OCTOBER 2010

ROCK 'N ROOTS
SPIES

Who's watching? What are they looking for? What do we do to protect ourselves? Timeless questions, set to music on this edition of RocknRoots. Songs about secrets and spies from David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Maurice John Vaughn, Joshua Redmond, Dorothy Love Coates, and many more. And a powerful reading of Richard Thompson's classic "Shoot Out the Lights" by X, the influential Los Angeles punkmasters. (just for fun, a Tom Waits song that's impossible to decipher.)

Enjoy the cat-and-mouse game on this Rock 'n Roots edition of Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie.

http://www.archive.org/details/IR-10-08


ARUNDHATI ROY is quite possibly the most famous Indian after the Mahatma Gandhi, to fearlessly speak out about political, social and economic injustices inflicted upon India's poor. Today's edition of Initiative Radio airs the question and answer portion of Roy's 2010 San Francisco appearance in support of Kashmir and the Indian under-class, who according to Roy are facing a sort of "gentle genocide" under questionable policies and the guns of corporate sponsored politicians and their militias.

Roy's appearance is facilitated by Haymarket Books and The International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir. The content of this program is provided to Initiative Radio by Deep Dish Television.

This is PART 2 of a 2 part special.

PLEASE CONTACT DEEP DISH TV AT WWW.DEEPDISHTV.ORG FOR THE ORGINAL DVD THIS PROGRAM WAS TAKEN FROM.

ARUNDHATI ROY is an Indian woman who not only talks the talk but also walks the walk of activism for social justice and economic equality in her beloved India. This edition of Initiative Radio airs the audio content of Roy's 2010 appearance in San Francisco, to show her support for the plight of Kashmir's people who've been stuck in a political no-man's-land since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Roy also gives an account of how India's ascension to the rank of capitalist contender, is corrupting politicians and accelerating the genocide of people who live in the forest and other areas where natural resources coveted by the western world can be extracted. Arundhati's appearance is facilitated by Haymarket Books and The International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir. The content of this program is provided to Initiative Radio by Deep Dish Television.

This is PART 1 of a 2 part special.

PLEASE CONTACT DEEP DISH TV AT WWW.DEEPDISHTV.ORG FOR THE ORGINAL DVD THIS PROGRAM WAS TAKEN FROM.

2010 SALUTE TO THE MAHATMA GANDHI ON INITIAIVE RADIO

One sure sign that a new season of Initiative Radio is underway, is the annual tribute to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi.

In this edition of the show, Gandhi's life is documented from his days as a child groom and mediocre student, to early adulthood when soft-spoken Gandhi set sail for Great Britain, where he studied law and joined a group of noteworthy intellectuals. After Britain he returned home but found professional opportunity in South Africa and also personal experiences with racism and injustice, that forced his latent revolutionary spirit to awaken to fight for the rights of Indians in South Africa. After devoting much of his adult life to the South African fight, Gandhi returned to India and became known as Bapu - the father of the nation. He spent the remainder of his life struggling to free India from the British Raj and although he was successful in doing so, the nation paid the heavy price of disunity and Gandhi paid with his life.

This refreshingly concise, biography of Gandhi was written by Jennifer Rosenberg and read by Angela McKenzie.

http://www.archive.org/details/Ir-10-05gandhi