Mark Wilkerson was my guest on the March 24, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, just a couple of weeks ahead of the release of his new biography, Tomas Young’s War. Tomas Young was the Kansas City Iraq War veteran who died on the eve of Veterans Day, 2014, 10 ½ years after being paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet in Iraq. Tomas was featured in the must-see Ellen Spiro/Phil Donahue film Body of War which showed him dealing with his paralysis as he became an effective anti-war voice. Tomas Young’s War covers his entire life, but, perhaps most importantly, tells the story of the struggles he had between the period covered in the film and his death. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Jen Senko was my guest on the March 17, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Just ahead of a special screening in Kansas City, Senko talked about her new documentary film, The Brainwashing of My Dad-The Truth Behind the Right-Wing Media Machine That Changed a Father and Divided a Nation. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The March 10, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody featured former CIA analyst and frequent guest Ray McGovern on the phone for a live broadcast. McGovern, an admirer of Andrew Bacevich, begins by taking issue with some of his comments about Putin and Russia on Democracy Now! that morning. Ray talks about the U.S. supported coup in Ukraine and ends the show explaining why a US agreement to not move NATO one inch to the east was never put to paper.   ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian returned for the March 3, 2016 edition of  Tell Somebody, on the phone for a live call-in show. Just returned from a trip to Lebanon, he talked about that and took questions from callers as the show entered its final month. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The February 11, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody was a conversation with homeless advocate Richard Tripp and some of his friends. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @TellSomebodyNow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Robert McChesney returned to the show for the last pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody, on February 4, 2016. We started the show talking about how over two years ago Tell Somebody covered the Michigan emergency manager law, ignored in the corporate media, which led to the Flint water crisis. Then we talked about the new book coauthored by McChesney with John Nichols- People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

How did Elizabeth Murray go from being a New Mexico newspaper reporter fresh out of college to a CIA analyst serving as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council to an anti-nuclear activist? Listen to the January 21, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody and find out. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter:@tellsomebodynow  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the January 14, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody, Cecile Pineda returned to talk about her new book, Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World. Inspired, in part, by a case of mistaken identity, this book is a wide-ranging contemplation on why we are ruining the earth as a habitable home for ourselves and many of our co-inhabitants, prominently including a look at how human language influences attitudes and behavior. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter:@tellsomebodynow  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Melvin A. Goodman was my guest on the January 7, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy where he was a colleague of the late Robert White, former US ambassador to El Salvador, and was a CIA analyst and colleague of Ray McGovern. He is the author of National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism, and of the forthcoming book The Path to Dissent: A Whistleblower at the CIA. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: twitter.com/tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow Related shows: Delegation to El Salvador                       The Ambassador's Daughter – Claire White Remembers

On the December 24, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody we heard a report from Kansas Citians Alice Kitchen and Carol Coburn on the recent delegation to El Salvador marking the 35th anniversary of the murder of four church women there in 1980. One of the delegation participants was Claire White, daughter of Robert White, US ambassador to El Salvador 1980-1981, who was fired after refusing to cover up the guilt of the US-supported Salvadoran military in the murders. Alice Kitchen put me in touch with Claire White, and I reached her on the phone and recorded a conversation for the December 31, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

A delegation of 120 people went to El Salvador November 26 - December 5, 2015, marking 35 years since 4 churchwomen were murdered by the US-supported Salvadoran military. Two Kansas Citians, Carol Coburn and Alice Kitchen, joined that delegation, and they report on it this week on Tell Somebody. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

This week on Tell Somebody, Lindsay Wise, Washington reporter for the Kansas City Star, talks about Irradiated, the McClatchy print and multimedia online series about “the hidden legacy of 70 years of atomic weaponry” that left “at least 33,480 Americans dead.” ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

This week on Tell Somebody, the speech that Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean gave at Unity on the Plaza in Kansas City on the evening of October 30, 2015. Sister Helen Prejean was in Kansas City on October 30 2015 for speaking engagements thanks to Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and The Center for Global Studies and Social Justice at Avila University. On the previous edition of the show, I played the interview I recorded with Sister Helen after a talk she gave at Avila University. On this show, you'll hear the speech she gave that evening. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

This week on Tell Somebody. Dead Man Walking author Sister Helen Prejean, and Staci Pratt, state coordinator for Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP). If someone viciously and brutally murdered a loved one of yours – a child, a spouse, a parent - could you get past rage and grief to forgive? Or even just to accept? I'm not sure I could. Unless we've experienced such a loss, most of can't ever know for sure. I hope I never have to find out. But as citizens, don't we all have an obligation to consider the issue? Society has to deal with such, otherwise we leave it to surviving loved ones to forgive or not. To act in retribution or not. Sister Helen Prejean returned to Kansas City on October 30 2015 thanks to MADP and The Center for Global Studies and Social Justice at Avila University. In between her speaking engagements at Avila University and Unity on the Plaza in Kansas City, I recorded interviews with Sister Helen and with Staci Pratt, State Coordinator for MADP. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @TellSomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

A bigger-than-size statue of a horse wearing a hazmat suit is the subject of the October 29, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. Author and professor Kristen Iversen and artist Jeff Gipe joined us on the phone to talk about it. Rocky Flats, near Denver and Boulder, Colorado, was the site of a plant producing highly radioactive plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs since 1952. After major fires and other problems spread contamination over the site and the region, the plant was shut down and officials claim it is now cleaned up and safe. Until the installation of the Cold War Horse, nothing indicated that the plant, or the contamination, had ever been there. Iversen and Gipe will fill in some details about the site and the horse statue. Jeff Gipe, an artist now living in Brooklyn, NY, grew up near Rocky Flats, and his father worked at the plant for 20 years. He created the Cold War Horse to mark the site of the plutonium plant and to serve as a memorial to those who worked at the plant. Kristen Iversen author of Full Body Burden: Growing Up In the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, and is a professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati where she will introduce a new PhD program in literary non-fiction. She is currently working on her next book, Strange Genius: The Curious Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns for the October 15, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. With Russian President Vladimir Putin having unleashed his version of Shock and Awe on Syria, possibly putting the tiny remaining handful of US CENTCOM's $500 million force of “Viable Indigenous Ground Forces” at risk and with what Ray McGovern calls the “Fawning Corporate Media” in full “demonize Putin” mode and Obama's critics urging him to stand tall against the Russian threat, I thought it a good time to check in with McGovern, and ask how in the midst of all this, he sees “The Hope Behind Putin's Syria Help.” For that, and much more, listen to the conversation. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tells@tellsomebodynow “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Professor Richard D. Wolff spoke in Kansas City, Missouri at the All Souls Forum on September 13, 2015, and at the University of Missouri – Kansas City on September 14.. Shortly after his forum appearance at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, he sat down for a conversation with Tell Somebody. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-somebody/id303907790"iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @HYPERLINK "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the August 20, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Rhodes appeared for the second time in as many weeks. Rhodes had been on the phone for the July 30 edition of the show, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in Independence, that would mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Tell Somebody was in attendance at Community of Christ Church in Independence for Rhodes' speech, and was subsequently on hand to speak with him about an hour after the speech. Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and Independence, Missouri. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1986 book, “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” and has written over 20 books on a wide variety of subjects. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-somebody/id303907790"iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @HYPERLINK "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

For the August13, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody,I got together with Joe McGovern to talk about his current project. According to his website, theothersidedocumentary.com, Joe is a progressive liberal democrat who has always been interested in politics, but who recently grew tired of the extreme political partisanship in America today. He got the idea for a documentary film he calls “The Other Side: a liberal democrat explores conservative America” to see if he could find another way – a better way – to talk to those he disagrees with. 20,000 miles, 5 months, 35 states and 82 interviews later, Joe and his team are editing the footage of his journey into a 75 minute documentary. Joe and Charlie were passing through the area again on August 8, 2015, and I caught up with him in Independence, MO for breakfast and a conversation about his film. Give a listen. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-somebody/id303907790"iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @HYPERLINK "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the July 30 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, ahead of an August 9, 2015 speaking engagement in the area marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Richard Rhodes talked about his early life in the Kansas City area, how violent criminals get that way, and about nuclear weapons. Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and Independence, Missouri. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1986 book, “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” and has written over 20 books on a wide variety of subjects. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-somebody/id303907790"iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @HYPERLINK "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the July16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Maurice Copeland talks about the lack of progressj in getting Special Exposure Cohort status for Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant workers and about plans for cleanup of the old plant. Maurice is a former nuclear weapons worker at the Kansas City Plant and is active in helping workers with EEOICPA issues. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-somebody/id303907790"iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @HYPERLINK "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow  

On the May 28, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) co-founder and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern reminds us that the “intelligence” used to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq was “fixed,” not “flawed,” and explains for whom the surge worked. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-somebody/id303907790"iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @HYPERLINK "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the May 21, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, whistle-blower and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, and peace activist Brian Terrell's remarks at a drone protest on May 17th at the gates of Whiteman AFB. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the HYPERLINK "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tell-somebody/id303907790"iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @HYPERLINK "https://twitter.com/tellsomebodynow"tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On April 15, 2015, fast food workers and others across the country and around the world struck and marched and spoke up for $15 and a union. On the April 30th edition we heard some of the sounds and voices of marchers and speakersat a rally and march in Kansas City ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the April 16, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, hear from  National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC) CEO, Nicole Lamoureux and Kansas City CARE Clinic CEO, Sheri Wood about a free health clinic in KC On Saturday, April 18th. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Michael Copps was a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2011, including a stint as acting FCC Chair in 2009. He is currently special advisor for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative. Michael Copps returned to Tell Somebody to talk about the February, 2015 FCC vote for net neutrality and about media reform generally for the April 9, 2015 edition of the show. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Fast food workers in 200 cities across the country are going on strike on April 15, 2015. We talk about that in the first segment of the April 2, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, including a conversation with fast food worker and Stand Up KC activist Melinda Robinson. This Saturday, April 4, will mark 11 years since a bullet severed Tomas Young’s spine leaving him paralyzed.  Tomas is remembered with the re-airing of a conversation I had with him around the time Body of War, the film about him, was released. The final segment of the show is a continuation of audio from a symposium organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott, The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, held February 28 – March 1, 2015 in New York. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Investigative journalist, author, filmmaker, media critic and activist Danny Schechter died of pancreatic cancer on March 19, 2015.  On the March 26, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody,two frequent guests of the show remember their friend. First, bestselling author Greg Palast explains how Schechter influenced him to abandon his career as an investigator to become an investigative journalist.  Then former CIA analyst Ray McGovern shares his recollection of spending a couple of hours with his friend and fellow Bronx native just a few weeks before Schechter’s passing.  Palast and McGovern both talk about the importance of Schechter’s impressive life’s work. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The March 19, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody begins with some thoughts about the March anniversaries of the deaths, murders really, resulting from government policies in Germany and Israel, of Anne Frank, sometime in March, 1945, and of Rachel Corrie on March 16, 2003. Then we consider some of the less-discussed statistics about police policies in Ferguson, MO that were spelled out in a recently released Department of Justice report. The final segment of the show is a continuation of audio from a symposium organized by Dr. Helen Caldicott, The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, held February 28 – March 1, 2015 in New York. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the March 12, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody, Todd O’Boyle,  program director for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative talks about the FCC's recent decisions on Network Neutrality and Community Broadband.  In the second half of the show, Dr. Helen Caldicott opens a a symposium she organized on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the March 5, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody,American history professor Robyn Muncy talks about her new biography, Relentless Reformer: Joesephine Roche and Progressivism in America. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the February 26, 2015 edition ofTell Somebody, the subject was the relationship of Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. Allison Weir is the founder of If Americans Knew, a national organization that provides information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and on U.S. foreign policy regarding the Middle East, that is often missing from U.S. press coverage.  Ahead of appearances in Kansas City by Allison Weir sponsored by Citizens for Justice in the Middle Eastand AFSC-KC, we had a conversation with Katy Escobar, the social media director and outreach coordinator at If Americans Knew. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Robert McChesney, Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, has a new book out, Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-first Century – Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy. McChesney talks about the book on the January 29, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

President Obama gave a speech in Iowa on January 14, 2015, promoting Community Broadband.  In Missouri, a proposed house bill would outlaw it.   On the January 22 edition of Tell Somebody, Christopher Mitchell, Director, Community Broadband networks with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, talks to us about municipal broadband. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the day after Christmas, Stephanie Kelton, chair of the economics department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), announced in a tweet that she had accepted a position as chief economist for the minority side of the U.S. Senate budget committee. This January 15, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody seemed a good time to repeat a conversation I had with her in July, 2013. Before getting to that, we heard about Henry Stoever’s then upcoming trial for protesting nuclear weapons at the new Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant, we noted that January 15, 2015 would have been the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s 86th birthday, and we heard some climate radio from the Yale Project on Climate Communication ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the January 8, 2015 edition of the show, start a look back at  2014 on Tell Somebody, The portions are small but we’re serving up single payer health care, Kansas City nuclear weapons parts, community broadband, net neutrality, corporate personhood, food for the homeless and more, You’ll hear John Nichols, Ray McGovern, Vandana Shiva, Kathy Kelly and others, and we only made it through August.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.  Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On December 26, 2014, UMKC economics professor Stephanie Kelton tweeted “I've accepted a position as Chief Economist on the Senate Budget Committee,” reportedly hired by Senator Bernie Sanders who will be ranking member of that committee.  Kelton has been associate professor and chair of the economics department at UMKC, started the blog site www.neweconomicperspectives.org and is a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory or MMT. According to at least one report, Kelton will return to UMKC after a two-year leave. On November 19 at an event organized by Jobs Now and the Economics Club of UMKC, Dr. Kelton, gave a presentation called “The Angry Birds Approach to Understanding Deficits in the Modern Economy." With thanks to David Neal and Working journalist press for the audio, here is that presentation.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.  Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook

Marjorie Cohn, author, criminal defense attorney and professor of criminal law and process at Thomas Jefferson University of Law returned to Tell Somebody for the December 25, 2014 edition of the show to talk about how the grand jury process was manipulated by St Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch in the case of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.   On last week’s show we just had time for short clips of the comments of Georgia Walker and Kathy Kelly the night before they were convicted and sentenced for protesting drone warfare at Whitman AFB.  The Christmas day broadcast had a more extended version of their remarks, and this podcast includes a few minutes more than that.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly and Kansas Citian Georgia Walker were convicted of criminal trespass for trying to offer loaves of bread to the commander at Whiteman AFB in Missouri and engage in conversation about drone warfare.  Kelly was sentenced to 3 months in federal prison. She talked to Tell Somebody the night before her court appearance for the December 18, 2014 edition of the show. Then we hear again from former presidential daily briefer and CIA analyst Ray McGovern.  You didn’t see it on the fawning corporate media, but Ray had a contentious television appearance alongside Pete Hoekstra, former chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2004 to 2007, to talk about the recently released summary of the Senate intelligence report.       Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.  Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The December 11, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody starts out with a short interview with a fast food worker who participated in the Stand Up KC strike on December 4. The main segment of the show is a re-airing of a February, 2008 with filmmakers Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue about their film Body of War, a documentary about Kansas City Iraq war veteran Tomas Young and the October, 2002 “debate” leading up to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.    The show ends with a commentary called The Good Germans, originally aired in March 2003, one day before the launch of Shock and Awe.    Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.  Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

