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From the Trenches

Broadcast on the fourth Sunday of each month
Hear it live 6:00-7:00 pm on WLUW, 88.7 FM
or webcast online at www.wluw.org

The latest From The Trenches programs:

January 22, 2012
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 33.6 MB; 58 minutes, 15 seconds) The January 2011 episode of From The Trenches features voices of protest speaking out against the draconian rewrite of Chicago's anti-protester laws in anticipation of the NATO/G8 summit in Chicago in May 2012. Plus, headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
November 27, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 35.6 MB; 59 minutes, 11 seconds) The November 2011 episode of From The Trenches features excerpts from Media Democracy Day 2011, an annual Chicago celebration and gathering about grassroots activist efforts to improve Chicago's media, with presentations by Steve Macek, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, and Jeanette Foreman. Plus, headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
Click here for the full audio for Media Democracy Day 2011.
October 23, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 34.8 MB; 59 minutes, 30 seconds) The October 2011 episode of From The Trenches features excerpts from the March for Peace and Justice on the 10th Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan, and voices from Occupy Chicago, Chicago's contribution to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Plus, headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
September 25, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 34.7 MB; 57 minutes, 49 seconds) The complete audio of the September 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring Rick Rozoff on NATO policy, NATO expansion and NATO involvement in Libya, and David Cobb on the efforts to combat corporate power by changing the laws that power modern-day corporations. Plus headlines from the global Indymedia network.
August 28, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 32.7 MB; 57 minutes, 6 seconds) The complete audio of the August 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring Haley Rea on organizing efforts against a sexist "list" at a Chicago-area high school, Tom Tresser on the grassroots victory over the Chicago establishment to block the Chicago 2016 Olympics, and Dave Kraft on the connections between Illinois' water supply and Illinois' nuclear energy industry. Plus headlines from the global Indymedia network.
July 24, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 34.8 MB; 1 hour, 45 seconds) The complete audio of the July 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring immigration rights activist and organizer Jorge Mujica in an interview recorded on Mayday 2011, and a recent speech by journalist and author Jeremy Scahill on U.S. foreign policy.
June 26, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 33 MB; 57 minutes, 42 seconds) The full audio of the June 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring voices from the streets of the inaugural Chicago Slutwalk against sexual violence, and a presentation on the history of U.S. corporate media control and media reform struggles. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
May 22, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 32.8 MB; 57 minutes, 17 seconds) The full audio of the May 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring audio from a reading with noted musician and activist Steve Earle, and an interview with journalist Natalie Moore and scholar Lance Williams about their book "The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang". 32.8 MB; 57 minutes, 17 seconds. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
April 24, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 34.8 MB; 58 minutes, 59 seconds) The full audio of the April 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring a Chicago vigil outside the Japanese consulate against nuclear power, a the We Are One rally in Daley Plaza in support of the labor movement workers' rights, and media activist Jennifer Pozner who wrote the book "Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV", speaks in Chicago and answers questions about the commercial and political context of "reality television". Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
March 27, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 34.8 MB; 60 minutes, 53 seconds) The full audio of the March 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring audio from the March 19, 2011, protest for peace in downtown Chicago, an excerpt of an interview with author David Sirota about 1980s popular culture and its effect on contemporary politics and activism, and an encore presentation from Dr. Andrew Kanter outlining the consequences of a nuclear meltdown at a Chicago-area nuclear power plant. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
Listen to extended audio from the March 19, 2011, protest for peace in downtown Chicago.
February 27, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 35 MB; 58 minutes, 30 seconds) The full audio of the February 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring a Chicago protest for Egypt, a Chicago conference about FBI repression, and the 2011 conference of the Illinois Coalition for Justice, Peace, and the Environment (with Toussaint Losier and Jorge Mujica). Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
Listen (panel one | panel two) to full audio from the conference on FBI repression.
Listen (Michael Deutsch | Q & A) to more panels from the ICJPE 2011 conference.
January 23, 2011
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 33.5 MB, 58:07 minutes.) The full audio of the January 2011 episode of From The Trenches, featuring excerpts from a special roundtable on Jon Burge and Chicago police torture, with Tomika Erby, Mark Clements, Armanda Shackleford, Michelle Martin-Howard, and Bertha Escamilla, held on January 9, 2011. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
Listen to the full audio of the roundtable.
