From The Trenches
From the Trenches
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Notice: Many of the following programs are currently unavailable due to a hardware failure at RadioIndymedia where they are archived. We are reposting entire program links first, and hope to have segments available again soon.
- December 27, 2004
- Rev. Jan G. Linn, Pastor of Spirit of Joy Congregational Church in Lakeville, Minnesota speaks about his new book, "What's Wrong With the Christian Right" at Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL, October, 2004 (in 2 parts).
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 16kpbs, 3.4 Mb, 30:00 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 16kpbs, 3.4 Mb, 30:00 minutes)
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 55.0 Mb, 60.00 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 16kpbs, 3.4 Mb, 30:00 minutes)
- November 22, 2004
- Part 1 — Indymedia Headlines.
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 32kpbs, 1.4 Mb, 3:00 minutes)
- Part 2 — Report on Vote Fraud including and interview with Ray Beckerman a lawyer who took calls from voters in Ohio from October 31 through election day.
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 32kpbs, 80.0 Mb, ~20:00 minutes)
- See also http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/11_04.html
- . . . and http://www.blackboxvoting.org
- . . . and http://www.votergate.tv/
- Part 3 — Liza Featherstone reads from her new book "Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart" speaking at Women and Children First books in Chicago. Report by Kelly Pierce.
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 32kpbs, 6.7 Mb, ~15:00 minutes)
- Part 4 — Harvey Wasserman, Senior editor of The Free Press speaks about Windpower at the Nuclear Power and Children's Health Conference in Chicago, on October 16, 2004.
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 32kpbs, 12.0 Mb, ~21:00 minutes)
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 28.1 Mb, 60:00 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 32kpbs, 1.4 Mb, 3:00 minutes)
- October 25, 2004
- Part 1 — Opening and report by CIMC's Chris Kaihatsu about the seizure of IMC servers, plus CIMC's Ted Forsyth reports on what happened outside the presidential debate in St. Louis.
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 32kpbs, 3.8 Mb, 16:35 minutes)
- See also http://indymedia.org/en/2004/10/112047.shtml
- . . . and http://www.stlimc.org/front.php3?article_id=16314&group=webcast
- Part 2 — Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, President of the Nucler Policy Research Institute and Keynote speaker at the Nuclear Power and Children's Health Conference Oct, 15 & 16 in Chicago. Also Mary Osborn Ouassiai, survivor of the 1979 Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident speaks about the continuing casualties of the disaster.
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 32kpbs, 4.3 Mb, 18:53 minutes)
- See also http://www.nuclearpolicy.org
- . . . and http://www.neis.org
- Part 3 — John Nichols, Washington Correspondent of The Nation Magazine speaks about his new book, Dick: The Man Who Is President at Barbara's Bookstore in Chicago on September 29, 2004.
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 32kpbs, 2.3 Mb, 10:16 minutes)
- Hear John Nichols' full speech at: http://chicago.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/12/Nichols.mp3 (mp3, 32kpbs, 8.1 Mb, 1:27:00 minutes)
- Part 4 — Dr. Sid Bild speaks on the Medicare "Destruction" Act at the College of Complexes Free Speech Forum on Saturday, Sept 11, 2004.
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 32kpbs, 3.6 Mb, 15:48 minutes)
- See also http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 28.2 Mb, 59:59 minutes)
- September 27, 2004
- Part 1 — Intro and News Stories: Lisa Smith on Affordable Housing, Tina Hernandez-Lasquety on the Immigrants Rights Rally 9-25-04, and Rita Sand on Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge submitting to a deposition on his participation in police torture. Also, friend and colleague of May Molina Ortiz, Annabelle Perez of Families of the Wrongly Convicted speaks out about the toxicology report on Molina's death.
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 32kpbs, 3.1 Mb, 13:35 minutes)
- Part 2 — Story on the RNC protests in August as reported by New York City's Indymedia Center broadcast and we talk with two Chicagoans arrested at the protests.
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 32kpbs, 3.0 Mb, 12:57 minutes)
- See also http://nyc.indymedia.org/mod/search/dosearch/index.php?dosearch=1&searchtext=A-noise
- Part 3 — Mitchell Szczepanczyk speaks with Professor Lawrence Wittner of SUNY Albany about his article, The Power of Protest, in the July/August issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 32kpbs, 4.4 Mb, 19:03 minutes)
- See also http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=6237
- . . . and http://www.albany.edu/history/wittner/
- Part 4 — Rita Sand reports on a report on the Institute of Medicine hearing on 8-23-04 to review access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink Database.
