tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44892281736970551392024-03-04T22:46:07.643-08:00Raising Sand Radio & New MediaMotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-25530603633369538832012-10-11T14:48:00.003-07:002012-10-11T14:48:28.555-07:00Is Alameda going broke?<span style="color: #990000;">An Interview with City Treasurer Kevin Kennedy, City Auditor Kevin Kearney and Resident Ken Peterson</span><br />
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September 5, 2012:
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City Treasurer Kevin Kennedy, City Auditor Kevin Kearney and Ken Peterson, a small business owner in Alameda representing the voice of a concerned Alameda resident, discuss Alameda's finances.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Part 2:</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">Summary</span><br />Paul Kibel</b> is professor of environmental and natural resources law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. Kibel is interested in Alameda Point - the former Navy base in San Francisco Bay - in his capacity as Co-director of the law school's Center on Urban Environmental Law - or CUEL.
CUEL has undertaken independent research and analysis on land use and open space issues pertaining to Alameda Point...including the publication, in 2011, of a color brochure outlining open space, habitat and parkland opportunities at the former Naval Station.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Read documents mentioned in this show:</b></span>
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<li><a href="http://www.motherspeak.org/LPFM-files/upload/CUEL%20Booklet%20on%20Flight%20Park%20at%20Alameda%20Point.pdf">Flight Park at Alameda Point (pdf)</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.motherspeak.org/LPFM-files/upload/Contact%20Handout%20for%20RABmeetings%20updated%202012.pdf">Contacts for Navy and State Regulators</a>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Kibel's Letters to Navy re Alameda Point</b></span></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.motherspeak.org/LPFM-files/upload/June%206,%202012%20CUEL%20Comments%20to%20Alameda%20City%20Council%20Re%20Alameda%20Point.pdf">June 6, 2012 CUEL Comments to Alameda City Council Re Alameda Point (pdf)</a> <a href="http://www.motherspeak.org/LPFM-files/upload/July%207,%202012%20CUEL%20Letter%20to%20Navy%20Re%20Draft%20Site%202%20RAW%20for%20Alameda%20Point.pdf">July 7, 2012 CUEL Letter to Navy Re Draft Site 2 RAW for Alameda Point (pdf)</a></li>
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MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-89544431147084948322012-10-11T14:24:00.003-07:002012-10-11T14:24:53.636-07:00Long-term RAB Member George Humphreys Discuss the Cutback in RAB Meetings<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Summary</b> </span><br />
The EPA describes the role of a Restoration Advisory Board as, "an expansion of DoD's Technical Review Committee concept. The boards are a forum for exchange of information and partnership among citizens, the installation, EPA, and State. Most importantly, they offer an opportunity for communities to provide input to the cleanup process. It is our view that RABs will improve DoD's cleanup program by increasing community understanding and support for cleanup efforts, improving the soundness of government decisions, and ensuring cleanups are responsive to community needs."
