Dirty Harry: When the American Dream Became a Nightmare, Part 2
…he United States tested nuclear weapons in Southern Nevada. A total of 928 nuclear detonations affected the people working at, and living nearby the test site. We’ll hear their stories on part two of “Dirty Harry.” In 1951, the first Atom bomb was detonated over a section of desert called Frenchman Flat, about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas. For more than forty years, this stretch of sage brush and sand would become ground zero for U.S. nucle…
Women Rising IX: International Changemakers – Honoring Elder Women Activists (encore edition)
…an and Crown Sephira Productions. Featuring: Dr. Helen Caldicott, founder, Nuclear Policy Research Institute; Dolores Huerta, co-founder, United Farm Workers of America; Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder, Community of the Peace People. Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio Contributing Freelance Producer: Lynn Feinerman Guest Host: Sandina Robbins For more information: The Peace People – Belfast, Northern Ireland Dolores Huerta Foundation – Bakersfi…
A Different Kind of Information War
…a steady stream of official pronouncements that the Iraqi regime possessed nuclear, chemical, and/or biological weapons. On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at the information war on Iraq. We’ve dug into our audio vault to bring you this special presentation: An exploration of war propaganda through sound clips and soundscapes. Featuring: A range of pundits, politicians, and peace activists from Molly Ivins to George W. Bush, recorde…
Lessons of Nagasaki
…Facts on the Bombings Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Articles, Reports, Photos: Time Life’s Unpublished Photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki New York Times’ Hiroshima: A Controversy That Refuses to Die Nevada Desert Experience Catholic Worker Nuclear protests Nuclear Timeline Foreclose on the Bomb not on the People Foreclose on the Bomb! Hiroshima & Nagaski Commemoration at Livermore Lab Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum –…
For Stations
…ry of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore) 1/24/2024 Show Promo 4/24 Nuclear Colonialism and The Story “Oppenheimer” Didn’t Tell (Encore) 1/17/2024 Show Promo 3/24 Denial of the Funk: The Impact of Racism on our Nation’s Health 1/10/2024 Show Promo 02/24 The Rise of the New Labor Movement 1/3/2024 Show Promo 01/24 But Next Time Part 4: The Road to Rebuilding and Recovering, Better (Encore) 12/27/2023 Show Promo 52/23 But Next Time Part 3: Th…
The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising
…bomb, perfected by allied scientists… HOST: The US had just dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 120,000 people. Within days, Japan would surrender and Korea became a target for occupation by other countries. AMBI Bombs HOST: In anticipation of this, Russian troops began moving in from the North, and U.S. troops from the South. U.S. General, George Lincoln, ordered two young soldiers, Dean Rusk, and Charles Bonestee…
Andrew Stelzer, Producer
…of Finland is building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. We hear excerpts of the film, “Into Eternity”, which explores the logistical and philosophical quandries around[…] School’s Out: The Decimation of Public Education […] Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Dirty Wars Drone attacks on American citizens. Black sites around the globe where prisoners are tortured. And the prison at Guanta…
Women Rising VI: International Changemakers Whistleblowers
…Women’s Desk program is a special collaboration with the Women Rising Radio Project, Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions. Featuring: Cindy Sheehan, founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace; Leuren Moret, geologist and anti-nuclear activist; Sibel Edmonds, former FBI counterintelligence trainer and whistleblower. This week’s producer: Lynn Feinerman Host: Sandina Robbins For more information: National Whistle Blowers’Coalition – Ale…
Iran Belongs to its Youth
…he rule of Ahmadinejad. We’ll also hear about how they are responding to conservative hardliners who are tapping into frustrations with high unemployment, and threatening to cancel the nuclear deal. Thank you to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for granting Reese Erlich funding to produce this piece. Photo: Reese Erlich….