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 32kpbs, 3.4 Mb, 14:48 minutes)
- See also http://www.iom.edu/subpage.asp?id=21757
- . . . and http://www.iom.edu/event.asp?id=22482
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 27.7 Mb, 60:00 minutes)
- August 23, 2004
- Interview with Clayton Daughenbaugh, author of Common Sense Democracy: How to Complete the American Revolution in Your Neighborhood, Story by Mitchell Szczepanczyk on the WTTW Report by Chicago Media Action, Story by Rita Sand on Free Speech Zones, Headlines by Lisa Smith
- See also http://www.commonsensedemocracy.org
- . . . and http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=13699&c=86
- Part 1 — Intro and Headlines: Report on vulnerable nuclear plants released, Code Pink demonstrators arrested, Tribune Co. petitions court, Aaron Patterson arrested.
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 1.3 Mb, 6:00 minutes)
- Part 2 — Story on Chicago Media Action's report on WTTW by Mitchell Szczepanczyk
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 2 Mb, 8:43 minutes)
- Part 3 — Story on Free Speech Zones by Rita Sand
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 3.5 Mb, 15:21 minutes)
- Parts 4 and 5 — Interview with Clayton Daughenbaugh, author of Common Sense Democracy: How to Complete the American Revolution in Your Neighborhood and former Executive Director of the Save Our City Coalition in Chicago
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 3.9 Mb, 17:07 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 5 (mp3, 3.2 Mb, 14:03 minutes)
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 64kbps mono, 28 Mb, 60:00 minutes)
- July 26, 2004
- This program features a speech by Professor Robert Jensen of the University of Texas at Austin called, "Taking Action to Reform Media" given at UIC on 6/16/04. The program begins with four clips from Arizona IMC (Protest against U.S. health care system) Atlanta IMC (Former Black Panther Party member, Elaine Brown speaking at protest against the G8 summit 6/04) San Francisco Bay Area IMC (Clara of Netherlands IMC speaks about Biotechnology issues at the protest outside the Bio 2004 Biotechnology Conference in S.F. 6/04) Philadelphia IMC (exonerated death row prisoner, Nick Yarris speaks about the abuse he suffered while in prison in PA under Charles Graner, a corrections official still employed in PA and one of supervisors of the Abu Graib prison during the torture scandal
produced by Rita Sand and Mitchell Szczepanczyk
- Part 1 — Introduction and Indymedia headlines; Clip from an audio story by Mr. Liberal of Arizona Indymedia about a protest in Phoenix on National Bridge the Gap for Health Care Day
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 3:00 minutes, 706Kb at 32kbps)
. . . Also see: http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/19698.php- Part 2 — Clip from a speech by former Black Panther Party member Elaine Brown speaking at a G-8 protest in Atlanta in June
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 3:34 minutes, 844Kb at 32kbps)
. . . Entire speech (from Atlanta Indymedia) at http://atlanta.indymedia.org/media/all/display/6461- Part 3 — Clip from an interview with Clara of IMC Netherlands by agitkid of the San Francisco Bay Area IMC. Clara attended the protest outside the Bio 2004 Biotechnology Conference in San Francisco in June
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 14:40 minutes, 3.3Mb at 32kbps)
. . . . . . Entire interview at http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/06/1684207.php- Part 4 — Excerpt from a press conference in Philadelphia where Nick Yarris, exonerated after spending years on death row, exposes the abuses he suffered under Charles Graner, who later supervised the battalion that tortured prisoners at Abu Graib prison in Iraq
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 5:20 minutes, 1.2Mb at 32kbps)
. . . Entire press conference at http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/12/198236&mode=thread- Parts 5 & 6 — Professor Robert Jensen of the Dept. of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin speaks at UIC on 6-16-04 on Taking Action to Reform Media"
- . . . Listen to section 1 of the talk (mp3, 21:38 minutes, 4.9Mb at 32kbps)
- . . . Listen to section 2 of the talk (mp3, 19:31 minutes, 4.4Mb at 32kbps)
. . . Also see: http://www.mediaed.org- Download the entire show (mp3, monophonic, broadcast quality 64kbps, 58:30 minutes 27.3Mb)
. . . Also see: http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/19698.php
. . . . . . and: http://atlanta.indymedia.org/media/all/display/6461
. . . . . . and: http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/06/1684207.php
. . . . . . and: http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/12/198236&mode=thread- June 28, 2004
- Indymedia headlines; Report on the FCC hearing in Rapid City, South Dakota; Interviews with Prof. Eleni Papadopolus-Eleopolus and Dr. Val Turner of the Perth Group about their newly published paper criticizing the HIV-AIDS hypothesis; interviews with Dr. Mohammed Al-Bayati and Kim Bannon about their involvement with lawsuits against the test kits and toxic therapies produced by the AIDS pharmaceutical industry
