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13:44:47 05/20/12
Occupy Finsbury Square eviction, Argentina/Greece and economic default, UK anti-GM "take the flour back" action, the Free Association on "capital" and book excerpts from 'Moments of Excess", DJ Muskut with grimey dubstep and hiphop
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- Refections from participants in the Finsbury Square Occupy camp, which is due for eviction in the near future
- A discussion about the social impacts of default, specifically looking at the parallels between contemporary Greece and the Argentina of 10 years ago
- An interview on 'take the flour back', an upcoming mass action against genetically modified wheat in the UK happening on 27 May 2012
- An interview with Brian and Keir, part of the Free Association, a Leeds based collective discussion and writing group talking about the origin of the project and 'capital as a social relation' amongst other brainy things - with excerpts from the forthcoming audiobook version of the Free Association's recent book publication, 'Moments of Excess', scattered throughout
- And the usual mix of banter, music, and rants inspired by the evening paper
- DJ and producer Muskut with a set of dubsteppy, grimy, hip hop style music - including some of his upcoming releases
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16:14:00 05/16/12
Dissident Island Radio - Episode 103
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Episode 103 of Dissident Island Radio features:
- Our friend Carl live in the studio giving an insider's perspective on prisoner solidarity. He gives some nice ideas on how to offer support and what to say in those all important letters.
- People from SQUASH and the ASS talking about the future of squatting in England and Wales post Clause 145, and what's going to change once the ban comes into effect.
- Participants from this weekend's Hacktionlab telling us about their latest tech/activist projects and how people can get involved.
- An update from campaigners opposing the appropriation of Leyton Marsh for the London Olympics.
- All the other good stuff: Music, banter, announcements, yada yada...
- DJ Phuq playing a selection of new and yet to be released badsekta tunes
You can also download in: OGG (67mb)
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00:33:33 05/15/12
The Lynne Stewart Report
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The Lynne Stewart Report
March 8, 2012 Mother's Day Report
- with -
Ralph Poynter
in an interview with
"Taking Aim"'s
Mya Shone and
Ralph Schoenman
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18:23:35 05/06/12
POLITICAL DISOBEDIENCE VS. REVOLUTION
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Bernard Harcourt and Raymond Lotta On the Significance and Implications of the Occupy Movement
Bernard Harcourt, writing in the Opinionator blog of the New York Times , described the Occupy movement as marking a "political paradigm shift": a new form of "political disobedience" involving a "leaderless" organization refusing to embrace "old ideologies"-- whether of free markets or communism. In the editorial, Harcourt specifically engaged Raymond Lotta, an advocate of Bob Avakian's new synthesis of communism, who had recently spoken at Occupy Wall Street. Lotta responded: the question is not whether there will be ideology or leadership-these are in play one way or another- but what kind of ideology and what kind of leadership are needed to overcome oppression and exploitation. The repression directed against the Occupy movement underscores the importance of these questions of social protest and societal transformation. In December, Harcourt and Lotta had the first round of their debate at Occupy Chicago. Now the debate continues at The New School in New York City. Come ask questions and participate in this vital debate and exchange.
Bernard Harcourt is chairman of the political science department and professor of law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Illusion of Free Markets . Raymond Lotta is a political economist and contributor to Revolution newspaper. He has been speaking about the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) .
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16:19:29 05/05/12
The New American Dream Radio Show for May 3, 2012
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Co-hosts Chuck Gregory and Mike Palecek welcomed nonviolent peace and justice activist Tom Hastings and Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry.
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03:42:02 05/04/12
Chiropractor Kent WA | (253) 854-7711
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22:49:53 05/03/12
Mad in America: TheHistory of Eugenics in the United States & How It Affects Psychiatric Care Today
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Mad in America: TheHistory of Eugenics in the United States & How It Affects Psychiatric Care Today
Robert Whitaker
Although we usually associate eugenics with Nazi Germany, it was here in the United States that eugenic laws were first passed. In the early part of the 20th century, states passed laws that prevented the %ldquoinsane%rdquo from marrying; eugenicists argued, with much success, that the mentally ill needed to be segregated from society in mental hospitals, in order to keep them from passing on their %ldquobad genes;%rdquo and in 1927 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was constitutional to forcibly sterilize the mentally ill.
