![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | "Little" Jimmy Scott and Ruth Brown at the Kennedy Center (part 1 of 2)
This recording contains a performance by R&B vocalist "Little" Jimmy Scott (1925 - ) at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C. The Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Howell Beagle and Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes introduce Scott and his band. Scott performs "All of Me" (00:07:58), "Time After Time" (00:11:50), "Day by Day" (00:17:53), "Pennies from Heaven" (00:24:31), and "When Did You Leave Heaven?" (00:28:35)...
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| "Little" Jimmy Scott and Ruth Brown at the Kennedy Center (part 2 of 2)
"Little" Jimmy Scott is interviewed by hosts Bill Barlow and Jerry Washington before Ruth Brown's performance at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. Brown performs "Secret Love" (00:06:08), introduces the band and performs "Looking Back" (00:11:09), "5-10-15 Hours" (00:17:57), "Be Anything, But Darling Be Mine" (00:22:51 with extended intro), "Teardrops from My Eyes" (00:34:28), "This Bitter Earth" (00:38:36 with extended intro), "Since I Fell for You" (00:47:51), "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You...
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| La Marcha en Washington
Pacifica Radio's special report on the Latino/Latina March for Civil and Human Rights, held last Saturday in Washington, D.C. With hosts Santiago Nieves, Juan Gonzalez and Patricia Gonzalez.
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| Labor Express for 07-18-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 7-18-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s program I bring you the third and final installment of my update on the lockout of 228 Steelworkers in Metropolis Illinois. In this segment I talk with Local 7-669’s allies, in both the Steelworkers International and immigrants rights activists in Los Angles who worked with union members to block a Honeywell contract in that city...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express for 07-25-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 7-25-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today's episode of Labor Express Radio we will hear once again from economist Dr. Jack Rasmus. Dr. Rasmus is a professor of economics at both St. Mary and Santa Clara University in California as well as an economic advisory to the San Francisco Labor Council. He is also the author of the book Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression and a forth coming book entitled Obama's Economy: Recovery for the Few...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express for 08-08-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-8-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today's episode of Labor Express Radio we bring you one more update on the situation in Metropolis Illinois with the locked workers at the Honeywell Uranium Processing plant. On Tuesday, members of Steelworkers Local 7-669 voted by a slim margin to ratify a tentative agreement that includes some victories for the local but includes many painful concessions...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express for 08-22-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 8-22-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. It is a rare thing when activists launch a campaign and win their first substantial success within the same week. But that is precisely what happened for immigrant rights activists last week. As President Obama shifts into campaign mode in preparation for the 2012 presidential election, one element of his base, Latino voters, are increasingly voicing their disappointment with the President...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express for 09-05-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-5-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this Labor Day 2011 episode of Labor Express we discuss Stand Up! Chicago's plans for their labor day rally in Grant Park. We also discuss last months unemployment numbers, the on going contract fight at Verizon, a public school teachers rally on the far southeast side of the city, the ongoing labor struggle in Wisconsin and the human rights situation in Honduras...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express for 09-26-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-26-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today's program we take a closer look at the so called "re-invention plan" currently being imposed on the Chicago City College system. The plan has been met with some stiff resistance by faculty, students, staff and community members. A meeting on Sept. 15th which was to be held at Harold Washington College was displaced by the College president who attempted to quash the event by telling event organizers at the last minute ...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express for 10-03-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-3-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today's program we will get un-update on Occupy Chicago, the 24-7 ongoing occupation in Chicago's financial district to protest corporate greed and corporate power. We will also get an update on the efforts of Chicago's Anti-Eviction Campaign including some details of recent victories and recent setbacks. And before all that we will hear a bit about efforts in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood to fight for an area trauma cent...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express For 10-19-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-19-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we take a look at the real ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The mainstream media has portrayed the organization as if it was created to carry out vote fraud on behalf of Democratic candidates. In reality, ACORN is the most successful community organizing network in U.S. history and has worked to empower poor and working class communities around the country...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| Labor Express For 2-18-13 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-18-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.A few weeks ago, both the US Senate and President Obama put forward proposals for so called, comprehensive immigration reform. Here in Illinois, a new law was enacted allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain a drivers license. Latinos were disappointed with Obama’s first term, given his broken promise to enact immigration reform...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; immigrants
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| Labor Express for 2-25-13 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-25-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.Since the Honduran coup in 2009, the first successful attempt of the right wing to overturn a decade and a half of democratic transformation in Latin America by force, we have been updating you on developments in that country, especially the deteriorating human rights situation. On today’s program I will air an interview with Honduran LGBT activist Jose Palacios...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; schools; public; Pilsen; Little Village; Chicago Public Schools
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| Labor Express For 2-4-13 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-4-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.Last week, both the US Senate and President Obama put forward proposals for long awaited, so called, comprehensive immigration reform. And here in Illinois, a new law was enacted allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain a drivers license. One of the greatest disappointments of many with Obama’s first term, was his broken promise to tackle the immigration issue. The outcome of the November elections, in which the Latino vo...
