Prometheus' Brandy Doyle on Historic Opportunity for Thousands of New Community Radio Stations

(click here for links to the March 20 show with Burt Madison - B-24 Ball Turret Gunner)

The March 27, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured Brandy Doyle, Policy Director for Prometheus Radio Project talking about the historic opportunity for hundreds, maybe thousands, or new community radio stations in the U.S. 

****CLICK HERE**** for link to audio ot this show.

Below is a Prometheus Radio press release from http://www.prometheusradio.org/

Release: FCC Decision Opens Radio Airwaves for Communities Nationwide


Mar 19 2012 - 11:35am

FCC Decision Opens Radio Airwaves for Communities Nationwide

New rules create opportunities for hundreds of new community radio stations

March 19, 2012 Washington, DC-- In a victory for communities nationwide, today the Federal Communications Commission announced that the agency will open the airwaves for community radio. To make room for a new wave of local stations, the FCC will clear a backlog of over six thousand pending applications for FM translators, which are repeater stations that rebroadcast distant radio stations. The decision will allow for the first new urban community radio stations in decades.

"Today the FCC has opened the door for communities to use their own local airwaves, and that will be transformative," said Brandy Doyle, Policy Director for the Prometheus Radio Project. "We commend the Commission staff for the care and diligence they have shown. We also wish to thank Chairman Genachowski, Commissioner McDowell, and particularly Commissioner Clyburn and her hardworking staff for their efforts on behalf of communities."

The announcement concludes the first hurdle in implementing the Local Community Radio Act, passed by Congress in 2010 after a decade-long grassroots campaign. The FCC is on track to accept applications for new Low Power FM (LPFM) stations nationwide as early as Fall 2012. Community groups are gearing up to apply for the licenses, which will be available only to locally-based non-profit organizations.

audio posted: Burt Madison - Ball Turret Gunner

Burt Madison's B-24 "Partial Payment" (with different crew)

The audio for the March 20, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody has been posted - click here for link to mp3:
http://www.tellsomebody.libsyn.com/webpage/burt-madison-b-24-ball-turret-gunner

The audio for the March 13, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody has been posted - click here for links to audio and other information: http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2012/03/richard-tripp-for-homeless-byllye-y.html
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Here are some links for the show with Kansas City World War II veteran Burt Madison:

A book Burt Madison talks about on the show:

In search of peace: A review of events and emotional experiences endured by the 8th Air Force bombardment groups in World War II

B-24 Ball Turret in Action

Modern Marvels S09E15 Ball Turret Gunners

Wikipedia article on Ball Turret

Audio now posted: Richard Tripp for the Homeless, Byllye Y. Avery of Black Women's Health Imperative

The podcast of the March 6, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody with Ray McGovern has been posted. Links to the show and LOTS of other information here:
http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2012/02/occupy-rumsfeld.html

On the Tuesday March 13 edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Tripp, founder and director of Care of Poor People Inc. talked about the Spring Break for the Homeless coming up April 7th in Kansas City, and Byllye Y. Avery, founder of Black Women's Health Imperative, formerly The National Black Women's Health Project, talked about women’s access to quality health care. 

In the final segment of the show, hear a first-hand account of how women started the 'February Revolution' in Russia on International Women's Day in 1917.

****CLICK HERE**** for a link to this show.

Tune in to Tell Somebody every Tuesday at 6pm central on 90.1 FM KKFI, streaming at http://www.kkfi.org/.

Links for this week's show:
The Homelessness Marathon was hosted by KKFI in Kansas City and also broadcast on Free Speech TV- here is a link to a fascinating and very lively conversation about what to do about homelessness in Kansas City with Homelessness Marathon host Jeremy Alderson, (former) Kansas City Police Chief Jim Corwin, George Harris with the KC homelessness task force, and two homeless men were arrested and lost all their belongings when their homeless camp was bulldozed:
http://homelessnessmarathonfstv.blogspot.com/2011/02/dj-nobody-what-should-kansas-city-do.html 

