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Mic Check Radio
by Occupy the Media Collective
On this show we take a look at a variety of activist issues, tactics and the politics of being a conscious citizen in a crazy world.
Episodes
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The Spark
This episode takes a look at that elusive idea of defining what art is. Where does that spark of creativity come from? What drives human beings to take an idea from our mind and create something in the physical world? As a starting point for this conversation we take a look back throughout…
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MCR 3.08.16
We start off the show with some poetry: Bulls On Parade by Rage Against the Machine For our In The News segment on this show we take a look at the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the odd circumstances surrounding his death. We're not talking about who should replace him on the...
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MCR 2.23.16
We start off the show with some poetry: Even When There's Little Choice, We Choose by Nicholas Gordon For our In The News segment on this show we take our one and only looks at the Republican and Democrat primary season. We have a clip from each side that proves the two party political machine is...
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MCR 2.09.16
We start off the show with some poetry: Incident by Countee Cullen Next up we have and installment of Holy Shit where we take a look at (and listen to) the radio show Fortress of Faith and their list of questions to help figure out whether or not "Your Muslim friend is a terrorist". It would be a...
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MCR 1.26.16
We're starting off 2016 with a new format for the show. Mic Check Radio is now a bi-weekly show. We start off this show with some poetry: Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes Next up is an installment of the FBI Files, as we take a look at the sad entrapment case of Emanuel L. Lutchman. You...
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Activist Cinema 2015 Part 2
We finish up our year end wrap up of Activist Cinema from 2015 with a brief discussion of some prominent LGBTQ films (The Danish Girl, Stonewall, Freeheld, Carol and About Ray) and how they were mostly not that good...but that is okay. We also compare the narrative device used in the film…
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Activist Cinema 2015 Part 1
We start off our annual year end wrap up with some news about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigating the hiring practices of the major Hollywood studios. Turns out, the entertainment industry is shallow, image obsessed and sexist towards women. Hopefully this investigation will...
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Episode III : Child Brides and Dancing Boys
It's a really shitty time to be a kid in the world today, especially if you are one of the 250 million girls under the age of 15 who are forcibly married off by their family each year. UNICEF and Girls Not Brides are trying their best to raise awareness and combat child marriage, but on some…
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Episode II : Finem Puer Abusum
It's a really shitty time to be a kid in the world today, especially if your family is religious. Specifically if your family is Catholic and poor. In this episode we take a look at the abuse of children by degenerate priests, bishops, cardinals...basically white males in positions of power…
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Episode I : The Lost Children of Hamelin
It's a really shitty time to be a kid in the world today. Over 2 million of them will go thru the well oiled machine that is the international sex slave market. On this episode we look at how a human trafficking bust in New Jersey was a catalyst for Peter Landesman, a journalist, to travel the...
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We Are Being Programmed (Part 7): The World We Live In
We are all affected by it...call it advertising, propaganda, programming, social engineering, psychological operations, or whatever other term could be applied. The act of a force outside of your mind trying to convince you to do something. In this installment we take a look at the world of...
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Propaganda (1928): Part 5
In this fifth and final episode of the Mic Check Radio Book Club series we conclude with the final chapters of the audio book, Propaganda by Edward L Burnays, published in 1928. Noam Chomsky has called this book "the main manual of the public relations industry". It may be 87 years old, but the...
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We Are Being Programmed (Part 6): 1984 in the 1960's
We are all affected by it...call it advertising, propaganda, programming, social engineering, psychological operations, or whatever other term could be applied. The act of a force outside of your mind trying to convince you to do something. In this installment we take a look at a perfect storm…
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[Rebroadcast] The Manipulation of Our Fear
As we work thru some serious computer issues, here is a rebroadcast from the archives. It dovetails perfectly with the upcoming Episode 6 in our We Are Being Programmed series. Sunday, August 11, 2013 Way back in 1987 a government funded study, Perception of Risk, was published in the journal...
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Propaganda (1928): Part 4
In this fourth episode of the Mic Check Radio Book Club series we continue with the audio book of Propaganda by Edward L Burnays, published in 1928. Noam Chomsky has called this book "the main manual of the public relations industry". It may be 87 years old, but the ideas and concepts are still...
