Steal This Radio 107

Mickey Z. records his provocative speech (given at the Left Forum) on why the Left needs to come to grips with Animal liberation movements, followed by an extensive interview with STR host and radical activist Mitchel Cohen.

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Mitchel Cohen interviews organizers Chris Monsour and Ian Morrison, from the new radical organization, Platypus. You can learn more about the group at http://www.Platypus1917.org .

 

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STEAL THIS RADIO 105

“The Crisis in Greece,” with guests

- Costas Panayotakis, Dept. of Sociology, CUNY — NYC College of Technology

- Neni Panouryia, Dept. of Anthropology, Columbia University

- Poulikos Poulikakos, previously at the left newspaper “PRIN” (“before”), and  Ingo, Technical University, Berlin

and hosted by   - Mitchel Cohen

 

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Steal This Radio 104
Bailing out the Banks and Billionaires — Mitchel Cohen looks at the record profits of the major Wall Street banks in 2009 under Obama (just as it was under Bush).

Mitchel also calls for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, to throw out former pitching great Jim Bunning, now U.S. Senator from Kentucky who tried fillibustered against extension of unemployment insurance and Medicare, while supporting the trillions to the banks. The Democrats could have defeated his fillibuster, but the Democrats caved …. as usual …. and voted billions, again, to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s all a shell game.

Also, “Thanks to the Banks — Getaway” by Long Islander Brian O’Haire;

AND, Mitchel Cohen continues his inquiries into “Zen-Marxism”, and what we mean by “Direct Action” ….

Tune in, a GREAT and provocative show!

 

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Steal This Radio 104
Bailing out the Banks and Billionaires — Mitchel Cohen looks at the record profits of the major Wall Street banks in 2009 under Obama (just as it was under Bush). Mitchel also calls for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, to throw out former pitching great Jim Bunning, now U.S. Senator from Kentucky who tried fillibustered against extension of unemployment insurance and Medicare, while supporting the trillions to the banks. The Democrats could have defeated his fillibuster, but the Democrats caved …. as usual …. and voted billions, again, to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s all a shell game.

Also, “Thanks to the Banks — Getaway” by Long Islander Brian O’Haire;

AND, Mitchel Cohen continues his inquiries into “Zen-Marxism”, and what we mean by “Direct Action” ….
Tune in, a GREAT and provocative show!

Steal This Radio 103
Mitchel Cohen outlines the ideas in his work of many years, “Zen-Marxism”. Distributed over 17 pamphlets, this is the first time that he has explored Zen-Marxism on radio, and what does he mean by his main ideas: “UnAsk,” “Reframe,” and “Direct Action,” which he claims are needed in cohering communities of resistance and nurturance.

How do people come to (and change) their consciousness? If we are robots manufactured (emotionally, psychologically, morally) by the society we grow up in, how is it possible to even learn that about ourselves, let alone change it? What was the theory of the New Left, behind the political action and great music?

Mitchel takes a look at his own early life here, growing up in Brooklyn, the early years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook which gave rise to the Independent Caucus of SDS and the Red Balloon Collective, and the relationship of such theorists as Herbert Marcuse and Fredy Perlman, among others, to our movements.

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Mitchel Cohen’s article, “Toxic Wastes and Haiti,” is the topic of this week’s show. We also discuss the misrepresentation in the U.S. media about Cuba’s very important role in saving lives in Haiti through over 900 medical personnel it has sent to that country. Mitchel Cohen also reads his poem for Daniel Simidor and Dennis Brutus — heros of our movements who died (both of them, and Howard Zinn too) within the last few months. (Also songs performed by Harry Belafonte, Judy Collins.)

 

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