In the first segment of the  December 4, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, law professor Marjorie Cohn talks about the new book she edited, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal Moral and Geopolitical Issues, an interdisciplinary collection of essays and articles by various experts. On the second segment of the show,  Kansas City peace activist Georgia Walker talks about her May 31, 2014 arrest at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, MO and her June 1 arrest at Whiteman Air Force base near Knob Knoster, MO and upcoming trial in federal court in Jefferson City, MO on December 10. More information at www.peaceworkskc.org and www.vcnv.org.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the first segment of the Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody  Burger King worker Terrance Wise talks about fast food worker actions coming on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 6am in Kansas City Kansas and at noon in Kansas City.  More information at https://www.facebook.com/StandUpKc and www.standupkc.org  In the second segment of the show, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly talks about the real effects of drone warfare, her upcoming December 9, 2014 appearance in Kansas City and her December 10 federal court appearance in Jefferson City, MO for speaking up against drone warfare.  More information: www.vcnv.org  &  www.peaceworkskc.org     Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.  Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Joe McGovern, just like John Steinbeck, only completely differently, is driving across America with his dog Charlie.  Joe is in search of conservative Republicans to talk to and record for a documentary film he is calling The Other Side.   Can progressives learn anything useful from those on the right?  Listen to what Joe had to say about that  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

After news of a serious incident at a Honeywell uranium processing plant in Illinois, the October 29, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody  welcomed former Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant supervisor Maurice Copeland back to the show to talk about compensation and healthcare for former workers at the plant. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow  

Jeffrey D. Clements, attorney and author of Corporations are not People was heard on the October 23, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody ahead of an October 29 appearance at the Central Branch, Kansas City Public Library.   One of several issues affected by ‘corporate personhood’ that came up was trade policy generally, and specifically, a ruling just out from the WTO about COOL, or country of origin labeling for food. To learn about that in a little more detail, we heard from Ben Beachy, Research Director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, which had just issued a press release on the matter.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.   If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.   Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

David Barsamian, founder of Alternative Radio was in Kansas City on October 12, 2014 to speak on Media, Capitalism, and the Environment at the All Souls Forum.  I was able to sit down and talk to him for a few minutes right before his presentation. That conversation starts the October 16 edition of Tell Somebody. Next up, former CIA analyst and presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern thinks that it would be a travesty to give Pat Roberts another 6 years in the U.S. Senate, and wants to share with Kansans (and everybody else) some of the details of how Senator Roberts, as Senate Intelligence Committee Chair, helped Bush and Cheney politicize, distort and conjure up “intelligence” used to justify the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced his intention to resign as soon as a replacement can be nominated and confirmed.  This sparked much comment on what the legacy of the first African-American AG will be.  Assessments of Holder ranged from the looney-tune far right echo-chamber criticism, to fawning, uncritical praise from some middle-left arenas.  The closest thing to consensus might be that he did not do nearly enough to bring top Wall Street wrong-doers to justice in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, but that he was a true champion in his defense of civil rights and voting rights.  On the October 2, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, Public Citizen’s Financial Policy Advocate Bart Naylor supports the former position, and Glen Ford with the Black Agenda Report dismantles the latter.  We leave press freedom and whistleblower persecution and other blotches for another time.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On September 16, 2014, the Kansas City Public Library hosted a discussion on the proper role of government in the economy between Stephanie Kelton, chair of the Department of Economics at UMKC, and University of Missouri economics professor Joseph Haslag. The event was moderated by KCPT-TV host Mike Shanin and co-sponsored by the Jobs Now! Coalition and the Show-Me Institute. With Q and A, the discussion went on over one hour and twenty minutes, too long for the show, but on this September 25, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, you’ll hear the statements of professors Kelton and Haslag.   But first, a few words on the September 22 front page article in the New York Times prominently featuring the National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear weapons parts plant in Kansas City, and on how the Sunday network TV talking head political shows pretended that 400,000+ people were not in the streets of New York  city talking about climate change.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow Betty is absolutely correct! This is where we exchange information, success, challenges and ideas with our community radio sisters and brothers, as you know, a flock unto our own. Just remember, the stupid question is the one you don't ask.

FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley spoke at the All Souls Forum in Kansas City on September 14, 2014, and about 15 minutes into September 18 edition of Tell Somebody you’ll hear a conversation I had with her just before she had to head back to Minneapolis, followed by an excerpt from her presentation at the forum.   But first you’ll get to contrast and compare how independent media and mainstream corporate compromised media cover a topic.  This time it’s the NFL handling of domestic violence, but you could find similar differences on just about any topic you choose.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

FBI whistleblower and 2002 Time co-person of the year Coleen Rowley talked about her upcoming Kansas City appearance on the September 11, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody.  We had a short clip of Ray McGovern speaking in Moscow, and Move to Amend spokesman David Cobb talked about the September 8 vote in the U.S. Senate related to an amendment to the Constitution to overturn the Citizens United decision.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Jeremy Alderson, director of the Homelessness Marathon, was recently jailed for protesting against fracking in the Finger Lakes. You’ll hear from him in the first segment of the September 4, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody.  After that, I had a question or two for the Secretary of Energy and others at the new National Security Campus. Then, a few thoughts on the 75th anniversary of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact, the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way and current NATO saber rattling, and finally, what looks like a Conde Nast/New Yorker campaign for Monsanto and against Monsanto’s most prominent critic.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The new Honeywell operated NNSA National Security Campus on the southern edge of Kansas City, MO, which replaces the Kansas City Plant as producer/procurer of 85% of parts for U.S. nuclear weapons, was formally dedicated on August 22, 2014.  The August 28 edition of Tell Somebody took you inside to hear the ceremony.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.   Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the August 21, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody Craig Holman, Public Citizen’s government affairs lobbyist, talks about the upcoming vote, set for September 8 in the full Senate concerning an amendment to the US Constitution to overturn Citizens United. In the second half of the show, a little sample of Alternative Radio, discussion of the issues of media reform and overturning Citizens United as Siamese twins, a new daily short radio show from the Yale Project on Climate Change, and a reminder and update on protest against fracking in the Finger Lakes.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.   Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Who is Paul the vulture Singer and why should you care what he is doing to Argentina? Was Putin targeted for mid-air assassination? The August 14, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody starts out with investigative journalist Greg Palast, www.gregpalast.com, explaining how financier Paul Singer is forcing Argentina into default and how that affects US taxpayers as well as 41 million Argentinians.   In the second half of the show, investigative journalist Robert Parry, founder and editor of www.consortiumnews.com talks about a rush to expedient conclusions about who shot down Malaysian flight MH17 over Ukraine that don’t seem to be lining up with analysis of evidence.  Is Russian president Putin responsible? Or did Ukrainian hardliners hit the wrong plane?    Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.   Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The July 24, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody was the last of a three-part series of conversations with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who returned to give some of his unique perspectives on illegal spying by the NSA – (does that stand for No Such Amendment?) –the complicity of the major media in those illegal activities, and some of the history of the FISA court process arising from the Church Committee hearings of the 1970’s.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern returns for the second of a three-part series, this time to talk about the current troubles in Iraq and the neocon lies and blunders that brought things to this point, and the much ignored human cost paid by Iraqi civilians. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the July 10, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern talks about how the U.S. started a new cold war with Russia over Ukraine.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.   Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the July 3, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody former FBI agent, whistleblower, and 2002 Time co-Person of the Year Coleen Rowley returned to the show for a wide-ranging discussion.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.   Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The June 26, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody starts out with some thoughts about the now recently closed comment window at the Federal Communications Commission on the subject of net neutrality, and then proceeds backwards ten years to listen again to some of the speeches made at the first National Conference on Media Reform in Madison, WI in 2003. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

A discussion with 2012 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein takes the first  half of the June 19, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody. The second half of the show covers the June 12, 2014 discussions and vote on a proposed Kansas City, Missouri ordinance regulating food sharing that was favored by a couple of the bigger homeless shelters and opposed by a number of individuals and organization that feed the homeless. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.   If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The June 12, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody begins with a little conversation with three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly who was in Kansas City and surrounding areas for the 2014 events of Trifecta Resista, a Kansas City based coalition of groups supporting Chelsea Manning, imprisoned in Leavenworth Kansas, and opposing nuclear weapons parts production in Kansas City and drone warfare operations at Whiteman AFB.  On Saturday May 31, I caught up with Kelly at the entrance to the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant at the Bannister Federal Complex as a bus was loading to take protestors to another gathering at the DeLasalle education center. The rest of the show covers June 4, 2014 protests against a proposed Kansas City, Missouri ordinance regulating food sharing that is favored by a couple of the bigger homeless shelters and opposed by a number of individuals and organization that feed the homeless.  Audio from the protest near city hall and a conversation with homeless advocate Richard Tripp are included. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.   If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On June 5, 2014, Mary Lindsay of KC MoveToAmend was in the KKFI studio and MoveToAmend  co-founder and spokesperson David Cobb was on the phone to talk about the need to overturn Citizens United, the bizarre legal fiction of corporate personhood and the strange idea that money equals speech.  This was a pledge drive show, so they also related all of that to the need to support KKFI and Tell Somebody. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory.   If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The May 29, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody featured a conversation with independent journalist, historian and policy advisor Paul Street. Among other books, Street is the author Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics(2008), and They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy  (2014) Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow  

Peaceworks KC board member Jane Stoever got on the phone for the May 22, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody  to talk about the 2014 Trifecta Resista events coordinated by a Kansas City-based coalition of organizations advocating for the release of Chelsea Manning, the end of nuclear weapons proliferation and a halt to illegal drone wars. Much of the rest of the show was given over to a rebroadcast of part of a conversation I recorded with independent journalist and policy advisor Paul Street shortly before Barack Obama’s first inauguration as president of the United States.  Street had recently published Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics, and especially now in hindsight Street’s observations are so ‘spot on’ that I thought this interview was worth another hearing before having Street on again for the May 29, 2014 show. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the May 15, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, guest John Nichols talked about Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex  is Destroying America, one week ahead of an appearance in Kansas City to talk about the book.     Nichols, Washington correspondent for the Nation Magazine, co-founder of the media reform organization Free Press, and co-author with Robert McChesney of “Dollarocracy,” is coming to speak at the downtown central Library in Kansas City, MO next Thursday May 22.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us.  Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.                                                              “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

One the May 1, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, guest Christine Hines, consumer and civil justice counsel with Public Citizen, talked about how forced arbitration, which denies the people their right to sue when harmed, is spreading like a poison through industries that provide products and services to consumers, and is increasingly being added to corporate contracts with employees. We filled out the show with an extended clip of 2004 Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb’s remarks in Kansas City on April 22 about the need to amend the US Constitution to overturn the legal fiction of ‘corporate personhood’ and the idea that money equals speech.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the April 24, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, we heard from Dr. Vandana Shiva, longtime peace activist Brian Terrell, and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern. Author and ecological activist Dr. Shiva made some brief remarks at a dinner a day after speaking at Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City on April 17, an event broadcast live on 90.1 FM KKFI Community Radio.  In her dinner remarks, she talked about the worship of cow dung, recalled receiving an “award” from a Monsanto PR flack, and explained how people can respond at a planetary scale through local action. Brian Terrell returned to Whiteman Air Force Base, the site of his 2012 arrest resulting in a 6 month prison sentence for trying to deliver an indictment to the base commander.  Terrell talked about B-2 bombers, and the irony of how drone warfare, ostensibly intended to keep war at a distance, actually brings it closer. Ray McGovern also spoke at Whiteman AFB, starting out by calling Brian Terrell a prophet.  McGovern talked about the silence of the institutional church about racist war, and comments on reporting by Sy Hersh, published that day, about Secretary of State John Kerry’s lies about a hoped for “little” war against Syria. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

David Cobb, 2004 Green Party Presidential nominee and current Move To Amend spokesman will be speaking in Springfield MO on April 21, 2014 before coming to Kansas City on April 22. Both are stops on the 2014 Barnstorming Tour, “Challenging Corporate Power & Creating Democracy.”  Cobb got on the phone with Tell Someboy for the April 10th edition of the showto talk about the upcoming Kansas City talk and the need to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the ‘corpporate personhood” and the concept of money equaling speech.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow    

Since first speaking with her on the phone for a segment about water privatization on the Heartland Labor Forum in 2003, I have been hoping Dr. Vandana Shiva would someday make it to Kansas City. So I was delighted to read a couple of months ago that Cultivate Kansas City was partnering with UMKC to host a 2-day visit by Dr. Vandana Shiva on Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, 2014.  There is more information on this at www.cultivatekc.org, and on a facebook event page titled  “Dr. Vandana Shiva "Cultivating Diversity, Freedom and Hope" Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned physicist, feminist, activist and author.  Her many books include Water Wars, Soil Not Oil and Making Peace with the Earth. I called her in Delhi, India and recorded a conversation broadcast on Tell Somebody on April 3, 2014.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern kicked off a trip to Missouri with a stop at the KKFI studios on March 27, 2014 to share some of his thoughts on goings-on in Ukraine and to talk about his recent trips to England, Netherlands, and the National Press Club and the State Department in Washington. McGovern’s current trip will take him all over Missouri, with quick stops in Lawrence, KS and Fayetteville, AR, culminating in talk at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library on Monday, April 7 at 6:30pm.  That presentation is billed as “Speaking Truth to Power.”  (You can RSVP for that *here*).  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Care of Poor People, Inc. (www.coppinc.com) is holding the 2014 Spring Break for the Homeless at the Scottish Rite Temple near Linwood and Paseo in Kansas City, MO on April 19.  Author, former homeless cab driver and COPP Inc. founder Richard Tripp stopped by to talk about the upcoming event on the March 20 show.    While this is a local Kansas City event, Richard Tripp’s story and his approach to helping the homeless have a more universal appeal.  You might want to read his autobiography, Please Underestimate Me,, available via a link at www.coppinc.com, or at Amazon.com:  http://www.amazon.com/Please-Underestimate-Me-Blood-Richard/dp/0595442102   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