produced by Rita Sand, Mitchell Szczepanczyk, and Lisa Smith
- Part 1 — Introduction and Indymedia headlines: G8 arrests, Stop the Wall, Can-TV, Chicago Public Schools, Congress Hotel Workers, May Molina
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 6:25 minutes, 1.5Mb at 32kbps)
- Part 2 — A report about the regional hearing of the FCC in Rapid City, South Dakota on 5-26-04 by Mitchell Szczepanczyk
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 12:39 minutes, 2.9Mb at 32kbps)
- Part 3 — Interview with Prof. Eleni Papadopolus-Eleopolus, Dept. of Medical Physics, Royal Perth Hospital and Dr. Val Turner, West Australian Dept. of Health about their paper, A Critique of the Monagnier evidence for the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 14:40 minutes, 3.3Mb at 32kbps)
Also see: http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/perthgroup- Part 4 — Interview with Dr. Mohammed Al-Bayati, author of Get the Facts: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS and an expert witness in a case for a law firm bringing suit against AIDS pharmaceutical industry for toxic AIDS treatment
- . . . Listen to part4 (mp3, 12.20 minutes, 2.8Mb at 32kbps)
Also see: http://www.toxi-health.com- Part 5 — Interview with Kim Bannon, HIV positive, who is suing 2 HIV test kit manufacturers under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act for deceptive acts and practices
- . . . Listen to part 5 (mp3, 12:32 minutes, 2.8Mb at 32kbps)
Also see: http://www.altheal.org
and http://www.questionaids.com- Download the entire show (mp3, monophonic, broadcast quality 64kbps, 58:30 minutes 26.8Mb)
Also see: http://www.aliveandwell.org- May 24, 2004
- . produced by Rita Sand and Mitchell Szczepanczyk
- . mp3, 32kbps monophonic, broadcast quality
- Parts 1 and 2 — Dave Bloom, author of Alcohol Can Be A Gas and President of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture speaks about his book
- . . . Listen to part 1 (3.4Mb,15:11 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 2 (3.9Mb, 17:23 minutes)
- See also: http://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com and http://www.zmag.org
- Parts 3 and 4 — Michael Abert, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism and co-founder of South End Press speaks about participatory economics
- . . . Listen to part 3 (2.9Mb, 12:54 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 4 (3.4Mb, 15:11 minutes)
- Download the entire show (59:40 +1min mx, 13.9 mb
- April 26, 2004
- The Emerging Struggle for Control of U.S. Media a talk by Robert McChesney, Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and author of the new book, The Problem of the Media, given at North Central College in Naperville on April 13th, 2004
produced by Rita Sand and Mitchell Szczepanczyk- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 4.4Mb at 32kbps)
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 3.1Mb at 32kbps)
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 3.6Mb at 32kbps)
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 3.1Mb at 32kbps)
- Download the entire show (mp3, monophonic, broadcast quality 32kbps, 59:52 minutes 13.9Mb)
Also see: http://www.chicagomediaaction.org/audiofiles/McChesney_2004-04-13.mp3- March 22, 2004
- Part 1 — March 20 Iraq war protest (M20) coverage and voices of protesters
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 6:44 minutes, 1.5Mb at 32kbps)
- Part 2 — Kathy Kelly speach at the Chicago Methodest Temple
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 10:45 minutes, 2.4Mb at 32kbps)
- Part 3 — M20 rally speeches
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 17:43 minutes, 4Mb at 32kbps)
- Parts 4 and 5 — Amy Goodman, producer of Democracy Now, speech at University of Illinois/Chicago on 3/2/04
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 13:38 minutes, 3Mb at 32kbps)
- . . . Listen to part 5 (mp3, 10:29 minutes, 2.4Mb at 32kbps)
- Download the entire show (mp3, monophonic, broadcast quality 32kbps, 59:19 minutes 8.2mb)
- February 23, 2004
- Part 1 — Introduction and Indymedia headlines with Mitchell Szczepanczyk
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 3:24 minutes, 404Kb at 16kbps)
- Part 2 — Flint Taylor speaks about the history of police torture in Chicago at the first Chicago Social Forum, January 31, 2004
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 22:55 minutes, 2.6Mb at 16kbps)
- Parts 3 and 4 — Howard Lyman, author of the book, Mad Cowboy speaks at U of Chicago on January 30
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 16:43 minutes, 1.9Mb at 16kbps)
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 16:49 minutes, 1.9Mb at 16kbps)
- Download the entire show (mp3, monophonic, broadcast quality 64kbps, 58:40 minutes 27.4mb)
- January 26, 2004
- Parts 1 and 2 — Introduction and Indymedia News, International Solidarity Movement (ISM) volunteer Brian Avery speaks at UIC on 1/24/04 about how he was shot …
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 9:47 minutes 2.2Mb)
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3,8:30 minutes, 1.9Mb)
