Archive for August 2009

The Cape Bag o’ Wind Enviro Show, Part II

Cape Bag ‘o Wind Enviro Show, Part II

Greetings Earthlings. It’s down to the sea once again! This time: still trying to save Nantucket Sound from Big Wind corporados and their privatizing friends at GreenPee! (did i spell that right?). We talk with Audra Parker, Executive Director of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound about the issues and D.O. reports back from the line in the ….umm…sea? In our E-Valley-uation segment Jana Chicone nearly gets busted for free speech on the Russell Biomess and in the Enviro Show Echo Chamber we recall Ted Kennedy’s good work for Mother Earth. As always we do the Quote of the Week and checkout the Bus Stop Billboard, but first it’s time for… Revenge of the Critters! No, Revenge of the Octopus!

The Enviro Show Quote of the Week comes from the late Ted Kennedy:
“There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain will fall equally on the just and the unjust. And the world that is left in the ashes of Armageddon will little note nor long remember which was the evil empire.”

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A Baha’i Perspective 08.29.2009

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Kurt Hein. When Kurt was 18, doing his freshman year at Chapman College, he participated in the Seven Seas division — a four-month semester circling the globe on a ship. It was a transforming experience for him, allowing him to discover his world community. Kurt describes his finding the Baha’i Faith, and how it informed what he would do for the rest of his life.

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HFVS Weekly Giveaway: Tickets to See Cirque du Soleil’s Alegria!

Click on image to find out how you can win tickets!  And tune into the Hilltown Family Variety Show for music from the Alegria soundtrack!

Click on image to find out how you can win tickets! And tune into the Hilltown Family Variety Show for music from the Alegria soundtrack!

Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 08.26.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

August 26th, 2009

Produced by

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 55:00

This Week’s Topics:

–Senator Ted Kennedy has passed away at the age of 77, and we review his political accomplishments, controversies, and more.

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Seeing Red Radio: David Harvey, Honduran Generals, Victor Agosto and Remembering Hiroshima

Ssangyong workers occupy their factoryDespite a variety of technical setbacks, the long awaited Seeing Red podcast is now available. David Harvey speaks of the “irrational rationalizing of an irrational system.” The Honduran Generals admit that they were saving US democracy by destroying it at home. We remember Hiroshima and pay tribute to the brave sacrifice of Victor Agosto, who was court-martialed for refusing to go back to Afghanistan.

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A Baha’i Perspective 08.22.2009

Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Phil Christensen. After getting his PhD in education at the University of Massachusetts, Phil worked at the Baha’i National Center (as Secretary of the National Youth and Teaching Committees), then spent five years in Canada before going to Kenya in 1980 to develop and implement US Agency for International Development funded social and economic development projects. He and his family have been in Africa ever since. Most of Phil’s work in Africa has been on educational development projects. Currently he is about to start up a project for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to enhance the use of radio for agricultural extension to small farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Phil had used radio before in Africa for social and economic development. His first project in Kenya used radio to teach English to children in rural primary schools.

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Featured Artist: Justin Roberts Episode on HFVS (08/22/09)

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Featured Artist: Justin Roberts Episode

08/22/09 PLAYLIST

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General Membership Meeting 8.19.09

Media Education Foundation, Northampton 

- Re-application process.
-Pay-to-play vs a set fund raising goal e.g. must raise 100 dollars
-Board of directors election in October
-Aug 8 fund raising update.
-Committee updates. (automation computer replacement)

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman – 08.19.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

August 19th, 2009

Produced by

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 55:57

This Week’s Topics:

–Angry emails from conservative radio stations.

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Underground Spiritual Game: African Dance Party Re-Play Sunday 8/16 Midnight – 2 AM

Due to Technical Issues, USG returns..

The First Hour:

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Gangbe Brass Band – Remember Fela
Salah Ragab – Ole (Cairo Version)
Girma Bèyènè – Yebèqagnal
Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats – Born to Be Free
Bobby Benson and His Combo – Taxi Driver (I Don’t Care)
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou – Ne Te Faches Pas
Manu Dibango – African Battle
Hugh Masekela – Rekpete
Badou Jobe – Love’s a Real Thing
Konono No. 1 – Paradiso
Keziah Jones – Coltrane Nko?

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