Archive for the ‘Citizen Radio’ Category
Jamie: language pioneer, Chicago Board of Ed considers closing 54 schools, teen charged with felony for lesbian relationship
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Jamie is a language pioneer, the Chicago Board of Education considers closing 54 schools despite overwhelming evidence the closures won’t fix the city’s deficit, a Florida teen is expelled and charged with a felony for being in a lesbian relationship, labor deal emerges in aftermath of Bangladesh tragedy, day 100 passes of the Gitmo hunger strike, Abercrombie & Fitch’s fat-shaming CEO.
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Women in secularism, fast food workers unite, Chicago school closings, Koch brothers dump toxic byproduct on Detroit
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Allison and Jamie discuss women in secularism, fast food workers unite, Chicago school closings protests, Judge says lesbian’s partner must leave house due to her “lifestyle,” Koch brothers dump toxic byproduct on Detroit, regulators back down on derivatives rule, the AP scoop that ran to DOJ probe only ran after CIA sign off, head of Fort Campbell harassment program arrested in domestic dispute.
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Birthday madness, The Best Tweet Ever, Media Matters defends DOJ targeting reporters
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Birthday madness, followed by discussion of The Best Tweet Ever, CNN’s ridiculous Guantanamo coverage, New York Times’ ridiculous Gaza coverage, and then Media Matter defending the DOJ’s targeting of reporters.
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Jamie’s annual birthday depression spiral, fast food strikes hit fifth city, how austerity kills
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Jamie’s annual birthday depression spiral, Citizen Radio’s most powerful Maniacs (featuring Toom Cleen!), followed by a discussion of the spreading fast food strikes, the continuing Guantanamo hunger strikes, a New York activist facing jail time because of his silence, how austerity kills (and doesn’t work), Florida speeding up its executions, and Bangladesh’s government saying it will allow its workers to unionize.
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Free Cooper Union, NOLA shooting, DOJ seizes journalists’ phone records
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Allison and Jamie discuss the Free Cooper Union movement, Buena Vista high school in Michigan closing six weeks early because the district ran out of money, the recent NOLA shooting and the establishment media’s collective yawn, DOJ seizing journalists’ phone records, IRS targeting political groups, ex-Guatamala dictator Montt being convicted of genocide, a worker-owned factory opening in Chicago, and two LGBT stories: one very sad and one victory.
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Tales of Mother’s Day, Glenn Greenwald destroys Bill Maher, Reddit as cultural id
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Allison and Jamie return with tales of Mother’s Day celebrations. Plus, they discuss Glenn Greenwald totally destroying Bill Maher, Reddit as cultural id and read some Maniac Mail.
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CNN: sexist and ridiculous, crossover heaven, the terrible things in your food
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Allison and Jamie discuss CNN being sexist and ridiculous, crossover heaven, Joe Francis going to jail, fast food worker solidarity, the need for more women in tech, a heartwarming story of a principal firing armed guards and hiring art teachers, and the terrible things in your food.
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Cleveland kidnappings and normalizing dehumanization of women, 800 dead in Bangladesh building collapse
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Allison and Jamie briefly interview President Obama, discuss the Cleveland kidnapping and normalizing the dehumanization of women, why female purity is bullshit, 800 dead in Bangladesh building collapse and the importance of unions and worker solidarty, and why libraries are so important.
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When is a terrorist not a terrorist? (When he’s a white dude), u can haz class war
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Allison and Jamie talk about how terrorism is still terrorism even if it involves a white dude, the death penalty still sucks, class war and the widening divide in our two-tier society, the ongoing Gitmo hunger strike, the secret Bradley Manning pre-trial, crime dropping along with Stop and Frisk stops, Apple dodging enough in taxes to entirely cover the sequester, and the world’s first 3D-printed gun.
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Time to yell about idiots, fracking, and solitary confinement
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Allison and Jamie talk about a fracking pipeline being built in NYC, sexist idiots, solitary confinement, the fucked up nature of US prisons (on and off the grid), and the US’s two-tier society.
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