December 15, 2009
I gave up the live-work studio that was the home for TUC Radio for 22 years
It was sublet for the last year to give me time to figure out whether I was able to maintain a studio in town. I was unable to do afford it and let it go. This is the reason for not having written or updated the financials below.

This 600 square foot studio on the second floor of the American Can Company in the San Francisco Mission District was just an empty space with 14 foot high ceilings in 1987. Over time I built the loft, sound studio for TUC, kitchen corner etc. The second photo is not sharp because the place was so empty when I shot this good-bye photo that the camera found nothing to focus on. Many good things happened here!

MOST RECENT PROGRAMS

BEST of TUC - anniversary of the Hurricane.
This story never made the national media.

HURRICANE KATRINA and the War on the Poor
PREVENTED - AT GUNPOINT - TO RESCUE THEMSELVES
Eyewitness report from two S.F. paramedics, Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Larry Bradshaw
Among their experiences: Gretna Sheriffs block the Greater New Orleans Bridge across the Mississippi and shoot when they and a large group of African Americans try to walk to safety. Later their temporary shelter is destroyed by police and their food and water taken away. When they finally get picked up they and thousands of others sit in a dirty cage at the New Orleans airport, again without food and water, forced to wait for the George W. Bush photo opportunity to end. As they arrive in San Antonio they are made to stand on a dark tarmac and are subjected to two dog sniffing ordeals. This and more in a 24 minute interview with Lorrie Beth and Larry by Maria Gilardin, recorded on Sept. 9, 2005.
READ their report
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Julia Whitty
For Love and Protection of the Deep Ocean - on the impact of the BP oil spill
Julia Whitty is a diver, former nature documentary filmmaker, author and investigative journalist. As environmental correspondent for Mother Jones she had just returned from the Gulf Coast. She wrote: "BP and its partners reckless quest has endangered and perhaps condemned not just the Gulf Coast, but the largest, richest, most pristine, most biologically important, and last completely unprotected ecosystem left on Earth: the deep ocean."

Julia Whitty explains why the deep ocean is the foundation of life for the upper layer of the sunlit sea. Many whales, dolphins, seals, sea turtles, sharks, manta rays, and smaller predatory fish are nocturnal hunters, dependent on the movements of a vast community of organisms that live in the deep ocean. That community is known as the Deep Scattering Layer. And this Deep Scattering Layer that rises and falls with day and night and that is visited by the creatures of the sunlit sea is threatened by the invisible part of the gigantic out-pour that never came to the surface because it was hit by chemical dispersant and now made doubly invisible by the White House climate and energy adviser, Carol Browner, who claims that 75% of the oil has already disappeared.

But researchers and divers report on huge clouds of dispersed oil, and of dissolved natural gas and methane that remain below the surface and now move around the gulf. These toxic clouds are separating the creatures of the deep ocean from those in the twilight and sunlit zones. And wherever the clouds of oil and gas move in, the creatures from above and below have to travel through the poisonous brew twice in one day to survive.

The second part of the program has a more personal cast. After reading from her new book, Deep Blue Home, the amazing story of the encounter with an ancient iceberg while diving off Newfoundland, Whitty responds to a rich variety of questions about diving, close encounters with sea life, the invisible rivers that flow beneath the surface of the seas, coral reefs - and more.

You can reach Julia Whitty here: WEBSITE <julia.whitty.googlepages.com> BLOG <deepbluehome.blogspot.com> You can see a 9 minute excerpt of my film of this presentation on: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3EMIco5nf0>
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Michael Parenti
IDEOLOGY AND CONSPIRACY
From: Understanding Deep Politics Conference, Santa Cruz, CA. - May 14/16 2010
In this entertaining talk, rich with historic references, Parenti describes the right-wing agenda of dismantling social democracy while calling anybody who describes this as a purposeful strategy a conspiracy theorist. He shows that this strategy began right after World War II but culminates now as powerful segment of right wing media and the GOP have moved so far to the right that they have overshot their popular base. Meanwhile democrats, including Obama, unable or unwilling to formulate the social democratic alternative, still talk of bipartisan approaches.
You can see the film of this presentation on: <http://understandingdeeppolitics.org/conference-video>
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Michael Parenti
VOTING IN THE USA
How the Vote was Won and Lost
If the right to vote is taken as a measure of a vibrant democracy, the United States came off to a bad start. Dr. Michael Parenti says that the most interesting list from the period of 1787 is the rather long one of people who were not allowed to vote - and he names all of them. Also, in Part TWO, the many ways in which votes have been stolen during the Bush administration.

This archival recording is a primer on the history of voting and the day to day efforts to make democracy come alive that shows Parenti at his best as historian and engaged political thinker.

Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Parenti risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam.  He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is the author of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and - most recently - God and His Demons. Recorded by Contra Costa TV at the Pleasant Hill Library in Contra Costa, California 1-24-07.
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Michael Parenti
Political Liberties and Economic Democracy
From the University of Hartford Series: CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE 21st CENTURY
In his November 2009 lecture at the University of Hartford Dr. Michael Parenti answers intriguing questions about democracy. Is US democracy a result of capitalism as some claim - or does it exist - such as it is - in spite of the current economic system. AND did the founding fathers even envision a democratic system - and why were so many of them opposed to democracy.

Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. This is part one of his one hour lecture. He was introduced by the President of the University of Hartford, Walter Harrison.

After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York city. He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is the author of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and - most recently - God and His Demons.
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FAMILY OF SECRETS
An interview with the author, Russ Baker
Gore Vidal called Baker's book about the Bush Dynasty and America's invisible government one of the most important books of the past ten years. In Family of Secrets Baker asks the obvious, but unanswered question, how can "such a clan occupy the presidency or vice presidency of the US for 20 of the past 28 years" with yet another Bush, Jeb Bush waiting in the wings. Family of Secrets reads and was conceived as a detective story, based on more than 500 interviews and thousands of documents, backed up by more than a 1000 footnotes. And even though the book uncovers a secret political life for all Bushes it is much more than a family expose. In this interview Russ Baker describes the powers behind the scenes, with examples from the CIA, oil and banking, and how these institutions are created by, and make use of people like the Bush family.

Russ Baker is an investigative journalist and has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and is the founder of <http://whowhatwhy.com/>, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization.
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GASLAND
Resistance to drilling in the Marcellus Shale
Six weeks into the BP oil disaster President Obama said we need to move to natural gas as a clean fuel alternative. Material from the trailer to the movie GASLAND and voices from DamascusCitizens.org call that into question. They say that chemicals used in the process of hydraulic fracturing and set free in drilling have poisoned water and air. A grassroots movement is resisting the encroachment of gas drilling into Pennsylvania and upstate New York. 

They encounter two problems: The fossil fuel industry was exempted from the clean air and safe drinking water act under the Bush administration, and corporations do not need to disclose what chemicals they use. Test results from drinking water in people's homes and from spills and sediment in evaporation ponds at drill sites have now identified 247 out of over 300 chemicals and they include carcinogens, mutagens, and neurotoxins.

Josh Fox, for his movie GASLAND, reports from 24 states on the impacts of chemical hydraulic fracturing. He uncovered water that can be lit on fire right out of the tap, talks to chronically ill residents of drilling areas from many different locations in the US, describes pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation, and well blowouts and gas explosions.

Natural Gas, in the eyes of oil service corporations such as Halliburton, and the stock market, is in it's tenth year of an unprecedented boom. The US, they say, is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas with 450,000 gas wells already operating in over 32 states and aggressively expanding. This program tries to capture some of the imagination and determination of the local people in this David and Goliath confrontation.

Part ONE: Josh Fox from his trailer for the movie GASLAND and Barbara Arrindell and Joe Levine from Damascus Citizens, interviewed by Fred Pecora, producer at WJFF. <http://www.damascuscitizens.org/> <http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/>
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Michael Ruppert
COLLAPSE
This is a one hour program based on the movie Collapse. Shot in only two days in May 2009 in an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles the film has become an internet sensation. Pirated almost 2 million times before its official release as DVD in June 2010 the film has undercut the censorship of oil and money. <http://www.collapsemovie.com/>

Beginning with a surprising number of favorable reviews, including from the New York and Los Angeles Times, the film continues to expand attention in spite of its stark and scary message:  A collapsing global financial system and the end of an abundant supply of oil are removing the underpinnings of the current economic system. Michael Ruppert says that human industrial civilization is collapsing, and that it becomes impossible to sustain the way of life we have been living. <http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/>

Here is paraphrased, what Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in the New York Times after the premiere of the movie Collapse: Since 2001, Michael Ruppert has devoted his life, two books and a self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, to connecting the dots between population, economics and energy, and concluding that the center will not hold. Lucidly and with weary conviction, he cites evidence for a declining global oil supply, like costly offshore drilling, and demolishes hopes pinned on substitutes like ethanol (“a complete joke”) and clean coal (“no such thing”). He is shockingly persuasive, and the majority of his premises are verifiable. - end of paraphrased NY Times review.