Byllye Y. Avery, founder of Black Women's Health Imperative, formerly The National Black Women's Health Project, and Avery Institute for Social Change has been a health care activist for over 30 years focusing on women's needs. She is a co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need and a member of the LLuminari and Be Well health expert network.http://www.blackwomenshealth.org/about-us/our-story/

http://www.raisingwomensvoices.net/

http://www.hervotes.us/

http://www.coppinc.com/

2011 Homelessness Marathon press conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aFe2UAbXJk

Past shows with Richard Tripp and Copp Inc:
http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2011/11/listen-now-ralph-nader-bill-moyers-at.html

http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2011/11/listen-now-ralph-nader-bill-moyers-at.html

http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/never-fear-never-quit-richard-tripp.html

http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/03/richard-tripp-spring-break-2010-and.html

http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2009/11/care-of-poor-people-this-saturday.html

Ray McGovern Dissection of Rumsfeld Now Online

The podcast edition of the March 6, 2012 show with Ray McGovern has now been posted.  Click the link below,
http://traffic.libsyn.com/tellsomebody/ts_2012_02_07.mp3
or subscribe to the podcast, for free at the iTunes store.

On the March 6 broadcast, former CIA analyst and presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern dissected Rumsfeld's prevarications at the Truman Library.  The broadcast interview had to be edited for time. The podcast includes the entire interview with McGovern, including the story of Anderson Cooper calling Ray right after his 2006 confrontation with Rumsfeld in Atlanta, and the advice Ray had for Cooper.

On February 28, on Tell Somebody, we heard Rumsfeld's mic check at the Truman Library and heard some audio from Ray McGovern's notable May, 2006 confrontation with Rumsfeld in Atlanta, and also heard part of a city council hearing regarding the petitions for ballot iniatives about Kansas City's nuclear weapons parts plant. Audio of that show has now been posted - for link to downloadable mp3 click here:

Rumsfeld Mic-Checked & Kansas City Nuclear Weapons Debate at City Hall

Or subscribe to the podcast for free at the iTunes store or other podcast directory.

Did you ever watch the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers?  Either the original from the 1950's or the 1970's remake?  As most of you know, it was a sci-fi story about pod people- aliens have invaded earth and huge seed pods 'hatch' duplicates of humans.  The fruit of the pods look and sound exactly like the humans they have replaced, but they have no individuality or normal emotion, and when they see a real human who hasn't yet been replaced, they aggressively point them out.

I couldn't help but think of that as I watched a video of the 'mic check' protest of Donald Rumsfeld during his appearnce at the Truman Library in Independence MO on Februrary 24 that was posted on the http://www.occupykc.net/ website.  After library security had removed several vocal citizens, the Rumsfeld pod people aggressively pointed out those who remained in their seats.  One Rumsfeld fan did exhibit some sort of emotion, saying to a woman "and you're a bitch, now get out!"  Shortly after that, Rumsfeld says: "I suspect there are a couple more in here..."

 Watch the video for yourself at this link, and see what you think:
http://www.occupykc.net/mic-check-to-donald-rumsfeld-war-criminal-turn-yourself-in/

More links:
Rumsfeld torture memo January 19, 2002
http://lawofwar.org/Rumsfeld%20Torture%20memo_0001.jpg

Gonzales memo for the President January 25, 2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/02.01.25.pdf

Bush February 7, 2002 memo on "Humane Treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees"
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/02.02.07.pdf

Collateral Murder
http://collateralmurder.org/

The Good Samaritan in Baghdad
http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/12/httpenglish.html

Ray McGovern's website:
http://www.raymondmcgovern.com/Raymond_McGovern/Current.html

McGovern confronting Rumsfeld - May, 2006 links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FTmuhynaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWYZHhZZHc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyg_ntjjn0&feature=related

Ray McGovern dragged out of Hillary Clinton "Freedom Speech"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My29YT1T4R4&feature=related

Audio of past McGovern appearances on Tell Somebody
Ray McGovern on the NDAA & Kevin Zeese on Bradley Manning hearing

Ray McGovern - arrested at the White House


Ray McGovern returns, and Michelle Obama addresses the NAACP Convention

Coleen Rowley, Ray McGovern, Mignon Clyburn

The Bob & Ray Show

Richard Tripp on Survival 09 & Ray McGovern on KSM NY Trial & Afghanistan

Waterboard Torture Memo, Nuke Proposition One, & The Recipe for Self-Destruction

Ray McGovern on "Common Sense: It's the War Economy, Stupid!"

