A look at actor, author and comedian Stan Freberg, who you might have heard more then you know, I reckon we'll bring you music to dance with in a geometric kind of way around the floor and I don't know if you'll last very long listening to the limburger lounge this week....but we can hope so.
Andy Zee and Raymond Lotta talk about the War in Ukraine and the very real danger of World War 3, and why the people need to act. Noche Diaz, National spokesperson for the Revolution Club, on the existential threats facing humanity, and why people need to take a stand. The play Tea with playwright, Velina Hasu Houston, and Elisa Bocanegra, artistic director of the Hero Theatre.
Sonic Café, grab the dial and turn it on up! Marcus King there from the El Dorado LP, so what’s goin’ on? Welcome to the café. I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 288. This time the Sonic Café encourages you to grab hold of the volume knob on your radio and turn it on up with a music mix pulled from the last 41 years that is just beggin’ to be cranked to eleven. Listen for The Rolling Stones, David Gilmour, Cornershop, Rock and Blues man Duke Robillard, AC/DC, King Tuff and many more. Wedged in between we’ll hear the comedic voices of Jim Breuer, Chelsea Peretti, and TJ Miller. All this time from the radio café with your weekly prescription of intelligent, eclectic music, comedy and pop culture, from way out here in the Pacific northwest, to the world, ahem. So ahh, stick around, and by all means, turn it on up. From the Flying Microtonal Banana album, here’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. We’re the Sonic Café.
Were joined by fired Starbucks workers from Memphis who came to New York to protest outside of Starbucks CEOs Howard Schultzs $40 million dollar Penthouse, denouncing the corporations ongoing retaliation and firing of workers fighting to unionize.
We must not forget Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves, actually the world's largest coffeehouse chain and has an estimated net worth of $84.6 billion.
Were building bridges to two of the fired Memphis Tennessee Starbucks workers, Beto Sanchez and Lakota McGlawn " who are demanding that they and their fellow workers immediately be reinstated, and that Starbucks end its union busting tactics
Effective Ways to Fight the Republican's Culture War; Extinction Rebellion Employs Civil Disobedience to Demand Govt & Business Respond to Climate Crisis; Elon Musk's Purchase of Twitter & the Future of Free Speech.
Andy Zee and Raymond Lotta talk about the War in Ukraine and the very real danger of World War 3, and why the people need to act. Noche Diaz, National spokesperson for the Revolution Club, on the existential threats facing humanity, and why people need to take a stand. The play Tea with playwright, Velina Hasu Houston, and Elisa Bocanegra, artistic director of the Hero Theatre.
Yanis Varoufakis taught economics in Britain, Australia, and his home town of Athens, Greece. In 2015 he became part of the Greek government. After his resignation he remained deeply involved in European politics. This is an interview by Steve Paikin on Canadian public TV, on April 21, 2022. Paikin is host of TVO’s Public Affairs program, The Agenda, and a well known documentary producer.
Paikin also brought up the four hour documentary about Varoufakis just released in May 2022 under the title: In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis. The filmmaker Raoul Martinez says: "In this documentary Varoufakis raises urgent questions about where our civilization is headed and how power works at the highest levels. And he connects economic failure, globalization, democracy, fascism and the climate crisis."
DATE 2022/04/21
With around a billion dollars in annual revenue, The Nature Conservancy is the largest organization of its kind in America. Their stated mission is to "conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends” and they boldly claim to have "done more than anyone else to advance conservation around the world." And yet, this large, powerful group is under fire from a set of progressive grassroots environmental justice advocates. This week on Sea Change Radio, we welcome the Reverend Leo Woodberry and Danna Smith to the show. Woodberry is pastor of Kingdom Living Temple in Florence, South Carolina and the executive director of the nonprofit New Alpha Community Development Corporation, and Smith is the executive director of the Dogwood Alliance. They explain why they are critical of The Nature Conservancy's stance on carbon offsets, wood pellet usage and its dubious alliance with the wood products industry.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Nina Newington talks about the Last Hope Camp, a forest defence camp that has been blocking logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia since December.
Tasmania’s liberation turns 25; remembering a U.S. Baptist preacher’s “final solution”; Canadian blood donors draw equal treatment, Baja California’s governor blocks a conversion therapy ban, Russia fines social media for “gay propaganda”, a Missouri school district bans classroom “safe spaces”, a Victoria town rejects IDAHOBIT rainbows, and Disney refuses to “Doctor” the Saudi “Multiverse”!
Those stories — and more this week — when you find "This Way Out": the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.
More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonably afraid of things like crime, drugs, people of color, immigrants, teenagers, etc. He writes, “The short answer to why Americans harbor so many misbegotten fears is that immense power and money await those who tap into our moral insecurities and supply us with symbolic substitutes.” This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our discussion with San Francisco deputy public defender, Peter Galloway. We delve further into the danger of cherry-picked crime statistics, look at the upcoming recall election of San Francisco’s relatively new District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, and examine the recent recall trend in the nation’s most populous state.
In his astute and timeless book, How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify.” This statement is at least as true as it was in 1954 when it was first published. Among the subjects most prone to statistical abuse: criminal justice. Our guest today on Sea Change Radio is Peter Calloway, an outspoken public defender whose Twitter thread about crime in San Francisco went a little bit viral last week. In the first half of our two-part conversation, we discuss the significance of US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is not only the first Black woman to serve on the highest court, but also the first public defender. We also talk about the role of the public defender’s office and why people tend to fall for sensationalized crime statistics.
SMOKES Episode – A takeover episode featuring Arturo Fuente cigars. This is a great lineup to start your cigar journey. It features such a wide range of flavors and size, everyone will find something they will love. So much interesting history around this company that you can actually feel in the cigar in hand. Did you know this brand was saved out of the Fuente backyard in Ybor City?
Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia and members of the BC Teachers Federation, and they have been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. They talk about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their recent success in getting their union to pass a motion in favour of divestment.
Celebrate Mother's Day with a musical Children's Hour, featuring some of our favorite independent children's musicians from around the world, honoring mothers through shoutouts and songs.
We included messages from our friends in Harmonica Pocket, son and mom Grammy nominees Pierce and Nnenna Freelon, Alison Faith Levy, Divinity Roxx, Claudia Robin Gunn, Lisa Matthews (Milkshake), Lindsay Munroe, and Daria. We even hear from our host, Katie Stone's mom!
Bruce Gagnon coordinates the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, (http://space4peace.org/) Bruce is a long time Union Organizer and Peace advocate and writers for a blog called Organizing Notes http://space4peace.blogspot.com/
Host Stuart speaks to Bruce about the origins of the Russia/Ukraine crisis, the hypocrisy of the US regime and its allies and how this conflict creates a war at home by robbing the public treasury. The propaganda machine at play and how the US/Nato is actively promoting war and silencing voices for Peace.
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