To Kill or Not To Kill: That is the question still presented to juries in capital cases in the United States, one of the few countries remaining in the world to employ the death penalty. In this edition of Radio Curious, we visit with Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served as chaplain for the Texas Department of Corrections from 1982 to 1995 and counseled 95 inmates on their way to death by lethal injection. “At the Death House Door: No Man Should Die Alone,” is a independent film documentary, directed and produced by Steve James and Peter Gilbert, that presents a personal and intimate look at the death penalty in Texas through the eyes of Pastor Pickett, a Presbyterian minister. Over the years, after each of the 95 executions, Pickett would record his experiences with that person on the tape he used to practice his sermons. Although he never listened to those tapes, they became the thread and primary source for the movie. I spoke with Pastor Carroll Pickett on May 23, 2008 from his home in Texas, after hearing him speak at a special hearing on capital punishment in San Francisco, CA, while he was on a break from a national publicity tour. We began when I asked him to explain what brought him to work with condemned men and be with them in their last hours. This program was originally broadcast on June 25, 2009.
The book Carroll Pickett recommends is “Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist,” by Mike Farrell and Martin Sheen.
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we do our anniversary special on the 9/11 attacks by seeing it through the lens of family members of the casualties of the terrorist attacks, particularly those who came to doubt everything that was said about the tragedy being caused by member of government for reasons other than being caught with their pants down. In our first half hour, Matt Campbell, brother of 9/11 victim Geoff Campbell returns to the show to talk about the steps ahead for him now that his application for a new inquest into Geoff’s death was refused. Then in our second half hour, we are joined by Ray MCGinnis. He will talk about his 3 year old book "Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored."
No punches pulled this week. At the bell, a brand new spin from the Afro Celt Sound System due later this month. St. John's songsmith Len O'Neill share his tale of Rebels In The Rubble. More cool celtic from The Go Set who always bring the Opportunities. And, at high tide we float a cool classic from Fairport Convention. Come out swingin' with Celt In A Twist!
New trends from old friends this week. The Afro Celts drop one more from their album in waiting, 'Ova' and Manu Chao returns with 'Viva Tu'. We share the album opener. For the Pulp Fiction fan, Skeewiff hot rod Dick Dale's 'Miserilou' and Kiran Ahluwalia whips up a 'Pancake' for us. Sign up for the E-Blast at worldbeatinternational.com.
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Keeping time with crossing cultures this week starting with the harmony of Basque and Galician voices. Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 take afrobeat to the TOP. Introducing psychedelic salsa from Rio 18, a power punk palette cleanser from Ultrabomb and Soweto Gospel Choir X Groove Terminator Ride Like The Wind! Think globally, listen locally, World Beat Canada Radio.
Give us this day ... Sofi Tukker introduce us to their carbolicious new album, Bread. Sonova balance a Girl On A Wire, Brownout sub out Ozzy for Latin horns on Iron Man. We revisit South Asian invasion trailblazer Nitin Sawney and debut a 'Jawbreaker' from Sao Paulo's Nomade Orchestra. Delivering beats and treats for the Labour Day weekend, it's World Beat Canada Radio.
You've got the sky, you got the road. The world is your home! Take Celt In A Twist on your travels. We're spinning West African/Scottish from Chicago, Catalan pipes with electronics, ethno punk with Rocksalt & Nails, The Sons Of Southern Ulster and Prague's Pipes And Pints.
Punk Celts, Firkin from Budapest, decided to give limericks rest. Instead they present to you, an impossibly heavy Haiku. The Mollys serve up a Song Of Liberty, something for Finny McConnell's birthday, Davie Simmons tributes the lost at Culloden Field and The Once channel Queen. A Celtic music fan's best friend is Celt In A Twist with Patricia Fraser.
In the first half of today’s show, we take you back through the origin story of Civic Cipher! We’ve done lots of growing with the support of our listeners, and we share some of the lessons we’ve learned along the way!
In the second part of the show, we discuss the progress we’ve seen as a country over the past 4 years. Sometimes the outlook can seem bleak so it’s important to remind ourselves how far we’ve travelled.
Our Way Black History Fact is the former slave letter from Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 entitled
To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee.
Gaza War Continues to Kill as Massive Israeli Protests Blame Netanyahu for Latest Hostage Deaths; Activists Protesting Federal Reserve Climate Policy Block Road to Wyoming Annual Symposium; Coalition Demands US News Media Aggressively Cover Election Campaign Threats to Democracy.
It's the middle of the night where Snarf and Daffy are, so they maybe a bit dozey this week as they focus on a singer turned network news man for decades, some accordion tunes for all and another visit to the Limburger Lounge again, which sort goes with this week's insomnia driven show trying to help them get to sleep.
This episode of Today's Bluegrass showcases all new music. Some of the new tunes featured are from - The Steve Bruce band, Red Camel Collective, Ashleigh Graham, Aline Burns, Billy Gilman, Daryl Mosley & more.
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Sunsara Taylor on Kamala Harris, For the SYSTEM. Bob Avakian on what the “rule of law” means under this system. From the Bob Avakian Interviews. The campaign to spread Bob Avakian's social media throughout all society. “Welcome to Hell, the Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps” An Interview with Shai Parnes, Spokesperson for the Israeli Human Rights Organization B’Tselem.
We'll hear a killer disco track from The Voices of East Harlem, get out on the dance floor with some funky stuff from 1980s Jakarta, and celebrate the release of Jackie Shane's biopic!
We'll hear a killer disco track from The Voices of East Harlem, get out on the dance floor with some funky stuff from 1980s Jakarta, and celebrate the release of Jackie Shane's biopic!
When the biologist, Professor Tim Mousseau, concluded this talk by showing heartbreaking pictures of the birds of Chernobyl and their tumors and birth defects, the physician and anti nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott stepped up to the podium to thank him.
She said: “I want to pay homage to Tim Mousseau, who with his colleagues is actually endangering his life by going into extremely high radioactive areas doing pioneering work, which is going to change the concept of radiation exposure to humans. What is happening to the animals, the insects and the plants is going to happen to us.”
Mousseau is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. He and his scientific collaborator Anders Moller from the University of Paris, Sud, have done research in the most contaminated areas of Chernobyl. When Fukushima Daiichi exploded they began field work there as well. They study birds, insects, microbes, and plants at over 1,000 sites, creating the most diligent inventories of each study area and returning year after year. They found significantly increased rates of genetic damage in direct proportion to the level of exposure to radioactive contaminants.
Tim Mousseau spoke on March 11, 2013, on the second anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi explosions at a Symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine. The two day meeting was organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Foundation, at nuclear free planet dot org, and co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
DATE: March 11, 2013
