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Iraq Vet Tomas Young & Dnow's Denis Moynihan Dec 02, 2009

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Kansas City Iraq Vet, Tomas Young, featured in the film Body of War is in the VA hospital, possibly facing abdominal surgery. This week's show starts off with a re-broadcast of an interview he gave Tell Somebody in the fall of 2005.

In the second half of the show, Democracy Now's Denis Moynihan talks about how Amy Goodman, along with Moynihan and a DNow staffer were detained by Canadian authorities as they tried to go to Goodman's speaking engagement in Vancouver. Apparently authorities feared DNow had come to badmouth the Winter Olympics.

Richard Tripp on Survival 09 & Ray McGovern on KSM NY Trial & Afghanistan Nov 24, 2009

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On this edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Tripp, cabdriver, author, and former homeless person tells us about Survival 09, the Care of Poor People Event to help provide food and clothing to those in need. www.coppinc.com

Pitch Blog on Richard Tripp: http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/01/this_mans_face_is_familiar.php

Then, 30-year veteran intelligence officer and CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns to Tell Somebody in an interview recorded on the 46th anniversary of the assassination of JFK to talk about the upcoming Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial in NYC, Obama's Afghanistan dilemma, and why Obama might need to watch his back.

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Kansas City WMD Plant Advances Through PIEA - City Council Next Nov 17, 2009

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At the Honeywell.com website, a picture I suppose representing happy Kansas City Plant employees accompanies this message:

To sign up for the beryllium medical surveillance program contact Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) at 1-866-812-6703.

On November 6, 2009, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City Missouri met, and after going through the motions of listening to testimony in opposition, voted unanimously to approve the latest step in a complicated leasing scheme to facilitate the building of a new nuclear weapons components plant in southern Kansas City. Part of the deal is about $40 million in tax abatements and incentives to improve infrastructure that will also benefit the Kansas City stop on the North America Super Corridor.

The private developers for the project and their PowerPoints, as usual, got the lion's share of the time before the PIEA commissioners and staff, but opponents made some important points.

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1937, Pullman Porters-Up From the Rails, Weapons of Mass Destruction Nov 10, 2009

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KKFI's Bill Clause talks about his play, 1937: One Helluva Year, a fact-based drama-comedy-musical about the about the struggle for racial equality, womens rights and workers rights in 1937 Kansas City.

A. Phillip Randolph and and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters figure prominently in the play, so we go to the archives for a 2004 Heartland Labor Forum interview with Larry Tye, author of Rising From the Rails - Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class.

Finally, we go to a meeting of the Kansas City Planned Industrial Expansion Authority to hear activists testify against the plans to use city tax abatement and a complicated leasing scheme involving the federal government and private developers to build a new nuclear weapons components plant, leaving behind a toxic mess at the old plant. The show ends with a brilliant spoken word performance by The Recipe.

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Peace in the Middle East & The Good Soldier Nov 03, 2009

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In the first segment of the show, I talk with Gershon Baskin, founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI). Baskin spoke recently at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas on the topic "Is Peace in the Middle East Possible?" Founded in Jerusalem in 1988, IPCRI is the only joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-tank in the world, and is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In the second half of the show we hear from filmmakers Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys on their documentary The Good Soldier. The film is the subject of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS November 6, 2009, and features 5 soldiers from World War II to Iraq, including past Tell Somebody guest Edward Wood.

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Worshipping the Myths of World War II Nov 02, 2009

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Edward Wood is a World War II veteran featured in the documentary film The Good Soldier. In this edition of Tell Somebody, originally broadcast in October, 2007, Wood talked about what was then his new book, Worshipping the Myths of World War II - Reflections on America's Dedication to War.

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Native Spirit Radio's Rhonda LeValdo Oct 28, 2009

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Rhonda LeValdo is the host of Native Spirit Radio, a weekly show that airs on KKFI in Kansas City every Sunday at 5pm Central Time.

LeValdo is an Acoma Pueblo Tribal Member from New Mexico, a member of the Native American Journalists Association, and currently teaches at Haskell Indian Nations University.

She was honored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at Kansas University as one of their Women of Distinction.

In this edition of Tell Somebody, Rhonda LeValdo talks about her radio show and some of her other accomplishments.

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DART House Nightmare on Every Woman Show Oct 27, 2009

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On October 10th on the Every Woman show on KKFI, Sharon Lockhart and her cohost Alexis Burdick had a couple of guests on the show talking about their …rather Kafkaesque experience with local government after they found out they had bought what is known as a DART house. DART is an acronym for Drug Abatement Response Team, funded by COMBAT (Community Backed Anti-Drug Sales Tax

With the COMBAT Tax coming up for a renewal vote, Sharon and I thought you might want to hear about some serious concerns about a program that even its critics say has its good points. So, we decided to post an edition of Every Woman here.

What's a DART house? Give a listen

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Crosby Kemper - Out of Control Tax Abatement Oct 20, 2009

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Last August, R. Crosby Kemper III, Executive Director of the Kansas City, Missouri Public Library, lectured the members and staff of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority about what he called "this weird Alice in Wonderland world we've created where nothing can be done in Kansas City without tax incentives becasue everybody expects theat there will be a tax incentive." On this edition of Tell Somebody, Kemper gives his views on tax abatement in Kansas City.

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PSR co-founder Dr. Victor Sidel & Ed Asner Oct 13, 2009

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Physicians for Social Responsibility co-founder Dr. Victor Sidel comes to Kansas City for a forum on Healthcare vs. Warfare: We Pay - Who Profits?

Kansas Citian Ed Asner is featured in the radio play It's Up to Us Alone.

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