The Progressive Voice of the Mountains

This program includes solid news stories in many categories: national, international, the wars(s), environment/health, etc. pulled from The GlobalReport.org website and made radio-friendly by our devoted team of volunteers. We guarantee you missed many (probably most!) of these are stories on your favorite mainstream media. Diverse voices and passionate progressivism at no extra charge! Of special interest in this week’s program are:

FCC opens ‘white spaces’
Hospital surplus going to overseas facilities
Cancer patient’s genome decoded for first time
Evolution’s secret weapon: grandma

The weekly fresh show airs first at 5pm Fridays. Rebroadcast at 6:30am Saturdays, and 7:30am Mondays. The show can also be heard as a stream or podcast anytime from the WPVM archives.

This week on Veterans’ Voices, we add a bit of humor. Imagine the swiftboating of Gearge Washington….or the blue states leaving the red states!

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Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here.

This program includes solid news stories in many categories: national, international, the wars(s), environment/health, etc. pulled from The GlobalReport.org website and made radio-friendly by our devoted team of volunteers. We guarantee you missed many (probably most!) of these are stories on your favorite mainstream media. Diverse voices and passionate progressivism at no extra charge! Of special interest in this week’s program are:

Congo: UN Faces Battle Rebels as Army, Civilians FLee

One Mans Garbage, Another’s Power Plant

Women With Disabilities At Risk For Partner Abuse

U.S Colleges Punished By Financial Crisis

The weekly fresh show airs first at 5pm Fridays. Rebroadcast at 6:30am Saturdays and 7:30am Mondays.

The show can also be heard as a stream or podcast anytime from the WPVM archives.

This week on Veterans’ Voices we speak with local lawyers, Bruce Elmore and Frank Goldsmith about rebellion.  Duke University Professor, Michael Hardt joins the conversation by phone from Raleigh.

We have pictures from the VFP & IVAW protest before the final debate, where an Iraq Veteran was trampled by police on horseback.

Iraq War Vet Nick Morgan (photo by Bill Perry)

We discuss what happened and how it could play out in the courts.

If you missed last week’s discussion about Columbus Day, get it before it’s gone.

Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here.

This program includes solid news stories in many categories: national, international, the wars(s), environment/health, etc. pulled from The GlobalReport.org website and made radio-friendly by our devoted team of volunteers. We guarantee you missed many (probably most!) of these are stories on your favorite mainstream media. Diverse voices and passionate progressivism at no extra charge! : Of special interest in this week’s program are:

Congo: UN Faces Battle Rebels as Army, Civilians FLee

One Mans Garbage, Another’s Power Plant

Women With Disabilities At Risk For Partner Abuse

U.S Colleges Punished By Financial Crisis

The weekly fresh show airs first at 5pm Fridays. Rebroadcast at 6:30am Saturdays and 7:30am Mondays.

The show can also be heard as a stream or podcast anytime from the WPVM archives.

This program includes solid news stories in many categories: national, international, the wars(s), environment/health, etc. pulled from The GlobalReport.org website and made radio-friendly by our devoted team of volunteers. We guarantee you missed many (probably most!) of these are stories on your favorite mainstream media. Diverse voices and passionate progressivism at no extra charge! : Of special interest in this week’s program are:

Companies in bailout, big donors to parties

Homophobia in schools major problem

New Army doctrine of war

25% of wild mammal species face extinction

Latin American leftists gloating over ‘comrade’ Bush’s bailouts

The weekly fresh show airs first at 5pm Fridays. Rebroadcast at 6:30am Saturdays and 7:30am Mondays. The show can also be heard as a stream or podcast anytime from the WPVM archives.

This week on Veterans’ Voices we will play part two of our talk with Yana Pitner, UNCA Professor of European History and Russian-American, about the Georgia / Russia conflict and historical perspective. Additionally, we will talk to Bruce Gagnon. He serves as Secretary/Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He has been working on space issues for the past 20 years and helped create the GN in 1992. He has been named to Helen Caldicott’s Nuclear Policy Research Institute Board of Advisors. For 15 years he coordinated the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice. He was trained as an organizer by the United Farmworkers Union.

If you missed last week’s interview, part 1 with Yana Pitner, get it before it’s gone.

Next week: The truth about Christopher Columbus.

Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here.