- Part 3 — Matt Meyer of Oak Park speaks about his participation in several school of the Americas (OAS) protests
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 7:16 minutes, 1.6Mb)
- Part 4 — Laura Miller of PR Watch speaks about Non-profit groups who are fronts for corporate propoganda
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 16:19 minutes, 3.7Mb)
- Part 5 — Salim Muwakkil, author and senior editor of In These Times, speaks at the ML King Forum
- . . . Listen to part 5 (mp3, 18:57 minutes, 4.3Mb)
- Download the entire show (mp3, 64kbps, 14.6Mb, 59:40 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 32kpbs, 3.8 Mb, 16:35 minutes)
- December 22, 2003
- Part 1 — Introduction and reports on Iraqi women speaking in Chicago and a protest at a speech by Michael Powell, FCC chairman
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 1.0 Mb)
- Parts 2-5 — a speech by Professor Robert Pollin, author of Contours of Descent
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 1.7 Mb)
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 1.3 Mb)
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 1.4 Mb)
- . . . Listen to part 5 (mp3, 1.7 Mb)
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (mp3, 32kbps, 14.3Mb, 60:00 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 1.0 Mb)
- November 24, 2003
- Part 1 — Introduction and Indymedia headlines from Mitchell Szczepanczyk
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 0.8 Mb, 6:53 minutes)
- Part 2 — Report on a controversial research program that involves ciprofloxacin-resistant anthrax
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 1.2 Mb, 10:05 minutes)
- Part 3 — During the FTAA protests in Miami last week, Miami IMC's web-based, Resistance Radio served as a teach-in and up-to-the minute information source. Rita Sand speaks with an announcer whose radio name is Bastard
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 2.8 Mb, 23:00 minutes)
- Part 4 — As a Chicago Action Medical street-medic, Chris witnessed a police raid at the Wellness Center where she was working during the FTAA protests in Miami last week
- . . . Listen to part 4 (mp3, 0.5 Mb, 3:49 minutes)
- Part 5 — An interview with Marc Steier, legal observer and coordinator of legal observers at the FTAA protests in Miami last week. Steier documented illegal and violent actions by the police and was himself, arrested
- . . . Listen to part 5 (mp3, 2.0 Mb, 16:49 minutes)
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (57.9 Mb, 60:00 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 0.8 Mb, 6:53 minutes)
- October 27, 2003
- Part 1 — Introduction and Indymedia headlines
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 1.0 Mb, 8:34 minutes)
- Part 2 — Voices from the Anti Iraq Occupation Demonstration, Washington D.C. 10/25/03
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 2.6 Mb, 21:22 minutes)
- Part 3 — Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner speaks about his report, The Truth From These Podia that details over 50 stories in the mainstream press concerning the war with Iraq that are false
- . . . Listen to part 3a (mp3, 2.1 Mb, 17:12 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 3b (mp3, 1.5 Mb, 12:19 minutes)
- Download the entire show in broadcast quality sound (57.1 Mb, 59:31 minutes)
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 1.0 Mb, 8:34 minutes)
- September 22, 2003
- Part 1 — Introduction and Indymedia headlines
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 1.5 Mb, 6:11 minutes)
- Part 2 — Prof. David Ranney of the University of Illinois at Chicago speaks about his new book: Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order
- . . . Listen to part 2 (mp3, 9.8 Mb, 40:00 minutes)
- Part 3 — Katherine Albrecht of CASPIAN speaks about Radio Frequency IDs & how they threaten privacy rights.
- . . . Listen to part 3 (mp3, 2.9 Mb)
- . . . Listen to part 1 (mp3, 1.5 Mb, 6:11 minutes)
- August 25, 2003
- Bev Harris, author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 20th Century speaks about the new voting machines. (15 min)
- 2nd half of interview with Nafeez Ahmed, author of War on Freedom who speaks about unanswered questions concerning the attacks on 9/11. (45 min)
- 2nd half of interview with Nafeez Ahmed, author of War on Freedom who speaks about unanswered questions concerning the attacks on 9/11. (45 min)
- July 28, 2003
- Part 1 — An exerpt of Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter's press teleconference with public radio reporters given 7-10-03 from the Traprock Peace Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
- Look for the entire speech at traprockpeace.org or on the San Francisco Indymedia website sf.indymedia.org Introduction to the show and Indymedia News headlines
- Part 2 — Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D), Representative of the 9th District, Oakland, California speaking in Chica
- Look for the entire speech at traprockpeace.org or on the San Francisco Indymedia website sf.indymedia.org Introduction to the show and Indymedia News headlines
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