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East Village Radio

Hey Bloggers, and there’s another event going on this weekend, that fashion weak weekend. I know because this weeks New York Press says so. East Village Radio, that really cool seemingly underground and above ground internet radio station, in that really cool seemingly gentrified and genocided neighborhood in that City of New York, is having a music festival tomorrow at the South Street Seaport. And is it still Labor Day weekend this weekend. Oh, that was this past weekend. This week seems to be that fashion week again as well as another one of those impending hurricanes in the news in planet mother earths weather. And their festival lineup is as follows:

East Village Radio Music Festival debuts September 6th, hosted by KRS-ONE, featuring free performances by:

Boris, Mark Ronson, Flying Lotus, High Places, Devin the Dude, Awesome Color, Vivian Girls, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Ólöf Arnalds and John Oliver.

East Village Radio marks its fifth anniversary by debuting the East Village Radio Music Festival Saturday, September 6th on Pier 17 at South Street Seaport. The East Village Radio Music Festival will be streamed live for anyone who will not be able to join us at the event.

Hosted by the legendary KRS-ONE, acts slated to perform throughout the day, in addition to Boris are Mark Ronson, Awesome Color, Vivian Girls, High Places, Dr. Lonnie Smith, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Flying Lotus, 4-IZE, Devin the Dude, Ólöf Arnalds, John Oliver, Lil’ Dusty, Bunnybrains, Hex Message, Crystal Stilts, Woods, and BIG A little a.

Also, featured on site at the festival will be exclusive visual imagery compiled by Anthology Film Archives.

In addition to the diverse musical lineup offered at the free day-long festival, Frank Caters will feature for purchase a menu of special grilled items along with other dishes chosen solely for the festival.

For the festival, East Village Radio will run free shuttle bus service for fans between the station’s First Avenue LOCATION and the Seaport from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Have a great music festival weekend.
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Mitch’s Picks

Hey Bloggers, and so in my attempt to follow the latest of the WBAI radio drama series, I came across this email from Mitchell Cohen on one of the many yahoo groups that I have subscribed to lately. Mitchell Cohen has this really cool radio program, Steal This Radio that rocks and is full of great listening. The following are some of Mitchell’s most recent picks. You can listen live for his latest picks of music, poetry and everything else tonight at 6pm on Tribeca Radio. And Mitchell also has his picks for the WBAI 2007 LSB elections that can be found on Indymedia. WBAI elections are happening now and for once might change the direction of the station! Power to the people. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.

STEAL THIS RADIO #23
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2007, 11 a.m., and
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 6 pm

on Tribeca Radio (Listen Live)
Archived/Podcast after Oct. 30.

Much music and poetry in this week’s show!

Mitchel Cohen recites his poem, “To Comrades Fallen”, for Brad Will and Susan Blake.

Mitchel also gives his picks for the WBAI radio (99.5 FM) listener-member elections to the Local Station Board, and discusses some of the troubles at that listener-sponsored commercial-free Pacifica station.

And, sandwiched by much great music by Manu Chao, Anne Feeney, Dave Rovics, and Phil Ochs, Mitchel reads Henry Miller’s insights and reminiscences about the doctrine of cleanliness. Mitchel ends with another one of his poems “Be Sure to Wear A Condom when You’re Shooting Up (Stay at Home)”. Don’t go outside, don’t do ANYthing, stay home and watch TV ….

Music:
Manu Chao: “Clandestino, ” “Desaparecido, ” and Bongo Bong

Anne Feeney: “Let Their Heads Roll,” and “Too Much Monkey Business”

Phil Ochs: “I Ain’t a-Marchin’ Anymore” , and “The War Is Over”

Dave Rovics: “Jenin”

and, opening every show, Mario Savio’s impromptu 1964 speech “Unless You’re Free the Machine will be Prevented from Working at All,” which summed up and immortalized the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and — along with the Civil Rights organizing in the South — kicked off the student movements all across the United States.
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Ballad For A Radio Drama

And the ballots are in. Or at least arriving in the mail now. I have been following this Pacifica Foundation WBAI Local Station Board 2007 elections radio drama for a while now. WBAI 99.5 Pacifica Radio is a listener sponsored, community, non commercial radio station in the New York City area that supports free speech and gives an alternative voice to the people. And from hearing all of the drama rama stories, their administration seems to reflect and mirror a microcosm of a current administration as Pacifica network seems to have a history of turmoil and division amongst its members that goes way back in time with its listener sponsored board and its behind the scenes or not so behind the scenes stories on how its radio station functions. And it is seemingly a continuation of a story told many times, many ways, many years ago. And now the candidate election endorsements and recommendations are being posted on all of these yahoo groups and social web 2.0 software that I have subscribed to and have been reading and watching lately in an attempt to follow this radio drama online. And the discussions and emails are so many that ones inbox can fill up quickly so much that it sometimes becomes seemingly impossible to follow them all. So the following are some email excerpts that I received today from that New Pacifica Yahoo Group and some of the many tons of email groups that are to be found in the ongoing WBAI radio drama. If you happen to be interested in following this drama also, you can visit Pacifica Foundation to learn more. Is it possible to help save WBAI and the world? What would be left without the voice of WBAI. Power To The People. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

Hello All,

If you haven’t already received it, you soon will receive your ballot for the WBAI Local Station Board (LSB) 2007 election. Please don’t lose your ballot — vote!

I’m endorsing —

And…

All of the above-named candidates are sincerely committed to helping to right the station by hiring station management that will strengthen & revitalize programming, restore the listener-base and rebuild financial stability.

