Sinopsis
Radio Interviews by Sue Supriano. Featured issues: peak oil, climate change, 9/11, media, indigenous people, fraudulent elections, oil, environmental pollution and toxicity, chem trails/aerosol sprays, human rights, civil rights, racism, militarism, weapons, immigrants, genetic engineering, Buddhism, resource depletion, health, communication. "Babylon" is the "isms" and "schisms" not only within the system but within ourselves. Let's organize, unify and step out of Babylon.
Episodios
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Wayne Madsen #2
20/11/2006 Duración: 27minWayne Madsen, of http://waynemadsenreport.com, is a courageous investigative journalist and syndicated columnist whose articles have appeared in publications such as In These Times, The Miami Herald, and the Village Voice. Madsen has appeared on 20/20, 60 Minutes and Nightline. He is the author of Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 and the Handbook of Personal Data Protection. He was a former Officer in the US Navy. He writes from Washington, DC-"inside the Beltline". In this interview Madsen speaks about the extensiveness of pedophelia in the church and among politicians. In the Navy he was involved in prosecuting someone but it was covered up. It has been and continues to be an on-going problem for the Republican Party though and there have been many scandals. Now we have Mark Foley misusing his office and soliciting under age pages while hiding behind his cause of lost children. This scandal which includes the Speaker of House and other top Republican Staff officials and Senior Staff member
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Janaia Donaldson
18/10/2006 Duración: 28minJanaia Donaldson Co-produces (with Robyn Mallgren, Director) and hosts Peak Moment TV- Community Responses for a Changing Energy Future, a half hour TV show dedicated to exploring solutions and responses to the emerging Peak Oil/Energy shortage scenario.They call themselves "The Yuba Gals" since they live near the Yuba River in the Grass Valley/Nevada City area in Northern California. This summer of 2006 they have traveled around Washington and Oregon and up to Vancouver, Canada discovering that "people have a lot more options and resources than we and they might think in terms of energy conservation and sustainable living" says Janaia. she then gives examples they have found of groups of people salvaging building materials from run-down buildings and recirculating these materials-- which conserves resources, avoids adding to landfills and makes for less expensive building projects. They have found numerous growers' markets and co-ops which help create independent communities as well as individuals actually c
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Luz Ruiz
18/10/2006 Duración: 28minLuz Ruiz works with a group called COMPPA which, translated into English is "Coalition of Popular Communicators for Autonomy". She also works with the Prometheus Radio Project out of Philadelphia. This interview took place at the Barnraising with Prometheus assisting PCUN ( Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) to set up a low power FM radio station in Woodburn, Oregon where the union is based. Ruiz shares some of her experiences and goals with using community radio as a tool for bringing about peace and social justice. Most of COMPPA's work has involved facilitating the appropriation of media tools for indigenous organizations setting up media outlets in Mexico. Their work focuses there largely on farmworker and immigrant rights.Ruiz hopes to see her work providing relief in the struggle between people who wish to live their lives with dignity and mutual respect versus huge corporate enterprises often notorious for their heartless agendas. Individuals controlling such enterprises have ruined entire communitie
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Ramon Ramirez
18/10/2006 Duración: 27minRamon Ramirez, president of PCUN (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) discusses his plans for the new multilingual, low-power FM radio station (KPCN) which PCUN members have erected in the town of Woodburn, Oregon. Ramirez gave this interview at PCUN's "barnraising"-- a gathering of union members and their families and and people who came from far and wide in the United States, from Mexico and Venezuela to work with the Prometheus Radio Project (http://prometheusradio.org) and PCUN to build this low power FM radio station, train people and get it on the air in one weekend in mid-August, 2006.The PCUN community radio station (KPCN-LP: 96.3FM) is offering music, culture and information in several languages of the indigenous people of the area, Spanish and English. One of PCUN's goals is to use low power FM radio to educate listeners to influence US Foreign and domestic policies, particulary US mmigration policy which directly affects many of the members of PCUN who are immigrant workers from Mexico,
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Maria de los Angeles
20/08/2006 Duración: 29minMaria de los Angeles is from Venezuela. She is a journalist who came to Minnesota, USA three years ago on a scholarship to study. In this interview she talks about her home country and the exciting things happening there as well as a few of her impressions of the United States. De los Angeles says that a lot of things in Venezuela have changed for the better since Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela won in the elections of 2000. Although the alternative media started before Chavez it exploded when the coup happened. In 2000 there were 25 independent media outlets. Now there are 323 independent media outlets. Now there are hundreds of newspapers, television channels and radio stations. She says it's so important for people to explore their own way of saying things and fight against the monopoly of how to think. The diverse people of Venezuela need to explore their own culture, laws and language. The diversity of over 36 indigenous groups and the Afro-Venezuelan people want to reflect this diversity in their me
