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On Friday, November 16, 2012, The New America Foundation, www.newamerica.net, hosted an event, Dark Money, Media, and the 2012 Campaign.

From the New America Foundation website for the event:

"The first presidential campaign since the 2010 Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision resulted in the most expensive election season ever. Anonymous and unaccountable donors poured in unprecedented amounts of money. While new media, newspapers and radio collected some of this money, the lion’s share ended up in the bank accounts of television broadcast companies. For months the public was bombarded with a tsunami of ads from political campaigns, Super PACs and other shadowy groups—ads that in many cases were only loosely connected to the truth.

Aside from creating windfall profits for broadcasters in swing states, what impact did dark money have on democratic discourse in the 2012 election at the state and the national level? With so much money in the mix can media really fulfill its role to watchdog politics and separate fact from fiction? Is there evidence that Citizens United needs to be overturned? Have new rules to improve broadcaster transparency and disclosure helped? And are there other reforms that need to be on the table before the next election season?"

The November 20, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured the opening remarks made at this events by former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, currently with Common Cause.

This show also includes a repeat of an interview with Kansas City cab driver and homelessness advocate Richard Tripp about his www.coppinc.com winter event for the homeless.

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The November 13, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features author and cabdriver Richard Tripp, founder and director of Care of Poor People Inc (COPP Inc) about his upcoming Winter Survival Event to provide food and clothing to the homeless, and former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, currently Common Cause’s Senior Advisor for their Media and Democracy Reform Initiative, responds to a Los Angeles Times article about possible FCC plans to relax media cross-ownership restrictions.

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Tell Somebody caught up with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman on the road in Oregon ahead of her November 1 Kansas City visit and fundraiser for KKFI. and broadcast it on the October 30, 2012 edition of the show. Goodman was on a 100 city book tour for The Silenced Majority - Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope with co-author Denis Moynihan.

After that, we heard from Frances Fox Piven, the professor Glenn Beck loves to hate.

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Common Cause President/CEO Bob Edgar returned to Tell Somebody to talk about a new report by Common Cause and Demos that examines laws regulating the activities of volunteer poll watchers and organized efforts to challenge the eligibility of voters in 10 key states.

Plus, we re-air a 2004 interview with former Senator George McGovern, who died October 21, 2012, at the age of 90. McGovern talked about his then-new book, The Essential America - Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition, the Iraq war, the Palestine-Israeli conflict, and about his work as a roving ambassador on hunger for the United Nations.

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The Stamp Mobile, a "crazy money marking contraption" on a cross-country trip in support of amending the US Constitution to overturn 'corporate personhood,' is making a stop in Kansas City. Tell Somebody talked to the drivers, Ashley Sanders & Renae Widdison, on the October 16, 2012 edition of the show.

Also, we hear from Honduran activist Tomas Gómez Membreño who is touring the Midwest, including a stop in Kansas City on October 22, speaking on Unites States Involvement in Honduras and the Effects on Indigenous Peoples.

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On the October 9, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, Greg Palast returns to a pledge drive edition of the show to talk about his new book, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits - How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps.

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Revolutionary New York disc jockey Bob Fass is the subject of a new documentary - Radio Unnameable. Filmmakers Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson and Bob Fass himself talk about it on this edition of Tell Somebody.

From the film's website: Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly 50 years. Long before today’s innovations in social media, Fass utilized the airwaves for mobilization encouraging luminaries and ordinary listeners to talk openly and take the program in surprising directions. Radio Unnameable is a visual and aural collage that pulls from Bob Fass’s immense archive of audio from his program, film, photographs, and video that has been sitting dormant until now. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.

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Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Loyola University law professor Bill Quigley and retired diplomat and Army Col. Ann Wright were in Kansas City on Sunday, September 9, 2012 to speak against unmanned drone warfare and in support of protestors Ron Faust and Brian Terrell who went to trial the next day in Jefferson City for trespassing at Whiteman Air Force Base. Terrell and Faust were convicted.

The September 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features a short interview with Ramsey Clark and audio from speeches at the Kansas City event.

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On Thursday, August 30, 2012, at the same time as the Kansas City Council was voting, reluctantly, but decisively, to put a citizens initiative about future city involvement in nuclear weapons production boondoggles on the ballot, and in the wake of an announcement of Centerpoint Properties, developer of the new Kansas City nuclear weapons plant, as redeveloper of the old facility, the Bannister Federal Complex Community Advisory Panel (CAP) met to talk about what the Sierra Club's Scott Dye has called a 360 acre festering hellhole. The CAP was established by Inter-agency Environmental Leadership Council (EPA and GSA et al) to be an "independent, community-oriented advisory panel whose members will individually provide input to the IELC about environmental and redevelopment issues. The long-term objective is that the Bannister Federal Complex would continue to be a viable economic asset to the community. The CAP will also act as a communication conduit and forum for stakeholders within the complex and surrounding community."

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Tell Somebody attended the CAP meeting and came out with audio of alphabet soup answers to simple questions.

Vocational Rehablilitation (VR), a division of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, contracts with a private nonprofit corporation, Community Employment Incorporated (CEI), to provide employment services for Missourians with disabilities. Some former CEI employees and clients aren't happy with how CEI is operating, and are working with the Kansas City branch of IWW in hopes of improving things. CEI and Vocational Rehabilitation personnel declined invitations to appear on the show, so on the August 28, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody we talked to an IWW representative, two former CEI employees, and a VR/CEI client.

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