Let the games begin! Your Eyes Are Gonna Shine like Canucks' fans, new music from the Murph's Okemah Rising. Gaelic Storm ring in with Chicken Boxer on an Irish Breakfast Day. Dom DufF is inspired by a Breton foot race, and Dervish dive into the Great Irish Songbook with The Rambling Irishman. Scottish, Danish and Maritime music blend into a mix of the finest in contemporary Celtic. It's Celt In A Twist with Patricia Fraser.
The sounds of our ancestors morph into the future with digital creativity! Debuting a global sci-fi soundtrack from DJ Raff and La Yegros. Radio fans, Los Furios salute the airwaves with another spin from Old Ghosts. An oldie but goodie, Spanish Flea from the Tijuana Brass gets Skeewiff'd and we share the opener from CeU's 6th album, Novela. And, there's plenty more where in the world those came from, this week on World Beat Canada!
Brendan interviews activist and PhD Candidate Tamara Lorincz. She discusses her research into the latest Canadian military budget.
Canada's military budget has increased by 95% since 2015, says Tamara.
How is this increased spending locking in our foreign policy direction?
The trial and tribulations of the madison avenue advertising industry are very much tongue in cheek this week with an album we profile, the guy who goes on a sleigh ride every christmas makes sandpaper and typewriter music and whoh, a beatles classic by that famous fighter of aliens seems a refreshing change, for her, but maybe not for your ears.
Weaponizing Antisemitism Fuels Dishonest Repression of Students Protesting Israel's Vicious Gaza War; Protest at Citibank NYC HQ Kicks of ‘Summer of Heat’ Actions Targeting Wall St Fossil Fuel Financiers; Haiti Crisis Draws International Intervention for Third Time in 30 Years.
This week in the lounge, Dan is joined by Amber and the Professor as they talk about the Kent State Protest killings, Marijuana and DNA changes, The Irish Paths of the Dead, and the continuing case for Planet 9. They discuss the potential accounting fraud at Tesla, play “Fact Checkin’ Time” and end the show with some feel good news.
The dangers of an invasion of Rafah and the brave protests at Columbia University and hundreds of other campuses. Bob Avakian answers the lie that opposition to Israeli/US genocide Israel is the same as antisemitism, and what IS the real reason for the crackdown on students opposing the US/Israeli genocide in Palestine? Andy Zee and Michelle Xai discuss Revolutionary May Day 2024. Alan Goodman on the horrific death and destruction that continues to unfold on the ground in Gaza.
How do you think your life would be different if you had spent your first five years as an adult incarcerated? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Kevin Ortiz, a progressive political activist in San Francisco whose life was very nearly derailed by a run-in with the police when he was 19 years old. We hear Kevin’s story, learn how the nonprofit SF Pretrial helped him out, and get some first-hand insight into a legal system that is tilted against young men of color. Then, we hear an excerpt from our 2022 discussion with San Francisco Public Defender Peter Calloway.
Jonathan Haidt is the author of The Anxious Generation and the Epidemic of Childhood Mental Illness, published in March 2024. He is in conversation with Tristan Harris, an ex-employee of Google. Harris had a key role in the Netflix documentary film The Social Dilemma and explained how the design of social media platforms manipulates people's views, emotions, and behavior.
Thanks to the Commonwealth Club of California Jonathan Haidt and Tristan Harris appeared together on stage on April 1, 2024.
This is a 24 minute excerpt of their conversation. For the full hour recording, that also shows the images of the graphs that present the specific data for mental illnesses, the decline of reading and math scores and the proof that this has become an international phenomenon - go to the website of the Commonwealth Club of California. You can also search for the film on YouTube under the title: Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation and the Epidemic of Childhood Mental Illness.
DATE: April 1, 2024
LOCATION: Commonwealth Club of California
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