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to ClassWars, the home of Activist Radio, a weekly program for all
Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the US
population.
Class wars have been going on since the beginning of recorded
history. As societies become more powerful and wealthy, they
often become more corrupt. Towards the end of each cycle, a few
rich families Class wars is a dirty term in our media, which always implies that America is above such crudeness. But the very rich are not above that at all. They have been waging an especially intense attack on working people at home since the 1970's, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, America's class wars are not fought with tanks and bombs, but with crooked politicians, right wing think tanks and corporate owned media. For the very rich to maintain and increase their share of the national wealth, they have to fool you. How else could one percent of our population call the shots for ninety-nine percent? Activist Radio will attempt to show you how the few So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio streamed live: Thursdays from 5 - 6 pm EST
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options. Listening in iTunes works nicely if that is available.December 5GUEST: Dr. Nancy Murray, former director of education at the ACLU of Massachusetts, author of the book Palestinians: Life Under Occupation, and co-founder of the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, talks about her over 20 trips to the West Bank and Gaza, and her evolving sense of what justice for Palestinians means.Water Justice in Palestine Farming while Palestinian: a World Water Day outrage Giving Voice To Those Whom Israel Relentlessly Demonizes SONG: Queers for Justice in Palestine ... Yes BDS November 21GUEST: Jon Bowermaster, writer, long time National Geographic filmmaker, and host of the Green Radio Hour, talks about the climate crisis and other environmental issues impacting the Hudson Valley and beyond.Oceans 8 Films Visiting Lecturer in Environmental and Urban Studies A Living River SONG: Anne Feeney ... Brave New Christmas SONG: Barbara Dane & Lightnin' Hopkins, Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me ... Don't You Push Me Down EXTRA: Sign a petition in support of Vassar Students for Justice in Palestine. Two of its members are facing disciplinary action for protesting a talk by an IDF commander and extreme Zionist with a long history of racist statements about Palestinians. Please read the petition and add your name. November 14GUEST: Tom Midgley, long time activist and former president of the Alliance@IBM workers' group, talks about how IBM has dealt with its workers over the past several decades, putting profits over the interests of its American employees.IBM cuts nearly 700 jobs in Dutchess County Sometimes People Don't Realize They Are Training Their Replacement Ageism for the Over-50 Crowd Means Longer Layoffs, Less Pay SONG: Bright Eyes ... When the President Talks to God November 7GUEST: Rick Ufford-Chase, peace activist and Moderator of the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and Susan Smith, a Muslim member of Jewish Voice for Peace, talk about the November 12 International Symposium on Migration and Border Solidarity at the at the Westchester Ethical Culture Society in White Plains, NY.International Sanctuary Principles Statement International Symposium on Migration & Border Solidarity Middle East Crisis Response SONG: Ed Pickford ... Whistleblower We Need You SONG: Tom Neilson ... Gaza October 31GUEST: Zohar Chamberlain Regev, an Israeli citizen and human rights activist who was on the Freedom Flotilla ship Al Awda when it attempted to break the blockade of Gaza, talks about growing up in Israel, and resisting the apartheid state from her new home in Spain.Freedom Flotilla Sails Again Israeli Activist Who Grew Up In A Kibbutz Israeli woman fights for Palestinians Freedom Flotilla Coalition Boat Leader of Al Awda SONG: Randy Abel ... The Workingman's Song by the "Puddler Poet," Michael McGovern October 24GUEST: S. Shankar, Chair of the English Department at the University of Hawaii, novelist, and translator with an interest in postcolonial literature, talks about the US caste system and how it compares to India's rigid social hierarchy. His most recent book is Ghost In The Tamarind.Does America have a caste system? Isn’t It Time for a Politics of Frugality? Ghost in the Tamarind: A Novel SONG: Victor Jara ... Prayer to a Worker Rise up and look at your hands, to grow, hold it out to your brother. Together we will go united in blood, now and at the hour of our death. Amen October 17GUEST: Andy Pragacz, community radio producer (WBDY), teacher at SUNY Cortland, and a founding member of Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier (JUST), talks about changing the criminal justice system and ending mass incarceration.No New Jails in New York State! Here's what the prison reform bill actually does and doesn't do Dialogue on criminal justice and opioid epidemic SONG: Choir! Choir! Choir! ArtPower ... A Little Help From My Friends October 10GUEST: Seth Donnelly, educator, activist with the Haiti Action Committee, and author of the recently published book, The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation, talks about how rich countries rob the poor of the world.The Lie of Global Prosperity - Monthly Review The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti The Lie of Global Prosperity - Facebook SONG: Patti Smith ... People have the Power SONG: Charles Absher ... The