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NOVEMBER 1991
Report to the Listener
Valerie van Isler, General Manager
An Independent Voice in a Difficult Time
Like all other forms of media, radio is a tool which can
empower the community or isolate and undermine it.
Perhaps no one understood this better than Lew Hill, who
founded Pacifica Radio more than forty years ago. In
today's world, we at WBAI are continually challenged to
nurture and protect the freedom of the press, which is a
cornerstone for the democratic empowerment of all
people.
One of the most important ways that we carry out this
mandate is by brining our members and listening
audience responsible, comprehensive, and insightful
reporting on critical events from across the nation and
around the world. WBAI featured the most extensive
coverage in all the New York media of the nomination
hearings to the Supreme Court of Judge Clarence Thomas.
And what an event that turned out to be! Some
optimists from the Washington beltway have said that it
was more like a national teach-in on issues around sexual
harassment than a sober examination for the highest court
in the land. Unfortunately, it was neither, and it degraded
the process along the way. One thing is certain, however:
there was more heat than light throughout those days of
opposing testimony and contested views. With this newest
appointment, the court is now positioned to take an even
more narrow, constructionist view of civil liberties and
first amendment rights. And that means that alternative
media and community radio stations like WBAI £U'e more
important than ever to you and all our communities if we
are to have an informed and democratic society. Your
membership and continued support make a world of
difference in the news, international and public affairs
reports, and arts and cultural programming that you hear
on this station.
As the winter months approach and the holiday season
nears, we will again bring the New York community one of
the most beautiful events of the year. And this time, it will
be even more exciting and special as we celebrate the 20th
anniversary of the WBAI Holiday Crafts Fair. We are
extending this early invitation to you — our members,
listeners, and friends — to join us during the first three
weekends in December — the 6th-8th, 13th-15th, and the
20th-22th — for our silver celebration of the finest in
American crafts by some of the nation's best artists. We
are planning a special preview and a Founders Brunch to
honor those who have organized and developed the Crafts
Fair over the last two decades into one of the showcase
events of the holiday season.
Finally, a special note to all of our new members who
joined WBAI radio during the past year: You are invited
to an exciting evening of information and media viewpoints
planned for early December. Your New Member invitation
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The New York Marxist School
presents:
The First Vito Marcantonio Conference
The Multicultural Curriculum:
Recovering Progressive Traditions
sponsored by the Vito Marcantonio Forum
Saturday, November 9, 9am-4pm
Boris Kagarlitsky
founder, Russian Socialist Party; author, Farewell
Perestroika
Seminar: The Dynamics of Soviet Society Under
Perestroika
November 15, 16&17
Public Lecture: Can Capitalism Prevail In the USSR?
Thursday, November 14, 8pm
Luciana Castellina
founder, // Manifesto, Rome; member, European
Parliament
1992 and Left Politics in Europe
Seminar, December 2, 3 & 4
Public Lecture, Monday, December 2, 8pm
Peter Kwong
author, Chinatown, New York: Labor Movement and
Politics
Lecture: Race, Immigration, and the Municipal Budget
Friday, December 6, 7pm
Marilyn Clement
coordinator, MADRE Women's Campaign for National
Health Care
Slide show & discussion: Organizing for a National
Health Plan
Tuesday, December 10, 8pm
at:
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79 Leonard Street, NYC
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From Haiti to New Yorl<...
Attorney Roy John Smith, author of Diary of an African
American Attorney in Haiti specializes in human rights and
immigration law. He has been a reporter for the WBAI
Evening News, and his book was featured on Shelf Life,
WBAI's literary series. Smith's work with Haitian immigrants
in New York inspired him to travel to Haiti in the spring of
1990. His visit came on the eve of what many believed to be the
dawn of democracy, with elections scheduled for later in the
year. In December, Jean-Bertrand Aristide became the
country's first democratically elected president, a term which
was abruptly ended when a military coup seized power this past
September.
WBAI News Editor Jennie Bourne spoke with Roy Smith
shortly after the coup about his visit to Haiti and his work with
the Haitian community here in New York. The following is an
excerpt from that interview, which originally aired on WBAI's
Evening News.
