Tell Somebody

Kansas City Iraq Vet, Tomas Young, featured in the film Body of War is in the VA hospital, possibly facing abdominal surgery.  This week's show starts off with a re-broadcast of an interview he gave Tell Somebody in the fall of 2005. In the second half of the show, Democracy Now's Denis Moynihan talks about how Amy Goodman, along with Moynihan and a DNow staffer were detained by Canadian authorities as they tried to go to Goodman's speaking engagement in Vancouver.  Apparently authorities feared DNow had come to badmouth the Winter Olympics.

On this edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Tripp, cabdriver, author, and former homeless person tells us about Survival 09, the Care of Poor People Event to help provide food and clothing to those in need. www.coppinc.com Pitch Blog on Richard Tripp: http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/01/this_mans_face_is_familiar.php Then, 30-year veteran intelligence officer and CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns to Tell Somebody in an interview recorded on the 46th anniversary of the assassination of JFK to talk about the upcoming Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial in NYC, Obama's Afghanistan dilemma, and why Obama might need to watch his back.  Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us email: mail@tellsomebody.us right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy of this show to your computer, or subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store.

At the Honeywell.com website, a picture I suppose representing happy Kansas City Plant employees accompanies this message: To sign up for the beryllium medical surveillance program contact Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) at 1-866-812-6703. On November 6, 2009, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City Missouri met, and after going through the motions of listening to testimony in opposition, voted unanimously to approve the latest step in a complicated leasing scheme to facilitate the building of a new nuclear weapons components plant in southern Kansas City.  Part of the deal is about $40 million in tax abatements and incentives to improve infrastructure that will also benefit the Kansas City stop on the North America Super Corridor. The private developers for the project and their PowerPoints,  as usual, got the lion's share of the time before the PIEA commissioners and staff, but opponents made some important points. Tom Klammer  www.tellsomebody.us    mail@tellsomebody.us Right-c

KKFI's Bill Clause talks about his play, 1937: One Helluva Year, a fact-based drama-comedy-musical about the about the struggle for racial equality, womens rights and workers rights in 1937 Kansas City. A. Phillip Randolph and and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters figure prominently in the play, so we go to the archives for a 2004 Heartland Labor Forum interview with Larry Tye, author of Rising From the Rails -  Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class. Finally, we go to a meeting of the Kansas City Planned Industrial Expansion Authority to hear activists testify against the plans to use city tax abatement and a complicated leasing scheme involving the federal government and private developers to build a new nuclear weapons components plant, leaving behind a toxic mess at the old plant.  The show ends with a brilliant spoken word performance by The Recipe. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and then choose "save target as" to save copy of this show to your computer, or subscribe to t

In the first segment of the show, I talk with Gershon Baskin, founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI).  Baskin spoke recently at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas on the topic "Is Peace in the Middle East Possible?" Founded in Jerusalem in 1988, IPCRI is the only joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-tank in the world, and is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  In the second half of the show we hear from filmmakers Lexy Lovell and Michael Uys on their documentary The Good Soldier.  The film is the subject of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS November 6, 2009, and features 5 soldiers from World War II to Iraq, including past Tell Somebody guest Edward Wood. Tom Klammer  www.tellsomebody.us  send email to mail@tellsomebody.us right-click on the .mp3 filename below to save this show to your computer.

Edward Wood is a World War II veteran featured in the documentary film The Good Soldier.  In this edition of Tell Somebody, originally broadcast in October, 2007, Wood talked about what was then his new book, Worshipping the Myths of World War II - Reflections on America's Dedication to War. right-click on the .mp3 filename below to save this file to your computer. Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us

Rhonda LeValdo is the host of Native Spirit Radio, a weekly show that airs on KKFI in Kansas City every Sunday at 5pm Central Time. LeValdo is an Acoma Pueblo Tribal Member from New Mexico, a member of the Native American Journalists Association, and currently teaches at Haskell Indian Nations University. She was honored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at Kansas University as one of their Women of Distinction. In this edition of Tell Somebody, Rhonda LeValdo talks about her radio show and some of her other accomplishments. (right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the show, or subscribe to the Tell Somebody podcast for free at the iTunes store). Tom Klammer  www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us

On October 10th on the Every Woman show on KKFI, Sharon Lockhart and her cohost Alexis Burdick had a couple of guests on the show talking about their …rather Kafkaesque experience with local government after they found out they had bought what is known as a DART house.  DART is an acronym for Drug Abatement Response Team, funded by COMBAT (Community Backed Anti-Drug Sales Tax  With the COMBAT Tax coming up for a renewal vote, Sharon and I thought you might want to hear about some serious concerns about a program that even its critics say has its good points.  So, we decided to post an edition of Every Woman here.  What’s a DART house?  Give a listen  (right click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to save mp3 to your computer).   

Last August, R. Crosby Kemper III, Executive Director of the Kansas City, Missouri Public Library, lectured the members and staff of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority about what he called "this weird Alice in Wonderland world we've created where nothing can be done in Kansas City without tax incentives becasue everybody expects theat there will be a tax incentive."  On this edition of Tell Somebody, Kemper gives his views on tax abatement in Kansas City. To save a copy of this show to your computer, right click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as."

