Circle A Radio
Circle A covers local, national and international issues, focusing on the voices of communities who, for political reasons, are not allowed a voice in the mainstream media.
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Circle A Radio is also currently broadcast on KRFP, 92.5 fm in Moscow, Idaho at 11:30 am Saturdays (http://www.radiofreemoscow.org), and also on WPRR 1680 AM a Pacifica affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We broadcast Saturdays at noon, 8pm and over night Sunday at 4am. (http://www.
Audio
Anti LNG Pipeline Activists Across Oregon
Currently, there are two proposed Liquefied Natural Gas pipelines, both of which would run from Astoria through farmlands of Western Oregon east through the Mount Hood national Forest to connect with an existing pipeline that runs from Canada to California.
Tonight on Circle A Radio we hear from Amy Harwood, Program director for BARK- a local organization dedicated to the preservation of Mt. Hoods national forest, and Steve Wick, farmer and activist from Gaston, Oregon, who explain the history of and resistance to the proposed LNG Pipelines.
For more information on BARK visit their website at www.bark-out.org. To learn more about Oregon Citizens Against Pipelines, visit www.usafirst.info.
- Title: Anti LNG Pipeline Activists Across Oregon
- Length: 58:52 minutes (40.42 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 22kHz 96Kbps (CBR)
Marilyn Buck RIP... and the state of Political Prisoners in the US
On July 15, 2010, Marilyn Buck was released from the federal prison medical center in Carswell, Texas.
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we planned to celebrate the release of Marilyn Buck with many voices of her supporters. While working on the show, another political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres was also released. So then , we planned on celebrating the freedom of both the amazing individuals. We were also planning on mourning the loss of Lolita Lebrón, a leader in the struggle for Puerto Rican nationalism, who died this week at 89. Then , August Third Marilyn buck died, from the uterine cancer she developed in prison.
A quote from Judy Greenspan:
Marilyn died today not in the hospital but at Soffiyah Elijah’s house, her close friend an attorney with her friends around her. The federal bureau of prisons and the US criminal injustice e system killed Marilyn by denying her adequate medical care, careful diagnoses, and timely treatment for her cancer. They allowed the uterine cancer to spread until it was inoperable, and they made her e serve every single day of her sentence that they could for her “heinous crimes” of actively supporting the Black Liberation struggle, aiding in the escape of comrade Assata Shakur, participating in military political actions against US wars at home and abroad and remaining defiant and opposed to the US imperialist racist system every day that she was inside the belly of the beast.”
Our celebration of Marilyn Bucks freedom now becomes a memorial. So, tonight on circle A Radio, we will celebrate the life of Marilyn Buck and Lolita Lebron, and celebrate the freedom of Carlos Alberto Torres.
- Length: 59:15 minutes (54.24 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 32kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Summer Reading!
Tonight on Circle A Radio we have a summer reading program, with people who run bookstores, and bookgroups, printers, and of course, readers sharing what they’re reading.
We'll talk with Jordi and Shanti from Northstar Infoshop, Maile Speakman of the Portland Feminist Reading Group, author Yusef Shakur whose most recent book is entitled The Window to My Soul: My Transformation from a Zone 8 Thug to a Father and a Freedom Fighter, Charles from Eberhardt Press, and people from AK Press and Blackrose Infoshop.
We'll also hear audio from Kristian Williams, author of “Our Enemies in Blue” the current selection for the northstar info shop reading group, Matilda, editor of "Nobody Passes", Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women.
- Title: Summer Reading for Anarchists and Activists
- Length: 59:03 minutes (23.65 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Oscar Grant, Police Brutality, and our Alternatives to the police
On this program, you’ll hear from:
John Langly from the Red and Black Cooperative Café in Portland
http://redandblackcafe.com/
George Chiccariello-Maher, from Oakland and Erinn Carter, from Los Angeles. They are active in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant.
http://www.counterpunch.org/maher02032009.html
http://bringtheruckus.org/?q=node/104
http://www.deepoakland.org/project?id=130
Sara Libby from Rose City Copwatch and the Fire Frashour Campaign.
http://rosecitycopwatch.wordpress.com/
Andrew Barney from Youth for Alternatives to the Police.
- Title: Oscar Grant, Police Brutality, and our Alternatives to the police
- Length: 58:03 minutes (53.15 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Take Back the Land - National Month of Action
This month, local organizations all over the country are taking action as part of the national Take Back the Land movement. Local Action Groups are educating, organizing and taking direct action to support families facing eviction; to open empty, foreclosed homes for people without housing; to assert the right to occupy vacant government properties and land, and to demand that those forced to leave their long time communities have the right to return.
