Ohio Blog Podcasts

'Holy Roller', Diane Wilson, From Fundamentalist to Activist

Sun November 09 2008

Diane Wilson is a 60-year old mother of five children, one of whom is autistic, as well as a fifth-generation shrimp fisher out of Seadrift, Texas. As... read more

Diane Wilson is a 60-year old mother of five children, one of whom is autistic, as well as a fifth-generation shrimp fisher out of Seadrift, Texas. As an environmental activist, she has successfully taken on companies like Formosa Plastics and Alcoa, for their pollution of Lavaca Bay in the Gulf of Texas, as well as Union Carbide for its polluting plant in Bhopal, India. She is also a co-founder o... read more

Diane Wilson is a 60-year old mother of five children, one of whom is autistic, as well as a fifth-generation shrimp fisher out of Seadrift, Texas. As an environmental activist, she has successfully taken on companies like Formosa Plastics and Alcoa, for their pollution of Lavaca Bay in the Gulf of Texas, as well as Union Carbide for its polluting plant in Bhopal, India. She is also a co-founder of 'Code Pink'. In her first very successful memoir, 'An Unreasonable Woman', she explained how she was led into activism. Now she talks to KGNU's Claudia Cragg about her latest memoir, 'Holy Roller' published by Chelsea Green out of Vermont. This retells Wilson's life as a 9 year old child brought up in fundamental Evangelism, a religion which she then completely shunned, but which combined with her Grandfather's Cherokee mysticism made her, she says, the activist she is today. read less

Feminism & US Politics: Poet Anne Waldman on the Election, Gov. Sarah Palin

Fri October 10 2008

Poet and Activist Anne Waldman has been a vocal proponent for feminist, environmental, and human rights causes since the 1960s. She also established T... read more

Poet and Activist Anne Waldman has been a vocal proponent for feminist, environmental, and human rights causes since the 1960s. She also established The Naropa School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, with the late Allen Ginsberg. In the US Presidential Campaign, some of those who say they espouse feminism seem to now embrace the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, Gov Sarah Palin f... read more

Poet and Activist Anne Waldman has been a vocal proponent for feminist, environmental, and human rights causes since the 1960s. She also established The Naropa School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado, with the late Allen Ginsberg. In the US Presidential Campaign, some of those who say they espouse feminism seem to now embrace the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, Gov Sarah Palin from Alaska who is running alongside Senator John McCain. Claudia Cragg recently spoke with Ms Waldman about her new highly political CD, 'Matching Half' and a book to be published soon by Penguin, 'Manatee Humanity' and also on the meaning of feminism in US politics as she sees it (and whether or not Palin matches up to that standard). She also explores how she, as a feminist and activist, thinks people must contribute to the election and its successful outcome. read less

My younger son, Toby's, overly kind Birthday Gift to me: a Limerick

Sat September 27 2008

The very best things in the world are Kids, all kids yes, but -- naturally enough for me -- mine especially (and all mothers are allowed to be biased,... read more

The very best things in the world are Kids, all kids yes, but -- naturally enough for me -- mine especially (and all mothers are allowed to be biased, aren't they?)For my 52nd birthday, Toby, delivered an impromptu limerick at my birthday dinner which he wrote for me. It came to him in a sort of Kublai Khan Coleridge dream, he says. Very funny, indeed. Braveheart, don't know about that but perhaps... read more

The very best things in the world are Kids, all kids yes, but -- naturally enough for me -- mine especially (and all mothers are allowed to be biased, aren't they?)For my 52nd birthday, Toby, delivered an impromptu limerick at my birthday dinner which he wrote for me. It came to him in a sort of Kublai Khan Coleridge dream, he says. Very funny, indeed. Braveheart, don't know about that but perhaps I can see the physical resemblance?? (on a bad day, sans makeup).Do listen, it's very funny."I'd recount for you, if only I could,All the times Mummy's told me 'I shouldGo find myself another, if I want a better mother'.Well, I've looked but she's pretty damn good.For many sons, a cause for dismay,"You're so like me!" my Mummy will say.It isn't such a curse. Of fates I've heard worseThan to be funny and witty and brave.Her qualities, an innumerable list.Allow me to give you the gist:unrelentingly kind, unparalleled mind,As for Martini Olives, it's aways a 'Quis?'An unstoppable force is my Mummy,makes full-grown men flee like wee bunnies. There's a few scary Scots, but she's the top of the lot.She'd give Braveheart a run for his money.So before the wine takes command of my brain,To conclude this toast I'll proudly exclaim"It's 52 years to the day that Mummy entered the frayAnd our world was never the same!" read less

Burma story on Free Speech Radio News (www.fsrn.org) - 08082008

Fri August 08 2008

8-8-88: Burma's Pro-Democratic Uprising and the Atrocities That Followed News Segments Fri, 08/08/2008 - 14:34 Length: 4:07 minutes (3.77 MB)Format: M... read more

8-8-88: Burma's Pro-Democratic Uprising and the Atrocities That Followed News Segments Fri, 08/08/2008 - 14:34 Length: 4:07 minutes (3.77 MB)Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR) Twenty years ago today the military dictatorship which continues to rule Burma brutally crushed a pro-democracy uprising known as "8-8-88" â killing an estimated 3,000 people in 6 weeks. Leaders of that 1988 student-led ... read more

8-8-88: Burma's Pro-Democratic Uprising and the Atrocities That Followed News Segments Fri, 08/08/2008 - 14:34 Length: 4:07 minutes (3.77 MB)Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR) Twenty years ago today the military dictatorship which continues to rule Burma brutally crushed a pro-democracy uprising known as "8-8-88" â killing an estimated 3,000 people in 6 weeks. Leaders of that 1988 student-led uprising have been imprisoned since last summer's widespread civic disturbances along with more than 1,000 other long term political prisoners including the opposition's National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate who remains under house arrest on the orders of leader General Than Shwe. On this anniversary of the Burmese Uprising, FSRN will travel to Thailand - where the largest number of Burmese refugees are located and hear from survivors of the massacre. Then we'll go to Berkeley, CA, home to many Burmese who also fled the violence. First, from Bangkok, Claudia Cragg reports. Click here for newscast for Friday, August 8th, 2008 for the story which follows from Africa Jones in Berkeley, CA. read less

Since 08/08/1988 - 20 Years of Violence by Burma's Military Junta

Fri August 08 2008

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