George Humphreys has served on the Restoration Advisory Board for more than a decade. In 2011, the Navy cut back on City of Alameda (CA) RAB meetings and Humphreys shares his concern about the Superfund site and what it may mean to the clean up with fewer meetings and less resident oversight.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kitescampaigns.org/features/entry/857/calls-from-home-holiday-show/">Get involved with a national campaign</a> to address the cost of prison phone calls and find out about special tools you cn use with Calls from Home.MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-82021156700489310582011-11-06T12:29:00.000-08:002011-11-06T12:29:06.386-08:00Voices from Occupy Oakland & City Council's Hearing to Accept the EncampmentListen to <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55566">"Voices from Occupy Oakland & City Council's Hearing to Accept the Encampment"</a> [30:11 mins]<br />
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Voices from the Oakland City Council hearing for Councilmember Nancy Nadel's proposed resolution regarding activities of Occupy Oakland at Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza and other areas of the city including, without limitation, demonstrations, assembly, overnight stays, encampment and city protocols and policies and possible action including proposed resolution.<br />
Begins with an audio version of the great energy and atmosphere and voices from Occupy Oakland's October 15 march and rally.<br />
<b>Slideshows:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/128643/occupy_oakland_san_francisco_and_alameda.html?cat=9">Occupy SF, Oakland, Alameda, CA</a><br />
<a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/129303/occupy_oakland_hella_oakland_posters.html?cat=49">Occupy Oakland</a> (up to Oct 29)MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-61359710165442877912011-10-15T13:15:00.001-07:002011-10-15T13:15:53.664-07:00Voices from Occupy San Francisco<a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55049">Listen to "Voices from Occupy San Francisco"</a><br />
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The voices, innovations, and goings-on at Occupy San Francisco on Market Street near Embarcadeo BART.MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-86730821815033258662011-08-13T09:01:00.000-07:002011-08-13T09:01:19.111-07:00Confronting the Two-Headed Dragon of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/53717"><b>Listen to show</b></a><br />
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August is the national “Nuclear Free Future Month,” and this year is the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the San Francisco Bay a broad coalition of groups organized two events known as From Hiroshima to Fukushima to Livermore: Confronting the Two-Headed Dragon of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power. These were held at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, one of the two principle U.S. facilities engaged in nuclear weapons research and development.<br />
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Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, is the principal author of the first study ever done on energy conservation potential in the U.S. economy. He is co-author Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, the first analysis of a transition to a U.S. economy based completely on renewable energy, without any use of fossil fuels or nuclear power. This book can be downloaded for free from Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: www.ieer.org.<br />
MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-40952081528538126482011-05-05T20:55:00.000-07:002011-05-05T20:55:19.241-07:00MT Silvia and her film "Atomic Mom"Listen to <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/51502">MT Silvia and her film "Atomic Mom"</a><br />
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<b>MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia</b>, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 to 1956. Other branches of the military conducted their own research too; even as they entertained Las Vegas tourists they exposed military personnel and those down-wind of the Nevada blast zones to radiation. <br />
Back then MT Silvia was a peace- and anti-nuclear activist. Today she is producer and director of the award-winning documentary, Atomic Mom (http://atomicmom.org/) exploring the past with her mother who had never before talked about her work. Atomic Mom includes interviews with <i>Hibakasha</i> and doctors, engineers, and others and shares footage of bombed-destroyed Hiroshima, atom-bomb pop culture and "novelty music", and other crazy propaganda of the time.<br />
This wide-ranging interview with MT Silvia highlights the sobering reality that still threatens our world. <br />
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<b>Listen to Other Raising Sand Radio shows on nuclear weapons and energy:</b><br />
<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/44769">Obama, Stop Building Nuclear Weapons</a><br />
Read the article: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/09-2">Calls to End the False Security of Nuclear Weapons</a><br />
Read the article: <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/galleymore08052010.html">Rationalizing the Bombing of Hiroshima</a><br />
<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/28601">Western States Legal Foundation's Jackie Carbasso and Nuclear Free Future</a><br />
<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/44616">US Senate Aide - and Others - Contend, “The Bombing of Hiroshima was Right”</a><br />
<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/29711">Western States Legal Foundation's Andrew Lichtermann on US/India Agreement</a><br />
<a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/28706">63rd Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing</a><br />
