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Judy Ancel speaks with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman in advance of her visit to Kansas City this weekend.

This week is the last regularly scheduled weekly show on Tell Somebody, and in it we feature conversation with Mark Wilkerson about his new Tomas Young biography, Tomas Young’s War, which is the tragic yet life affirming story of a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his last ten years battling heroically with his injuries, […]

The second-to-last edition of Tell Somebody this Thursday will be a conversation with Jen Senko about her new documentary film, The Brainwashing of my Dad. Additionally, there will be a special one night only screening of the film on Tuesday, March 22 at 7:00pm, with an after-discussion with guest panelists Tom Klammer, Host, “Tell Somebody”, […]

This week on the show, Tom Klammer sits down for a chat with Ray McGovern, former CIA officer and current political activist.

On this week’s edition of Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer chats with investigative journalist and Alternative Radio founder David Barsamian.

The picture of Palestinians painted by the press in this country is that of a populace at war from the youngest to the oldest. The Palestinians culture of peace and cooperation has been wracked by injustice and oppression for many years now. Even so we will learn about some of the peacemaking efforts of Palestinians […]

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer has a special live show ahead of KKFI’s coverage of the annual Homeless Marathon as he speaks with homelessness advocate and former cab driver Richard Tripp, founding director of COPP Inc., aka Care Of Poor People, Inc. Find out more information at http://www.coppinc.com/ .

In what will likely be the last pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody, Professor Robert McChesney helps out once again in urging you to support YOUR community radio station.   McChesney is co-author, with John Nichols, of the forthcoming book People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.

The American Friends Service Committee’s Kevin Rutledge and Hector Salamanca discuss the Governing Under the Influence Project in Iowa. They introduce issues into presidential campaigns that candidates might otherwise not have to discuss. Governing Under the Influence

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? Tune in to Tell Somebody and find out.

Cecile Pineda, a guest on Tell Somebody in 2013 with the release of her book Devil’s Tango – How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step, will talk about her latest book, Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World.

This week on Tell Somebody, you’ll hear from former CIA and State Department intelligence analyst Mel Goodman. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington D.C. His most recent book is National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism and his forthcoming book is The Path to Dissent: A Whistleblower at […]

This week on Tell Somebody, we’ll hear from Claire White, daughter of Robert White, who was the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador when 4 American churchwomen were murdered by the US supported Salvadoran military in 1980. We started the show last week with a clip from Democracy Now! last January with Amy Goodman noting that […]

Kansas Citians Carol Coburn and Alice Kitchen went on a week long delegation to El Salvador recently commemorating the death of the 4 Church women tortured 35 years ago by US funded Salvadorian militia. This week on Tell Somebody, they will talk about the  deaths of 75,000 people (murdered, tortured, raped, and or disappeared). This includes the […]

On Friday, an investigative reporting series called “Irradiated,” about sick and dying workers in the nuclear weapons industry around the country was released online by McClatchy News, followed by a Sunday front page story in the Kansas City Star headlined “Nuclear legacy trails KC Workers” and “A review finds that more radioactive material was used […]

Reverend Wallace Hartsfield SR and Reverend Ester Holzendorf There are people in our community whose names we know and some whose names we don’t that make a difference. They stand up to injustice, protect those who need protection, demand accountability from our elected officials and governmental departments. They have an impact on the quality of […]

On this edition of Tell Somebody, we welcome Ira Harritt of the American Friends Service Committee to the studio to chat about the upcoming art opening, “All Of Us Or None”, an installment of poster art responding to injustice and hope created by KC area youth addressing issues of concern to them.

You can find many propaganda and news footage tapes of Osama bin Laden on the internet and many experts have studied them. Very few people have heard the 1500 audio tapes that tell the story of Al-Qa’ida’s formation, motivation and the internal struggles for power. These tapes cover the years from the 1960s up to […]

TIF W 17th St TIF A group of community partners have a referendum petition, to repeal the ordinance that the city council approved $5 mil of Tax Increment Financing for the W 17th TIF. Kansas City Public Schools Parent Leader Jennifer Wolfsie is one of those community partners.

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, chat with host Tom Klammer.

A statue of a horse wearing a hazmat suit with goggles was toppled and smashed, apparently with a sledgehammer, a couple of weeks after it was installed near the former Rocky Flats plutonium trigger plant outside Denver last August. The sculpture was was meant to be a visible symbol of the danger that Rocky Flats […]

After Robert Del Tredici, founder of the Atomic Photographers Guild, spoke at the All Souls Forum, heard last night on KKFI at 6pm (https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/the-laws-of-the-bomb-with-robert-del-tredici/), he led a more intimate discussion In All Souls Church’s Library. We’ll hear that this morning

President Obama insists on looking the gift horse of Russian military help for Syria’s embattled government in the mouth. Rather than welcome assistance in blocking a Sunni extremist victory, Obama bends to the neocons and liberal hawks, as former CIA analyst and regular Tell Somebody guest Ray McGovern returns to the show to talk about Syria. […]

On this week’s edition of Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer has a conversation with Richard D. Wolff, 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 […]

A look at the Syrian Refugee Crisis from a Kansas City perspective

Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2012 Presidential Candidate joins us for a conversation.  This is a call-in show.  What would you like to ask Dr. Stein?  816 931 5534

The Green Party’s 2004 Presidential Candidate, David Cobb was in St. Louis last month for the party’s annual national meeting.  While there, he gave a workshop on Move to Amend, and organization that he co-founded dedicated to undoing the doctrine that money equals speech and corporations are people.  KKFI was on hand to record it.

