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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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- Artist: Fred Nagel
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Black people have been fighting slavery and persecution since Caption Cuffe in 1780. The way has been long, but to borrow a Dr. Martin Luther King image, the arch bends towards justice.
Someday, Israel will declare that its apartheid state is finished, and give full citizenship rights to its Palestinian people. We as Americans can hasten that day by insisting that our Congress end support for Israel until it gives equal rights to all.
We can understand colonialism by looking at that 100 years of British occupation, with the racism as well as the terrible famines that killed over 16 million people. What is harder to understand is our own colonial wars of occupation, like Korea, Vietnam, Latin America and the Middle East.
The Civil Rights Era produced many great Black leaders, some of whom were murdered by state violence. Black Lives Matter is the next big step towards racial and economic justice.
Eventually all six were acquitted of the conspiracy charges. Daniel Berrigan said that doing the right thing was a privilege and not an obligation. I feel similarly that I am privileged to understand as well as act upon what is morally right.
6. Controlled Mass Media. Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
The US finally ended its occupation of Vietnam because so many American soldiers refused to fight. Will it take the same courage by our present military personnel to end the US occupations of Africa, Central America and the Middle East?
The Wounded Knee Massacre was the final major military battle in the genocide against Native Americans. 18 soldiers received Congressional Medals of Honor for their supposed bravery.
He later formed a concept of what he termed the social lie, that societies are governed by tactics of deception in order to maintain a hierarchy of exploitation and servitude.
Psychiatric medicine has long been filled with erroneous conclusions about sexual choice and behavior, all based on prejudices. What incalculable harm this has done to millions of young people growing up in our society!
It is the first time I have really served my country in uniform.
Will the Trump presidency set the stage for this kind of revolution in the heart of the empire? We must do more than merely hope. We must organize.
What makes us think that our current politicians are any different. The kleptocracy is as fundamental to our form of government as our Constitution.