Richard Heinberg, author of The Party is Over said about Ruppert's most recent book: Confronting Collapse: "Ruppert has an unblemished track record for saying things that are incendiary, outrageous, shocking - and true. Our new president needs desperately to hear the uncomfortable message of this book about energy and the economy, and so do the rest of us."

In the first part of the radio version of Collapse I focus on Ruppert's line of arguments around Peak Oil. There are several respected researchers who also argue that we have reached Peak, the halfway point between the discovery and the end of oil where oil companies take greater and greater risks to tap the last remaining oil fields - as the disastrous British Petroleum spill in the Gulf of Mexico shows. In part two Ruppert addresses the collapse of the fuel based agriculture and of the financial system.
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Michael Parenti
GOD AND HIS DEMONS
This is Dr. Michael Parenti's first talk on his most recent book: God and His Demons. The 2010 book covers the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history, and the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries.

Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. He is a prolific author and an engaging speaker. Parenti grew up in a conservative, catholic, working class Italian community in New York city. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale he has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad. He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam. He serves on the board of judges for Project Censored and is the author of 22 books, among them: Democracy for the Few, Contrary Notions, Superpatriotism, History as Mystery, and Dirty Truths.
Recorded at the Unitarian Universalists Hall in Berkeley, CA, on April 27, 2010.
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Frances Moore Lappé
GETTING A GRIP
Barbara Kingsolver says of Frances Moore Lappé's most recent book: Getting a Grip, “This is not an ordinary book; it’s more like a new pair of glasses, allowing you to see everything around you with greater clarity. Suddenly the world is more comprehensible, even more beautiful."

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Diet for a Small Planet was the first book to expose the enormous waste built into U.S. grain-fed meat production. For Frances that was a powerful symbol of a global food system that is creating hunger out of plenty. Eating a planet-centered diet, she argued, means choosing what is best for the earth and our bodies—a daily action that reminds us of our power to create a saner world.

France Moore Lappé asks several important questions: how can we make sense of the fact that we are creating a world that none of us individually would chose and - what are the causal forces that produce this needless suffering. She lays out how we can draw on the resources that lie dormant in every human being. Neuroscience, she says, affirms that human beings are predisposed or "softwired," for empathy, cooperation, fairness, and the desire to have power, to be imaginative and to create.

Lappé's  work of the last two decades is dedicated to help set free those creative forces that produce real democracy and to collect inspiring international examples of where this is already happening. <http://www.smallplanet.org/>
Recorded at Yoga Mendocino, Ukiah, CA on April 11, 2010
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Peter Dale Scott on Thomas Merton
THE MANY GATED CITY
This is a 25 minute talk by Peter Dale Scott on Thomas Merton, the catholic priest, Trappist monk, writer of over 70 books, poet, and social activist. Scott, best known for his writings on foreign policy, the CIA and the drug trade, shares many of the complexities that have made Thomas Merton, who died in 1968, so intriguing. To this day Thomas Merton's name and writings are associated with the acceptance of the spiritual traditions of Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sufism by western spiritual thinkers and poets such as Thoreau, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Rilke.

The spiritual and literary connections that Scott lays out in this talk are interwoven with not just Merton's ideas on mutual respect, inner and outer peace, liberation theology, and Gandhian nonviolence - but with the vision for a cultural societal as well as a personal change that can bring about a peaceful world.

This is a fascinating survey of the rich history of mutually inspiring contact between the living traditions of the East and West that now have been suffocated in the war on terror. Literary and spiritual contacts that are essential for world peace have been broken by war. And in that sense a talk on Merton is a talk on the road to peace - especially from a poet and political writer such as Scott who knows so much about war.
Peter Dale Scott's web site is <http://www.peterdalescott.net/>
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
and people of Willits
END OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION
and Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
Documentary of an art exhibition under the title of End of Industrial Civilization in the small former logging town of Willits, CA, with poems and paintings by Ferlinghetti; and collages, and photos from Indian reservations by Maria Gilardin.

The program opens with the Ferlinghetti poem: Wild Dreams of a New Beginning, written in 1974, about the mile high tidal wave that runs over Los Angeles which sinks like the Titanic, all lights lit; crosses the country to sweep Manhattan Island clean in 16 seconds. The washed land then awakes again to wilderness, and the Indians reclaim their canoes.

The poem was part of an art exhibition in Willits, CA, around the theme: End of Industrial Civilization, with poems and paintings by Ferlinghetti; and collages, and photos from Indian reservations by Maria Gilardin. The show also included a small library with The Airconditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller and Kirkpatrick Sale's article: Lessons from the Luddites.

Sale had written in the Nation in 1995 that we need to set limits on technology: "As our own daily experience has convinced us, we in the industrial world are in the middle of a social and political revolution that is almost without parallel. ..This transformation is, without anyone being prepared for it, overwhelming the communities and institutions and customs that once were the familiar stanchions of our lives.

Resistors to industrial civilization, Sale said, .. could find their most useful models in the 19th century Luddites who fought the introduction of the huge mechanized looms and child labor. "It was not all machinery that the Luddites opposed, but "all Machinery hurtful to Commonality," as a March 1812 letter to a hated manufacturer put it.
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Silvia Ribeiro
GEOENGINEERING THE PLANET
Addressing the effects, not the causes, of climate change
Geo-engineers are proposing large scale global projects to reduce solar radiation. They want to force the oceans into absorbing more CO2 through "fertilization", and they work on carbon sequestration and weather modification.  

While most climate scientist left the Copenhagen Summit feeling gloomy about the lack of action to halt climate change, a small group felt emboldened. They are the geo-engineers who are proposing large scale global projects to reduce solar radiation by spreading sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere, placing sunshades into space or by whitening the clouds. They also want to force the oceans into absorbing more of the excess CO2 through "fertilization" by spreading urea, iron or phosphorous. And they work on carbon sequestration and weather modification. What seemed until recently a mad science fiction project is now gaining acceptance by corporations, politicians, the US Department of Energy, climate change deniers and funders.

Among the institutions where geoengineering research is being done are: Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Stanford University, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the German Max Planck Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Universities of Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh, UK - as well as labs and corporations in Canada, India, China, Australia and many other places.

The nonprofit civil society organization, the ETCGroup, has probably followed the issue of geoengineering more closely and over the longest period of time. At least that is the opinion of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. They commission the ETCGroup to write a pamphlet called "Retooling the Planet?" with an overview over and detailed critique of geoengineering. It came out in the Fall of 2009, and is freely available on their website ETCGroup.org. The ETC group has fundamental objections to geoengineering since it treats only the symptoms, not the causes of climate change and can be used as an excuse for delaying the implementation of CO2 reductions. But they also wanted to issue a warning that large scale open field, real world experiments in ocean fertilization and solar radiation management may be about to begin and need to come under scrutiny.

The ETCGroup reports that indigenous peoples, civil society organizations and women's group have already expressed their opposition to geoengineeering schemes. Most of these organization are in the global South and they need to hear from the opposition in the industrialized countries, especially in the US and the UK. The goals are to bring about a ban on any real-world experimentation in geoengineering, to expose the overt and covert interests of the players, and to demand accountability from governments, corporations and scientists who are actively promoting these technologies.
2010-03-26, San Francisco
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Iain Boal
WHO WERE THE LUDDITES?
Machine smashers of the 19th century or members of a fascinating social movement with visionary insights into the unfolding drama of industrialization?

The impact of today's technologies on social relations and the planet itself is becoming an intriguing field of inquiry. However so far the discussion of nuclear power, biotechnology, deforestation, automobiles or computers is pretty much dominated by industry and government who want us to take all this for granted.

In this context it is inspiring to remember the Luddites who questioned industrial civilization at its very beginning in England during the introduction of mechanized textile mills. They knew that the power-looms that they selectively destroyed were not just a technology but would create a whole new set of relations: Factory work, child labor, and the demise of artisan and skilled labor. They anticipated that the new machines, that they themselves had helped build, were not the promised tool to help them in their work but would eventually become part of a machine culture with power over human life and even human consciousness.

