On the Fringe

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Veteran Against War and Activist Discuss Under the Hood GI Resistance Cafe

We spoke to Bobby, an Iraq Vet Against the War, and Cynthia Thomas, an organizer with Under the Hood cafe about GI resistance.

Report: Neighbors Speak Out After Death of Another Youth of Color by Police Gunshot

We wrapped the show with a report back from Walnut Creek Apartments, where early on May 11 Nathaniel Sanders was fatally shot by a police officer. Residents of the apartment complex were outraged.

Free Speech Radio News headlines on turmoil in Nepal, negotiations over the Boston Globe’s bankruptcy, Iraq, and more… [mp3]

Hundreds of Immigrant Detainees On Hunger Strike at Port Isabel Detention Center

We spoke with Anayanse Garza, an organizer with the Southwest Workers Union, about a group of immigrant prisoners at the Port Isabel Detention Center near Brownsville who are hunger striking in protest of poor conditions, including inadequate medical care and violations of their due process rights. See also an interview with Raul McCarty, one of the immigrants on strike, at the Texas Observer blog. [mp3]

Podcast On May Day Rally for Immigrants’ Rights

Image by Galen Herz

We wrapped up the show with an audio report on last Friday’s May Day immigration march. Listen (and see pictures) at Mediahacker.org.

Join us next week from 8-8:30pm - we’ll be talking about an explosion of anti-war activism, including a new G.I. coffee shop, outside Fort Hood.

Free Speech Radio News headlines on Hamas, Haiti, and more… [mp3]

Journalist Will Potter on the Latest Green Scare News: CMUs, the AETA 4, and H.R. 875

Independent journalist (and UT alum) Will Potter called in from Washington D.C. to update OTF on the government’s collusion with big business to suppress the radical environmental and animal rights movements by defining and treating them as “terrorist” threats.  Potter discusses new secret prison units housing almost exclusivlely Muslim as well as eco- and animal rights- related prisoners, peaceful protesters charged under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, and a House bill that would criminalize certain small-scale organic farming.  Listen below and check out Green Is the New Red. (Image from podolux)

Previously: Potter gave a talk here in Austin last year, which we also broadcast on OTF.

Rhizome Collective Members Debate Loss of Community Space

On last week’s (3/30/2009) edition of On the Fringe we were joined by Rhizome Collective members Alexis Herrera, Brent Perdue, and Josh Collier.

Brent and Alexis, who work with KPWR (People Will Radio), were critical of the collective, particularly Rhizome owners Scott and Stacy Pettigrew, for not doing more to rally grassroots and community resistance to the City of Austin’s eviction order. Josh took a different view. The East Austin warehouse, which housed community groups Inside Books Project, Food Not Bombs, Bikes Across Borders, and KPWR, has since gone up for sale.

Listen using the player below.  Thanks to Wenjing for the audio (ripped from in-studio video footage, which explains the background noise).

See also:

The Slow Decline of a Dying Rhizome
Food Not Bombs Austin
KPWR
Inside Books Project
Rhizome Collective
HIMC Interview about Rhizome (mp3)

Anna Baltzer on “Life in Occupied Palestine”

New co-host Ariel Golan joined in a discussion with Jewish peace activist Anna Baltzer about Israel and the occupied territories. Baltzer is in town this week to present on “Life in Occupied Palestine,” having spent months living and working in the West Bank with Palestinians. She dispels certain popular myths about the conflict and shares a side of the life Palestine rarely covered in the domestic media.

Election Eve: Green Party VP Candidate Rosa Clemente Speaks to OTF

On this special election eve show, we were joined on the phone by Rosa Clemente, hip-hop activist and Green Party Vice-Presidential Candidate.

Nothing more to be said - just listen!