Keywords: labor; rights; worker; union; justice; Chicago; immigrant; migrant; Obama; Illinois
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| Labor Express for 3-11-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-11-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. However, a 20 minute portion of the program had to be removed at the legal request of one of the conference participants. We apologize for the inconvenience. “The basic system of worker representation is failing to meet the needs of America’s working men and women by every critical measure”, these are the words, not of some outside critic of the U.S...
Keywords: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, Walmart
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| Labor Express for 3-18-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-18-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. “The basic system of worker representation is failing to meet the needs of America’s working men and women by every critical measure”, these are the words, not of some outside critic of the U.S. labor movement. That was a quote from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Trumka is speaking about a stark reality. Organized labor is under attack in this country and despite winning a battle here and there over the past few years,...
Keywords: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, AFL-CIO, UE, Warehouse Workers for Justice, Walmart
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| Labor Express for 3-25-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-25-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Here on Labor Express Radio we have been spending considerable time covering the fight back against public school closings in Chicago. Over the past few weeks this story has started to receive national attention as Chicago’s example seems to have caught on in other cities, including Philadelphia, Detroit, Oakland and New York which are also announcing significant school closings...
Keywords: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, schools, CPS, school closings, teachers, CTU, Chicago Teachers Union
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| Labor Express For 3-28-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-28-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Most of today’s episode of Labor Express Radio will be devoted to a discussion with Mark Brenner of Labor Notes about the nationwide, coordinated attack by Republicans on workers rights at the state level and the resulting Great Labor Uprising of 2011. We will discuss the breadth of the attack across the country as well as the prospects that the fight back will be a real turning point for the Labor Movement in the United Stat...
Keywords: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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| Labor Express For 3-4-13 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 3-4-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program.On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio we bring you audio on a variety of topics from a variety of sources...From our friends at Building Bridges in NYC we have a speech by Dave Coles, National President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada recorded at CUNY University in New York, on January 17. Coles talks about his union’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.Than regular listeners to Labor ...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; environment; keystone xl pipeline
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| Labor Express for 4-1-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-1-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. In Pilsen, a working class, Mexican immigrant on Chicago’s Southside, Metro Bank has been foreclosing on several apartment buildings and has been attempting to evict the building’s tenants. But little did Metro Bank know that at least two of their tenants were seasoned activists and members of the IWW (The Industrial Workers of the World)...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; immigrants; NALACC; Oscar Chacon; IWW; evictions
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| Labor Express for 4-22-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-22-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Veteran immigrant rights activist and organizer with the Arise Chicago Workers Center, Jorge Mujica, discusses plans for May Day 2013 in Chicago and the state of the immigrants rights movement locally and nationally.Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; immigrants; May Day; May 1 |
| Labor Express for 4-29-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-29-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio, we will hear from participants in an historic action by retail and food service workers in downtown Chicago. The recently formed Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago held a one day strike and march through downtown in which hundreds of low wage workers participated. It is part of their campaign called “Fight for 15.” The goal - to establish a $15 an hour minimum wage f...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; minimum wage; Fight for 15; schools; Chicago Teachers Union; students |
| Labor Express for 4-8-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-8-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On Last week’s episode of Labor Express Radio, we had Oscar Chacon, Executive Director of the National Alliance of Latin American & Caribbean Communities (NALACC), live in studio with us. One of the things he talked about on that program was an event held last Saturday at Chicago State University, called Latino Nation, Beyond the Numbers...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; immigrants; Latino |
