Mic Check Radio

On this anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, we take a look at the events of the day from a different point of view.  The wonderful folks over at CrimethInc have a poster titled "The Shadow of the Past Holds the Future Hostage".  This is a "Story Time with Mic Check Radio" episode where we read this thought provoking analysis in full. [Click to Listen]

This is it!  The one and only episode where we take a look at the climate change "debate".  It's caused by humans, it's not caused by humans, it's getting hotter, it's getting colder...it's enough to keep us humans busy yelling at each other and not addressing the facts behind all of these accusations.  Earth's climate is changing and it doesn't care if humans survive.  So start prepping people!  The governments of the world aren't going to help. [Click to Listen]

Who says that drones have to fly thru the air?  Why not float?  Why not drive?  Why not walk?  Or better yet run!  Or how about little tiny drones the size of a cricket?  Maybe we could put a small camera and microphone on one?  Maybe put some weapons on another?  The possibilities are nearly endless...what will this police state look like in 10 years? [Click to Listen]

Activist Cinema Episode 4 - How to Survive a Plague (2012) is a time capsule documentary that uses archival footage and interviews to take the viewer back to the late 1980's and early 1990's when ACT UP took to the streets (including Wall Street) to protest the insanely slow response from the Government, pharmaceutical companies and the medical community to the AIDS/HIV epidemic. [Click to Listen]

Way back in 1987 a government funded study, Perception of Risk, was published in the journal Science.  While the study is officially a look at how the general public evaluates and perceives risk, it also reads as a manual for the manipulation of the public's fear and the unrealistic desire to live in a "zero risk society". [Click to Listen]

Mickey Z has written a fine column over at World News Trust in which he asks “With the stakes never higher than they are now, why aren't activists

ramping up the pressure and looking beyond tactics that are allowed by those in power?”.  He answers that question with 5 fantastic observations about protests in the United States. [Click to Listen]

This episode was released on January 25th, 2013:

In December 2012 the FBI confirmed what longtime activists knew, that

the corporate state and the intelligence community are in bed together. 

Now it is time to take a look at who is doing the domestic spying on

not just OWS , but activists and citizens all over this country.  An

article over at Defense News and a video report from This Week in Defense News reveal that the CIA has its own venture capital firm (In-Q-Tel) to get in with social media companies and Twitter sells a product call "the full Twitter firehose"

to the intelligence community and to private multinational companies. 

What does the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, OICI, I&A, INR, INSCOM, Boeing,

Northrop Grummand, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin do with all this

information? [Click to Listen]

In this episode we take a look at FEMEN, a feminist activist group that started in Kiev, Ukraine and has made headlines throughout the world. [Click to Listen]

1 Skyscraper. 6 Women. No permission.  What would you do to save the Arctic? [Click to Listen]

Activist Cinema Episode 3 - The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) is a documentary told in Mr. Ellsberg's own words that traces the events leading up to and after the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. [Click to Listen]