These eugenic conceptions of the mentally ill, as essentially %ldquounfit%rdquo for society, also set the stage for the introduction of therapies in the 1930s and 1940s, that were understood to %ldquowork%rdquo by damaging the brain. Frontal lobotomy, which involved destroying the patient%rsquos frontal lobes, was one of these therapies.
Today, we think that such eugenic impulses have been scrubbed from our society%rsquos treatment of those with psychiatric diagnoses. But it is easy to see that our society still prescribes treatments that, in their effects, have some similarities to the treatments used in the 1940s; that our society is expanding its forcible treatment for those deemed mentally ill; and that the modern effort in research circles to identify the genetic causes of mental illness encourages our society to think of people so diagnosed as having %ldquobroken brains,%rdquo and really not quite %ldquofit.%rdquo
By understanding this past, and how it can provide an understanding for the present, we can perhaps imagine a different future, with our society embracing a paradigm of care that is free from such eugenic impulses.
Robert Whitaker is a journalist and author of four books. Much of his writing has focused on psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry, and medical histories. His first book, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill was named by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of 2002. His second, The Mapmaker%rsquos Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon, was named by the American Library Association as one of the best biographies of 2004. In 2008, Crown published On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation, which was awarded the Anthony J. Lukas work-in-progress prize. His newest book, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, won the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism in 2010.
Prior to writing books, Robert Whitaker worked as the science and medical reporter at the Albany Times Union newspaper in New York for a number of years. His journalism articles won several national awards, including a George Polk award for medical writing, and a National Association of Science Writers%rsquo award for best magazine article. A series he co-wrote for The Boston Globe was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
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12:35:58 05/02/12
MAY DAY: OWS RALLY & MARCH, NYC
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Tens of Thousands Rallies and March in New York City.
The Rally Followed the traditional Mayday rally in Union Square.
The March included OWS Students, Youth, Immigrants, Workers and Unions and the 99% and was in the tens of thousands. It took an hour and 15 minutes for the entire cortege to leave Union Square.
IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE is in there too.
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11:20:35 04/27/12
"White Charity" - Versteckte Rassismen auf Spendenplakaten
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Unsere Radiosendung, die am 23.04.2011 um 20:00 Uhr auf LORA M%uumlnchen gesendet wurde kann hier angeh%oumlrt und heruntergeladen (bessere Qualit%aumlt) werden. Die Musiktitel mussten aus urheberrechtlichen Gr%uumlnden entfernt werden.
Mehrmals t%aumlglich werden wir mit Plakatwerbung konfrontiert, an Bahnh%oumlfen, %oumlffentlichen Pl%aumltzen oder entlang von Zugstrecken. Selbst wenn wir die Plakate nicht immer bewusst wahrnehmen, pr%aumlgen sich die Bilder in unser Ged%aumlchtnis ein. Neben Werbeplakaten f%uumlr verschiedenste Produkte finden sich die Spendenplakate von Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen. Die Art, wie Menschen und ihr Umfeld auf den Plakaten gezeigt werden, beeinflusst unsere Vorstellung von Schwarzen beziehungsweise People of Color und deren Lebensumst%aumlnden.
Die Radiosendung besch%aumlftigt sich mit versteckten Rassismen auf Spendenplakaten von Hilfsorganisationen.
Doch was sind das f%uumlr rassistische Tendenzen? Und kann Spendenwerbung %uumlberhaupt ohne Klischees auskommen? Welche Rolle spielen postkoloniale Tendenzen in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit? Ist Rassismus gar ein allt%aumlgliches Ph%aumlnomen?