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An unknown number of Americans protest war through overtly or covertly confronting the system of taxation. <br />
We talk with two women resisters who protest war in this way and have done so for many years. Each has a different method -- they also discuss the many methods others use to resist war taxes -- and each has had run-ins with the IRS and with different outcomes.<br />
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<a href="http://mothersspeakaboutwarandterror.blogspot.com/2011/04/confronting-system-through-taxation.html">Read the accompanying article.</a>MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-8743651602730607732011-03-19T11:48:00.000-07:002011-03-19T11:48:42.557-07:008th Anniversary of Invasion of IraqListen to <a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/50233">"8th Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq"</a><br />
Mike Ferner of Veterans for Peace and Zach Choate of Iraq Veterans Against War on the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.<br />
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<a href="http://mothersspeakaboutwarandterror.blogspot.com/2011/03/math-of-war-and-waste.html">Read accompanying article, "The Math of War and Waste"</a>MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-78927432695317216952011-02-17T20:52:00.000-08:002011-02-20T13:18:14.027-08:00Jailed for Breaking the Lunch Counter Taboo: 50 Year AnniversaryListen to <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/49527">"Jailed for Breaking the Lunch Counter Taboo: 50 Year Anniversary"</a><br />
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Read the accompanying article, <a href="http://mothersspeakaboutwarandterror.blogspot.com/2011/02/that-moment-people-say-no.html">"That Moment People say “No!”</a><br />
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Fifty years ago this month, six people began a 30-day jail sentence for sitting down at the Patterson drugstore lunch counter in Lynchberg, Virginia.<br />
On December 14, 1960, four white and two African American college students— entered the segregated drugstore hoping to convince the owner to let them have coffee together.<br />
The result—the city’s first sit-in—landed the college students in jail, and ignited a firestorm of controversy throughout the city. It also brought the civil rights movement to a head. <br />
We talk with <b>Mary Edith Bentley Abu Saba</b>, one of the Patterson Six.<br />
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People all over the world watched as Tunisian, then Egypt tossed out autocrats. Now the people of Algeria, Yemen, Bahrain, Iran, Gaza are calling for change too.<br />
What is your view of events unfolding in the Middle East?<br />
Telephone us at 510-545-8865 and leave a phone message of up to three (3) minutes sharing your views. Our producers will air a collage of your voices on a RSR show in early March.<br />
That number again, 510-545-8865<br />
Add your first name, where you live, and your phone number as we might want to contact you to expand on your views.<br />
Call 510-545-8865 - or visit our website raisingsandradio.org to learn more. You can also contact me at susan@raisingsandradio.org.MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-15132400724851399662011-02-12T13:56:00.000-08:002011-02-12T13:56:00.604-08:00Low Power Community Radio on the Brink of ExpansionListen to <a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/49370">"Low Power Community Radio on the Brink of Expansion"</a><br />
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At the beginning of 2011, President Obama signed into law the <b>Local Community Radio Act</b> that allows for the biggest expansion of community radio stations in U.S. history.<br />
The Local Community Radio Act allows low-power, neighborhood-based stations to broadcast in urban areas for the first time.<br />
It also marks both the first major legislative success for the growing movement for a more democratic media system in the U.S. and power shifting to grassroots groups and media advocates. Moreover, it invites policymakers to join forces to overcome corporate opposition to media diversity.<br />
We talk with Vanessa Graber, community radio director at the Prometheus Radio Project, about Low Power Radio and we'll learn more about the Local Community Radio Act.<br />
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Read the accompanying article, <a href="http://mothersspeakaboutwarandterror.blogspot.com/2011/02/veteran-in-america-trying-to-find-way.html">"A Veteran in America: Trying to Find the Way Home"</a><br />
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For the last seven years, since his tour of duty in Iraq, <b>Jason Moon</b> has been fighting for his life. At times he felt he might lose that last battle. Then he returned to writing and playing music...and, now, his life is stabilizing. As he talks about his first CD album, <b>"Trying to Find My Way Home"</b>, he shares the story of his on-going journey back to health and how he works with other veterans to reclaim their lives.<br />
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24 kbpsMotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-64784673923248840632011-01-16T15:56:00.000-08:002011-01-17T12:50:24.640-08:00Seventh Native American Generation Youth Connect with Palestinian YouthListen to "<a href="https://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/18477">Seventh Native American Generation Youth Connect with Palestinian Youth</a>"<br />
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Read the article: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/17-0">Making Things Right for People</a>, pub'd on Commondreams. <br />
