A-Infos Radio Project

Pardner, we take a look at a children's record of the 1950s and the songs and culture of the western cowboy era, zap your ears with some musical tesla coils and and incredibly incredible celebrity guest we haven't heard from awhile and we make sure you know he's here.

Laura Briggs, Taking Children. For 400 years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor. In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children who would be put in Trumps concentration camps. Mike Hastie joined the protests in Portland, Oregon as part of the Wall of Vets. He was pepper-sprayed in the face by Trump's storm troopers.

Welcome to the shortwave music library I really dislike announcing so 98% of this show is going to be … music! – taking requests on our SML Facebook page or by email: freeradioskybird@icloud.com

Nine years ago on Sea Change Radio, we spoke to the self-proclaimed founding father of vertical farming, Dickson Despommier, about the concept of moving crops onwards and upwards (literally). In an interesting twist, the global COVID pandemic has resulted in a lot of abandoned office buildings. To proponents of vertical farming, these spaces may represent unprecedented opportunity. We thought this seemed like a good time to revisit our original Sea Change Radio interview with Dr. Despommier, unedited, in its entirety. In fact, Dr. Despommier co-authored a paper just last week for the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled "Wheat Yield Potential in Controlled-environment vertical farms." In the paper, the authors write that "although it is unlikely that indoor wheat farming will be economically competitive with current market prices in the near future, it could play an essential role in hedging against future climate or other unexpected disruptions to the food system." Now, let's go back to our interview from November 2011.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

This update of TUC Radio’s 2009 Film on Radio version opens up concepts for groundbreaking bank reform and explains three astounding quotes by American presidents: “All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”
John Adams, Founding Father of the American Constitution “Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce … and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
James A. Garfield, assassinated president of the United States “The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity.”
Abraham Lincoln, assassinated president of the United States With over 2 million downloads between 2006 and 2009 and translated into 20 languages, the film has remained to this date one of the extraordinary teaching tools and inspiration for the monetary reform movement.

This update of TUC Radio’s 2009 Film on Radio version opens up concepts for groundbreaking bank reform and explains three astounding quotes by American presidents: “All of the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arises, not from the defects of the Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”
John Adams, Founding Father of the American Constitution “Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce … and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
James A. Garfield, assassinated president of the United States “The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government’s greatest creative opportunity.”
Abraham Lincoln, assassinated president of the United States With over 2 million downloads between 2006 and 2009 and translated into 20 languages, the film has remained to this date one of the extraordinary teaching tools and inspiration for the monetary reform movement.

We dedicate this edition of UpFront Soul to the memory of Rep. John Lewis. We'll hear Bloody Sunday by The Cole Boyz, March on Selma by Blue Mitchell, and we'll hear a field recording of young girls singing at the Selma to Montgomery March. We'll also continue our Joan Armatrading for Beginners series with a set featuring her Sleight of Hand album, and we'll hear an excerpt of my recent conversation with Rasheed Ali about two powerful songs from his 1968: The Other Side of Town album.

We dedicate this edition of UpFront Soul to the memory of Rep. John Lewis. We'll hear Bloody Sunday by The Cole Boyz, March on Selma by Blue Mitchell, and we'll hear a field recording of young girls singing at the Selma to Montgomery March. We'll also continue our Joan Armatrading for Beginners series with a set featuring her Sleight of Hand album, and we'll hear an excerpt of my recent conversation with Rasheed Ali about two powerful songs from his 1968: The Other Side of Town album.

African, Latin & Caribbean music

Producer-political activist-straight ally Alfre Woodard is on "Fire" for James Baldwin's birthday, Baja California misses marriage equality – twice, the Cayman Islands pass the queer couple recognition ball to the U.K. Privy Council, Ketchikan, Alaska bans bias after a wedding flowers flap, an Arizona county reverses bias in adoption services, queer-trans Michigan teacher Owen Bondono gets an A+, Atlanta’s “gayborhood” honors U.S. civil rights icon John Lewis, and more global LGBTQ news!

David E. Kirkland is a trans-disciplinary scholar of English and urban education, who explores the intersections among urban youth culture, language and literacy, urban teacher preparation, and digital media. He analyzes culture, language, and texts, and has expertise in critical literary, ethnographic, and sociolinguistic research methods. He has received many awards for his work, including the 2008 AERA Division G Outstanding Dissertation Award and was a 2009-10 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and is a former fellow of NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices. Dr. Kirkland has published widely. His most recent articles include: ” Black Skin, White Masks’: Normalizing Whiteness and the Trouble with the Achievement Gap” in urban contexts: Politics, Pluralism, and Possibilities” (English Education), and “We real cool: Examining Black males and literacy” (Reading Research Quarterly). He is currently completing his fourth book, A Search Past Silence, to be published through Teacher College Press s Language and Literacy Series. Dr. Kirkland believes that, in their language and literacies, youth take on new meanings beginning with a voice and verb, where words when spoken or written have the power to transform the world inside-out

From our archives: "Economic hit-man" John Perkins tells fascinating behind-the-scenes stories of exactly how the US-based corporate empire imposes its will (& greed) on developing countries. This week he tells how the US overthrew Iran's democratic government in 1953 ... how he himself was recruited by the NSA & trained to serve the empire ... and of his early failures to corrupt the governments of Panama & Ecuador (ca. 1980). (Time to send in the "jackals"!)

