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Wayne Harrison Knox, Operational Health Physicist from Atlanta came to Kansas City to do his own investigation deaths and illnesses among current and former workers at the Bannister Federal Complex, and he stopped by to talk to Tell Somebody. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.

"As one White House official put it off the record, 'April is all nukes all the time.'" On April 8, 2010, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was signed in Prague.   On this edition of Tell Somebody, Alicia Dressman, a volunteer with the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and PeaceWorks KC explains some of the issues related to START and how this is relates to the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex and Kansas City's prominent role in the complex. To download a copy of the audio file of this show, right click on the .mp3 filename below and select "save target as", or you can subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. Comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us  

This week on Tell Somebody, we have sample some audio from the Spring Break for the Homeless event put on by Richard Tripp's Care of Poor People, Inc., www.coppinc.com and then get an explanation of Rent-a-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson, a case on mandatory binding arbitration heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, from Deepak Gupta, staff attorney at the Public Citizen litigation group.  www.citizen.org   Finally, an excerpt of Bill Moyers speaking at a national conference on media reform.  www.freepress.net Send questions or comments on the show to mail@tellsomebody.us To save a copy of the show to your computer, right-click on the .mpe filename below and select "save target as."  

On this edition of Tell Somebody, Dr. Carole McArthur and Prof. Mike Wood discuss the recently passed healthcare legislation. Carole McArthur, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Oral Biology, UMKC School of Dentistry; Professor, Department of Pathology, Truman Medical Center Mike Wood, adjunct professor at the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. Wood was among the early architects of Prime Health, one of the first HMO's in the country. comments or questions on the show?  Send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose save target as to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.

Several recent shows have talked about the current state of journalism, and on this edition of Tell Somebody, Kansas City Star columnist and editorial board member Lewis Duiguid comes to the KKFI studio to share his viewpoint.  Duiguid is the author of the award-winning 2004 book A Teacher's Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today, and of Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union in 2007. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and select "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. send email comments or questions to mail@tellsomebody.us  

Richard Tripp, author, cab driver, and founder of Care of Poor People, Inc. www.coppinc.com, is looking for your help feeding and clothing the homeless in Kansas City.  Tripp returns to Tell Somebody to talk about the 20th annual Spring Break for the homeless coming up Saturady April 3, 2010. In the second half of the show, Jessica Logsdon and Jeff Helkenberg give us a view of their DART house nightmare- they bought a house in the Northeast neighborhood of Kansas City, thought they had dotted all the 'i's' and crossed all the 't's', but ended up being arrested for trespassing in their own house because it was tagged as a drug house on a list that appears and disappears like a Cheshire cat, first in Kansas City MO territory, then in Jackson County, leaving nothing behind but an evil grin. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio to your computer, or subscribe to the podcast for free at the iTunes store.  Search for KKFI or Tell Somebody in your podcast dire

John Nichols and Robert McChesney's new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again has been much in the news lately.  Recently I spoke to McChesney about it on the air and for this edition of Tell Somebody, I decided to give another listen to what John Nichols had to say kicking off a week of media reform events Alice Kitchen and I organzied with help from  Friends of Community Media and other groups in Kansas City with help from www.freepress.net and Common Cause in October, 2008. To download a copy of this show, right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose 'save target as' to save a copy to your hard drive, or subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store.  Search for KKFI and Tell Somebody in your podcast directory. Tom Klammer email: mail@tellsomebody.us

University of Illinois Professor Robert McChesney returns to Tell Somebody to talk about The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again , the new book he co-authored with John Nichols of The Nation magazine. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as"  to save the audio file to your computer.  Email your comments or questions on the show to mail@tellsomebody.us.  

  The February 9 edition of the show featured the Bob and Ray Show. Former CIA analyst and Presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern returned to the Tell Somebody phone, and this time he brought Robert Parry on the line with him. Robert Parry has covered Washington for more than three decades and led the way in exposing the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980's. Ray McGovern has been publishing his articles on Parry's http://www.consortiumnews.com/ for several years and now Bob and Ray have teamed up as a powerful speaking duo. Right click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save the audio file to your computer. Tom Klammer        mail@tellsomebody.us  Check out the links at www.tellsomebody.us  

During KKFI's April, 2008 pledge drive, Howard Zinn got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about his the then new book, A People's History of American Empire, a graphic book based on his People's History of the United States. Then a segment on reform of payday loan operations in Missouri. Right click on the mp3 filename below 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. Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us

David Barsamian, founder and director of the award-winning Alternative Radio program, just returned from a trip to India and Nepal, took some time to talk to Tell Somebody about his trip.  He tells of running into eminent Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva at a protest on an overpass in India, of his return to Nepal for the first time in decades, and shares his observations on subjects ranging from PBS' Charlie Rose to some rather vacuous comments from a couple of members of the Kansas City Missouri city council that he heard on Tell Somebody. The bulk of the show is David Barsamian on fire, in a good way, but first a snip of audio from the same-day Public Citizen press conference on the hyper-activist Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v FEC case and the non-sequitor dismissal of critics of the proposed new Kansas City nuclear WMD plant boondoggle by KCMO councilman John Sharp and councilwoman Kathy Jolly. Right-click on the mp3 filename below and select "save target as" to save a copy of

On the morning of January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court handed down a decision on the Citizens United v FEC case. A couple hours later, Public Citizen held a phone-in conference about the decision.