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Susan Gleason and Daniel Hannah
01/08/2006 Duración: 27minReclaim the Media is based in Seattle, Washington. It focuses on media policy reform, media reform and support for independent media. Susan Gleason and Daniel Hannah are the co-founders and co-directors and they speak to us about the specific activities of the organization. Hannah focuses on media monitoring, media literacy and education and media analysis. Reclaim the Media TV focuses on the coverage of news and can be seen on the public access channel in Seattle. It looks at how media works -- the impact of the corporate media, where the inherent biases are, the independent media and it's perspectives, advocacy media and the effects of advertising so that we can understand how we're affected by media. The goal is to get people to think critically. We can ask, for example, why there are stories about certain things and not others and learn, not surprisingly, that it is often because of who is sponsoring the particular media. Reclaim the Media also teaches about media and racism, media and body image and othe
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Kelvin Long
18/07/2006 Duración: 27minKelvin Long, of Navajo Nation Clan Bitter Water, is the director of ECHOES (Educating Communities while Healing and Offering Environmental Support), based in Flagstaff northern Arizona. In this interview, Kelvin Long discusses ecological imbalance and interconnectedness of all people and all life, and he urges everyone to take personal responsibility for the consequences of our actions.Long speaks of the "Save the Peaks" campaign which is a project of Echoes. It's an effort-- largely on the part of indigenous North Americans-- to save from corporate desecration a circle of 4 mountains in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. These four Mountains are held sacred by 22 nations of the Southwest. Long says that the sacred mountain of the West, San Francisco Peaks, faces a particularly foul threat. It stands surrounded by deserts and maintains a delicate ecosystem. The company Arizona Snowbowl owns a ski resort there and it intends to expand the resort by making artificial snow with reclaimed wastewater and t
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Laura Wells
30/05/2006 Duración: 28minLaura Wells is running on the Green Party ticket for State Controller of California. She has run for this office before and says intends to continue to run because it's important even if she doesn't win. She has been noticing that, like her, more and people are concerned about the disappearance of the "democracy" the US has been known for and she gives some examples of what we can do and are already doing. For example, Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which is sometimes called, "rank voting" where the voters rank their choices is more democratic. IRV has gone well in San Francisco, CA. Wells visited Canada where the Canada Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation formed citizen committees to deliberate what to do with nuclear waste. In Ottawa citizen committees deliberated about what would improve their electoral system and their suggestions for ranked choice and proportional representation were implemented. "Dialogue and deliberation" can be done at any time and place. As for the US-- clean money in elections is
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Marissa Moorman
30/05/2006 Duración: 28minMarissa Moorman is Asssistant Professor of African History at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana. Her particular area of expertize is Angola and the formation of an Angolan culture during the end of Portuguese control of this African country. She pursued this subject in Angola where she has lived because there was so much happening with music during the struggle for independence from Portugal. Little had been written in English about this phenomenon of music and political struggle. Moorman talks about the history of the long and violent struggle for independence and how the country is, since the Peace Accords in 2002, finally free of war and able to focus on re-building and healing. She also mentions how she thinks that-- even though it has that much desired resource of oil -- Angola will not be attacked by the countries that need oil since, unlike in Nigeria, the oil sources are very difficult for protestors to reach since they are far off shore and technologically difficult to bring up the oi
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Carol Brouillet
21/05/2006 Duración: 28minCarol Brouillet has been a major activist since 9/11/2001 in getting out the word about the 9/11 cover-up. The Green party asked Carol Brouillet to run for Congress and she is doing that on a platform of 911 truth and impeachment. There are several other Congressional candidates who have similar platform-- Sandor Hicks in NY, Robert Bowman (sp) in Florida who's been speaking up about 9/11 and calling it treason. Craig Hill in Vermont.Brouillet helped develop the very popular "Deception Dollars" which resemble real dollars and have websites on them where people can get information about the details of the deceptions of the US Government story and evidence about what really happened. She also organized the first San Francisco Independent Inquiry of the tragic events of 9/11/01 and has worked tirelessly organizing demonstrations, selling books, pamphlets, speaking to groups, etc., etc.. Brouillet says that because the media (both corporate & independent) hasn't covered the issues of questions about the official
