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Dear Friend,
Tune in to EcoRadio KC tonight at 6pm to learn about the many benefits of planting native species and how cooling our homes and workplaces is heating up the planet.
On New Dimensions, Tuesday morning at five, Kurt Hoelting, shares what he learned during a year-long commitment of walking, kayaking, and bicycling a 100 miles radius of his home without getting in a car. The Chino Hills Murders and The Framing of Kevin Cooper is the title of Patrick O'Connor's new book. whiich uncovers evidence that the prosecution and the police withheld and destroyed evidence that would have exonerated Kevin Cooper from the brutal murders of the Ryen Family and their guest. Check out what Patrick has found on Law and Disorder, Tuesday at 9am. Also, a more in depth look at last month's topic when they gave Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Carl
Messinio of the Partnership for Civil Justice the Law and Disorder Tip Of The Hat Award for creative use of FOIA. The documents obtained from the Department of Homeland Security show a massive nationwide monitoring, surveillance and information sharing between DHS and local authorities. But its only the tip of the iceberg. The documents are heavily redacted and don't show the full scale of coordination. "These documents show not only intense government monitoring and coordination in response to the Occupy Movement, but reveal a glimpse into the interior of a vast, tentacled, national intelligence and domestic spying network that the U.S. government operates against its own people," says Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, And speaking of law, the phrase Shariah Law has been bandied about in our corporate media to decry the feared Islamist takeover of our country. Shariah
means “the path” in Arabic. It’s a sacred rule of conduct that has helped guide Muslim daily life for fourteen hundred years. On Interfaith Voices, Tuesday at noon, legal scholar Sadakat Kadri argues that many of the modern interpretations of Shariah – like stonings and amputations - are just that – interpretations of the code first written down in the 9th century. Also on the program, for years, Sikhs and other religious groups have had to deal with unfair treatment in airports. It’s been hard to file complaints quickly and clearly. Now, there’s an app for that. That's right, with a few touches on your smart phone, FlyRights lets you send a profiling claim directly to the Transportation Security Administration. It’s
the brainchild of The Sikh Coalition, a Sikh civil rights group. On Tell Somebody, Tuesday at 6pm, a documentary about the Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914 and the desecration of the Ludlow Monument in southern Colorado in 2003. Includes audio from the June, 2003 memorial ceremony, readings from transcripts of interviews with survivors, an interview with United Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts and short interviews with George McGovern and Howard Zinn. Originally broadcast in 2003, but re-edited with later material added.
This week on Pacifica Radio Archives' From the Vault we expand our discussion on society's obsession with beauty and how that affects the health and well-being of women - and to a lesser degree men - with two outstanding recordings that search for the roots of this obsession. Our first recording, produced in 1978, is titled If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sitting on It Before I'll Give It Away, and explores the two major images of women portrayed on American television since World War II: the consumer-ready “happy homemaker” and the “ideal beauty.” Our second featured piece is a 1991 conversation between KPFK's Feminist Magazine host Jude McGee and author and Rhodes Scholar Naomi
Wolfe. At the time of the interview, Wolfe's recently-published, groundbreaking book, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women, had already garnered accolades from iconic Second-Wave Feminist icons such as Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer and Betty Friedan. I'm still putting together this Wednesday's Morning Buzz, so I'm open to suggestions. Suffice it to say that I'll be playing some Bruce Cockburn, some Son Volt, some selections from Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, plus some more great music from our own community and maybe some farming tunes, since Hightower's commentary is on Monsanto and we've got some other farming programs on later in the week. All that before 8am. Of course Democracy Now!
comes on at that point, and then at 9am, you can treat your ears to a talk by award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore on the Occupy movement. Mark Manning welcomes guest dj Mark Titus to Wednesday MidDay Medley, heard every Wednesday from ten til noon. Henning Mankell is one of Sweden's leading novelists. His latest book is "The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Novel". Mankell is also a playwright and a political activist. He'll be the featured guest on Bookwaves, Wednesday at noon. Three Ghosts will appear before the lunch hour is over. John Cage, in his own stand‐up comic performance recorded in Lawrence, Kansas in 1980, conjures the ghosts of Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp and himself on From Ark to Microchip, Wednesday at 12:30pm Actual events during the Cold War inspired the thriller on this Wednesday evening's LA Theatre Works that takes place in a suburb of London during the autumn and winter of 1960-1961. Loyalty, duty, and friendship collide when the Jacksons slowly discover the Krogers, their neighbors and cherished friends, are not what they appear. This gripping play that may leave you wondering exactly what it is those nice people next door are really up to, entitled A Pack of Lies, airs from six to eight o'clock.
This Thursday morning's Sprouts episode brings you to Ames Iowa where local Occupy groups, students, professors and community members came together to talk about the impacts of corporate partnerships with land grant universities. After Iowa State University distanced itself from large Agri-business corporation Agrisol the community held a teach-in to discuss the issue. Tune in at nine. Northeast of the San Francisco Bay is "The Delta," a patchwork of islands and rivers where farmer Steve Mello has put down roots. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms. Can we defend our farms from the impacts coming with climate change? On Thursday morning at 9:30, Making Contact brings us Steve Mello's story. Palliative Care is that which
relieves some of the physical suffering of disease and illness. As ever greater demand is placed on our health care resources, health care policy and policy reform must include provisions to enable access to meaningful palliative care. Olathe Medical Center Palliative Care Team director Dr. Everett "Butch" Murphy speaks expertly on the subject on The All Souls Forum, Thursday at noon. Mic Check, the radio program of Occupy KC returns to our airwaves Thursday at 7pm followed by Shots in the Night, local community radio theatre at 7:30pm. After that, Barry Lee hosts the heebie jeebies at 8pm and BCR at 9pm on The Local Showcase.
In today’s radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience - the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, roll with the punches and come up standing. Resilience arises from building community - enduring relationships and networks that hold cultural memory in the same way seeds regenerate a forest after a fire. Indigenous leaders Ilarion “Larry”Merculieff and Guadalupe Avila come from old-growth cultures that have sustained community over centuries and millennia, and tell their story on Bioneers, Friday at 9:30am. Willie Nelson's son, Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real got
together with Bob Weir back in March. Hear what it sounded like on The Grateful Dead Hour, Friday at 11pm
The life Adrienne Rich is.celebrated on WINGS Saturday at 2:30pm. This special program draws on multiple interviews and readings from 1983 to 2000, to portray the late feminist writer's history, her activism, and her poetry. Recently, the Vatican came down on American nuns pretty hard for ministering to the least of their brethren instead of ensuring that gay doesn't mean happy in any sense of the word. On Every Woman, Saturday at 3pm, Sharon Lockhart hosts a roundtable discussion on the subject with Interfaith Voices' Maureen Fiedler, herself a Loretto Nun, and others
Rock Impresario, Bill Graham once called Shawn Phillips, the best kept secret in the music business. Shawn talks about his creative process, Saturday morning at six on Art of the Song
Stay tuned,
Mike Murphy
Your Wednesday Morning Buzz
90.1FM KKFI
Kansas City Community Radio
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