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We Are Being Programmed (Part 5): CIA Takes Over
We are all affected by it...call it advertising, propaganda, programming, social engineering, psychological operations, or whatever other term could be applied. The act of a force outside of your mind trying to convince you to do something. In this installment we take a look at what happened to…
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Propaganda (1928): Part 3
In this third episode of the Mic Check Radio Book Club series we continue with the audio book of Propaganda by Edward L Burnays, published in 1928. Noam Chomsky has called this book "the main manual of the public relations industry". It may be 87 years old, but the ideas and concepts are still…
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We Are Being Programmed (Part 4): The Golden Age of Propaganda
We are all affected by it...call it advertising, propaganda, programming, social engineering, psychological operations, or whatever other term could be applied. The act of a force outside of your mind trying to convince you to do something. In the forth episode of this series we take a look at…
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Propaganda (1928): Part 2
In this second episode of the Mic Check Radio Book Club series we continue with the audio book of Propaganda by Edward L Burnays, published in 1928. Noam Chomsky has called this book "the main manual of the public relations industry". It may be 87 years old, but the ideas and concepts are still...
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We Are Being Programmed (Part 3): The Lab
We are all affected by it...call it advertising, propaganda, programming, social engineering, psychological operations, or whatever other term could be applied. The act of a force outside of your mind trying to convince you to do something. In the third episode we play a couple of clips of...
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Propaganda (1928): Part 1
On this supplemental episode we kick off a series of the Mic Check Radio Book Club. It's the audio book of Propaganda by Edward L Burnays, published in 1928. Noam Chomsky has called this book "the main manual of the public relations industry". It may be 87 years old, but the ideas and concepts…
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We Are Being Programmed (Part 2): The Switch
We are all affected by it...call it advertising, propaganda, programming, social engineering, psychological operations, or whatever other term could be applied. The act of a force outside of your mind trying to convince you to do something. In the second episode of this series we take a look at…
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We Are Being Programmed (Part 1)
We are all affected by it...call it advertising, propaganda, programming, social engineering, psychological operations, or whatever other term could be applied. The act of a force outside of your mind trying to convince you to do something. In the kick-off episode of this series we go over the...
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FBI Arrests Ohio Man for Legal Activites
Here's the initial news headline that caught my attention "FBI Arrest Ohio Man in ISIS Inspired Attack on US Capitol Building". This headline caught my eye for a number of reasons; I live in Ohio, the FBI has a track record of coaxing isolated individuals into "plots" like this and the idea of...
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Reasonable Expectations of Privacy
More details on Police State tactics of surveillance. The FBI (and the court system) has determined that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy once a citizen has left his or her home. So, if you are outside of your house, you will be monitored. How? Two of the new surveillance weapons…
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Activist Cinema 2014
A look at some of the great examples of Activist Cinema from 2014, and a little bit of behind the scenes information about the 'Sony Hack'. No No: A Dockumentary, The Internet's Own Boy, The Unknown Known, Citizenfour, Night Moves, Selma. [Click to Listen]
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The Violence Inherent in the System
Eric Garner, killed by a cop in Staten Island, NY. John Crawford, killed by a cop in Bevercreek, OH. Michael Brown, killed by a cop in Ferguson, MO. Tamir Rice, killed by a cop in Cleveland, OH. Is there some sort of racist-cop trend that has cropped up recently around the country or is there a...
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The Flow of Information (Rebroadcast)
[Rebroadcast: Episode from February 9th, 2013]From push notifications, corporate news channel tickers, billboards, newspaper headlines, blog titles, Facebook updates and twitter posts - the depth of our information diet is getting smaller and less diverse. In this episode we take a look at...
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Search: FBI - Spying - US Citizens
FBI - Spying - US Citizen's. It's a simple set of search terms. If you search it every six weeks or so you will find no shortage of reasons to be pissed off. This weeks tale includes an internationally know non-profit organization that is funded by "donations" from the top corporations in the…
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Occupy Unmasked (2012)
Activist Cinema 11: We're trying something new with this episode of Activist Cinema...we're discussing a film that I hate. The term 'Citizen's United' is very familiar to most activists these days, but it's mainly due to the infamous Supreme Court case. In the case the court decided: "that the...
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Coalition of the Willing: Take 2
Here we (U.S.A.) go again. Remember during Gulf War II, George W. Bush famously used the term Coalition of the Willing when it came to the invasion and occupation of Iraq? According to W's administration, these 48 countries were essential partners in this illegal war. However, countries like...
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At the Forefront of Fracking
Anastasia Pantsios published a fantastic article at EcoWatch about Ohio's shameful role at the forefront of the fracking industry. The article is based in part on the U.S. Government Accountability Office report, Drinking Water: Characterization of Injected Fluids Associated with Oil and Gas...
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The Miseducation of the Masses (Part 3): The System is Born
In part 3 of our series on the education system in the United States of America, we take a look at the continued influence of Foundations - mainly the ones started and funded by the Carnegie and Rockefeller. We also discuss the Columbia Teachers College and their project, the Lincoln Experimental...
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ISIS Terror Threat Comedy Hour
In this clip show, we take a look at how the Corporate Media (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc.) have used ISIS (or ISIL or IS) as the new international 'boogie man' in order to amp up the feelings of terror on the public and justify more military action in the Middle East. The result is eerily similar…
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The Miseducation of the Masses (Part 2): Rise of the Foundations!
