Archive for December 2006

Radical Mental Health Show 1 Year Old!

The weds 6-7pm Mental Health Show has been on the air since VFR’s very first week of operation. The show focuses on interviews with people diagnosed with mental illness labels like schizophrenia, bipolar, borderline and obsessive-compulsive, as well as organizers, activists, and writers from the world of madness and mental health outside the mainstream.

A Baha’i Perspective 12.9.2006

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Nathan Rutstein, an author of some 20 books, taught at the University of Mass in Amherst, and at Springfield Technical Community College. (…)

Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 12.06.2006

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman
Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Total Running Time: 56:21
This Week’s Topics:
–The Donald Rumsfeld pre-resignation memo. (…)

Corporate Watchdog Radio–Oxfam Slams Starbucks for Opposing Ethiopian Coffee Name Trademarking

Seth Petchers, Oxfam International’s Make Trade Fair campaign coffee lead, discusses how Starbucks opposes Ethiopia’s bid to trademark its renowned regional coffee names–Sidamo, Harrar, and Yirgacheffe. (…)

Valley Free Radio Board Meeting Agenda 12.6.06

MEF, 7:30 – 9:30pm
Executive session 7:30 – 8:00:
Legal affairs – proposals for approach, formulate plan of action to present for approval.
Regular session: 8:00-9:30
1. (…)

Goal: The Soccer Show 12.4.2006

http://www.archive.org/download/SocceShow04Dec06/Goal04Dec06_64kb.mp3
Dramatis Personae (in order of biceps):
Eamon ffitch [sic]
The Ghost of Kevin Meek
Carson Cistulli
Show Recap:
Too embarrassing to include
Photos of Franck Ribery (you’ll see):
Exhibit One
Out Galavanting,
Goal: The Soccer Show

New VFR Podcasting Features

The following is a test of the new VFR podcasting features. For your amusement I have podcast one of the great moments in “radio history”.

 
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Community in Radio Mural Unveiling for Valley Free Radio Station

Over the course of the summer and this school year members of Youth Leadership in the Arts, a media arts and activism program for middle and highschoolers, met to brainstorm a mural for the new community radio station, Valley Free Radio located in Florence, MA. (…)

A Baha’i Perspective 12.2.2006

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Ray Estes, a Baha’i from Chapel Hill, NC who is a commercial designer by trade, but his first love is discovering spiritual truths from the Bible and the Bahá’í writings. (…)