Shared Sacrifice announcements and updates

[stannard67]

Check here regularly for announcements and updates concerning the Shared Sacrifice podcast.

Listen live or archived at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Shared_Sacrifice

This week's show:

12:00-2:00 PM mountain time, this Saturday:

Jason Nichols, a contributor to Shared Sacrifice, will report live from the Wyoming Democratic Convention in Jackson, Wyoming. Mr. Nichols is a delegate to the convention and a member of the platform committee. Call in. Stand up. Speak out.

Our call-number is (347) 327-9615.

Those wishing to comment on the various issues discussed on the show are encouraged to start threads on Points of Reality for that purpose.

[army CPT]

Please check here for announcements concerning Matt's radio show. Starting new threads to discuss the topics of his show are highly encouraged as some may not be able to listen in or go to the archives.

Thanks,
Ken

[stannard67]

In addition to getting the report on the Wyo Dem convention, there will also be a short report on this weekend's show concerning the revelations that the FBI warned the White House on torture (see below).
mjs

White House Ignored Torture Warnings
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, May 21, 2008; 12:55 PM

Top White House officials waved off early warnings from the FBI that interrogation tactics being used on detainees might be illegal, according to a new report from the Justice Department's inspector general.

The report states that FBI personnel started notifying headquarters as early as 2002 that other government employees were using abusive tactics -- including sexual humiliation, prolonged hand-to-foot shackling and exposure to extreme temperatures -- on detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. Justice officials conveyed some of these concerns in at least one White House meeting in 2003, but the White House apparently ignored them. A year later, the revelation of similar abuses at Abu Ghraib became a source of everlasting shame for American citizens, a serious blow to the United States's moral authority, and a potent rallying cry for the nation's enemies.

[stannard67]

Jeff Key, playwright, actor, philanthropist, activist and gay Iraq war vet will be with us on this Saturday's Shared Sacrifice. Mr. Key has had tremendous success with his one-man play, “The Eyes of Babylon” in which he describes his personal experiences in Iraq—from the perspective of a gay Marine. Mr. Key is also the founder of the non-profit organization, the Mehadi Foundation.

Listen live or archived at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Shared_Sacrifice

12:00-2:00 PM mountain time, this Saturday:
Our call-number is (347) 327-9615.

[stannard67]

Don't miss Shared Sacrifice, a progressive podcast, on Saturday from Noon to 2:00 PM mountain time. You can find us at www.blogtalkradio.com/Shared_Sacrifice. If you can't listen to the show live, you can download it from the site.

Our guest this week is Keith Goodenough. Mr. Goodenough is a Wyoming Democrat running for the U.S. Senate. He served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala before being elected as a State Representative and State Senator in Wyoming. He is a member of the Domestic Violence Political Action Project and the Governor's Domestic Violence Elimination Council. Mr. Goodenough currently serves on the Casper, Wyoming City Council. Our call-in line is 347-327-9615.

[stannard67]

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Our guest tomorrow will be Jacob Linn. Mr. Linn worked for the Veterans Administration at the VA Hospital in Tampa, FL. While there he started a program that placed computers in the day rooms of the Spinal Cord Injury and Rehab Medicine wards. He is a co-founder of the Hot Springs Veterans Support Group in Thermopolis, WY. He is a Viet Nam Era Navy Veteran and served until 1981, and a survivor of PTSD. Our call-in number is (347) 327-9615.

[stannard67]

Our guest this week is Professor Russell Arben Fox. Dr. Fox is the Director of the Political Science Program at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, and is an expert on Communitarianism, Christianity and Social Justice, Populism, and other political movements. We'll be discussing Obama's recent turn to the center, particularly his embrace of religion in the public sphere. We'll also talk about the decline of "Liberal Wilsonianism," or the egg on the face of liberal internationalists who supported the Iraq war.

Our call in number is 347-327-9615, and the show takes place live from noon-2:00 PM mountain time, Saturday.

[stannard67]

Our guest next week, July 12, is Cathy Connoly, a progressive Democrat running for Wyoming's state House District 13. She has a PhD in Sociology, and a JD in Law, and she's an instructor at the University of Wyoming in Women's Studies and Sociology. In 2003, she was one of the authors of the Study on the Disparity of Wages between Men and Women in the State of Wyoming which was commissioned by the Wyoming state legislature.

We are happy to announce that our guests for the July 19 edition of the show will be the members and coaches of the Towson State University Debate Team. In 2008, this team won the Cross-Examination Debate Association's National Championship tournament, becoming the first African-American debate team to win a national title in any format of American intercollegiate debate.

