Archive for January, 2010

Past WUML Radio Shows

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The University had maintained an archive of recordings of past radio shows, via an independent non-profit hosting site based on campus. That organization ceased to host the recordings in January 2010. I have the recordings archived on a hard disk, but until we find a suitable host for them, if you need copies of past programs that aired as “community” programming on WUML, leave a message here, and I’ll try to help you. This includes popular programs such as “Gunjan” (our south-asian program), the Laotian and Khmer versions of “Thinking Out Loud”, “Coffee and Cartoons”, and many English and Spanish language editions of “Thinking Out Loud”. I am the host of the Wednesday edition of “Thinking Out Loud”, which airs from 9:00 to noon weekdays on WUML, 91.5 FM and http://www.wuml.org on the web. Our “Thinking Out Loud” website may be a little out-of-date, but can be seen at http://www.thinkingoutloud.us/ . The station’s website is http://www.wuml.org/

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Thoughts About How to help Haiti

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

The preponderance of advice from those who know Haiti well, from author Edwidge Danticat to rights activist Randall Robinson to Ophelia from Partners in

Canadian Women Go Topless at Pyramids for Gaza

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Now that I’ve got your attention, yes, that really happened (see http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gazadelegation/2010/01/topless-pyramids-cant-tourist-just-be-tourist ), but also some detailed reports of what happened at the Gaza Freedom March are trickling in.

I recommend this posting ( http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/the-reluctant-radical.html ) for inside analysis. Some of the comments, as well as the main article,

Buffy Sainte Marie

Friday, January 1st, 2010

I hadn’t had the time to watch the Democracy Now Columbus Day special with Buffy Sainte-Marie until now. She has always been an inspiration to me, and in this interview with Amy Goodman, she talks about aspects of her life I hadn’t heard of before: her FBI record, her computer learning project for children, her childhood… She talks about Leonard Peletier as “just the kind of cousin who comes over on the weekend to help you with your car”, who was obviously framed and deserves to get out of prison and spend time with friends and family. She talks about her artistic process. I suspect you will really want to make time to see this program, too:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/12/democracy_now_special_an_hour_of

MySpace seems not to want to let me embed the video here, so I hope the above link works.