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Welcome to ClassWars, the home of Activist Radio, a weekly program for all Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the US population. Class wars have been going on since the beginning of recorded history. As societies become more powerful and wealthy, they often become more corrupt. At the end of each cycle, a few rich families Class wars is a dirty term in our media, which always implies that America is above such crudeness. But the very rich are not above that at all. They have been waging an especially intense attack on working people since the 1970's, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, class wars are not fought with tanks and bombs, but with crooked politicians, right wing think tanks and corporate owned media. For the very rich to maintain and increase their share of the national wealth, they have to fool you. How else could one percent of our population call the shots for ninety-nine percent? Activist Radio will attempt to show you how the few richest of our citizens lie to the rest of us to expand their power and wealth. They are sick with greed, of course. But so far, the rest of us are what might be worse, and that is stupid. None of information presented is particularly new or really very hard to find, although you won't read it in the mainstream press or see it on TV. If that is what you are relying on for news, you are being suckered, my friend. I don't know how to put it any nicer. So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio every Thursday from 5:00 to 6:00 PM on WVKR in Poughkeepsie (91.3 FM). And if the word spreads that the emperor has no clothes and you want to be entertained from another part of the globe, point your browser to: Recent stories on Activist Radio may have you thinking about some important issues. Put another way, you could be wondering if most of what we say is totally made up, since you probably haven't heard it on TV. But here are some links on stories we have done. Get the full stories on: News fashioned by the people in charge, the corporations and your government. Each week, we cover the stories that are just left out of the US propaganda machine.
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Listen to recent shows streamed for the Internet: If a show does not play, right click Guest: Steve Hopkins, local farm activist, talks about healthy and sustainable products that are coming to challenge the huge agribusiness monopolies in our country. Poughkeepsie Farm Project SONG: Eliza Gilkyson, Land of Milk and Honey...Milk and Honey Guest: Reverend David Billings, anti-racist trainer and organizer with The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond, talks about his ideas for bringing racial peace to America. (invited back to complete his interview) The People's Institute SONG: Jon Fromer, Hail to the Thieves, Volume III: Songs to Take Our Country Back!...Welcome Guest: Joel Tyner, social justice advocate and member of the Dutchess Co. Legislature, talks about the recent corporate assault on Social Security. www.DutchessDemocracy.blogspot.com SONG: Joan Baez, Let Freedom Sing - This Land Is Your Land II...A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Ken O'Keefe, survivor of the Mavi Marmara attack, talks about direct action and his work against the occupation of Iraq and Gaza. (Part I) Ken O'Keefe on Pulse SONG: Peter Tosh, Equal Rights...Apartheid Ken O'Keefe, survivor of the Mavi Marmara attack, talks about direct action and his work against the occupation of Iraq and Gaza. (Part II) Aloha Palestine CIC SONG: The Boys Choir of Harlem, We Shall Overcome...We Shall Overcome Rebecca Vilkomerson, National Director for Jewish Voice for Peace, will be talking to us about the importance of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in convincing Israel to end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. (technical difficuties meant delaying this interview until later in September) SONG: Pete Seeger, Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger...Bring Them Home Click below to bring up Activist Radio in iTunes: Check out the Some Favorite Lies
Crony capitalists have always been with us. Here is Boss Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall sometime in the 1860's.
Milton Friedman, guru of deregulation and self interest, made millionaires into billionaires by robbing everyone else. Was a high wall there that tried to stop me |
Abraham Lincoln |
And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society. Benito Mussolini |
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. Franklin D. Roosevelt |
A revolution is a class struggle. It was one class - the oppressed, and that other class - the oppressor. Fred Hampton |
Surely, in the history of lies told to the population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets, withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret: that there are classes with different interests in this country. To ignore that--not to know that the history of our country is a history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant, corporation against worker, rich against poor--is to render us helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in power. Howard Zinn |
The clinical definition of fascism is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power. Ralph Nader |
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. Warren Buffet |
This ($700 billion bailout) was the largest single act of class warfare in the modern history of this country. Dennis Kucinich |
I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back. Naomi Klein |