A February 13, 2014 Comcast press release announced “Time Warner Cable to Merge with Comcast Corporation to Create a World-Class Technology and Media Company” and went on to say “Strategic Combination Will Accelerate Delivery of Comcast’s Technologically Advanced Products and Services to Time Warner Cable’s Customers,” and “Transaction Creates Multiple Pro-Consumer and Pro-Competitive Benefits.” Outside the Comcast and Time Warner corporate offices, there were different characterizations of what would result if the biggest cable company merged with the second biggest. On the March 6, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, Matt Wood, Policy Director with Free Press got on the phone to talk about some of the issues related to this proposed merger.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Attorney and journalist Dave Saldana is the producer and director of the new Center for Media and Democracy film Keystone PipeLIES Exposed, about the Keystone KXL pipeline, and he talks about it in the first half of the February 27, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody.     In the second half of the show, University of Nebraska Economics Professor Hank van den Berg returns to talk about the mostly secret proposed so-called “free trade” agreement known as TPP.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On Tell Somebodyon February 20, 2014, the main topic was McCutcheon v FEC, the Supreme Court case described as worse than Citizens United in terms of possible impact on money in elections. Public Citizen Senior Organizer Aquene Freechild talked about same-day events being planned all over the country to respond to a decision being handed down in the McCutcheon case, which could be as early as Monday, February 24.  After that, we heard audio clips from the oral arguments in the case heard In October, 2013.   But first, news from the Oxford Union in England, hosting an event just the night before the broadcast honoring Chelsea Manning, 2014 recipient of the Sam Adams award for Integrity in Intelligence.  Tell Somebodyplayed audio from 2013 Sam Adams awardee Edward Snowden, who appeared at the Oxford Union via video stream from Moscow.  Also, word of a lawsuit filed against the U.S. State Department on behalf of Ray McGovern, and Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant cleanup Community Advisory Panel news.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Recently Todd O’Boyle of Common Cause brought my attention to a Kansas Senate bill, authored by a cable industry lobbyist, which would outlaw community broadband in Kansas.  Subsequently I came across an article online written by O’Boyle’s colleague Christopher Mitchell who wrote that the bill in question, if passed, would create some of the most draconian limits on building networks that we have seen in any state.   On  Tell Somebody  on February 13, 2014, Todd O’Boyle and Christopher Mitchell came on the air to talk about community broadband and industry efforts in Kansas and across the country to outlaw it.   Todd O’Boyle is  Common Cause’s Program Director for Media and Democracy.  He joined Common Cause in September 2012 and is responsible for research, advocacy, and strategy for media reform.    Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative with the New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the January 2, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody,  we hear from Dr. Ed Weisbart on single payer healthcare.  Dr. Weisbart of St. Louis was in Kansas City in December for several speaking engagements including a presentation at the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri Kansas City on the theme of  “Health Care Reform: What’s Here? What’s Coming? What’s Missing?”    Dr. Ed Weisbart is a family physician who practiced at Rush Medical Center in Chicago for 20 years before moving to St. Louis in 2003 to become chief medical officer at Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 Company. After retiring from that position in 2010, he began organizing the St. Louis chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, which he currently chairs. He volunteers in a variety of safety-net clinics in the St. Louis area, and is also assistant professor of clinical medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.  He has had several articles published in national medical journals regarding the health care needs of the uninsured, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has printed several of his opinion pieces about single-payer health care. He has also testified multiple times before the Missouri Legislature on health care reform. He resides in Creve Coeur, Mo.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the December 26, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody,  in the midst of conflicting Federal Court decisions about NSA practices and some very interesting mainstream media print and broadcast pieces, Ray McGovern returned to the show to talk about Edward Snowden, Michael Hayden, Bobby Ray Inman, the Constitution, the NSA, and more as only he can.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the December 19, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody,  Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, returned to talk about his new book about Nelson Mandela.  “Danny Schechter has produced and directed six documentary films about Nelson Mandela and was the only American documentary filmmaker Mandela trusted to be part of his team in the United States and in South Aftrica after his release and his election as South Africa’s president.”  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.   “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the December 12, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, Professor Jim White, Director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and a professor of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies talked about climate change. He chaired the committee within the National Academy of Sciences that released a report last week entitled Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change. The report brought to the fore the sudden changes that can occur within our biosphere in a matter of mere years or decades–a red alert for all of us sharing Planet Earth which emphasizes the need for an early warning system to be implemented. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow  

On the main segment of the December 5, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines division, talked about a recent Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) revelation. A November 13, 2013 Public Citizen Press Release announced that a complete chapter of secret TPP text revealing that the Obama administration is demanding terms that would limit Internet freedom and access to lifesaving medicines throughout the Asia-Pacific region was released by WikiLeaks. Maybarduk’s division analyzed the leaked TPP documents for WikiLeaks. Listen to a discussion with Maybarduk after segments with Gina Chiala of Stand Up KC , on a fast food worker strike, and voices from Richard Tripp’s Care of Poor People Survival 13 event for the homeless on November 30. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Late in 2005, I got an email with a link to an Orlando Sentinel article reprinted on Truthout.org with the headline “Orlando holds hope for young war victim,” about a beautiful 2 year old girl name Alaa.  In May, 2005, her two brothers and three of her cousins were killed and she and her mother were injured when an American tank shell hit their home in western Iraq.  Tiny bits of shrapnel lodged in her eyes, and, in December 2005, she was in Orlando with her father in hopes of saving one of her eyes.  A number of people, notably Alan Pogue and Cole Miller of www.nomorevictims.org and Ashley Severance, then a law student in Orlando, brought Alaa and her father to the U.S. and arranged lodging and medical care. For the Thanksgiving 2013 edition of Tell Somebody,  I re-aired my 2005 conversations with Alan Pogue and Ashley Severance, and gave a little bit of an update. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody  and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Emmy Award-winning journalist, television producer, blogger and author Danny Schechter the News Dissector  made his first appearance on Tell Somebody  on the November 21, 2013 edition of the show. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Nuclear Watch New Mexico Executive Director Jay Coghlan, in Kansas City for a couple of speaking engagements about the new and old nuclear weapons parts production plants in Kansas City, stopped by to talk to Tell Somebody right after a three hour meeting with representatives of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and right before his second speaking engagement.  Coghlan has some doubts as to whether the feds will live up to their responsibility to clean up the highly contaminated Bannister Federal Complex, and some suggestions as to how Kansas Citians can pressure them to do the right thing. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the November 7, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley talked about her recent trip to Moscow with Ray McGovern, Jesselyn Radack, and Thomas Drake to present NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with the Sam Adams award. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow  Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Nuclear Watch New Mexico executive director Jay Coghlan returned to Tell Somebody on October 31, 2013 ahead of a couple of speaking engagements in Kansas City about the Kansas City Nuclear weapons parts plants, old and new, billed “KC: Linchpin in Nuclear Weapons Production, or 50 Ways to Leave Your Nukes!” This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the evening of October 21, 2013, there was a preview screening of the film "Money for Nothing, Inside the Federal Reserve" at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). After the film, there was a panel discussion about the film with the filmmaker, Jim Bruce, and UMKC professors Dr. Stephanie Kelton, chair of the UMKC department of economics, economics professor Dr. L. Randall Wray, and Dr. William Black, former financial regulator and associate professor of law and economics. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow  Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

On the October 24, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody,  Richard Tripp, Executive Director of Care of Poor People, Inc. returned and brought Duane Skjervem, executive director of Hope Faith Ministries along with him to talk about Coppinc’s Survival 13 event for the homeless on November 30.  This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow  Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The IPCC Fifth Amendment Report (AR5) on climate change was released in Stockholm on September 27th. The New York Times reported on what it called the report’s “near certainty” that humans are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades. On this week’s Tell Somebody, one of its contributing authors, Michael J. Prather, will be on hand to talk about it. Prather is a professor of earth system science at the University of California-Irvine. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Hendrik (Hank) van den Berg is a professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, visiting the UMKC economics department for a year.  Professor van den Berg got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about the September 30, 2013 government shutdown, the looming debt ceiling situation, and other issues. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the September 26, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan  about Michigan's democracy-slashing emergency manager law, and then, just a day ahead of the release of a major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, we hear from Geoffrey Feinberg, research director for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow  

On the September 19, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we take a look at the upcoming Supreme Court case McCutcheon v Federal Election Commission, a case brought by a wealthy donor and the Republican National Committee seeking to overturn limits to contributions by individuals to candidates and committees. First we hear from Scott Nelson, attorney at the Public Citizen litigation group in Washington D.C., and then we listen in on a telephone press conference put on by ReThink Media, "a non profit communications organization supporting the work of advocacy groups fighting back against the corrupting influence of money in our political system." Representatives of three of six organizations supporting campaign finance reform that filed briefs in this case, The Campaign Legal Center, The Brennan Center, and The Constitutional Accountability Center, spoke on the telephone conference.  This podcast includes an additional 10 minutes from the conference that had to be cut from the broadcast due to time constraints. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Ray McGovern returned for the September 12, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody to talk about Syria.  How much confidence should we have in the Obama administration's 'high confidence' that the Assad regime was responsible for the August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria?  What about claims by President Obama and Secretary Kerry about Iran's possible nuclear weapons ambitions?  Why did Ray tear a page out of the pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution given to him by Dennis Kucinich?   This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right click and choose "save target as" or "save link 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter:  @tellsomebodynow  Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook.

On the September 5, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, broadcast the day after The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to give President Barack Obama the power to a launch a military attack to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, and as debate heated up in the rest of congress and the public, Alternative Radio's  David Barsamian returned to the show to talk about Syria.   This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook.  Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

Investigative journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast, www.gregpalast.com, returned for the August 29, 2013 editon of the show to talk about Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo. What is so striking about this 1997 memo from Timothy Geithner to Larry Summers?  What was illegal about it?  Why would Larry Summers be such a bad choice to head the Federal Reserve?  If he is formally chosen by President Obama, will Senator Elizabeth Warren stand up for the public interest, or sit with the banksters? This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

On the August 22, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Malcolm Byrne, deputy director of the National Security Archive, about their release of recently desclassified documents on the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh that are believed to be the first formal acknowledgement by the CIA of their role in the coup. In a segment recorded the day that whistleblower Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, we hear from Nathan Fuller of the Bradley Manning support network.  The morning after this was recorded, Manning released a statement through her attorney that she wished to be known henceforth as Chelsea. In the final segment, as a deadline for hundreds, possibly thousands, of new low power FM radio stations rapidly approaches, we re-air a March, 2012 interview with Brandy Doyle of the Prometheus Radio Project about the potential of LPFM. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

Iranian-American Moji Agha is on his  Mossadegh Awareness Begets American Nonviolence Tour, and we heard from him about on the August 15, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook.   Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

On the August 8, 2013, edition of Tell Somebody,  Professor Robert McChesney talks about Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, his new book with co-author John Nichols. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow

On the July 30, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we talk to Dr. Stephanie Kelton, chair of the economics department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.  Kelton discusses the state of the U.S. economy and what to do about it generally, and responds to statements made on the NPR "Here and Now" program by an economist at the investment banking firm BNP Paribas. After that, we have an update on the Bradley Manning verdicts, announced at noon on the day of the broadcast. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow

Guest host Nilufar Movahedi took the Tell Somebody microphone for the July 23, 2013 edition of the show, speaking with Michael Liimatta, president and co-founder of Connecting for Good, a nonprofit organization that is bridging the Digital Divide in Kansas City with free and affordable in-home wireless internet, low cost refurbished PC's, and digital life skills training.    This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

On the July 16 edition of Tell Somebody, Mike Murphy sat in for Tom Klammer and talked about the 24 citizens arrested for civil resistance when they sought to open a door to a nuclear weapons-free world during their peaceful protest at the newest U.S. nuclear weapons complex facility opened here in Kansas City, and their quest for fair trials. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. follow me on Twitter:  @tellsomebodynow

On this edition of Tell Somebody Ray McGovern recalls his former colleague, the late Sam Adams and the history of the Sam Adams award for truth-telling, just awarded to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.   This follows a quick update from the Bradley Manning trial by Nathan Fuller, writer with the Bradley Manning Support Network. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow

On April 8, 2010, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was signed in Prague.  Very shortly after that, Alicia Dressman appeared on the show to explain some of the issues related to START and how this is related to the U.S. Nuclear weapons Complex and Kansas City's prominent role in the complex.   In June 2013, President Obama made a speech in Berlin including some remarks about nuclear weaons. Independent researcher Alicia Dressman returned for the July 2, 2013 edition of the show to talk about nuclear disarmament and Life Extension Programs (LEP's).  After that, news about the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant, talk of misdeeds by and related to Bank of America, the great PR BoA gets on public television, and finally an excerpt of Glenn Greenwald's remarks about press coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA whistleblowing. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow

Former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley returned to Tell Somebody for the June 25, 2013 show to talk about whistleblowing generally and about whistleblower Edward Snowden. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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 other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow

The Bannister Federal Complex Community Advisory Panel, or CAP, met at the General Services Administration offices at the Bannister site on June 13, 2013.  Tell Somebody was there and on the June 18 edition of the show we heard some audio from the meeting, and a good bit of information on beryllium, one of at least 898 toxic substances identified as having been used in the production of parts for nuclear weapons at the soon to be abandoned Kansas City Plant currently run for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by Honeywell. All this came came after a quick excursion into the NSA whistleblower controversy. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebody now "Like" the Tell Somebody facebook page

Leading economics bloggers from around the country were in Kansas City on April 12, 2013, for the fifth annual Economics Bloggers Forum at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.  That evening, some of them, including UMKC economics and law professor Bill Black and UMKC economics department chair Stephanie Kelton, gathered for what was billed as a coffee house with food, drink, and discussion at a nearby restaurant, one of two such events sponsored by the Jobs Now Coalition and the UMKC Economics Club.   This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebody now click here for Tell Somebody on Facebook

Bill Black came on the June 11, 2013 pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody to talk economics and regulation and to help ask for listener support of KKFI Community Radio. Bill Black is an associate professor of economics and law. He was the executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He previously taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and at Santa Clara University, where he was also the distinguished scholar in residence for insurance law and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Professor Black was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the FSLIC, SVP and general counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and senior deputy chief counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. He was deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement.  This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebody now click here for Tell Somebody on Facebook

On June 4, 2013, Tell Somebody talked to Mike Caddell about his internet radio show, Radio Free Kansas. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  click here for Tell Somebody on Facebook Twitter: @tellsomebodynow

On May 25, 2013, 2 million people in over 50 countries put on over 400 anti-Monsanto events.  The May 28 edition of Tell Somebody covered the March Against Monsanto event in Kansas City where a crowd of a couple hundred folks holding signs steadily built up, by some reports, at JC Nichols fountain to over 2,000 particpants.  This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  click here for Tell Somebody on Facebook Twitter: @tellsomebodynow

On the May 21, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, hear Cecile Pineda, author of Devil's Tango - How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step.   "An astonishing anatomy of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster..." John Nichols "Pineda's masterful framing of the urgency for readers to learn from the Japanese nuclear disaster and the machinations of its industry handlers makes Devil's Tango one of the most important and required reads this year...." Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  click here for Tell Somebody on Facebook Twitter: @tellsomebodynow

The facebook event page for a KC MoveToAmend rally said "127 Years ago, on May 10, 1886, corporations began to finagle constitutional rights through the US Supreme Court. THAT was just the beginning! This year, on the 127th "birthday" of corporate persons, Kansas City Move to Amend will join activists all over the nation with a rally at the Nichols Fountain."   After a reminder that the corporate personhood "ruling" wasn't even in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision, but only in the headnotes written by the clerk of the court, the May 14, 2013 edition of the show consists of the remarks of eight speakers at the rally, including yours truly. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow

Two of journalist Arun Gupta's latest articles are The Trouble With Professor Petraeus and Little Bagdhad, California. Gupta got on the phone with Tell Somebody for the April 30, 2013 edition of the show to talk about both of them.  This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

On April 29, 2013, I recorded a conversation with former CIA analyst and Presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern.  Ray held forth on some of the usual subjects, but with an added emphasis on the media.  Ray has said that in his 50 years of observing Washington, D.C., the biggest change he's witnessed is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media. On this show, Ray expands on that in the light of some of his recent interactions with university students, and talks about torture, detainess, and the conflict inherent in the CIA between intelligence analysis and operations directorates. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