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Eloise Engman
02/05/2006 Duración: 28minEloise Engman is the founder of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) FREE MAUI (one of the Hawaiian Island) which is also part of the greater GMO FREE HAWAII. She says that Maui has the most open air field tests of experimental organisms per acre of anywhere in the world-- mostly dealing with plants though it's possible there are animals experiments as well. It is especially of concern because some of the plants are "biopharmaceuticals" which have already "contaminated" food crops and been destroyed by the local government due to concern about the contamination of food crops. In Maui much of the papayas are genetically modified, have an antibiotic resistant gene, a string of ecoli and a string of amino acids which are identical to a known allergan. She tells a chilling tale of the sickness of her partner attributed to these papayas. Monsanto, the major company doing 90% of all genetic modification (and makers of major toxics-- agent orange, dioxin and PCB's), is also working on patenting the sacred Hawaiian c
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Dr. Masaru Emoto
02/05/2006 Duración: 27minDr. Masaru Emoto, author of Hidden Messages of Water, and several other books, has been a doctor of Alternative Medicine in Japan for many years. English speakers have heard of him in the popular film What the Bleep Do We Know...? He has learned that water has the ability to retain information and to be influenced by thoughts, music, written words, prayers, etc.. He wanted to be able to show this visually so that anyone could see it and thus, believe it. Twelve years ago he started taking photos of water crystals that had been frozen for three hours at less than 25 degree selsius. He would divide each sample into 50 petri dishes, freeze them and look at each of them under a microscope. If examining spring or tap water he would use that but if exposing water to images or sounds he always uses distilled water of the same quality to assure uniformity. It is clear from looking at the images of the water crystals that they vary enormously depending on the words that were said to them, the music it was exposed to,
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Leuren Moret
29/01/2006 Duración: 27minIn this interview geo-scientist, independent researcher, whistleblower, Leuren Moret focuses on the issue of "nonlethal weapons", sometimes known as "exotic weapons". They are as horrible and disturbing as any weapons can be and are ultimately aimed at the control of the earth as well as space. Moret thinks that the real purpose of what is, in her opinion, excessive nuclear testing really is to learn about the earth's atmosphere, and how to develop and use the weapons of weather control, mind control, spying, etc-- control of everything possible. She describes what the weapons system, HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is, it's connections to "chem trails" (aerosol spraying), health and mind control among other things. Some examples are atmospheric and weather control. Weather control has been going on since the 1970's and has gotten more and more sophisticated. Based on the same understanding that science now has that life is an electromagnetic dance which, if disturbed, results in illnes
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Leuren Moret
29/01/2006 Duración: 28minLeuren Moret, a geologist, is an Environmental Commissioner of Berkeley, and Past President for Women Geoscientists to name just a couple of responsibilities she has and has had. Moret worked for the Lawrence Berkeley Lab (Moret refers to it as a "bomb factory") for five years and ultimately blew the whistle on the fraud and corruption, etc. at the lab. Since then she has devoted herself to activism-- speaking up with information and organizing others to also take a stand for the environment and the health of it and us on the earth.. One of her particular areas of focus and expertise is educating people about the horrors of "depleted uranium"-- i.e., exposure to radioactive waste which, since the beginning of the Manhattan Project atomic bomb testing from 1957-1963, we have all been exposed to some degree as it blows around as fine dust and there is no getting rid of it or avoiding it for thousands of years. It comes from nuclear power plants as well. DU, as it is called for short, is a neurotoxin and is resp
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Paul Goettlich
29/01/2006 Duración: 28minPaul Goettlich writes and lectures on the health and socioeconomic effects of technology and plastics, pesticides, genetic engineering among other things he deems to be important. He is on the Board of In this show he concentrates on endocrine disrupters-- ie, chemicals, or combinations of chemicals that synergistically interfere with our endocrine systems which are crucial for normal and healthy human development as well as for other animals and living things. When these extremely finely tuned systems are disrupted the result is disease. Plastic is a major endocrine disrupter. It is oil-based in all it's forms and toxic for our bodies. As we know all too well plastic is everywhere in our modern industrial world and affecting all of us in negative ways. According to Goettlich, these toxins always leak out and into the systems of living things where they affect our hormones and therefore our lives. Though heat can make it worse this leakage occurs even without heat. Goettlich strongly advises us to avoid all p
