Sep 10 2008
September 10, 2008
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” –- American Composer Leonard Bernstein …
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Archive for September, 2008
Sep 09 2008
September 10, 2008
We’ll spend the hour with Mark Le Vine and Reza Aslan, discussing Mark’s new book, Heavy Metal Islam. It’s a special one-hour look at the world of metal, rock and roll, and hip hop that moves the youth of the arab and muslim world in pursuit of self-determination, political expression, and rebellion. We’ll be featuring the music of artists like Orphaned Land, Salome, TarantisT, Junoon, Mc Rai and more. …
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Sep 09 2008
Job Losses Continue in Fragile U.S. Economy
Last Friday the U.S. Labor Department reported a five year high jobless rate, exceeding the prediction of some economists. 84,000 more workers lost payroll jobs last month as the unemployment rate reached 6.1%. Three quarters of the way into this year, job losses now total 605,000. Forecasts for the nation’s economy predict even more job …
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Sep 09 2008
No Such Thing as “Clean Coal”
As Democrats and Republicans battle each other for votes, election-related propaganda is flowing at a high rate – from both sides. The economy, unemployment, and the price of gas are all high on the list of worries for every-day people. For many others, adding to that is the impact of hurricanes, more intense and …
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Sep 09 2008
Flow: For the Love of Water
From the water wars of Cochabamba, Bolivia, to what’s contaminating the US water supply, the new documentary “Flow: For the Love of Water” examines the world’s most precious resource. Directed by Irena Salina and Produced by Steven Starr, the film explores the global water crisis in all its facets. Taking a global view …
Sep 09 2008
Subversive Historian – 09/09/08
Listen to today’s Subversive Historian
The Stono Rebellion by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
One-hundred and sixty-nine years ago on this day in people’s history, black slaves rebelled in the British colony of South Carolina. On September 9th, 1739 a group of twenty slaves met by the banks of the Stono River and began their march to freedom. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, …
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Sep 09 2008
September 9, 2008
The frog does not
Drink up
The pond in which
He lives.
–American Indian proverb …
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Sep 08 2008
September 9, 2008
– With unemployment hitting new highs, and the government’s bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we’ll look at the state of the US economy
– As Republicans and Democrats both extol the virtues of clean coal we’ll take a critical look at this new technology and ask, “is there even such a thing as clean coal”?
– A new documentary examines the corporate stranglehold on one of the most important building blocks of life – …
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Sep 08 2008
Conversation with Israeli Ambassador to the US
President Bush is set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later this month to hold talks at the White House on the state of the Middle-East peace process. Bush hopes to reach a peace deal by the end of the year in an effort to create some type of positive legacy for his …
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Sep 08 2008
Free Gaza Reportback
On August 28th, 7 Palestinians freely left their country for the first time ever – they boarded two boats called the SS Free Gaza, and the SS Liberty, which had been used just days earlier by a group of international activists who sailed into Gaza from Cyprus in defiance of Israel’s on-going siege of …
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