Iain Boal is an independent scholar and historian of technology. He taught a course on the Luddites at Stanford University. This lecture was expanded into a book project, Resisting the Virtual Life, an anthology edited by Iain Boal and James Brook and published by City Lights.
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Ali Abunimah
ON THE ONGOING EFFORTS TO FREE GAZA AND THE BOYCOTT ISRAEL MOVEMENT
Ali Abunimah spoke in Berkeley, CA, at the end of February 2010 and gave an assessment of the situation in Gaza, one year after the terrible 22 day long assault by Israel. Homes, schools and health clinics still lie in ruins because Israel and Egypt who control all land and sea access into Gaza do not allow building materials to enter. Of 122 clinics 46% are destroyed, of 640 schools 18 are completely destroyed, 280 are damaged and can't be repaired. People still live in the ruins of their former homes.

A vibrant international movement to end the blockade is making ongoing attempts to enter through Egypt and by sea to bring supplies into Gaza. Ali Abunimah was part of the Gaza Freedom March in December 2009. The suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza has strengthened the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The movement has also united Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza with those dispersed through the world and with the few still living in Israel as second class citizens. Abunimah, along with author Naomi Klein are prominent supporters of that boycott Israel movement.

The plight of the people in Gaza has also revived a venerable idea to solve the Israel Palestine conflict. Instead of the failed two state solution Abunimah and others are calling for one state for two peoples. I this speech as well as in his 2006 book One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Abunimah explains how that may come about.

Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American activist and author. He is often heard on Democracy Now as co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, an online publication about the Israel Palestine conflict. Born in Washington, DC, he spent his early years in England and Belgium before returning to attend Princeton University. His mother was expelled from from Lifta, now controlled by Israel, his father is from the West Bank.

Recorded by Jeff Blankfort on 2010-02-28 at an event of the Middle East Children's Alliance, MECA.
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Helen Caldicott
STOP NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Helen Caldicott's Appeal to President Obama
This is a medical lecture on the health effects of uranium mining, processing, radiation damage to cells and genes and the routine releases of radioactive materials such as Tritium from nuclear power plants during "normal" operations.

When Obama in his 2010 State of the Union address strongly endorsed nuclear power as one of the solutions to global warming - and said: "That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country" the anti nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott responded in the Huffington Post. Throughout her almost 40 year long international campaign and her writings in seven books she has always made the connection between nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and environmental destruction. She said that not only should no new nuclear power plants be built but called for: ending "the sale of nuclear reactors globally by the US, Russia, France and others for they are fundamentally factories for nuclear weapons production because they manufacture plutonium..". Ultimately - she said - "the goal should be the cessation of the production of enriched uranium and plutonium by closing all nuclear power plant operations."
2009-06-28
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Helen Caldicott
IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET
The Canadian writer Naomi Klein said about Helen Caldicott: (she) "has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor." In 2009 the revised edition of Caldicott's book: If You Love This Planet was published by Norton.

In a yearlong research process she updated the information on dangerous global trends such as ozone depletion, global warming, toxic pollution, food contamination, and deforestation - and, as always, she gives a prescription for a cure and cause for hope. Helen Caldicott rallies readers to action with the contention that our fight for the planet will draw its strength from love for the Earth itself.

Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 38 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. She was only 23 years old when she received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1961. Ten year later, in 1971, she was in her first successful antinuclear campaign to stop French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific.

While living in the United States from 1977 to 1986, she co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
 
Helen Caldicott has written for numerous publications and has authored seven books, among them: Nuclear Madness, Missile Envy, The New Nuclear Danger, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer, and If You Love this Planet. Recorded in Oakland, CA, October 23-2009
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Helen Caldicott
BANNING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
In 1986 the city of Berkeley, CA, - as one of many around the globe - passed a Nuclear Free Act which allows the city to boycott companies involved in nuclear work. The University of CA Berkeley however, which runs the nuclear weapons lab at Lawrence Livermore and - until recently the Los Alamos Lab is - as State institution - exempt from the municipal regulation.

The anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott spoke in Berkeley at a June 2009 meeting of SuperBOLD, an organization dedicated to enforcing the Nuclear Free ordinance. They are trying to prevent the Berkeley Public library from hiring the 3M corporation to maintain the Radio Frequency checkpoint system there. 3M refuses to sign a contract that they will not do “work for nuclear weapons.”

For over 35 years Helen Caldicott has led the international efforts to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear power and weapons and has been named one of the most influential women of the 20th century by the Smithsonian Institute.

She has written numerous books, among them Nuclear Power is not the Answer (2006), and War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space (2007). Helen Caldicott has begun producing a free, weekly one hour radio program entitled: If You Love This Planet.
Arjun Makhijani, is President of IEER.

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In the aftermath of Martin Luther King's Birthday
We all heard his speeches again - who was afraid of him?

The EXECUTION of Martin Luther King
by Dr. William Pepper
Dr. William Pepper became James Earl Ray's lawyer when he found out that Ray was not the murderer and investigated the plot to kill King. This extraordinary story has implications for history, civil rights, justice and democracy.

Bill Pepper's friendship with King and his family goes back to 1967. Pepper had gone to Vietnam and taken photos of children burned by napalm. King asked to meet with him and they worked closely together during the anti-Vietnam war phase of King's life. In this recording Pepper explains why he became convinced of Ray's innocence and, during 25 years of investigative work, pieced together the plot to kill King. The extraordinary story has implications for history, civil rights, justice and democracy. (Feb. 2003)

William Pepper is an acclaimed lawyer who practices international law. His book by Verso is: AN ACT OF STATE, The Execution of Martin Luther King. Recorded 2003-02-10. For more information: <http://www.thekingcenter.com>
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Martin Luther King Birthday SPECIAL
This is a rare recording of a man who remained in the background.
Without him the civil rights movement might have taken a different turn.

NEW:
Fred Gray
CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY FOR ROSA PARKS AND MARTIN LUTHER KING
When Fred Gray's friend Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance on a Montgomery bus, 26-year-old Martin Luther King, was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his--and the movement's--lawyer. Gray's legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later.

In this program Fred Gray tells his story. He grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and had to leave the state to finish his education because blacks could not then attend Alabama law schools. He returned to his hometown in 1954 and became one of two black lawyers in the city. His first case was that of the 15 year old Claudette Colvin. Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat on the Montgomery bus, Claudette did the same. Fred Gray won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, transportation, and health. He represented the Freedom Riders, the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, and the victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

Recorded at the Republican Roundtable in San Francisco, July 2009.  It was a Republican, Peter Buxtun, who blew the whistle on the Tuskegee study. Poor black sharecroppers were led to believe they were being treated, while in reality the study recorded the progression of untreated Syphilis. Buxtun is now the events coordinator for the Republican Roundtable,  TUC Radio was there by invitation.
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David Korten
COMMUNITY AND THE NEW ECONOMY
Why Wall Street can't be fixed and how to replace it
David Korten is the author of the 2009 book: "Agenda for a New Economy" and chair of the board of YES Magazine. He is probably best known for his famous anti-globalization book: When Corporations Rule the World.

MICHAEL PARENTI
Theocracy VS. Democracy - The Political Uses of Religion
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Michael Parenti says that democracy can't survive under religious rule – whatever that religion may be. Parenti's warning in this archival recording is as timely and urgently expressed as it was when this speech was first given during the second term of the Reagan administration. This talk is also very funny. Parenti explains how God may be considered as a "founding father" and why Woody Allen calls him an underachiever. It is easy to extend this timeless analysis to the present circumstances.

With roots in a working class Italian district of New York and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale Michael Parenti has become an internationally known writer and lecturer. He is the author of twenty books.

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Dr. Lonnie Thompson
MELTING OF THE HIGH MOUNTAIN GLACIERS OF THE WORLD
Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future
Dr. Thompson issues a warning that the mountain glaciers he knows and loves are melting ever more dramatically just within the year of 2007. He is the leading expert on glaciers with 30 years of on location research.

Dr. Lonnie Thompson saw one of the first ice cores that was recovered from a glacier when he was in graduate school. He was fascinated by the amount of data on earth history, past climate and world changing events that can be read from these ice cores and made the exploration of ice his life's work. He now teaches in the Department of Geological Sciences and is Senior Research Scientists at the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State University.

In three decades he has explored most of the mountain glaciers of this world, has learned their history going back tens of thousands of years via the ice cores he and his team drilled at altitudes that no helicopter can reach. He came to San Francisco in early December 2007 to issue this warning.

Thompson was the honored speaker at the December 2007 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The hotel where Dr. Thompson spoke recorded the event for the AGU. This is the only other audio or visual record of this amazing talk.

