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On the September 21, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody, Craig Holman, public affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen speaks on the effect that the January, 2010 court decision is on the Citizens United v FEC case is already having on campaign spending disclosure, and we'll also hear from David Arkush, director of Public Citizen's congress watch group, about the appointment of Elizabeth Warren as an advisor to President Obama on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose save target as to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  Sents comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us      

This edition of Tell Somebody has audio from the official groundbreaking ceremony for the new nuclear weapons part plant in south Kansas City, Missouri on September 8, 2010.  With General Services Administration General Administrator Jason Klumb emceeing, the first speaker was Thomas D'Agostino, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration.  Also on this show, short interviews with D'Agostino, private development partner Hugh Zimmer, commentary by Nuclear Watch of New Mexico Executive Director Jay Coghlan, and remarks at the ceremony by U.S. Representatives Ike Skelton and Emmanuel Cleaver. Click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose save target as to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  Sents comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us

David Barsamian, author, lecturer and founder of Alternative Radio (www.alternativeradio.org) returns to Tell Somebody to talk about the current mideast peace talks in Washington, the importance of independent media, and his friendship with the late Edward Said. Click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to this show, or right-click and select save target as to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store. Send comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us

  On this edition of Tell Somebody, FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley talks about WikiLeaks and whistleblowing. We also hear from Father Joseph Phillipe about his efforts to empower the poor in Haiti. To stream the audio, click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below.  To save a copy of the mp3 to your computer, right-click on the icon or filename and select 'save target as.' Send comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us

General Services Administration Regional Administrator Jason Klumb returns to Tell Somebody to talk about health concerns at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, which includes a nuclear weapons parts plant on one side and GSA and other offices on the other side, and the new weapons plant.  Plus, audio from a public meeting to help former workers file health claims hosted by US Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver (a former Kansas City Plant employee). Click on the pod icon or the .mp3 filename below to stream the audio, or right click and choose "save target as" to save a copy to your computer. Send comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us

Photo of the protest by Eric Bowers.  See more at http://blog.ericbowersphoto.com/2010/08/kansas-city-nuclear-plant-protest/ Fourteen anti-nuclear weapons protestors were arrested Monday August 16, 2010 at a constructions site on the southern edge of Kansas City Missouri. Ground was broken at the site in July for what will be the first new nuclear weapons facility in the US in thirty-two years. Approx 75 protestors walked onto the site and for a time stopped work by heavy earth moving equipment contracted by private developer Centerpoint-Zimmer. The facility is planned to replace the current Kansas City Plant, operated by Honeywell for the National Nuclear Security Administration.  The plant is responsible for 85 percent of the components for all US nuclear weapons. On this edition of Tell Somebody  you'll hear sounds from the protest, a conversation with Ralph Hutchison, coordinator for the Oak Ridge (TN) Environmental Peace Alliance, and from two of those arrested at the protest- Felice Cohen-Joppa and Je

Click the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to stream the audio, or right-click and choose save target as to save a copy of the audio file to your computer (or subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store) Free Press co-founder and president Josh Silver talks about the Google/Verizon collaboration and the end of the internet as we know it.  www.freepress.net www.savetheinternet.com Laird Monahan of the Marching Monahan Brothers stops in Kansas City on the way from California to Washington, DC to deliver a speech.  www.lairdandrobin.org www.movetoamend.org Local activist Jane Stoever sentenced on anniversary of Hiroshima, and GSA adminsitrator promises toreturn to the show. (Since the broadcast, we've set up another interview)  www.tellsomebody.us  http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com/  www.nukewatch.org Photo of Ben Kjelshus by Eric Bowers http://blog.ericbowersphoto.com Send comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us  

Laird Monahan talks about why he and his brother Robin are walking across the country from California to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC hoping to raise awareness of the need to amend the US Constitution to overturn the recent Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v Federal Election Commission case.  There is also some audio from a protest at the Kansas City nuclear weapons plant and more. To hear the audio, click on the .mp3 filename below, or to save a copy of the file to your computer, right click on the filename and choose "save target as." comments or questions? send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns to Tell Somebody to talk about a study on media coverage of torture, Afghanistan, and Gen. Petraeus' emoticon. Click on the .mp3 filename below to stream the audio, or right click on it and select "save target as" to save a copy of the file to your computer. Comments or questions?  Send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us

Former Kansas City nuclear weapons plant worker Maurice Copeland and Anne Suellentrop of the Kansas City chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and PeaceWorks KC give an update on the Kansas City Plant situation - a major new weapons plant scheme forges ahead, the EPA, NAACP and Congressman Cleaver avoid questions about health concerns at the old plant, etc.  A performance by Sahj Kaya (www.sahjkaya.com ) closes out the show.  You can find links for more information at www.tellsomebody.us To stream the audio for this show, click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below.  To download a copy of the show to your computer, right-click on the filename and select "save target as", or subscribe to the podcast for free at the iTunes Store.   

