Tell Somebody

The June 12, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody begins with a little conversation with three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly who was in Kansas City and surrounding areas for the 2014 events of Trifecta Resista, a Kansas City based coalition of groups supporting Chelsea Manning, imprisoned in Leavenworth Kansas, and opposing nuclear weapons parts production in Kansas City and drone warfare operations at Whiteman AFB. On Saturday May 31, I caught up with Kelly at the entrance to the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant at the Bannister Federal Complex as a bus was loading to take protestors to another gathering at the DeLasalle education center.

The rest of the show covers June 4, 2014 protests against a proposed Kansas City, Missouri ordinance regulating food sharing that is favored by a couple of the bigger homeless shelters and opposed by a number of individuals and organization that feed the homeless. Audio from the protest near city hall and a conversation with homeless advocate Richard Tripp are included.

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On June 5, 2014, Mary Lindsay of KC MoveToAmend was in the KKFI studio and MoveToAmend co-founder and spokesperson David Cobb was on the phone to talk about the need to overturn Citizens United, the bizarre legal fiction of corporate personhood and the strange idea that money equals speech. This was a pledge drive show, so they also related all of that to the need to support KKFI and Tell Somebody.

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The May 29, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody featured a conversation with independent journalist, historian and policy advisor Paul Street. Among other books, Street is the author Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics(2008), and They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (2014)

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Peaceworks KC board member Jane Stoever got on the phone for the May 22, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody to talk about the 2014 Trifecta Resista events coordinated by a Kansas City-based coalition of organizations advocating for the release of Chelsea Manning, the end of nuclear weapons proliferation and a halt to illegal drone wars.

Much of the rest of the show was given over to a rebroadcast of part of a conversation I recorded with independent journalist and policy advisor Paul Street shortly before Barack Obama’s first inauguration as president of the United States. Street had recently published Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics, and especially now in hindsight Street’s observations are so ‘spot on’ that I thought this interview was worth another hearing before having Street on again for the May 29, 2014 show.

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On the May 15, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, guest John Nichols talked about Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, one week ahead of an appearance in Kansas City to talk about the book.

Nichols, Washington correspondent for the Nation Magazine, co-founder of the media reform organization Free Press, and co-author with Robert McChesney of “Dollarocracy,” is coming to speak at the downtown central Library in Kansas City, MO next Thursday May 22.

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One the May 1, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, guest Christine Hines, consumer and civil justice counsel with Public Citizen, talked about how forced arbitration, which denies the people their right to sue when harmed, is spreading like a poison through industries that provide products and services to consumers, and is increasingly being added to corporate contracts with employees.

We filled out the show with an extended clip of 2004 Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb’s remarks in Kansas City on April 22 about the need to amend the US Constitution to overturn the legal fiction of ‘corporate personhood’ and the idea that money equals speech.

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On the April 24, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, we heard from Dr. Vandana Shiva, longtime peace activist Brian Terrell, and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

Author and ecological activist Dr. Shiva made some brief remarks at a dinner a day after speaking at Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City on April 17, an event broadcast live on 90.1 FM KKFI Community Radio. In her dinner remarks, she talked about the worship of cow dung, recalled receiving an “award” from a Monsanto PR flack, and explained how people can respond at a planetary scale through local action.

Brian Terrell returned to Whiteman Air Force Base, the site of his 2012 arrest resulting in a 6 month prison sentence for trying to deliver an indictment to the base commander. Terrell talked about B-2 bombers, and the irony of how drone warfare, ostensibly intended to keep war at a distance, actually brings it closer.

Ray McGovern also spoke at Whiteman AFB, starting out by calling Brian Terrell a prophet. McGovern talked about the silence of the institutional church about racist war, and comments on reporting by Sy Hersh, published that day, about Secretary of State John Kerry’s lies about a hoped for “little” war against Syria.

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David Cobb, 2004 Green Party Presidential nominee and current Move To Amend spokesman will be speaking in Springfield MO on April 21, 2014 before coming to Kansas City on April 22. Both are stops on the 2014 Barnstorming Tour, “Challenging Corporate Power & Creating Democracy.”

Cobb got on the phone with Tell Someboy for the April 10th edition of the showto talk about the upcoming Kansas City talk and the need to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the ‘corpporate personhood” and the concept of money equaling speech.

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Since first speaking with her on the phone for a segment about water privatization on the Heartland Labor Forum in 2003, I have been hoping Dr. Vandana Shiva would someday make it to Kansas City.

So I was delighted to read a couple of months ago that Cultivate Kansas City was partnering with UMKC to host a 2-day visit by Dr. Vandana Shiva on Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, 2014. There is more information on this at www.cultivatekc.org, and on a facebook event page titled

“Dr. Vandana Shiva "Cultivating Diversity, Freedom and Hope"

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned physicist, feminist, activist and author. Her many books include Water Wars, Soil Not Oil and Making Peace with the Earth.

I called her in Delhi, India and recorded a conversation broadcast on Tell Somebody on April 3, 2014.

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern kicked off a trip to Missouri with a stop at the KKFI studios on March 27, 2014 to share some of his thoughts on goings-on in Ukraine and to talk about his recent trips to England, Netherlands, and the National Press Club and the State Department in Washington.

McGovern’s current trip will take him all over Missouri, with quick stops in Lawrence, KS and Fayetteville, AR, culminating in talk at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library on Monday, April 7 at 6:30pm. That presentation is billed as “Speaking Truth to Power.” (You can RSVP for that *here*).

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