The melting of the world's glaciers is an unfolding emergency. This archival program was updated in December 2009 using the following information:
Dr. Lonnie Thompson's most recent research on Mount Kilimanjaro was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS (11/3/09)
<http://www.pnas.org/content/106/47/19743.full?sid=4051f11f-1c2f-4182-98be-e2dddd593820>

Dr. James Hansen sent out an e-ail on Dec. 12 announcing the publication of the following paper: Survival of Tibetan Glaciers:  New PNAS paper on black soot & Himalayan glaciers is available at <http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/07/0910444106.full.pdf+html>
A NASA press release on this work is expected in mid-December.
Jim
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Jutta Kill and Dr. Arjun Makhijani
CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS
False Solutions to Peak Oil and Climate Change
In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil and global resource depletion & extinction. <http://www.ifg.org>

Several Panel meetings addressed the many false solutions to the climate crisis that may be accelerating the danger rather than alleviating it. Coal for example is now promoted as a substitute for oil and promises for the capture of the carbon are made that are not yet possible with current technologies and may never be available on a large scale.

Jutta Kill is a climate campaigner and activist for FERN, an NGO based in Europe. A participant in the Durban Group's critique of carbon trading she eloquently describes how the system favors large corporations and will prevent a transition to renewable energy production. Dr. Arjun Makhijani argues against the resurgence of nuclear power. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering, specializing in nuclear fusion, from U.C. Berkeley. He is the principal author of the first study ever done (and completed in 1971) on the energy conservation potential in the U.S. economy.

The speakers were recorded at the Confronting the Global Triple Crisis teach in, organized by the International Forum on Globalization, in Washington DC in September 2007.
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WITNESS TO THE MELTING OF THE GREENLAND ICE
An Inuit elder speaks
Recorded in a tent during a rainstorm
by Cien Fuegos in July, 2007
in the Valley of the Ancients on Greenland.

When I first heard his voice in 2007 I wished I could move radio stations to play this recording every day to show that voices like his can reach us and inspire us to recognize our common future. But even though there is enough water bound up in the melting Greenland ice sheet to raise sea level by 21 feet and drown the cities of London and New York this program had very limited distribution. That's why I decided to play his appeal again - two years later as the Inuit of the circumpolar regions appeal to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. They want the world to pay attention to the one region of the world where climate change is the most rapid and has accelerated since Ithluk spoke.

In 2008, one year after he was recorded, Greenland had the greatest ice losses ever, three times the amount that Ithluk had observed. That may mean that Greenland has reached the tipping point. Jason Box, associate professor of geography at Ohio State’s Byrd Polar Research Center, said after the 2008 numbers were compiled QUOTE “We now know that the climate doesn't have to warm any more for Greenland to continue losing ice,” Box said. “It has probably passed the point where it could maintain the mass of ice that we remember." That loss of ice translates into global sea level rises of potentially up to 6 feet by 2100.

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Ross Gelbspan, Susan George and Walden Bello
SOLUTIONS TO THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS
In September of 2007 the International Forum on Globalization held a Teach-in in Washington DC on climate change, peak oil, global resource depletion & extinction. At the end of the three-day event proposals to resolve the crisis were made By Ross Gelbspan, Susan George, and Walden Bello.

Ross Gelbspan is a Pulitzer Price winning journalist, climate activist and author of The Heat Is On and Boiling Point. He says that the speed of global warming has blind sided all of us. The first warning by James Hansen came in 1988. 20 years later scientists tell us we are at, or have passed, the point of no return. All this came from one degree of warming. We can no longer burn coal and oil. Susan George is chair of the planning board of the Transnational Institute, <www.tni.org>. One of her recent books is: Another World is possible if.. (Verso 2004) Susan George proposes a new Keynesianism, not military but environmental this time, that could bring about a massive conversion to eco friendly industry and alternative energies and resolve the looming recession that we are facing at the same time. Walden Bello is professor of sociology at the university of the Philippines and leader of the anti corporate globalization and peace movement. He is cofounder of Focus on the Global South, <www.focusweb.org> based in Bangkok, Thailand. His book, Dragons in Distress, is widely regarded as the classic that predicted the collapse of the East Asian economies later in that decade.” He puts the triple crisis in the context of capitalism and the policies of globalization and growth. An 8 to 10% growth rate is ecologically criminal.
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MICHAEL PARENTI
The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State
When Oliver Stone’s movie JFK opened in December 1991 a huge PR campaign was mobilized against the film. Even progressives spoke out. Noam Chomsky wrote in support of the Warren Commission's findings – in contrast Michael Parenti gave one of his highly acclaimed talks criticizing the lone assassin theory. The bitter questions that haunted defenders and critics alike was whether government agencies of a democratic country would do such a thing as assassinate an elected President.

In this talk Michael Parenti turns to that question first – he examines, in part one, what he calls “the gangster nature of the state.” In part two he goes over details of the assassination and critiques The Nation, The Progressive, Chomsky and Cockburn. He spoke in Berkeley, CA, on the 30th anniversary of the JFK assassination.

This is one of many "standing ovations" talks by Parenti. The master for this program was lost and this appears to be the only copy of the original recording.
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ANTHRAX-WAR
A film by Bob Coen & Eric Nadler
Film makers Bob Coen and Eric Nadler investigate the forgotten story of the 2001 anthrax attacks. A week after 9/11 letters containing the weaponized Ames strain of anthrax began arriving in the mail. These attacks— despite the FBI’s claim that the case is closed— remain  unsolved to this day.

In tracing the anthrax attacks to the center of the U.S. bio-defense program, this film raises an alarm. Biological weapons research on global pandemics is now being conducted by corporations and private labs without government oversight.

The 2009 film, ANTHRAX-WAR, and the accompanying book: Dead Silence, Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail, detail the seven-year global journey by Coen and Nadler. They uncover an underground black market in bio-warfare materials and attempts to develop a so-called "ethnic bio-weapon", targeting black populations in Africa. Along the way they investigate the suspicious sudden deaths of scientists, among them Bruce Ivins, who was named the lone suspect eight days after his alleged suicide and the questionable suicide by British weapons inspector and anthrax researcher David Kelly.

The film: Anthrax War is a Canada-France co production produced by Galafilm and TelFrance/Transformer Films for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Société Radio-Canada and ARTE. For more information of this excellent film and book <http://www.counterpointpress.com> go to their web site: <http://www.anthraxwar.com/>
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Jacques Laroche wrote to TUC Radio on December 12:
I recently saw your post about Bob Coen and Eric Nadler's film The Anthrax War... I originally saw the film just after it was made and have been keeping my eyes open in regards to David Kelly and other information relayed in the movie. So, I thought you should know about the recent developments involving Kelly: Six Doctors are saying he was Murdered: Thank you Jacques!
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David Ray Griffin
THE MYSTERIOUS COLLAPSE OF WORLD TRADE CENTER 7
The collapse of Building 7 on the afternoon of 9/11 was overshadowed by that of the Twin Towers in spite of one eerie similarity. Even though it had not been hit by a plane, the 47 story building also came down at free fall speed, collapsing into it's footprint. FEMA admitted in their initial report in 2002 that they had no good explanation as to why the building came down and an official silence fell over the fate of the building for six more years.

Then, in November 2008, the federal technology agency NIST released the Final WTC 7 Investigation Report. In their executive summary they say that heating of floor beams and girders caused one of 82 support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that led to the failure of the 81 others and brought the building down.

9-eleven researcher David Ray Griffin scrutinized the NIST report page by page and published his findings in book form in the summer of 2009. He set out to prove that NIST arrived at their conclusions by disregarding evidence and said that "The omission of evidence by NIST is so massive, that I treat it as a distinct type of scientific fraud."

The omissions listed in this talk include work done by FEMA, the USGS, dust analysis by international labs, and eyewitness reports from police officers and city officials.

Prof. Griffin retired from the Claremont School of Theology, where he had taught for 30 years, and wrote in 2004 the most widely read book on the subject: The New Pearl Harbor, disturbing questions about the Bush administration and 9-11.
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BUSH Radio, Cape Town
South Africa's first community radio station
Noam Chomsky praised the vitality and professionalism of South Africa's most influential community station. This is an intriguing look into the day to day operations of the station that defined how radio is done and trained staff for 80+ stations. When you visit Bush Radio in Cape Town any Saturday morning you find children as young as 6 years doing their own programming. Weekdays the news department presents local news on the air, in writing as blog, including photos and video.