Zu diesen und anderen Fragen haben wir mit folgenden Experten gesprochen:
* Carolin Philipp, Produzentin des Film "White Charity",
* Simone Pott, Pressesprecherin der Welthungerhilfe,
* Dr. Anton Markmiller, Generalsekret%aumlr von CARE, sowie
* Mathilda Legitimus-Schleicher, Sozialberaterin f%uumlr afrikanische und lateinamerikanische Familien bei der ambulanten Erziehungshilfe der AWO.
Au%szligerdem haben wir selbst einige Spendenplakate untersucht und Passanten nach ihrer Meinung gefragt...
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Der Film "White Charity", auf welchem die Radiosendung basiert, kann unter folgendem Link angesehen werden:
http://www.whitecharity.de/
Dort finden sich auch ausf%uumlhrliche Hintergrundinformationen zum Thema.
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20:57:08 04/22/12
HARLEM RALLY AGAINST STOP AND FRISK
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OCCUPY HARLEM MARCH & RALLY %middot AGAINST RACIST KILLINGS
FOR TRAYVON MARTIN & ALL THE TRAYONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY %middot END STOP & FRISK & RACIAL PROFILING %middot BUILD A UNITED FRONT AGAINST RACIST VIOLENCE Contact: Nellie Hester Bailey 646-812-5188
On Saturday, April 2st. at 1-2PM hundreds of demonstrators joined Occupy Harlem at 124th and 5th Avenue %hellip The assembly will then march throughout Central Harlem protesting racist killings, stop & frisk, and racial profiling. The march ended at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd with a rally . The theme of the protest: %ldquoBuild A United Front Against Racist Violence,%rdquo highlights the killing of 17 year Trayvon Martin in Stanford, Florida by %ldquoStand Your Ground%rdquo self style vigilante George Zimmerman.
After a firestorm of national protest Zimmerman was eventually charged with 2nd degree murder that carries a maximum of life imprisonment.
Released on a low bond of only $150,000 despite prosecutor%rsquos request for a million dollar bail Zimmerman issued a self-serving apology to Martin%rsquos family that came fifty days after he shot the unarmed teenager. Zimmerman%rsquos contrition makes palatable public appeals for financial support especially from the far right.
The Martin case is only the tip of the iceberg. Across the US unarmed Black men, women and youth are killed, brutalized and harassed on a daily basis without redress or a modicum of expose from corporate media. In New York City, the center of international finance capital, the New York Police Dept. (NYPD) operates inside a systemic culture of brutality and violence with a wanton disregard for human life.
This %ldquoBlue Wall%rdquo of death deliberately targets people of color, especially Black and Latino youth. The executions of unarmed Ramarley Graham in the Bronx, and unarmed former marine Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. in White Plains adds to a long list of racist killings by NYPD going back to the 1973 police killing of 10 years old Clifford Glover - shot twice in the back by a plainclothes cop; the 1984 police murder of 66 year old Eleanor Bumpurs - blasted twice & killed by a 12 gauge shotgun; African immigrant Amadou Diallo killed in a hail of 41 shots in 1999, all fired by white police officers, all of whom were acquitted. Over 600,000 people have been stopped and frisked by NYPD, and the city made over 50,000s non-violent marijuana arrests. On the national level it%rsquos no better if you%rsquore Black, man or woman. In Chicago unarmed 22 year old Rekia Boyd shot in the head by intoxicated off duty cop.
Occupy Harlem supports a national campaign that calls for: (1) a national database that documents the killings of Black people by
police, security guards and self-appointed peacekeepers, (2) the President to create and institute a %ldquoNational Plan of Action for Racial Justice%rdquo to fulfill the governments obligations under the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) by creating a permanent Inter-Agency Working Group to implement all of the aforementioned demands to protect Black and other historically oppressed groups from racial discrimination, targeted violence, and summary executions.
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22:51:52 04/20/12
Dissident Island Radio - Episode 102
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On episode 102, this banging show had the second part of an interview from Corportate Watch about the privatization of the NHS, as well as a piece about the politics and leanings in sport in Europe. That'll be our first foray into the world of sport, so be sure to listen.