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
…of a missile defense system that gives the U.S. the ability to carry out a nuclear first strike. The region has historically been Korea’s conservative stronghold, but with the deployment of THAAD, people are re-evaluating the history they’ve been taught their entire lives. Special Thanks to Io Sunwoo, Juyeon Rhee, and Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans. Image Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance Like this program? Please show us the love. Click here and supp…
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1
…of reading about or spending time thinking about it’s okay to think about nuclear war in Russia, in your book or serial killers, which it is all of that is. Okay. Salima Hamirani: The thing is romance can actually be such a hopeful and political genre full of love and potential. And I’m hoping I can get at least part of our audience to pick up a romance novel after the show. Romance Readers Club Ambi: They don’t want us to read it and then be lik…
Special for Mother’s Day – Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
…ng in community and being a part of a community. It’s not an isolated nuclear family instance that some people supposedly choose to be a part of and some people choose not to be. Alexis: Yeah. What would you add, Cynthia? Cynthia: Kind of building off of everyone, I think there is no movement without mothering.So, I think that it’s really, really important for organizers, for thinkers, for scholars, for cultural workers struggling for ch…
The Response: Reimagining Paradise in an Age of Disruption
…. It ultimately resulted in the infamous meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the complete destruction of many towns in Japan’s coastal T?hoku region. Now, eight years into their recovery, Japan has many valuable lessons to impart when it comes to reubuilding from nothing. And one town in particular has been doing some very interesting things. Allen Myers: We went to a specific town called Onagawa that has been doing thin…
Ninety Seconds to Midnight
…that except the global warming. but they’re also really worried about, um, nuclear war. Amy Gastelum: Yeah. Also that, yeah, I’ll agree with. Salima Hamirani: Yeah, me too. and biotechnology or engineered plagues. But they’re really, really obsessed with the notion of artificial intelligence going rogue and killing us all. Which is funny because Amy Gastelum: because they’re making it. Salima Hamirani: Exactly. But guess what their solution is to…
Women Rising 23: La Via Campesina
…cing women. And Japan’s Ayumi Kinezuka shares the effects of the Fukishima nuclear disaster on her organic farm. This show was produced by the Women Rising Radio Project. Featuring: Nettie Wiebe, Canadian farmer, La Via Campesina; Dina Hoff, US farmer, La Via Campesina; Elizabeth Mpufo, Zimbabwean farmer, International Coordinator, La Via Campesina; Ayumi Kinezuka, Japanese farmer, La Via Campesina. For more Information: Women Rising Radio Flush t…
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1 (Encore)
…of reading about or spending time thinking about it’s okay to think about nuclear war in Russia, in your book or serial killers, which it is all of that is. Okay. Salima Hamirani: The thing is romance can actually be such a hopeful and political genre full of love and potential. And I’m hoping I can get at least part of our audience to pick up a romance novel after the show. Romance Readers Club Ambi: They don’t want us to read it and then be lik…
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Dirty Harry: When the American Dream Became a Nightmare, Part 1
…ars, this stretch of sage brush and sand would become ground zero for U.S. nuclear testing. In fact, the last detonation happened just fifteen years ago, on September 23, 1992. Since the early 1990’s, independent producer Claes Andreasson has interviewed test site workers, scientists, legal scholars and test officials, as well as people living “downwind” from the Nevada Test Site. “Dirty Harry: When the American Dream became a Nightmare” is a culm…
Looking Back, Moving Forward 2012 Year in Review
…ner, architect; Medea Benjamin, Code Pink founder; Sister Megan Rice, anti-nuclear activist; Pakistani drone attack survivors and their family members For More Information: National Domestic Worker Alliance Domestic Workers United Mujeres Unidas y Activas Report: America’s Domestic Workers Raise Kids, Care for Seniors, Run Households Without Benefits, Protections or a Living Wage Domestic Workers Bill Killed In California By Jerry Brown Veto Louis…
Drones: A New Death From Above
…/11. Featuring: Medea Benjamin, Code Pink founder; Sister Megan Rice, anti-nuclear activist; Pakistani drone attack survivors and their family members Web Exclusives: Medea Benjamin interview For More Information: Code Pink New America Foundation: The Year of the Drone Nevada Desert Experience Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin Peace of the Action Knowdrones Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Syracuse Pe…
