Archive for the ‘immigration’ tag
Occupy Wall Street media team arrested, 14-year-old US citizen mistakingly deported
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Allison recaps the OWS actions of Jan 3, including preemptive arrests at Grand Central Station for the crime of speaking in public, OWS media team arrested, 14-year-old US citizen mistakingly deported, and CR answers some of your mail.
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Occupy D12 port actions, journalist John Knefel arrested, glorious return of Jan Brewer
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Allison reports on the Occupy D12 actions, including the arrest of independent journalist and friend of the show John Knefel (@johnknefel). Allison speaks with John’s sister, Molly (@mollyknefel) about his arrest. Also, SCOTUS plans to consider the racist Arizona “show me your papers” law, sound cannon sales are booming, and the Miami Herald reports the charter school experiment has become a corrupt system funded by big business.
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On naughty language, Plan B, bloggers, and the year of Occupy
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A listener takes issue with Citizen Radio’s language, Obama administration refuses to relax Plan B restrictions, Oregon court rules bloggers aren’t journalists, Alabama’s racist immigration laws, and TIME names Occupy Wall Street the story of the year.
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Dispatches from Occupy Melbourne, mini-drones, record 400,000 people deported
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Jamie reports from Occupy Melbourne, Allison discusses mini-drones, the record 400,000 deportations this year in the U.S., and the Occupy Wall Street protests against police brutality and Gov. Cuomo that resulted in the arrest of author Naomi Wolf.
Special guest: The guy who’s totally NOT a narc. Oh, and Dominic Dierkes (@dominicdierkes) from Derrick Comedy.
Special announcements: Jamie will be performing in the following places..
Australia: October 20 @ Trade’s Hall in Melbourne, Friday October 21 in Sydney @ The Manning Bar, and October 22 @ Brisbane Power House.
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State Dept’s cozy relationship with Keystone lobbyist, #OWS confuses establishment media
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State Department’s cozy relationship with a Keystone lobbyist, Occupy Wall Street confuses establishment media, Chris Christie (surprise!) isn’t running, Georgia prepares to kill another potentially innocent man, Alabama’s new immigration law alienates Hispanic community, Michigan Republicans prepares to push another crazy anti-union bill through the legislature.
Special announcements: Jamie will be performing in the following places…
NYC: See Jamie at Gotham Comedy Club October 11th at 9:30. Buy tickets here.
Australia: October 20 @ Trade’s Hall in Melbourne, Friday October 21 in Sydney @ The Manning Bar, and October 22 @ Brisbane Power House.
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Part 2 with Dave Zirin on politics in sports, crazy GOP debate, 80′s Reagan defends immigration
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Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) joins the show again to talk about racism, military worship, and classism in sports. Also, Allison and Jamie dissect the crazy GOP debate and play a clip from the 1980s of George H.W. Bush and Reagan defending immigration. Meeeeemories…
Special guest: James Carville
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Iceland is badass, U.S. tries to rebrand Arab Spring, protests MSM missed
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While Greece, Spain, and Portugal are being told to shut up and take their medicine, Citizen Radio discusses how one country, Iceland, fought back against austerity…and won. Also, the U.S. seeks to rebrand the Arab Spring, CR answers some of your mail, and then discusses some of the protests (immigration, tar sands) the MSM failed to cover.
Special guest: Sigur Ros.
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Newty’s staff jumps ship, Walkerville, more activists arrested for feeding the homeless
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Newt Gringrich’s staff suddenly leaves in mass exodus. What could be brewing on the horizon? Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union policies have inspired the emergence of “Walkerville,” more activists have been arrested in Florida for daring to feed the homeless, the viciously anti-immigrant environments in Alabama and Massachusetts, Wisconsin’s internet is in danger, the state’s GOP’s bizarre and desperate plans to run spoiler candidates, and outgoing CIA chief Leon Panetta says – surprise! – Iraqis really want the U.S. to stay.
Support US Uncut’s fundraising drive so they, along with The Yes Men, can go expose the evil deeds of tax-dodging corporations in the Cayman Islands! Check out Allison’s latest article at The Nation about US Uncut and The Yes Men getting the band back together.
Jamie will be in Pittsburgh at 222 Ornsby July 1st! Come out and say hello!
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The embarrassment named John McCain, DADT, Dream Act, tax cuts, and the bipartisanship racket
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NYC: Remember to come out to Citizen Radio Live! tonight with special guests Michael Ian Black, Sam Seder, Myq Kaplan, Adam Green, and Jack Dishel! Get tickets here.
DADT has finally been repealed, no thanks to the embarrassment named John McCain who secured his passage in the “bigots” chapter of the nation’s history books.
Sadly, the Senate killed the Dream Act, thereby punishing millions of innocent children.
Allison and Jamie explain how the Senate’s tax cut plan hurts poor people (those making $20,000/yr and less will experience a tax hike,) and rewards the rich. This, and other compromises that hurt the poor, have been done in the spirit of bipartisanship, which is actually a racket designed to help corporate interests and punish the lower classes.
Finally, Jamie explains why children of negligent parents shouldn’t be punished.
Projectile vomit blowin’ in the wind
Oh, hello. I’ve been somewhat MIA the last few days because I’m currently in Seattle for Bumbershoot (Citizen Radio co-host Jamie Kilstein is performing in the festival). I’m not a music reviewer, so my inarticulate summary of my experience thus far translates: Edward Sharpe = AWESOME!
Other than dancing like a dirty hippy to a beautifully insane 10-person band, I, along with 30 million aging hippies, post-post modern hipsters, and drunken douchebag frat boys crammed into an sporting arena that could double as an internment camp to watch Bob Dylan “sing.”
Judging from Twitter, a lot of people were there just so they could say they saw Dylan before he died, which struck me as a really sick and ugly motivation. Of course, that’s why I was there, too, but I had the courtesy to leave after one of the aging hippies started to projectile vomit, which set off a horrific chain reaction of puking and near-stampeding. Most people stayed and maintained the illusion that they were there to experience a genuine cultural moment.
Since I’ve been preoccupied silently resenting most of the people at this festival/trying to score some interviews, I haven’t had time to read the news, though a couple things jumped out at me that I highly recommend reading.
- Glenzilla contrasts NBC’s propaganda-peddling (the combat troops are “out of Iraq”) with the AP’s refusal to parrot the Pentagon’s script.
- Tasers are now being used to sell Direct TV. Hilarious stuff. Also in tasering news, Washington police have killed five civilians in a single week, and two of those deaths involved tasers. (h/t Nicole)
- My friend Jenn Pozner was on the Today Show to talk about women’s roles on television. Jenn is a super savvy author, and she managed to cram a bunch of interesting facts into a typically short morning television segment.
- My favorite little, black storm cloud, Krugs, blows a hole in the recovery myth
- On this Labor Day, let’s give thanks for immigrants who helped (and continue to help) build America.
- The unstoppable, but totally-not-caused-by-global warming, fires that swept across Russia have led to a ban on exported wheat, which may in turn lead to more food riots. Also, Al Gore is still fat.
Jamie and I were on the Best Of The Left podcast the other day. You can hear the interview here. BOTL is a great podcast that exists because of listener donations, so if you value great podcasts, give ‘em a couple bucks.
