NEWS from TUC Radio and Maria Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:41:58 -0500 (CDT) April 2, 2008 From Maria and TUC Radio (Please forgive any duplicates) Dear All, In my last e-mail in December 2007 I had good news for you. Five years after I started building my two room home I began using my new TUC Radio office in my straw bale house in Northern California. In December I crawled up a ladder from the construction site below. Now the stairs are finished and I managed to come up here without spilling my tea. My pear and plum trees have set the first blossoms and the wild turkeys come by every morning. I received so many requests for pictures that I asked a friend to help me make a slide show. It is on the newest programs section of my web site. Next week I will pour one of the two remaining sections of the floor downstairs. Then I'm beginning to do the carpentry for the arbor that will support my solar panels. I'm still hoping to transfer all of TUC Radio and my life here by the end of the summer. Rents in San Francisco have gone up beyond my means. Please take a look at the pictures and newest programs at I am fund raising for the solar system that I need to produce radio up here in the wilderness. Please help with a donation if you can! Best wishes, Maria PS. If you live in the Bay Area please come by on Sunday, April 6 - I will be one of the speakers. Info. is on the web page HERE ARE THE NEW PROGRAMS FROM DECEMBER 2007 TO NOW A314 On the 40th anniversary of King's murder: WHO KILLED MARTIN LUTHER KING? (Contains archival recordings never heard before.) In 1977 the family of Martin Luther King engaged an attorney and friend, Dr. William Pepper. They no longer believed that James Earl Ray was the killer. The evidence they uncovered was put before a jury in Memphis, TN, in November 1999. 70 witnesses testified under oath, 4,000 pages of transcripts described that evidence, much of it new, pointing to the real killers. It took the jury 59 minutes to come back with their decision that exonerated James Earl Ray, who had already died in prison. To this day, with very few exceptions, the public does not know that this trial took place and what the outcome was. This program presents key parts of the closing argument by Dr. William Pepper. He is the author of the book, An Act of State, The Execution of Martin Luther King. A313 Hermann Ott, Mary Anne Hitt, Jutta Kill & Arjun Makhijani: FALSE SOLUTIONS TO THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS - recorded at the September 2007 Teach In by the International Forum on Globalization. Coal and nuclear are now promoted as a substitute for oil and false promises are made for the capture of the carbon and carbon trading. Dr. Hermann Ott is head of the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute. Mary Anne Hitt fights mountain top removal as Executive Director of Appalachian Voices. Jutta Kill is a climate campaigner for FERN, an NGO based in Europe. She eloquently describes how carbon trading favors large corporations and prevents a transition to renewable energy production. Dr. Arjun Makhijani argues against the resurgence of nuclear power. TUC Radio Archive A312 OUR ELECTRIC BODIES AND THE EVER THICKENING ELECTRO-SMOG Dr. Henry Lai & Dr. Neil Cherry Our bodies are finely tuned and responsive electric organisms and the super-imposition of an ever thickening layer of electric signals from cell phones and towers to WIFI to other systems can interfere with our innate electric life within our cells, nerves, immune system, heart and brain. Dr. Neil Cherry was Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Lincoln University, NZ. He died in 2003 of motor neuron disease. Henry Lai is research professor in the Dept. of Bioengineering at the University of Washington. He is often quoted as the first to have written how DNA breaks can occur under exposure to electromagnetic radiation. More recently Henry Lai became know as one of the authors of the 2007 Bioinitiative report. which made it to the web site of the Environmental Agency of the European Union. The EU agency suggests that we need stricter exposure standards for electromagnetic fields from power lines, mobile phones, and many other sources A311 Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow & Daphne Wysham: CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL TRIPLE CRISIS Vandana Shiva speaks eloquently about the destructive forces of globalization that are driving the ecological crisis. She also sheds light on the effects of rapid economic growth in her home country, India. Maude Barlow explains how we are losing water through pollution, over-pumping and displacement while the demands for water are rising. She names the corporations that are in the process of capturing water sources - the new Blue Gold. Daphne Wysham of the Institute for Policy Studies speaks on the World Bank's destructive role in driving climate change. She lays out in great detail how the system of carbon trading came about and how the World Bank is funding destructive development in fossil fuels - and she talks about solutions. A310 Peter Dale Scott THE ROAD TO 9/11 Peter Dale Scott is a former diplomat and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written on 9/11, the CIA involvement in South East Asia, the drug wars, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. His most recent book: The Road to 9-11, gives evidence of cover-ups of domestic criminal acts and momentous secret decision making by an ever smaller number of players. He investigates how policies of Presidents since Nixon have created the background for 9/11. Scott spoke in September 2007 at Lawrence Ferlinghetti's bookstore, City Lights. A309 Daniel Ellsberg THE THREAT OF WAR ON IRAN When Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers in 1971 they revealed the US Government's lies about the war on Vietnam. For the last 6 years Ellsberg has campaigned against the exercise of executive power by the Bush administration. He calls for action to end such Presidential violation of the constitution and to prevent an expansion of the war in the Middle East and an attack on Iran. He urges government insiders to come up with the new set of Pentagon papers, to act now and not wait until they write their memoirs. He voices criticism of the new democratic Congress and their support - with few exceptions - of the Kyl/Lieberman amendment of Sept. 2007. This bill designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and could be used by Bush to attack Iran. Daniel Ellsberg spoke on December 18, 2007, at the Republican Round Table in a downtown hotel in San Francisco. Also available as 100 min. film on DVD for $16. A308 Dr. Lonnie Thompson ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR FUTURE Dr. Thompson issues a warning that the mountain glaciers he knows and loves are melting ever more dramatically just within the year of 2007. He is the leading expert on glaciers with 30 years of on location research. He has explored most of the mountain glaciers of this world, has learned their history going back tens of thousands of years via the ice cores he and his team drilled. Thompson was the keynote speaker at the Dec. 2007 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The AGU hotel recorded the event for their archives. This is the only other audio or visual record of this amazing talk. Thompson teaches in the Department of Geological Sciences and is Senior Research Scientists at the Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State University. 40 minutes. Also available as film on DVD for $16. A 306 Cynthia McKinney CONFRONTING EMPIRE The former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was invited to England in September 2007. She spoke about Martin Luther King and the plans for him to become the running mate of Bobbie Kennedy in his bid for the US presidency. She was introduced by Annie Machon who quit her job at the British spy agency MI5 in protest over MI5 plans to assassinate the Libyan leader Gadafy. (30 min talk combined with Ithluk interview.)