Physicians for Social Responsibility co-founder Dr. Victor Sidel comes to Kansas City for a forum on Healthcare vs. Warfare: We Pay - Who Profits? Kansas Citian Ed Asner is featured in the radio play It's Up to Us Alone. www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us  To download a copy of this show, right-click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as"  

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern lamented that nobody has read the torture memos Obama released last April - we read the section on waterboarding. Proposition One for nuclear disarmament activists Ellen Thomas and Jay Marx are the in the studio with Springfield MO activist Midge Potts and Kansas City Activist Ann Suellentrop, then hear Self-Destruction performed by Priest and 3-3-7 of The Recipe, and we close with a song by local artist Margo May. www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us right-click on the mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to download the show

What is the News Hour on PBS neglecting to tell you about it's healthcare reform experts?  How are the right wing extremists swift-boating the Bill of Rights? On this edition of Tell Somebody, hear how the News Hour introduces a healthcare expert with major conflicts of interest, hear Thom Hartmann's explanation of a major Supreme Court decision that "is" even though it never was, listen to how Andrew Card's own response to a question by Kansas City activist David Quinley leads him to a pre-emptive claim that he is not a war criminal, even though he is perceived by many to be one, and compare Card's justification for Shock and Awe with what Ray McGovern had to say about it on a recent show.   

Journalist and film maker Sue Wilson came to Kansas City to show her new media reform documentary Broadcast Blues at the Kansas International Film Festival and to talk about the film and the importance of community radio on Tell Somebody. From the the website www.broadcastblues.tv The Movie the Media Does Not Want You to See!Clear Channel neglects its emergency system, disaster strikes, and people die.  Pentagon Pundits profit from the same war they promote.  Fox News gets a court ruling that news does not have to be true.  And Hate Radio Rules. Media Policy is killing people in this country.  Literally.  And it is harming our democracy, too.  Lies and misinformation are churning our Union into chaos. Until now.  We the People are taking the media back! right-click on the mp3 filename below and choose "save target as" to download to your computer.

On this week's Tell Somebody, David Swanson, co-founder of www.AfterDowningStreet.org, talks about his new book Daybreak, Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. After that, we climb aboard the Mad As Hell Doctors motor home as it angrily speeds down I-80 towards Des Moines, ultimately headed for Washington D.C.  Dr. Paul Hochfeld tells why they're mad as hell about sham healthcare reform.  www.madashelldoctors.com But before all that, I have a comment on the twice-delayed appointment of Mary Lindsay to the Kansas City, MO Tax Increment Financing Commission.  Lindsay's appointment was finally approved by the city council two days after the broadcast. And stick around to the end of the broadcast - former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has a few quick words about the importance of supporting community radio and shows like Tell Somebody. Tom Klammer mail@tellsomebody.us www.tellsomebody.us

A bit of commentary on Glenn Beck, his witch hunt of Van Jones and his on-air fantasies of murder, and an excerpt from Bill Moyers June 2008 keynote speech at the National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis put on by Free Press. www.freepress.net

Josh Stieber was in middle school on 9/11/2001.  Fear and terror and panic were contagious.  Josh joined the Army and did a tour in Iraq. Reflecting on his expericences there, Josh came to believe that love can be just as contagious and just as powerful a force as fear was, and set off on foot and bicycle across the country.  Josh and a companion stopped on the side of the road outside of Sedalia, Missouri, and talked on the phone to Tell Somebody.  Earlier the same day, Senators Kit Bond, John McCain and Mitch McConnell hid out in Childrens Mercy Hospital in Kansas City for a supposed healthcare town hall with a hand-picked audience of partisan supporters.  Tell Somebody heard from the protestors across the street. And finally, we go to the archives to hear from Julie Pierce, featured in the film Sicko,  whose husband died after Cigna insurance denied treatment for him, and look back to when whistleblower Wendell Potter was still working for Cigna. Tom Klammer   mail@tellsomebody.us     www.tellsomebody.us

On this edition of Tell Somebody, we start out with what Kansas City, MO public library director and former regional bank CEO Crosby Kemper had to say to the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority about out-of-control tax abatement. Next, Sen. Claire McCaskill held a town hall meeting on healthcare reform in Kansas City on August 24, and we'll hear a few minutes from that.  (If you like, you can listen to the whole one-hour event here: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D, MO) Healthcare Townhall Meeting And last, but not least, the second half of the show is about post-coup Honduras.  Alice Kitchen and Judy Ancel were part of a Global Exchange Delegation to Honduras, August 7-15, 2009, and they came to Tell Somebody to tell you about their experience there. (You can read/download a pdf of their report here: Report on the Honduran Coup by Global Exchange Delegation Tom Klammer    mail@tellsomebody.us     www.tellsomebody.us

On Monday, August 24, 2009, Sen. Claire McCaskill held a town hall meeting on healthcare at the Swinney Gymnasium at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.  Tell Somebody was there.  Here is audio of the one hour event. (right click on the "pod" icon above, or on the filename ending in "mp3" below and then select "save target as" to save the audio file to your computer) www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us

Twenty-seven year veteran retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns to Tell Somebody to talk about the Downing St. memos and why they are still relevant seven years on, but first he tells how single-payer healthcare saved his life.  Twice. Tune in to Tell Somebody Tuesdays at 6pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live around the world at www.kkfi.org.  You can also subscribe to the Tell Somebody podcast for free at the iTunes store - just search for KKFI - , or find links to downloadable mp3's of past shows at www.tellsomebody.us. For more information, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us .  

Kansas Advocates for Better Care (KABC)  is a non-profit organization whose mission is advocating for quality long-term care for adult care home residents.  Mitzi McFatrich is the Executive Director of KABC, and she talked recently to Tell Somebody about the history of KABC and about the help and information they offer to those dealing with long-term care issues. Their website is www.kabc.org, and they can be contacted via email at info@kabc.org, by phone, toll free throughout Kansas and in the Kansas City, Missouri area at (800) 525-1782 or at their Lawrence, KS number at (785) 842-3088.