[thedancingbear]

Matt, the lineup for the next two weeks is fantastic. I missed the show today but I'll surely be tuning in for Connoly and the Towson folks.

[stannard67]

A very significant change on this weekend's show:

We are excited to announce that former Congresswoman and current Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney will be our guest this Saturday, July 12, on Shared Sacrifice. McKinney served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's 4th Congressional District. She left the Democratic Party in September 2007, joining the Green Party in October 2007.

During the second half of our show, we will be joined by Cathy Connoly, a progressive Democrat running for Wyoming's state House District 13.

Our guests for the July 19 edition of the show will be the members and coaches of the Towson State University Debate Team.

Our show takes place from Noon to 2:00 PM mountain time. You can find us at www.blogtalkradio.com/Shared_Sacrifice. If you can't listen to the show live, you can download it from the site. Our call-in number is (347) 327-9615.

[stannard67]

Listen at: www.blogtalkradio.com/Shared_Sacrifice

"Shared Sacrifice," a weekly progressive internet radio program, continues its series of interviews with the movers and shakers of progressive, Democratic, alternative, and third-party politics. Our guest this Saturday, August 2 is Wayne Allyn Root, Vice Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party. And our guest the following Saturday, August 9, is Socialist Party Presidential Candidate Brian Moore.

We have become the hottest alternative political podcast in the nation, interviewing people like Cynthia McKinney, Jeff Key, Damon Linker, Rosa Clemente, and the 2008 national intercollegiate debate champions from Towson State, as well as a number of national and local progressive candidates, activists, and gadflies. Not bad for a couple of humble, wide-eyed upstarts from the Rocky Mountains.

What can you do to help Shared Sacrifice continue its ascent to the top of progressive politics and internet radio?

-LISTEN! Listen live, from noon to 2PM mountain time, every Saturday.
-DOWNLOAD! Download our show any time.
-PROMOTE! Tell other like-minded folks about our show. If we get enough listeners and hits, the Blog Talk Radio network will offer us prime time status and lots of additional promotion.
-CALL IN! Call our show with questions and comments for our guests.
-BLOG ABOUT US! Write about our show on your blog. Link to the show on your blog. We will reciprocate by promoting your blog on the show!
-FIND US MORE GUESTS! Do you know any activists, authors, or candidates that would make good guests for the show? Have them email us at gary@sharedsacrifice.us.

[aec]

Have you considered putting SS up as a podcast on iTunes? I think it's free to do, but I'm not sure... and you could probably get it put up on iTunes U, too, maybe... again, not sure. It might be a way to reach even more people. I know I often troll around on iTunes U looking for things that sound interesting.

[stannard67]

I had no idea you could do that. I will forward that suggestion to our production assistant and have him check it out. Thanks!

[stannard67]

Thanks to Annaleigh's suggestion, Shared Sacrifice is now available on iTunes, available to millions of potential listeners!!! We owe you one, Ms. Curtis.

Also: While the interview with Root, the Libertarian VP pick, was trippy and high-energy, our upcoming interview with Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore promises to be both historically significant and extremely relevant to progressives today. Moore represents a historical trajectory tracing all the way back to Eugene Debs: A socialist movement that pre-dates, and rejects, the Bolshevism and Stalinism of Soviet Communism. Put another way, SPUSA's socialism is, indeed, as American as apple pie, grounded as much in 19th and 20th century labor struggles as it is in contemporary progressivism, peace and green politics. If you are a progressive, or if you're just interested in progressive politics, you won't want to miss this show.

[aec]

Awesome! Can't wait to download.

[stannard67]

Find out why "Shared Sacrifice" is the hottest progressive radio show on the internet. Listen this Saturday, from 12:00-2:00 PM MT, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/station...ared_Sacrifice. Call in at (347) 327-9615.

Matt is back from Korea with interesting stories to tell (where he survived such adventures and misadventures as appearing on Korean television, and being hit by a car). Gary is back from the Democratic National Convention, thoroughly disillusioned with mainstream politics. Join us for an unprecedentedly exciting and provocative edition of the show:

Inequality as a threat to democracy: Gary and Matt interview Sam Pizzigati, editor of Too Much, an online weekly on excess and inequality, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Mr. Pizzigati has written widely on America's economic divide, with op-eds and articles appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and a host of other newspapers and periodicals.

Shattering Western stereotypes: Matt interviews two female muslim debaters and debate coaches, Lin Kamaruddin and Adiba Shareen. Outspoken, critical of both the West and the Taliban, bitingly funny, these women will make you think twice about buying into the stereotype of women in Islam as silent or submissive.

