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Antonia Juhasz on 'Chevwrong' and Jennifer L Pozner on the terrorists who aren't in the news Jun 02, 2009

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What is the true cost of Chevron?

At http://truecostofchevron.com/, we read that

"Chevron shareholders were given a full account of the true costs of Chevron's global operations by a delegation of representatives of Chevron affected communities from the across the nation and around the world. Outside supporters filled the entryway, closing Chevron's front gate with a vibrant rally.

Representatives from Nigeria, Ecuador, Richmond and the Philippines, were joined inside by those representing communities from Burma, Kazakhstan, Iraq and Alberta to present to shareholders an alternative annual report, The True Cost of Chevron."

On this edition of Tell Somebody, I talk with Antonia Juhasz, principal author of the alternative report.

And, in a blog on the Women in Media and News website, WIMN founder and Executive Director Jennifer L. Pozner asks Will Media Report Dr. George Tiller's Murder as an Act of Terrorism?

http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=1264

I talked to Pozner about media coverage of Dr. Tiller's murder last week and about media coverage of related domestic terrorism generally.

Ray McGovern on torture, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney May 27, 2009

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What did Colin Powell know, and when did he know it?

"Why do they hate us?'

Does torture work?

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has come out of his non-disclosed location, "oozing out a slimey speech" at the American Enterprise Institute and making multiple TV appearances in defense of torture.

Ray McGovern has been listening - to Cheney, but also to retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff.

Ray McGovern was a 27 year CIA analyst under seven presidents, and he's talking to Tell Somebody again.

Free Press' Craig Aaron and FCC's Michael Copps on Changing Media May 25, 2009

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www.freepress.net

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On Thursday, May 14th, 2009, Free Press held a Summit on Changing Media at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

Acting FCC Chair Michael Copps and Free Press' Senior Program Director Craig Aaron were among the featured speakers. Aaron's talk was headlined 'Journalism Is a Public Service.'

On this edition of Tell Somebody, I talked about the summit with Craig Aaron, and also aired the comments made by Michael Copps.

Julia's Voice on Mothers Day, and exclusive Ra'ed Jarrar interview May 06, 2009

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Mother's Day was first organized in 1870 by the abolitionist, suffragette and poet Julia Ward Howe to promote peace and speak out against war. Julia's Voice ( www.juliasvoice.org ) was first organized last year to try to bring Mother's Day back to its origins.On this edition of Tell Somebody, we'll talk to Sara Sautter and Elizabeth Barker of the Julia's Voice steering committee about the history of Mother's Day and plans for Mother's Day 2009 and beyond.Also, an exclusive interview with Ra'ed Jarrar about U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. An Iraqi-born U.S. citizen who was in Baghdad for Shock and Awe, Jarrar currently works for AFSC in Washington, D.C.

Craig & Cindy Corrie, Tent State UMKC, Nukes, & Russian Revolution Part VII Apr 15, 2009

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Rachel Corrie was killed 6 years ago while trying to save a Palestinian family from having their home demolished, and possibly from their own deaths, by a US-supplied Israeli bulldozer.

On what would have been Rachel Corrie's 30th birthday, I had the opportunity to see the play My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Unicorn Theater in Kansas City, and to meet again with Rachel's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie. I recorded a conversation with them the next day, and part of it can be heard on this week's edition of Tell Somebody. More information on Rachel Corrie at www.rachelcorriefoundation.org.

Tent State University returns to UMKC Wednesday-Friday, April 22nd-24th with free food, speakers, and much more. UMKC student and Tent State organizer Jessica Farmer came to the KKFI Studios to tell us about it.

Bill Wickersham, founding member of the Missouri University Nuclear Disarmament Education Team (MUNDET), will be speaking on Monday April 27th 2009 in the Business Center at Longview Community College. Wickersham tells us about that.

And Russian Revolution returns to Tell Somebody this week with Part VII of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, a never-before published account of the February 1917 revolution that ended the reign of the Czars.

Prof. Robert McChesney On Saving Journalism Apr 07, 2009

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Recently, Robert McChesney put out an email that said,in part, "The Nation just published an article I wrote on the crisis on journalism with my friend John Nichols. It is titled " The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers," though it concerns the entirety of journalism. If this is an issue that you care about, I think you might find the piece of more than passing interest. We make an argument to address the problem going far beyond most of what has been proposed to date."

In this edition of Tell Somebody I talk to McChesney about the future of journalism.

Democracy Now's Amy Goodman & Russian Revolution Part VI Mar 31, 2009

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Democracy Now host Amy Goodman is my guest on this edition of Tell Somebody. Just ahead of an appearance in Kansas City in a benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI, Goodman talks about her book Standing Up To The Madness, Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, co-authored with her brother, David Goodman.

After that, Part VI of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, a never before published account of the February Revolution in Petrograd, Russia in 1917, by Hugo Hakk, Estonian officer in the czar's army, used with permission of his daughter and translator, Liia Hakk.

Critical Condition - U.S. Healthcare Mar 24, 2009

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A recent column by Democracy Now host Amy Goodman cites a study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting that found that in the week before Obama's health-care summit, of the hundreds of stories that appeared in major newspapers and on the networks, "only five included the views of advocates of single-payer—none of which appeared on television." Most opinion columns that mentioned single-payer were written by opponents.

I thought it might be a good time to reach into the archives and give another listen to a December, 2004, conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Steele. Jim Steele was co-author, with Donald L. Barlett, of Critical Condition, How Health Care in America Became Big Business & Bad Medicine. Even after four-plus years, the diagnosis of the problem as laid out in the book holds up.

After that, Part V of Eyewitness to the Revolution, Hugo Hakk's account of the February, 1917 Russian Revolution breaking out in Petrograd, just translated this month by his daughter Liia Hakk.

Tom Klammer

I Want My Democracy Now, a musical interlude Mar 22, 2009

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A musical break by my alter ego and friends, Albert and the Labortones.

This started rattling around in my head several years ago and refused to not come out.

I Want My Democracy. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vandana Shiva - Soil, Not Oil Mar 18, 2009

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Vandana Shiva on her book Soil Not Oil, and Part IV of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution.

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Her latest book is Soil Not Oil, Engironmental Justice In An Age Of Climate Crisis. On this edition of Tell Somebody, I talk to Vandana Shiva about the book.

"A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously, Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than profits."

www.navdanya.com

www.southendpress.org

Then I finish up the show with Part IV of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution. Hugo Hakk, machine gun trainer/officer in the Czar's Army is on leave from the Eastern Front in WWI and finds himself in Petrograd just as the February Revolution is breaking out in 1917. After a side trip to Finland, he's back in Petrograd on International Women's Day.

Tell Somebody is a locally produced weekly public affairs program on 90.1 FM, KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio.

Tom Klammer

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