In her lecture The Long Struggle to Abolish Reproductive Slavery, Roberts traces the denial of Black womens reproductive and parenting rights to a 19th century court case that decided the offspring of enslaved persons were considered like animals, without human rights, even if they were the children of the owner himself. Stopping mistreatment of Black families was a paramount issue of the abolitionist cause and a major reason behind the 13th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution. But the hateful attitudes continued into modern times, and are underlying the idea that state law can dictate the terms of pregnancy and parenting, now confirmed by the US Supreme Court and applicable to all women. 

No rules now. Eat your smog, enjoy disasters. Trump killing American climate rules & science. Voices outside the bubble of U.S. corporate media: Germany, Canada, UK, France - and Democracy Now! First, super scientist Ben Santer tells Carbon Brief why he had to leave America.

1. Carnival Of Souls - J Wyze 2. Whack MC's - Konteks feat. Declaime 3. Quite Unique - Key-Kool & Rhettmatic 4. I Don't Know Either - Mr. Complex 5. Straighten It Out - Evadentlee, Tony Weyez and Es feat. SDotRoyalty and Arsun Fist 6. Not Your Ordinary-Rhythm Revolution - Polyrhythm Addicts 7. It's All Happening (The Table) - Coast Contra 8. Graffiti Gandalfs - Emapea feat. Beatz Catz 9. Big Phat Boom - Polyrhythm Addicts 10. Zonin' Out (remix) - Polyrhythm Addicts 11. The Sidelines - Lone Catalysts feat. Mr. Complex 12. We The Kings (Gritty Kings mix) - Why-D feat. Grand P 13. Lyrical Fluctuation (remix) - Jigmastas feat. Pharoahe Monch, Yasin Bey, Talib Kweli, Shabaam Sahdeeq and Mr. Complex 14. It's Goin' Down - Mad Skillz 15. Cauterize - Legit & Rex Seshunz feat. DJ Uncle Fester and Theo 3 16. Grap Lova - KLIM Beats

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More of the same this week on Backbeat - except different, because you'll rarely hear anything repeated, there's just too much to play. Such as gospel from Clara Ward, jug band music from Clarence Williams, African jive on a pennywhistle from West Nkosi, a Japanese take on a classic Duke Ellington song, Eddy Arnold's first hit and a nice new one from Reid Jamieson. Backbeat is also available in a 56 and 58 minute versions in three separate files if you want breaks. I am happy to provide custom station IDs, promos and liners. Email Lorne@Backbeatradio.com or visit www.backbeatradio.com for more information.

The Palestinian tragedy stretches across generations; a wound carried in the open for the world to see yet so often ignored. Entire communities have been uprooted, cities shattered, and families torn apart, while the global news cycle moves on as if grief has an expiration date. The media, once trusted to bear witness, has repeatedly failed them reducing a people’s suffering to fleeting headlines, softening the language of occupation, and avoiding the uncomfortable truths that demand moral courage. When reporters dared to ask real questions, many were reprimanded or removed. When anchors tried to name the injustice plainly, their voices were cut short. Into that silence stepped ordinary people activists, creators, and influencers who refused to let the story die. They filled the void left by institutions, using their platforms to show the world what cameras would not. But the moment these voices grew too loud, a new wave of pressure emerged. Accounts were flagged, demonetized, shadow banned, or erased entirely. Videos disappeared. Livestreams were cut. Entire pages vanished overnight. It became clear that the struggle was no longer only on the ground in Gaza or the West Bank it was also online, in the battle over truth itself. This is why supporting independent reporters and creators is no longer optional; it is essential. They are the last line of defense against erasure. They document what others bury. They speak when institutions fall silent. They carry stories that would otherwise be lost. Their work is not polished or sanitized, it is raw, urgent, and human. And in a world where truth is filtered through political interests, independent voices have become the closest thing we have to unfiltered reality. But even as we uplift these voices, we must pause to honor those who paid the ultimate price. The Palestinian journalists who ran toward danger, not away from it. The photographers who captured their homeland’s final moments before becoming targets themselves. The reporters who documented the destruction of their own neighborhoods, knowing each assignment could be their last. Their courage was not abstract, it was lived, breathed, and carried into the fire. They were chroniclers of a people’s suffering, guardians of memory, and witnesses the world desperately needed. And beyond them, the Palestinian people themselves, mothers burying children, children burying parents, families burying entire bloodlines have become the living archive of a tragedy the world has yet to fully confront. Their endurance is a testament. Their grief is a record. Their resilience is a rebuke to every attempt to silence them. In their names, and in the names of those who continue to speak when silence would be safer, we keep telling this story. Because truth, once spoken, refuses to disappear. This is This Week in Palestine.