What can you do to help Shared Sacrifice continue its ascent to the top of progressive politics and internet radio?

-LISTEN! Listen live, from noon to 2PM mountain time, every Saturday.
-DOWNLOAD! Download our show any time. Either from the show's site or from itunes.
-PROMOTE! Tell other like-minded folks about our show. If we get enough listeners and hits, the Blog Talk Radio network will offer us prime time status and lots of additional promotion.
-CALL IN! Call our show with questions and comments for our guests.
-BLOG ABOUT US! Write about our show on your blog. Link to the show on your blog. We will reciprocate by promoting your blog on the show!
-FIND US MORE GUESTS! Do you know any activists, authors, or candidates that would make good guests for the show? Have them email us at gary@sharedsacrifice.us.

[stannard67]

Shared Sacrifice: Matt's Coverage of Nazis in the U.S. Military

“I’m completely public about being a racist and Nazi,” he says. “I get into fights maybe twice a month, because some n*****s will get pissed off with it.” Every time a black person enters the bar, he emits a hiss of disapproval.
“I just don’t want to be around them,” he tells me. “I don’t want to look at them, I don’t want them near me, I don’t want to smell them. And people say, ‘Oh people who are racialist you’ve never hung around black people’… b******t, I’ve showered with them, I’ve lived with them, I don’t like them… they’re f*****g savages, they’re tribal motherf*****s, they are different to us, how they think, how they conduct themselves.”
Despite his vitriolic racism Fogarty wasn’t worried about not being allowed into the army. Military protocol stipulates that each new recruit with suspicious tattoos must write an explanation about the divinity and meaning of their body art. Fogarty’s are quite clearly the kind written about in ARP 600-15 – a Nordic warrior, and a Celtic cross. But this didn’t hinder him. “They just told me to write an explanation of each tattoo and I made up some stuff and that was that,” he says. Fogarty was enlisted and stationed in the 3rd Infantry Division based at Fort Stewart, GA, the largest Army installation east of the Mississippi River.
[from "The New Nazi Army: How the U.S. Military is Allowing the Far-Right to Join its Ranks."]

In addition to interviewing Maryland Green Party congressional candidate Gordon Clark, this week Shared Sacrifice features a chilling editorial by Matt Stannard on the growing phenomenon of white supremacists in the U.S. military. Is this the inevitable result of a "War on Terror" being fought without a draft? Of the U.S. invading countries that don't pose a threat to us? Of a military that has become anemic with its ideological homogeneity? Tune in, call in, and speak out. Saturday, 12:00-2:00 PM mst, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/station...ared_Sacrifice

[stannard67]

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We are the program with more leading scholars and authors, more national and local progressive candidates, and more activist and movement leaders, than any other internet radio show.

Just look at our line-up for the next two weeks!

September 27, 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM mountain time: Economic Roundtable: The Global Crisis of Capitalism: Al Campbell, Dept. of Economics, University of Utah, and Union for Radical Political Economics; Jerome White, candidate for U.S. President, Socialist Equality Party; other panelists forthcoming.

October 4, 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM mountain time: The National Lawyers Guild's Marjorie Cohn, and RNC-busting activist Adam Kokesh: Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law at San Diego's Thomas Jefferson School of Law and President of the National Lawyer's Guild will talk to us about the state of our Constitution. Adam Kokesh, the Marine reservist and activist who became internationally famous after holding up a sign during McCain's speech at the Republican National Convention reading "McCain Votes Against Vets" on one side and "You can't win an occupation" on the other, will discuss war and public dissent.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/station...ared_Sacrifice

Listen live! Download any time! Now available on Itunes!

[stannard67]

Edwin C. Yohnka will be our guest on Oct 25. Mr. Yohnka is Director of Communications and Public Policy for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. He will join us to discuss the ACLU challenge to the 2008 FISA law which granted retroactive immunity to telecom companies for warrantless wiretapping. Mr. Yohnka is the primary spokesperson for the most prominent civil rights and civil liberties’ advocacy organization in the State of Illinois, an organization with more than 23,000 members. Mr. Yohnka appears regularly on television and radio programs in Illinois and throughout the nation to speak out on a myriad of issues, ranging from racial profiling and the inequities of the criminal justice system to matters relating to religious liberty and Internet privacy. Yohnka also is widely cited in newspapers and publications on legal and legislative matters related to the ACLU of Illinois’ priorities.

Call in. Stand up. Speak out. Our call-in number is 347-327-9615.

[TheJuiceBox]

This is one of three podcasts i download. Great show, great guests, great commentary, great all around.