From our archives: "Economic hit-man" John Perkins tells fascinating behind-the-scenes stories of exactly how the US-based corporate empire imposes its will (& greed) on developing countries. This week he tells how the US overthrew Iran's democratic government in 1953 ... how he himself was recruited by the NSA & trained to serve the empire ... and of his early failures to corrupt the governments of Panama & Ecuador (ca. 1980). (Time to send in the "jackals"!)

Congolese popular music.

Congolese popular music.

Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2020.08.01 Intergenerational Conflict AOC Verbally Assaulted by Congressman, Generational Hatred on Display Time to face an uncomfortable truth, the older generation – really are not into the younger generation. For those not quite old enough to understand what this means, let me break it down into simple English; the older generation does not seem to like the younger generation. I came to this conclusion many years ago and found evidence overflowing in various books I read and documentaries I watched. Using this information as a backdrop, I explain why AOC’s encounter with the older, elder statemen revealed a generational hostility which was merely suggested previously. Now because some people don’t know how to not see statements as blanketed, let me say – NOT ALL BOOMERS FIT THIS MOLD – but I am starting to ponder if a majority who reside among the wealthiest class do fit the mold. Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2020.08.02 Intergenerational Conflict Scapegoat Generation Chronicles In the library, in a dusty area where very few like to visit because it requires you to think outside the ideological constructs created for this country by corporate marketeers who worked to create consumers out of citizens – see the documentary “Century of Self”. In that dusty area resides books that were written to explain why things where how they were and how one might see through the mist and fog towards understanding why people act as they do when in a crowd. In a bygone era many of these books would be labeled “crown psychology” books or “socio-economic” books or maybe even “political science” books; but today they just sit on the shelf marked “non-fiction” – for this reason they are forgettable. Digging into those books we find “Scapegoat generation” an interesting page turner which attempts to explain to the reader why the modern generation (from the 90s) is in bad shape and how their bad shape is often blamed on them. This episode is inspired by, though not based on the context in, that book.

Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2020.08.01 Intergenerational Conflict AOC Verbally Assaulted by Congressman, Generational Hatred on Display Time to face an uncomfortable truth, the older generation – really are not into the younger generation. For those not quite old enough to understand what this means, let me break it down into simple English; the older generation does not seem to like the younger generation. I came to this conclusion many years ago and found evidence overflowing in various books I read and documentaries I watched. Using this information as a backdrop, I explain why AOC’s encounter with the older, elder statemen revealed a generational hostility which was merely suggested previously. Now because some people don’t know how to not see statements as blanketed, let me say – NOT ALL BOOMERS FIT THIS MOLD – but I am starting to ponder if a majority who reside among the wealthiest class do fit the mold. Class War Battlefield Podcast Episode 2020.08.02 Intergenerational Conflict Scapegoat Generation Chronicles In the library, in a dusty area where very few like to visit because it requires you to think outside the ideological constructs created for this country by corporate marketeers who worked to create consumers out of citizens – see the documentary “Century of Self”. In that dusty area resides books that were written to explain why things where how they were and how one might see through the mist and fog towards understanding why people act as they do when in a crowd. In a bygone era many of these books would be labeled “crown psychology” books or “socio-economic” books or maybe even “political science” books; but today they just sit on the shelf marked “non-fiction” – for this reason they are forgettable. Digging into those books we find “Scapegoat generation” an interesting page turner which attempts to explain to the reader why the modern generation (from the 90s) is in bad shape and how their bad shape is often blamed on them. This episode is inspired by, though not based on the context in, that book.

I knew this yearlong decade wouldn’t pass without significant economic turmoil. Yes – yes, I call this year, 2020, a yearlong decade because I swear each month represents a full year. Before telling me I’m crazy, really think about what’s happened over the last six months and tell me if time doesn’t seem to have a multiplier engrained into it this year? That aside, yes there is a fiscal cliff coming and we, the wonderful consumers of America are getting hosed good. How could a Senate refuse to pass much needed relief to a population in desperate straights before leaving town? How could a House pass a bill in May providing all the relief necessary for the population, only to have it die due to ideological alignments? I know the modern appetite among Progressives is to beat up Democrats no matter what they do, a sentiment I truthfully don’t mind because they are a pretty horrible corporation – I mean Political Party LLC, but here the Democrats did their job and the Republicans didn’t. For this reason we are heading for a terrifying economic cliff that will impact our society for at least the next 10 years (God help us if each of those ten years are as long as this one). If you have any questions, comments or concerns please contact me at vphiamer.adis.ogaarwa@outlook.com

Should we tell young people what we've done to the climate? Too late: they are telling us. From the climate talks in Katowice Poland, the student rebel who started it all: Greta Thunberg, interviewed by Stuart Scott from scientistswarning.org. From Australia to Canada young people are walking out, protesting a system designed for extinction. Then Dr. Jem Bendell a well-known Sustainability Professor from Britain walks out on green fantasy to tell us: change your plans. Climate change will collapse this system within ten years. Don't miss this