Welcome to the Sonic Café. We kick things off with We Are Here To Make Plastic from the Neil Cowley Trio—yes, that’s actually the title—and honestly, maybe they’re right. Anyway, I’m Scott Clark; glad you’re here for episode 502.
So, I don’t know how the week goes where you live, but around here we push through Wednesday, slide past Thursday, and—boom—there it is… Friday. And here at the Sonic Café, that can only mean one thing: It’s Jazz Friday, Again.
So let’s duck down the steps into our dimly lit, subterranean jazz club, a room full of sound, that leans in all the right directions. We’ve lined up a smokin’ mix of vintage and modern jazz vibes including The Groove Collective with Bionic, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Chaz Jankel, Ronnie Cuber blowing hard on Rifftide, Dr. John, and of course John Coltrane with Alabama — a moment of reflection and depth you won’t want to miss.Plus, we’ll drop in on Herbie Hancock as he shares the time Miles Davis taught him a life lesson he never forgot from, inside the music. Trust us… it sticks. So settle in, exhale, and let the world step aside for a bit because, It’s Jazz Friday… again. So let’s get to it. This is Snarky Puppy, and we’re the Sonic Café.
Israel is bringing its “Gaza strategy” of mass destruction and forced displacement to the occupied West Bank. Hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah speak with journalist Zena Al Tahhan, who has been reporting from Hebron, about the devastation left behind and what displaced families face as they return. They also discuss Israeli settler terror against Palestinian olive harvesters, whether Israel’s election results offer Palestinians any prospect of change and escalating Israeli attacks on journalists and diplomats.
On the Resistance Report, Jon Elmer looks at the past seven days in the Strait of Hormuz. Tankers trying to slip through on the US-backed southern route are exploding and burning, and Iran’s 358 missile keeps shooting down American MQ-9 Reaper drones. Jon explains how the missile works, and why it has gutted about a third of the US drone fleet. He also looks at Iran’s warning that if the US resumes its war, the response will come “without geographic limitation.”
Electronic Intifada contributor Roqayah Chamseddine reports from southern Lebanon, where an Israeli drone strike in Marjayoun killed paramedic Nasser Muhammad Yunus and severely injured photojournalist Kamal Yunus. Israeli drones are also circling over Tyre and Beirut’s southern suburbs, and rescue workers say the drones track them as they respond to the shelling.
Shaimaa Hussein and Israa Abu Jald grew up together in Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp, as classmates, neighbours and best friends. Israa was a nursing student and poet. In October 2023, Israel bombed her home, killing her along with her parents and her two sisters and their children. Nora Barrows-Friedman reads from Shaimaa Hussein’s article “Israa was a friend for life.”
Well, the midtWell, the midterm results are in, and by Donald Trump’s own definition, most Americans are now communists, socialists or transgender advocates.
Do you know how the food you eat is raised? In this conversation host and producer Attorney Barry Vogel visits with Gene Baur, author of “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts And Minds About Animals And Food.” Gene Baur is the president and cofounder of Farm Sanctuary, the nations leading farm animal protection organization, which advocates the fair treatment of farm animals, a return to the roots of agriculture and the end of animals suffering for our consumption.
I spoke with Gene Baur at our studio in Ukiah, California on March 22nd, 2009 and began by asking what brought him to be involved in food and it’s production.
The book Gene Baur recommends is “Calling All Radicals: How Grassroots Organizers Can Save Our Democracy,” by Gabriel Thompson
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. Japan, France, and Germany.
Samhain has come and gone but we still have 10 treats to hand out. It's the Celt In A Twist Top 10 for October! Join Patricia Fraser as she counts down our favorite tracks from the month past PLUS surpising debuts from Maggie’s Wake new Lifelines album, North Sea diver turned songsmith Pete Davies, pancakes with berries from Denmark’s Marvara and some metal-tinged folk from the forests of Finland. Check out the new chart at your favorite social media and join us!
Themes echo through this week’s playlist from Debt (La Dette) by Skanderani to La Fin De L’economie (The End Of The Economy) from Aquaserge. Musicians are hurting like everyone else. New MIDIval PunditZ should soothe the nerves, CeU’s Chega Mais is a sweet distraction, Nordic pop from Finland’s Regina and Estrella Fugaz play Chis Isaac’s Wicked Game. Keeping time with the beat of the world on World Beat Canada!
We did a combined Civic Cipher/QR Code Recap of this week’s election results!
Main Segment 1 CULTURE (10 mins): We Did Not Vote for Allies
Main Segment 2 OPINIONS (10 mins): Republicans Clash Over Who’s to Blame for Midterm Losses
Better Do Better (6 mins): There’s Only One Reason to Celebrate Byron Donalds
Q Ward’s Clapback (7 Mins): Present
Main Segment 3 DIALOGUE (10 mins): What Are the Comments Saying About Democratic Victories?
Main Segment 4 ENTERTAINMENT (10 mins): Trump Blames Fox and MAGA Blames Everything but Him
It's our own version of the Gong Show this week as Snarf feels the show needs a musical gong, some fun material as we look at only album parody legend Spike Jones ever had, and a steel band doing disco and rock classics. It's a mess o' music that can only be cheezy.
Dr. Asaad Abu Sharkh. From inside the US/Israeli prison that is Gaza, this interview was recorded in 2018 - under difficult conditions. After that, Salman Abu Sitta of the Palestine Land Society, discusses the theft of Palestine and the genocidal attempt to erase the Palestinian people from the face of the earth as the longest continual Ethnic Cleansing in history.
Many of us think of child labor as a Dickensian problem squarely situated in the distant past, or perhaps in some far-off land in South Asia or Africa. But the reality is that children still comprise an alarming portion of the workforce here in this country: According to the US Department of Labor, the number of minors employed in violation of child labor increased by 283% between 2015 and 2022. This year alone, 13 states have introduced bills weakening child labor protections, and four have enacted them. And the US is the only United Nations member that refuses to sign on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with occupational health and safety expert Richard Hirsh about the problem of child labor in the US. We discuss the white paper on child labor issues that he co-authored, examine the associated educational deprivation, and look at some of the big moneyed interests that are pushing to allow more and more children to enter the American workforce.
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This week we’ll have another look at the US midterm elections and what will follow with a PSA from Dragpac.org, and we’ll celebrate a victory for trans healthcare in New Zealand. In the news the far-right presidential candidate lost in Brazil’s elections, but India’s right-leaning government is purging trans voters. The UN has questions about the rights of queer children in China, and Berliners protest a raid on a transfeminine gathering. All that and more now that you’ve found This Way Out.