Richard Tripp, founder and director of Care of Poor People, www.coppinc.com, has a 20th anniversary event to help the homeless coming up in April, but he needs your help now. Massachusetts radio host David Pakman talks about the special election for the US Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. A quick update on the KCMO city council action on the Kansas City WMD plant to be built in south Kansas City. Tom Klammer mail@tellsomebody.us www.tellsomebody.us click the mp3 filename below to play, or right click on it, and select "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer

Jay Coghlan, Executive Director of Nuclear Watch of New Mexico, came to Kansas City for the Breaking the Silence Conference to speak about Kansas City and the Nuclear Weapons Complex.  Before the conference, he sat down to talk to Tell Somebody. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  

Nilufar, host of , Saba, The Wind of Love, a Sunday afternoon KKFI show of Persian music and news from Iran, guest-hosts this edition of Tell Somebody. In the first half of the show, she plays interviews I did with Richard Mabion, organizer of the Breaking the Silence conference held in Kansas City, Kansas and with Ann Suellentrop of Physicians for Social Responsibility.  Mabion talks about the whole conference which had a theme this year of 'How Health and the Environment Connect,' then Suellentrop talks about the part of the conference dealing with the Kansas City WMD plant and nuclear disarmament. Then Nilufar reviews recent news out of Iran regarding nuclear policy and protests that have been going on in the months since the June elections there. Left click on the mp3 filename below to play it, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. Tom Klammer               mail@tellsomebody.us

The December 29th, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody takes a look back at the year, actually going back to late 2008 with a post-election look at the Obama transition with author Paul Street and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.  We also hear about Gaza from former resident Mohammed Atwa, then, as we are in the midst of the disaster of healthcare "reform," we  hear about the disaster that is healthcare in America from KU medical student Tim Lyon and Physicians for a National Health Program co-founder Dr. David Himmelstein of Harvard Medical School.  Also, world renowned environmental activist Vandana Shiva talks about "Soil, Not Oil" and some comments from Alternative Radio's David Barsamian. Click on the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click on it and choose "save target as" to save the audio file to your computer. Comments or questions for Tell Somebody?  Send them to mail@tellsomebody.us You can also email the KKFI Programming Committee at kkfi-programming@googlegroups.com

On this week's show, Legal Aid of Western Missouri is looking for cases in which renters are being evicted from foreclosed properties, and the Army general in command of US forces in northern Iraq says pregnancy could lead to court martial and jail time. In the first segment, Gregg Lombardi, Executive Director of Legal Aid of Western Missouri talks about the new law requiring lenders to give 90 days notice before eviction to renters of foreclosed properties. Then, Marjorie Cohn, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild and law professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law reacts to a Stars and Stripes article that says that Major General Anthony Cucolo III, the Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has a policy in place that makes it possible for personnel who become pregnant, or impregnate a service member, to face court martial and jail time. Then we hear a bit of audio from a town hall meeting on health problems faced by Kansas City WMD plant workers, and the show ends with track

The Supreme Court had been expected to have ruled already on a case that could overturn a century of election campaign precedent and solidify the faulty idea of "corporate personhood."  Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission started as a case examining the 'swiftboating' of Hilary Clinton during her presidential bid, but an activist Supreme Court expanded it into an excuse to try to open the floodgates of corporate free speech in the form of cash.  We'll get an explanation of all that from Public Citizen's legislative representative Craig Holman. After that, Kansas City activists Ann Suellentrop and Maurice Copeland talk about a town hall dealing with the health problems of workers exposed to myriad toxic substances in the Kansas City nuclear weapons components plant. The show ends with a spoken word piece on the Second Amendment by Priest and 337, aka The Recipe, from their CD on the Bill of Rights. More information and links at www.tellsomebody.us To download an mp3 of the show, right-click on the

Last April on Tell Somebody, I talked with Curt Ellis, copoducer of a documentary film, King Corn, that aired on PBS' Independent Lens later the same night as my interview.  (I've posted the 2008 interview here: King Corn interview with Curt Ellis from 2008 ) Now, the King Corn crew have a new film out, called Big River, "a 30 minute documentary about the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture." This week's edition of Tell Somebody features a new interview with Curt Ellis about Big River, and in the second half of the show, excerpts from Bill Moyers speech to those gathered at the first Free Press national conference on Media Reform in Madison, WI in November, 2003. The show ends with a spoken word piece on the First Amendment by artists 'Priest' and '337', aka The Recipe from their new CD on the Bill of Rights. Right click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy of this show to your computer. Tom Klammer

The December 8, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody features an interview with Curt Ellis, one of the filmmakers of Big River, a sequel to the Peabody award-winning documentary King Corn.  With that in mind, I'm posting the April 2008 interview I did with Curt Ellis about King Corn.   Right-click on the mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy to your computer.