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		All materials are copyright to the authors of their material. All recorded material use rights reserved. You may broadcast recordings but please contact via About/contact to let me know you have done so. Unless otherwise noted all material recorded by Ed Russell for Active Ingredients media Please attribute when excerpting: give www.activeingredients.org so that others may download. Archives- select for description Still working A.I. MP3 files at peacejournal.org . Hudson-Mohawk IMC Mad in America 29June05 The Freedom Center From Labeling to Empowerment in Mental Health Care Tim Wise 20June05 Michael Ratner 19June05 Medea Benjamin 05June05 Northampton Committee to Stop the War 03June05 Coercive Psychiatry 22April05 Yanar Mohammed 14April05 Iraqi women's rights under attack Michael Parenti 08April05 Democracy vs. the "Bush agenda" Vandana Shiva 10April05 India Divided Elaine Hagopian Condensed Middle East History The Forum 26March05 New wMA. Jails & MA Death Penalty? Rachel Meeropol 22March05 Secret Imprisonment & Detainees Michael Klare 27February05 The Permanent Energy Crisis Sut Jhally 18February05 PR industry & perception management techniques Peter Kornbluh 2/15/05 HiFi The Case Against Henry Kissinger in Chile Francis Bok 2Febray05 Escape from Slavery John Perkins 11January05 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Howard Friel 22November05 co-author The Record of the Paper Seymour Hersh 18November04 Robert J Lifton 9November04 Noam Bahat Israeli Refusenik Michael Klare Blood & Oil Iraq From the Inside Vets Speak Jimmy Massey HiFi 9.9 meg LoFi 4.38 meg Former USMC Recruiter & veteran against Iraq war Lester Brown A Planet Under Stress Declining Oil Supply Facing Our Future Coca-Cola Kills Douglas Valentine History War on Drugs Dr. David Korten Renewing the American Experiment Amanda Romero AFSC Colombia William Rivers Pitt Truth Out Sut Jhally Hijacking Catastrophe 9/11, fear & The Selling of American Empire Harvey Wasserman Energy Tariq Ali Bush in Babylon Zia Mian-Nancy S. Mendez Undoing Empire: 500 Years is Enough Dr. Chandra Muzaffar American Empire: Globalization, War and Religion 9/22/03 Greg Palast The Best Democracy Money can Buy Vandana Shiva Corpoarate Biopiracy Christopher PyleThe Patriot Acts Poets Against the War: Sam Hamil et al. Phyllis Bennis Iraq, the UN, and Empire Percy Schmeiser Vs.Monsanto Mike Clark : Who Killed ML King? - Govt. HiFi 2/11/3 Recording remastered 05/31/07 Dr. Helen Caldicott "The New Nuclear Danger" Vandana Shiva Democracy:The World Beyond Globalization Sut Jhally Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: News Bias in the Israeli\Palestinian Conflict Father Roy Bourgeois Link restored SOA Watch: Guns, Greed and Globalization Jill Stein MD Human Health and the Environment Alfred McCoy Drugs & Covert Warfare in the Conduct of US Foreign Policy: From Indochina to Afghanistan John Stauber The Public Relations Industry -Comercial Uses of Perception Management
						Google Scraper -wipe that Big Brother "smear" from your shoulder when using Google Project Censored 2009 ....Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than at any time in human history.... http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/15-worldwide-slaverySojourners, Free Radio Santa Cruz on Radio4All site. Subtitle: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Follow the Program Type: Speech Featured Speakers/Commentators: Naomi Klein Follow the above link to download the talk and Q&A FRSC special broadcast of the talk given by Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/the-book Rick Wolff Recording 35.5 meg During a Media Education Foundation recording of a new project . Professor of Economics Rick Wolff University of Massachusetts at Amherst discusses the real causes of the fiscal meltdown. And the economic destruction of the Working -(Middle) Class in a short sighted effort to pump up corporate profits and CEO bonuses. Rough edit... -Some minor distortion and noise in this audio recording but mostly at the start (5 min.) Contact Rick Wolff 545-6351 rdwolff@worldnet.att.net . Michael Ratner 02October08 Recording 58:18 26.6 meg The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book, offers evidence that top government officials are guilty of war crimes. With Intro by Dr. Chris Pile Visit sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Coalition Against Secrecy and TortureSeries Recorded at Odyssey Books Victor S. Navasky 13Aug08 "Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq" - the definitive collection Part1 13.2 meg Part2 13.4 meg Readings from the new book that is "A definitive collection of misinformation- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience - of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies, about