60 http://www.classwars.org/index.htm Activist Radio is a weekly program broadcast on WVKR, 91.3 in Poughkeepsie, NY. We play music and interview those interested in peace and justice issues. en-us Acorn Film Music and talk to get you politically active. Fred Nagel 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. Each week, we bring you history you never learned in high school, news you do not see on TV, and some alternative music to get you politically active. Fred Nagel fred@classwars.org Fred Nagel February 2, 1779...Anthony Benezet and John Woolman, both prominent Quakers, urged refusal to pay taxes for war against Indians in Pennsylvania. Why is it that the generals and politicians are remembered in our textbooks, rather than the visionaries who worked tirelessly for a better America. http://www.classwars.org/feb2.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 2 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST no 1:01:17 politics, left, progressive, media, green, antiwar, noncorporate Fred Nagel January 26, 1840...French politician, writer and revolutionary, Edouard Vaillant, is born. The Paris Commune was hailed in France as the first coming to power of the working class during the Industrial Revolution. http://www.classwars.org/jan26.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:00:00 EST no 1:01:19 politics, left, progressive, media, green, antiwar, noncorporate Fred Nagel January 19, 1929...Revolutionary Leon Trotsky goes into exile from the Soviet Union. By 1927, Stalin was using the Soviet secret police to harass and expel opponents, a similar tactic to that used in the early 1930s by Hitler. http://www.classwars.org/jan19.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:00:00 EST no 1:01:50 politics, left, progressive, media, green, antiwar, noncorporate Fred Nagel January 12, 1971...Reverend Philip Berrigan, founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship anti-Vietnam War organization, is indicted for conspiring to kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. The FBI has long used unethical provocateurs to curb legitimate dissent in America. http://www.classwars.org/jan12.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:00:00 EST no 1:01:50 politics, left, progressive, media, green, antiwar, noncorporate Fred Nagel January 5, 1968...A mass movement advocating political and economic reforms, including increased freedom of speech, travel and an end to state censorship, began in Czechoslovakia. The Prague Spring call for the end to state corruption and the restoration of power to working people reminds us of OWS, and not of Twenty first Century corporate America. Dubcek would have been more comfortable in Zuccotti Park than in the august halls of our Wall Street plutocracy. http://www.classwars.org/jan5.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:00:00 EST no 1:01:40 politics, left, progressive, media, green, antiwar, noncorporate Fred Nagel December 29, 1996...War weary guerrilla and government leaders in Guatemala signed an accord ending 36 years of civil conflict. Perhaps the biggest lie of the American Empire is the assumption of US good intentions in the rest of the world. In Guatemala, the US was an active participant in genocide. http://www.classwars.org/dec29.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST no 1:01:14 politics, left, progressive, media, green, antiwar, noncorporate