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Brandy Gallagher-McPherson
15/01/2006 Duración: 28minBrandy Gallagher-McPherson is the Exec/ Director of OUR (One United Resource) Ecovillage Development team which is a 25 acre demonstration sustainable community on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in Western Canada. Brandy has a lot of experience living in community. She lived with her parents in an intentional community in rural Canada for her first 10 years and during that time was also very close to a First Nations (Native American) community and its strong sense of "community". She brings that experience to her OUR Ecovillage.The notion of "Ecovillage" is really just a concept and intention of sustainable living including sustainable relationships and connection with the land. We know, in fact, that relationships with our space and our environment is our survival. She sees things from a place of possibilities and looks at the ecovillage movement as a way of putting back the pieces we've lost and that we are in great need of to make a whole and sane world. An "ecovillage" can take any form from a rural k
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Richard Heinberg
10/01/2006 Duración: 01h07minRichard Heinberg speaking on Peak Oil-- what it means and it's impact on us-- Eugene, Oregon, January 10, 2006, sponsored by the Eugene Permaculture Guild, introduced by the Mayor of EugeneRichard Heinberg is a writer and teacher whose focus in these times is "peak oil". He has become one respected as one of the country's experts on peak oil and travels and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject. He also teaches Human Ecology at New College of San Francisco in Santa Rosa, California. Two of his several books are The Party's Over-Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies and Powerdown:Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World. He explains that "peak oil" means that the cheap oil we've had available to build our industrial world is over and our industrialized world has already started coming to the end that is inevitable and which is likely to be a huge dislocation from the way of life to which we are accustomed in the "first world". It will affect the energy that we're used to having and
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Paul Glover
19/12/2005 Duración: 28minPaul Glover, founder of the local currency, Ithaca Hours (Yes, it's legal. It's not called "dollars"), has been a community organizer for the past 35 years. He has degrees in marketing and city mangagement and lived in Los Angeles for many years where he wrote a History of the Future about ecological urban development in Los Angeles. He agrees that the future will look very different than the past due to less availability of oil among other things, and continues to contribute greatly to how that future can be more in the hands of local grassroots, community folks who know best their own needs and preferences.Glover has been in the small college town (15,000 residents, 13,000 students, 51,000 in metropolitan area) of Ithaca, New York since the early 1990's. There he has organized the successful Ithaca Hours local currency which has been the means of exchange for several millions of dollars in transactions. He goes into detail about how he and others organized this currency so that listeners can learn from the
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Michael Abelman
19/12/2005 Duración: 27minMichael Abelman is a farmer, educator, founder and the executive director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, Ca.. Abelman is also author/photographer of From the Good Earth, On Good Land and Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It. He is also the subject of the award-winning PBS national broadcast Beyond Organic.Abelman talks about the huge affect that the industrial age has had on the earth. We might not think that farming is the industry that uses possibly the most oil-- in terms of fertilizer, processing soil and plants, moving the food, and on and on. And organic food uses just as much oil since it too is shipped long distances. It is also the case that, due to industrial agriculture, the minerals have been taken out of the soil and the soil is incredibly depleted thus making the food much of the population eats extremely lacking in nutritional value. Soil is the basis for life in many ways and sustainabilty means keeping in balance what
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Tom Kelly and Jane Kelly
11/12/2005 Duración: 28minTom Kelly and his wife, Jane Kelly, started the organization, Kyoto USA at the end of 2004. They understand that serious climate change is becoming ever intense and dangerous for all of us on the planet-- e.g. glaciers are melting even faster than anyone expected, species are going extinct at a rate never before experienced in millions and millions of years, islands are going under and becoming uninhabitable as the salt water rises, methane--which speeds up global warming even more-- is being released as permafrost melts, and on and on. All of these changes affect those who are poor and of color the most so far.We know that although Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol-- an international agreement which reduces greenhouse gases which, in turn, speed up global climate change -- he never presented it to the Senate and that Bush withdrew the signature of the United States Government to this agreement. The US and Australia, another country which didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol, are the 2 biggest contributors to green