Denied a license under the old Apartheid regime, Bush Radio went on the air illegally in 1993. Two broadcasters were arrested and the equipment confiscated. After the historic elections of 1994 the first broadcast licenses issued by the Mandela government were specifically for community broadcasters. In June of 1995 Bush Radio received its license to broadcast. Bush Radio played a huge role in defining the laws and practice of community radio in South Africa. Over the last eight years they trained approximately 500 people to operate a radio station. Almost every one of the nearly 90 stations in existence in South Africa today employs at least one person trained at Bush Radio.

In the summer of 2009 Brenda Leonard, the Bush Radio administrator, went on a US tour of public radio stations. I met her in San Francisco and asked her to tell me about the day to day operations of Bush Radio. <http://www.bushradio.co.za>
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THE REAL PATCH ADAMS
How to eliminate greed and profit in health care
In the 1998 movie Robin Williams played Patch Adams, the funny doctor with a red clown's nose, the young man who almost committed suicide but then found joy in becoming a physician and taking care of people. That movie made Patch Adams a folk hero but it also undermined the deeper meaning of the healing project that he and his friends were and are building today.

In this program Patch Adams gives a review of the history of his project, the Gesundheit Institute, <http://www.patchadams.org> lists some of the international activities on behalf of orphans, prevention of child sexual slavery and women's mortality in childbirth. Adams now wants to build a full hospital based on the principles of healing that he laid out in this talk.

One week before this talk, Adams was invited by Republican congress members to talk about health care. This program includes his report of his defense of Single Payer to a group that had applauded Cheney and Rove a week earlier.

Patch Adams was recorded on July 5, 2009 in Willits, CA. Justin Briggs operated the audio system.
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Cynthia McKinney &
THE FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
The Free Gaza Movement <http://www.freegaza.org/> began in the Fall of 2006. Seeing all land borders of Gaza controlled by Israel - and by Egypt at Rafah - severely restricting the crossing of urgently needed food, fuel, and medicine for 1.4 million Palestinians - they decided to reach Gaza by sea, and directly challenge the Israeli siege. 

They found two, small, wooden fishing boats. In August 2008 they became the first international boats to land in the port of Gaza in 41 years. Between August and December 2008 the Free Gaza Movement successfully broke the Israeli siege five times and arrived in Gaza with international crews and humanitarian aid.

In response to the month-long Israeli war on Gaza that began at the end of December 2008 the Free Gaza Movement sent a ship with over 3 tons of emergency medical supplies, and 3 surgeons. Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, decided to participate in this journey.

This time the Israeli navy rammed the ship, almost sinking it - then abandoned the disabled vessel. This is McKinney's story of confrontation with the Israeli navy in international waters, up to the boarding of the second Free Gaza Boat by Israeli commandos and the kidnapping and imprisoning the passengers.

Cynthia McKinney <http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/> came to Sonoma State University on August 15, 2009 to tell a story that made it around the world as breaking news - but was almost completely ignored by the US media.

Cynthia McKinney made history in 1992 when she became the first African American woman to represent Georgia in Congress. However she soon found herself in the sites of AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Israel's officially registered lobby, when she refused to sign a statement supporting Israel that is routinely demanded by AIPAC of every candidate for Congress from either party.

She went on to be one of the handful of members of Congress to defend the rights of the Palestinians. She lost the Democratic primary of 2002, when contributions from across the country from pro-Israel sources flowed to her opponent. In 2004, she ran again and, despite attacks again from pro-Israel forces, she regained her seat in office although she was denied her seniority by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. In 2006, her Democratic party opposition united behind a single candidate. Cynthia McKinney was defeated and left Congress.

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Cynthia McKinney and the Free Gaza Movement
This is yet another story that never made it into the US mainstream media. Former US Congress woman Cynthia McKinney joined two boat trips to bring humanitarian aid into the port of Gaza.

On the first trip the Free Gaza boat was rammed and almost sunk by the Israeli navy. The second boat that tried to reach Gaza in June 2009 was boarded by Israeli commandos, and the passengers imprisoned in Israel. Cynthia McKinney became Israeli prisoner number 77894. Don't miss her story on TUC Radio.

THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT
A phone conversation with the Executive Director Cathryn Couch and client Katherine Kraemer.
In the California town of Sebastopol high school students meet for two hours after school on a day of their choice to cook organic healing food for people with serious health problems. Named after the Greek goddess of agriculture and generosity, Ceres, this project is almost entirely based on gifts. The teenage volunteers enjoy cooking so much that there is a waiting list. Sonoma County organic farmers donate most of the food, the use of the first kitchen was donated by a church, and volunteers are bringing the prepared dishes to the homes of the clients. These clients, and often their whole family receive a week's worth of beautifully prepared food as gift for up to three months. After that time they are asked to contribute. Their donation to the Ceres Community Project can be as little as $5 a week.

The Ceres Project is young - it started in March of 2007 - but it has touched so many lives, and inspired such gratitude and a kind of generosity that increased fourfold the number of meals provided in 2008. In early 2009 there is already the first attempt to duplicate the project in a neighboring county.

The Ceres Project came to the attention of another community organization, the West Marin radio station KWMR <http://kwmr.org/> and Mike Litchfield, host of the series: Heading Home. When Ceres Project founder Cathryn Couch first appeared on the air the station received so many requests to hear her again that Cathryn came back on the air in March of 2009. Thanks to KWMR and Mike Litchfield for allowing the re-broadcast of the program.

Part ONE: Interview with Cathryn Couch, Executive Director of the Ceres Community Project.
Part TWO: Conversation with Ceres Community Project client Katherine Kraemer who is going through chemotherapy. Cathryn Couch is participating as well.
Both interviews are made by phone. Recorded on March 10, 2009.
The web site of the Ceres Project is <http://www.ceresproject.org>
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Peter Dale Scott
AMERICA'S AFGHANISTAN
US National Security and a Heroin-Ravaged State
The US State Department calls Afghanistan a failed state that justifies US intervention, rather than acknowledging that US intervention has caused that so-called failure. And among all the triggers to that failure from US support of the Mujahedin and Al Quaeda to the war lords one element is not recognized in it’s real importance: the role of the trade in opium.

Peter Dale Scott, author of “Drugs Oil, and War” and “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America” is one of the most respected researchers on the use of drugs in the strategies of the CIA and in US foreign policy. <http://www.peterdalescott.net/> He says that the unprecedented increase in Afghani opium production in the last 5 years could never have happened without outside support.

While Afghanistan is being ravaged by heroin and many farmers are forced to grow for very little profit the real gains of drug production are made by large political players and on the international market. Even though Afghanistan now supplies over 90% of the world’s heroin, the Afghan portion of the global heroin network, in dollar terms, is financially minute compared to what is earned elsewhere. According to the UN, the ultimate value in world markets in 2007 of Afghanistan’s $4 billion opium crop was about $110 billion.

This talk by Professor Scott is putting names and faces on the beneficiaries of that drug trade. Peter Dale Scott was recoded in the mountains of Northern California on April 27, 2009 at a small gathering of friends and neighbors. He has since expanded this speech and the longer text with footnotes is posted at <http://www.japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3145>
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Derrick Jensen:
BRINGING DOWN CIVILIZATION
Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: “Listening to the Land”: “We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide --all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity." And he follows that with a question: “Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of  being? My work and life revolve around these questions. “

Helen Caldicott
BANNING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
In 1986 the city of Berkeley, CA, - as one of many around the globe - passed a Nuclear Free Act which allows the city to boycott companies involved in nuclear work. The University of CA Berkeley however, which runs the nuclear weapons lab at Lawrence Livermore and - until recently the Los Alamos Lab is - as State institution - exempt from the municipal regulation.

The anti-nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott spoke in Berkeley at a June 2009 meeting of SuperBOLD, an organization dedicated to enforcing the Nuclear Free ordinance. They are trying to prevent the Berkeley Public library from hiring the 3M corporation to maintain the Radio Frequency checkpoint system there. 3M refuses to sign a contract that they will not do “work for nuclear weapons.”

For over 35 years Helen Caldicott has led the international efforts to educate the public about the dangers of nuclear power and weapons and has been named one of the most influential women of the 20th century by the Smithsonian Institute.

She has written numerous books, among them Nuclear Power is not the Answer (2006), and War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space (2007). Helen Caldicott has begun producing a free, weekly one hour radio program entitled: If You Love This Planet.
Arjun Makhijani, is President of IEER.

