A Zoom webinar from the Veterans for Peace 2024 convention (August 16 -18), presented here with their permission.
https://www.veteransforpeace.org
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)
Professor in Educational Leadership for Change, Fielding Graduate University
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D., is a professor at Fielding Graduate University’s doctoral program in Educational Leadership for Change. Former Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge, he fulfilled his Sun Dance vows with the Medicine Horse Tiosopaye there and is a made relative. Having received his honorable discharge as a lieutenant in the US Marine Corps in October 1969, Four Arrows co-founded the VFP Chapter with Bud Day and Tony Van Renterghem in Flagstaff, Arizona. He served four tours of duty at Standing Rock.
Jenny Pacanowski
Funder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving
Jenny Pacanowski is the founder and director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving, a reintegration program utilizing free writing and performance to empower experiences and facilitate skills to thrive in daily life. In the military, she served as a combat medic in Iraq and in a medical evacuation unit. Jenny was betrayed by the Army when they did not follow through with the educational benefits written in her contract. This betrayal contributed to an extremely difficult transition back into civilian society. Due to almost losing her life to post traumatic stress, Jenny decided to create empowerment programming to help other veterans cultivate skills and rebuild their lives after military service through storytelling, community and retraining their brains to thrive.
Marjorie Cohn
Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught from 1991-2016, a former criminal defense attorney, and past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She lectures, writes, and provides commentary for local, regional, national and international media. Professor Cohn is cohost of Law and Disorder on WBAI radio in New York and heard on 150 stations nationwide and online. She is founding dean of the Monique and Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law and Co-coordinator of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign (VAORRC). Marjorie is a member of the VFP Advisory Board.
Margaret Stevens
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Historian and Teacher
Margaret Stevens served as a combat medic in the NJ Army National Guard from 1997 to 2004, where she was called up on 9/11. She has spent the past decade and a half teaching history at Essex county college in Newark, NJ, where she was raised. As a historian, teacher, filmmaker and parent, she has remained steadfast in her lifelong struggle to overcome global imperialism through supporting acts of international working class solidarity of all kinds.
Margaret Kimberley
Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report and the current host of the Black Agenda Radio podcast. Her book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents was published in 2020 by Steerforth Press. Dr. Cornel West said, “Margaret Kimberley gives us an intellectual gem or prophetic fire about all the U.S. presidents and their deep roots in the vicious legacy of white supremacy and predatory capitalism. Such truths seem more than most Americans can bear, though we ignore her words at our own peril!”
On May 20, 2024 she briefed the United Nations Security Council as a civil society representative, speaking about weapons transfers to Ukraine as a threat to international peace and security. She is a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism, and the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press' 2021 Women in Media Award. She is also a board member of Consortium News.
Ms. Kimberley is a contributor to the anthologies "In Defense of Julian Assange," "Capitalism on a Ventilator: the Impact of COVID-19 on China and the U.S.," and "Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence." Her activism includes membership on the Administrative Committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition, the Coordinating Committee of Black Alliance for Peace, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation.
She has appeared in national and international media including CGTN, RT, Al Mayadeen, Deutsche Welle (DW), Al Jazeera English, and Sky News. Ms. Kimberley's work can be supported on Patreon, and can also be found on Youtube, Facebook, X @freedomrideblog, Instagram, Telegram, BlueSky and Linktree.
She is a graduate of Williams College and lives in New York City.
Link: https://www.margaretkimberley.com/
Harrison Mann
Former U.S. Army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Middle East/Africa Regional Center
Harrison Mann is a former U.S. Army major and executive officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Middle East/Africa Regional Center who resigned in protest of his office’s support for Israel during its Gaza campaign. He previously served as a Middle East all-source intelligence analyst and led a crisis cell coordinating intelligence support for Ukraine. Prior to DIA, he worked at the U.S. Embassy Tunis Office of Security Cooperation and led Army Civil Affairs teams combatting regional smuggling under U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) in Bahrain. Harrison began his Army career as an infantry officer. He received a B.A. from the College of William & Mary and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Juan Bettancourt
Senior Airman and Conscientious Objector
Juan Bettancourt is a Senior Airman in the United States Air Force, currently stationed out of Lackland, TX. He belongs to a growing cohort of public and anonymous conscientious objectors who refuse to stay silent in the face of the heinous acts of violence and destruction inflicted upon the people of Gaza by the Israeli army. This ongoing genocide, primarily funded by American taxpayer money, has served as a catalyst for our conscience to evolve and for us to remain resolute in our humanistic stance against participating in any form of war.
The issue of sexual orientation plagues people in many different ways — political upheaval that sometimes include religious or physical violence. But then politics, religion and violence are integral to human belief systems. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Irwin Keller, also known as “Winnie,” a founder and current member of “The Kinsey Sicks,” the Dragapella Beautyshop acapella Quartet. The name, “The Kinsey Sicks” comes from Alfred Kinsey’s sexual orientation scale of homosexual men, the measure of which Irwin Keller explains in our conversation. Blasphemy, one of the hallmarks of the Kinsey Sicks resounds in their work and in the echoes of this interview recorded in a Northern California synagogue on July 28, 2008. We began when I asked Irwin Keller to describe “Winnie,” the character he portrays and the origin of “The Kinsey Sicks,” but first lets listen to the remainder of “Trixie” the second song on their newest CD, “Sicks, Sicks, Sicks!” You can learn more about the Kinsey Sicks by visiting their website, www.kinseysicks.com
The book Irwin Keller recommends is, “The Seventh Well,” by Fred Wander and Michael Hoffman
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This week on the Global Research News Hour we will be looking behind us at the consequences of the great COVID-19 pandemic and looking ahead at the second round of pandemic diseases
as the Mainstream press is beginning to increasingly formulate and as Bill Gates himself predicted way back in 2020. In our first half hour, we will look at the findings from the recently released final Report from the National Citizens Inquiry: Canada’s Response to Covid-19, and we will talk to one of the authors of that report. In our second half hour, we will speak to film-maker and journalist James Corbett about what to make of signs a new pandemic may be on the way and also to look at the latest draft of the Pandemic Agreement which could potentially affect the freedom of our national and individual health.