We%rsquove got the low down on the Bread and Roses Film Festival too which is commemorating the 1912 Lawrence textile strikes in the US, which is deadly. Fresh from shopping and Fortnums, we have one of the F%M protesters coming to talk to us about their recent trial and aquital, which is very interesting indeed.
uld be too worried!
To keep us entertained we are delighted to have Sarah Bear back on the show, as well as Kate Nitrate, hitting us up with some live music. And to keep things on edge we%rsquove got Kovert with a set of techno.
So tune in, or lose out.
D*I.
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01:29:25 04/15/12
The Arab Upheaval: Gibert Ashcar & Samah Selim
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Discussion: The Arab Upheaval: What has it achieved? Where is it going? With Gilbert Achcar and Samah Selim
at Alwan for the Arts
Co-sponsored by CUNY Graduate Center's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, South Asia Solidarity Initiative, and Ad Hoc Coalition to Defend the Egyptian Revolution.
With Gilbert Achcar and Samah Selim
The Arab upheaval ignited in Tunisia in December 2010 is now well into its second year. It has overthrown three Arab rulers, in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and forced another to hand over power in Yemen. However, uprisings in Bahrain and Syria have been violently repressed, the latter at the cost of ten thousand lives already. This is while the future of the revolutionary process is uncertain in the four countries where initial victories have been achieved, with electoral processes proving unable to quench the upheaval%rsquos fundamentally social dynamics.
About the Speakers
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon, and is currently Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. His books include The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder , published in 13 languages, Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy , co-authored with Noam Chomsky, and most recently The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives .
Samah Selim was born in Egypt and has lived in the UK, Libya, France and Germany. She received her BA in English Literature from Barnard College in 1986 and her PhD from the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 1997. She has previously taught at Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of Aix-en-Provence, and she directs the literature module of the Berlin-based postdoctoral research program, Europe in the Middle East; the Middle East in Europe . Her book, The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, explores the relationship between the rise of the novel genre, the politics of nationalist representation and the peasant question over the course of the 20 th century in Egypt. Dr. Selim, who is also a practicing literary translator, is currently at work on a book about translation, modernity and popular fiction in early 20 th century Egypt.
also hear radio news segment at: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/59251
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08:19:58 04/12/12
Dissident Island Radio - episode 101 - UK Uncut on Goldman Sachs action, Corporate Watch on healthcare privitisation, Bread & Roses Book Prize shortlist, NHS demo audio, DJ Entropy on the decks
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Dissident Island Radio - April 6 2012 - On episode 101 we heard from:
- Dan from UK Uncut talking their impending legal action against HMRC and Goldman Sachs in a bid to recoup %pound20 million in tax revenue.
- Corporate Watch in Part 1 of a discussion of tax avoidance by companies involved in private healthcare & privatisation.
- Nick from Housman's bookshop telling us about the entrants to this year's Bread & Roses Book Prize. Lots of interesting reading to be had!
- Sounds from a recent demonstration against the privatisation of the NHS.
- a first outing from Entropy spinning some red-hot vinyl.
enjoy - D*I
www.dissidentisland.org
dissident island radio april 6 2012 diy episode 101 uk uncut legal law action goldman saachs 20 %pound million pounds tax revenue taxpayer cuts welfare nhs corporate watch private privatisation health healthcare avoidance kpmg consultants government advice nick housmans bookshop book prize bre and & roses reading chavs working class selection communisation demonstration tweets from tahrir square police guns calm protester entropy dj set drum n bass dustup deep house bass awesome
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03:07:41 04/04/12
Black Liberation Theology or Black Humanism
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Black Liberation Theology or Black Humanism? A Dialogue between
James Hal Cone and Anthony B. Pinn
CONE: "... an abiding faith in God is what enabled Black people to survive slavery." PINN: "[an African American humanist approach] requires the end of God-talk." James Hal Cone
is one of the most well-known advocates of Black liberation theology. In 1969, Cone's book "Black Theology and Black Power" articulated the distinctiveness of theology in the Black Church. More recently, he is the author of "The Cross and the Lynching Tree", and he says that " ... an abiding faith in God is what enabled Black people to survive slavery." He is a professor at the Union Theological Seminary in NYC. Anthony B. Pinn is a prominent professor of humanities and religious studies at Rice University, and his work focuses on liberation theology , Black religion, and Black humanism . He says that an African American humanist approach "requires the end of God-talk." His most recent book is "The End of God-Talk: An African-American Humanist Theology."