the Iraq War." Recorded at The Odyssey Bookshop www.odysseybks.com South Hadley Ma. Rudy Perkins 26June08 The People of Iran Recording 1:18:23 35.8 meg In this talk Rudy Perkins discussed his recent trip to Iran. Rudy Perkins is a long-time peace activist, attorney and co-founder of Swing the Vote. He toured Iran as part of a "citizen diplomacy" delegation organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), from May 1 to May 13, 2008. Sponsors included the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, SAGE, Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq, and Western Mass AFSC + Recorded in Amherst, Ma Best Of A.I. John Stauber 20July01 The Public Relations Industry Main 46:07 21.1 Q&A 22:56 10.4 While in the area for the Media Education Foundation production of "Toxic Sludge Is Good For You - The Public Relations Industry Unspun" John Stauber spoke at Food for Thought Books John Stauber's interests are in the "perception Management" PR & propaganda industries. Learn about the business of corporate shaping of human ideas. Sourcewatch PR Watch , Disinfopedia Chris Carlsson 15May08 Part1 27:22 12.5 meg Part2 30:04 13.7 meg Chris Carlsson is an author and the director of the multimedia history project in San Francisco, Ca. He serves there as publisher, editor, and community organizer. http://www.processedworld.com Recorded at Food for Thought Books Amherst, Massachusetts Voices Of Working People's History May Day - International Labor Day Recording 1:49:25 Stereo 100 meg Dramatic readings, from people who make history happen but are usually left out of the history books. -A Fundraiser for Western Mass. Jobs with Justice Including music by Jay Mankita, Tom Neilson et al. Recorded at Unitarian Universalist Society of Northampton & Florence Access to the Internet: Broadband & Telecommunications 30April08 -in Western Mass. With Sharon Gillett, Commissioner, MA Dept. of Telecom. and Cable Recording 1:51:26 44.6 meg More info: 1. Where can I find more information about the cable franchise process? http://umass.edu/sts/ict/bdresources.html#cable 2. How can I provide comments/input about the ongoing competitive cable franchise? http://umass.edu/sts/ict/bdresources.html#comment 3. How can I contact the DTC? Phone: 617-305-3580 Address: Two South Station, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02110 Web: http://www.mass.gov/dtc If you were unable to make it to our Forum, please note that an unedited audio transcript of the Forum is currently available on the STS website: http://www.umass.edu/sts/ict/broadband.html Recorded at The University of Massachusetts Richard Heinberg 27April08 The Looming Crisis in Oil Depletion and How Pioneer Valley Towns Can Prepare For It Starting Now -( the title) Program 59:38 . 27.2 meg http://www.richardheinberg.com/ Recorded at Hampshire College Derrick Jensen 26April08 Deep Green Resistance Recording 1:17:58 35.6 meg Program 58:59 . 27 meg "Does anyone think this culture will voluntarily transform to a sustainable way of living?" www.derrickjensen.org broadcasters: not FCC complaint without editing Recorded at University of Massachusetts Michael T. Klare* 21April08 Rising Powers Shrinking Planet Recording 33:53 . 15.5 meg MKlare21April08QA_AImedia.mp3 37:31 17.1 meg April 10 1st out talk at UMass MKlare10April08_AImedia.mp3 40:14 18.4 meg MKlare10April08QA_AImedia.mp3 25:12 11.5 meg Professor Michael T. Klare of The Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies program (PAWSS)- discusses issues related to his new book : Rising Powers Shrinking Planet The New Geopolitics of Energy Recorded at Hampshire College and UMass Banafsheh Aklhaghi 09April08 National Security Within a Human Rights Framework Program 59:32 . 27.2meg "Ms. Akhlaghi explores how national security objectives can be achieved through a human rights framework, and how human security as the genesis of the dialogue can lead to effective national and international security policies. In her talk, she looked at successful models in Northern Ireland, truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa and the redress movement in the United States can aid in providing a new perspective in our approach today." Recorded at Hampshire College Naomi Tutu 28Feb08 South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Hearings Program 58:59 27meg Archbishop Desmond Tutu headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Nelson Mandela's new government. Daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and founder of Tutu Foundation-Naomi Tutu recounts the events of the Truth & Reconciliation Hearings on Apartheid. A Guest of Weissman Center at Mount Holyoke College. Naomi Tutu Spoke there February 28 2008. Andrew Flood 27Feb08 Anarchism in the U.K. http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/andrew.html