Home and Abroad: a Polish Perspective

An interview with Asha Pashinska, Polish worker who's ben living in Ireland for the past fw years.

From 8-9am every morning this wee (beginning Oct 10th 2005), Asha has been observing a lone vigil outside the US Embassy in Dublin; holding a placard with an anti-war pronouncement of Pope Benedict XVI.

The copyleft piece of music in the programme came from a recording of a busker on the streets of Dublin who had come over from Romania. Although the title is 'Autumn Leaves', it was recorded in Temple Bar, May, 2004.

This Week's Majority World focussed on anti-war voices of Roman Catholic Church laiety (those with no institutional power).

The Ploughshares Movmemnt: direct action against military.
19 min md interview mp3, 128kbps.

This interview was recorded in Binhamton, New York, with Mark Colville on Sept 21st, 2005 (a hot and sunny 10 am.).

Dr Owens Wiwa says that re-telling his bother’s story is important, because people need to remember Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni People’s struggle. People need to remember the price of oil.

More information at ThePriceOfOil.org

Ken Saro-Wiwa started the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni PeopleThe nonviolent group wanted Shell to share its billions of dollars in oil revenues and repair the ecological devastation caused by drilling, oil spills, and acid rain.

Ken Saro-Wiwa was convicted for inciting a riot, however his supporters claim his real crime was standing up for the rights of the Ogoni people, an ethnic group of some 550,000 farmers and fishermen living in the Niger Delta, where Shell struck oil in 1958. Shell’s oil exploitation was followed by decades of environmental destruction, public-health problems, and increasing poverty

Dr Owens Wiwa, brother of Ken Saro-Wiwa, visited Houston as part of the “price of oil tour,” on October 3rd. The tour commemorates of the tenth anniversary of writer and human-rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa,.

A weekly review of news at the intersection of media and democracy.

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In this week's program: Deconstructing Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays and his dreams for "free radio." Disney and Viacom ask the courts to stymie upcoming restrictions on kid-centric TV advertising. And a campaign is launched to put public pressure on Congress and the Justice Department to stop the domestic dissemination of covert propaganda.

a rock around the gulf
a message from the grassroots
katrina rita and beyond

Our guests tonight -
Countercurrant Coalttion readying supplies to be sent to the Katrina region and Waveland, MS
Clovis and Aaron Funk report from the Waveland Cafe

A report from the Welcome Home Cafe in Washington Square, New Orleans
Filipe of the Rainbow Family and the Houma Nation, Deanne of the Barefoot Doctors, Richard the Lionhearted

Emily & Eric of the Algiers site, Common Ground Clinic.

...contemplating
bass domination, of George Scott 3rd, as he leads contortions of riddim,
like a graffer works a rhyme on wallz via tips and nozzles, like an
illustrator transforms word to image, like writers collects the syntax
of sight into the symbolism of lexis, like cymbals and kneck snapping
snares used by a selector swift at the controls...

Peace,

How fast does light travel?: lord patch vs the giver

(for george scott 3rd, james chance, the contortions and lil g)