| Labor Express for 5-13-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-13-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. It is a new era not only for workers in Chicago but across the country. At least that is the message the members of the New Era Windows worker owned cooperative communicated to the press last Thursday at the grand opening of what is one of a very few, if not the only, manufacturing cooperative in the United States. This same intrepid group of workers are the same folks who brought you the week long Republic Window and Doors fac...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; Republic Windows and Doors; New Era Windows; cooperative; UE; United Electrical Workers |
| Labor Express for 5-16-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-16-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. You could call todayâs episode the Motherâs Day edition. In Latin American, Motherâs Day is always held on May 10th. NALACC, the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities utilized this past Mothers Day to call on the Obama administration to stop its policy of massive numbers of deportations of undocumented immigrants...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express For 5-17-10 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-17-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s program we hear voices from a memorial vigil held at the Haymarket monument in Downtown Chicago last Saturday to honor the memory of Farzad Kamangar who was executed by the Iranian government on May 9th. Farzad Kamangar was an Iranian Kurd, a teacher, a human rights activist and a member of the Teachers' Union of Kurdistan...
Keywords: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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| Labor Express for 5-20-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-20-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio, we catch up on a number of really important developments on the local labor scene over the last several weeks. First we will hear about a rally outside Bank of America here in Chicago highlighting how the bank is profiting from high interests rates for loans to the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) while CPS claims tight budgets require it to close schools...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; Chicago Teachers Union; students; schools; nurses; hospitals; health care; National Nurses United; NNU; health; Bank of America; chicago; union; justice; workers; Chicago Teachers Union; students; schools; CTU; nurses |
| Labor Express for 5-27-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-27-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio, we will bring you audio from the historic three day march organized by the Chicago Teachers Union, May 18th, 19th and 20th, to fight school closings in Chicago. We will also air audio from the teacher’s union about the unfortunately also historic announcement by Chicago Public Schools that they are moving ahead with the closing of 50 public schools in Chicago, the largest round ...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; Chicago Teachers Union; students; schools; Bangladesh |
| Labor Express For 5-3-10 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-3-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This is the May Day 2010 episode of Labor Express. We bring you voices from participants in the two main May day events this year – the annual commemoration at Haymarket square that was held Saturday morning and the now annual Immigrant Rights march held Saturday afternoon. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program...
Keywords: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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| Labor Express for 5-6-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-6-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio, I will bring you a selection of voices from this year's May Day festivities in Chicago. We will have audio from both the Chicago Federation of Labor’s annual commemoration at the Haymarket Monument and the annual march for immigrant’s rights which at close of 5,000 participants this year was one of Chicago’s largest May Day marches...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; May Day |
| Labor Express For 5-9-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-9-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. As promised, on today’s program we’ll bring you audio from the multiple celebrations of May Day 2011, but that will be later in the program. First up we’ll hear about last month’s employment figures from the Department of Labor and we'll get Jobs With Justice’s reaction to those numbers. We will hear about the plan to "re-invent" Chicago’s City Colleges and why faculty and students of the City Colleges are opposing t...
Keywords: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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| Labor Express for 6-10-2013 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 6-10-13 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Today’s episode of Labor Express Radio is an update episode of sorts. We will be updating listeners on several issues we have been covering over the last several months. First, we will get an update on the so called "immigration reform" legislation being debated in Congress at the moment and what it's passage will really mean for the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants from veteran immigrants rights activist an...
Keywords: labor; chicago; union; justice; workers; Chicago Teachers Union; students; schools; immigrants |
| Labor Express For 6-13-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 6-13-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s Labor Express radio program we will hear from Joe Burns, veteran union negotiator, labor lawyer, and a former local union president who is also the author of a new book entitled Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America. Burns’ book address one of the most press issues facing working people today – how to rebuild our unions and regain the power necessary to change our societ...