Judy Ancel on Employee Free Choice & ex CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on Torture

Ray McGovern Discusses Gaza Crisis
 
Retired CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on Leon Panetta as nominee to head CIA




 Ray McGovern on torture, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney

Ray McGovern - Why Are Downing St. Memos Still Important (and how single payer saved his life twice)


 
 



 

Kansas Advocates Mitzi McFatrich & Col. Ann Wright Podcast Posted

Exectuive Reorganization Order No. 41?
(no, actually General Order No 11) 

The February 22, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featuring Kansas Advocates for Better Care executive  director Mitzi McFatrich and retired diplomat and US Army colonel Ann Wright has been posted.  ****CLICK HERE**** for link to a downloadable mp3 of the show, or subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. 

Col Ann Wright

Podcast of John Nichols posted - coming up - Kansas Nursing Home Advocates Oppose Brownback's Reorganization

Listen now to John Nichols talking about his new book, Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest from Madison to Wall Street.                            ****CLICK HERE**** for link to downloadable mp3 of the February 14, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody.          For more information on Wisconsin and a link to the previous week's show with Nichols' frequent co-author Professor Robert McChesney, ****CLICK HERE****

On the Tuesday, February 21 edition of Tell Somebody, we'll talk to Mitzi McFatrich, executive director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, about Kansas Executive Reorganization Order No. 41, Governor Brownback’s plan to move programs not specific to either aging or disability from SRS and KDHE to the Kansas Department on Aging, and why KABC opposes ERO No. 41 and the privatization of Medicaid in Kansas.

Kansas Advocates for Better Care
913 Tennessee, Suite 2
Lawrence, KS 66044
http://www.kabc.org/
Phone: (785) 842-3088
Toll-free: (800) 525-1782
Fax: (785) 749-0029
E-Mail: info@kabc.org

 Kansas Legislative Hotline
1-800-432-3924

(Out-of-State: 785-296-2149)



Exectuive Reorganization Order No. 41?
(no, actually General Order No 11)



Reporters Without Borders is an international organization based in Paris, France whose mission is to defend freedom of the press, journalists and netizens all around the world. They put out an annual Press Freedom Index, ranking press freedom in countries around the world. In their latest index, the United States has fallen from a rather pathetic 20th to a dismal 47th. On the Reporters Without Borders website, they write that the "United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests."

Josh Stearns, Program Manager with Free Press, has been closely following the arrests of journalists, and he'll talk about it on Tell Somebody on Tuesday February 21 at 6pm on 90.1 FM KKFI

Tune in!

Bob McChesney podcast posted - John Nichols up next

Click ****HERE**** for a link to the February 7, 2012 editon of
Tell Somebody with Bob McChesney.





Professor Robert McChesney came on the phone and the KKFI airwaves Tuesday to help out with the pledge drive and the podcast of that show has been posted.  On the show, McChesney said, "I do think it's imperative right now that those of you who are listening to this show understand that the conversation that Tom and I are having right now, you're not going to be able to hear on any other radio station in Kansas City - it's just not out there.  And it's not going to be heard on more than a handful of stations in the midwest."  He went on to say that the sort of conversation we were having is imperative to understanding what is going on in the world, and that it was therefore imperative that you that you donate what you can to support KKFI.

The pledge drive is still on as I post this.  You can call 888-931-0901 to make a donation while the drive continues, or click on the donate button at http://www.kkfi.org/ anytime, day or night.

Click ****HERE**** for a link to the February 7, 2012 editon of Tell Somebody with Bob McChesney.

Wisconsin Uprising links:

http://www.recallscottwalker.com/

http://www.perseusbooks.com/perseus/book_detail.jsp?isbn=1568587031

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/wisconsin-senate-2012-scott-walker-recall_n_1261048.html

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120201/GPG0101/202010610/Signatures-from-Wisconsin-Gov-Scott-Walker-recall-petitions-posted-online

Next Tuesday, February 14, McChesney's friend and frequent co-author John Nichols will be on the show to talk about his brand new book, Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politcs of Protest from Madison to Wall Street. 

John Nichols is The Nation's Washington correspondent and the associate editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin.  He has authored or coauthored eight books on media and politics and, with Robert McChesney and Josh Silver, cofounded the media reform advocacy group Free Press.

Tune in to Tell Somebody at 6pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KKFI to hear John Nichols talk about the Wisconsin uprising.