Recording 1:10:38 32.3 meg Recorded at Food for Thought Books, Amherst MA Deepa Fernandez 02March08 Recording 1:14:14 33.9 meg Deepa's web site Deepa's first book, "Targeted," is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press in July, and is about the growth of industry that is profiting greatly at the expense of immigrant rights while simultaneously investigating the stealth movement of white supremacist ideology from the fringe of American society into the halls of Congress and into immigration legislation that we are seeing today. Recorded at Food for Thought Books, Amherst MA Shabnam Hashmi 7march08 Fascism in India Recording 55:30 25.4 meg Shabnam Hashmi,is an anti fascist activist and educator from India. She spoke with Sangeeta Kamat for Active Ingredients. Issues covered include the recent electoral victory of the religious nationalist party ( Hindu fascists ) in the state of Gujarat. And the related implications for secular democratic politics of India and the world. . ANHADIN.net Recorded by Ed Russell in Northampton, Ma Thanks to Tim Scott for aranging the recording. Preventing War On Iran 20Feb08 A public forum held at the American Legion Post 271 Hadley Ma PreventingWarOnIran20Feb08AImedia.mp3 Complete 1:48:52 . 49.8 meg One Hour-(ish) Program 59:41 27.3 meg Norma Akamatsu 6:37 3 meg . Pioneer Valley Coalition to Prevent War in Iran Dr.Michael Klare 17:28 . 8.0 meg . -Oil, Geopolitics and the History of U.S. Involvement, Peace and World Security Studies Hampshire College Ira Helfand 6:05 . 2.8 meg Public Health Consequences of War On Iran - Physicians for Social Responsibility Amir Mikhchi 7:25 . 3.4 meg - An Iranian Viewpoint Tyler Boudreau 16:03. 7.35 meg The Disparities of War - former Marine Capt. in Iraq Congressman Richard Neal and Congressman John Olver. Congressmen Richard Neal & John Olver 7:51 12.7 meg Time to revisit(?) 12November02 talk of D r. Helen Caldicott? -restored 3March08 She examines issues raised in her book, "The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex" Will millions die for the US demand for oil? . When excerpting audio for broadcast -please- attribute www.activeingredients.org so that those interested may download the entire audio file. Partial List of Co-Sponsors: American Friends Service Committee, Arise for Social Justice, Bob Feuer for Congress, enviro show - wxoj, Faculty for Israeli Palestinian, Peace 5 Colleges, First Churches Peace and Justice Committee, Flyby News, Food for Thought Books, Haydenville Congregational Church Peace & Justice Steering Committee, Iraqi Children's Art Project, Middle East Peace Coalition, Mount Toby Friends Peace and Social Concerns Committee, Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq, Northampton Friends Meeting, Northampton FriendsMeeting Peace and Social Justice Witness Committee, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Pioneer Valley Coalition Against Secrecy and Torture, Pride and Joy, Progressive Democrats of America/Northampton Chapter, SAGE, Sisters of St. Joseph, Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst, Social Workers for Peace and Justice, The New England Peace Pagoda, The Order of the Whiteoak World Druid Council, Veteran's for Peace-Chapter 95, West Springfield Citizens for Peace, Western Mass Code Pink, Western Mass Iraq Moratorium Coalition, Western Massachusetts Immigrant Workers Rights Coalition, WMass Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice, Women' Congress for Peace Active Ingredients . Daniel Ellsberg 26Jan08 A Coup has occurred Program 59:26 27.2 meg Additional comments 2:18:23 . 55.4meg The American Civil Liberties Union Massachusetts Chapter Held a Membership Conference Titled: Reclaiming Our Civil Liberties Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers, was the keynote speaker who opened the event. He stated that a coup has taken place in the United States, and warned that we are in the midsts of a permanent Police State. Congress is unlikely to do anything to stop its construction, unless assertive citizen action is taken NOW. Recorded at Bentley College Waltham Ma John Bonafaz 17Jan08 Who Owns Our Elections?: The Struggle to Reclaim Our Vote and Our Democracy. Voting Machines VoterAction.org http://www.peacejournal.org/activeingredients/Bonafaz17Jan08AImedia.mp3 59:57 27.4meg Recorded at ACTV Amherst Richard Shelton & Ken Lamberton 14November07 Stories from the other side of the razor wire. Recording 58:38 26.8 mb These two authors met in an Arizona prison: Shelton a teacher of writing, Lamberton an inmate who would spend twelve years behind bars. They read from their respective memoirs, sharing reflections on prison life. Recorded at Food for Thought Books Amherst MA Green Scare/San Francisco 8 05November07 The latest excuse for runaway government power Talk