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Lorenzo Milam just made me aware of an anti-nuclear piece that Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote in 1958. I asked Ferlinghetti, who is now 90 years young, to read it again, 51 years later. Ferlinghetti had seen Nagasaki a few weeks after the atom bomb destroyed it. That experience changed his life. "The Tentative Description of a Dinner to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower" is less about Eisenhower than about all Presidents since then who failed to end the nuclear age. Ferlinghetti reads about the "strange rain that would never stop .. and perverted pollen blown on sunless seas - eaten by irradiated fish who spawned up cloudleaf streams and fell upon our dinner plates."
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Richard Grossman
WHEN INJUSTICE IS LEGAL
WHAT DO THE ABOLITIONISTS TEACH US ABOUT CHALLENGING CORPORATE RULE
Grossman describes how corporations usurped many of the rights that are properly due to human beings and have become the dominant institutions or our time – and how that dominance needs to be challenged in the constitutional arena. He proposes how to bring about the changes in self-governance, be it energy, agriculture, transportation, peace or environmental protection by directly challenging the law.

Richard Grossman is co-founder of CELDF, the Community Legal Defense Fund. CELDF was formed to provide free and affordable legal services to community-based groups and local governments working to protect their quality of life and the natural environment. They help mount campaigns that challenge the legal clout of corporations to overrule decisions made by citizens for their communities and for a sustainable future. <http://www.celdf.org/>
He spoke at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in November 2006.
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Stephen Zarlenga
THE AMERICAN MONETARY ACT
Solving the Financial Crisis by Monetary Reform
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has posted the following on his web site:
"The U.S. monetary reform is urgently needed: It is long past time we look at the
 implications of . . . the privatization of money created by the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the bank fractional reserve system and our debt-based economic system. Unless we have dramatic reform of monetary policy, the entire economic system will continue to accelerate wealth upwards. I am currently working on drafting legislation for an ‘American Monetary Act’ to address these and other issues in order to protect the economic well being of America."
<http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2786&Itemid=76>

Observers believe that this single measure has the potential of bringing together tens of millions of people who have realized that our bank-run debt-based monetary system lies at the center of the financial crisis. The question is of course - how are these tens of millions going to find out that there is such legislation being developed?

Kucinich is working closely with Stephen Zarlenga, director of the American Monetary Institute <http://www.monetary.org/> and author of: The Lost Science of Money. I interviewed Zarlenga in May 2009 after his return from Washington, DC, where he had briefed members of Congress. A report on the briefing was done by Richard Cook. <http://www.richardccook.com/>
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Nationalize the Federal Reserve - Remove the Power of Banks to Create Money
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Money to The People - NOT to Banks
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George Galloway
VIVA PALESTINA
Breaking the siege of GAZA
George Galloway is an outspoken Member of the British Parliament, serving since 1987. He is perhaps best known for his support of Palestine and his campaign to end economic sanctions against Iraq. When he stood up to Tony Blair and called the invasion of Iraq illegal he was expelled from the Labour Party.

After participating in daily demonstrations in England during the Israeli assault on Gaza from the end of December 2008 into January 2009, Galloway led a convoy of vehicles loaded with humanitarian aid to Gaza. Under the name VIVA Palestina the convoy began in England in February 2009, crossed from Spain into North Africa and entered Gaza from Egypt with over 200 vehicles through the Rafah crossing that is usually kept locked by the Egyptian government.

Galloway says that if it were not for the extraordinary influence of the Israeli government that  maintains a blockade of GAZA, aid from governments and UN sources would be pouring into the war ravaged Gaza strip. He says that 61,200 homes were destroyed and Palestinians are still living in the rubble because Israel refuses to allow building materials into Gaza. Galloway plans to do what the international community fails to do and continue to lead convoys from other countries as well, including Russia and China.

Galloway was touring the US in April and May 2009 to invite donors and participants from the United States for the next convoy to Gaza. The plan is to leave New York on the 4th of July, fly directly into Egypt, purchase vehicles and medical supplies and repeat the successful breach of the Rafah crossing. <http://www.vivapalestina-us.org >
NOTE: Registration to join the convoy from New York is only open until June 20, 2009, at midnight (CST). Check out the registration form - which must be complete by then, at <http://www.vivapalestina-us.org/?cat=7>

Thanks to the Middle East Children's Alliance for organizing this event. <http://www.mecaforpeace>

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Peter Dale Scott
LIFTING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
An unresolved legacy of the Bush administration
Very few seem to know and among the few who know most don't seem to care that the US remains under a state of emergency declared by the Bush administration. The state of emergency was formally proclaimed five days after 9/11 on September 14th, 2001, and extended by Bush repeatedly thereafter, most recently on August 28th, 2008 for yet another year.

Under cover of this State of Emergency, the Bush administration enacted many extreme measures, ranging from suspension of habeas corpus, to the preparations for martial law in the US.
In early 2009 an attempt was made to alert the public and put pressure on Congress to lift the state of emergency.

In February 2009 Professor Peter Dale Scott <http://www.peterdalescott.net/> and former Congressman Dan Hamburg wrote a formal letter to President Obama's staff and several congress people. They referred to the National Emergencies Act, one of the post-Watergate reforms that requires specifically that not later than six months after a national emergency is declared, and not later than the end of each six-month period thereafter that such emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to consider a vote on a joint resolution to determine whether that emergency shall be terminated.
Letter writing campaign:
<http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090328020251412>
Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks (Aug. 28, 2008): <http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/08/20080828-7.html>
Investigation into Whether America is Still a Constitutional Government
<http://www.constitutionally.blogspot.com>

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ITHACA COMMUNITY MONEY
A history of the ITHACA HOURS community currency
During the Great Depression when banks were closed so they could be audited - over 400 currencies called SCRIPT were used in the US to buy food and services. When the banks reopened, sometimes several months later, SCRIPT was replaced with the federal currency.

Since the beginning of the financial crisis a resurgence of interest in alternative money systems has led to many new initiatives. A new website in the US called mainstreetcash.org is giving an overview over a huge number of community currencies and computer based trading systems with space for comment and discussion.

Featured on that web site are the Ithaca Hours, the oldest printed paper currency in the US. Founded in 1991 by Paul Glover it has been in continuous use, it's popularity rising and diminishing with fluctuations in the overall economy.

Each paper bill is a small piece of art and a commentary on the federal currency. At the top it says: IN ITHACA WE TRUST. - rather than In God We Trust. The currency is issued for the town of Ithaca and the surrounding farms - which means that the money will benefit local  exchanges and local jobs and can never go away as it does when we take dollars to WalMart.

I'm inviting you to re-visit with me one of the most important journeys I have taken as radio reporter, my 1995 visit to Ithaca. Paul Glover, who founded Ithaca Hours in 1991 is still doing community currency work. I spoke to him in March of 2009 to update the information in this program. His web site is http://www.paulglover.org
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Marilyn Waring
SEX, LIES AND GLOBAL ECONOMICS
The gross domestic product, the GDP, allegedly is an indicator of the well being of a society. Since powerful forces in banking and public policy are driving attempts to increase growth to solve the 2009 financial crisis it is important to listen to the critics of growth.

The GDP formula was invented by John Maynard Keynes who wrote a pamphlet during World War II entitled: The British National Income and How to Pay for the War. In 1953 that Keynesian set of rules was imposed on everybody.  The rules are called The United Nations System of National Accounts. All countries must use them or they will not be allowed to be a member of the UN, or deal with the World Bank and IMF. These unquestioned rules have been used to make public policy for the last 56 years.

Marilyn Waring says that the GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market. In other words it recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace to the preservation of the environment, and no value to unpaid work. This system leaves out half the population of the planet and the planet itself.

Marilyn Waring's work and intriguing life is described in a documentary film by Terre Nash. I'm bringing back the soundtrack of this film to support a debate on changing the current National Income Accounting using the GDP.

Marilyn Waring is an author, former member of the New Zealand Parliament, and goat farmer. She is Professor of Public Policy at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand. The film is distributed by Bullfrog Films in Oley, Pennsylvania.
The web site of the film is: <http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/>
Thanks to Terre Nash for making this film available.
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Paul Grignon
MONEY AS DEBT
An independent movie on the question "Where does money come from?" already has had a huge two year success with well over 2 million viewers on the internet. Now it is seeing another surge of interest because it also explains some of the underpinnings of the current financial crisis.
 
Money as Debt by the Canadian Paul Grignon makes the case that only a small part of our money is created by the government mint that prints or coins it. The vast majority of money is created by banks whenever a loan or mortgage is made. Banks, which are private institutions, are given enormous power to make and manage money and it is well worth today, in light of the crash of so many banks, to look at the monetary system.

The web site of the film is: http://www.moneyasdebt.net
Thanks to Paul Grignon for making his film available.
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Annie Machon
BEYOND THE WAR ON TERROR
When Annie Machon studied classics at Cambridge University she was recruited by MI5, the British equivalent of the FBI. Machon spent 6 years as an operative against so-called political subversives.