In part 2 of our series on the education system in the United States of America, we take a look at how compulsory schooling was legislated into existence and then financed. From 1889 to 1906 William Torrey Harris was the Commissioner of Education for the United States of America. That is an...
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The Miseducation of the Masses (Part 1)
In the kick off episode for a series on the education system in the United States of America, we take a look at the Prussian education system that was established after that country's devastating defeat at the hands of Napoleon's military in 1806. Decades after that system was up and running,...
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Double Feature: The Weather Underground (2002) / Pickaxe (1999)
Activist Cinema 10 - It's a double feature today as we take a look at two documentary films that compliment each other quite well. The Weather Underground (2002) uses archival footage and interviews to look at the actions taken by the Weather Underground in the late 1960's and early 1970's. A...
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World Cup 2014: Capitalism, Corruption and Protest (Part 3)
In our third and final episode in the World Cup 2014: Capitalism, Corruption and Protest series we address the lack of protests in Brazil during the World Cup. We also take an extensive look at the police state tactics of Brazil and what it means for a country to host a "mega event" such as the...
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World Cup 2014: Capitalism, Corruption and Protest (Part 2)
In part II of our World Cup 2014 series we take a look at the initial proposal the government of Brazil presented to FIFA and how the reality has shaped up all these years later...here a hint, the budget more than quadrupled. We specifically take a look at the construction at three of the 12...
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World Cup 2014: Capitalism, Corruption and Protest (Part 1)
Our introductory episode covering the most watched (and most corrupt) sporting event in the entire world, the FIFA World Cup. We start off looking at why soccer can and is an important sport, especially on the world stage. Then we move into a brief overview of what has been going on in Brazil -...
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Collapse (2009)
Activist Cinema Episode 9 - Collapse (2009) was directed by Chris Smith and is essentially a monologue film. There haven't been too many of these kinds of film made, but within this small sub-genre of films, Collapse is one of the best. We choose this film as a nice end cap to the We're So Fucked...
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We're So F**ked 4: Do Anything
The fourth and final in episode in our We're So Fucked series (We're So Fucked - We're So Fucked 2: Bringing Down the System - We're So Fucked 3: Don't Do Anything) ends on a happy note, sort of...We start the discussion with the idea that there are no easy fixes for all of the worlds problems…
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How the State Will Kill Activists
On this episode we discuss the four steps the State has already set up that allow them to kill activists. Step 1: Redefine and/or blur the lines of definitions (ex. Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Eco-Terrorism)[Link]. Step 2: Create a precedent for killing US civilians [Link]. Step 3: Federal...
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FBI...Still Creating Terrorists
On May 26th, 2013 we put out an episode called The FBI Creates Terrorists - which was, itself, a follow up to What is Terrorism? - and just about one year later...not a single thing seems to have changed. On this weeks episode we take a look at a few specific cases. Farooque Ahmed, Liberty City...
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Hijacking Social Movements
The wonderful folks over at CrimetInc have posted a superb article about how the current Ukrainian Revolution is/was hijacked by the Fascist and Nationalist of that particular country. The example used in this article is specific to Ukraine, but the details will sound familiar to anyone who has...
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NDAA 2014
It's that time of year again...the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was re-uped for another year. What devious items were snuck in this year? In the last two years, indefinite military detention of United States citizens (NDAA 2012) and overturning the 63 year old Smith-Mundt Act which...
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We're So F**ked 3: Don't Do Anything
This episode follows We're So Fucked and We're So Fucked 2: Bringing Down the System. On today's installment of this sporadic series we look at one of the two options that are laid out before us: Do Something or Don't Do Anything. The later is the focus for this episode. Doing nothing has never...
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The Square (2013)
Activist Cinema Episode 8 - The Square (2013) is an excellent example of a journalistic documentary. It covers the protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square that started in 2011 and stays with several citizens (protestors, activists and lawyers) over a two year period. The ups and downs of seeing two...
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Activist Music - Punk Rock 1
As a tangent series to the Activist Cinema episodes we've been doing for awhile now, here is short playlist of fantastic Activist Music - The Punk Rock Edition Vol.1. Transmission - S.T.U.N. Punk Rock Song - Bad Religion Controlled Opposition - Anti Flag Suburban Home - Descendents Lady Liberty -...
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Russian Federation Homophobia and the Sochi Winter Olympic
On this episode we take a closer look at the so called 'Russian Anti-Gay Laws' with the help of a very insightful white paper - Russian Federation Anti Gay Laws: An Analysis and Deconstruction by Brian M. Heiss. Why are these laws getting so much corporate media coverage? Is it all just to remind...
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