Tom Klammer interviews Kansas City Native, Richard Rhodes.  Rhodes is the Pulitzer Prize-winnning author  of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, who will speak at the “Remembering Nagasaki: Propagating Hope” event co-sponsopred by PeaceWorks, 2:00 PM, Sunday, Aug. 9 at the Community of Christ Temple, 210 S. River, Independence, MO. http://www.richardrhodes.com/

Why are labor activists and environmentalist so dead set against the Trans-Pacific Partnership?  What does the TPP mean for wages? Jobs? Climate change? Radio Active Magazine hosts Craig Lubow and Bill Clause will guest host this week’s Tell Somebody, while regular host Tom Klammer takes a break..  In addition to TPP, we will also discuss […]

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer takes a look (and listen!) back at last week’s historic Fight For $15 and Good Jobs For All rally, the largest one in Kansas City yet, which was attended by nearly 2,000 and included speeches from Mayor Sly James in support of $15 and a union. If you […]

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer will talk to the CEO of the National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC), Nicole Lamoureux, and Kansas City CARE Clinic CEO, Sheri Wood, about Saturday’s free health clinic in the metro. The clinic is meant to provide care for the area’s uninsured and medically underserved. As […]

Tom Klammer welcomes former FCC Commissioner, Michael Copps back to Tell Somebody.

On news of the death of Danny Schechter, investigative journalist Greg Palast wrote: “Known for bringing the world the story of Nelson Mandela, Danny gave up cushy jobs at ABC and CNN, the big bucks and a steady flow of mainstream awards to blow the whistle on the degradation of American news. Danny exposed what […]

This week on Tell Somebody, we’ll have some quick thoughts on Ferguson, MO and on the 12th anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, then we continue from last week with a symposium put together by Dr. Helen Caldicott called The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction.

Todd O’Boyle, program director for Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative, will talk with Tom Klammer about the recent FCC decisions on Net Neutrality and Community Broadband. O‘Boyle joined Common Cause in September 2012 and is responsible for research, advocacy, and strategy for media reform. Before joining Common Cause, he worked as a political […]

At the founding convention of the CIO in 1938, a speaker invited to talk about her plan for a national healthcare system was introduced as “the greatest woman of our day” and “the most outstanding liberal.” Think you know who that was? Are you sure about that? Tune in to Tell Somebody Thursday morning at […]

This week on Tell Somebody, host Tom Klammer speaks to author  Alison Weir (Against Our Better Judgement) about her upcoming appearance as one of the speakers about Israel /Palestine on Thursday, March 5 during the panel discussion titled “What Americans Need to Know about Israel: Two Perspectives”, slated to be held from 7:00-9:00 PM at […]

No More Neglect, No More Condensing Attitudes This is the third installment of the Told You So Consortium shows before Tom Klammer comes back and rescues the listeners from the babble of the rabble. Talking about rabble our guests this time are two of Kansas City’s finest Rabble Rousers. We are going to find out […]

Tell Somebody at KKFI What You Want To Hear On The Radio! Call in – 816-931-5534 from 9 – 10 AM Thursday Tom Klammer is still on hiatus and we decided to let the listeners program this show. Mike Murphy and Jeff Humfeld and special mystery guests will be taking your suggestions on what you […]

It is Pledge Drive time at KKFI and you can show your support for KKFI and TELL SOMEBODY by calling in at 888-931-0901 Today’s show is the first of three that Tell Somebody host Tom Klammer is taking off to attend to other needs. He is trusting the show to a ragtag group of KKFI […]

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer features a phone covnersation with Professor Robert McChesney about his new book, Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century, which “…uses a sophisticated political economic analysis to delineate the recent trajectory of capitalism and its ongoing degeneration.” Tune in for all this and more this Thursday from 9AM!

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer will be speaking with Chris Mitchell about proposed legislation to block municipal broadband in Missouri, and an Obama proposal to promote municipal broadband. Mitchell is the Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative with the New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer takes a look back at the year that was 2014, with clips from the year’s shows, from “Single Payer” to “Nuclear Weapons”, and from “Dollarocracy” to “Deficit Owls”.

This week on Tell Somebody, we have an audience with Stephanie Kelton, Chair of the Economics Department at UMKC, who announced on Friday, December 26th that she has accepted a position as Chief Economist on the Senate Budget Committee. On this edition, we’ll hear a presentation Professor Kelton gave in Kansas City on November 19, […]

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer welcomes Professor Marjorie Cohn to the studio as she returns to discuss the Ferguson grand jury process, and we’ll have some thoughts on Christmas.

This week on Tell Somebody, Tom Klammer will be speaking to Kathy Kelly on the eve of her trial and sentencing for drone protests. Later, Tom will have Ray McGovern on the program to discuss his face-to-face confrontation with former House Intelligence Oversight Committee chair Pete Hoekstra about the now-infamous torture report.

This week on Tell Somebody, we revisit an interview Tom Klammer did with Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro in February, 2008 at the time of the premiere of their documentary Body of War, recalling, among other things, the admissions by former Senators Hillary Clinton and Max Baucus, among others, that they regretted their votes in […]

On this edition of Tell Somebody, Kansas City peace activist Georgia Walker, who will go to trial with Kathy Kelly in Jefferson City on Dec 10 joins us, and with her is law professor Marjorie Cohn on the new book she edited, Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.

This week on Tell Somebody, host Tom Klammer will be talking to a fast food worker about the December 4th “Day of Action” for $15 and union representation. Previous strikes in Kansas City have resulted in wage increases, better respect for workers and their off-the-clock time, and no firings despite the five previous strikes. Tune […]

This week on Tell Somebody, we feature a panel discussion with female members of the Black Panther Party here in Kansas City. Featured guests include Kathleen Cleaver, Barbara Easley Cox, Andre Weatherby Rawls, Yasmeen Sutton, and Charlotte Hill O’Neal.