On the April 23, 2013 editon of Tell Somebody Homelessness Marathon director Jeremy Alderson joined Gas Free Seneca co-founders Yvonne Taylor and Joseph Campbell to talk about the havoc being wreaked in the Finger Lakes area by Inergy LP, the Kansas City-based company planning to use 'fracking' in the area and to store explosive gases in empty salt mine caverns near Seneca Lake. Alderson was arrested for chaining himself to an entrance gate to the storage facility. While preparing this show on April 23, I learned that Common Cause  President & CEO Bob Edgar had died suddenly that morning.  Edgar had been a guest on the show in May and October, 2012, and this show includes a portion of his October interview. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook Tell Somebody on facebook

The April 16, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody was the second of two parts on the Free Press National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado.  The show features excerpts from Free Press President/CEO Craig Aaron's opening and closing remarks at the conference, the remaining portions of an interview with Free Press co-founder Professor Bob McChesney, criticism from Project Censored's current and former directors Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, and a response from Craig Aaron. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

The April 9, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody is the first of  two shows covering the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform in Denver , Colorado. We hear from conference attendee Janet Wilson, law professor and past president of the National Lawyers Guild Marjorie Cohn, former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, journalism professor and Free Press co-founder Bob McChesney, and Free Press president & CEO Craig Aaron. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

On March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush came on national television and said "At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” On the March 19, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we observe the 10th anniversary of Shock and Awe and other anniversaries just past and upcoming: a short clip of Bradley Manning’s statement acknowledging his release of documents to Wikileaks; International Womens Day March 8, 1917 and the start of the February Revolution in Russia, reading an excerpt from an eyewitness account; the 10th anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie in Gaza on March 16 with a rebroadcast of a 2009 interview with her parents Cindy and Craig Corrie; and the April 4, 2004 wounding of Tomas Young with 2005 and 2007 interviews with Young and a 2008 interview with his mother, Cathy Smith.  In a February appearance via Skype to an audience viewing the film Body of War, Tomas Young announced that he would end his life. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody  and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

Kansas City cab driver and advocate for the homeless Richard Tripp and investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author Greg Palast were guests on the the March 12, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody. For years, Richard Tripp, founder and director of Care of Poor People (www.coppinc.com) has held a Winter Survival event, and a Spring Break for the homeless in Kansas City.  For years, a couple thousand Kansas Citians have gotten free food, free clothes, and free entertainment twice a year from Tripp's organization.  As spring approaches this year, there are rumblings of coming legislation to outlaw giving food to hungry people outside of (inadequate) shelters and food kitchens, or, as a recent Kansas City Star article put it, "pretty soon, feeding the homeless in Kansas City without permission could be just as illegal as feeding the geese."   Tripp is "not ready to make nice" about this, and talks about it on the show. In the second half of the show, we hear about the late Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, from someone who knew him: investigative journalist and New York Times Bestselling author Greg Palast.  Palast describes the real Chavez, not the boogeyman "dictator" portrayed in the fawning corporate media, and works in tidbits about the Koch brothers, Canadian Tar Sands oil, and more (including a free download about Chavez at www.gregpalast.com). This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

On Saturday, February 9, 2013, Gershon Baskin spoke at Avila University in Kansas City, MO at an event billed "Peace in the Midst of Conflict." Gershon Baskin, PhD, is the founder of IPCRI, the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, the only joint Israeli-Palestinian think-tank in the world. It is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (http://www.ipcri.org). Baskin was featured on the February 19 edition of Tell Somebody with excerpts from his speech and an interview. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

Professor Robert McChesney  returned to Tell Somebody for the February 12, 2013 edition to talk about the vital importance of independent media and the urgent need to support it. Robert McChesney is co-founder and former president of Free Press, the national non-partisan media reform group that organized opposition to the Federal Communication Commission's decision to relax media ownership rules in 2003. He is the author of many books, and is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

For a very long time, Kansas City has had a ½ cent sales tax, called the Public Mass Transportation Fund, used primarily to fund the city bus system.  Because that was not enough for the bus system, in 2003 the citizens of Kansas City voted for an additional 3/8 cent sales tax dedicated for the Kansas City Area Transit Authority, the idea being that this would augment the 95% of the existing ½ cent tax being used to fund the KCATA. But the city began drawing off some of the ½ cent tax to other projects, in effect nullifying much of the 3/8 cent tax. In December 2010, the Kansas City City Council passed ordinance 100951 “directing the City Manager to incrementally increase current appropriations to Kansas City Area Transit Authority beginning May 1, 2010” and amending the City Code of Ordinances such that “at least ninety-five percent of the remaining sales tax for transportation…shall, by May 1, 2014, be appropriated and paid by the City to the Kansas City Area Transit Authority” and stating that “the City Manager is directed to increase the current appropriation to 95% beginning with the budget taking effect on May 1, 2011.”  (emphasis added) City Manager Schulte and the council ignored this ordinance in 2011 and 2012, and Schulte ignored it yet again in his proposed 2013 budget.  Since this show was recorded, the KC Star reports that $2 million will be peeled off to support the short line downtown streetcar.  As to ordinance 100951 that he has already ignored for a third year now, Schulte was quoted as saying “That ordinance was adopted before the streetcars.  I will ask the city to change the ordinance.” KC Transit Action Network co-founder Janet Rogers, active in getting the 2010 ordinance passed, is heard on the February 5, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody testifying in favor of restoring KCATA funding at a February 2, 2013 neighborhood budget hearing in Kansas City, and explaining the situation in a subsequent phone interview. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

Kansas City is home to an existing and a new replacement nuclear weapons parts plant that have been and  will be responsible for 85% of the components of US nuclear weapons. The new plant is owned by the Kansas City Planned Industrial Expansion Authority (PIEA), described in a 2010 Missouri Court of Appeals decision as "a statutory agency that was created by a vote of the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri (“the City”) under section 100.320.1," and whose members are appointed by the Kansas City mayor. The plant will be operated by Honeywell for the National Nuclear Security Administration in a complicated leasing scheme, involving the General Services Administration and private developer Centerpoint Properties,  that was criticized by the GAO in a 2009 report Rachel MacNair is the Campaign Coordinator for KC Peace Planters, a group responsible for getting a measure on the ballot on April 2, 2013 in Kansas City, Missouri, that would preclude the city from engaging in any such nuclear weapons involvement in the future. Willie Jackson worked in the old Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant in the 1970's, 80's and 90's, where he was exposed to hundreds of identified toxic substances.  He filed claims for health problems, and they have been denied. Rachel MacNair and Willie Jackson spoke on the January 29, 2013 edition of  Tell Somebody.  The podcast includes a few minutes of audio that had to be edited due to broadcast time constraints. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

On the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the second inaugural of President Obama, Tell Somebody talked to Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford about his piece Don't You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama. In the second half of the show, we talk to Wayne Knox, president and CEO of Cold War Soldiers, advocates whose mission is "to help obtain fair compensation and treatment of workers and claimants impacted by the building, testing and maintenance of nuclear weapons. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

William Black is a former federal bank regulator, current professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One - How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He appeared extensively in Michael Moore’s dcoumentary: “Capitalism: A Love Story.”  Professor Black recorded a conversation with Tell Somebody on Saturday January 12, 2013, shortly before the Treasury Department announced it would not be minting the much talked about trillion dollar platinum coin.  Black talks about how the platinum coin idea could have worked, why austerity is a bad idea, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, and a little bit about the movie Blazing Saddles. His writings and those of some of his colleagues can be found at www.neweconomicperspectives.org.  This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

Kansas City Move To Amend and other groups held a mock wedding of a corporate person and a human person in January 2012, marking the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v FEC decision..  The January 8, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody took a look back at the wedding as the third anniversary approaches.   This came after some thoughts about torture and the new film, Zero Dark Thirty. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   Twitter: @tellsomebodynow facebook: http://on.fb.me/T5WjVH 

Happy New Year.  On January 1, 2013 on Tell Somebody, a Kansas City attorney, former county prosecutor and Missouri judge Albert Riederer is remembered with a 2007 interview when he was running for mayor of Kansas City, MO. Then, a bit of a look back at 2012 on the show starting with an Occupy KC-sponsored New Orleans style funeral march for the social safety net. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   Twitter: @tellsomebodynow facebook: http://on.fb.me/T5WjVH 

On Christmas Day 2012, Tell Somebody revisited the Nativity and then wondered what it would have been like if border patrol agents had been on the scene during the flight into Egypt. It has been a while since the Collateral Murder video was released by Wikileaks, but with the Bradley Manning case proceeding, maybe it's worthy of a little more attention.  Tell Somebody contemplates the events in that video in relationship to the biblical story of the Good Samaritan. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

Although it has a Community Advisory Panel (for window dressing?) for the severely contaminated Kansas City Bannister Federal Complex, the NNSA has a preferred planning partner, Centerpoint Properties, when it comes to communication and making decisions about what to do with the soon to be abandoned Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant.  Centerpoint is the same corporation developing the new nuke plant in Kansas City.   In a November 30, 2012 posting to their website, the NNSA wrote: "In August 2012, the NNSA identified a preferred planning partner to discuss future reuse opportunities. Through discussions with the preferred planning partner, NNSA has determined that only land uses consistent with current zoning constraints are feasible.  This change eliminates the need to study options outside those zoning restrictions such as residential use. Therefore, NNSA has also decided to withdraw its earlier NOI published in January 2012." The December 18 edition of Tell Somebody includes audio from a public information session at the IBEW Local 124 Union Hall in south Kansas City where the NNSA tried to explain why they withdrew plans for an Environmental Impact Statement.  This followed thoughts on the show about the apparent Presidential cave-in on Social Security in fiscal cliff negotiations, Zero Dark Thirty's false glorification of torture, truly heroic teachers, and America's very selective concern about slaughtered children. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

On December 3, 2012, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern posted a link at his website to a piece about why he thinks Rice is not qualified to be Secretary of State.  Most of the mainstream media coverage has centered on Republican criticism of her handling of the Benghazi, Libya incident.  Former CIA analyst and presidential briefer Ray McGovern has some other reasons to criticise her, and he shared them on the December 11 edition of Tell Somebody.  This podcast edition includes about 15 minutes of additional audio that we didn't have  time for on the broadcast edition of the show. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The December 4, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody  featured good news and bad news from the FCC.  The bad news? The FCC is apparently planning to end a rule preventing companies from owning a newspaper and radio and TV stations in the same city. This show aired part of a press conference put on by Free Press on November 28 with Wade Henderson of The Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Bernie Lunzer of The Newspaper Guild-CWA, Mee Moua of the Asian American Justice Center, Alex Nogales of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Rashad Robinson of ColorofChange.org speaking in opposition to the FCC's plans to gut media ownership rules. The good news? After years of groundwork, on November 30, The FCC will held an Open Meeting in Washington, DC on "Creation of a Low Power Radio Service", aka LPFM.  This show aired part of that meeting. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

Josh Stearns is the Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director at Free Press, www.freepress.net.  Josh came on the November 27, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody to talk about the apparent plans of the Obama FCC under Julius Genachowski to push the same relaxation of media cross-ownership restrictions as Bush's FCC chair Keven Martin pushed in 2007. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

On Friday, November 16, 2012, The New America Foundation, www.newamerica.net, hosted an event, Dark Money, Media, and the 2012 Campaign.  From the New America Foundation website for the event: "The first presidential campaign since the 2010 Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision resulted in the most expensive election season ever. Anonymous and unaccountable donors poured in unprecedented amounts of money. While new media, newspapers and radio collected some of this money, the lion’s share ended up in the bank accounts of television broadcast companies. For months the public was bombarded with a tsunami of ads from political campaigns, Super PACs and other shadowy groups—ads that in many cases were only loosely connected to the truth.  Aside from creating windfall profits for broadcasters in swing states, what impact did dark money have on democratic discourse in the 2012 election at the state and the national level? With so much money in the mix can media really fulfill its role to watchdog politics and separate fact from fiction? Is there evidence that Citizens United needs to be overturned? Have new rules to improve broadcaster transparency and disclosure helped? And are there other reforms that need to be on the table before the next election season?" The November 20, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured the opening remarks made at this events by former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, currently with Common Cause. This show also includes a repeat of an interview with Kansas City cab driver and homelessness advocate Richard Tripp about his www.coppinc.com winter event for the homeless. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The November 13, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features author and cabdriver Richard Tripp, founder and director of Care of Poor People Inc (COPP Inc) about his upcoming Winter Survival Event to provide food and clothing to the homeless, and former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, currently Common Cause’s Senior Advisor for their Media and Democracy Reform Initiative, responds to a Los Angeles Times article about possible FCC plans to relax media cross-ownership restrictions. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

Tell Somebody caught up with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman on the road in Oregon ahead of her November 1 Kansas City visit and fundraiser for KKFI. and broadcast it on the October 30, 2012 edition of the show.  Goodman was on a 100 city book tour for The Silenced Majority - Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope with co-author Denis Moynihan. After that, we heard from Frances Fox Piven, the professor Glenn Beck loves to hate. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

Common Cause President/CEO Bob Edgar returned to Tell Somebody to talk about a new report by Common Cause and Demos that examines laws regulating the activities of volunteer poll watchers and organized efforts to challenge the eligibility of voters in 10 key states.   Plus, we re-air a 2004 interview with former Senator George McGovern, who died October 21, 2012, at the age of 90.  McGovern talked about his then-new book, The Essential America - Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition, the Iraq war, the Palestine-Israeli conflict, and about his work as a roving ambassador on hunger for the United Nations. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us    

The Stamp Mobile, a "crazy money marking contraption" on a cross-country trip in support of amending the US Constitution to overturn 'corporate personhood,' is making a stop in Kansas City.  Tell Somebody talked to the drivers, Ashley Sanders & Renae Widdison, on the October 16, 2012 edition of the show. Also, we hear from Honduran activist Tomas Gómez Membreño who is touring the Midwest, including a stop in Kansas City on October 22,  speaking on Unites States Involvement in Honduras and the Effects on Indigenous Peoples. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

On the October 9, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, Greg Palast returns to a pledge drive edition of the show to talk about his new book, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits - How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

Revolutionary New York disc jockey Bob Fass is the subject of a new documentary - Radio Unnameable. Filmmakers Paul Lovelace & Jessica Wolfson and Bob Fass himself talk about it on this edition of  Tell Somebody. From the film's website: Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized late night FM radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly 50 years. Long before today’s innovations in social media, Fass utilized the airwaves for mobilization encouraging luminaries and ordinary listeners to talk openly and take the program in surprising directions. Radio Unnameable is a visual and aural collage that pulls from Bob Fass’s immense archive of audio from his program, film, photographs, and video that has been sitting dormant until now. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Loyola University law professor Bill Quigley and retired diplomat and Army Col. Ann Wright were in Kansas City on Sunday, September 9, 2012 to speak against unmanned drone warfare and in support of protestors Ron Faust and Brian Terrell who went to trial the next day in Jefferson City for trespassing at Whiteman Air Force Base.  Terrell and Faust were convicted. The September 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features a short interview with Ramsey Clark and audio from speeches at the Kansas City event. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

On Thursday, August 30, 2012, at the same time as the Kansas City Council was voting, reluctantly, but decisively, to put a citizens initiative about future city involvement in nuclear weapons production boondoggles on the ballot, and in the wake of an announcement of Centerpoint Properties, developer of the new Kansas City nuclear weapons plant, as redeveloper of the old facility, the Bannister Federal Complex Community Advisory Panel (CAP) met to talk about what the Sierra Club's Scott Dye has called a 360 acre festering hellhole.  The CAP was established by Inter-agency Environmental Leadership Council (EPA and GSA et al) to be an "independent, community-oriented advisory panel whose members will individually provide input to the IELC about environmental and redevelopment issues. The long-term objective is that the Bannister Federal Complex would continue to be a viable economic asset to the community. The CAP will also act as a communication conduit and forum for stakeholders within the complex and surrounding community." This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   Tell Somebody attended the CAP meeting and came out with audio of alphabet soup answers to simple questions.