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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba.
1. Organized labour should rally to defend CUPE’s Fred Hahn;
2. US makes a joke of the word “mediator” in Gaza,
3. Top Biden aide attends Liberal retreat to order Canadian tariffs on Chinese EVs: Foreign interference, is it not?
4. A personal tribute to lawyer/activist, Peter Rosenthal
US Doctor Shares His Eyewitness Account of Gaza War Horrors; Trump's Racism is the Primary Driver of His Voter Support; Youth Incarceration in the U.S. Declines, but Racial Disparities Persist.
Our hosts finally get to broadcast from the beach this summer, and pick a cheesy beach movie of the past to profile in between hiding from the sun, some Barq Rock of the Beatles Kind, and a 70s lounge lizard with a lizardy tune appears in the Limburger Lounge.
On June 18, 2024, the Australian opposition leader, with his shadow cabinet, dropped the bombshell of making the upcoming elections in Australia a referendum on returning to nuclear power plant construction.
One day later ABC News Australia broadcast an interview with David Speers. They call this a decision between renewable energy and nuclear.
Only three days later, On June 22, 2024, the Australian antinuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott joined the debate with a line of reasoning that nobody had yet mentioned: Safety.
Helen Caldicott is best known for having founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, and nuclear weapons. In the 1970s, she gained prominence in Australia, New Zealand and North America, speaking on the health hazards of radiation. After the Fukushima Daiichi explosions in Japan, that began on March 11, 2011, she began a several year long campaign calling out the dangers of nuclear power plants.
On June 22, 2024, Helen Caldicott sent an e-mail to friends and organizations, quoting from the introduction to her book: Crisis Without End. It’s a collection of talks by leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations on radiation-related health risks in Japan, impacts on the world’s oceans, the question of low-dosage radiation risks, crucial comparisons with Chernobyl, health and environmental impacts, and the unavoidable implications for the nuclear energy industry.
However now it seems as if the safety risks of nuclear power are forgotten or being pushed aside in the global efforts to bring back nuclear power stations.
Come back when TUC radio returns for excerpts from the two-day symposium at the NY Academy of Medicine on March 11 and 12, 2013, titled The Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima. The excerpts are from the Archives of TUC Radio.
DATE: June 2024
The Liberals' Love Affair With Mass Murderers (@BobAvakianOfficial, Revolution 74). Andy Zee talks with writer Paul Street, on the ground in Chicago, about "America is a Great Nation." From the Chicago press conferencedenouncing Kamala (“Ms. Mass Incarcerator”) Harris for her role as top cop in California – and call for revolution. Bob Avakian, “What if...?” (from “Revolution and Religion, The Fight For Emancipation and the Role of Religion, A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST and BOB AVAKIAN,” 2014)
In the first half of today’s show, we discuss the many Black conservatives that help shape the identity of the right, far right, and MAGA movements in this country. We explain how their input provides cover for White supremacist values and ideals, as well as provide a degree of deniability for folks who are hard-pressed to challenge their own biases and racist beliefs. We also discuss what incentivizes Black conservatives beyond simply espousing “traditional values.”
In the second part of the show, we discuss an online pamphlet that has gone viral entitled “Things You N***** Should Know Before You Vote” which is a great starting point for challenging a good amount of the disinformation that is circulating online and in political conversations across the country.
Our Way Black History Fact highlights the events leading up to the Watts Riots of 1965.
As kids, many of us read “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury and thought, "man, this book banning and burning stuff is terrible." Apparently, though, not everyone felt the same. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to filmmaker Arthur Bradford about his most recent documentary for MSNBC Films entitled "To Be Destroyed," which takes viewers inside efforts to ban books from a public high school in Rapid City, South Dakota. The film follows author and literacy advocate Dave Eggers, as he travels to the school district where his novel, "The Circle," was pulled from shelves along with four other titles. Bradford tells us about why this topic felt so important to him, gives us a glimpse behind the making of the film, and discusses how the documentary reveals some larger truths about right-wing crusaders in this country.
In the second installment of a three part series, I sit down with Brendan Campisi (formerly of The Alberta Advantage podcast) to discuss the formation of the working class in Palestine, the rise of Palestinian trade unions, and proletarian resistance to British colonialism and Zionist settler-colonialism from 1900 to the present day. This episode will focus on the Nakba and the early years of resistance to Israeli Apartheid.
Diverse Democratic delegates demonstrate equity and inclusion, a Beijing court grants groundbreaking visitation rights to a lesbian co-mom, Kathmandu Pride marches with a Gai Jatra memorial parade, the U.S. military’s HIV enlistment ban is discharged, a Houston trans sheriff’s surgery is denied after the fact, Florida’s tourism website disappears queers while the state’s New College dumpsters queer-inclusive DEI books, and Sphen the gay dad gentoo penguin leaves behind his Magic.
Those stories and more this week when you discover “This Way Out”, the international LGBTQ radio magazine.
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.