(The other two are the economist and boing boing).

[stannard67]

You rock my sock, sir.

[stannard67]

Andrew Evans will be our guest on Nov 1. Mr. Evans is the Chairman of the American Centrist Party and the author of several books. Matt will also have some last-minute election analysis from a third party standpoint. Call-in number is (347) 327-9615.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/station...ared-Sacrifice

[stannard67]

Musicians, artists and filmmakers Terri Hitt and Grammy-nominee Brian David Hardin will be our guests tomorrow. We played their techno-protest song "Freedom of Press" a couple of weeks ago and you liked it.

Gary waxes angrily about the great train robbery called "the bailout"

The election and what Obama's victory means for progressives--from a speech Matt gave on election night.

Sarah Palin: New Gay icon? Credit card scammer? Tantrum-prone womanchild? The future of the Republican Party? All of the above?

Don't miss Shared Sacrifice, noon to 2:00 PM mountain time, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/station...ared_Sacrifice or download it on itunes!

[stannard67]

guests for next three weeks...
...on Shared Sacrifice:

November 15: Dr. Judith Broder of The Soldiers Project discusses the psychological effects of combat and the free services provided by her organization to veterans and those who live with them.

November 22: Chris Rothfuss, Wyoming's 2008 Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate, discusses the past election cycle and the future of Democratic and progressive politics.

November 29: Professor Stephen Zunes, chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco and a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus, also the author of the recent Alternet article "Is Obama Screwing His Base with Rahm Emanuel Selection?" discusses the challenges and opportunities for progressives during an Obama presidency.

[army CPT]

Do you have a transcript if the nov 15 show posted somewhere? If it was worth anything it would be info worth sharing.

[stannard67]

Obviously since he is "ignoring" me, he can't see this reply, which I assume he knows, so the intent of his message is unclear to me (although the little snip he takes is very clear). In any event, we do not transcribe our shows. The show is, however, permanently archived and accessible through the website.

[army CPT]

Originally Posted by stannard67

Obviously since he is "ignoring" me, he can't see this reply, which I assume he knows, so the intent of his message is unclear to me (although the little snip he takes is very clear). In any event, we do not transcribe our shows. The show is, however, permanently archived and accessible through the website.

actually not a snip . Always looking for good info to pass on to Soldiers

[stannard67]

Here you go...

http://www.thesoldiersproject.org/

What is the Soldiers Project?

We are a group of licensed mental health professionals who offer free psychological treatment to military service members (active duty, National Guard, Reserves and veterans) who have served or who expect to serve in OEF and/or OIF. We also provide treatment to members of their families and other loved ones. Treatment is conducted in our private offices. Our therapists are all volunteers and our services are entirely confidential. We do not report to any governmental agency.

The Soldiers Project is a component of the Ernest S. Lawrence Trauma Center of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS). We are a non-profit 501(c ) (3) organization as defined by the IRS. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.

Because of LAISPS' commitment to bringing psychoanalytic understanding to underserved groups within our community it established the Ernest S. Lawrence Trauma Center. The Center's projects are run by volunteer licensed clinicians who provide free psychoanalytically-informed psychological services to "at-risk" populations as well as educational presentations to the community.

"The Soldiers Project is an example of people around the nation who want to help these young men and women coming back, according to Congressman Bob Filner, Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 'If the VA is not doing its job, at least some people have stepped in to try and do it,' said Filner."
-- Truthout.org

Who is eligible?
-Active duty uniformed service members who have served in OIF/OEF
-Members of activated Reserve/Guard military units with service in OIF/OEF
-Veterans of OEF/OIF
-Family members of the above including spouses, parents, grandparents, children, siblings, etc
-Other loved ones

There is more information on their web site than I could feasibly post here, so go there and check it out.

[army CPT]

thanks I'll pass it along

[stannard67]

Our guest this week is Professor Stephen Zunes, chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco and a senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus. Professor Zunes was an especially prescient doubter of the Bush administration's claims of WMD in Iraq, doubting those claims as early as 2003, when nearly everyone else on the right and left believed such claims. He is the principal editor of Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell Publishers, 1999) and the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003) and the forthcoming Western Sahara: Nationalism and Conflict in Northwest Africa (Syracuse University Press.) With Rachel M. MacNair, he edited Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War (Praeger, 2008). Most recently, he authored the Alternet article "Is Obama Screwing His Base with Rahm Emanuel Selection?" Professor Zunes joins us to discuss the challenges and opportunities for progressives during an Obama presidency. Our call-in number is (347) 327-9615.