Tonight on Activate Radio: Thursday, May 11, 2023

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Tonight on Activate Radio

6 Democracy Now
7 Economic Update
8 Final Straw Radio
9 Earth Riot Radio

6PM Democracy Now

Democracy Now is an independent, global news hour that broadcasts daily on affiliates. The show is hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan González, and it features a mix of news, interviews, and commentary. Tonight’s show will feature coverage of the following stories:

• E. Jean Carroll Wins Major Victory for Sexual Abuse Survivors Even as Trump Continues to Target Her
• Web of Lies: George Santos Charged with 13 Felonies, But GOP Leaders Refuse to Expel Him from Congress
• One Year After Israeli Sniper Kills Shireen Abu Akleh, No Justice for Palestinian-American Journalist

7PM Economic Update

Economic Update is a weekly radio program hosted by economist Richard Wolff. He takes complex economic issues and makes them understandable, empowering listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation, but the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life – wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits – the program explores alternative ways to organize markets, and government policies. Tonight’s show: Corporations vs Democracy

Prof. Wolff analyzes the corporation. It stands as a basic institution blocking real democracy in our society. The corporation’s structure and operations empower and enrich a tiny social minority at the expense of the people’s wealth and democratic power. Like the critiques of slave plantations and feudal manors that preceded the disappearance of those systems, the growing critique of capitalism reflects but also informs critical social movements now.

8PM Final Straw Radio

The Final Straw Radio is a weekly, english-language anarchist radio show founded in Asheville, NC.  We strive to cover current and enduring topics by going to the source and speaking to the people involved and effected by struggles around them, with an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist perspective.  Tonight’s show: Trans Resilience in Texas.

Our interview with journalist and community organizer, Kit O’Connell (of the Texas Observer), and anarchist and activist lorén (of QTPIE or Queer and Trans People Illuminate Everything). Both folks are trans folks in Austin, Texas, and we speak for the hour about the increasing legal and social oppression of trans and gender non-conforming folks in that state as well as across the so-called USA, some of its impacts on trans children and children of trans parents, organizing, allyship and community defense.

Announcement

Call in for anarchist prisoner, Noah Coffin #1795167

Noah Coffin, a Texas prisoner was granted parole six months ago (November 2022), but has not been released from Texas Correctional and has not been given a reason why.

Call/Email the Texas parole board and voice concern as to why Noah has yet to be released, you can reach them at: (512) 936-6351 or bpp_pio@tdcj.texas.gov (call script and email script to follow).

Call Script:

Hello, I am calling to voice my concern about a prisoner at the Ellis Unit Detention Center, Noah Coffin 01795167. He was granted parole six months ago and has yet to be released from prison, I am just wondering why that is? I am urging you to release him.

Email Script:

Dear Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles,

I am contacting you on behalf on Noah Coffin 01795167, a prisoner who is incarcerated at Ellis Unit in Texas. Noah was granted parole six months ago, but has yet to be released from prison, I am emailing you to inqure why that is? I am urging you to release him immediately as he has been granted parole.

9PM Earth Riot Radio

Earth Riot Radio is a weekly radio program that focuses on the intersection of environmental and social justice issues. The show is hosted by Reverend Billy, and it features a mix of news, interviews, and commentary. Tonight’s show : HOW TO SEE THROUGH EYES OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN.

Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir come to Joes Pub on May 7 & 14 at 4pm, JoesPub.com/tickets. It’s three blocks from where Jordon Neely was murdered.

 

The buskers, the doowop groups, the jugglers, Mariachi combs and rappers, and the Michael Jackson moon-walkers like Jordon Neely, killed by an ex-marine/son of a cop from Long Island. A light was extinguished, lighting up of the underground canyons of this city. Years ago, Mayor Guiliani shot, jailed or shipped out of town the characters that might be scary to the tourists in Times Square, making way for the Lion King era. But those weirdos will break through the wall of the monoculture with their unsanctioned song and dance, call them the Unknown.

 

-Rev Billy, on behalf of Savitri D and the Stop Shopping Choir

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