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Tell Somebody
Weekly public affairs program on KKFI-FM 90.1, Kansas City community radio
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Tomas Young's War – Mark Wilkerson
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…
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Jen Senko-Brainwashing My Dad
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...
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Ray McGovern – Ukraine Policy on the Tell Somebody Countdown
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…
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David Barsamian-Just Back from Lebanon & on the Phone with Tell Somebody
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...
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Richard Tripp and Friends
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...
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Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody
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.…
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Elizabeth Murray - From CIA to Anti-Nuclear
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...
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Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World
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...
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Mel Goodman on Robert White (and More)
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...
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The Ambassador's Daughter-Remembering the Murders
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…
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Delegation to El Salvador
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....
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Lindsay Wise Talks About "Irradiated"
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…
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Sister Helen's Kansas City Speech
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...
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Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues in Missouri
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...
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Rocky Flats Cold War Horse
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...
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Ray McGovern on Obama, Putin & Syria
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...
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Economist Richard D. Wolff
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...
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Richard Rhodes on Nagasaki, 70 Years On
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...
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Joe McGovern- The Other Side Documentary
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...
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Richard Rhodes - Remembering Kansas City - Remembering Nagasaki
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....
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Maurice Copeland on Kansas City Plant Cleanup & Help for Sick Workers
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…
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Unsubstantiated, Contradicted, or Non-Existent-Ray McGovern on Iraq Lies
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…
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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou & Peace Activist Brian Terrell
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…
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Good Jobs and $15 For All Rally and March
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…
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Free Health Clinic in Kansas City
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…
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Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
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…
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April 15 Good Jobs & $15 for All March, Tomas Young, The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont'd.
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...
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Remembering Danny Schechter the News Dissector
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...
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Anne Frank and Rachel Corrie Anniversaries, Ferguson, MO Stats, plus The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, Cont'd.
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...
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Todd O'Boyle on Net Neutrality & Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Extinction
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...
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Relentless Reformer-Robyn Muncy's Biography of Josephine Roche
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...
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Israel - Palestine – If Americans Knew
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...
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McChesney – Blowing the Roof Off the 21st Century
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…
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Chris Mitchell on Community Broadband
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…
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Stephanie Kelton takes US Senate Post, MLK Birthday, Climate Change Radio
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...
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A Look Back at 2014 on Tell Somebody
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...
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Stephanie Kelton – New Minority Chief Economist for Senate Budget Committee on Angry Birds Approach to Understanding Money, Debt and Deficits
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...
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Marjorie Cohn – Grand Jury Manipulation, Kelly & Walker on Killer Drones Â
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...
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Kathy Kelly's Conviction & Ray McGovern's Confrontation
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....
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Body of War-Phil Donahue & Ellen Spiro - $15 & a Union – The Good Germans
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...
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Drones! Marjorie Cohn & Georgia Walker
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…
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Terrance Wise on Fast Food Workers & Kathy Kelly on Military & Economic Warfare
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...
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Joe McGovern's Travels with Charlie- Looking for the Other Side
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...
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Maurice Copeland – Kansas City Plant Workers Compensation
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...
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Corporations are not People & Labeling Food is COOL
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...
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David Barsamian in Kansas City and Ray McGovern Thinking of Kansas
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…
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The Blotch on Holder's Legacy as Attorney General…& the Other Blotch…& the Other Blotch…&…
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…
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The Economy - Does More Government Help or Hurt?
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...
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Coleen Rowley in Kansas City and What's Different About Independent Media
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…
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Coleen Rowley on Truth Telling-David Cobb on Senate Citizens United Amendment Vote-
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...
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