Black History Month: A chapter in the struggle for equal rights.

– Anti racist march in Bristol – then far right attacked Antifa benefit gig in Red Lion pub. Tommy Robinson brigade are pro Israel and anti Muslim. Bristol pub-goer says people turned up with flags wanting a fight Police are reviewing CCTV footage – Immigration 2/3 down last year to 200,000 net. Is it due to Labour government measures such as stopping relatives joining carers, or the economic collapse, or both? – Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Poised To Secure Working Majority Forget the old two-party duopoly — Britain’s political landscape is fracturing before our eyes – In Stunning New Poll BMG poll shows Reform UK at 32 per cent, 12 points ahead of Labour (20 per cent) and 15 ahead of Conservatives (17 per cent). – 41% increase in business collapse story. Energy price increase and destruction of Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Administrations rise by 41% amid surge in new year high street failures – Fine Print Andy Roberts – British Gas making huge profits and regulations not working. Problems with capitalism. Fine Print – This video breaks down exactly how the system was rigged: the price cap that doesn’t cap your bill, the standing charges funding foreign billionaires, and the revolving door between the regulator and the companies it’s supposed to police – I asked Steve what he would say to people who don’t agree with him living in a van. “Anybody that says, ‘you shouldn’t be living like that’…get your chequebook out,” he said. “Write a nice cheque, buy us a nice piece of land, or donate us a house, or shut your mouth. “Simple as that.” – Sky News report on people living in vans in UK. People being evicted from van sites. UK housing system broken. – Restore Party – new right wing Party run by Rupert Lowe. Tories joining Reform. Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe launches new party – C4 News – Barry Gardner on High Court saying Labour can’t delay local elections. Who controls Starmer? – The government has decided not to cancel some of the local elections which were due to be postponed in England but challenged in the courts only by Reform UK – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves appear to have gone back on several manifesto pledges and promises made before they were elected. Sky News is looking at some of the biggest U-turns Labour has made since coming into power – Former Bristol Tory MP Jack Lopresti has joined the Azov Battalion in Ukraine – a pro Nazi group. Former Bristol Tory MP and Freemason joins neo-Nazi Azov Brigade – Former Conservative MP Jack Lopresti has joined the far-Right Nazi Ukrainian Azov Brigade. Announcing the news on X this morning, he said: “I am honoured to begin my service with the 12th Special Forces Brigade “Azov” of the National Guard of Ukraine – Ras Judah, local Rastafarian, has died RIP – an interview he did with Tony. Tributes paid to race relations campaigner Judah Adunbi, known locally as “Ras Judah”, reportedly died on Friday Tributes have been paid to a “pillar of Bristol’s conscience” after the death of race relations stalwart Judah Adunbi – Piers Corbyn suspended from Your Party over allegations of supporting far right and racism – after talking to locals who’s daughters had been attacked by illegal immigrants. – Dear Marion, Treasurer – for Complaints Team, Interim Leadership & membership Team, I was suspended from YourParty membership and excluded from the CEC London elections, despite being validly nominated and endorsed and being formally and validly invited to attend hustings – LOTO working with Your Party – David Miller David Miller @Tracking_Power I am told that Your Party has now named seven members in a – presumably interim – executive committee – (Prince) Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday this week. Scapegoat? After the scandal of Andrew, the royals owe us transparency about their finances They have the use of 50 residences on estates totalling 250,000 acres and a life of wealth and privilege paid for by the public purse, yet their financial lives are shrouded in secrecy. The time has come to open up the books, writes Chris Blackhurst – Wiltshire Times – Epstein