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Journalist Robert Parry on Lessons From Wisconsin, Maurice Copeland's Plea & KC City Council on Move to Amend Jun 12, 2012

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Big spending by right-wing billionaires greatly impacted the recall election in Wisconsin, but is the big lesson from the loss how media is failing us? On the June 12, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, www.consortiumnews.com 's Robert Parry talks about his article titled Lessons from Gov. Walker’s Win.

Former Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant worker Maurice Copeland goes to the Justice Department with a plea for justice for sick workers, and on Thursday June 14, the Kansas City MO city council will vote on a resolution in support of amending the US Constitution to overturn corporate personhood.

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KC Members of Honduras Delegation Report Their Findings Jun 05, 2012

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Kansas Citians Judy Ancel, Alice Kitchen, and Melissa Stiehler were part of a US/Canadian delegation to Honduras looking into the killing two pregnant women, a 14-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man, while seriously injuring at least four more in an apparent drug interdiction involving US helicopters and "advisors."

The Kansas City members of the delegation talked about their findings on the June 5, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody.

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Right to Heal May 29, 2012

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On Wednesday May 23, 2012, Iraq war veteran and former Army medic Will Stewart-Starks showed posters of artworks by veterans, including himself, and spoke of the Right to Heal, a project of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). The presentation was featured on the May 22 broadcast of Tell Somebody.

From IVAW’s Operation Recovery Page:

Service members have the right to receive medical care and advice from medical professionals.

Service members who experience PTSD, TBI, MST, and combat stress have the right to exit the traumatic situation and receive immediate support, and compensation.

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PFC LaVena Johnson - Murdered in Iraq May 22, 2012

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Due to an illness in the family, I was unable to produce a new show for the broadcast of Tell Somebody on May 22, so I went again into the archives and aired a lightly edited interview with Amy Goodman originally broadcast on March 31, 2009 right before she appeared in Kansas City for a fundraiser, and I broadcast the first half of a 2007 interview with Dr. John Johnson, father of Lavena Johnson, the first military woman from Missouri to die in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The 2009 show with Amy Goodman is already available as a pod cast - I have a fresh link to that show up at www.tellsomebody.us - so for this pod cast, I’m posting both parts of the interview 2007 about Lavena Johnson, raped and murdered in Iraq. The Army tried to tell her family it was suicide.

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Remarks at Bradley Manning Rally and Howard Zinn on Tell Somebody in 2008 May 15, 2012

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The May 15, 2012 Tell Somebody broadcast, a re-airing of a radio documentary about The Ludlow Massacre, contained too much copyrighted music to be podcast, so from the archives, here is audio of some remarks I made at a recent Bradley Manning rally in Kansas City, and a 2008 Tell Somebody conversation with the late historian Howard Zinn.

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Common Cause CEO Bob Edgar on ALEC & persons can be corporations, but individuals can only be real persons? May 08, 2012

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The May 8, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody has Bob Edgar, President and CEO of Common Cause talking about a complaint filed with the IRS against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) regarding their status as a non-profit organization, and why the conflicts of interest of Justices Scalia and Thomas should cause the SCOTUS to vacate the Citizens United v FEC decision.

And, speaking of Citizens United, that decision solidified the idea that corporations are 'persons' under the law and therefore have Constitutional rights, yes? Then as 'persons,' they should have responsibilities and liabilities like us individual persons, yes?

Not so fast. Corporations are persons, but individuals aren't corporate persons, only individual persons are individuals, because "individual" means a real person, not a corporate one, yes?

We heard oral arguments before the Supreme Court about whether organizations and corporations can be held accountable for their bad acts under laws governing what 'individuals' can do.

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A Plea for Justice - Maurice Copeland goes to the GSA May 01, 2012

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The May 1, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured former Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant worker and current Bannister Federal Complex (BFC) Community Advisory Panel member Maurice Copeland who called for a Plea for Justice Rally at the BFC on April 25. Copeland spoke to supporters and met with General Services Administration Region 7 Adminsitrator Jason Klumb.

Also on this show, the Bradley Manning rally in Kansas City and audio from a Kansas City, MO city council meeting dealing with a petition initiative to put future city involvement in nuclear weapons production on the ballot.

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Feeding the Homeless In Kansas City Apr 24, 2012

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A recent Kansas City television news piece was headlined

Well-meaning Homeless Donations Cause Problems in KCMO

and ended saying "The service providers, along with Kansas City, Missouri police, say they are discussing whether the city can create an ordinance prohibiting this type of donation drop-off or require the groups to get a license to serve food."

The April 24, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured Evie Craig, executive director of Restart, who was quoted in the news piece, Richard Tripp, director and founder of COPPInc, and Jennifer Gould, coordinator with Heart of America Stand Down.

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Atty David Lane on Supreme Court & Brian Terrell on US Drone Strikes, Protest, & Empire Apr 17, 2012

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On Tell Somebody on April 17, 2012, we heard first from David Lane, Denver attorney who argued Reichle v Howards at the US Supreme Court on March 21, 2012. Lane represent Steven Howards, who was arrested after he told then vice president Cheney that his policies were disgusting. Lane said "This case has the possibility of radically reshaping how protest works in the United States."

After that, Brian Terrell, co-coordinator with Voices for Creative Non-Violence, talks about why he came to Kansas City for the Trifecta Resista, a weekend trio of protests against nuclear weapons production in Kansas City, Missouri, the abuse of Bradley Manning at Fort Leavenworth, and US drone policy at Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Knoster, Missouri.

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Ann Wright & Kathy Kelly on Trifecta Resista plus Corporate FM Apr 10, 2012

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The April 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody begins with Kansas City film maker Kevin McKinney talking about the premier of his new film Corporate FM. Then we hear from Col. Ann Wright and Kathy Kelly about the Midwest Trifecta Reista, a weekend of protests against production of nuclear weapons parts in Kansas City, Missouri, the imprisonment of alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning in Leavenworth, Kansas, and the unmanned drone traing operations at Whiteman Air Force base.

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