And…

This is a critical election for WBAI. I believe it is absolutely essential that “So and so” candidates take a majority of the seats on the Local Board if WBAI is to survive, and perhaps even Pacifica itself. As I wrote to you a few weeks ago, WBAI is bankrupt. It is paying its bills by borrowing money from the Pacifica National Office which is borrowing the money from other Pacifica stations. This whole house of cards could come down if the problems at WBAI are not solved quickly

And…

and that is one of the causes of the current bankruptcy. Other causes are overall mis-management, waste, poor staff morale, not enough good programming, and competition from other alternative media sources, both on the radio and on the internet

And…

Again, please vote — Every vote matters. With “ranked choice” voting just one vote can determine who wins the last seat on the board.

Thanks, and best regards,

And…

Dear WBAI Listener-Member,

The ballots flutter in like moths to the flame of our electoral
candle …. They began arriving yesterday. If you’d paid $25 or more
to WBAI in the past year, you should receive your ballot any day now. If you don’t receive it within a week, please call the Local Election Supervisor Dale Ratner.

This year, the elections are VERY important toward the future of
WBAI, and whether the station will continue to exist and be
strengthened, or whether it will be bankrupted by a bunch of “So and so” in the mis-named “So and so” faction who are doing the dirty work of the “So and so” in Washington, whether they are aware of it or not.

And…

I am recommending that we all vote for the following “So and so” candidates for the WBAI Local Station Board, and in the following order (the order is very important in this election):

And…

Hi all. I do a weekly show on WBAI, Thursday evenings… Aside from the fact that we need more programming that more people want to listen to,… and I’ve been doing my show since 1995 – and I barely know anything about the candidates who are running for LSB. How can we expect the listeners to know? How can we run a station well where it’s so easy to game the voting system?

And…

Thanks for speaking this aloud. I agree with most of what you’re saying though I am not completely in agreement with you on the topic of national programming….. But I agree with you all down the line in regard to “So and so”. The way the LSB currently operates warrants its swift abolition. It seems to operate as the long arm of everything corrupt at WBAI and Pacifica.

And the list goes on and on.
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Radio Drama

Somehow I found myself following the story of the latest WBAI radio drama today. WBAI 99.5 Pacifica Radio is a listener sponsored radio station in the New York City area and one of the last community radio stations around that gives an alternative voice to the people. I have been listening to their radio station for seemingly forever. They are having their Local Station Board Elections now and so they had one of their candidate election debate forums and one of the many listener input and feedback radio programs today. And a radio drama indeed it is to hear the drama ramas of a radio station that seems to be in turmoil and whose radio drama goes way back in time with its listener sponsored board and its behind the scenes or not so behind the scenes stories on how its radio station functions. And everyone or hopefully everyone in their elections seems to want to save WBAI from itself and a seemingly continuation of a story told many years ago. And hearing all of these drama ramas at their meetings seems to reflect and mirror a microcosm of a current administration. What will be left without the voice of WBAI. Is it possible to help save WBAI and the world. Power To The People. And what does this have to do with a No Police State? The following are the candidates for this years WBAI 2007 Local Station Board Elections:
Listener-Sponsor candidates are: James Ross, Stefan S. Neustadter, Carla Cubit, Pat Logan, Robert M. Gold, Bernardo Palombo, Jennifer Jager, Albert B. Solomon, Rolando Bini, Kenneth Laufer, Marion Borsenstein, Tibby Brooks, Omowale Clay, Lisa Davis, Bok-keem Nyerre, Lee McClure-Come, Wellington Echegaray, Seth Goldberg, Sara Flounders, Don Mathieson and Marianella Trioche.
Staff candidates are: Delphine Blue, R. Paul Martin, Reggie Johnson, Vajra Kilgour, Cerene Roberts, Louis Reyes Rivera and Max Schmid.
Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.
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WBAI Radio Drama

Somehow I found myself at a WBAI local station board radio committee meeting today for listener elections or something like that. WBAI 99.5 Pacifica Radio is a listener sponsored radio station in the New York City area that I have been listening to for seemingly forever. And so they had one of many election meetings today and one of the many listener input and feedback meetings today. And a radio drama indeed it is to hear the drama ramas of a radio station that seems to be in turmoil and whose radio drama goes way back in time with its listener sponsored board and its behind the scenes or not so behind the scenes stories on how its radio station functions. And everyone at the meeting seems to want to save WBAI from itself and a seemingly continuation of a story told many years ago. And hearing all of these drama ramas at this meeting seems to reflect and mirror a microcosm of a current administration. WBAI is one of the last community radio stations around who gives an alternative voice to the people in this town. What will be left without the voice of WBAI. Is it possible to help save WBAI and the world. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
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TV and the Radio

I have been internet addicted lately and could still use that anti internet get sleep soon routine. So much that I do not watch much television or listen to much radio. And my eyes are bleary in the process. And for recreation I have wondered about the times that I do find myself watching television or listening to the radio. Is TV and radio full of crap and garbage these days? I no longer need a gym membership to workout for I find myself flipping and turning the dial on these appliances non stop looking for decent, fluent, non commercial radio or decent non commercial television, or even decent television. It’s as if the song “57 channels and nothing on” is playing all the time. There seems to be more commercials on these devices than content itself. Sometimes I find public television or listener sponsored radio bearable. Does decent programming and entertainment exist anymore? Whatever decent could mean. I would think it does, somewhere. Maybe I am just getting older… Have a great day.

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