WCRS Podcast - consciousvoices
Conscious Voices Columbus Community Bill or Rights
57:28 minutes (52.61 MB)
Activists in Columbus launch a campaign to amend the city charter with a "bill of rights" that would allow the city administration to adopt ordinances that protect our water, air, and soil against industrial solution, in opposition to the statewide authority of the industry-friendly Ohio Department of Natural Resources' regulatory authority, thus reclaiming local control.
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Conscious Voices Detroit Water Crisis, Community Bill of Rights
59:06 minutes (54.11 MB)
Interview with activists in Detroit leading the fight against water privatization.
Interview with Caroline Harding, on the Columbus Community Bill of Rights Initiative.
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Conscious Voices Ferguson, Moral Mionday, Bilal al Youssef
59:16 minutes (54.26 MB)
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Conscious Voices Ferguson, Moral M ondays, and Bilal Al-Youssef on losing relatives in Gaza
59:16 minutes (54.26 MB)
On-the-ground report from Ferguson with Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Local activist Bilal Al-Youssef reflect on the killing of some of his relatives by Israeli bombing in Gaza,and the Moral Monday coalition comes tyo Ohio to organize for justice and equality.
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08/22/2014- Rania Masri on Palestine
59:03 minutes (54.08 MB)
Both a recorded speech and a phone interview with professor Rania Masri on the roots of the crisis in Palestine and the global response to Israel's siege of Gaza.
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Conscious Voices Columbus rally for Palestine
59:34 minutes (54.53 MB)
Audio from a recent Palestine solidarity rally in Columbus Ohio, which drew around 400 people. The rally went smoothly and without incident. It was not co-opted by hate or anti-Jewish sentiments, nor commandeered by Trotskyists, nor picketed by counterprotesters. Maybe if any of those things had happened, it might have garnered more attention in the local media, but the full audio is here, along with commentary, and a musical piece by Anoushka Shankar
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Your Music; Music of Palestine (re-loaded)
119:32 minutes (109.43 MB)
Same program as the previous one, but un-compromised by the technical glitch that prevented last week's show from fully airing.
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Conscious Voices Noura Erakat on Palestinian leadership
59:08 minutes (54.15 MB)
Professor Noura Erakat is a human rights activist and attorney, teaching at George Mason university, ho I had the pleasure of meeting once at a Palestinian solidarity conference. She is an occasional guest on Democracy Now. Here she speaks at length about the history of Palestinian leadership and the impacts of Israeli and Western policies on its development
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Conscious Voices A Just Peace in Palestine
59:23 minutes (54.37 MB)
On the third weekend in July there was a rally in Columbus which drew an estimated 3,000 people demanding an end to Israel's assault on Gaza and to the occupation. It was one of many such rallies around the world and in the U.S., yet all of those rallies received scant coverage in the Western media. In this edition we have an interview with Reema Al-Waridat, a Palestinian American who organized last week's rally and is co-organizing another, scheduled for Friday, August 1 at 4 pm at Broad and High. We also have 3 reports sourced from Russia Today discussing the current siege and the history behind it. With musical bridges from Ghalia Benali and Rim Bana
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Conscious Voices Detroiut Water Brigades, Nigerian activist Leo Igwe on the rise of Islamic extremism
59:20 minutes (54.32 MB)
Jenny Scheinbach travels to Detroit to bring water and solidarity to residents whose water has been shut off by the appointed city manager, and Nigerian human rights activist Leo Igwe speaks in Columbus on the rise of Islamic extremism
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