The Progressive Voice of the Mountains

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.

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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.

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This week on Veterans’ Voices we will play part one of our talk with Yana Pitner, UNCA Professor of European History and Russian-American, about the Georgia / Russia conflict and historical perspective.
In our art segment we play Russia by Russian artist, Bichevskaya Zhanna.
If you missed last week’s interview with Yvette Coil, wife of a Veteran and member of the Kent State Antiwar Committee, get it before it’s gone.

Next week: Our talk with Yana Pitner continues and it’s ‘Keep Space for Peace Week‘!!

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Not actually, mind you; he didn’t drive all the way over from Scaly Mountain to sit down in the studio this past Sunday. But he didn’t have to, since I’d recorded several of his readings in recent years, and had sat down with him in another studio back in 2006 to talk about (among other things) his translation of the classic Chinese text daode jing.

Tom’s a terrific poet, of course, so it was great fun to revisit the occasions I’d recorded. Those readings included one from September 30, 2005 at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, in which he gave, I thought, a really good overview of his work, from the poems collected in At Dusk Iridescent, to the long poem Coromandel (on line at the link), to his translation of the dao, which was then unpublished. He came back to the Center in March, 2006, though, after the dao’s publication by Flood Editions, to present the text in full, so I used that recording for the show, as well as a snip from that interview we’d done the same day, rather than the excerpts from the previous fall.

When Hillsborough poet Jeffery Beam visited Asheville in July, he brought along several tapes featuring readings by, or interviews with, Jonathan Williams. One of those tapes, from a midsummer, 1994, reading at The Literary Institute, Muker, Swansdale, Yorkshire, also included a brief reading by Tom; I opened the show with it, since Tom hadn’t featured its material in the 2005 foray back into his earlier work.

Since we were beginning the show in Yorkshire, I used Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on Greensleeves” for the show’s opening theme, and honored the multivoiced Coromadel from 2005 with “Taboehgan” by the Balinese Gamelan Semar Pegulingan (recorded in 1941, and available on Music for the Gods from the Library of Congress). Tom had said he loved Bollywood soundtracks, but I didn’t have any handy, so I closed with Ali Akbar Khan’s “Blessings of the Heart, Part 2″, from 1993’s Garden of Dreams. Khan has composed for film scores throughout his long career, after all.

Oh, you might notice that the show that’s now available from the WPVM archive is several minutes longer than Worplay’s hour, so I should confess that it’s not the show that aired. If you happened to be listening live, you had an experience that the station’s rickety archiving system failed to record. When I came back to the station Sunday evening to re-produce the show, I included a little more of the music than I could squeeze into our live slot.

Give it a listen.

(The show will be up through Sunday the 14th, and then migrate over to the new Wordplay Archive, where you’ll find it here.)

Jeff

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Photo of Tom by Reuben Cox.

Cross-posted at Natures.

This week on Veterans’ Voices we talk with Jason Hurd and other IVAW members to see what’s up in Minneapolis for the RNC. When we spoke to him last week, they were at the DNC about to do Operation First Casualty. Independent news sources describe mass arrests in preemptive raids of activists in Minneapolis. Amy Goodman, among those arrested, states that almost 300 people have already been arrested by the end of the first day of the convention.
Jason Hurd and other IVAW members during Operation First Casualty in Denver during DNC.

If you missed last week’s interview with Dr. Russell McCrimmon and Ron Kennedy from the Veterans’ shelter, get it before it’s gone.
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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:

• Bush covered up Musharraf ties with al-Qaida, Khan
• Study finds coastal dead zones spread globally
• Analysis: US role in Georgia crisis
• The Washington Post and the great disconnect
• Immigration snaring US citizens in raids

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 talk with “Jim Stroupe, a local resident who is a veteran of World War II, the Korean Conflict & the Vietnam Clusterf*ck.” As per Ronald Harayda. Additionally we hope to check in with Jason Hurd and find out how the IVAW State of the Union Tour is going.

News this week:

How to Crack the Pentagon Pundits’ Code

The ‘Veterans’ Vote’ is far from locked up

US Army Deserter to be Deported from Canada

America’s Homeless Vets, a Causality of Epidemic Proportions

This last article is one we will be following up on in the near future. Stay tuned for our upcoming series on the homeless Veteran crisis.

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