While working for MI5 she and her then partner and colleague David Shayler discovered illegalities and outright crimes committed by their colleagues - both in MI5 and MI6, the British equivalent to the CIA. They ranged from illegal surveillance of labor politicians, and illegal phone tabs, to direct funding of Al Qaeda and false flag operations.

In the mid nineties, when Shayler was the head of the Lybian section at MI5 he worked with the corresponding section in MI6. He learned about their plot to assassinate Colonel Muammar Qaddafi. The plot was funded by MI6 and carried out. Several people were killed, most of them local residents who simply watched the convoy go by. Qaddafi was not hurt.

The assassination plot was the turning point for Machon and Shayler. They resigned from the agency and became whistle blowers. They hoped to initiate a parliamentary investigation into MI5 and MI6 to shed light on the increasing power of spy agencies and the growing immunity of what they call the Secret State. They say that after 9/11 the power of the Secret Sate is being enlarged everywhere and even a change in administration does not appear to roll back that power - not just in Britain, but apparently in the US as well.

While Shayler and Machon were fighting to reign in the MI5 and MI6 they encountered another, even larger complex of lies and secrets. The false information that led to Britain joining the war on Iraq. They joined the peace movement in hopes to alert others to learn from their example and mistrust the information on weapons of mass destruction coming out of the US CIA. Machon explains why she joined the 9/11 truth movement and how many vibrant groups in Europe and Russia are now campaigning for an independent - potentially international - new investigation of the events of 9/11.

Annie Machon was recorded on September 22, 2008 at the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA, by Ken Jenkins and Hummux. Annie Machon mentions two Palestinians jailed on false evidence. They are Samar Alami and Jawad Botme and the web site in their support is <http://www.freesaj.org.uk/>. She also spoke abut Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo, and the web site <http://www.cageprisoners.com/> Machon's web site is: <http://www.anniemachon.com/>
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Peter Dale Scott
SAVING AMERICAN POLITICS FROM THE PRESENT TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
The disparity of income and wealth in this country was increased by the first round of bank bail-outs. On Jan. 27, 2009, in front of an audience of Republicans, Scott explained in great detail the necessity to construct future bail-outs to diminish that gap for the sake of democracy. This is a lucid analysis and a well researched guideline for all who want to influence future financial policies.

This is also the only recording of a very unusual event. The San Francisco Republican Round Table crossed party lines and invited Peter Dale Scott. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest books are: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, published in 2007 by the University of California Press, and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War, published in 2008 by the Mary Ferrell Foundation Press. His website is <http://www.peterdalescott.net>

The Republican Round Table meets in a SF hotel. About 60 members, some with recognizable names, came to hear him. The only media in attendance were TUC Radio and, as guest, the former Ramparts editor Warren Hinkle accompanied by his basset hound.
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For the excerpt by PD Scott on Eliot Spitzer on YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsY1hzDWHKk>
For the op-ed that Spitzer wrote - that exposed predatory lending and really got him busted: <SpitzerColumn.htm>
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Fred Morse
SUN ENGINES AND CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER (CSP)
A brief history of a carbon free technology that could produce enough electricity to replace coal. CSP was pioneered by US engineers in the late 19th century and lost out to oil and coal. 

President Nixon asked Fred Morse whether solar energy made sense for America. His answer was "definitely yes". Fred Morse went on to manage solar energy in the Department of Energy for Presidents Carter and Reagan until 1989 when the programs were dismantled. Today Morse is the senior adviser for US operations for the Spanish firm Abengoa. They operate in over 70 countries and specialize in solar and bio-energy. Abengoa is trying to build the world's largest CSP plant near Phoenix, AZ. <http://www.abengoasolar.com/sites/solar/en/our_projects/usa/arizona/index.html> Coal and nuclear are lobbying hard to retain the lion's share of loan guarantees in the new stimulus package. ( The interview with Morse was recorded on 2008-08-26 in San Francisco/ Washington DC by phone.)

NOTES:
Our foremost climatologist, NASA's James Hansen, has demonstrated that our only hope of getting our atmosphere back to a safe level - below 350 parts per million CO2 - lies in stopping the use of coal to generate electricity.

Hansen points out that policy devices such as emissions reduction targets and cap-and-trade schemes simply will not work because there is already too much CO2 in the air. Much of the carbon dioxide given off by Robert Stephenson’s “Rocket” locomotive in 1829 is still in the atmosphere. Around 20% will still be present in thousands of years. If carbon dioxide continues to be released, even at the reduced rates now proposed, the amounts that remain will continue to build up. With present-day levels already posing real dangers, today’s policies of emissions reduction and carbon trading represent merely a slightly slower road to climate apocalypse. The lesson, Hansen argues, is that the bulk of the Earth’s remaining fossil fuels must be left untouched.

Thanks to Ken Butti and John Perlin whose book: A Golden Thread describes 2500 years of solar architecture and technology. Also to my friend Alex Carlin who first made me aware of CSP - a technology that has been made to lose out against oil and coal for decades - and that now needs it's day in the sun.
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MORE INFO:
Harvey Wasserman: A $50 Billion nuke power bomb is dropping toward Obama’s stimulus package, January 31, 2009. (Wasserman was on Democracy Now! on this issue on Feb. 5.) <http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2009/1721>

James Hansen, NASA: Tell President Obama About Coal River Mountain
<http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2009/20090203_CoalRiverMountain.pdf>
Coal River Mountain is the site of an absurdity.  I learned about Coal River Mountain from students at Virginia Tech last fall.  They were concerned about Coal River Mountain, but at that time most of them were working to support Barack Obama.  They assumed Barack Obama would not allow such outrages to continue. The issue at Coal River Mountain is whether the top of the mountain will be blown up, so that coal can be dredged out of it, or whether the mountain will be allowed to stand.

Arjun Makhjijani and David Freeman
IS NUCLEAR POWER COMING BACK?
- and do we need a police state to live with it?
Pres. Obama's energy secretary, Steven Chu, says he will streamline loan guarantees to build nuclear and coal fired power plants. This puts nuclear power on the watch list for the Obama administration.

This program features one of the great orators and elders of the anti nuclear movement. David Freeman shut down 8 of their 14 reactors while heading the Tennessee Valley Authority under Pres. Carter. He calls nuclear a failed technology and says that, in the age of terrorism, we need a police state to guard those Trojan horses.

Preceding Freeman's comment you will hear from Dr. Arjun Makhijani. He holds a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion. He is the principal editor and co-author of NUCLEAR WASTELANDS, the first global assessment of the effects of nuclear weapons production. He addresses the issues of nuclear proliferation and why nuclear technologies have spread in spite of the efforts, begun in the early 1960s to dismantle the existing weapons stockpiles.

Both speakers were attending a November 2005 conference organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott to deter the Bush administration from building new nuclear power plants. This is an updated version as a reminder to the current administration.

This program contains a chilling quote from Sen. Obama indicating that he is aware of the problems associated with nuclear power. (Source: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxl2cVFTLw> "I don't think there is anything that we inevitably dislike about nuclear power - we just dislike the fact that it might blow up and irradiate us and kill us."
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An interview with journalist Jeffrey Blankfort
ISRAEL'S WAR ON GAZA
On January 8 and 9, 2009 the US Senate and House passed resolutions overwhelmingly supporting Israel’s offensive in Gaza. This in the face of growing condemnation of the war on Gaza from another overwhelming majority in the United Nations General Assembly, and in the face of popular outcry not just in Muslim countries but in major cities throughout Europe as well as in the US and Canada.

There is a general consensus that the US is the only country that can bring about a cease fire - given the fact that it is Israel's strongest ally and financier. Yet the governing bodies and political elites in the US remain near unanimous in their support for Israel's actions even though they are increasingly isolated in world opinion. 

This interview covers four topics: the elections that led to the victory of Hamas in Gaza, the question of who broke the cease fire, and the so called coup by Hamas which was instead a failed coup against Hamas by US trained Fatah fighters. (See: Vanity Fair) Part two of the interview is dedicated to the most critical issue, the power of the Israel Lobby, its influence in taking the US into the war on Iraq and maintaining support for Israel in Senate and House.

Jeffrey Blankfort is a journalist, former editor of the Middle East Labor Bulletin, and host of "Takes on the World", a twice monthly radio program on foreign affairs on KZYX radio in Northern California. He has reported from Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel since 1970.
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On January 29, 2009, Jeffrey Blankfort interviewed Prof. John Mearsheimer on his radio program on KZYX, Takes on the World. HERE is the 39 minute unedited interview.

