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Tonight, Craig Holman, Legislative Representative for Public Citizen talks about Citizens United v FEC, a case which the Supreme Court has already taken up, expanded in an unusal way, and seemed poised to issue a ruling on. Is this really such a big deal?
http://www.citizen.org/
http://www.dontgetrolled.org/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09042009/transcript2.html
Plus, I'll talk to Ann Suellentrop and Maurice Copeland about a town hall on the Kansas City Plant coming up this Wednesday:
St. Thomas Moore host
> TOWN HALL,
> DEC.,16TH,2009, 7:00pm
>
> 11800 Holmes Rd
> Kansas City, MO 64131
> 816-942-5581
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
The Film Big River, Classic Bill Moyers, & The Recipe for the First Amendment
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The film makers who brought you King Corn have a sequel out called Big River. On the December, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody, I talked about the new film with Curt Ellis (he's the one on the right in the picture).
King Corn, featured on Tell Somebody in April 2008, is the story of two easterners who go to Iowa and plant, tend, and harvest one acre of corn, modern industrial agriculture-style, and take a wide-ranging look at big corn's effects on our fast-food nation.
Recently I got an email from Curt Ellis saying that they had a sequel out so I got him on the phone to hear more about the new film.
Then, on news that Bill Moyers is retiring from his PBS show, and that PBS is cancelling NOW with David Brancaccio, I took a look back at the first National Conference on Media Reform put on by http://www.freepress.net/ in November, 2003. The second half of this week's show features excerpts from Bill Moyers' keynote speech there.
Finally, the show ends with spoken word artists, The Recipe. They've got a new CD called Expressions Without Weapons, that has 10 tracks expressing their take on the Bill of Rights. I end the show with the first track, Pledge of Allegiance.
You can find a link to an mp3 of this show here: Big River/King Corn Producer Curt Ellis plus Classic Bill Moyers.
By the way, Theodore Priest Hughes and Desmond Jones, aka The Recipe, are among the people quoted in a front page article in this week's Wednesday Sun newspaper, along with past Tell Somebody guests Ann Suellentrop and Jane and Henry Stoever. The article is about the Kansas City WMD Plant - Kansas City nurse says no to nukes -
You can find several editions of Tell Somebody featuring the plant - just put "Kansas City Plant" or "PIEA" in the search box at http://www.tellsomebody.us/
Tom Klammer
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The film makers who brought you King Corn have a sequel out called Big River. On the December, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody, I talked about the new film with Curt Ellis (he's the one on the right in the picture).King Corn, featured on Tell Somebody in April 2008, is the story of two easterners who go to Iowa and plant, tend, and harvest one acre of corn, modern industrial agriculture-style, and take a wide-ranging look at big corn's effects on our fast-food nation.
Recently I got an email from Curt Ellis saying that they had a sequel out so I got him on the phone to hear more about the new film.
Then, on news that Bill Moyers is retiring from his PBS show, and that PBS is cancelling NOW with David Brancaccio, I took a look back at the first National Conference on Media Reform put on by http://www.freepress.net/ in November, 2003. The second half of this week's show features excerpts from Bill Moyers' keynote speech there.
Finally, the show ends with spoken word artists, The Recipe. They've got a new CD called Expressions Without Weapons, that has 10 tracks expressing their take on the Bill of Rights. I end the show with the first track, Pledge of Allegiance.
You can find a link to an mp3 of this show here: Big River/King Corn Producer Curt Ellis plus Classic Bill Moyers.
By the way, Theodore Priest Hughes and Desmond Jones, aka The Recipe, are among the people quoted in a front page article in this week's Wednesday Sun newspaper, along with past Tell Somebody guests Ann Suellentrop and Jane and Henry Stoever. The article is about the Kansas City WMD Plant - Kansas City nurse says no to nukes -
You can find several editions of Tell Somebody featuring the plant - just put "Kansas City Plant" or "PIEA" in the search box at http://www.tellsomebody.us/
Tom Klammer
send me an email! mail@tellsomebody.us
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Native Spirit Radio on Sprouts & King Corn
If you heard the Native Spirit Radio edition of Pacifica's Sprouts and would like to hear the longer version, look here: Native Spirit Radio's Rhonda LeValdo.
For a link to my 2008 interview with Curt Ellis about the 'prequel' to Big River, click here: 2008 King Corn Interview with Curt Ellis.
Tom Klammer mail@tellsomebody.us
For a link to my 2008 interview with Curt Ellis about the 'prequel' to Big River, click here: 2008 King Corn Interview with Curt Ellis.
Tom Klammer mail@tellsomebody.us
Monday, November 30, 2009
Iraq Vet Tomas Young & Denis Moynihan of Democracy NOW
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Right after Thanksgiving, word came from his friend Lobo that Kansas City Iraq vet Tomas Young was in the VA hospital facing the possibility of intestinal surgery. With best wishes going out to Tomas as he faces his latest health challenge, I decided to re-air the interview he gave Tell Somebody in October, 2005.
Right after Thanksgiving, word came from his friend Lobo that Kansas City Iraq vet Tomas Young was in the VA hospital facing the possibility of intestinal surgery. With best wishes going out to Tomas as he faces his latest health challenge, I decided to re-air the interview he gave Tell Somebody in October, 2005. Tomas Young, featured in the Phil Donahue/Ellen Spiro film Body of War, called his recruiter to re-enlist in the Army on September 13, 2001, expecting to go to Afghanistan. He found himself in Iraq in the spring of 2004, and in the first half of the show you can hear him tell what happened to him there, and why he decided to speak out against the war.
