We're
going to be posting audio .mp3 files of the radio show
"Corporations and Democracy," hosted by various AfD'ers in Mendocino
County, CA, on
KZYX&Z-FM,
Mendocino County Public Broadcasting in
Philo, CA. At left, two of the show's interviewers, Tom Wodetzki and
Toni Rizzo.
The program airs on alternate Fridays from 1 to 2 p.m., and is streamed
live from the station website.
Current
Show:
September 18, 2009 listen
here!
What's the status of health care reform? Dr. John Geyman, past
president of Physicians for a National Healthcare Program (PNHP),
offers an assessment. Dr. Geyman is professor emeritus of family
medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle
and author of several books, including "Do Not Resuscitate: Why the
Health Insurance Industry is Dying and How We Must Replace It," and
"The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral
Legacy?" Toni Rizzo conducts the interviews, with call-ins from
listeners.
Past Shows:
August 21, 2009 listen
here!
Tom Wodetzski and Toni Rizzo talk with Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist and author Chris Hedges, author of Empire of Illusion: The
End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. Hedges examines commodity
culture and the "cult of the self" and sees in it the roots of an
illogical, unreflective society which is without compassion and
ill-equipped to deal with environmental and economic challenges.
Compounding the problem: liberal moral bankruptcy, a corporate media,
the fading of print-based society, growing de facto and functional
illiteracy. Terrific comments by the audience! (note--the sound quality
of the first third of the show is a little rough due to some technical
difficulties)
August 7, 2009 listen
here!
Steve Scalmanini and Annie Esposito interview John Foster of the Ballot
Initiative Strategy Center, an educational non-profit focusing on
progressive ballot initiative campaigns nationwide. He discusses the
center's project on ballot initiative integrity, especially in relation
to a petition for a major mall development in Mendocino County. You can
learn more about how the ballot initiative process is being mis-used at
www.stopballotfraud.org.
Also
on the air and the web:
Other AfD members and supporters are involved with the following radio
projects:
- In Massachusetts: Truth and Justice Radio
is hosted by North Bridge Alliance chapter member Stan Robinson
- In Oklahoma: Voices of Oklahoma is online and
hopes to be on the air as a non-commercial source for information and
culture serving McClain, Garvin, and southern Cleveland counties
- In California: The Alliance's Tapestry of the Commons
project has two-minute audio explorations of the concept of the commons
for free use on the air.
