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Clear Cutting the Forests of Massachusetts
The Planning Moves Ahead!
Google Scraper -wipe that Big Brother "smear"
from your shoulder when using Google
National Weather Service Albany
Note* -routine radiation releases (citation) at the Vernon VT - Entergy Nuclear power plant
site -near Brattleboro VT. are not included in local weather forecasts
Models may be sensitive! - Do not laugh at Entergy tag line - A.I.
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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
James W Douglass
JFK And The Unspeakable
Recording 56:22 . 25.6 meg . ( Intense! A.I.)
QA . 33:16 15.2 meg
JFk clip and Pat Murray intro 27:17 12.4 meg
-President John F Kennedy June 10 1963 at American University
on The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
James W. Douglass traces the transformation of President Kennedy from a conventional Cold War warrior to someone determined to pull back from the edge of nuclear holocaust.
James W Douglas has taught at the University of Notre Dame, has served as theological advisor to Catholic bishops at the Second Vatican Council, and has written several books on the theology of nonviolence. Talk Sponsored by Nehemiah House in Springfield MA http://www.nehemiah-ministries.com/
DEAD SILENCE
Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail
Bob Coen and Eric Nadler
Main 59:08 33.8 Meg . Question and Answers 19:46 11.3 Meg
From event Promo: "This is the untold story of the 2001 anthrax attacks and the investigation into the secret world of today’s germ-war arms race."
-Award winning filmmakers and journalists Bob Coen and Eric Nadler took a seven-year global journey into the trail of anthrax, a trail littered with dead scientists, billions in cash, and the most destructive biological arsenals known.
Recorded at Odyssey Books
Christopher Pyle 02June09
Recording 1:13:02 33.4 meg
Chris Pyle is a teacher, scholar, and political activist whose interests range across history, law, and politics, with an emphasis on civil liberties. Professor of Politics Specialization Constitutional law, civil liberties, and the rights of privacy.
In 1970 Pyle disclosed the military's surveillance of civilian politics and- servreved as a consultant to three congressional committees and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Recorded at The Amherst Unitarian Society
Dr. Helen Caldicott 10April09
HelenCaldicott10April09.mp3 59:45 27.3 meg
CaldicottQA.mp3 20:57 9.59 meg
Dr. Helen Caldicot at Latchis Theatre Brattleboro VT
She discussed the aging - 35 Yr old - Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
The plant is now being run at 120 percent of it's originally designed power output capacity by the Entergy Corp.
Thanks to Frances Crowe for getting a dvd of the talk.
It was Produced by Samantha Pirnak for Brattleboro Community Television |
Reminder: Capitalism & Sociopathy - A Bad Combination
War Crimes, Accountability, Prosecution 21April09
59 minute radio edit 27 meg.
Main 48:54 22.3 meg . Q&A 47:01 21.5 megAmherst Women In Black and PDA America present a conversation with John Bonifaz
and David Swanson.
Is it still a crime if a President does it? If Obama keeps the powers Bush seized, what powers do we have? If war criminals walk, what will prevent war crimes?
http://www.johnbonifaz.com
http://davidswanson.org . http://impeachbybee.org
Bill McKibben 2April09
"350 The Most Important Number in the World"
Main 59:19 27.1 meg . QA 14:35 6.7 meg
From event promtion: In this new lecture, McKibben melds his insightful understanding of communities, environmental policy, and climate change into a call for climate action and offers alternatives for individuals as well as collective engagement with this critical issue. McKibben is the best-selling author of Deep Economy.
- A call for climate action now. 350.org
This event was co-sponsored by the Mount Holyoke College Center for the Environment and the Kestrel Trust.
Turning Hope Into Action 20March09
Recording ~ 2:00:00 55 meg HopeIntoAction_20March09ActiveIngdntsMedia.mp3Quick And Dirty Version of the event with only minor gain leveling.
