Talkies – July 7, 2023
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Featured Episode
Speculative Climate Technologies Perpetuate Racism
E. Tendayi Achiume, currently a professor of law at University of California, Los Angeles, was appointed as the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in 2017, becoming the first woman and the first person from southern Africa to fill the role. Her last interventions before leaving … Continued
Today’s Class Struggles with Chris Hedges – Economic Update – July 7, 2023
This week’s updates focus on US small/medium businesses converting to worker coops, the strikes at the US west coast ports and UPS, an employer uses a fake priest to get workers’ confessions for employers’ use, and the state of Delaware allows businesses to vote in local elections (alongside individuals). In the second half we interview … Continued
Democracy Now 9am – July 7, 2023
On Today’s Show: Bill McKibben: Climate Crisis Needs Urgent Action as Earth Records Hottest Temps Ever “Double Agents”: Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also Work For Fossil Fuel Industry Guatemalan Elite Tries to Overturn Democracy, But Anti-Corruption Candidate to Stay in Runoff Election “Directly Complicit”: Shadi Hamid on How Obama Greenlighted 2013 … Continued
On A Rude Awakening, Cesar Aguirre, Lead Organizer for Central California Environmental Justice Network will discuss the latest methane leaks Kern County and then we’ll switch gears and hear about the pushback against the mezcal industry and other destructive eco-practices in Oaxaca, MX. More on A GROWING CULTURE NEFTALI DURAN and click here to give … Continued
Andrew Alden on the Geology of the East Bay
Andrew Alden, geologist and science writer, publisher of the Oakland Geology Blog, and now author of Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
Democracy Now 6am – July 7, 2023
On Today’s Show: Bill McKibben: Climate Crisis Needs Urgent Action as Earth Records Hottest Temps Ever “Double Agents”: Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also Work For Fossil Fuel Industry Guatemalan Elite Tries to Overturn Democracy, But Anti-Corruption Candidate to Stay in Runoff Election “Directly Complicit”: Shadi Hamid on How Obama Greenlighted 2013 … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 7, 2023
We begin with Secretary of State Blinken’s trip to the Caricom summit of the 15 Caribbean nations in Trinidad Tobago and the UN Secretary General’s visit today to Haiti as both Caricom and the UN deliberate on how to address the lawlessness in Haiti by sending an international force of police, likely from Rwanda since … Continued
Puzzling Evidence – July 7, 2023
Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities.
Over the Edge – July 7, 2023
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues.