I've been in HEAVEN for two days, listening to gems from the Archives of Pacifica radio, during their two-day fundraiser to preserve their archival recordings. I'm enjoying historic interviews, live music, documentaries. . . .
This is what I heard when I turned on the radio yesterday:
". . . .if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own design and want, that they fight and work for. And if, unfortunately, their revolution must be of the violent type...at least what they get will be their own and not the American style, which they don't want...crammed down their throat" [see Footnote below]
If you aren't familiar with Pacifica's affiliated radio stations, may I introduce you to this unique, community-based, listener-sponsored, wide-ranging radio?
What the mainstream media won't even touch, Pacifica covers in full detail.
At the moment they are broadcasting an old interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (c. 1964)
Love or perish. Hate hurts the hater. Influence of reading Thoreau in college. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as cooperation with good.....
On laughter-- creative laughter .....
You can listen to archived shows online.
The MLK interview is archived online:
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"An eclectic hour with irrepressible radio personality Studs Terkel. Featuring interviews withDr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahalia Jackson, Muhammad Ali and Isaac Bashevis Singer."
You can buy recordings, too.
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Other highlights I recommend:
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Bertrand Russell says things that will knock your socks off.
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LISTEN ONLINE:
Texas Luminaries including Molly Ivins:
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If you are interested in religion, spirituality, and philosophy, I recommend anything and everything they offer with ALAN WATTS.
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More Podcasts, including music:
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Footnote.
The quotation is part of an interview from
Item: From the Vault: The American Soldier ($50 pledge)
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David M. Shoup, a former commandant of the Marine Corps and a bearer of the Congressional Medal of Honor. . . .is best known for the following quotation, voiced in 1966 at Pierce College outside Los Angeles about a year after the antiwar movement arose on U.S. college campuses:
"I don't think," he told his audience then, "the whole of Southeast Asia, as related to the present and future safety and freedom of the people of this country, is worth the life or limb of a single American [and] I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty bloody dollar crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own design and want, that they fight and work for. And if, unfortunately, their revolution must be of the violent type...at least what they get will be their own and not the American style, which they don't want...crammed down their throat"