Monday, January 30, 2012

Public Citizen Calls for the Break-up of Bank of America and "Citizens Inundated" Report From Free Press

Coming up Tuesday, January 31 on Tell Somebody:

Free Press is embarking on a new initiative to expose the ways in which big-money politics and broadcast media are poisoning democratic discourse. Their report, Citizens Inundated, sheds new light on how broadcasters rake in massive profits from political ads without fully disclosing the moneyed interests funding these misleading television spots.


The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has already picked a winner in the 2012 elections: TV broadcasters.


Companies like CBS Corp., News Corp. and Sinclair Broadcast Group are already dividing the spoils of an election year that will see unprecedented spending on political ads.

I'll talk about this with Tim Karr of Free Press.

and

Public Citizen Petitions Federal Reserve and Financial Stability Oversight Committee
 to Break Up Bank of America

I'll talk to David Arkush, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch.

Tune in to Tell Somebody at 6pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio, streaming at http://www.kkfi.org/.

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KKFI’s Mike Murphy was the guest host for the January 17, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody.

Independent Media, the Journalism Crisis and the Occupy Movement
On November 27, 2011, I gave a talk on independent media and the journalism crisis at the All Souls Sunday Forum at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, Missouri.


David Cobb on Occupy the Courts

The January 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features www.movetoamend.org spokesman David Cobb talking about the Occupy the Courts actions to be held across the country on January 20 and January 21, including the occupation of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., the scene of the crime.

This show also inlucdes audio from the oral arguments in the Citizens United v FEC case.

















Saturday, January 21, 2012

A Mock Wedding to Mark the Second Anniversary of the Citizens United Decision

Mary Lindsay
KC Move to Amend held a wedding between a corporation and a human person Saturday evening at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City.

Mary Lindsay of KC Move to Amend opened the festivities.

Click on a picture for larger view and slideshow
(and click here to listen to why the journalism crisis, Move to Amend, and Occupy are linked:
http://tellsomebody.libsyn.com/webpage/independent-media-the-journalism-crisis-and-the-occupy-movement )





MissConception entered and entertained with her musical stylings.





MissConception
The Goldman-Sachs/corporate person/Groom with the bride
Best man and groom
Bride and bridesmaids
Supreme Court Justice officiating
The bride tried to flee, but was returned by the best man
One of the bridesmaids objected

Friday, January 20, 2012

Kansas City Occupies the Kansas City Federal Court

Kansas City Occupies the Kansas City Federal Court - pictures below

but first - don't miss hearing these recent posts:
Independent Media, the Journalism Crisis, and the Occupy Phenomenon    <--- Click here
On November 27th I gave a talk at the All Souls Forum on the journalism crisis, how the internet is neither cause nor cure, and why everybody needs to think about amending the U.S. Constitution to overturn Citizens United, and to dealing with the journalism crisis and media reform, and why the Occupy phenomenon is already the most hopeful sign of a surviving democracy in this country in decades.

David Cobb on Occupy the Courts   <--- Click hereAttorney David Cobb, spokesman for http://www.movetoamend.org/, talks about Occupy the Courts on the January 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody.  This show also includes some of the actual oral arguments in the Citizens United v FEC case.


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In spite of the bitter cold weather, over 100 citizens united in the park across from the federal courthouse in Kansas City, MO this afternoon, January 20, 2012, marking the second anniversary (actually January 21st) of the handing down of the decision in the Citizens United case by a corrupt majority of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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The guilty majority






  





Arrested


Wednesday, January 18, 2012

SOPA

http://sopastrike.com/strike/

Today, we are striking against censorshipJoin the largest online protest in history: tell Congress to stop this bill now!

Friday, January 13, 2012

David Cobb on Occupy the Courts Now Online

****CLICK HERE**** for link to mp3 of this show.

MoveToAmend.org spokesman David Cobb got on the phone for the January 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody to talk about Occupy the Courts - events across the country on January 20 and 21 observing the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v FEC decision.  Cobb will join Thom Hartmann and others in occupying the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the scene of the crime as he called it, and the Federal Courthouse in Kansas City will be occupied during lunchtime, 11:30am to 1:30pm January 20th at 400 East 9th Street in downtown Kansas City.  There will also be a post-protest celebration at 5-7pm on Saturday, January 21st at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church at 4501 Walnut.

For more information, go to http://www.kcmovetoamend.org/.

****CLICK HERE**** for link to mp3 of this show with David Cobb, audio from the oral arguments on Citizens United v FEC at the Supreme Court, and a few words from Will Rogers.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Audio posted online: The Death of the Social Safety Net New Orleans Style Jazz Funeral March

Occupy KC held a New Orleans Style Jazz Funeral March in downtown Kansas City, Missouri on December 30, 2011.  Approximately 150 mourners were in attendance.  The podcast of the January 3, 2011 editiion of Tell Somebody has now been posted.  ***CLICK HERE***  for link to a downloadable mp3 of this show with audio from the 'funeral' and a visit to Occupy Columbus (Ohio) with KKFI's Mike Murphy.














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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Tell Somebody looks back at 2011 - now online

The December 20th and December 27th podcasts have been posted.

On the December 20, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern takes a look at the National Defense Authorization Act and its provisions for indefinite detention of American citizens - could this pave the way for, among other things, using the military to put down the Occupy movement?  And attorney Kevin Zeese talks about the pre-trial hearing of whistleblower Bradley Manning.

****CLICK HERE**** to download a copy of this show.

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On the December 27, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we take a look back to the beginning of the year now ending and examine why MoveToAmend and media reform and the journalism/democracy crisis are the two fundamental issues that need to be front and center in the minds of every activist.

****CLICK HERE**** to download a copy of this show.

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And don miss these past shows:
Greg Palast on Vultures Picnic and Kathy Kelly speaks in Kansas City

FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley - 2008 Interview


Sick and Dead Workers at the Bannister Federal Complex


Kivalina- A Climate Change Story, Media Cross-Ownership Rules, & Bradley Manning Press Conference.

Ralph Nader & Bill Moyers Speeches & Richard Tripp on Kansas City Homeless Event