Fire Talk

Host: Nell Cole

Welcome Diane Latiker, Founder of Kids Off The Block. It was founded in July 2003 in her home. Beginning with 10 kids from the neighborhood, KOB as it known, now serves hundreds of youth across the city of Chicago.

Kids Off The Block has made a commitment to the youth in our communities. We will guide you, respect you, care for you, love you, provide a safe place for you, build a relationship with you, listen to you and help you succeed.

Their mission is to provide at-risk low income youth positive alternatives to drugs, gangs, truancy, violence and the juvenile justice services.

The services include: Tutoring/Mentoring, Music, Drama, Sports, Community Service, Out of Town Travel, GED Preparation and Life Skills.

The have created a Memorial Tribute to the children who have died. Currently there are 376 stones and 75 behind it because they ran out of room. There are in the process of building a larger one. To donate go to:  http://kobchicago.org/donate/

To learn more go to: http://kobchicago.org

To contact her call: 773-981-4077 or email her at: [email protected]

Like her Page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dianekob

Music by Abdul Kenyatta. Please check him out on youtube.com

Save A Teen / Do Something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7xM-OOyxAU&feature=youtu.be

Dean K. Hutchins is a 21st century renaissance Indigenous patriot on Occupied Turtle Island. He is of Tsalagi (Cherokee) decent. In additions to being a poet, he has been a television producer/director, novelist, and political activist. He is the author of Up Yours, Kemosabe!

We will be discussing his poem Doctrine of Discovery and  how we would behave if we found life on another planet.

He will also be reading Half Digested In The Belly Of The Beast.

To learn more go to:

Email: [email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Buffalo-Media/211108595576971

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/63929#download

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Buffalo-Media/211108595576971

check out this youtube.com video:

Doctrine Of Discovery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D7_FTdVmJs&feature=plcp

Panel:  Debora Boudreau aka Annie O Sullivan and Nell Cole

Nikki has become a one-woman whirlwind and she won’t stop until she reforms the Catholic Church.  She is creating a feature length documentary on an extraordinary woman's mission to take a stand against child abuse and confront the Catholic Church. The documentary is called Razing Hell.

She is the C.E.O of The Project KidSafe Foundation which is a national charity established to help protect Australian kids from childhood abuse, and to support survivors of abuse.

http://www.indiegogo.com/razinghell

http://www.projectkidsafe.org.au

Also in the documentary is Tom Doyle. We will be hearing audio clips from him.  He is a Dominican priest and a former chaplain and lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, a canon lawyer who wrote the section on marriage in Pope John Paul II's revised Code of Canon Law from 1983.

Twenty-five years ago he was warning the US bishops and the Vatican about the catastrophe of clerical sexual abuse, but those reports went unheeded. He has been working on behalf of the victims ever since. Tom Doyle has described the Catholic church in the United States as 'a swamp of toxic waste', and he accused the US bishops of running 'a self-serving public relations campaign by which they continue to try to flip the whole mess around, make themselves look like victims and demonize anyone who has ever challenged their collective stupidity, cruelty and total lack of compassion.'

Interview with Canon Lawyer Tom Doyle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDZMOlScs3Q&feature=share

Guest Host: Alex Mescavage

Host/Producer: Nell Cole

Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt

By Herb Silverman

Humanist Press, the publishing house of the American Humanist Association, has released as its first ebook, Candidate Without a Prayer:An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt. This autobiography by atheist activist and college math professor Herb Silverman proves it takes a sense of humor for an atheist Jew living in South Carolina to run for governor simply because the state constitution said he couldn’t.

Silverman is a national public spokesperson for the rights of nonbelievers as president of the Secular Coalition for America and a board member of the American Humanist Association. Candidate Without a Prayer details his upbringing (raised by Orthodox Jews as a “liberal, Yankee, Jew atheist with four strikes against me”), studying to become a professor in mathematics (“Part of the beauty of mathematics is seeing the strange and mysterious places that apparently simple and innocuous assumptions may lead”), and his run for the governorship of South Carolina to challenge the state constitution that stated “No person shall be eligible for the office of governor who denies the existence of the Supreme Being.”

Sharon Fratepietro, who is Fred's wife,  was raised Catholic and became atheist later in life.  She is on the board of the Institue for Humanist Studies as well as many other important causes.

Humanist Press is the publishing house of the American Humanist Association, providing material for the humanist/freethought/atheist market since 1995. (www.americanhumanist.org)

Host: Nell Cole   Guest Host: Mindy Nettifee

We will take a look at how the Doctine of Christian Discovery and the mindset that is still part of our society and laws today.

Steven Newcomb, (Shawnee/Lenape) Newcomb is co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute, author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery (2008), and a columnist for Indian Country Today Media Network. You may contact him at: [email protected]

                                                                              

Alex White Plume is the former Vice-President and Tribal President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, located in South Dakota .  Please watch his documentary entitled Standing Silent Nation.

Standing Silent Nation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNcNmh5DZ1o

Welcome Co-Host: Mindy Nettifee is a writer and accomplished performance poet. She is the author of two full-length collections Sleepyhead Assassins and Rise of the Trust Fall, and has her first collection of essays forthcoming in Fall 2012 from Write Bloody titled Glitter In The Blood - A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing. Blog, books and show updates can all be found on my website - www.thecultofmindy.com.