brought to FFTbooks by reVoltairine Raw/unedited SaraWald_AshanteAlston GreenScare_AImedia.mp3 1:24:22 38.6 meg Recorded at Food for Thought Books Amherst MA Daniel Lerch 01November07 Planning for Post Carbon society after the age of peak oil Program 59:00 27 meg http://www.postcarbon.org/ Recorded at Amherst College Edited by Mary Serreze Tom Hayden 30October07 http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/colloquia/sccolloq.htm Program 59:49 27.3 meg Dahr Jamail 23October07 Independent journalist in Iraq Program 45:57 21.0 meg Recorded at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Ma Sponsored by peacejournal.org Haymarket Books and Co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, and the UMass chapter of the Campus Antiwar Network. Tariq Ali 2003 restored link Program 1:00:00 27.4 meg In October 2003 Tariq Ali, spoke at Mount Holyoke College in Hadley Massachusetts. Considering Tariq Ali anticipated much of what has transpired since that time In Iraq- It may be time well spent - to listen to that talk again - Iran is next. Dahlia Wasfi 04/10/07 Program 59:18 27.1 meg "Dahlia Wasfi, MD of Global Exchange shares her experiences living as a civilian in Iraq. Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is one of a small number of Americans who has had an on the ground civilian experience in post-U.S. invasion Iraq. In early 2006, Dr. Wasfi spent three months visiting her family in Basrah and Baghdad while documenting the war's impact on the Iraqi medical system. She returned to the U.S. haunted by her experiences." Recorded at Elms College, Chicopee Ma Jill Stein 27Sept07 Is a former candidate for Massachusetts Governor and for Ma Secretary of State -Rough edit Recording Jill Stein(MD) 58:28 26.7 meg. She's a founding member of The Massachsuetts Coalition for Healthy Communities http://www.masschc.org Constitution Day 10September07 Program 57:13 26.1 meg Attorney Buz Eisenberg, law Prof. Bruce Miller Recorded at Amherst College Iran 14September07 Iran: Local Iranians' Views and Experiences Recording 59:43 27.3 meg Three Iranians who have done their graduate work in Massachusetts speak about their personal experiences in connection with current political and social issues in Iran: Mina Safizadeh, PhD in Sociology from Boston University Fatemeh Giahi, PhD in Nutrition from U Mass Amir Mikhchi, ABD in Economics from U Mass Panel Chair: Joel Dansky, Hampshire College Counselor. Co-sponsored by Western Massachusetts AFSC and the Offices of the First Year Class Dean and Associate Dean of Smith College. Vijay Prishad 11August07 The closing keynote address of UMass GEO -(Grad Students Union) for the 16th CGEU conference Program 57:53 26.4 meg http://www.geouaw.org/ "...In the face of increasing corporatization of both public and private universities we would like to take the opportunity of this year's conference to address this trend from our unique positions as organized student employees. This corporatization is taking many forms: including the dismantling of academic programs, attacks on student and faculty governance structures, and attempts to roll-back our hard-won benefits, and in some cases on our entire unions. At the 16th CGEU conference we would like to focus on the possibilities for strengthening our own organizations while linking up with the rising wave of student and labor activism in and around our universities...." Bill McKibben 13July07 Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future Main . 51:11 23.4 meg Q&A 19:43 . 9 meg ...The author of books including The End of Nature, journalist McKibben describes how the concept of relocalization is already blossoming around the world with striking results. “How is our nation going to cope with global warming, peak oil, inequality, and a growing sense of isolation? – we need to create ‘depth’ through local interdependence and sustainable use of resources.. Recorded at Odyssey Books Vijay Prishad 06March07 THE DARKER NATIONS: A People's History of The Third World "... A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor." Raw Recording Time 1:13:46 33.7 meg -recorder had some errors when taped but- mostly here. Recorded at Food for Thought Books, Amherst MA John Judge 03April07 CIA Spin in US media (etc.) Interview 22:47 10.4meg Recorded in Northampton Ma Gray Water Guerrillas Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground Rough recording (profanity) Main: 56:39 25.9 meg Q&A: 17:36 8:06 meg Dam Nation - combines an analysis of water's history with the active fight for its future. - Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Laura Allen (et al)...restoration activists and educators, demand a new approach for American watersheds and taxpayers: the restoration of the water commons. ...Wide-ranging articles link diverse grassroots struggles with analysis of urban infrastructure, and river restoration with experiments in alternative water systems.. " www.greywaterguerrillas.com Recorded at Food for Thought Books Clean Transportation in the Valley 22June07 a presentation by MassBike's James Lowenthal Recording 57:31 . 