This podcast of Tell Somebody features an interview with Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean.  Originally broadcast in March, 2007, this interview features Prejean's later book, The Death of Innocents. Click on the .mp3 filename below to stream this audio file, or right click on it and choose "save target as" to save a copy to your computer.

Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch of New Mexico (www.nukewatch.org) speaks about the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and how the soon to be built new weapons components plant in Kansas City is, along with two other new plants in Tennessee and New Mexico, are all about expanding nuclear weapons production in the United States beyond the so-called "life extension program."

On June 17, 2010, Dr. Helen Caldicott was in Kansas City for a speaking engagement, and she stopped by to sit at my table and talk about nuclear weapons and the Kansas City WMD plant.  I also asked her to recount her private meeting in the White House with Ronald Reagan. Click on the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click on it and choose "save target as" to save a copy to your computer. Send comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us

Jason Klumb, Administrator for the Heartland Region of the General Services Administration, sat down with Tell Somebody in his south Kansas City office to talk about how he called in doctors from the Centers for Disease Control to look into health concerns among former and current workers at the Bannister Federal Complex.  More information at www.tellsomebody.us Click on the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show - or right-click on it and select save target as to save a copy to your computer.

A little over twenty years ago, Ivory Mae Thomas was at work on the night shift cleaning offices at the Kansas City branch of the US nuclear weapons complex when someone came to her and said "I've got bad news for you. ...our machine had a little leak, and we discovered you stepped in radiation."  They took her to an emergency room at the plant, took her clothes, scrubbed her down, and came to her house in the middle of the night and scrubbed it down.  Thomas says she was never told exactly what she had been exposed to until a local television reporter dug it out with FOIA requests twenty years later. On this edition of Tell Somebody, Ivory Mae Thomas and her son talk about her exposure to radioactive promethium in 1989. Click on the .mp3 filename below to play the audio, or right-click on it  and select "save target as" to save a copy to your compuiter.  

Dr. Helen Caldicott, a pediatrician, has, according to her biography at www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org,  "devoted over 35 years to educating the public and policymakers about the medical hazards of nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and ecological collapse, and the necessary remedy of citizen participation." Dr. Caldicott will be coming from Australia to Kansas City to speak on June 17, 2010 (more information at www.tellsomebody.us), and she got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and Kansas City. Click on the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click on it and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  

www.tellsomebody.us Tim Karr, Campaign Director for Free Press and SaveTheInternet.com responds to the Kansas City Star's editorial on Net Neutrality headlined as FCC"s ominous intimidation imperils free growth of the Internet. Also, Kansas City Activist Mary Lindsay gives some of the history leading up to the right wing activist Supreme Court's recent Citizens United v FEC decision. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and select "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. Questions or comments?  Send an emal to mail@tellsomebody.us

The May 11, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody features former FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley talks about the Quarles ('ticking time bomb') public safety exception and former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern talks about how "Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America."  But first, a few excerpts from FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn's speech made the  orning of the broadcast to a Free Press Media Summit.  Check out all the links at http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/05/coleen-rowley-and-ray-mcgovern-tonight.html To save a copy of the audio file of this show, right-click on the .mp3 filename below and select "save target as."

On the May 4, 2010 editon of Tell Somebody, I played just a few minutes of a phone interview I did with Antonia Juhasz in October, 2008 about what was then her brand new book The Tyranny of Oil - The World's Moswt Powerful Industry - and What We Must Do to Stop It.  After listening again, I decided to post the entire interview here. Juhasz is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies and a senior analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus. She is on the National Advisory Committee of Iraq Veterans Against the War and on the Board of Directors of Coffee Strong. She has taught at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program and as a guest lecturer on U.S. Foreign Policy at the McMaster University Labour Studies Program in a unique educational program with the Canadian Automobile Workers Union. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.

Barbara Schmitz, Campaign Manager for Missourians for the Protection of Dogs talks about puppy mill reform, Tyson Slocum, Director of Public Citizen's Energy Program talks about the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf, and, from the Tell Somebody archive, part of an October, 2008 conversation with Antonia Juhasz on The Tyranny of Oil.  And what did Democracy Now! have to say about Blackwater's Erik Prince?   Be sure to check out the links at www.tellsomebody.us To download the audio file for this edition of Tell Somebody, right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy to your computer.