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2009-11-19 Afghanistan, Honduras, Grad unions

andrew — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:58:35 +0000

Covering both international affairs and labor issues on this week’s show, which brings us back from a long hiatus.

We start in Afghanistan, and discuss the likelihood (and impact) of an escalation in U.S. troop numbers. Bob points to a day of action next Monday, where Peace Action West and others are urging supporters to call the Whitehouse to oppose an escalation.

We then move to Honduras, and discuss recent State Department statements which have garnered praise from supporters of the coup, and corresponding criticism from figures such as Senator Kerry and Rep. Berman. In talking about the situation on the ground I pointed to Bill Taylor of the Primary Communications Project, who has been working with Radio Lenca, one of the few pro-Zelaya broadcast outlets still on the air in Honduras. We note that it seems difficult to believe that the conditions for a free and fair election exist in an environment which has seen assassinations of Zelaya supporters.

GEO members celebrate after their successful strike earlier this week (credit: Ben Seese)

Finally, we move back to Urbana, Illinois, and talk about the succcessful strike by the Graduate Employees’ Organization, defending the continued existence of tuition waivers for graduate employees – and by extension intervening to ensure the accessibility of graduate education.

The version uploaded this evening (Thursday) is a fairly rough version, as I want to get it up for broadcast on WRFU this evening. I have audio courtesy of Joe of I-Resist that I hope to use to supplement our studio-based conversation, but that’s going to have to wait for later this evening or tomorrow.

ACE 2009-11-19 on Radio4All.net

Indymedia Radio copy

ACE 2008-04-17 now online

andrew — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:24:56 +0000

You can listen to our latest show online here or here. Yesterday’s show included discussion of Carter’s visit to Palestine as well as an interview with Allison Hantschel about Douglas Feith (the focus of her book, Special Plans). Note that we’re now sharing our content on Audioport, radio.indymedia.org and from the WRFU site. If you’re interested in re-broadcasting the show you can grab it from any of these sources – though do let me know, so I know who’s depending on downloads from which sources, by what deadlines. At present I’m getting Audioport up by Thursday night, and try to get it onto either radio.indymedia.org or WRFU by Thursday too, with links added here, and the third audio source, by some time Friday.

Show still running – behind in podcasts

andrew — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:40:19 +0000

A Critical Ear has been broadcasting steadily, and I’ve been putting copies up on Audioport (from where WETX-LP picks them up) but I’ve been having difficulty connecting to Radio4All, where I’d been hosting publicly-accessible copies, and so fallen behind in posting here about show editions. This coming week we have a special edition of the show, where regular co-host Bob Naiman will be temporarily replaced by my good friends Paul Riismandel and John Anderson, both of them astute observers of our media environment. We’ll talk about the FCC’s current consultation on LPFM radio among many other things. Should be a fun show. Meanwhile, those listening to the show locally may have noticed that WRFU has gained some new public affairs content in the late afternoon and early evening. We’re building out a public affairs strip on automation, which will run during those hours when we have no scheduled shows (or when scheduled shows don’t broadcast). It should give listeners a chance to listen again to popular local shows such as Media Geek (Paul’s show) and Media Matters, as well as bringing new shows, such as War News Radio, to the community. Let us know what you think.

ACE to be carried on WETX-LP

andrew — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:44:43 +0000

A Critical Ear is to be carried on WETX-LP, 105.3FM, community radio for the Tri-Cities area of east-Tennessee and Virginia, based in Johnson city. More info on day and time as we have it.

We welcome others interested in carrying the show, and just ask that you inform us so we can add links here on the site, and in our audio. Audio files are available from Audioport and Radio4All, and are linked from this website.

Yesterday’s show now online

andrew — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:47:33 +0000

I’ve now uploaded yesterday’s show to Radio4All. Those of you with Audioport accounts can also find it there. The first half hour includes InterWorldRadio headlines, a commentary from Matt Rothschild of the Progressive, two feature pieces from InterWorldRadio, and some story headlines from EU Observer. The second half of the show involved discussion with Bob about Iran, starting with Diane Feinstein’s column calling for diplomacy with Iran. Bob also had a piece in the Huffington Post yesterday, analyzing Feinstein’s piece and its context. Direct link to mp3 of show, on Radio4All. (show length 58:02)

New distribution options

andrew — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:06:32 +0000

A Critical Ear is now being distributed through Pacifica’s Audioport and also on Radio4All.net. From this week I’ll be adding links to the Radio4All file from this site, as well as a general pointer towards Audioport. A reminder, of course, that we welcome the rebroadcast of the show by others – we just ask that you let us know, so that we can promote that fact here.