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FREE FORUM with TERRENCE McNALLY
Sunday Feb 24th --1-2pm PT (4-5pm ET)
90.7fm in LA, 98.7fm in Santa Barbara
streaming at kpfk.org
Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi,
5 Broken Cameras
Jonathan Emord,
Free Speech, FDA, and Nutritional Health Claims
Paula Caplan,
When Johnny & Jane Come Marching Home
Fund Drive Show - Support Free Forum, KPFK
818-985-5735 / kpfk.org
WBAI 99.5fm in NY Tuesday 10pm
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This is a fund drive show. My guests have all offered wonderful thank you gifts for you when you call in during the hour to donate to KPFK, Pacifica, and Free Forum.
I'll play clips from my recent interview with EMAD BURNAT and GUY DAVIDI, co-directors of Palestine's first Academy Award nominee, documentary 5 BROKEN CAMERAS. Donate and you can pick up a copy of the DVD.
I'll speak with constitutional attorney JONATHAN EMORD, who's won several cases v FDA, granting the right to make accurate health claims for natural treatments. Donate and you can pick up his books and passes to Health Freedom Expo, Long Beach, March 1-3.
Finally I'll talk with Harvard psychologist PAULA CAPLAN about how we can all help war veterans. Donate and you can pick up her book, as well as BODY of WAR DVDs and passes to screening of BODY of WAR in Santa Monica February 28th. I'll also have passes to TED's quirky cousin (no relation), the BIL Conference in Long Beach, March 1-3.
I'll be bouncing back and forth between these conversations and my pitches seeking your support. Healthy democracy and a healthy society depend on an informed citizenry. And KPFK depends on you.
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Recent interviews archived for listening and download:
� Dave Zirin, Game Over; Nation Magazine sports editor
� Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras
� David Goldhill, Catastrophic Care
� Elaine Pagels, Revelations
� Lester Brown, Full Planet, Empty Plates
� Michael Lewis, Moneyball; The Big Short; Boomerang
� Connie Rice, Power Concedes Nothing
� Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries, Tattoos on the Heart
� Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation
� George McGovern, 11/21/2005, One Bright Shining Moment
� Janine Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
� Van Jones, Rebuild the Dream ...and many more
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March 3rd, March 10th: Fund Drive Shows
Danny Kennedy, The Rooftop Solar Revolution Jonah Sachs, Winning the Story Wars Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras
Dan Pallotta, Charity Case Michael Lind, Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
Mark (Puck) Mykleby / New America Foundation, nationalstrategicnarrative.org
Antonio Damasio, Self Comes to Mind
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Fund Drive -- Phone 818-985-5735 online at kpfk.orgPremiums to choose from when you donate: |
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5 BROKEN CAMERAS DVD
5 Broken Cameras, nominated for best documentary Academy Award, is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village confronting Israeli settlements and the barrier wall. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his son, the footage was turned into a powerful film by co-directors Guy Davidi and Burnat.
$1 Tickets to BIL Conference -- March 1-3 in Long Beach Bilconference.com, a quirky, populist, unconference, takes place in Long Beach right after TED. Participant-powered, BIL is a wild mix of technologists, scientists, artists, hackers, and those with a passion for community awareness. Talks will focus on innovation, social change, interpersonal relationships, community, education, life extension, space, robotics, startups, DIY, and art.
DVD: BODY OF WAR: The True Story of an Anti-War Hero Body of War (producer: Phil Donahue, director: Ellen Spiro) won Best Documentary, National Board of Review, was nominated for Best Documentary by the Producer's Guild, and short-listed for an Oscar nomination. After serving in Iraq for less than a week, Tomas Young is paralyzed from a bullet to his spine. A naked, honest portrayal of what life is like for him is intercut with scenes of debate in Congress about invading Iraq.
Tickets to BODY OF WAR SCREENING plus PANEL
February 28th -- Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
Screening of powerful award-winning film, BODY OF WAR (producer: Phil Donahue, director: Ellen Spiro) and panel discussion about how to help veterans. Panel: Harvard psychologist, writer and veterans advocate Paula Caplan; Hollywood Cares (non-profit for veterans) head, veteran Tom Fick; two participants in Welcome Johnny and Jane Home Project, that involves every civilian listening to the story of a war veteran.
Book: WHEN JOHNNY and JANE CAME MARCHING HOME:
How All of Us Can Help Veterans by Paula Caplan
For more than a decade author, Harvard psychologist Paula Caplan, has listened to the stories of veterans. Thousands of therapists and huge amounts of psychiatric drugs have not stemmed the tide of veterans' suicides and other serious problems. Caplan's research shows that simply having a civilian listen to a veteran's story, regardless of the politics of each, is healing for the veteran and transformative for the listener.
One-day pass to HEALTH FREEDOM EXPO
Book: RISE OF TYRANNY by Jonathan Emord Since the 1930s Congress has delegated legislative, executive, and judicial powers to over 200 independent regulatory commissions/agencies who now enact over 90% of federal law. Ruled by unelected individuals largely unaccountable to Courts and Congress, agencies often become captives of the industry they regulate, as the FDA is captive to the pharmaceutical industry. Learn what this means and what citizens can do about it.
Book: GLOBAL HEALTH CENSORSHIP by Jonathan Emord Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Emord explains the establishment of free speech in the founding of the US. Today government censorship of health information promotes drugs as the only lawful means to prevent and treat disease, while science reveals dietary ingredients to have disease prevention and treatment effects. Emord explains how litigation and legislation can give the public access to information that can save lives.