Devil Is In Control October 3GUEST: Talal Jabari is a Palestinian journalist and documentary filmmaker who has made a career of covering his people's plight. Talal is the managing director of Radio Alam, an Arabic-language talk radio station. He directed Enemies of the South, co-produced the critically acclaimed film, Speed Sisters and is the cinematographer of Naela and the Uprising. He is currently producing the feature documentary One Night in Tantura.Naila and the Uprising: Official Trailer Review: Naila and the Uprising Talal Jabari, Creative Producer What makes for a successful documentary? SONG: Miriam Makeba ... Sophiatown Is Gone SONG: Ellis Paul ... Election Day September 26GUEST: Helene Byrne, author, publisher, and public speaker, talks about her latest campaign to bring the nation together against gun violence, the Requiem and Remembrance Day,National Sing-In Against Gun Violence on March 8, 2020 Singers Unite to Support Survivors of Gun Violence Songs that deal with gun violence SONG: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Medicine Songs ... Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Take a minute to review Activist Radio Click Icon:  Once
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practically everything and rule with an iron fist. Imperial wars
for empire and military over-expansion are other trademarks of a
debased and undemocratic society. Empire brings about great
poverty and suffering not only in the occupied and exploited
lands, but at home as well. 
richest of our citizens lie to the rest of us to expand their
power and wealth. They are sick with greed, of course. But so
far, the rest of us are what might be worse, and that is stupid.
None of the information presented is particularly new or really
very hard to find, although you won't read it in the mainstream
press or see it on TV. If that is what you are relying on for
news, you are being suckered, my friend. I don't know how to put
it any nicer.
Abraham Lincoln |
| And above all Fascism denies that class-war
can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society.
Benito Mussolini |
| The first truth is that the liberty of a
democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of
private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -
ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any
other controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| A revolution is a class struggle. It was
one class - the oppressed, and that other class - the oppressor.
Fred Hampton |
| Surely, in the history of lies told to the
population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets,
withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret:
that there are classes with different interests in this country.
To ignore that--not to know that the history of our country is a
history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant,
corporation against worker, rich against poor--is to render us
helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in
power.
Howard Zinn |
| The clinical definition of "fascism' is
when private concentrated economic power takes government away
from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a
subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Ralph Nader |
| There's class warfare, all right, but it's
my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Warren Buffet |
| This [$700 billion bailout] was the largest
single act of class warfare in the modern history of this
country.
Dennis Kucinich |
| I think this has been a class war waged by
the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I
think the poor are fighting back.
Naomi Klein |
| The solution is revolution, first in the
spirit of the gospel; Jesus could not accept people going
hungry. It is a conflict between classes, rich and poor. My role
is to preach and organize.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
| The effect of the [European Central Bank]
policies is to weaken the welfare state measures and to reduce
the power of labor. That's class war. It's fine for the banks,
for financial institutions, but terrible for the population.
Noam Chomsky |
| The
US has a highly class-conscious business class. If you read the
business literature, it's like reading Mao's "Red Book." The
values may be inverted, but the terminology is the same. They're
fighting a bitter class war constantly. They never relax for a
minute. Noam Chomsky
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| The breakdown [of American society] is not
caused by economic laws. They are policies, a kind of class war
initiated by the rich and powerful against the working
population and the poor. This is what defines the neoliberalism
period, not only in the United States but in Europe and
elsewhere. Noam
Chomsky
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| For
45 years there has been a war in this country waged by the
corporate elite against the working class of America. Bernie
Sanders
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| If
there is going to be class warfare in this country, it's about
time the working class won that war. Bernie Sanders
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| The
theft of public resources for the military and militarism
domestically and abroad represent a one-sided class war waged on
the working class in the U.S. The 6 trillion dollars spent on
U.S. wars since 2003 are resources that could have been directed
to address the increasing desperate plight of workers and poor
people in the U.S. Ajamu
Baraka
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