Keywords: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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| Labor Express for 6-20-11 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 6-20-11 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Well it was a busy week for the labor movement locally and national last week. We will try to bring you a small sampling of the events that occurred. First up weâll hear about Stand Up! Chicago, a new community and labor coalition in Chicago that made quite a splash with its inaugural rally targeting the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce who hosted an Executive Summit of CEOs and CFOs from some of Americaâs richest companies la...
Keywords: labor; justice; worker; rights; Chicago; unions
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| Labor Express For 6-7-10 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 6-7-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s program we’ll hear more from this years Labor Notes conference. Well hear from Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee workers about their recent victory with Aramark and their new campaign targeting some of the biggest grocery store chains. Will also hear from Karen Lewis, candidate for president of the Chicago Teachers Union on the CORE slate...
Keywords: labor, rights, worker, union, justice, Chicago
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| Labor Express for 9-11-05 - Jerry Mead
On the 4th anniversary of 9-11 (and the 32nd anniversary of the coup in Chile) Labor Express includes an interview conducted by our friends at WIN with U.S. Labor Against The War national organizer Michael Eisencher about the anti-war protests that will be held in D.C. the weekend of Sept. 24th-25th. We also feature Bob Kingsley's organizing report at the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) convention held in Chicago in late August.
Keywords: Labor; UE; war; iraq; USLAW; Chicago; work; union
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| Labor Express Radio for 10-16-05 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 4-22-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-22-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode features an interview with Ken Barger, Director of Communications for FLOC (Farm Labor Organizing Committee) about the murder of FLOC organizer Santiago Rafael Cruz in Monterrey Mexico. It also includes an episode of Tom Herriman’s Shift Break on American Federation of Musicians Local 1000. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; Chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; FLOC; farm workers; Tom Herriman; Shift Break; Mexico; immigrant; Santiago Rafael Cruz; Ken Barger; murder; assassination; local 1000; American Federation of Musicians
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| Labor Express Radio for 4-8-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-8-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we hear from Cruz Salucio of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about the McDonald’s campaign of the CIW in preparation for major actions against McDonald’s planned for April 13th & 14th in Chicago. We also have an episode of Tom Herriman’s Shift Break on the efforts to organize Starbucks workers. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CIW; farm workers
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| Labor Express Radio for 5-6-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-6-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Our post May Day 2007 episode, the bulk of the program involves interviews with participants in this year’s march and rally for immigrant workers rights in which hundreds of thousands participated. Also includes an interview with Chicago Teacher’s Union Activist Jackson Potter about a new documentary on Renaissance 2010, the plan by the Chicago Board of Education to privatize a large number of Chicago’s public schools...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CTU; teachers; Ren 2010; Renaissance; Jackson; Potter; May Day; Mayday; immigrant; Haymarket; James Thindwa; march; rally; may 1; public schools; UNITE-HERE; march 10th coalition; CONFEMEX; NALACC
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| Larry Kropp talks about the arrests at Sproul Hall
Larry Kropp, a Math TA at U.C. Berkeley, describes the protesters' and police officers' behavior at Sproul Hall during the arrests. He says that the protesters were peaceful and did not resist arrest. The U.C. campus police and Berkeley police were peaceful and professional, but certain members of the Oakland and Alameda police were unprofessional and unnecessarily brutal. He goes on to describe the brutal treatment by a police officer on one protester on the bus after the arrests... |
| Lasik lowdown / Chicano poet
Lasik surgery may be the answer to some people’s vision problems, but is it a safe procedure? Today on Insight, eye surgeons and the head of a local company that certifies them, tell you about the pros and cons of Lasik eye surgery. Best-selling author and Chicano poet Luis J. Rodriguez talks about his former life as an L.A. gang member.
