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JUST IN from the amazing folks at the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project.
The long-awaited "Narratives of Displacement" is an oral history project map featuring the stories of the displaced upon a background of no-fault evictions in San Francisco and foreclosures in Alameda County. "The audio and video stories are embedded on the map, often in short and long format, so that viewers can engage in different clips of stories, or at times delve into deeper stories of loss and resistance." Check it ou...
Posted: Tue, May 19, 2015 1:38pm PDT
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for 9th, to the 15th, 2015....
Posted: Sun, May 17, 2015 5:15pm PDT
Martha Huckabuy of St Rose Community One Voice describes her experiences living next to the Shell / IMTT oil transport facility, which has doubled in size in the past year, as the United States exports more and more oil to other nations. Martha and st Rose was disturbed by noxious odors from the Shell / IMTT facility and testifies to the Natural Resources committee of the Louisiana house of Representatives on the need for fenceline monitoring...
Posted: Fri, May 15, 2015 9:26am PDT
Li and Saiya join us to talk about Girls Rock New Orleans, June 8th and on this summer at NOCCA. The performance will be on June 13th, and a fundraiser is tomorrow, at 5pm at Clouet Gardens....
Posted: Fri, May 15, 2015 9:16am PDT
Gahiji Barrow interviews members of LOUD, the Queer Youth Theater project based in New Orleans today. They discuss their upcoming performance, Pursuit of Justice, which will take place at the Mid City Theater this weekend. Also bring up topics of how queer youth interact with the police and feel about the police in New Orleans and what the group has brought to their lives....
Posted: Wed, May 13, 2015 6:49am PDT
Andrea Lewis smack down of JFK hitman Bugliosi 'n stuff...
Posted: Tue, May 12, 2015 2:10pm PDT
Freddie Gray Discovers America...plus that ronnen thing in Denmark moves to Texas...
Posted: Tue, May 12, 2015 2:10pm PDT
Radical economist Dr. Michael Hudson, on Bonnie Faulkner's Guns and Butter (KPFA/Pacifica Radio), has called the University of Missouri’s heterodox economics department, the anti-Chicago School of Economics. Lumpenproletariat.org speaks with one of the most interesting thinkers and theoreticians at UMKC’s radical economics department about radical transformation and social change. (70 minute audio file)...
Posted: Tue, May 12, 2015 2:40am PDT
A Black and gray uprising in Vallejo is demanding the return of a tournament size pool table donated to the Florence Douglas Senior Center by Vallejo native son CC Sabathia, a major league baseball star currently pitching for the New York Yankees....
Posted: Sun, May 10, 2015 5:35pm PDT
Militants talk about organizing happening at various workplaces around the Bay Area and beyond. Recorded at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, 2015....
Posted: Sun, May 10, 2015 12:22am PDT
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 2nd, to the 8th, 2015....
Posted: Fri, May 8, 2015 11:46pm PDT
The Desmoines Water Works is suing drainage districts for not properly regulating nitrate pollution. This may have an impact on the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, which is caused in part by agricultural runoff in the Mississippi River....
Posted: Thu, May 7, 2015 10:31pm PDT
A Human Rights based approach to drug policy...
Posted: Wed, May 6, 2015 8:15am PDT
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Posted: Tue, May 5, 2015 2:31pm PDT
Continued reading of "Witness in Palestine" including journal entry "Twisted Easter-Egg Hunt", music.
Length: 2:05:14/ Date Recorded: 2015-04-04/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info: 64Kbps, mp3 (147MB), Mono...
Posted: Mon, May 4, 2015 2:52pm PDT
Science can now spot internet trolls after just five comments; Hearted Letter to Bibi; Beit Sahour’s first intifada heroes celebrated in intelligent, funny film; Americans Want Netanyahu Investigated by the FBI for Nuclear Espionage; Arab-American music.
Length: 1:54:37/ Date Recorded: 2015-04-20/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File Info/ 64Kbps, mp3 (54MB), Mono...
Posted: Sun, May 3, 2015 3:28pm PDT
Continued reading from A. Baltzer's "Witness in Palestine", music.
Length: 1:55:53/ Date Recorded: 2015-03-28/ Location: Santa Cruz, CA/ File info: 64Kbps, mp3 (136MB), Mono...
Posted: Sun, May 3, 2015 3:15pm PDT
A tenant’s rights conference was held at the Tenderloin Community School all day last Saturday, April 25. The event was sponsored by the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, which is a joint collaboration of most or all of the housing rights organizations in the city. The Coalition is together to continue a multi-pronged campaign to turn around the escalating epidemic of big money-oriented evictions aimed at driving the price of housing out of reach of mostly everyone except wealthy ...
Posted: Sun, May 3, 2015 10:59am PDT
A tenant’s rights conference was held at the Tenderloin Community School all day last Saturday, April 25. The event was sponsored by the San Francisco Anti-Dis...
Posted: Sun, May 3, 2015 10:54am PDT