26.3 meg Energy, Safe Bike Commuting etc. http://www.massbike.org/mbpv/ Pedal People Northampton Ma alternative transport/hauling coop Recorded at the Media Education Foundation Camilo Mejía 20June07 Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejía Recording 1:15:06 34.3 meg Introduction poetry reading by Martine Espada From event promo. "Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía became the new face of the antiwar movement in early 2004 when he applied for a military discharge as a conscientious objector. After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, he was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. Despite widespread public support and an all-star legal team, Mejía was convicted of desertion by a military court and sentenced to a year in prison, prompting Amnesty International to declare him a prisoner of conscience." Recorded at Odyssey Books Frances Crowe 21March07 Her life of Activism Interview 56:24 32.2 meg Ed Bullins 31May07 Program highlight - The Hungry One - 13:04 6.0 meg "Boston-based playwright who is probably the most celebrated playwright to come out of the Black Arts Movement." Recorded at Food for Thought Books Jonathan Hutto Sr 06May07 Program 59:57 27.4 meg Q&A 44:21 20.3 meg Jonathan Hutto Sr. is co-founder of Appeal for Redress, www.appealforredress.org the online anti-war petition campaign organized by active-duty GIs. He spoke on the campaign to end the war in Iraq, and to ensure just treatment for returning veterans. Sponsored by the ARISE Peace Committee, the Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq, AFSC, SAGE, and Traprock Peace Center. Recorded in Springfield Ma. 14th Dalai Lama 09May07 Recording 57:27 27.2 Meg Smith College, Hampshire College and the Tibetan Association of Western Massachusetts welcomed the 14th Dalai Lama to the Pioneer Valley on Wednesday, May 9, 2007. Recorded at Smith College Torture, Extraordinary Rendition & Indefinite Detention What will America Stand For? 25April07 A Pioneer Valley Committee Against Secrecy and Torture event Intro 04:21 2.0 meg Main 58:27 26.7 meg Q&A 42:02 - 19.2 meg Featuring: ACLU Attorney Buz Eisenberg, Law Professor, Attorney Bruce Miller, and human rights activists Scott Langley and Sheila Stumph. The panelists addressed the social, legal and moral consequences of U.S. policies of labeling (as “enemy combatants”), indefinite detainment, torture and extraordinary rendition of person of Middle Eastern Origin. - Over 400 men are still imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuban detention facility, and unknown numbers have been sent to numerous prisons around the world, having not been charged with a crime. (A.I. -some are tortured To Death) At this juncture due to the Military Commissions Act, detainees have no right to a fair hearing of their grievances, or Habeas Corpus. Some are held in CIA “Black Sites” inaccessible to the public, some in prisons in countries that routinely practice torture. Legislative resources etc. Act Against Torture Amnesty International Witness Against Torture Human Rights Watch American Civil Liberties Union Center for Constitutional Rights Bill of Rights Defense Committee Recorded at Smith College, Northampton Ma. Joan Roelofs 18April07 The Invisible Hand of Corporate Capitalism - temp version Main 41:23 18.9 meg Q&A 51:59 23.7 meg ... War-mongering corporations such as Halliburton draw a lot of negative attention today, yet there lies a force even more politically powerful in the world that receives little, if any, scrutiny: huge foundations, such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment, and now the Gates Foundation. These "foundations" are completely undemocratic- in no way are they accountable to voters or stockholders. Their money comes from the wealthiest individuals in the world. The foundations hold multi-billion dollar endowments. They fund very selectively and strategically, and, despite their glossy images, they fund with one over-arching interest: to expand and protect monopoly capitalism around the globe and squelch radical opposition movements that could challenge the hegemony of a political and economic system that benefits only the rich. Joan Roelofs' Publications Recorded at Hampshire College. Event organized by Hampshire College Union of Activists Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow 16April07 Thirst water privatization - temp. version Authors Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, discussed their new book, Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water. (They are the producers of the award-winning documentary film "Thirst".) Main 41:42 19.0 meg Q&A 27:06 12.4 meg ... There is a new citizens-revolt movement taking place under the radar of the national media in towns and cities across the United States against the corporate takeover of water, a necessity of life that touches everyone at home. But water is rapidly being transformed from a public trust into a product to be bought and sold to the highest bidder. Recorded at Odyssey Books Shane Jones 11April07 Hands Off Venezuela -temp 48:26 22.1 meg http://www.ShaneJones11April07_AImedia.mp3 20:47 9.5 meg ShaneJones11April07QA_AImedia.mp3 http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org Recorded at Hampshire College Jeremy Scahill 9April07 Blackwater: The Rise of the Most Powerful Mercenary Firm in the World Recording 57:57 33.1 meg From event listing: Blackwater protects the top US officials in Iraq, yet the public knows almost nothing about their quasi-military operations, which range from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to rooftop firefights in Najaf to the hurricane-ravaged US gulf to Washington DC. “Jeremy Scahill’s exposé of the Blackwater mercenary firm forcefully demonstrates the grave dangers of outsourcing the government’s monopoly on the use of force.” – Joseph Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Recorded at Odyssey Books Transcription Pat Patfoort Nonviolent Conflict Resolution: from Schoolyards to War Zones - temp 05April07Part1 56:27 25.8 meg 05April07Part2 40:52 18.7 meg A talk by Belgian-Flemish anthropologist, educator, and peacemaker Pat Patfoort. Pat Patfoort is the co-founder and director of the Fireflower Center for Conflict Management in Brugge, Belgium. The author of numerous books and articles, Ms. Patfoort has lectured at universities throughout Europe and the U.S. Applying her unique theory of conflict transformation, she has been a teacher/trainer with children and parents, families, students and teachers, and in workplaces and prisons. She has also facilitated dialog and reconciliation projects in the Caucasus, Kosovo, Rwanda, the Congo, and Senegal. Recorded at Wellspring House, Ashfield Ma. Sut Jhally 08March07 The Factory in the Living Room: How Television Exploits it's Audience. Program 59:44 27.3 meg* Sut Jhally is a UMASS Amherst professor in Media and the Executive director of Valley Free Radio’s license holder: The Foundation for Media Education Sut's background was as a Sociologist. Sut appeared as speaker at the UMass Amherst 2006 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Professor Jhally discusses how media critics tend to focus on how powerful messages in movies, programs and advertising affect the public. He contends, however, they miss something else. Professor Jhally will explore the issue from a different angle: how the profit-driven commercial media organize themselves like the rest of industrial capitalism to extract value from their workforce. When people sit in their homes watching commercial media, he says, their time is organized and sold in the same way that the activities of factory workers are controlled and organized. But in the living-room factory, there are no child labor laws.Audio clip from 1989 film How to Get Ahead in Advertising Ending the War in Iraq:* Is Impeachment Necessary? Progressive Democrats of America forum in Greenfield March 10 2007 John Bonifaz 21:40 9.9 meg, Constitutional attorney, founder of the National Voting Rights Institute and author of, Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush.” Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org. Board member, Progressive Democrats of America. Cindy Sheehan 10.9 meg 17:40 — Mother of Casey Sheehan, killed in Iraq in April 2004. She has protested Bush’s lies and policies at his Crawford, Texas ranch, the White House and across the country. Co-founder and president of Gold Star Families for Peace. Author of Peace Mom: a Mother's Journey Through Heartbreak to Activism. Board member, Progressive Democrats of America. Dan Dewalt, 8.4 meg 18:04 Citizen activist from Newfane, Vermont, spearheading the movement in Vermont and New England for holding the Bush administration accountable through impeachment. Audience Q&A Part1 24:00 10.9 meg Part2 25:02 11.4 meg John Nichols 13Dec06 The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation, an editor at The Capital Times, and the author of The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney and Jews for Buchanan. Program 59:57 . 