November 28, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 33.5 MB, 58:32 minutes.) The complete audio of the November 2010 episode of From The Trenches, featuring presentations for Media Democracy Day 2010 held at Teamsters Hall in Chicago on November 6, 2010, and organized by the Metro Chicago Progressive Media Network. Presenters include Kari Lydersen, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, Allan Gomez, Shawn Campbell, and Suzanne McBride. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
Listen to the full audio of the first panel.
Listen to the full audio of the second panel.
October 24, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 33.0 MB, 58:04 minutes.) The complete audio of the October 2010 episode of From The Trenches, featuring a press conference where Chicago activists push back in response to recent FBI raids and intimidation, Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report speaks at the Midwest Mobilization Against the War, and Paul Street elaborates the connection of grassroots political activism to electoral politics. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.
Listen to the full audio of the opening rally of the 2010 Midwest Mobilization Against the War.
Listen to the full presentation and Q&A with Paul Street.
September 26, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps stereo, 33.0 MB, 58:04 minutes.) On this program: Chicago activist and blogger Anne Elizabeth Moore interviews participants of the Whittier Elementary School sit-in in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood (audio courtesy Revision Street), Chicago activist Kathy Kelly talks about her involvement against drone warfare near a military base in Nevada as part of the "Creech 14", plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network
August 22, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 35.9 MB, 59:59 minutes.) On this program: Scholar and professor Lance Williams talks about the larger contextual matters surrounding Chicago street violence, and two activists speak in Chicago about the history and future of nuclear weapons in the run-up to the Chicago debut of the documentary feature "Countdown to Zero".
July 25, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 34.3 MB, 60:00 minutes.) On this program: Chicagoans speak out at an FCC event on the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, police torture victims receive "a modicum of justice" in the wake of the Jon Burge conviction, activist Jorge Mujica speaks about immigration and activism amid Arizona's SB1070 law. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network in July 2010.
Listen to the full presentation and Q&A with Jorge Mujica.
June 27, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 35.5 MB, 59:13 minutes.) On this program: Chicagoan Fatima Mohammadi reflects on her experiences aboard the Mavi Marmara amidst the crackdown of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla; Activist and author Joe Allen discusses his book "The Vietnam War: The Last War the U.S. Lost", and the parallels between Vietnam and current U.S. wars abroad; headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network in June 2010.
Listen to the full presentation and Q&A with Joe Allen.
May 23, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 35.9 MB, 59:58 minutes.) On this program: Antiwar activist Frida Berrigan speaks in Chicago about the Pentagon, the war budget, and political activism; Illinois Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney talks about his 2010 campaign and issues pertaining to it; headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network in May 2010. Listen to the full presentation and Q&A with Frida Berrigan.
April 25, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 35.4 MB, 59:08 minutes.) On this program: We feature excerpts from the 2010 conference of the Illinois Coalition for Justice, Peace, and the Environment, including presentations by prison activist Barbara Kessel, police brutality and public housing journalist Jamie Kalven, and a portion of the keynote address by writer and columnist Alexander Cockburn of The Nation magazine and CounterPunch.org Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network in April 2010.
Listen to the full presentation by Alexander Cockburn.
Listen to the full panel on Transforming Social Relations.
Listen to the full panel on Transforming the Land.
Listen to the full panel on Transforming Empire.
March 28, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 34.1 MB, 59:36 minutes.) On this program: Excerpts from the rally against war and occupation in Chicago's Federal Plaza, on March 18, 2010, commemorating the 7th Anniversary of the War in Iraq, and activist David Swanson speaks at Northwestern University about his work with AfterDowningStreet.org and with progressive activism and mainstream politics. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network in March 2010.
Listen to the full audio of the March 18, 2010 rally in Federal Plaza.
February 28, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 35.9 MB, 59:54 minutes.) On this program: Vancouver Media Co-op highlights Chicago anti-Olympics activist Martin Macias, who was stopped at the U.S. Canada border. Cynthia McKinney speaks in Chicago about her involvement in progressive politics and in Middle East activism. Freelance journalist Jessica Pupovac talks about how a story she wrote helped lead to the release of Michael Tillman, a Chicago man unjustly jailed for 23 years.
January 24, 2010
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 35.9 Mb, 59:53 minutes.) On this program: Excerpts of "Jewish Bloggers: Conscience over Complicity", recorded at the Oak Park Public Library. Also: Matt Reichel, Green Party political candidate, speaks at the College of Complexes. Plus headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network in January 2010.