Vocational Rehablilitation (VR), a division of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, contracts with a private nonprofit corporation, Community Employment Incorporated (CEI), to provide employment services for Missourians with disabilities.  Some former CEI employees and clients aren't happy with how CEI is operating, and are working with the Kansas City branch of IWW in hopes of improving things.  CEI and Vocational Rehabilitation personnel declined invitations to appear on the show, so on the August 28, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody we talked to an IWW representative, two former CEI employees, and a VR/CEI client. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

In May of 1975, President Gerald Ford's approval ratings bumped up 11 points a few days after he launched what has been called the last battle of the Vietnam War - sending Marines to rescue the crew of a US civilian container ship that had been seized by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge.  Ford announced the safe return of the container crew, but didn't mention the 41 Marines and Air Force personnel who were killed in a helicopter crash and an attack on an island to rescue the crew from an island where they had never been, nor was there mention of three Marines left behind in the fog of war. The August 21, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody went into the archives for an interview recorded in 2002 with former Vietnam fighter pilot turned journalist Ralph Wetterhahn about his book The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War . Twenty-five years after the fact, Wetterhahn tracked down the story of the three Marines and wove into the story of the management of the operation in Washington. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

On August 11, 2012, activist and former Kansas City nuclear weapons plant supervisor Maurice Copeland and friends held a town hall meeting for Bannister Federal Complex workers at the Bruce Watkins Cultural Heritage Center in Kansas City to help sick and dying workers exposed to toxic materials, and their survivors, file claims for compensation.  On the August 14 edition of Tell Somebody, hear audio from the town hall, including a performance by The Recipe of "Radioactive Red Caps," a "Simple Stories" dialogue by Langston Hughes, and an interview with former Kansas City Plant worker Jeannette Watts (pictured here). This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

On Sunday, August 5, 2012, a Hiroshima/Nagasaki remembrance was held in Loose Park in Kansas City, MO.  You'll hear excerpts from this event including Gayle June reading his son's interview with Gayle's mother, the late Michiko Okada June, about surviving the atom bomb attack on Nagasaki, Peaceworks KC board president Henry Stoever talking about his upcoming trial for protesting at the new nuclear weapons parts plant in Kansas City, and retired minister Ron Faust talking about his upcoming trial for protesting unmanned drone warfare at Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Knoster, MO - all accompanied by a multitude of cicadas and a nearby drum circle.  The photo on this page is of a piece called Supplicant, one of many displayed at the event by scuplptor Beth Vannatta. In the last segment of the show - excerpts from the closing plenary at the 2012 Grass Roots Radio Conference in Urbana, IL. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The 2012 Grass Roots Radio Conference was held in Urbana, Illinois, July 26-29.  The July 31 edition of Tell Somebody tried to provide a small taste of some of what went on at the conference in the Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center. This show includes audio excerpts from the opening plenary session and interviews with some of the participants. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

On the July 24, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, investigative journalist Greg Palast   returned to the show to talk about the billionaires on one side and the establishment banksters on the other side in the upcoming elections.  Where do we in the 99 percent fit in?  Palast talks about that and he's got a new book coming out, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The June 17, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured Leah Bolger, president of Veterans for Peace, a national organization founded in 1985 by military veterans opposed to the Reagan administration's war against the people of Central America. It includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations spanning the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, other conflicts and periods in between. Leah Bolger joined the Navy in March 1980, and retired in the summer of 2000 as a Commander. She served all over the world, including tours in Iceland, Bermuda, Japan and Tunisia.joined the Navy in March 1980, and retired in the summer of 2000 as a Commander. She served all over the world, including tours in Iceland, Bermuda, Japan and Tunisia.                                 . This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

This page and podcast are produced and paid for by Tell Somebody.  On the July 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, Josh Stearns, Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director with Free Press talked about the report he co-authored: Greater Than the Sum: Creating Collaborative and Connected Public Media in America, a vision for a wholistic, collaborative and robust non-profit non-commerical media system in America. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

This page and podcast are produced and paid for by Tell Somebody. Is the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act cause for celebration?  Is Chief Justice John Roberts deserving of praise for a wise decision and an avoidance of the appearance of partisanship?  Most reasonable people agree that the ACA is an improvement from the previous status quo, even if it still leaves millions uninsured and keeps putting too much money in the pockets of insurers and other for-profit interests.  If this really is the best we can do in current political reality, what does that say about our acceptance of that "reality." On the July 3, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare-Now, & It's Our Economy gave her views. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

This page and podcast are produced and paid for by Tell Somebody. The June 26, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features Sue Wilson, Emmy Award-winning journalist and producer of the documentary film Broadcast Blues.  You can see a lot more about Wilson's work at www.suewilsonreports.com and www.mediaactioncenter.net.  This was a pledge drive show for KKFI, but we left plenty of time for Sue to talk about media consolidation, FCC complaints, and more. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

This page and podcast are produced and paid for by Tell Somebody. A new report entitled “Bombs vs. Budgets” examines the nuclear weapons lobby.  According to Study author William Hartung: “…the nuclear arms lobby and its allies on Capitol Hill are seeking to block reductions in systems we don’t need at prices we can’t afford.　 This unnecessary spending is being pressed by some of the very same members of Congress who have argued that deficit reduction and greater spending discipline should be our top priorities.”   On the June 19, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody this Tuesday at 6pm, William Hartung talks about the report and the role of the Kansas City Plant in the nuclear weapons complex.   Also, in the wake of the Kansas City, Missouri city council's resoulution in support of KC Move To Amend's call to overturn Citizens United, Mark Hays, campaign coordinator for Public Citizen’s Democracy Is For People campaign talks about  Resolutions Week, a push by Public Citizen and partner organizations to pass local and state resolutions nationwide.   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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

Big spending by right-wing billionaires greatly impacted the recall election in Wisconsin, but is the big lesson from the loss how media is failing us?  On the June 12, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody,   www.consortiumnews.com 's Robert Parry talks about his article titled Lessons from Gov. Walker’s Win.   Former Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant worker Maurice Copeland goes to the Justice Department with a plea for justice for sick workers, and on Thursday June 14, the Kansas City MO city council will vote on a resolution in support of amending the US Constitution to overturn corporate personhood. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

Kansas Citians Judy Ancel, Alice Kitchen, and Melissa Stiehler were part of a US/Canadian delegation to Honduras looking into the killing two pregnant women, a 14-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man, while seriously injuring at least four more in an apparent drug interdiction involving US helicopters and "advisors." The Kansas City members of the delegation talked about their findings on the June 5, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

On Wednesday May 23, 2012, Iraq war veteran and former Army medic Will Stewart-Starks showed posters of artworks by veterans, including himself, and spoke of the Right to Heal, a project of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW).  The presentation was featured on the May 22 broadcast of Tell Somebody. From IVAW’s Operation Recovery Page: Service members have the right to receive medical care and advice from medical professionals. Service members who experience PTSD, TBI, MST, and combat stress have the right to exit the traumatic situation and receive immediate support, and compensation. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us    

Due to an illness in the family, I was unable to produce a new show for the broadcast of Tell Somebody on May 22, so I went again into the archives and aired a lightly edited interview with Amy Goodman originally broadcast on March 31, 2009 right before she appeared in Kansas City for a fundraiser, and I broadcast the first half of a 2007 interview with Dr. John Johnson, father of Lavena Johnson, the first military woman from Missouri to die in Iraq or Afghanistan.  The 2009 show with Amy Goodman is already available as a pod cast - I have a fresh link to that show up at www.tellsomebody.us - so for this pod cast, I’m posting both parts of the interview 2007 about Lavena Johnson, raped and murdered in Iraq.  The Army tried to tell her family it was suicide. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The May 15, 2012 Tell Somebody broadcast, a re-airing of a radio documentary about The Ludlow Massacre,  contained too much copyrighted music to be podcast, so from the archives, here is audio of some remarks I made at a recent Bradley Manning rally in Kansas City, and a 2008 Tell Somebody conversation with the late historian Howard Zinn. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The May 8, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody has Bob Edgar, President and CEO of Common Cause talking about a complaint filed with the IRS against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) regarding their status as a non-profit organization, and why the conflicts of interest of Justices Scalia and Thomas should cause the SCOTUS to vacate the Citizens United v FEC decision. And, speaking of Citizens United, that decision solidified the idea that corporations are 'persons'  under the law and therefore have Constitutional rights, yes?  Then as 'persons,' they should have responsibilities and liabilities like us individual persons, yes? Not so fast.  Corporations are persons, but individuals aren't corporate persons, only individual persons are individuals, because "individual" means a real person, not a corporate one, yes? We heard oral arguments before the Supreme Court about whether organizations and corporations can be held accountable for their bad acts under laws governing what 'individuals' can do. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The May 1, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured former Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant worker and current Bannister Federal Complex (BFC) Community Advisory Panel member Maurice Copeland who called for a Plea for Justice Rally at the BFC on April 25.  Copeland spoke to supporters and met with General Services Administration Region 7 Adminsitrator Jason Klumb. Also on this show, the Bradley Manning rally in Kansas City and audio from a Kansas City, MO city council meeting dealing with a petition initiative to put future city involvement in nuclear weapons production on the ballot. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

A recent Kansas City television news piece was headlined Well-meaning Homeless Donations Cause Problems in KCMO and ended saying "The service providers, along with Kansas City, Missouri police, say they are discussing whether the city can create an ordinance prohibiting this type of donation drop-off or require the groups to get a license to serve food." The April 24, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody  featured Evie Craig, executive director of Restart, who was quoted in the news piece, Richard Tripp, director and founder of COPPInc, and Jennifer Gould, coordinator with Heart of America Stand Down. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

On Tell Somebody on April 17, 2012, we heard first from David Lane, Denver attorney who argued Reichle v Howards at the US Supreme Court on March 21, 2012.  Lane represent Steven Howards, who was arrested after he told then vice president Cheney that his policies were disgusting.  Lane said "This case has the possibility of radically reshaping how protest works in the United States." After that, Brian Terrell, co-coordinator with Voices for Creative Non-Violence, talks about why he came to Kansas City for the Trifecta Resista, a weekend trio of protests against nuclear weapons production in Kansas City, Missouri, the abuse of Bradley Manning at Fort Leavenworth, and US drone policy at Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Knoster, Missouri.  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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The April 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody begins with Kansas City film maker Kevin McKinney talking about the premier of his new film Corporate FM.  Then we hear from Col. Ann Wright and Kathy Kelly about the Midwest Trifecta Reista, a weekend of protests against production of nuclear weapons parts in Kansas City, Missouri, the imprisonment of alleged whistleblower Bradley Manning in Leavenworth, Kansas, and the unmanned drone traing operations at Whiteman Air Force base. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The April 3, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured Richard Tripp, cabdriver and founder of Care of Poor People, Inc., and Evie Craig, Executive Director of homeless services provider Restart with two different views about how to feed and clothe the homeless. Also on the show, former Kansas City television reporter Russ Ptacek made his debut on a CBS affiliate in Washington D.C. with Kansas City nuclear weapons plant connections to the story of the resignation of GSA Administrator Martha Johnson after an Inspector General Report on extravagant (nearly a million bucks) spending for a Las Vegas conference, news of Col. Ann Wright and Kathy Kelly's imminent return to Kansas City for a 'Trifecta Resista,' and SCOTUS audio from arguments on a case where Justice Scalia opines that tapping Vice President Cheney on the shoulder is okay if you want to praise him, but is criminal assault if you criticize him. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us    

The March 27, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features Brandy Doyle, Policy Director for the Prometheus Radio Project speaking about the historic opportunity for new community radio stations in the wake of the signing into law of the Local Community Radio Act in January, 2011 and an FCC ruling issued on March 19, 2012 about implementation of the law. After that we heard Making Contact's Andrew Stelzer in excerpts from a panel discussion at the National Conference on Media Reform in Boston in April, 2011, and part of Michael Moore's speech at the Left Forum in New York on March 17, 2012. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

On the March 20, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, we heard from Kansas Citian Burt Madison, inventor, commercial artist, part-time security guard and former B-24 ball turret gunner in World War II.   Jimmy Stewart was his co-pilot on one flight, Walter Matthau packed his parachute, and Chuck Yeager flew fighter support on some of his missions, and Madison is still going strong at 88. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The March 13, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody started out with cab driver Richard Tripp talking about the www.coppinc.com Spring Break for the Homeless event coming up in Kansas City on April 7th.  Tripp is the founder and director of COPP Inc, and every Spring and Fall has been putting on events where a couple of thousand people come for free food, free clothing and free entertainment. Next, we heard from Byllye Avery, founder of Black Women's Health Imperative, one of the groups in a coalition called HERvotes.  The 101st International Women's Day was March 8th, and March is Women's History Month, but you'd never know it from the current political climate and the attacks on women's rights and threats to the health and economy of all. The show ends with an account of how revolution broke out on International Women's Day in 1917 in St. Petersburg.  What has come to be called the February Revolution was sparked by women, and this last segment of the show is part of an eyewitiness account by Russian Army machine gun training officer Hugo Hakk, never heard anyplace else before it was serialized on Tell Somebody in 2009. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The March 6, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured former CIA analyst and presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern responding to Donald Rumsfeld's remarks at the Truman Library and Museum in Independence, MO on February 24, 2012.  The broadcast edition of the show had to be edited for length, but this podcast edition includes the entire interview with McGovern. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The February 28, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured Donald Rumsfeld's appearance at the Truman Library in Independence, MO and a hearing at the Kansas City MO City Council Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development committee debating two ballot initiatives: "Calling an election on June 5, 2012, for the purpose of submitting an ordinance proposed by initiative to require the City to prepare a plan, updated annually, for the use of property used for the manufacture of components for nuclear weapons when that use ceases; directing the City Clerk to provide notice of the election; and recognizing an emergency." and "Calling an election on June 5, 2012, for the purpose of submitting an ordinance proposed by initiative to require the City to remove itself from financial involvement in the production of nuclear weapons components; directing the City Clerk to provide notice of the election; and recognizing an emergency." 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The February 21, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features Mitzi McFatrich, executive director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, talking about KS Governor Brownback's Executive Reorganization Order No. 41 which will dramatically change what is now the Department On Aging as Kansas is also about to move to a privatized medicaid system. We also hear part of the questions fielded by retired diplomat and Army Colonel and answers given, including one about a war criminal coming to Independence. And the United States drops a staggering 27 places from 20th to 47th in the lates Reporters Without Borders world free press rankings. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The February 14, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured John Nichols talking about his new book on the Wisconsin Uprising.  John Nichols' Uprising traces the roots of the Occupy phenomenon to Wisconsin. One year ago, more than 100,000 public employees, teachers, students, and their allies descended on the capital in Madison, Wisconsin after Governor Scott Walker announced on February 11, 2011his plan to eliminate the right of public sector employees to unionize. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