In the second half of the show, I talk to Democracy Now's Dennis Moynihan. Moynihan, a longtime KKFI supporter who, among many other things, edited Amy Goodman's latest book Breaking the Sound Barrier, tells how he and Amy and another Dnow staffer were detained by Canadian border guards, had their computers and papers rifled through, and were grilled about the mistaken concern that Amy Goodman was coming to Vancouver to speak against the Olympic Games coming there.
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Tom Klammer
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Ray McGovern and Richard Tripp now online
The November 24, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody with Richard Tripp and Ray McGovern is now online. Check it out here: Richard Tripp on Survival 09 & Ray McGovern on KSM NY Trial & Afghanistan
Richard Tripp is the author of an inspirational book, Please Underestimate Me, and is the founder and director of Care of Poor People, Inc.
As heard on the show, there was a Care of Poor People Survival 09 event this past Saturday at the parking garage at 31st & Baltimore in Kansas City, MO. Clothing and other necessities for the homeless and others in need in Kansas City. More information at http://www.coppinc.com/ Check out the video of a previous event here: http://www.coppinc.com/news.html
After the brief chat with Richard Tripp, Ray McGovern returned to Tell Somebody to talk about the Obama Administration decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian federal court in New York City, and about Obama's Afghanistan dilemma. Are the lessons from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations that Obama needs to heed?
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Tom Klammer
Saturday, November 21, 2009
1937, Pullman Porters, KC WMD Plant-2 more shows online
1937, Pullman Porters - Up From the Rails, Weapons of Mass DestructionKansas City WMD Plant Advances Through PIEA - City Council Next
Two more editions of Tell Somebody are now posted online.
On the November 10, 2009 show, I started out talking to KKFI'er and playwright Bill Clause about his play 1937: One Helluva Year. The play features several KKFI personalities along with some "real" actors in a series of vignettes about Kansas City Labor history, including dramatization of the organizing of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
In the second segment, I went to the archives for an interview I did five years ago on The Heartland Labor Forum with Larry Tye, author of what was then his new book, Rising From the Rails - Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class.
In the final part of the show, I played audio from the November 6, 2009 meeting of the Kansas City Planned Industrial Expansion authority where local activists testified against the proposed new Kansas City nuclear weapons components plant. The show ended with the performance by the duo known as The Recipe of their spoken word piece about 'Self - Destruction.'
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On the November 17, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody, I picked up where the last show left off with more audio from the November 6th PIEA meeting where the members voted unanimously to advance the plan to use $40 million in tax abatement for a new Kansas City Plant. The proposal moves next to the Kansas City, MO City Council with a vote expected in the first or second week of December.
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Besides listening to the show, you can find more information on the Kansas City Plant here:
Keep an eye on this site for updates on Kansas City Council actions:
Friday, November 6, 2009
Is Middle East Peace Possible? / "The Good Soldier"
Peace in the Middle East & The Good Soldier
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On November 1, 2009, Gershon Baskin was in the Kansas City area to speak at the Jewish Community Center on the the topic "Is Peace in the Middle East Possible?"
Gershon Baskin founded the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information in Jerusalem in 1988. I had the chance to sit down and talk to him about the subject of his speech and also asked him about the UN Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict. More information on all of this:
http://www.ipcri.org/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10232009/profile.html
Did you miss a recent show? Look here: http://www.tellsomebody.libsyn.com/On November 1, 2009, Gershon Baskin was in the Kansas City area to speak at the Jewish Community Center on the the topic "Is Peace in the Middle East Possible?"
Gershon Baskin founded the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information in Jerusalem in 1988. I had the chance to sit down and talk to him about the subject of his speech and also asked him about the UN Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict. More information on all of this:
http://www.ipcri.org/
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10232009/profile.html
http://www.cjme.org/
A couple weeks ago I got an email from Ed Wood, a World War II veteran I had on the show in October, 2007 talking about one of his books, Worshipping the Myths of World War II. Wood told me he was one of the sol
diers featured in a documentary film just out called The Good Soldier, and that the film was going to be featured on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS on November 6, 2009.
After hearing from Ed Wood, I contacted the filmmakers of The Good Soldier, and later recorded a phone conversation with them. The film looks at the business of soldiering through the eyes of WWWII vet Ed Wood, two veterans of the Vietnam War, one from Desert Storm, and one from Iraq.
Click here to get a copy of this show:
Peace in the Middle East & The Good Soldier
A couple weeks ago I got an email from Ed Wood, a World War II veteran I had on the show in October, 2007 talking about one of his books, Worshipping the Myths of World War II. Wood told me he was one of the sol
diers featured in a documentary film just out called The Good Soldier, and that the film was going to be featured on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS on November 6, 2009.After hearing from Ed Wood, I contacted the filmmakers of The Good Soldier, and later recorded a phone conversation with them. The film looks at the business of soldiering through the eyes of WWWII vet Ed Wood, two veterans of the Vietnam War, one from Desert Storm, and one from Iraq.
Click here to get a copy of this show:
Peace in the Middle East & The Good Soldier
I've also posted my October, 2007 interview with Edward Wood online here:
Tom Klammer
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