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On Free Forum we explore the lives, work and ideas of individuals I suspect hold pieces of the puzzle of a world that just might work. We look at new, innovative and provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics and media. It's all based on the fact that I believe we can do better and I want to find out how.
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Thursday February 28th 6:30pm
Aero Theatre on Montana in Santa Monica
Find out how YOU can help heal our veterans.
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What Will and Will Not Stop Acts of Violence
by Paula Caplan -- Psychology Today -- 01-21-2013
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Who among us does not yearn when we hear the lyrics of John Lennon's song, "Imagine": "Imagine all the people living life in peace" and "Nothing to kill or die for.
In the nonviolent tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we celebrate today, and in the wake of the Newtown shootings, we search for ways to live in peace. But the intensity of the outcry about Newtown, which was undeniably a tragedy, also highlights the lack of outcry over decades about the gun violence that has led to the killings of enormous numbers of poor children and children of color.
The money and resulting power of the National Rifle Association (NRA) have gone far to distract us from what really would reduce gun violence: Reducing the availability of guns, especially those with the greatest power to kill. I have read that the rate of suicides by people serving in the Israeli Army led to that army's establishment of this rule: That when their soldiers went home on leave, they had to leave their guns behind. The suicide rate declined.
I am a clinical and research psychologist, so my brief remarks today are about not only the NRA's stupid claim that "Guns don't kill people. People kill people" but also about the widely acclaimed proposals since Newtown for the implementation of background checks on people diagnosed as mentally ill and more treatment of those so diagnosed.
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How My Friend and Current Oscar Nominee Emad Burnat
Was Held and Threatened with Deportation at LAX
by by Michael Moore -- 02-20-2013
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Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. The dinner was an occasional tradition my wife and I started six years ago when we took our fellow nominees (we were nominated for 'Sicko') out for a meal to get to know each other. The Academy liked the idea, so this year it is holding dinners during Oscar Week for each of the separate branches' Oscar nominees.
Thus, last night, as an elected Governor of the Documentary Branch, I and my fellow Governors - Michael Apted and Rob Epstein - were co-hosting the nominee dinner for the documentary filmmakers. But one of the nominated directors was not there - Emad Burnat, the co-director of the Oscar-nominated '5 Broken Cameras.' This exceptional, award-winning movie about how Emad's village in the West Bank used non-violence to oppose the Israeli's government's decision to build a wall straight through their farms and village - only to see (and capture on camera) Israeli soldiers shooting unarmed Palestinian civilians - had become the first Palestinian documentary ever to be nominated by the Academy.
While we awaited Emad's arrival from the airport - he and his family had already spent nearly six hours at an Israeli checkpoint as he was attempting to drive to Amman to catch their plane - I received an urgent text from Emad, written to me from a holding pen at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Here is what it said, in somewhat broken English:
"Urgent - I am in the air port la
they need more information why I come here
Invitation or something
Can you help
They will send us back if you late
Emad"
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Millenials Will Save Us!
by David Burstein -- 02-16-2013
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Excerpted from "Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World."
Last Boomers, Gen Xers and pundits like Thomas Friedman have it wrong: Gen Y's pragmatic idealism can create real change
It's November 2004 in the nation's election battleground, the swing state of Ohio. It's raining hard as voters, many fed up with the Bush administration and looking for a chance to express themselves, are coming out to vote. Lines are particularly long in Gambier, Ohio, a small town of about 2,000 people. Gambier's major industry is Kenyon College, which sprawls through the heart of town. Like many small liberal-arts colleges, Kenyon was a bastion of youth activism in the 1960s and '70s. But in 2004, although the Kenyon campus is a beehive of intellectual activity, political and social activism are no longer the hallmarks of the college experience.
Many freshmen and sophomores are thrilled to be voting for the first time, especially in such a hotly contested election. One in particular, then 19-year-old freshman Matt Segal, heads to the polling place at 6 a.m. and votes quickly. He stays to volunteer at the polls, but he soon sees long lines forming, forcing people to wait for hours for their turn in the booth. Those who stick it out will, in some cases, end up waiting for 12 hours or more. That Election Day, the last person finally cast their ballot at 4 a.m. "It was injustice," Matt tells me years later; I can still hear his outrage. "I was frustrated, but I was also energized. I said, 'We've got to do something about this. This isn't the way democracy was sold to me.'"
And Matt did something. He called Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who represented nearby Cleveland and was closely monitoring voter turnout in the state. That call launched an unusual partnership: Matt, a young, newfound political activist, and Tubbs Jones, a seasoned politician with a grandmotherly vibe. After the 2004 election, Tubbs Jones became a leading proponent of election reform and a champion for young voters. She was so concerned about the disenfranchisement that Matt and other Ohioans (young and old, black and white) had experienced that she objected on the floor of Congress to the necessary certification of the 2004 presidential election results, forcing the House of Representatives to debate election reform for hours.
For Matt, the simple act of walking in to cast his ballot on November 2004 would alter the course of his life. A month later, he would be called to testify before Congress on his experiences. In 2007, he founded the Student Association for Voter Empowerment, also known as SAVE. Today the organization is called Our Time, and it advocates for young Americans on all issues from voter empowerment to economic opportunity.
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