A Forum for the Community on Healthcare & the Economy
Moderated by JOHN NICHOLS political reporter for The Nation
Featuring: CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Author of HR 676-- The United States National Health Care Act
ROBERT POLLIN Professor of Economics, UMass Co-director of Political Economy
Research Institute JACKIE WOLF, PhD
Co-chair of MassCare DONNA SMITH National Co-chair of Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign Featured in Michael Moore's film SiCKORecorded at Northampton Highschool
Combatants For Peace 15March09
Recording* 1:03:03 28.8 meg
Former Palestinian fighter, Bassam Aramin, and former Israeli soldier, Yaniv Reshef, members of the Jerusalem-based Combatants for Peace (C4P),at Congregation B'nai Israel, under the sponsorship of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom/Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace. * I was able to record speaker main comments only (A.I.)
The local chapter of Brit Tzedek was established seven years ago as part of a national effort to create a grassroots organization within the American Jewish community to advocate for a negotiated resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Recorded in Northampton, Ma
P Sabin Willet
Recording: Intro 12:02 5.51meg
ActvIngrdntsPSabinWillet.mp3 59:11 25.9 meg-Sabin Willett was the chief counsel for the Uighurs so.
they promise to be a big issue in the coming months-
Noted Guantánamo Attorney P. Sabin Willett gave a talk on "Closing Guantánamo:
"Can President Obama Repair Torture's Wreckage?"
Recorded at Smith College Thursday, February 12-Pioneer Valley attorney Buz Eisenberg introduced Willett. Eisenberg represents several Guantánamo prisoners and is president of the International Justice Network, which provides legal representation to detainees held abroad in the “war on terror.” The event is presented by the Smith College Anthropology Department and the Pioneer Valley Coalition Against Secrecy and Torture with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union.
I Have A Dream Of Unity: A Change Embraced
FIVE PERSPECTIVES, FORTY YEARS LATER 19January09
-An evening of reflections on race, justice and peace to honor the life, work and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
An Event facilitated by Keith Harmon Snow of www.allthingspass.com to Benefit www.friendsofthecongo.org & The Youth Action Coalition www.youthactioncoalition.org
Cynthia A. McKinney
Recording 56:07 25.6 meg . Former U.S. Rep (D-GA) Cynthia Mckinney as she recounts the ordeal aboard the ship "Dignity"-- sailing from Damascus to Gaza in the Mediteranean Sea with tons of medical supplies for Gaza --when it was rammed by Israeli Defense Forces as it traveled towards Gaza with medical relief supplies. She also recounts the Israeli response and discusses the peace movement, war n Congo, and the importance of naming the true roots of problems in today's world.
Dr. Enoch Page -anthropologist and race studies scholar
Recording 28:01 12.8 meg . Dr. Enoch Page discusses issues of social justice and media, and critiques the Obama Administration and the names the problem of white supremacy in today's culture.
-More from this event to come/improved audio as time allows.
Check www.activeingredients.org
Recorded in Northampton, Ma on January 19, 2009
Robert Fisk at Seattle Public Library 09Sept08
Discussing his new book The Age of the Warrior
Audio file: http://www.spl.org/Audio/RobertFisk2008.mp3
Project Censored 2009
....Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than at any previous 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 KleinFollow 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 56:02 25.6 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.
New edit Posted 27 Feb 09
Contact Rick Wolff 545-6351 rdwolff@worldnet.att.net .
Michael Ratner 02October08
Recording 58:18 26.6 megThe 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 FrameworkProgram 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 megDeepa'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 megShabnam 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 megTime to revisit(?) 12November02 talk of Dr. 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
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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 meghttp://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 IraqProgram 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 megAttorney 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.comRecorded at Food for Thought Books
Clean Transportation in the Valley
22June07
a presentation by MassBike's James LowenthalRecording 57:31 . 26.3 meg
Energy, Safe Bike Commuting etc.
http://www.massbike.org/mbpv/
Pedal People Northampton Ma alternative transport/hauling coopRecorded 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 versionMain 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.
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