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<b>Seventh Native American Generation</b> - SNAG - is based in Oakland CA and it uses skits, films, field trips, tours, music, art and culture to engage learning about shared indigenous and tribal journeys and struggles. SNAG's mission provides Native youth the opportunity to achieve balance and harmony, address historical and modern grievances, and explore and develop leadership and community skills through arts and cultural expression. Through a holistic approach that combines spirituality, tradition and multi-media skills, SNAG shapes the next generation of Native leaders. <br />
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<b>Co-founder Ras K'dee</b> talks about Native American youth reaching out to youth in Palestine and their commonalities. <br />
<b>Delegate and Haskell University senior Jodi Voice</b> explains how the trip made her a stronger and more resilient organizer in indigenous communities. <br />
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As always, your donation, not matter how small, allows us to thrive knowing you care! <a href="http://motherspeak.org/donate.php">Donate through MotherSpeak Media.</a>MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-15032776527625640602010-09-28T11:22:00.000-07:002010-09-30T15:58:38.230-07:00US Navy Bombarding Our Oceans, Land, and AtmosphereListen to <a href="http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/45828">US Navy Bombarding Our Oceans, Land, and Atmosphere</a><br />
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Over the next 5 years the United States Navy plans to increase the number of its military exercises or expand the areas in which they may occur, and virtually every US coastal state will be affected. <br />
Some of these exercises may occur in the nation's most biologically sensitive marine habitats, including National Marine Sanctuaries and breeding habitat for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. The Navy anticipates more than 2.3 million takes per year or 11.7 million over 5 years. A "take" is a significant disruption in marine mammal foraging, breeding, and other essential behaviors.<br />
<b>Rosaline Peterson, California President and Co-Founder of the Agriculture Defense Coalition</b> (ADC) talks about the impact of these tests.<br />
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Read the Counterpunch article: <a href="http://counterpunch.org/galleymore09302010.html">"Dumping the Navy Way"</a>MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-64348676799407425382010-09-19T15:54:00.000-07:002010-09-19T15:54:12.614-07:00Listen to <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/45646">"You can bet that your kid, grandkid, niece or nephew is a target for military recruiters: Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC)"</a><br />
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<b>Youth leader Sothay Meam of Bay Peace</b> - baypeace.org - and <b>Riva Enteen of National Lawyers Guild<b></b></b> focus on how Junior Reserve Officer Training corps - JROTC - functions in high and middle schools to recruit youth into the US military.<br />
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Read the ACLU report to the UN, <a href="http://famedetroit.org/school-military-recruiting-could-violate-international-law/#more-112">Soldiers of Misfortune</a><br />
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<b>Dr. Yannis Toussulis</b> is professor of inter-cultural conflict and he focuses on Muslim-majority nations and the U.S. He is a Muslim convert as well as author of a soon-to-be-published book on the Islamic tradition of Sufism. Here, Dr. Toussulis discusses anti-Islamic trends in the U.S. as well as anti-U.S. trends in the Islamic World. He paints a picture of these trends in broad strokes and invites listeners to explore the myths and realities about Islam that are alive and well in our world today.<br />
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Bio-tech workers - from scientists to lab tech - are being contaminated by patented genetically engineered products and no-one is looking after their health interests. <br />
"There is a systemic corruption in this industry that controls our government," says <b>Steve Zeltzer, chairman of California Coalition form Workers Memorial Day</b>.<br />
What role, if any, do unions play in the bio-tech and high-tech industries today?<br />
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After 20 years on Georgia's death row and several stays of execution Troy Davis has one more week of life. Or does he? The justice system has refused his appeals and set his execution date four times. Is the fourth time the last?<br />
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Veterans tell their stories and the Veterans Health Research Institute advises troops and their families on how to welcome home a loved one from the wars. Then, the Presidio in San Francisco, a former military base, is now the Presidio Trust, a mixed use federal land trust with unique and imaginative ways of transforming what was once a nerve center for war into a nerve center for innovation and people-centered communities.<br />
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An update from author activist <b>Dahr Jamail</b> who just returned from the disaster zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Despite what we are being told in the media, all is not coming right in the Gulf -- in fact, it has been turned into a vast toxic lake. <br />
Then <b>Kayhan Irani</b>, <i>artivista</i> and playwright with the <b>Theater of the Oppressed</b> recently returned from Kabul in Afghanistan where she conducted and facilitated workshops for Afghan actors and artists. <br />