27.4 meg Recorded at Odyssey Books Scott Ritter 25jan07 Target Iran* Ritter main 29:00 16.6 meg Ritter Q&A 28:44 16.4 meg Former US Marine Ritter served from 1991 to 1998 as a United Nations weapons inspector in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). UNSCOM was charged with finding and destroying all weapons of mass destruction and WMD-related manufacturing capabilities in Iraq. Scott Ritter was chief inspector in fourteen of the more than thirty inspection missions in which he participated. Before the 2003 US attack on Iraq Scott Ritter refuted the Bush administration's claims of hidden Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Ritter argues that the US is currently staging forces for a attack on Iran. He states that the US is likely planning on employing the use of nuclear weapons in such an attack. ( AI opinion- It is worth noting that if the use of US WMDs occurs- the world is unlikely to politically recover.) A Traprock Peace Center event Recorded at Woolman Hill Deerfield Ma (by E. Russell Replay permitted for non-profit & non-commercial use, with attributions, no changes and notice. Audio © Traprock Peace Center; all rights reserved. Combatants for Peace* 18Jan07 http://www.combatantsforpeace.org/ CombatantsforPeace18Jan07_AImedia 45:59 26.3 meg CombatantsforPeace18Jan07QA_AImedia 57:58 32.5 meg Former Israeli soldier Elik Elhanan, and former Palestinian combatant and Israeli prisoner Sulaiman Al Hamri, are the leaders of the one-year-old Israeli-Palestinian organization, Combatants for Peace, that advocates non-violent alternatives for achieving a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their visit was part of a 22-city national tour to the United States, sponsored by the largest national American Jewish peace movement dedicated to the resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their Northampton and Amherst visit is hosted locally by the Western Mass chapter of Brit Tzedek v‚Shalom, a four-year old chapter that brings peacemakers from the region. The Amherst-based Veterans Education Project (VEP) is co-sponsoring the event. VEP trains U.S. military veterans to share their stories in ways that educate the public about the realities and costs of war of war, and that encourage audiences to think about alternatives to violence and conflict. The Combatants for Peace movement was founded in 2005 by Israelis and Palestinians who were once actively involved in perpetuating the cycle of violence. They decided to put down their weapons, and to fight instead for peace through dialogue, reconciliation and educational outreach. In addition to organizing countless meetings between Israeli and Palestinian veterans, the Combatants for Peace have worked together to raise the consciousness in both larger Israeli and Palestinian societies of the aspirations and fears of those on the "other side," and in so doing to create partners in dialogue. Recorded at the Bangs Community Center Bruce Miller 14Dec06 Program 47:07 . 21.5 Meg The "Military Provisions Act of 2006" and the destruction of constitutional protections for U.S citizens -(AI description) Recorded in Amherst Ma. Arik Ascherman 05Dec06 Israeli "Rabbi for Human rights" Recording 50:45 . 23.2 meg Arik Ascherman is Co-Director of Rabbis for Human Rights, a rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel Recorded 05 December 06 Smith College Northampton AI does not necessarily endorse RfHR. This recording is provided for your critical review. Kathleen Cleaver Former National Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party Recording . 1:02:14 . 28.4 meg One of the points Kathleen Cleaver makes: contrary to media portrayals of Panthers as mostly aggressive, sexist/males - the majority of Panthers were female. Name in full: The Black Panther Party for Self Defense Recorded 06Nov06 at UMass Amherst History Dept's 2006 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series Sara Flounders 04Nov06 SaraFlounders04 Recording 38:59 17.8 meg SaraFloundersQA_Recording 33:44 15.4 meg Flounders, Co-Director of the International Action Center, speaks on "Lessons from Lebanon 2006" Flounders was a member of the Delegation from the "Campaign for Accountability on US/Israeli War Crimes in Lebanon and Palestine" that traveled to Lebanon immediately after the US/Israeli bombing ended. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon Recorded Northampton Ma Malik Rahim* 26Oct06 MalikRahim Recording 41:07 . 18.8 meg Malik Rahim, a lifelong resident of New Orleans, former Black Panther, and Green Party member (former candidate for public office), met with friends in his kitchen last year as it became apparent that there was no government social contract post-Katrina. They resolved to find solutions to the devastation of so many lives, and COMMON GROUND was born. Common Ground Relief lives its motto, "SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY." Over the past year Common Ground has distributed food, water, clothing, and other necessities to poor people in the Ninth and Lower Ninth Wards of New Orleans.