stayed in Wraxall Manor in Wiltshire Epstein ‘entered British high society’ through Wiltshire home The paedophile financier Jeffery Epstein is reported to have first entered British high society in a Wiltshire village – Mandelson pushed for Andrew to be trade envoy against King’s wishes New Labour fixer claimed Duke of York was ‘well qualified’ for role despite brother’s concerns Lord Mandelson helped secure the job of UK trade envoy for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor against the wishes of the King. – The then Prince Charles expressed concerns about his brother’s suitability for the role, but the late Queen Elizabeth II overruled him with backing from the former trade secretary – Jean Luc Brunel found dead in his police cell in 2022 – he was about to speak out about Epstein. Model agency boss planned to testify against Epstein before backing out – and was later found hanged in cell – A top modelling agency boss who was a longtime friend of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was in negotiations to provide prosecutors with evidence against him but suddenly backed out – Declassified UK – Labour Friends of Israel dinner. Labour MPs blank journalists amid Friends of Israel lunch grilling MPs attending a Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) lunch at a swanky London hotel blanked reporters as they were grilled about their attendance. – Journalists from Declassified UK stood outside the Park Plaza in Westminster to doorstep Labour MPs, including some ministers, as they made their way from the Houses of Parliament to a lunch with the pro-Israel lobby group – ‘The Law Must Take Its Course’ says King Charles? John Morgan spelled out how Prince Charles’ ‘Way Ahead Group’ secretly commissioned the demise of Princess Diana in 1997 because she was ‘a threat to the British Crown’ and landmines industry. – John Morgan also explains how Sherard Cowper-Coles was brought over to Paris, replacing te MI6 station chief for a couple of weeks, to organise the Princess Diana assassination, using SAS riders on powerful motorbikes and a flash from a Fiat Uno to disorientate Diana’s driver, Henri Paul. – How They Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking Truth John Morgan (2015) Assassination This explosive book blows the lid on one of the most shocking crimes of our modern era. – ‘In No Way Shape of Form Am I Suicidal’ Virginia Giuffre’s 2019 tweet claiming she was not suicidal. Virginia Guiffre tweeted ‘I am not suicidal’. Not Suicidal: Virginia Giuffre’s Past Tweet, Car Crash Days Before Death – Putin like a King? King Charles a political King. – Really Graceful – Andrew’s arrest and guilt of King Charles. What the Media Won’t Tell You About KING CHARLES III – Steve Bannon interview with Epstein in 2019 just before he was killed – he’s honest about banking system fraud and why Freemason Bill Clinton was responsible for the 2008 global banking crisis. – Jeffrey Epstein SHOCKING INTERVIEW with Steve Bannon RAW & UNCUT – Epstein, Ghislaine affair – is Epstein still alive? Probably no. He was fairly low level. Recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell in the 1990s. His intelligence bosses didn’t want him testifying anywhere, ever, as it would compromise everything. – Mandelson introduces Starmer as new PM in US – as he gets role of UK Ambassador to US. – Keir Starmer fawning speech announcing irregular appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK Ambassador embassy in Washington DC 27 Feb 2025 – EXTRAORDIANRY Speeches by Lord Mandelson and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the UK Embassy in Washington DC on the eve of the Prime Minister’s meeting with US President Donald Trump. – Mandelson still in control of the Labour Government all of whom owe him for their present positions – De Classified UK – Paul Holden on links between J P Morgan senior staff, Epstein and Mandelson – Keir Starmer’s reputation will “forever…be associated with the decision to appoint the best friend of the world’s most notorious paedophile” – Trump deal with Iran. Does Netanyahu have some Epstein, Ghislaine dirt on Trump to blackmail him with? – Dollar collapse & Trump’s lasting legacy: Top Economist Warns Prof Steve