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we'll hear from some of the groups participating in the national campaign to elevate housing to a human right. We talked with Julie McCurdie from Right to Survive, Keith Sadler from the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League, Holly Krig of the Chicago Anti Eviction Campaign, Z! Haukeness with Operation Welcome Home, Zakia Henderson-Brown from Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, Mayaba Liebenthal of Survivor's Village, and Steve Meacham from City Life/Vida Urbana.
- Length: 58:14 minutes (53.32 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Portland Anti Racist Action
March 27th in Downtown Portland a well known anti racist activist was shot in an assassination attempt by local neo Nazis . In Vancouver BC the house of an anti racist activist was bombed after he had organized a rally in March that drew hundreds of anti-Nazi protestors, and was in response to a planned white supremacy, neo-Nazi rally that never materialized.
Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll discuss the current rise in fascist activity, the history of aggressive racism in Portland and resistance to it with Alicia, a member of the Portland chapter of Anti Racist Action. We’ll also hear from one of the founders of the ARA, which began in Minneapolis.
- Length: 40:57 minutes (37.49 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Greek Anarchists and the Insurrection of Dec, 2008
On March 21th, Greek anarchists Ce Ce and Tasos from the VOID Network in Athens, along with Peter, an American who has been living in Barcelona, Spain for the last four years, spoke about the Greek uprising of December 2008 at the Blackrose Collective
Peter is also the author of How Nonviolence Protects the State. Ce ce and Tasos are also two of the editors of the book We Are an Image From the Future, which delves into the December insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed and participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated through the networks of revolt.
Tonight on Circle A Radio we will listen to excerpts from their talk in Portland, as well as other audio discussing the insurrection in Greece and its importance.
- Length: 58:34 minutes (23.46 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
High School for Recording Arts Portland
Imagine a high school where art, music and culture are natural components of education rather than stand alone subjects. Where community is unified through celebration of arts and artistic expression. A school where parents and students openly communicate with teachers because every voice is valued. Imagine teenage sons and daughters coming home from school filled with pride and self-confidence, showcasing their day’s accomplishments and looking forward to the next day. Imagine their excitement when working in an internship lead by an artist or businessperson they admire. Imagine talking about life after graduation as a conversation with limitless possibilities. Imagine a high school where all students have a Personalized Learning Plan so that the uniqueness of their learning styles is guided into projects designed for their growth and success. Imagine a school where Kinesthetic learning allows students to move freely in body, mind, and spirit. A school that meets students where they currently stand and helps lead them toward discovering their fullest potential to become creative and competent in meeting the demands of adult life.
The High School for Recording Arts Portland (HSRAP) will be that school.
That is the mission statement for the High School of recording arts, Porltand. This past Saturday, April third, Their Development Team hosted an open hours and community celebration at the Salmon Street Studios. Tonight on Circle A Radio, we’ll bring you audio from the celebration, an interview with Erica Jayasuriya, Project Director HSRAPas well as more information about the formation of the high school for recording arts, Portland.
- Length: 58:37 minutes (23.48 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Victims of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
Tonight we are talking about the animal enterprise terrorism act and the Green Scare, with Bob Bloom, defense attorney for one of the AETA 4, Jude from the Scott and Carrie Support Committee, and Tom from EWOK, Earth Warriors are Okay.
The Coalition to Abolish the AETA seeks an end to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) and works collaboratively to more strategically coordinate grassroots education and outreach, legislative advocacy, media, litigation and public pressure to more effectively reverse the erosion of rights enshrined in the AETA.
http://abolishtheaeta.org/web/
General Information about the AETA 4
http://aeta4.org/
Will Potter's Blog site with lots of great background information, and Frequent Updates:
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog
The Support Carrie and Scott blog site:
http://davenportgrandjury.wordpress.com/
- Length: 58:36 minutes (23.47 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
The House of Sound
Tonight we hear about the House of Sound and it’s vibrant history as a community and cultural space from community members, and former employees and customers: Clifford Walker, Mel Renfro, Ken Dickson, David Dawson, Yugen Rashad, Cleo Smith, Billy Holt, Woodrow Wilson, Jr., Keedah Giannetti, and Wone.
Special thanks to those who helped make this show possible, including Yugen Rashad, Vanessa Renwick, and Charles Bedford.
- Title: The House of Sound
- Producer: Circle A Radio
- Length: 57:00 minutes (22.83 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 22kHz 56Kbps (CBR)
Playlists
Circle A Radio playlist for 04/02/2009
As a country, we tend to forget the dangers of current methods of processing coal. We focus on the myth of “clean coal” and don’t pay much attention to stories such as the December 22nd Coal Ash Disaster in Kingston, Tenn.,
The 65 foot tall pile of 1.6 billion gallons of coal ash created by years of burning coal for electricity broke the dam that separated it from the nearby Emory river, spilling into the river and burying 400 acres of land.
