internal medicine and cardiology practicing in New York and California. After becoming a patient of our current dominant …
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Noam Chomsky – Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline
By Noam Chomsky The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead — because victory won’t come quickly — it …
The Day After: Europe Rejects Austerity
Supporters of France’s newly elected President François Hollande react after the early results during a victory rally at Place de la Bastille in Paris May 6, 2012. France voted in elections on Sunday and Hollande becomes the nation’s first Socialist president in seventeen years. (Reuters/Charles Platiau) So the voters have voted—in …
Ernest Callenbach – Last Words to an America in Decline
Thirty-five years later, it was still on my bookshelf in a little section on utopias (as well it should have been, being a modern classic). A friend had written his name inside the cover and even dated it: August 1976, the month I returned to New York City from years …
Maria Margaronis – Greece takes a leap into the dark, driven by defiance and despair
The message of Sunday’s election in Greece is clear: the Greeks have said no to more of the cuts and austerity measures that have devastated the country, pushing unemployment above 20%, shattering the healthcare system, tearing families apart and leading some to suicide. It was above all a vote of rage against …