Activist Radio show

Activist Radio

Summary: Activist Radio is a weekly program broadcast on WVKR, 91.3 in Poughkeepsie, NY. We play music, interview those interested in local peace and justice issues, and take call-ins.

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Podcasts:

 Activist Radio Apr. 18 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:59

Like many Black leaders of his time, Powell was taken down by lawsuits and scandals, possibly orchestrated by the FBI, which wanted to suppress his views on the Vietnam War.

 Activist Radio Apr. 11 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:58

Real reform was short lived. White resistance to integration as well as overall hostility to government housing efforts, especially in northern cities, was strong. President Richard Nixon declared a moratorium on the entire federal housing effort in 1971.

 Activist Radio Apr. 4 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:58

April 4, 1968 ... Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered for exposing the American empire of the 1960s. If he had lived, would our country be on the brink of species annihilation by climate change and nuclear war?

 Activist Radio Mar. 28 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:58

The sorry history of nuclear power in the United States. Government lies, corporate profits, media disinformation including the NYT, and incalculable harm done to the general public.

 Activist Radio Mar. 21 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:03

18 Nationalists were killed by police that day and another 200 injured. Puerto Rico has been an oppressed colony since the U.S. invaded and occupied the island in 1898.

 Activist Radio Mar. 14 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:59

Two scourges of the years to come were identified in the 1940s by one of the most famous thinkers in the world. Einstein foresaw the nuclear arms race and the dangers of Israeli fascism.

 Activist Radio Mar. 7 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:06

How many guidance offices across the country know about this ruling? Why, every peace activist in the US should be asking for a table at the next high school career day in their community.

 Activist Radio Feb. 28 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:03

Millions would die before France and America were finally defeated and Vietnam freed from colonial rule. Millions may die in Venezuela, but in the end American colonialism will meet the same fate.

 Activist Radio Feb. 21 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:52

The streets of America ran red with the blood of radical leaders during the 1960s. How could anyone living through that decade ever believe what the state had to say about their assassinations?

 Activist Radio Feb. 14 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:02

So goes democracy in Latin America. Governments that put the interests of their people above U.S. corporate profits are always undermined by the CIA, and then overthrown.

 Activist Radio Feb. 7 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:01

In a racist society, the lessons learned by Blacks will always lead to feelings of inferiority and subservience. Dr. Woodson's Negro History Week was a first step in challenging the narrative of the oppressor.

 Activist Radio Jan. 31 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 57:48

A second Winter Soldier Hearing was held from March 13 to 16, 2008, and included over 200 U.S. military veterans and active duty soldiers, as well as Iraqi and Afghan civilians. These testimonies described GI experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 Activist Radio Jan. 24 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:01

The march to empire in Japan, supported by the U.S., was already well under way. The military giant that America faced in World War II was in part the result of U.S. imperialism in the decades that preceded Pearl Harbor.

 Activist Radio Jan. 17 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:02

In 1898, President William McKinley signed a joint resolution of Congress authorizing the annexation. It was the birth of an American Empire beyond its traditional boarders.

 Activist Radio Jan. 10 | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 58:01

Fraud, gerrymandering, and arbitrary restrictions still keep millions of Americans away from the ballot box. Only a massive Black and white coalition can make our elections truly one person, one vote.

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