On the February 7, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, we got Professor Robert McChesney on the phone to help out with the KKFI Winter Pledge Drive.  Along the way he talked about how the US has slipped badly in freedom of the press rankings compared to other countries, threats to the internet, and how corporate dreams of  lifting even more  media cross-ownership restrictions refuse to die. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   

On the January 31, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, I started out the show with a call by Public Citizen to break up Bank of America.  I spoke with Public Citizens Congress Watch Director David Arkush about their petition to the Federal Reserve and the Financial Stability Oversight Committee. In the second half of the show, Timothy Karr, Director of Strategy with Free Press talks about Citizens Inundated, the report he wrote about how citizens are being inundated with political ads in the wake of Citizens United v FEC. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

KKFI’s Mike Murphy was the guest host for the January 17, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody. On the show Mike talked to Laura Jung of SOA Watch about a recent court case involving school of the Americas, played audio from a Kansas City event marking the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and talked to Bev Harris of Black Box Voting. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

On November 27, 2011, I gave a talk on independent media and the journalism crisis at the All Souls Sunday Forum at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, Missouri.  "The UU Forum, Kansas City’s longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943. Guest speakers typically focus on issues of political, social justice, moral, educational and artistic significance..." This talk borrowed heavily from The Death and Life of American Journalism by Robert McChesney and John Nichols, but also includes a lot of my own observations after six years of producing and hosting Tell Somebody on 90.1 FM KKFI Community radio in Kansas City. Where does the internet fit in as cause or solution of the journalism crisis?  How do the "Occupy" phenomenon and the Move to Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United v FEC relate to the journalism crisis? What should the future role of community radio be? Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to this presentation, 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 Tell Somebody podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The January 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features www.movetoamend.org spokesman David Cobb talking about the Occupy the Courts actions to be held across the country on January 20 and January 21, including the occupation of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., the scene of the crime. This show also inlucdes audio from the oral arguments in the Citizens United v FEC case. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

Occupy KC held what they billed as a New Orleans-style jazz funeral march in Kansas City, and the January 3, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody has some of the highlights.  Also, KKFI's Mike Murphy stopped for a visit to Occupy Columbus, Ohio, and finally a look back at the first weeks of Occupy KC. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The December 27, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, the last show of the year, took a look back to the start of the year on the show.  Segments include two former workers at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, where 85% of the parts for nuclear weapons or made or procured, journalist/film maker Sue Wilson on right wing radio in the wake of the Gabi Giffords shooting, Jeremey Alderson on the national broadcast/telecast of The 2011 Homelessness Marathon originating in Kansas City on KKFI, and why the move to amend the US Constitution to overturn Citizens United and media reform/journalism crisis are the two fundamental issues that every activist needs to be mindful of if they hope to be effective on any other issue. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

L to R: Kevin Zeese, Lt. Dan Choi, Ray McGovern, Col. Ann Wright On the December 20, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody - attorney, Occupy Washington D.C. organizer and Bradley Manning Support Network spokesman Kevin Zeese spoke about the pre-trial hearing of Bradley Manning, and 27 year veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern spoke about the National Defense Authorization Act and the indefinite detention of US civilians.  Will the 2012 NDAA lead to the use of the military to put down Occupy protestors? 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The December 13, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody features investigative journalist Greg Palast talking about his new book, Vultures' Picnic - In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores.  After that, we'll here part of a speech given in Kansas City on  December 11 by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

Former FBI agent Coleen Rowley was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine in 2002. On the December 6, 2008 edition of Tell Somebody, my June, 2008 interview with Coleen Rowley at the National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis was re-aired. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

On the Novemeber 29, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody we re-broadcast a show from May, 2011 that was never podcast.  The show featured Kansas City NBC Action News investigative reporter Russ Ptacek discussing his work on the Bannister Federal Complex and the workers there who were sickened by exposure to toxic substances. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The November 22, 2011, edition of Tell Somebody has an interview with Christine Shearer, author of Kivalina, A Climate Change Story, news of Obama's FCC Chair Julius Genachowski's plans to trash media cross-ownership rules, and part of a Bradley Manning Support network press conference about his upcoming pre-trial court date. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

On the November 15, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from cab driver, author and Care of Poor People Inc (www.coppinc.com) founder and director about his November 2011 event for the homeless in Kansas City. After that, we hear remarks made by Ralph Nader and Bill Moyers at the Public Citizen (www.citizen.org) 40th anniversary gala held October 20, 2011, in Washington D.C. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

Nearly two years ago, over a month before the decision was handed down in the Citizens United v FEC case, Public Citizen's Legislative Representative Craig Holman was a guest on Tell Somebody and he explained the origins of the case, how the Supreme Court expanded it in an unusual way in June, 2009, and why it was such a vitally important case.  The November 8, 2011, edition of Tell Somebody re-aired that interview. The show starts out with audio from a protest at the site of the new Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant that was part of a War Tax Resisters National Meeting  protest that was held in Kansas City November 4-6th. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The first half of the November 1, 2011, edition of Tell Somebody features voices of the people at Occupy KC on October 29 and October 30, and the second half of the show is a radio documentary called Inside Occupy Wall Street.  Big thanks go to producer Paul Fischer for giving permission to include his work in this podcast.  Paul Fischer is a former News Director of WBAI, former News Director of KPFA and 31 year veteran of CBS News...including 24 years as writer/associate producer on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Fischer writes: "I've returned to my roots in public radio as an independent producer." 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The impetus for the Occupation of Wall Street has many sources, many, including NPR, The Nation, The Washington Post and some of the participants themselves credit a July blog post by Adbusters for the idea of Occupy Wall Street.  Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn appeared on the very first edition of Tell Somebody in October, 2005, and we dug into the archives and served it up on the October 25, 2011, edition of the show. Also on this show, Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman visits the Occupy KC encampment. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

On Sunday October 9, 2011, what was billed as the great nuclear debate, nuclear weapons making in Kansas City, was held at the University of Missouri Kansas City. The event was cosponsored by The Community of Reason KC, with the KC Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and KC Peace Planters.  The Maurice Smith, retired staff engineer at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City nuclear weapons parts Plant, currently operated by Honeywell, debated Ira Helfand, M.D., Emergency Medicine Physician in Leeds, Mass., Physicians for Social Responsibility Board Member and Vice President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Mr. Smith argued in support of continuing the nuclear weapons manufacturing program as part of a policy of deterrance. Dr. Helfand argued against nuclear weapons production and supported steps to reach a nuclear weapons-free world. The debate was moderated by Jabulani Leffal, host of KCUR FM’s Central Standard. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The October 11, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody starts out with a couple of voices from Occupied Kansas City and a short segment on the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers before spending most of the hour with Robert McChesney, co-author with John Nichols of The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again on a pledge drive show. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   

The October 4, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody has audio from the first day of Occupy KC, some news from Occupy Wall Street, a Democracy NOW! press conference on a settlement with the police in Minnesota, and, from the archives, a 2007 interview on The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio with Derek Turner of Free Press. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

On the September 27, 2011, edition of Tell Somebody, David Barsamian, Director of Alternative Radio, tells how he was deported from New Delhi, India, apparently  because of his reporting of human rights abuses in Kashmir. Also on this show, a quick update on the city-owned nuclear weapons parts plant going up in Kansas City, Missouri.  How interesting that a financial services company called Oppenheimer is helping with the financing of a nuclear bomb plant! We round out the show with an excerpt from AMARC's Sylvia Richardson's keynote address at the national Grass Roots Radio Conference in Kansas City in August. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

The September 20, 2011, edition of Tell Somebody featured the ceremony officially proclaiming September 19, 2011, as KKFI Community Radio Recognition Day, the denial of clemency for Troy Davis, who was killed by the state of Georgia the day after the broadcast, and some classic Amy Goodman. The day before the broadcast, KKFI celebrated its new transmitter, the result of a $78,000.00 matching grant from the now-defunct Commerce Department PTFP grant recognizing KKFI's "educational and cultural" programming. A 2005 speech by Amy Goodman starts out with the story of a transmitter in Texas that some thought was too dangerous to exist. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

"...and 9/11 happened in front of their faces, I mean you just look out the window and there are these buildings tumbling down, and the news people took it personally and were reacting to in the sense that they felt that, sort of  revenge, or preventing another attack was really necessary." Peter Arnett speaking about the failure of journalists during the leadup to the invasion of Iraq on a January 2006 edition of Tell Somebody  "...and we have remained at war ever since, visiting upon our enemies the vengeance they were due, and providing for the American people the common defense they demand." Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Admiral Mike Mullen speaking on the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. KKFI and Pacifica coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 demonstrated that is actually is possible to look back at 9/11 without giving deferential and uncritical airtime to the likes of Dick Cheney and Rudy Giulliani, and without swamping thoughtful rememberance and reflection with the plague of phony, jingoistic "patriotism." On the September 13, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, I decided to re-air the 2006 interview I recorded with Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   

On the September 6, 2011 editon of Tell Somebody, Sierra Club Water Sentinels director Scott Dye talks about the new cleanup plan for the Bannister Federal Complex that avoids putting it on the Superfund National Priorities List. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   

On the August 30, 2011 edtion of Tell Somebody, nuclear bombs and Low Power FM radio. In the first two segments of the show, we hear about the Kansas City, Missouri City Council's fight to keep petition intiative which would prohibit production of parts for nuclear weapons in Kansas City off the ballot.  In the final segment, the Prometheus Radio Project's Station Support Team comes to Kansas City to explain what LPFM is and how to get it. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

After a segment on how a Kansas City, MO city council committee worked to try to derail an anti-nukes ballot iniative petition, the August 23, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody featured a few samples from the National Grassroots Radio Conference hosted by Friends of Community Media with help from KKFI. By no means a comprehensive sampling, the show includes excerpts from workshops on community radio's role in emergency broadcasting,  community radio coverage of activism against nuclear weapons, a threat to university radio stations, Native American and Persian perspectives on diversifying programming, and how the Citizens United case directly relates to grassroots radio. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

On the August 16, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, two days before the start of the Grass Roots Radio Coalition Conference in Kansas City, we called author and broadcaster  Maria Armoudian in Los Angeles to hear why she was making the trip to KC for the GRC, and to ask about her book, Kill the Messenger - the Media's Role in the Fate of the World. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

Kansas City, Missouri politicians who defend city taxpayer support of a new nuclear weapons parts plant owned by a city agency cite the retention of jobs as major justification.  Kansas City Peace Planters commissioned a report by Dr. Teresa D. Nelson and Dr. Lloyd J. Dumas to examine the jobs issue related to production of nuclear weapons parts in comparision to alternative uses of such a facility. Teresa D. Nelson is an independent researcher and consultant with a Ph.D in Public Policy and Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. Lloyd J. Dumas is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas. On the August 9, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from co-author Dr. Lloyd Dumas about the report, Maximizing Job Creation: An Analysis of Alternatives for the Transformation of the Kansas City Plant. 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. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us

Former CIA Analyst and Presidential Briefer Ray McGovern returned to Tell Somebody on the August 2, 2011 edition of the show.  Ray starts out a wide-ranging conversation with his account of joining Christian and Jewish leaders in the Capitol Rotunda urging Congress not to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. Ray notes the lack of coverage of the protest in the Fawning Corporate Media, and says: "in forty-eight years in Washington, I've seen a lot of change, a LOT of change.  But there's one change that dwarfs all the others in significance and importance, and that's this change: we no longer have in any real sense a free media.  That's big. That couldn't be bigger." 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative reporter with a track record for making sense of complex and little understood matters. He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and Esquire. He has also served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. Baker received a 2005 Deadline Club award for his exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record. He is the founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news site whowhatwhy.com. On the July 26, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we talked to Baker about his book, Family of Secrets - The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, about whowhatwhy.com, and about the state of journalism today.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

"How would this country be different if there was community radio in every one of our towns." Brandy Doyle - Policy Director with the Prometheus Radio Project. The July 20, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody featured a conversation about The Prometheus Radio Project.  With a successful decision in Prometheus v FCC, passage of LPFM legislation and numerous 'barn-raisings' of new community radio stations, when Jim Hightower says "people who say it can't be done should get out of the way of the people who are doing it" he could well be talking about The Prometheus Radio Project. Listen to Brandy Doyle talk about all of that, plus Prometheus upcoming appearance at The Grass Roots Radio Conference in Kansas City. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

On July 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to weaken its ownership rules and allow big media companies to buy up even more local outlets. On the July 12, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we talked to Josh Stearns, Program Director with Free Press, www.freepress.net & www.savethenews.org, about federal court decision in Prometheus v FCC. Josh also talked about the new Free Press campaign to uncover and fight covert media consolidation called Change the Channels, and explains how this campaign has hit a nerve with Newport Television, a Kansas City company that is described as one of the worst covert consolidation offenders. In the second half of the show, we re-air a conversation with Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron recorded at the National Conference on Media Reform in Boston in April. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

In April, three members of Friends of Community Media (FCM), a Kansas City 501c3 media reform group,  went to Boston, MA to attend the 2011 National Conference on Media Reform. In May, the Kansas City Greens asked us to share our experience of the conference at a forum. FCM Chair Tom Crane, and FCM board members Doug Greer and Tom Klammer gave their impressions of the Boston NCMR at the Aquarius Bookstore in Kansas City on the evening of May 16.  This discussion was aired on the 90.1 FM KKFI forum show at noon on Tuesday June 21, 2011

As Professor Robert McChesney put it: “ I think at this point the idea that American journalism is in a deep, profound and existential crisis is almost passe. I think what is less well understood is that such a collapse of journalism is also a crisis for democracy. Self government cannot work without an informed citizenry, and that can’t work without journalism.” What is the journalism situation in the U.S.?  How does our 'free' press compare with those in other countries?  What are some possible solutions? The May 24, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody features the remarks of host Tell Somebody as presented to The Community of Reason in Kansas City Missouri on Easter Sunday 2011. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us  

The February 1, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody featured a conversation about media reform with board members of Friends of Community Media, a Kansas City area 501c3 media reform group. 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.     If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The January 25, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody looks at last year's Citizens United v FEC decision, and an upcoming decision on the question of whether corporations should have "personal privacy" rights under the Freedom of Information Act.  We hear audio from a Public Citizen press conference on the Citizens United anniversary and an explanation of the AT&T case from Public Citizen attorney Adina Rosenbaum, followed by some audio of the actual arguments.  In the news, Kansas City police raid a homeless camp, and a union officer representing workers at the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant warns of a possible work stoppage because of Honeywell's anti-union attitude that has workers afraid to report safety violations in the plant.   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.   If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The January 18, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody features Jeremy Alderson, founder and host of The Homelessness Marathon explaining the upcoming national broadcast originating on KKFI in Kansas City, a conversation on the media climate in the wake of Tuscon with Sue Wilson, director of the documentary film Broadcast Blues and editor of SueWilsonreports.com  and a report from the January 13 meeting of the Community Advisory Panel for the Bannister Federal Complex, current home of the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant responsible for 85% of the non-nuclear components of U.S. nuclear weapons.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 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. 

The January 11, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody starts out with excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King's 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam where he reminds us that there is such a thing as "too late."  Bannister Federal Complex worker Barbara Rice recalls the results when she started emailing friends and compiling a list of co-workers from the complex who had serious illnesses, and then we hear some audio from a town hall for sick Bannister Federal complex workers and survivors, including comments from Ron Elmlinger of Cold War Soldiers and Donna Hand and Wayne Knox of Cold War Patriots.  Former Kansas City Plant worker Maurice Copeland recalls his work at the weapons plant, and then we hear an excerpt from a Tuscon press conference the day after the shootings at Gabrielle Giffords' "Congress on your corner" town hall. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   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. 

On the January 4, 2011, we continued a look back at the year on Tell Somebody.  Nuclear Watch New Mexcio director Jay Coghlan on how President Obama got rolled by Republicans on the START Treaty, Michelle Obama speaks to the NAACP in Kansas City, Ray McGovern on media coverage of the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, arrests at the Kansas City nuclear weapons plant, the Marching Monahan Brothers oppose the Citizens United decision, then end of the internet as we know it, and much more on this show. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us   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. 

On the last edition of the show in 2010, we started a look back at the year on Tell Somebody.  Starting with a January guest host we heard excerpts from shows airing in first part of the year, ending with the June 22, 2010 show with Dr. Helen Caldicott telling us a fascinating story about how Patti Davis asked Caldicott to talk about nuclear weapons to her father, Ronald Reagan. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 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. 

On Thursday December 16, 2010, Daniel Ellsberg, FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin, physician Margaret Flowers, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and others joined Veterans for Peace in a protest in front of the White House.  131 chose to be arrested. The December 21 edition of Tell Somebody featured Ray McGovern recounting the days events and giving some of his thoughts about Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. The photo here of Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern was taken by Cheryl Biren and appears courtesy of www.opednews.com. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The December 14, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody features a conversation with journalist Robert Parry. Robert Parry covered Washington for more than three decades for news organizations including the Associated Press and Newsweek, led the way in exposing the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s (as well as breaking stories on contra-cocaine trafficking, the Iraq-gate scandal and the October Surprise controversy regarding Republican misconduct in Election 1980). But he couldn’t abide a mainstream U.S. news media that increasingly shied away from telling difficult truths. He refused to play the career games to get ahead. In 1995, Parry started the first Internet investigative magazine, Consortiumnews.com, to create a home for well-reported journalism that defied Washington’s timorous and vapid “conventional wisdom.” For 14 years, the Web site has delivered consistently high-quality articles on important topics to millions of readers around the world. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The December 7, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody featured the speech given by Bill Moyers at the June, 2008 National Conference on Media Reform put on by Free Press.  The fifth National Conference on Media Reform is set for April 8-10, 2011 in Boston. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The November 30, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody has a report from the November 27th Survival 10 event for the homeless put on by Richard Tripp's COPPINC at the new Hope Faith Ministries facility in Kansas City, and an interview with Kansas City activist Bill Doulgas on his novel 2012 The Awakening and a lot more. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The November 23, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody featured an audio visit to the new home of Hope Faith Ministries, a day center in Kansas City for the homeless, on the day of their grand opening.  Hope Faith Ministries is hosting Care of Poor People's Survival 10 event, as well as the national broadcast of the Homelessness Marathon, coming in February. We had a word with Hope Faith Ministries executive director Desiree Monize, and with Care of Poor People director Richard Tripp.  All that and more on this week's show. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

The November 16, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody featured an excerpt of former Green Party Presidential nominee David Cobb's November 14th Kansas City speech on the Move to Amend the Constitution to overturn "corporate personhood."  But first, some background on corporate personhood and the Citizens United v FEC Supreme Court decision from author and radio host Thom Hartmann, Public Citizen's Craig Holman, and more.  The show ends with Robin Monahan of the Marching Monahans - www.lairdandrobin.org - giving an account of the completion of their walk from California to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. 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.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

On this edition of Tell Somebody, Scott Dye, Director of Sierra Club Water Sentinels talks about pollution at the Bannister Federal Complex, and a report from the GSA press briefing about a Review of Health and Safety Conditions at the Bannister Federal Complex, Kansas City Missouri, issued November 8, 2010 by the Office of Inspector General, General Services Administration.  The report is highly critical of GSA's Public Buildings Service with one section headed "Incorrect and Misleading Information, Inadequate File Documentation, and Possible Non-Compliance with CERCLA Reporting Requirements Damage GSA's Credibility."  Scott Dye interview, audio from press briefing with GSA's Regional Administrator Jason Klumb and much more. 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. 

This edition of Tell Somebody features Donna Hand, vice president of Cold War Soldiers, explaining some of the intricacies  of filing claims with the federal government for health problems resulting from exposure to toxic substances at the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant.  There is also a bit of election day commentary. 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. 

On Wednesday, October 20, 2010, Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, and Deepak Gupta, Public Citizen attorney held a telephone press briefing to provide background on the argument in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, which the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Nov. 9. The court will decide whether companies can deny consumers and employees the right to band together through class actions to fight fraud, discrimination and other illegal practices. AT&T argues that the courts must enforce the fine print of its contracts that ban class actions. Public Citizen attorney Deepak Gupta will argue before the court on behalf of consumers, claiming that the contracts are unconscionable and unenforceable.   Tell Somebody was on the phone. Also on October 20th, an agency of the Department of Labor held a town hall meeting about filing claims for workers who have health problems from working at the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant. 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. 

On the October 19, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody, Dorothy Witherspoon, Ph.D., Regional Administrator, U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau and Rebecca Bradley, U.S. Army veteran and Minority Veterans Coordinator, Missouri Veterans Commission came into the KKFI studios to talk about a free "Mini-Retreat & Stand-down" to take place 8am to 3pm on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at Penn Valley Community College Campus in Kansas City, MO for all women veterans and active duty military women and their families. Also on this show, a telephone conversation with Minneapolis peace activist Sarah Martin talking about FBI raids and grand jury subpoenas last month in Minneapolis and Chicago. 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  

Collective Progression is a project devoted to collaboration, produced by Russell Anderson and Mandy Hancock, who hail from Georgia and stopped in Kansas City as part of a 12,000 mile tour of the country.  On this edition of Tell Somebody, they'll explain what they're up to. But first, a remembrance of former U.S. Congresswoman Karen McCarthy who died on October 5, 2010 at the age of 63.  McCarthy was in the minority in Congress who had the courage to vote "no" on the October, 2002 joint resolution that led to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. And, a trial for the 'trespassers' arrested last August at the site of the new city-owned nuclear weapons parts plant in Kansas City reveals yet another connection to the Kansas City Economic Development Corporation. 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 

A so-called Community Advisory Panel was formed to look at issues related to the old Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant, but most of the "community" is connected to the Economic Development Corporation. Supreme Court Justices impersonators, some appropriately covered in corporate logos, come to the country club plaza in Kansas City to give a history leading up to the Citizens United 'corporate personhood' decision. Finally, Richard Tripp, founder of www.coppinc.com, comes to the studio to ask for help in his November help the homeless event.

An appeal to support community radio, former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley on FBI raids on peace activists in Minneapolis, and Robert Parry of www.consortiumnews.com on independent media. 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  

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 Jerry Zawada, both from Arizona.  Click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to stream the show, or right-click and choose 'save target as' to save the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store.  

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.

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 directory.  

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 the show to your computer. Tom Klammer send me an email! mail@tellsomebody.us

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 3 of The Recipe's take on the Bill of Rights. Right-click on the .mp3 filename below and select "save target as" to save an audio file of this show to your computer, or subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store. Tom Klammer  mail@tellsomebody.us

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 mp3 filename below and select "save target as" to save it to your computer. Tom Klammer mail@tellsomebody.us

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.

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-click on the .mp3 filename below and then choose "save target as" to save copy of this show to your computer, or subscribe to the podcast for free at the iTunes store.

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 the podcast for free at the iTunes store.

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 "right click" on the .mp3 filename below, or on the "pod" icon above and then choose "save target as" to download the audio file of this show to your computer, or subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store.

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.

Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Plan (www.pnhp.org) is the featured guest on this edition of Tell Somebody. Dr. Flowers was one of 13 single-payer healthcare advocates arrested in May for demanding that a single-payer healthcare reform advocate be included "at the table" with all the for-profit healthcare campaign donors at U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearings.  Dr. Flowers was able to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in June, and on August 4th was heard on Tell Somebody.  Right-click on the mp3 file at the bottom of this posting and "save as", or subscribe to Tell Somebody, for free, at the iTunes store to hear what she had to say. Links to Dr. Flowers' testimony and more information, including contacts for local advocacy, here http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2009/08/dr-margaret-flowers-next-up-on-tell.html Also this week, the Department of Energy is looking for a national dump site for mercury.  In an inter-governmental agency memo, Mark Holecek, Acting Manager for the National Nuclear Security Administration Kansas City Site Office (ie., the 'old' Kansas City WMD plant at Bannister Rd. and Troost) said, in effect, "pick me, pick me!" At public meetings helping to grease the skids for a complicated leasing arrangement involving city tax breaks and private developers to build a new nuclear weapons components plant, , Kansas City plant officials usually push how well they claim to have cleaned up the old place.  But in his pitch to have the old KC WMD plant considered as a waste dump, Holocek writes: "The Kansas City Plant presently stores a quantity of  a liquid alloy of mercury that is commercially used for its reduced melting point.  For both environmental protection and practical reasons, it might be advantageous to consider including other liquid alloys of mercury within the mission of the proposed elemental mercury storage facility..." rather than just the 99.5% pure mercury that the DOE folks stressed at the public meeting. I had a couple of questions for the mercury managers - in the second half of the show you can judge for yourself the quality of their answers. Lots more on the Kansas City WMD plant here: http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com/http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/piea-passes-kc-nuke-plant-resolutions-61909/http://www.nukewatch.org/KCNukePlant/index.html  

In the summer of 1967, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Bryce Lockwood, Russian linguist,  boarded the spy ship U.S.S. Liberty in Rota, Spain and was below decks when the ship was hit by an Israeli torpedo that killed 25 - sailors, marines, and a civilian. In an account that originally aired on two editions of Tell Somebody sandwiched around the 2008 presidential election, Lockwood tells his story of surviving the attack. Lockwood was awarded the Silver Star for his acts after the torpedo strike. I'm posting this as a companion to my interview with James Scott about his new book Attack on the Liberty.  James Scott is the son of another Liberty Silver Star holder, John Scott.  You can download an mp3 of that show here: http://www.tellsomebody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=509525  

On June 8, 1967, fighter jets and torpedo boats attacked a defenseless U.S. spy ship off the coast of Egypt.  After an assault lasting over an hour, 34 U.S. sailors, marines, and civilians were dead, 174 wounded, and the ship was in danger of sinking with a house-sized torpedo hole in its side.  The attackers?  The Israeli Air Force and Navy. Investigative journalist James M. Scott, son of a Liberty survivor, has written a new book, Attack on the Liberty - the Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship (Simon & Schuster 2009). From the back cover of the book: "The specter of the Liberty has haunted the Navy and the intelligence community for decades.  The underlying question the attack raised in 1967 still resonates: how do politics and diplomacy impact battlefield decisions?  In the case of the Liberty, the White House - afraid of offending Israel's domestic backers at a time when it needed support for its Vietnam policy - looked the other way.  Likewise, Congress failed to formally investigate the attack or hold public hearings.  No one was ever punished." This edition of Tell Somebody features an interview with James M. Scott about his book on the Liberty. The author's website: www.jamesmscott.com Lots of links, survivor stories, pictures, etc., at John Gidusko's site: http://tinyurl.com/ussliberty/   The show also has an update on the proposals make the old Kansas City WMD plant into a national mercury dump, while a complicated boondoggle to build a replacement plant proceeds. http://www.nukewatch.org/KCNukePlant/index.html http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com/   Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us   

Be sure to scroll down for links to past shows - also scroll through www.tellsomebody.us We talked a lot on Tell Somebody about bad media coverage generally, and specifically on the subject of healthcare reform: Tom Klammer: Who Sits at the Health-Reform Table? Recently on Counterspin on KKFI, we heard about a Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting online petition demanding that TV networks stop their blackout of single payer.  I read more at www.fair.org, and then I contacted FAIR's communications director, Isabel Macdonald, who told us more about the petition, and gave a preview of coming attractions in FAIR's magazine Extra! And, again, please hold up your hand if you already knew that 85% of the non-nuclear components for the US nuclear weapons arsenal are made right her in Kansas City.  GSA/NNSA/PIEA and a compliant Kansas City, MO city council have worked a tax break deal with private developers to boondoggle- er I mean build - a new WMD plant, and DOE is looking at dumping waste mercury in the old plant.  Now, even though you could very easily construct the argument that the city council set the table for waste dump proposals, a compliant citizenry is letting the council-critters and Congressman Cleaver win easy points with vacuous statements against violating the neighborhoods of the Kansas City plant.  Former Kansas City Plant employee Maurice Copeland and PSR/Peaceworks KC rep Ann Suellentrop fill out the second part of the show.  Having trouble with all the alphabet soup?   Right click on the mp3 link, save it, and give a listen. Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us

Alternative Radio director and founder David Barsamian sits down at his home in Boulder, Colorado to talk with Tell Somebody.   In a June article about Barsamian’s keynote appearance at a Canadian media conference, a Canadian news site, www.hour.ca writes that “Dating back to the 1980s, Alternative Radio, founded by Armenian-American journalist and author David Barsamian, has been a shining example of an independent media initiative that wields international scope while maintaining fierce independence and strong ties to social movements." "Radio is uniquely positioned to deliver intellectual content, particularly because a listener is not distracted by the image, as in TV or the Internet," says Barsamian. "I think that for ideas and serious talk, radio is the singular medium that can offer a real ability for listeners to really delve into the profound issues of our time." http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=17473 Barsamian is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes. He is the author of numerous books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Eqbal Ahmad, Tariq Ali and Edward Said. His series of books with Chomsky, America's leading dissident, have sold in the hundreds of thousands and have been translated into many languages. Alternative Radio (www.alternativeradio.org) is heard on Wednesdays at 9am Central on KKFI, right after Democracy NOW. Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us

This edition of Tell Somebody has a guest host. Nilufar Movahedi is the host of two shows on Iranian music, culture and politics on 90.1 FM KKFI - Saba Wind of Love is for English speakers, followed by Sayeh for Persian speakers.  Saba and Sayeh can be heard on 90.1, streaming at www.kkfi.org , on Sundays at 3-5 pm Central. On this edition of Tell Somebody, Nilufar talks with an Iranian-Canadian who blogs at www.sidewalklyrics.com under the name "Pedestrian." They talk about the June 12 election in Iran, coverage of election and its aftermath in the Western media, and related issues.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/44093 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/02-5 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/070109b.html   President Obama held a town hall meeting on healthcare in the White House recently, with Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer on hand, pretending to be journalists.  Single payer advocates were excluded, but corporate interests were, once again, very well represented.  A woman in a bright yellow jacket was seated on the front row of the event in the East Room of the White House could be the poster child for corporate health care interests.   