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00:30:10 04/04/12
RACE AFTER MULTICULTURALISM
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AFTER 1989: RACE AFTER MULTICULTURALISM CONFERENCE
Co-Sponsored by the Asian American Writers Workshop
I Love the 90s!
Race After MultiCulturalism
Sophia Chang,Carolina Gonzalez,dream hampton (no show), Vijay Prashad, Rinku Sen,John Wuo Wei Tchen.
DJ hit replay! Or shall we manually rewind this nostalgic cassette tape with a discerning finger to your favorite awkward 1990s multiculti blunders? The 1990s gave us %ldquoSister Souljah moments,%rdquo the OJ Simpson hearings, the rise of xenophobic legislation (Prop 187 and 209) and homophobic punditry on national television (Jerry Falwell vs the Teletubbies). Carolina Gonz%aacutelez (WNYC, Nueva York: the Complete Guide to Latino Life in the Five Boroughs) discusses the rise of %ldquoThe Crossover,%rdquo by which ethnic pop products migrate to the mainstream. Music producer Sophia Chang talks Wu-Tang Clan and John Kuo-Wei Tchen (New York Before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture) sits us down for the origin stories of %ldquoheritage holidays%rdquo and %ldquomulticulturalism centers.%rdquo Vijay Prashad (The Karma of the Brown Folk) gives a short talk on how the demise of multiculturalism has left racism alive and kicking in colorblind Obama-America. Prashad will later join a panel conversation with dream hampton, former editor of The Source and Rap Pages and ghost writer for Jay-Z's Decoded, and Rinku Sen (Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization), president of the Applied Research Center and publisher of Colorlines. See www.aaww.org/1989 for more details. About After 1989: Race After Multiculturalism The %lsquo90s are back! Although they%rsquore being resurrected as the age of Cosby sweaters, animated gifs and 16-bit Nintendo soundtracks, the 1990s were stranger and more complex than youth culture nostalgia. As the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Cold War came to a close, the US found itself in the age of multiculturalism, premised on the belief we could all just get along, and a decade divided with tense, often surreal, racial spectacle. Think O.J. Simpson, the rise of Hip Hop and grunge, The Joy Luck Club, the canon wars, the death of Selena, Rodney King, and affirmative action. The Asian American Writers%rsquo Workshop presents an alternative racial history of the 1990s through a feisty five-part event series that%rsquos part symposium, part late night talk show, part Youtube nostalgia-fest. What can the era of multiculturalism--a decade of awkward rehearsals on how to talk about race--offer our own post-multicultural but not post-racial age? See www.aaww.org for details. Link: http://brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1%id=12191
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02:28:24 04/01/12
MARCH FOR JUSTICE: WE ARE TRAYVON
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JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARCH & RALLY The People%rsquos Organization for Progress Rally and March on Saturday, March 31, 2012, 12:00 NOON, in Newark, New Jersey to demand justice for Trayvon Martin . The shooting of Trayvon Martin took place on February 26, 2012, in Sanford , Florida . Trayvon Martin was an African American teenager who was shot and killed by 28-year-old George Zimmerman. Martin, who was unarmed, had been walking to his father's girlfriend's home from a convenience store when Zimmerman followed him after calling the Sanford Police Department, saying he witnessed what he described as "suspicious" behavior. Soon afterward, he fatally shot Martin. Yet he was allowed to walk free. The community is asking for an investigation. ALSO: PACIFICA-WBAI SUNDAY NEWS PIECE AT: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/58913
11/12/11