Panel:

Host Nell Cole

Co-Host: Mindy Nettiffee

Japanese American Resettlement Through The Lens

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA’S  (War Relocation Authority photographs)

Photographic Section, 1943-1945

Americans distrusted anyone of Japanese ancestry so Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA took thousands of photographs to convince the public otherwise, Through their skillful portraits, they strove to tell a different story: The story of a population that was unjustly deprived of Liberty but, despite all it had suffered, was willing to take the risk and reenter society before the war was even over.

We will be discussing Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and the effects on the Japanese American lives and history. Please welcome Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Ph.D., is Professor of Asian American Studies, and has a Professorship in Japanese American Redress, Internment and Community." He is the Author of JAPANESE AMERICAN RESETTLEMENT THROUGH THE LENS.

“Receiving and holding the Aratani Endowed Chair gives me a wonderful opportunity to consolidate my work in the field of Japanese American Studies,” Lane noted recently.  Among his on-going projects are (1) a study of Japanese American resettlement in Colorado, 1942-1946; (2) a book about the tens of thousands of War Relocation Authority photographs of Japanese American resettlement; and (3) a series of articles about current developments in the Japanese American community and within Japanese American Studies.          

www.heartmountain.us

Host: Russ Letica

Dr. Pamela D. Palmater speaks to us about First Nation politics in Canada – the upcoming Assembly of First Nations election, the current federal government’s dictatorial approach to “Aboriginal affairs” and the current legislative initiatives being imposed on First Nations.

Here are some topics that will be discussed on the show:

http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.ca/2012/03/afn-election-2012-stopping-assimilation.html

http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.ca/2012/03/federal-budget-2012-battle-lines-have.html

Check out her blog at: http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.com/2011/03/beyond-blood-rethinking-indigenous.html

Contact Information:                                                                

[email protected]                www.ryerson.ca/cig

Panel: Nell Cole and Mary Graybeal

Mindy Nettifee is a writer and accomplished performance poet. She is the author of two full-length collections Sleepyhead Assassinsand Rise of the Trust Fall, and has her first collection of essays forthcoming in Fall 2012 from Write Bloody titled Glitter In The Blood - A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing. Blog, books and show updates can all be found on my website - www.thecultofmindy.com.

 

Mindy believes poetry should hammer all the nerves and swell the heart and shake the sleeping. She believes we need it like we need clean air and people to smile at us every once in a while. She is director of the nonprofit poetry organization Write Now Poetry Society, which she co-founded with actress and author Amber Tamblyn. Write Now's mission is simply to build the audience for poetry, and expose as many people as possible to the good stuff (writenowpoets.org)

 

Mindy Nettifee - For Young Women Who Don't Consider Themselves Feminists (The Last Nerve)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-aD9WrfWTM

Mindy Nettifee - The First Time (The Last Nerve)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQVh_6Wsn70

Mindy Nettifee at RED(D)RESS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARLi8MmHTns

Panel: Russ Letica and Nell Cole

Our guest is Leigh Westin Ryan from Australia.  She is a Forgotten Australian and will be sharing her story with us.

Forgotten Australians is a term applied to the more than 500,000 non-indigenous, child migrants and indigenous children who experienced care in institutions or outside a home setting during the 20th century. Many of these children were abusedphysically, emotionally, or sexuallywhile in care. Survivors to this day still suffer the effects of the child abuse.

On Monday 16 November 2009 the Prime Minister Mr Kevin Ruddand Opposition Leader Mr Malcolm Turnbullissued a motion of an apology to the Forgotten Australians on behalf of the nation. The motion was not passed until the 26th of November.

To learn more go to:

http://www.forgottenaustralians.com/home.html

http://www.forgottenaustralians.org.au/

Music by:

 

Mark Torr

Leanne Hawkins

Graham Evans

Welcome to We speak your history series. This series was created to speak the true history of this world from the people who have lived it.  Speaking for the Forgotten Australians is Leigh Westin Ryan.

Forgotten Australians is a term applied to the more than 500,000 non-indigenous, child migrants and indigenous children who experienced care in institutions or outside a home . Children were shipped from Britain to Australia, mainly from poor backgrounds, often without the knowledge of their parents.

There was a history of neglect and cruelty by institutional staff and management.  Physical deprivation was common. Children were cold and hungry. Hard physical work was part of their daily lives. Particularly demeaning and very difficult tasks were given as punishments. Punishments for very small offences or perceived disobedience could be harsh and cruel – severe physical attacks and beatings are reported by many. Alternatively, children were locked in a cupboard or a cell in solitary confinement or made to stand for many hours in one position. The children suffered abandonment, loss of family, neglect, exploitation, brutality, sexual assault, poor health care, poor education and loss of Identity. Their names were replaced with numbers.

An Apology was issued on November 16, 2009 by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

To learn more go to:

http://www.forgottenaustralians.com/home.html

Music by:

Mark Torr- A Call for Justice

Momma by Leanne Hawkins

Graham Evans- Spirit of Australia, Children of Australia and Children of the Past.