Local activists working for single-payer healthcare are the main focus of this week's show, but we start with a little coverage of WMD in Kansas City.  Most people don't know that a plant in Kansas City produces about 85% of the components for the United States' nuclear weapons arsenal.  The General Services Administration and the National Nuclear Security Administration have teamed up with private developers,  compliant Kansas City politicians, the KC Planned Industrial Expansion Authority (PIEA)- a state chartered quasi-city agency - and the Lathrop & Gage law firm  to come up with a $600 million + Kansas City tax-abated, PIEA-owned new WMD components plant built in a soybean field they contrived to have designated as "blighted." We have some short excerpts from the latest PIEA hearing, where boosters speak and power-point at length, and critics, including a former employee charging poor work place hazard handling are removed by security. After that, we listen to Dee Berry and Mary Lindsay, local activists with Heartland Healthcare for All talking about why Single Payer Healthcare is the only healthcare 'reform' worthy of the term, and what they are doing to get the word out. Links and contact info for Single Payer: Mary Lindsay - citizenpower@aol.com Dee Berry  - dberry7@sbcglobal.net Physicians for a National Health Plan - www.pnhp.org Heartland Healthcare For All - www.heartlandhealthcareforall.com Single Payer Action - www.singlepayeraction.org   Links for Kansas City WMD Plant: http://www.nukewatch.org/KCNukePlant/index.html http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com/page/3/ *************** Tell Somebody is a weekly public affair program airing on Tuesdays at 6pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio, podcasting via the iTunes store, and www.tellsomebody.us Tom Klammer - host - Tell Somebody www.tellsomebody.us comments or questions?  send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us

 The FCC is seeking public input as they formulate a national broadband strategy. They are seeking public comments until July 8th – The media reform advocacy group Free Press recently released a paper: Dismantling Digital Deregulation: Toward a National Broadband Strategy . The paper argues that America’s broadband failure is rooted in poor policy decisions made by the FCC. Free Press believes the FCC must learn from their past mistakes in order to create a national broadband strategy that finally delivers fast, open and affordable Internet to everyone.   We'll hear from Free Press' Campaign Director Timothy Karr. http://freepress.net/files/changing_media.pdf http://www.freepress.net/summit Dismantling Digital Deregulation: Toward a National Broadband Strategy  On June 10th we read in the Kansas City Star that former U.S. Representative Karen McCarthy is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and is now living in a area nursing home.  We'll repeat part of an interview McCarthy gave to Tell Somebody last summer where she explains how she arrived at her decision to vote "no" to the bill giving Bush the green flag to invade Iraq. Tell Somebody is a weekly public affairs program airing at 6pm Central Time Tuesdays on 90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City, Missouri, streaming live around the world at www.kkfi.org.  You can subscribe to the podcast for free at the iTunes store.  Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us

David Himmelstein, M.D. — Harvard Medical School, co-founder, Physicians for a National Health Plan is the guest on this edition of Tell Somebody. The following came in a press release from Public Citizen: Two-Thirds of Bankruptcies Are Medically Related; National Health Insurance Needed NowStatement of Sidney Wolfe, M.D., Director, Health Research Group at Public CitizenA nationwide study showing that 62 percent of bankruptcies in 2007 were related to medical bills or illness underscores the need for a single-payer health care system.The study, conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School and Ohio State University (David Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, Elizabeth Warren and Deborah Thorne) found the high bankruptcy rate even though more than three-quarters (78 percent) of the people having medical bankruptcies had health insurance - mainly private insurance - at the start of their illness. It is astounding that medically related bankruptcies increased by half from 2001 to 2007 - well before the current economic crisis.Dr. Himmelstein, one of the authors of the study, will talk about it and why a single payer plan is the only solution that makes sense. Dr. Himmelstein practices and teaches primary care internal medicine at the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard. He was a co-founder of PNHP and one of two National Coordinators for the first five years of the organization. Dr. Himmelstein co-authored PNHP’s original proposal, its long-term care proposal, and its proposal for financing a national health program. More information at www.pnhp.org Tell Someobdy!!!! www.tellsomebody.us  

What is the true cost of Chevron?  At http://truecostofchevron.com/, we read that "Chevron shareholders were given a full account of the true costs of Chevron's global operations by a delegation of representatives of Chevron affected communities from the across the nation and around the world. Outside supporters filled the entryway, closing Chevron's front gate with a vibrant rally. Representatives from Nigeria, Ecuador, Richmond and the Philippines, were joined inside by those representing communities from Burma, Kazakhstan, Iraq and Alberta to present to shareholders an alternative annual report, The True Cost of Chevron." On this edition of Tell Somebody, I talk with Antonia Juhasz, principal author of the alternative report. And, in a blog on the Women in Media and News website, WIMN founder and Executive Director Jennifer L. Pozner asks Will Media Report Dr. George Tiller’s Murder as an Act of Terrorism?  http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=1264 I talked to Pozner about media coverage of Dr. Tiller's murder last week and about media coverage of related domestic terrorism generally.

What did Colin Powell know, and when did he know it? “Why do they hate us?’ Does torture work? Former Vice President Dick Cheney has come out of his non-disclosed location, “oozing out a slimey speech” at the American Enterprise Institute and making multiple TV appearances in defense of torture. Ray McGovern has been listening - to Cheney, but also to retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff. Ray McGovern was a 27 year CIA analyst under seven presidents, and he’s talking to Tell Somebody again.

www.freepress.net www.tellsomebody.us On Thursday, May 14th, 2009, Free Press held a Summit on Changing Media at the Newseum in Washington, DC.  Acting FCC Chair Michael Copps and Free Press' Senior Program Director Craig Aaron were among the featured  speakers.  Aaron's talk was headlined 'Journalism Is a Public Service.' On this edition of Tell Somebody, I talked about the summit with Craig Aaron, and also aired the comments made by Michael Copps.  

 Mother's Day was first organized in 1870 by the abolitionist, suffragette and poet Julia Ward Howe to promote peace and speak out against war.  Julia's Voice ( www.juliasvoice.org ) was first organized last year to try to bring Mother's Day back to its origins.On this edition of Tell Somebody, we'll talk to Sara Sautter and Elizabeth Barker of the Julia's Voice steering committee about the history of Mother's Day and plans for Mother's Day 2009 and beyond.Also, an exclusive interview with Ra'ed Jarrar about U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.  An Iraqi-born U.S. citizen who was in Baghdad for Shock and Awe, Jarrar currently works for AFSC in Washington, D.C.

Rachel Corrie was killed 6 years ago while trying to save a Palestinian family from having their home demolished, and possibly from their own deaths, by a US-supplied Israeli bulldozer. On what would have been Rachel Corrie's 30th birthday, I had the opportunity to see the play My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Unicorn Theater in Kansas City, and to meet again with Rachel's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie.  I recorded a conversation with them the next day, and part of it can be heard on this week's edition of Tell Somebody.  More information on Rachel Corrie at www.rachelcorriefoundation.org. Tent State University returns to UMKC Wednesday-Friday, April 22nd-24th with free food, speakers, and much more.  UMKC student and Tent State organizer Jessica Farmer came to the KKFI Studios to tell us about it. Bill Wickersham, founding member of the Missouri University Nuclear Disarmament Education Team (MUNDET), will be speaking on Monday April 27th 2009 in the Business Center at Longview Community College.  Wickersham tells us about that. And Russian Revolution returns to Tell Somebody this week with Part VII of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, a never-before published account of the February 1917 revolution that ended the reign of the Czars.

Recently, Robert McChesney put out an email that said,in part, "The Nation just published an article I wrote on the crisis on journalism with my friend John Nichols. It is titled " The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers," though it concerns the entirety of journalism. If this is an issue that you care about, I think you might find the piece of more than passing interest. We make an argument to address the problem going far beyond most of what has been proposed to date." In this edition of Tell Somebody I talk to McChesney about the future of journalism.

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman is my guest on this edition of Tell Somebody.  Just ahead of an appearance in Kansas City in a benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI, Goodman talks about her book Standing Up To The Madness, Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, co-authored with her brother, David Goodman. After that, Part VI of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, a never before published account of the February Revolution in Petrograd, Russia in 1917, by Hugo Hakk, Estonian officer in the czar's army, used with permission of his daughter and translator, Liia Hakk.

A recent column by Democracy Now host Amy Goodman cites a study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting that found that in the week before Obama’s health-care summit, of the hundreds of stories that appeared in major newspapers and on the networks, “only five included the views of advocates of single-payer—none of which appeared on television.” Most opinion columns that mentioned single-payer were written by opponents. I thought it might be a good time to reach into the archives and give another listen to a December, 2004, conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Steele.  Jim Steele was co-author, with Donald L. Barlett, of Critical Condition, How Health Care in America Became Big Business & Bad Medicine.  Even after four-plus years, the diagnosis of the problem as laid out in the book holds up. After that, Part V of Eyewitness to the Revolution, Hugo Hakk's account of the February, 1917 Russian Revolution breaking out in Petrograd, just translated this month by his daughter Liia Hakk. Tom Klammer

A musical break by my alter ego and friends, Albert and the Labortones. This started rattling around in my head several years ago and refused to not come out.    I Want My Democracy.  NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vandana Shiva on her book Soil Not Oil, and Part IV of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution. Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker.  Her latest book is Soil Not Oil, Engironmental Justice In An Age Of Climate Crisis.  On this edition of Tell Somebody, I talk to Vandana Shiva about the book. "A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously,  Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than profits." www.navdanya.com www.southendpress.org Then I finish up the show with Part IV of Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution.  Hugo Hakk, machine gun trainer/officer in the Czar's Army is on leave from the Eastern Front in WWI and finds himself in Petrograd just as the February Revolution is breaking out in 1917.  After a side trip to Finland, he's back in Petrograd on International Women's Day.  Tell Somebody is a locally produced weekly public affairs program on 90.1 FM, KKFI, Kansas City Community Radio. Tom Klammer host and producer www.kkfi.org www.tellsomebody.us  

This week on Tell Somebody, Ira Harrit, Program Director of American Friends Service Committee - Kansas City and co-chair of the KC Iraq Task Force talks about a rally on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, followed by "Breaking Bread" a dinner benefit with Iraqi refugees and Iraq War veterans on the weekend before the 6th anniversary of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Then we'll talk with media activist Alice Kitchen and journalist Bruce Rodgers about a petition effort to convince KCPT, Kansas City's PBS affiliate, to stop pre-empting  Now and Bill Moyers Journal every time they have a pledge drive.  This effort resulted in an invitation from the television station for would-be media reformers to man the phone banks during a pledge drive to try to demonstrate that quality public affairs programming really can make the station money.  We'll talk about how that effort fared, and about the state of the media generally. And finally, Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, February, 1917, Part 3.  Hugo Hakk's account of revolution in Petrograd continues, as the young machine gun officer in the Czar's army returns to Petrograd on International Women's Day after a side trip to Finland.

March 16th marks the sixth anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death in Gaza after being run over by an American-supplied Israeli bulldozer.  The play My Name is Rachel Corrie opens at the Unicorn Theater in Kansas City on March 19th.  On this edition of Tell Somebody, you'll hear some comments former CIA analyst Ray McGovern made about Rachel while he was here in Kansas City in October, 2008, and then an interview with Rachel's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, that I recorded when they were here in October 2006. After that, hear the words of Hugo Hakk, young officer in the Army of Czar Nicholas, in part two of the multi-part Eyewitness to the February Revolution.  Hakk is on leave from the Eastern front in February, 1917, and finds himself in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in the days leading up to the revolution.

The cold war ended years ago.  With economic, energy,  and climate crises front and center, are superpower nuclear arsenals still a major concern?  Dr. Ira Helfand of Physicians for Social Responsibilty gives his views. Last October FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein sent a message to media reformers in Kansas City, and it is still relevant today. And finally, the first installment of a never before published eyewitness account of the February 1917 Revolution in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) opens with 19 year old machine gun officer/trainer Hugo Hakk heading home from the Eastern front for a month's leave.

This week on Tell Somebody we'll hear the audio from "Fight for the Land", a runner up in You Tube's "Project: Report - Telling the Untold Stories" a national video competition held in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.  "Fight for the Land" was produced by Rhonda LeValdo, host of Native Spirit Radio, Kansas City's only Native American Radio show, airing on 90.1 FM KKFI/www.kkfi.org on Sundays at 6pm Central Time. After that, most of this week's show deals with the Homelessness Marathon, an annual 14 hour broadcast being heard on KKFI and over one hundred other stations around the country starting Monday evening February 23rd.  This segment features an interview with Homelessness Marathon director Jeremy Weir Alderson

R. Crosby Kemper III quit his post as chairman and CEO of one of the biggest banking companies in the Midwest to become head of the Kansas City, MO library system.  Kemper will talk about why he took the job, the history of the library in Kansas City, library services and programs, and the upcoming "Big Read", an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture.  This year the "Big Read" selection is Tobias Wolff's Old School, which will be read daily on the air on 90.1 FM KKFI this April. To save a copy of this show to your computer, right click on the .mp3 filename below and choose "save target as."

KKFI co-founder Tom Crane is in the studio telling some of the history of Kansas City's community radio station, as we look to past editions of Tell Somebody including Liia Hakk, who lived under German and Soviet occupations in World War II recalling the importance of radio to her family during the war, Jumana Musa, Amnesty International USA Advocacy Director for Human Rights and International Justice talking about her trips to Guantanamo Bay, Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice on the importance of alternative media, and Iraq Veteran Against the War Tomas Young on the music of "Body of War", the Ellen Spiro/Phil Donahue film - all on this pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody.

An interview with the author of Killing for Coal, America's Deadliest Labor War, comments on media reform by Michael Copps, the new interim chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and an excerpt from a speech on single payer healthcare by medical studtent Tim Lyon.    

Mohammed Atwa is a Kansas City resident with Palestinian family members in Gaza. Mr. Atwa’s mother works for the UN and lives in Gaza, while his brother is a journalist for Ramattan, the only news organization reporting live on events in the Gaza Strip during the recent crisis. Mr. Atwa stated on the program "my house [in Gaza] was bombed. This is the second time actually that my house was bombed." Listen online:

This week's Tell Somebody radio program features a continuation of a conversation with Ray McGovern, former CIA official and now political activist.

During the Obama transition, 27 year veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern appeared weekly on Tell Somebody to comment on appointments and other goings-on.  On this edition, Ray talks about reports of Leon Panetta as prospective head of CIA and Admiral Blair as Director of National Intelligence.

Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern appeared weekly on Tell Somebody during the Obama transition.  In this edition of Tell Somebody, Ray reacts to reports of Leon Panetta's selection to head the CIA and discusses what he thinks are important qualification for the post, discussing at length some of his experiences at the agency.

Last week, so-called 'moderate' Democratic senators moved to drop "card check" from the Employee Free Choice Act.  The right-wing nutcakes have successfully spun a fairy tale about the loss of secret ballots, and the "moderate" Democrats have caved. I thought this would be a good time to post an edition of Tell Somebody from last December where we heard about EFCA in some detail from the Kansas City-based Institute for Labor Studies director, Judy Ancel. The second segment of the show has former CIA analyst Ray McGovern talking about U.S. torture policy, one of a series of weekly appearances by McGovern during the Obama transition last winter. Tom Klammer www.tellsomebody.us mail@tellsomebody.us