Keen One year into Trump 2.0 – Renowned economist Professor Steve Keen issues a dire warning about a coming financial storm that most economists are blind to. – While the world focuses on the AI boom and tech sector promises, a far more dangerous sovereign debt crisis is brewing in global bond markets – MAXWELL/EPSTEIN BIGGER PICTURE 1: The Epstein Network and Global Intelligence Complicity: How the World’s Spy Services Enabled a Criminal Empire – Evarist Chahali Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and blackmail operation functioned for over two decades with documented connections to at least a dozen intelligence services spanning the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, France, and several additional states. – FBI files confirms the Bureau possessed intelligence pointing directly to foreign intelligence connections and still failed to act. – Which Intelligence Services Were Connected to Epstein’s Network? The Epstein network touched an extraordinary number of intelligence services – What follows is the most comprehensive open-source mapping of these connections available. ?? Mossad (Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) – MAXWELL/EPSTEIN BIGGER PICTURE 2: Paul Knaggs, Labour Heartlands, article. It wants wages kept low. It wants voters kept apathetic and polarised. Sir Keir Starmer: The Trilateral Commission and Jeffrey Epstein – Behind closed doors, they meet hidden away. Some call them “the shadow government,” “the Establishment,” the “global elite” that runs the world. They call themselves simply … The Trilateral Commission. – If you have ever wondered how Sir Keir Starmer could go from being first elected in 2015 as a Labour MP to Labour Leader in 5 years, That’s one parliamentary term, maybe look at his friends and the organisations he belongs to. Sir Keir Starmer: Trilateral commission member – Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore UN member, on how diplomacy means talking to leaders you don’t like and peace means compromise. The West is an ‘emperor with no clothes’ – ex UN security council boss Channel 4 News – For decades veteran Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani has challenged what he sees as Western complacency, warned of the irreversible rise of Asia, and argued that the global order must adapt to a world no longer dominated by Europe and the United States – IRAN WAR WARNING AND EXPLANATION: Max Blumenthal on Judge Neapolitano – Trump’s deals with Iran. Jeffrey Sachs and Yannis Varoufakis – problems with Europe – won’t work with Putin and economies going downhill. – Trump said Iran basically had 10 days to make a deal or things would go get really bad and then he started kind of um erotically describing B2s, B2 bombers. What What kind of deal does Trump seek? – Europe Has Become a War Project — Can It Be Stopped? | Yanis Varoufakis & Jeffrey Sachs DiEM25 – As leaders, generals and diplomats gather in Munich this weekend Yanis Varoufakis and Jeffrey Sachs will examine the conclusions of the Munich Security Conference – The only thing that Iran could do to mllify Trump and make a3:39 deal that would be sufficient for him and Netanyahu would be for Ayatollah Ali Kamei to join the Board of Peace and basically bow before Trump – Gaza War—Israel’s Ritual Human Sacrifice? | Prof. Jiang Xueqin – mass killing of enemies in wars. – What is really happening in Gaza is a ritual sacrifice and this happens quite often in human history. – Why is it that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do it? Why do the Phoenicians do it? Why the Romans do it? And why is it today the Israelis do it in Gaza? – For example, you could just poison their water or you could poison the air so that everyone in Gaza gets a fast cancer. Right? We have the technology to do this. So, so Israel could do it this secretly and no one would talk about it and in 20 years time, 30 years time, the population of Gaza would all be gone. – It would be a very secret, right? Instead, they choose to do this in front of the world. And my argument to you is that this is intentional. https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2026/02/the-bristol-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-10/