December 27, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.6 Mb, 59:14 minutes plus 1:13 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches.") On this program: Ted Weyman, Deputy Director of the Uranium Medical Research Center in Toronto speaks about the connection between uranium weapons and birth defects in Gaza and Iraq. Also, Dr. Doug Rokke and Veteran Staff Sergeant Dennis Kyne speak about the use of Depleted Uranium weapons in the first Gulf War.
Listen to the entire DU forum featuring Veteran Staff Sergeant Dennis Kyne and Dr. Doug Rokke.
Listen to the entire uncut interview with Ted Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center
Watch online the documentary movie: The Doctor, The Depleted Uranium and The Dying Children
November 22, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.9 Mb, 59:52 minutes plus 1:13 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches.") On this program a debate on the public health benefits of mandatory vaccines webcast on November 10, 2009 at the University of Texas at Austin and found on www.blip.tv. Panelists: Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, Dr. Tom Betz and Ms. Dawn Richardson. Listen/watch the entire debate
October 25, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.8 Mb, 59:38 minutes plus 1:13 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches.") On this program: A report on the prayer vigil outside the Broadview detention center for non-documented immigrants, Ralph Nader speaks about his new book, "Only the Super Rich Can Help Us." and Dr. Anne Scheetz speaks about the state of the single payer health care movement. Listen to Rachel Heueman's entire talk
Listen to Dr. Anne Scheetz's entire talk
September 27, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.5 Mb, 59:36 minutes plus 1:20 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches.") On this program: Short report on G20 police brutality, Code Pink SF launches anti-drone protest, report on concerns over the H1N1 vaccine, author John Clifton speaks about over-vaccinating pets and Theresa Amato, former campaign director for Ralph Nader speaks about her new book: Grand Illusion: The myth of voter choice in a two party tyranny.
August 23, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.9 Mb, 59:30 minutes plus 1:30 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches.") On this program, Jordan Lome speaks on the three principles for good nutrition and a healthier environment at the College of Complexes on July 18, 2009.
July 27, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.8 Mb, 58:38 minutes plus 1:30 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches." On this program, a report about the Immunization Advisory Committee Meeting, Helen Redmond, a social worker at Stroger Hospital, speaks about HR 676 the bill for a single-payer health care system at Evanston Public Library and Robert Sherman, President of the Chicago Chapter of the Parents Television Council speaks at the College of Complexes on Saturday, June 26th.
Listen to Part 1 of the entire Single-Payer Forum
Listen to Part 2 of the entire Single-Payer Forum
Listen to Part 3 of the Single-Payer Forum
Listen to the unedited version of Robert Sherman's remarks
Listen to Part 1 of the entire Immunization Advisory Committee for IDPH 7/22/09
Listen to Part 2 of the entire Immunization Advisory Committee for IDPH 7/22/09
Listen to Part 3 of the entire Immunization Advisory Committee for IDPH 7/22/09
Listen to Part 4 of the entire Immunization Advisory Committee for IDPH 7/22/09
Listen to Part 5 of the entire Immunization Advisory Committee for IDPH 7/22/09
June 22, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.6 Mb, 58:35 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches" 30 second break at cir.16:00). On this Program: Building Bridges for Civil Liberties—a workshop between Muslims and interfaith communities in Oak Park; Stephen Lendman speaks about his article on healthtruthrevealed.com about mandating the new flu vaccine and Paula Bradshaw and Rich Whitney speak about changing the transportation infrastructure in this country
May 25, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.5 Mb, 59:00 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches" 30 second break at 28:58). On this program: A report on the direct action by the Catholic Worker Community and the Clearwater Group to Stop Blackwater that took place last month at the Illinois headquarters of the private mercenary company, Blackwater. Also, a new group called the Oath-Keepers forms to support military, law enforcement personnel and emergency response workers both active and retired in their oath to support the U.S. constitution. And we hear some of the speakers as the 8th annual Walk for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine that took place in Oak Park on Sunday, May 17, 2009. Listen to highlights of the Stop Blackwater conference Listen to the full length speeches of the program sponsored by Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
April 27, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.3 Mb, 59:03 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program: Olympics protest on April 2nd, plus highlights of the Stop Blackwater Conference, Saturday, April 25, 2009. Featured speakers: Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army; Kathy Kelly, founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Mary Shesgren, cofounder of Clearwater Group to Stop Blackwater and music of Anne Feeney.
March 23, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.3 Mb, 59:03 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program: Chicago's disorderly conduct ordinance is declared unconstitutional, former death row prisoner, Geraldine Smith speaks about her experience as the first woman sentenced to death in Illinois and Dr. Paul King speaks about the connection between the mercury-laced preservative in vaccines and autism.
