2024 Tribute – Updated Archive:
Parenti predicted the financial crisis and said that giant corporate capitalism – by it’s very nature – is an apocalyptic system. When unregulated the built in elements of ever increased growth may well bring the whole system down. And he described the growing national debt not as a tragic mistake but as a means to shift ever more money from the tax payers to the financial institutions in the form of interest payments.
This speech is an analysis of the many structural flaws of a capitalist system that puts it on a permanent collision course with democracy. Recorded on August 23, 2008 at the closing reception for Maria Gilardin’s art show. This rebroadcast, made in March 2024, is eerily contemporary and lends a historic perspective to current events.
Date: 2008/08/23
The official subject matter of Sea Change Radio is environmental sustainability. This week, however, we are deviating from that to talk about a topic that we believe is inextricably linked to sustainability: stratification in education. We are talking with law professor, civil rights advocate, and educational diversity expert, Prof. John C. Brittain, about educational practices that perpetuate social, racial, and socioeconomic exclusiveness. Elite private schools were once restricted to wealthy white young men. Since the 1960s we have seen some progress at these schools – they all admit women, most have scholarship programs to make room for the non-wealthy, and they generally boast of need-blind admissions practices. But there is one hidden practice, often overlooked, which runs counter to all of that progress: the practice of legacy admissions. That is, giving preference to applicants who have a family connection to the school. The majority of elite educational institutions in this country do this. For example, in 2017, a full 41% of Harvard’s incoming freshman were legacies. Logic tells us that generation after generation, this sort of admission preference can’t be doing much for these schools’ demographic diversity. Professor Brittain and host Alex Wise discuss how legacy admission practices serve as affirmative action for the privileged, the irony that the practice thrives in the United States which holds itself up as a model meritocracy and how schools’ justifications for the ongoing use of legacy preferences don’t hold up to a reasoned analysis.
Joe discovers some new strains and Mrs Fletcher makes smoke in the driveway. Lots of laughs as always as Anthony gets on the mic. Tune in live every other Mondays at 8 pm eastern 7pm central over at http://www.chiampa.org
The Punk Playground brings you 2 hours of PUNK ROCK! This episode includes Adicts, TSOL, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Kill Your Idols, Free Beer plus tons of punk rock! This show is archived at Radio4All and is done for informational educational reasons. Some content may be explicit. Parental guidance advised. Long live punk, politics, fun, freedom, and social change for the better!
A Methodist prophet foretells coming inclusion; when San Francisco weddings were coming up “Rosie”; Ireland’s gay P.M. Leo Varadkar calls it quits; Israeli co-moms win birth certificate recognition, Russia charges queer club workers with “extremism”, Alabama excludes inclusion and trans toilet rights, New South Wales bans conversion therapy, and Aussie Senator Wong weds while footballer Cavallo proposes.
Those stories and more this week when you discover “This Way Out”, the world’s audio oasis for LGBTQ+ news and culture.
Joe discovers some new strains and Mrs. Fletcher makes smoke in the driveway. Lots of laughs as always when Anrthony gets on the mic. Tune in live every other Mondays at 8pm eastern, 7 pm central over at http://www.chiampa.org
The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.
Storming Caesar's Palace is a 2023 documentary film about welfare rights activism in the US and the state of Nevada. Producer Hazel Gurland talks to interviewer Anne Lewis about the work of early African-American activist Ida B. Wells, who fought against racist and sexist "tropes" in American society, and about Gurland's desire to expose the struggle against similar racist and sexist tropes in our own times. Excerpts from the film document the outrageous and brilliant tactics that Ruby Duncan and other activists brought to bear on the struggle for not only rights but survival, during the 1960s and '70s.
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
We'll hear sweet soul from Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Sam Cooke, and Al Green, and listen to songs of the spirit from Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin.
We'll hear sweet soul from Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Sam Cooke, and Al Green, and listen to songs of the spirit from Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin.
Is it science or fiction? Both! This week on Radio Ecoshock, top climate science fiction writers Kim Stanley Robinson, and Bruce Sterling. Robinson shocked the world with his 2020 book The Ministry of the Future where 20 million people perished in a massive heat wave. We talk consequences in a new interview. My feature on the climate sci-fi work of Bruce Sterling was produced in 2006 - but sounds like today (unfortunately).
1. City Streets - Kolab
2. The Moon - ACatCalledFRITZ
3. Farside Views - The SameOlds
4. Brother Jack - Mr. Backside
5. Seven Kings - J. Rawls & Cas Metah ft. Taiyamo Denku, Sleep Sinatra, Theory Hazit, Blast Mega, Stik Figa and Sheisty Khrist
6. Jordan Theory - Masta Ace & Marco Polo
7. fivefourthreetwoone - The Deli (Baptiste Hayden & Moka Only)
8. Pinball - Danny Miles
9. What Eye See pt. 2 - Essa ft. Devise
10. El Loco Soy Yo - Tremendo
11. Turnover - Crunch FM & Kick A Dope Verse!
12. Prism - WordChemist & Shinobi Stalin
13. Hard To Process - Mantangi ft. DJ Daz Jones
14. Direction Shifts - DJ Robert Smith & BambuDeAsiatic ft. Supastition
15. Thee.Love - Nytelife ft. Moe Green
16. Al Bundy - The Emsee
17. Reality Bites - Gage D.
18. Jazzy Byrd - Garcia Vega & Clypto
19. Stay Fly - North$ide Dro
20. The Pen - Shark The SOB & DAS
21. Hands Free - KiLaMDaPro
