Remembering Howard Zinn up next on Tell Somebody - and here's some links

Be sure to tune in to Tell Somebody this Tuesday, February 2nd at 6pm to hear a rebroadcast of Howard Zinn's 2008 appearance on Tell Somebody.

Howard Zinn 1922 -2010

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting noted the FOX-like 'unfair and unbalanced' approach NPR took in marking the passing of Howard Zinn - NPR Finds Right-Wing Crank to Spit on Zinn's Grave.
The FAIR action urges you to contact the NPR ombudsman to ask why All Things Considered brought on a right-wing crank to trash the late Howard Zinn. Read more at
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4009

Here are a couple links to proposed legislation on payday lending in Missouri:
House Bill No. 1508
House Bill No. 1509

Here are some links to more information on the Kansas City nuclear weapons plant:
http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/kansas-city-mo-city-council-committee.html

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/content/investigative/bannister/story/EPA-Joins-Probe-in-Bannister-Investigation/o_Wjs1CvEE6zuQyz7ecptg.cspx

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/01/epa_publishes_fact_sheet_on_testing_at_bannister_federal_complex.php
http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/?p=135

http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com/

And, just because, check these out:
http://www.kcactive.com/
http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

David Barsamian now on line - Next on Tell Somebody - Howard Zinn, Payday Loans in MO, & TBA

The January 27, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody, Alternative Radio's David Barsamian back from India and Nepal plus SCOTUS hyperactivity and unilateral foolishness in Kansas City is now online. Barsamian talks of running into his friend Vandana Shiva at a protest on an overpass in India and shares his thoughts on comments on the Kansas City WMD plant made at a recent KCMO city council committee meeting. Link to a download here:

http://tellsomebody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=576476

Next up on Tell Somebody:

As you all must know by now, historian Howard Zinn died last Wednesday, January 27, 2010.

During a KKFI pledge drive in April 2008, Zinn took a little time to come on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about the (then) brand-new book A People's History of American Empire and about the importance of alternative media like KKFI. I'll be re-playing that conversation this Tuesday at 6pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KKFI.

KKFI will be having another pledge drive starting Thursday, February 4th, once again asking listeners for their money. I know all too well how hard money can be to come by for a lot of us these days, but as you listen to Howard Zinn this Tuesday, I hope you'll give some thought as to why your community radio station needs to be supported by current listeners, and whether you might agree with me that it is perhaps even more important that current listeners help us build a bigger base of support by telling their friends and neighbors who might not know KKFI yet about the one full power FM radio station in town that is actually owned by the community.

The rest of the show is still being worked out, but there will be a report on a public hearing on Payday Loan Reform held Thursday, January 28th by Missouri Representatives John Burnett and Mary Wynne Still.

Tune in to Tell Somebody this Tuesday, 6pm Central Time on 90.1, or stream it live at http://www.kkfi.org/, and don't forget to scroll through http://www.tellsomebody.us/ and http://www.tellsomebody.libsyn.com/ for links to past shows you might have missed.

Tom Klammer

mail@tellsomebody.us

Web Exclusive on Supreme Court Decision

Web Exclusive - Public Citizen Phone Press Conference on Supreme Court Decision

Public Citizen held a phone-in press conference right after the Supreme Court issued its decision on Citizens United v FEC, giving a bizarre gift of First Amendment rights to for-profit corporations. Click on the link above for audio of the conference.

More information at http://www.tellsomebody.us/ - put "citizens united" in the search box, and at http://www.dontgetrolled.org/

More on the UMKC National Healthcare Conversation can be found HERE

David Barsamian of Alternative Radio next up on Tell Somebody

Alternative Radio is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.

David Barsamian is the award winning founder and director of Alternative Radio, and he just returned from a trip to India and Nepal a few days ago and is going to tell us about it this Tuesday, January 26 at 6pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KKFI, streaming live at http://www.kkfi.org/.

Tom Klammer

http://www.tellsomebody.us/

mail@tellsomebody.us

"Never Fear - Never Quit" -Richard Tripp Wants Your Help -

Richard Tripp on Homelessness, David Pakman on MA Senate Race, KC WMD Plant

On Saturday April 3, 2010, Care Of Poor People, Inc. will be having their 20th Spring Break Event to help the homeless in Kansas City, but Richard Tripp wants your help right now. Check out the link above to listen to what he had to say about that on the January 19, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody. Tripp would like computer-savvy help to get the word out to churches and other groups that he could come and speak to about participating in the April event.

Also on this show, I talked to David Pakman, host of Midweek Politics, a radio show originating in Northampton, MA, about the special US Senate election in Massachusetts to fill the seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. The polls were just about to close as we spoke on the air.