February 23, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 26.2 Mb, 55:37 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program, Kim Bobo, author of Wage Theft in America speaks at Chicago Public Library and David Schweikart, author of After Capitalism speaks at Third Unitarian Church in Chicago. Listen to Part 1 of Kim Bobo's entire talk beginning with the testimony of a construction worker who was not paid for two months of work. Listen to Part 2 of Kim Bobo's talk w/ Q&A session. Listen to David Schweikart's entire talk.
January 26, 2009
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.8 Mb, 59:32 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program: Camp Hope, a 19 day demonstration organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence opens in Hyde Park; Also, Camp Hope's forum —Witness Against Torture: From Guantanamo to the Streets of Chicago with speakers: Sonia De Santiago, Marc Falkoff, and Flint Taylor. And, a visit to the Fox Valley Electric Auto Association and a conversion class at Morton Community College in Cicero. Listen to the entire Camp Hope Opening Listen to the entire Forum on Torture Listen to the Q & A session on torture
December 22, 2008
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.8 Mb, 59:23 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program, anti-war protestors target Barak Obama's neighborhood, the loss of Beauty Turner, DOE hearing on a proposed nuclear reprocessing plant and Susan Klonsky, co-author of of Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership SocietyListen to part 1 of the entire DOE hearing Listen to part 2 of the DOE hearingListen to part 3 of the DOE hearing
November 24, 2008
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.8 Mb, 59:30 minutes plus 1:43 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches" Midpoint :30 break at 27:00 outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program, The continued struggle of Austin area residents to have a new high school built for their neighborhood and political economist, Raymond Lotta speaks about the financial meltdown at Revolution Books in Chicago.Listen to part 1 of the entire uneditted talk by Raymond Lotta Listen to part 2 of Lotta's talk
October 27, 2008
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.8 Mb, 59:31 minutes plus 1:30 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches" Midpoint :30 break at 29:57 outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this Program: Excerpts of The Nuclear Power Forum held October 12, 2008 at Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL. Speakers: Dr. George Stanford, retired physicist from Argonne National Laboratory, Dave Kraft, Executive Director of The Nuclear Energy Information Service and Dr. Roger Blomquist, physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. Also, an excerpt from the 2004 Nuclear Power and Children's Health Conference. Listen to the entire uneditted nuclear power forum Listen to the question and answer session of the nuclear power forum
September 22, 2008
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.6 Mb, 59:05 minutes plus 1:30 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches" Midpoint :30 break at 27:20 outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program: A panel discussion on Gardasil, the HPV vaccine held at the Oak Park Public Library on Sunday, August 17, 2008. Speakers: Barbara Mullarkey, President of the Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition, Shannon Nelson, who was injured after receiving the HPV vaccine in combination with 2 other vaccines and Dr. David Ayoub, Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Medical School in Springfield, IL and Medical Director of the Foundation for Autism Information and Research. Listen to the entire uneditted panel discussion
August 25, 2008
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.8 Mb, 58:08 minutes plus 1:30 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program: Excerpts of Sin Papelles, a forum on immigration that took place July 19th at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen. click here to listen to the complete 1st panel of the immigration forum. Also on the program: a report on NIST's conclusions about the cause of the collapse of World Trade Center building #7 and the response by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth. Listen to the entire NIST Press Conference and response by ae911truth.org. Finally, an update on the exemptions by the Illinois Department of Public Health to the Mercury-Free Vaccine Act. Click here, and scroll down the page for the list of vaccines exempted by the IDPH.
July 28, 2008
Download entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.6 Mb, 59:09 minutes plus 1:12 min music fades outcue: "From the Trenches"). On this program: Highlights from the Green Party National Convention that took place in Chicago July 11-13, 2008. Speakers include: Green Party Presidential Candidate, Cynthia McKinney, her Vice Presidential running mate, Rosa Clemente, and keynote speakers: Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Non-Violence; Drug Policy Expert, Clifford Thornton; Green Party Congressional Candidate from Louisiana, Malik Rahim; Physician and Environmental Health Advocate, Jill Stein; and Green Party Congressional Candidate from Chicago, Omar Lopez. To listen to the entire speeches of these speakers click on their names. Also, listen to a speech given by Green Party Candidate for President of Columbia, Ingrid Betancourt at the World Social Forum shortly before she was kidnapped.
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