Sonic Café with the Fire Inside, that’s Bob Seger from 1991. So welcome to our little coastal radio café, a place that feeds your need, for eclectic music comedy, and just a little pop culture thrown in along the way. I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 472. This time the Sonic Café presents a mix pulled from 56 years that includes everything from Fontaines D. C. with Starburster, to Cream with White Room from 1968 with introduction provided by none other than Eric Clapton. We’ll also hear form The Empty Hearts, Supersuckers, Chad Kroger, Soraia, and ahh the list goes on. Then the Sonic Café brings you the voice of the late Carl Sagan, predicting the fate of the US, and George Carlin asking if the planet is OK. Oh and yet another Sonic Café two for two twin spin. Around the bottom of the hour we’ll spin Moon Martin with their original recording of Bad Case of Lovin’ you followed by the version Robert Palmer made famous. So yeah all that plus some other neat stuff thrown in for fun. So let’s get on with it already. From 2014 this is Weird Al Yankovic with a love song that is just plain weird. This is the Jackson Park Express and we’re the Sonic Café.

Zionism is the belief that Palestinians can and must be expelled from their homeland so that settlers can take their place. Dissident Israeli historian Illan Pappé speaks with hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah about Zionism's roots in European colonial ambitions. Longtime Palestine solidarity activist Tony Greenstein joins Nora and the Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley to discuss the Zionist movement’s prioritizing the colonial project in Palestine over saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust, and how its logic has always been rooted in racial nationalism, not refuge. Palestinian writer Abdaljawad Omar talks to the Electronic Intifada’s Tamara Nassar about how Zionism was shaped by Europe’s anti-semitism. We also hear an excerpt from an Electronic Intifada mini-documentary called Why Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitism.

Golden oldies (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Mary Catherine Bateson, author of ““Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition. Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, “Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition,” believes that we are strangers. She describes us as immigrants in time, rather than space.In this interview from the archives of Radio Curious, recorded in April 2000, we visit with Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of two distinguished anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The book Mary Catherine Bateson recommends is “Ithaka: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being Found,“ by Sarah Saffian. Originally Broadcast: April 17, 2000.

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Germany, France 24, Japan, and Cuba.

New Celtpunk from Australia! You've Got A Friend down under with The Cloverhearts. Haggis X-1test fire Arthur's Gold and we spin new Tiller's Folly at the Far End Of The Road. Contemporary Celtic comes home to Celt In A Twist each week with Patricia Fraser.

Sweet spins for you this week starting with a double serving of Turkish Delights from Altin Gun and Umut Adan and Zabanis, Vancouver's bhangra bangers En Karma take us from Surrey to London, where British R&B singer Rosie Love is Burning Down The House, and new music from Bahia, Brazil by Spok. It's only logical that you listen in. World Beat Canada Radio.

This episode is a talk by Gabriel Rockhill to mark the publication of his new book, titled “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?” For Rockhill, an American philosopher, writer, cultural critic, and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, the term "Western Marxism" is not simply a geographic label or a neutral academic category. Instead it denotes an ideological formation that depoliticizes Marxism and detaches it from revolutionary struggle, transforming it into a politically defanged cultural-philosophical discourse. In his view, Western universities, foundations, cultural institutions, Cold War anti-communism, and state and corporate funding structures all helped shape a form of Marxism that was safe, non-revolutionary, compatible with liberal capitalist societies, and “critical” but not politically threatening. His goal is to redirect Marxist theory back toward revolutionary praxis, global anti-imperialist movements, and material political struggle. Gabriel Rockhill spoke on December 11, 2025 in a panel discussion sponsored by Critical Theory Workshop.

First Half: In the first half of the episode, we discuss the implications for the MAGA voter base of Trump’s immigration policy and its effect on the job market. We also discuss how Trump and other conservatives hide racism behind their proximity to Black conservatives and how this phenomenon is mutually beneficial to them. Second Half: The second half of the show sees us discussing a new trend of MAGA Christians referring to empathy as ‘sinful’ and ‘toxic’ as a way to provide cover for their extreme beliefs. We also discuss the shifting trends in Pew Research data of Black Americans over the last quarter-century and discuss the implications.

A look at some of the parody records put out as part of the Beatles craze some 60 years ago...some groovy 60s dance grooves of a Watusi dance style and it will become very clear why we what to play a particular song this week, but you have to follow along to find out.