CHIMPS: Proposes a partnership between Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz community to start a new radio station focusing on independent news and analysis. Celebrates independent publishers like Anarchist Press and the well-disguised anarchist bookshop Capitola BookCafe. Sets the goal of enabling a self-educated generation, without debt, who know how to work with their hands.Discusses the movie, "The End of Poverty?" by Philippe Diaz and cites research by Susan George on the global South financing the North. Introduces David Rovic's new feature, "This Month in History and Song." Shows how Cabrillo's Student Senate is out to break the spine of the textbook cartel. Relates Dennis Kucinich's State sovereignty solution to healthcare and Jane Hamsher's admonishment to play hardball. Speculates on a community college exchange for sustainability.
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Apropos of Everything: Reviews the "coming of age" of Democracy Now from their book, The Exceptions to the Rulers. Examines how one person's journalist-with-integrity is another person's hostile crank. Discusses Christian Parenti's response, called "Free the Truth," to Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves, who claimed that child slavery in cocoa has been eradicated. Delves into child labor in Uzbekistan cotton, linking an article pro and a video against. Reviews a new book by Tracy Kidder called Strength in What Remains. Asks whether the international development aid that antagonized the Hutu-Tutsi relationship was "unwitting." Consults Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies for advice on life after FRSC.
Cassandra's Dilemma: Discusses a 1999 book, Believing Cassandra, by Alan AtKisson, a 2000 book called Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam, and last month's updated version of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia by Rob Brezsny. Explains the concept of Cassandra's Dilemma. Cites graphs on economic disparity as a champagne glass, working women who want to work vs. have to work, the generational divide in malaise, and the rise and fall of the news audience. Relates the Honduran coup regime's midnight assault on independent radio, and Argentina's media reform bill to prohibit broadcasting monopolies.
Trees, Bees, and Fireflies: Compares the ethical code of Joss Whedon's TV series "Firefly" with the benevolent empire of Star Trek, the gun totin' Wild Wild West, and the Free Radio Santa Cruz pirates. Dedicates three poems to Dorothy Bock Goodman. Quotes a Sufi story in relationship to a photo from Bangladesh. Highlights stories and articles about "The Shortwave Report" by Dan Roberts.