And I had a quick update on the action by the Kansas City Missouri Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the City Council approving the tax-abated private development scheme for a new nuclear weapons plant in KC. The full council had been expected to vote on the latest measure on Thursday, January 21st, but that afternoon they delayed the vote until January 28. I've left several voicemails and emails for Councilman John Sharp and Councilwoman Kathy Jolly asking for their comments on the WMD plant, but have yet to get any response.

click here for links to audio of the show:

Richard Tripp on Homelessness, David Pakman on MA Senate Race, KC WMD Plant

Nukewatch's Jay Coghlan on Kansas City and the Nuclear Weapons Complex

Click here for a link to audio of this week's show: Nukewatch Director Jay Coghlan

Click on pic for larger view

According to an email from a south Kansas City resident, the picture at left is one of two full-page shots in the "60th Anniversary Book of the Kansas City Plant" published by the DOE/NNSA/Honeywell in October, 2009 in a section called "Our Future."

('Urban Blight' caption added by yours truly - photo in booklet has small caption: "Future site of the Kansas City Plant approximately 7 miles south of the existing plant.")

The photo on the right (again, caption added by Tell Somebody) comes from a study by Belke Appraisal and Consulting Services, Inc., paid for by Kansas City, Missouri taxpayers. The photo is a tight shot taken at the same site as the other photo, and was intended to help justify a finding of "blight" to help grease the skids for a tax abatement deal to finance over $40 million in infrastrucure improvements including two new highway interchanges that would benefit both the new nuclear weapons plant and an industrial park and intermodal hub for Kansas City Southern Railway under develpment by CenterPoint Realty Services of Chicago. A city staff report dated September 2, 2008, "respectfully submitted" by city planner Larry Stice recommends that a finding of "Blight" and "Insanitary" conditions be approved by the Kansas City, Missouri city council.

A July 11, 2008 article in the Kansas City Star said

"The General Services Adminsitration wants to pick a developer for the new facility August 21. The land is owned by Hugh Zimmer, a Kansas City real estate magnate, and the estimated acquisition cost is $4.8 million."

In a more perfect world, one might imagine the city demanding that Zimmer clean up the 'blight' on his property, perhaps even paying a fine for not keeping it up better. Not so in this imperfect world. The city council has rubberstamped approval at every stage of the new Kansas City WMD plant project, and in a General Services Administration press release dated April 7, 2009, GSA's Acting Regional Administrator Michael T. Brincks wrote "The U.S. General Services Administration, through a competitive bidding process, has selected CenterPoint Zimmer, LLC to design and construct a new facility to house the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City Plant. CenterPoint Zimmer, LLC is an entity formed between CenterPoint Property Trust of Oak Brook IL, and Zimmer Real Estate Services of Kansas City, MO."

On January 14, 2009, a KC city council committee rubberstamped yet another approval for the project, expected to go again to the full council on Thursday, January 21.

Jay Coghlan, Executive Director of Nuclear Watch of New Mexico was in Kansas City for the Breaking the Silence Conference in Kansas City, Kansas, and sat down with Tell Somebody on January 8, 2009 to talk about Kansas City and the Nuclear Weapons Complex. Click here for a link to audio of that show.

More links:

Nuclear Watch of New Mexico

PDF of Jay Coghlan's presentation at the Breaking the Silence Conference.

Kansas City NNSA/Honeywell Watch

Breaking the Silence in KCK & News From Iran

And don't miss Tellsomebody's look back at 2009

Tom Klammer

email: mail@tellsomebody.us

Now Online: Breaking the Silence in KCK - & News From Iran

<--Sarah Rush, great grand daughter of Booker T. Washington

link to audio: Breaking the Silence in KCK & News From Iran

On the January 5, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody, Nilufar Movahedi of KKFI's Sunday afternoon show, Saba: The Wind of Love guest hosted. Saba is a show of Persian music and an insightful review of headlines from Iran.

Nilufar played a couple of conversations I recorded earlier, and then talked about the news coming out of Iran.

Richard Mabion talked about the Breaking the Silence conference in Kansas City Kansas January 8th and 9th at the Reardon Center in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. More information at
http://www.breakingthesilence.us/

Then Ann Suellentrop of Physicians for Social Responsibility talked about one part of the Breaking the Silence conference that dealt with the Kansas City Plant that makes 85% of the components of nuclear weapons in the United States. In addition to Suellentrop, Maurice Copeland and other local activists, Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico came to town to speak.
Breaking the Silence in KCK & News From Iran

Browse through http://www.tellsomebody.us/ and http://www.tellsomebody.libsyn.com/ for links to past shows, including last week's look back at 2009.

Tom Klammer
mail@tellsomebody.us