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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When will the doubts of Israeli soldiers start to influence Americans? Perhaps when our media allows us to hear these doubts.
In the years since then, the Zapatista enclave has been the one area of Mexico not inundated by drug crimes and murders. Their armed struggle is now giving way to electoral politics in an effort to form a truly leftist party in Mexico.
In all 780 detainees were sent to Guantanamo, with only eight convicted of any crime. And five of those convictions were overturned. For a country that talks about due process and human rights, Guantanamo exposes the shame of empire.
A well researched book entitled Sundown Towns, A Hidden Dimension of American Racism documents the thousands of similar racial attacks that occurred throughout this country starting in 1890.
There is much more power in a labor organization open to all workers, of course. Labor unions restricted to skilled workers are much easier to defeat, as we have seen for the last century.
In 1919, the Red Scare was an excuse to destroy unions, and the tactic would be used again at the end of World War II.
Eugene Debs was imprisoned for this very speech questioning the US entrance into WW I. Our country has a long history of using war to crush reform and worker rights movements.
Chomsky is a leading American intellect, and that explains why the mainstream media has always avoided printing his writing. Chomsky has often suggested that it was better to read the NYT articles backwards, because some truth is always buried in the last couple of paragraphs.
How history repeats itself. The nomination was won by Hillary largely through media manipulation and Democratic Party fraud. She also lost a close vote in the fall. Think the Democratic Party can ever learn?
How long before the persecution of LGBTQ people finally comes to an end? As a Cuban poster in a medical office in Havana reads, Homophobia is a dangerous social disease.
The ideas that were so radical in 2002 are what most of the young in America believe today. In fact, the social forums outlined the first global resistance to predatory capitalism, and these ideas have spread thought the Western World.
The rich are now billionaires, and the very poor worse off than ever. The US is in perpetual war around the world. What is a thinking person to do but question the capitalist system?
America could end apartheid in Israel by passing a similar Anti Apartheid Act. The time is now for Congress to free Palestinians from the racist tyranny they have suffered for generations.
The racist against the corporate crook. Fast forward to the presidential campaign of 2016 that brought us the crooked racist, Trump.
To think that today, many mainstream Jewish organizations and the Israeli Lobby are actively working to criminalize boycotting Israel for its racist policies and its illegal settlements.