Keywords: Lasik; eye surgery; Chicano poet; Luis J. Rodriguez; Insight; KXJZ; Sacramento public radio
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| Laurie Anderson / interviewed by Susan Sailow
The performance artist discusses literary, technical, and musical aspects of her work. The first part of this episode analyzes the literary aspects of Anderson's work, such as her penchant for funny stories and wordplay. Anderson talks about fellow artist Chris Burden and the elimination of metaphor. She discusses how her artistic approach runs counter to the "California sense of the world." The second part of this episode emphasizes the technical aspects of Anderson's work, such as the instrume...
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| Laurie Anderson / interviewed by Susan Sailow
Opens with music from Anderson's 1979 Cabrillo College Music Festival performance: untitled tape-bow violin performance; Closed Circuits"; "Born, Never Asked"; and "The Language of the Future". Laurie Anderson talks with Susan Sailow about how shaping time is at the core of her art, her studio, electronics and how performing is just like playing at home to her. They discuss the interaction between visual and aural elements of her art...
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| LaVern Baker and Charles Brown at the Kennedy Center (part 1 of 2)
Hosts Bill Barlow and Jerry Washington interview blues singer and pianist Charles Brown (1922 - 1999) before his performance at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. The Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Howell Beagle introduces Brown. Brown performs "I Stepped in Quicksand" (00:12:30), "Save Your Love for Me" (00:19:00), "Seven Long Days" (00:24:34), "Just the Way You Are" (00:29:24), "Black Night" (00:33:59) and "So Long" (00:39:50)...
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| LaVern Baker and Charles Brown at the Kennedy Center (part 2 of 2)
Hosts Bill Barlow and Jerry Washington interview Charles Brown (1922 - 1999) at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C. Rhythm and blues singer LaVern Baker (1929 - 1997) performs "Shake a Hand" (00:08:24), "Tweedlee Dee" (00:13:55), "I Cried a Tear" (00:18:20), "Bumble Bee" (00:22:51), "Tomorrow Night" (00:26:37), "I'm Leaving It All Up to You" (00:32:35), "See See Rider" (00:36:09), "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (00:41:23), and finishes with "Jim Dandy" (00:49:15...
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| LE12-9-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-9-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part 2 of our focus on the Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters and the ICE Raid Rapid Response Network. In this episode, Tim Bell of the Chicago Workers Collaborative talks about the no-match crisis and efforts to make Chicago a no-match letter, ICE raid free zone. Also, Emmanuel Castro talks about his struggle against no-match firings at Utility Concrete Products in Morris IL., and the initial reluctance of his union, L...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters; rapid response network; immigrant; ICE; Chicago Workers Collaborative; Emmanuel Castro; Tim Bell; Laborers Local 25
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| Leah Bolger of VFP Occupies Super Committee, Activist arrested for second time occupying DC Hearings - Dori Smith
Talk Nation Radio for November 4, 2011 Leah Bolger of VFP Occupies Super Committee, Activist arrested for second time occupying DC Hearings Produced by Dori Smith, Storrs, CT, syndicated with Pacifica Network TRT: 29:00 Download at Pacificaâs Audioport here or here: http://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=45013&nav=& Or at Radio4all.net and Archive.org Our guest is Leah Bolger, Vice President of Veterans for Peace and former U.S...
Keywords: Leah Bolger; arrested; occupies super committee; october2011.org and OccupyWashingtonDC.org to hold Occupied Super Committee November 9 2011; 11 am
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| Lebanon Update; Faulty Iran Intelligence; Emergency Contraception - Mother Jones Radio
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail is reporting for Mother Jones from southern Lebanon. He talks with us about the latest political developments in the current Middle East conflict, and tells us what things look like on the ground. Also, is the Bush administration looking for good intelligence on Iran -- or for faulty intelligence that will support an invasion? We talk to Laura Rozen, whose recent article exposed how several U.S...
Keywords: Mother Jones; Radio; Interview; politics
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| Les guérillères / by Monique Wittig.
A radio adaptation of Monique Wittig's surrealistic drama about militant feminist consciousness transformed into action. The play imagines a literal battle of the sexes in which women, having taken up arms, triumph against an army of men. Contains recorded music. Adapted from an English translation of Les guérillères, trans. David Le Vay (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971).
Downloads: 22 |
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