Tonight on Circle a Radio we talk with Matt Landon of United Mountain Defense about the aftermath of the disaster, and we talk to Patricia Feeney and Joe Stanley of the Sludge Saftey Project in West Virginia about their community and legislative fight against storage of the toxic byproducts .
How connected you are to coal mining?
http://www.ilovemountains.org/myconnection/, and type in your zip code, and they’ll tell you where your coal is coming from
Sludgesafety.org – citizens report on underground injection and community action toolkit
Ohio valley environmental coalition ovec.org
DVD’s
Burning the future
Mountain mourning
info@sludgesafety.org
Circle A Radio playlist for 03/18/2009
Stop Joe Arpaio! Stop 287gs! Stop the ICE Raids!
On tonight's show we focus on the human and civil rights abuses against people of color, the misuse of 287g agreements, and the need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. We are talking with immigrant rights advocates in Maricopa County (AZ), where the worst examples of this abuse are happening at the hands of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. We talk with Silvia Herrera of the Puente Movement, Jason Odhner, and Antonio Bustamante. We also bring you short interviews from the National Convergence and Protest in Phoenix on February 27th & 28th, 2009.
For more information:
www.puenteaz.org
www.ndlon.org
Locally, you can get in touch with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee at 503-236-7916 for more information.
Circle A Radio playlist for 03/04/2009
The 14th annual San Francisco Anarchist bookfair takes place this year on March 14th and 15th in Golden Gate Park, in lovely San Francisco California.
The bookfair began in 1996 to celebrate an the 20th anniversary of San Francisco’s anarchist collective bookstore Bound Together Books. Over the years, they’ve hosted many speakers, while showcasing anarchist and alternative book and magazine publishers
Tonight on Circle A Radio we’ll be listening to a variety of speakers featured over the years at the San Francisco Anarchist book fair, recorded and released by AK Press on the CD "Mob Action Against the State" and also hear from participants, and attendees.
Circle A Radio playlist for 02/18/2009
Dlycia Pagan
Dlycia Pagan, Puerto Rican Activist, Filmmaker, and Artist talks about her life as an Activist/Organizer, the nearly 20 years she spent in prison on charges of seditious conspiracy, her presidential pardon, and her advice to the younger generation.
Circle A Radio playlist for 02/04/2009
Dicentra Collective
The Dicentra Collective is based in Portland, OR. They are 7 individuals who are collectively committed to create radical communities of care, networks of support, and movements based on relationship building. We talk with the members of Dicentra Collective about their beginnings, their workshops, their ideas for radical caregiving, and include excerpts from a cronic pain zine, and other media they’ve produced.
Circle A Radio playlist for 01/21/2009
David Bacon
David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist on issues of labor, immigration and international trade. He will soon be coming to Portland to discuss these issues, and tonight on Circle A Radio, we hear from him about his life, his beginnings as a journalist and artist, and about immigration and popular struggles all over the world.
Circle A Radio playlist for 01/07/2009
Hawaiian Sovereignty
Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian islands. She was deposed by opposition forces who called themselves the Committee of Safety, with the help of the U.S. Marines. On January 17, 1893, Queen lileo kulani yielded her authority:
. . . Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.
Tonight, we discuss Hawaiian Sovereignty with Portland Author Elinor Langer, and Dr. Kekuni Blazedell, convenor of the Pro-Hawaiian Sovereignty Working Group.
Circle A Radio playlist for 12/17/2008
Studs Terkel, RIP
We visit the work and life of Studs Terkel, who died October 31, 2008 at the age of ninety-six.
Circle A Radio playlist for 12/03/2008
Proposition 8 and the fight for Marriage Equality
Proposition 8 was passed this November in California. It changed the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry .
We explore the issues of marriage equality, people of color and the LGBT movement. with Thomas Wheatley, Organizing Director of Basic Rights Oregon, and Bonnie Tinker and The Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod from Love Makes a Family.
Circle A Radio playlist for 11/19/2008
Teaching Rebellion - Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca
Tonite on Circle A Radio we’ll be featuring an interview with Melissa Mundt and Gustavo Vilchis, recorded on Oct. 28th. They joined us at the KBOO studios during their West Coast tour for “Teaching Rebellion”, a book that features first hand stories, and photography from the popular uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico. Many of the voices on tonight’s show were recorded in Spanish, with side by side translation.