Calls from Home

Every year for the last 12 years Thousand Kites has produced CALLS FROM HOME, the voices of prisoner families, former prisoners, poets, musicians, and everyday citizens to the airwaves. The broadcast consists of holiday greetings from family members to their loved ones behind bars and the over 2.4 million people incarcerated in the United States.



Get involved with a national campaign to address the cost of prison phone calls and find out about special tools you cn use with Calls from Home.

Voices from Occupy Oakland & City Council's Hearing to Accept the Encampment

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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.
Begins with an audio version of the great energy and atmosphere and voices from Occupy Oakland's October 15 march and rally.
Slideshows:
Occupy SF, Oakland, Alameda, CA
Occupy Oakland (up to Oct 29)

Voices from Occupy San Francisco

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The voices, innovations, and goings-on at Occupy San Francisco on Market Street near Embarcadeo BART.

Confronting the Two-Headed Dragon of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

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Note: Two file formats: 128 and 24 kbps, mono

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.

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.

MT Silvia and her film "Atomic Mom"

Listen to MT Silvia and her film "Atomic Mom"

MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, 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.
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 Hibakasha 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.
This wide-ranging interview with MT Silvia highlights the sobering reality that still threatens our world.

Listen to Other Raising Sand Radio shows on nuclear weapons and energy:
Obama, Stop Building Nuclear Weapons
Read the article: Calls to End the False Security of Nuclear Weapons
Read the article: Rationalizing the Bombing of Hiroshima
Western States Legal Foundation's Jackie Carbasso and Nuclear Free Future
US Senate Aide - and Others - Contend, “The Bombing of Hiroshima was Right”
Western States Legal Foundation's Andrew Lichtermann on US/India Agreement
63rd Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing

NOTE: Show comes in two versions, 128 and 24 kbps, mono.

War Tax Resistance and Resisters

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An unknown number of Americans protest war through overtly or covertly confronting the system of taxation.
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.

Two file formats available: 24 kbps and 128 kpbs mono

Read the accompanying article.

8th Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq

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Mike Ferner of Veterans for Peace and Zach Choate of Iraq Veterans Against War on the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Read accompanying article, "The Math of War and Waste"