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HuffPost Green <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/20/photos-seven-suprising-wa_n_686252.html">article on staph infections, hepatitis, and other diseases from our contaminated oceans</a>MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-41420771215619289472010-08-15T09:36:00.000-07:002010-08-15T09:36:50.966-07:00Immanuel Wallerstein and Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation at the 2010 US Social ForumListen to "<a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44968">Immanuel Wallerstein and Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation at the 2010 US Social Forum</a>"<br />
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A segment with two "national treasures" and elders of the U.S., <b>Immanuel Wallerstein and Grace Lee Boggs</b>. Both have spent their lives, from different directions, moving the U.S. forward into a more real democracy, a place that takes care of its people, educates its youth, brings We The People together into a community that celebrates our human similarites rather than separates us into unitary working stiffs along the lines of empire which is to divide and conquer.<br />
To link to the full presentation (2 hours): http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/31<br />
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Presented by the Boggs Center - boggscenter.org and filmed by Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin of Moving Images - movingimages.org. <br />
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Straight talk about the ongoing expansion of - and the billions spent on -- our nuclear weapons arsenal...despite treaties, test bans, and Obama's hopeful words that talk the talk but do not walk the walk.<br />
Outside <b>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</b> in California on August 6th, <i>hibakusha</i> or survivor of Hiroshima's holocaust,<b> Takashi Tanemori</b> tells his story.<br />
Show includes one-on-one interviews with <b>Normal Solomon, native American Patricia St. Onge</b>, and others.<br />
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<b>Read the articles:</b><br />
<a href="http://mothersspeakaboutwarandterror.blogspot.com/2010/08/calls-to-end-false-security-of-nuclear.html">1) to End the False Security of Nuclear Weapons</a><br />
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/galleymore08052010.html">2) Rationalizing the Bombing of Hiroshima: Confronting a Mindset. Published in Counterpunch, August 5, 2010.</a>MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-57140508838045502652010-08-02T13:58:00.000-07:002010-08-02T13:58:48.116-07:00US Senate Aide - and Others - Contend, “The Bombing of Hiroshima was Right”Listen to "<span id="content"><a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44616">US Senate Aide - and Others - Contend, “The Bombing of Hiroshima was Right</a>”</span><br />
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<span id="content"> </span><span id="content">A brief update with <b>Dahr Jamail from the Gulf of Mexico</b>. </span><br />
<span id="content">Then, on the eve of the<b> 65th anniversary of the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dr. Joseph Gerson</b> joins us with his perspective as a co-convener of the <b>May 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review.</b><br />
We talk also with <b>Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs - Communities Against a Radioactive Environments</b> - near the Lawrence Livermore Lab in California.<br />
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www.raisingsandradio.org</span>MotherSpeakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875364740590014189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489228173697055139.post-5576579517962508902010-07-26T22:07:00.000-07:002010-07-26T22:07:17.542-07:00Superfund Sites, Brownfields...and the People who Must Live upon ThemListen to "<a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44473">Superfund Sites, Brownfields...and the People who Must Live upon Them</a> "<br />
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Superfund sites clean up into brownfields...then communities go about their business upon them, families live in the houses built upon them...and, not infrequently, cancers, birth defects, nose bleeds, skin rashes, and other diseases follow.<br />
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<b>Irma Anderson</b> lives in Midway Village, California, and has a history of health problems. <b>Ladonna Williams </b>lived there too and saw the two-headed frogs the children brought home when they unknowingly played on contaminated land. For decades both women have tried to get elected officials hear what they're saying: the land remains dangerously contaminated. <br />
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<b>Marie Harrison of GreenAction</b> reviews the many issues she and other members of her Hunters Point/Bay View neighborhood face as that former military base and Superfund site transitions to a Brownfield.<br />
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Another update from the Gulf of Mexico's disaster zone with independent journalist <b>Dahr Jamail</b>, this time from Alabama. Has 'the cap' really capped the flow from 5000 feet below the surface? Or, does the low pressure signify other, more insidious leaks that we may not know about? Can we trust BP or the president to tell us if there are more leaks?<br />
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We talk with performance artist <b>Ariel Luckey</b> whose piece, <i>Free Land</i>, explores the underbelly of American history and Manifest Destiny. Ariel Luckey is one of the few white men in American who grapples with the reality that he and his family, like most of the white population in the United States today, derives privilege from a very violent past. He says, "It is about truth...and moving on from a history that most prefer to ignore...."<br />
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<b>Links mentioned in this show</b>:<br />
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www.arielluckey.com<br />
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