Ilan Pappe
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
The daily news on Israel and Palestine is impossible to understand without knowledge of the history of the 1948 expulsion of 3/4 of a million Palestinians by the Jewish army from what then became the state of Israel. When, in 1998, the Israelis opened the military archives it became clear that the Zionist movement had planned to expel the Palestinians long before 1948.
PART ONE - 29 min.
PART TWO - 29 min.
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Jeff Blankfort
TOTW (Takes on the World)
My friend Jeff Blankfort has a bi-monthly radio program on international affairs on KZYX in Philo, CA <http://www.kzyx.org> I am occasionally uploading the interview part of his program to this site to let you hear the voices of his informed and courageous guests.

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TUC Radio is distributing re-mastered CDs of Michael Parenti speeches. Click to go to the TUC  Radio PARENTI Archive page on this web site. To go to Michael Parenti's own web site - click HERE

January 21, 2008
Parenti has written a timely piece entitled: Capitalism's Self-Inflicted Apocalypse - you can read it HERE.

TUC Radio is distributing 26 films of Michael Parenti. These include the famous speeches from the 1980s to 2002 that were once distributed by People's Video in Seattle. They are re-mastered on DVD. Please use a DVD player built after 2005.
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HEAR THIS AMAZING POEM!
Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote this poem just before his 88th birthday. I recorded CASINO CULTURE in the kitchen of his apartment in North Beach.
Maria

LETTERS WITH RECENT DONATIONS

11/02/2009

Dear Ms. Gilardin,

I have been listening to your radio program every week for over a year now (Fridays 12:30 pm on WWUH). It is the one show which I have changed my schedule for in order not to miss one episode. I find it thoughtful, insightful and informative in a calm, intelligent manner which fosters thought and reflection. It is, in my opinion, comparable to Democracy Now!

Thank you for all that you do.
Be well,
Kim B. Unionville, CT

10/31/2009

Maria,

Thank you for your great work digging up the truth that the corporations would rather stay buried. I'm very sorry that our "community" radio station KGNU-Boulder has decided that your show is too controversial to air. I am giving more money to your show and less to them now.

Thank you for making the audio available for download.
David P.
Fort Collins, CO

10/16/2009

Hi Maria,

As always, thank you for all that you do!

I recently downloaded thirteen mp3 files, and am therefore "donating" $26.00. As was mentioned by a previous donor, if everyone just would pay one dollar per download, the revenue issue would be solved.

It's a shame that enough people won't pay for such remarkable information to give you the freedom to do your wonderful work. If folks who can pay would, then it would make it free for those who can't. But I'm sorry to say that you might be forced to charge for all downloads along the lines of what Alternative Radio does. Free is great, but to see your work disappear would be a sad day.

So people, if you have the resources to pay Maria for her work, please do so.

Be well,

Chris A.

9/21/2009

Hi Maria!

I've been listening to your productions for nearly a decade. I discovered Internet radio right around 2001 and it quickly became my primary window on the world. It started with reliance on rfpi.org on shortwave in the late 1990s as a way to stay sane in Alaska. I think I have everything you have released since that time on one or another hard drive.

I still go back to the 2 part reading of Alex Carey's work, the talks by Bill Pepper, and the lecture by Richard Grossman.

Best wishes for your new home. You have helped us see clearly, but there seems to be nothing we can do about it. The myth is gone; we wait and work for the justice that must be done.

Regards,
vince

7/27/2009

Hi Maria!
I listen to WWUH  radio on the web where I catch
your show from time to time.  Thank you for your bravery in stating the truth. 

On Monday night I visited your website for the first time, and ended up listening to Michael Parenti for about 4 hours.  I got to sleep around 3 am,  but is was worth it.

God bless and good luck on your mission.
Len J.
Braintree, MA

7/8/2009
Hi Maria,
I discovered Thomas Greco on the Global Research News Hour archives, and then I went to noliesradio and saw an interview there for the same guy and then I saw that the source was you!

So glad to discover you, and I read a little of your story about your house and so on--remarkable!!!   I am hoping to meet someone in my school who is so committed as you are!  It is the journey to the truth and reality (pretty sixties sounding) and my heart is captivated, entranced. 

So warm greetings from the Northland!  Be well and Good Luck!  My heart will be with you! 
J. C.
Oslo, Norway

2/27/2009
Maria,
My wife and I are trying to start a self-sustainable Healing Arts Community Center, off the grid. Your programs are such a rare example of free speech and so inspiring to all who listen. I first was exposed to TUC in Seattle, WA years ago and have been educated and reassured by your speakers that humans can have an open dialog about the current state of affairs. Please keep up your monumental work! Always looking forward to hearing your voice of clarity! Walk in Beauty,
Dr. Alan S.
Mapleton, IA

2/19/2009
Hi Maria,
Since I heard you interviewed on Global News Hour I've been regularly downloading your radio shows (and advising others to do so as well). Today I started reading Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," an author I discovered through your audio archives and because of that, your appeal on the TUC website especially struck a nerve.  I thought it was about time I dipped my hands into my pocket and supported a show that is much needed in this time where propaganda masquerades as news; and that's on both sides of the Atlantic.  

Keep up the good work.
Best wishes from a grey and dank London,
Steven L.

2/17/2009
Maria--You and your show are amazing and so valuable to all of us who listen to it and all the others who are then indirectly affected. Thank you for your clarity, your courage, and your commitment.
Joshua L.
Boulder, CO

2/16/2009
I downloaded Peter Dale Scott right after hearing the talk on KGNU. I wanted to get a copy for some of my friends.
By the way whereas l enjoy listening to points of view unavailable elsewhere, I must add that I do not always agree with some of your speakers assertions, but I suspect that that is the engineer in me.
Sending a donation nevertheless -
David P.
Denver, CO

2/14/2009
Hi Maria,
I try to remember to listen to your show on KGNU on Friday afternoons but it usually slips my attention.  This past Friday, I was delayed at work and, a bit after 4pm, it dawned on me to tune in.  I was intrigued by Peter Dale Scott's essay and went to your website to read a bit about him.  As I scrolled down, I saw mention of your debt, the amount you owed to your credit card.  Despising the American banking system and the excessive usury they practice and adoring the service you provide, I realized the time was right to make a donation.
That is my motivation.
Thank you for your dedication.
Regards,
Henry C.
Denver, CO

2/10/2009
Thank you very much for making these important Parenti lectures available. I looked up your collage work and it is excellent! It reminded me of some art work that I saw at Documenta in Kassel, Germany, two years ago. Very powerful images with some commentary and humor mixed in.

I admire your independence and ability to speak up and share the truth.
Carol K.
San Francisco, CA
 

1/23/2009
A huge thank you, Maria, for your thoughtful, informative programs. 

I am particularly impressed right now with the programs about Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza.  I have always, throughout my life, cared about Israel and the Jewish people, but I am finding it very difficult to continue in support of their need for a place of their own when they show such cruelty toward the Palestinian people.  Their excuses for their destructive behavior just don't add up when you get the kind of information that Jeffrey Blankfort has given in your interview with him.

What really put it over the top for me was the segment on Democracy Now on Wednesday and Thursday with the young Palestinian student telling about the killing of his two brothers by Israeli soldiers who allowed his father to watch the slow death of one of his sons during a 20 hour period when they would not allow them to move from the car where they had been shot nor would allow medical treatment for them. 

The tipping point has been reached and with the help of programs like yours maybe we in the US can begin to see how our support of Israel is promoting this horrendous behavior.
I surely hope so.

Thank you again for your important work.
Susan V.K., San Francisco

3/25/2008
Maria,
I have been listening to TUC Radio for only a year, but because of your generosity in making mp3 downloads available to all, I feel like I have been part of the TUC family for years. I think TUC is the most important program I listen to. Thank you for your hard work. Good luck with your new home.
-David, Lafayette, CO

5/11/2008
I am happy to be able to contribute. TUC is so important to understanding the world today. Thanks for your efforts! Also thanks to all the others who contribute what they can to keep this important work going! Send what you can when you can!
Kit B., Tacoma, WA.

5/12/2008
Supporting your courage and independence.
Regards,
Stephanie, San Francisco, CA

NOTE TO RADIO STATIONS
You will get phone calls with complaints from some listeners when you play this program.

Pappe, a highly respected intellectual, teacher and historian, is very clear and outspoken. Born and raised in Israel, he is concerned that Israel will create disaster for itself and the Middle East unless it changes its current policies towards the Palestinians.

He is calling for a boycott of Israel and an end to the ethnically defined Jewish State. He asks for international help in ending the Apartheid system in Israel.