RS: I wrote Diary of an
African American Attorney
in Haiti to share some of
my love, honor, and
respect for the Haitian
people, particularly those
in various stages of
attaining legal status in
New York....Despite all of
the rhetoric of the U.S.
government in support of
democracy in Haiti, the
Immigration and Natural-
ization Service has
constantly and consistently
discriminated against
Haitians applying for
political asylum in the
United States. While the
laws have been very
favorable for applications
from Cuba, the Soviet
Union, or Eastern European The grail gate at Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide 's St. John de Bosco Church. The church considered onerous by the
countries, Haitians have was burned in 1987 by the Macoutes.fornnerDuvaiier bodyguards who remain armed, world. The cry for
democracy is being lauded
in Haiti, but the treatment by our government and its
immigration services towards nationals of that country— right
within our borders— is horrible. Haitians are systematically
deported from this country, systematically captured in boats
in the ocean and told they have no ri^t to apply to the
United States for poHtical asylum and refuge. No other
people are treated the way Haitians are treated.
JB: Yet there are at least 400,000 Haitians in New York.
RS: There are at least 400,000 to 500,000 known Haitians
in the New York City area. The number of those missed by
the U.S. census could easily be double or triple that. If our
representatives were to speak up today, we would have the
opportunity to offer these refugees the sanctuary our
constitution and immigration laws seek to offer others but
have yet fallen short of for the people of Haiti.
JB: Can we talk a little bit about the conditions which have
people fleeing their native country for the United States.
Even before the coup, Haitians faced very difficult conditions.
immigration visas for Haitians, as well as for other members
of the Caribbean. It's unfortunate that the strongest lobby for
inmiigrant rights in Congress did not include the
impoverished and oppressed persons of the Caribbean,
whether it is the En^h speakmg Caribbean with Trinidad
and Jamaica or the French and Creole speaking Caribbean
which includes Haiti. It's been called a racist lobby. I support
immigration rights for everyone; I just feel that this is an
opportunity, for Haitians and people of African ancestry in
the Caribbean who are being oppressed, to demand inclusion
JB: Margolie Rodriguez of the International Immigrants
Foundation suggested there should be some change in our
immigration policy, that the State Department could initiate a
special status for Haitians which would enable them to get
green cards or working papers here, but I understand that's a
little more complicated than k might seem.
RS: It's a political decision. The immigration service,
under immigration law, has within its power the right to grant
temporary protective status to persons that are fleeing
calamities and disasters in
their countries. Congress
has determined that status
will be granted to persons
from Liberia, due to the
disaster and oppression
people of African ancestry
are experiencing there,
and it is perfectly within
the power of the United
States Congress and the
administrative agency— the
Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service — to immediate^
issue temporary protective
status for immigrants from
Haiti. Haitians would then
be allowed protection
from deportation. In my
opinion, there has been a
real downplaying in the
press of the status of
people in this country who
are fleeing a regime
been systematically denied
any fair hearings on their rights to political asylum in the
U.S. Many refugees or families fear they would face
persecution if they were returned to Haiti. It is my position,
supported by a recent announcement by Amnesty
International, that these people should apply today for
political asylum and demand their rights. This is an
opportunity for our government to practice what it preaches
by granting people of African ancestry from Haiti the same
rights that exist for refugees from throughout the world.
JB: We have a lottery now inviting people from Germany,
Poland, Eastern Europe, and other parts of the world to
apply for legal status in the United States. Do you foresee
any similar opportunity for Haitian people in this country?
RS: It's a matter of politics on the part of Congress. If
Congress wanted to have people from Haiti receive the same
treatment as those refugees who are persecuted in Eastern
Europe because of their reUgious or political beliefs, there
would be a lottery and there would be allocated increased
The per capita income is estimated to be around $300.00 per
year. Can you tell me a little about the conditions people
were living under when you visited there last year?
RS: That is very important and something I sought to
describe in my book. First, let me say I was inspired by my
work here at WBAI to search out and understand what was
causing people of African ancestry in Haiti to fight and stand
up and challenge the oppression they faced. When I went
there, I found not only the constantly referred to "specter of
poverty" — Haiti is the poorest country in the Western
Hemisphere— but I also learned about U.S. government
policy. I went to the State Department and the United States
Information Agency and asked them pointblank what they
were doing with our tax dollars to improve the Uves of people
of African ancestry in Haiti. They said they recognized their
role and responsibility in promoting democracy and
improving the education system, but expressed frustration at
the inability of anyone to control the Haitian military. When
I was there I saw soldiers robbing civilians, business people,
and peasants in the street.
JB: This was during peace time? There was no coup going
on then?
RS: There was no coup going on. In fact, it was a good
time: there was relatively little street crime and the airports
had been opened. This was in May of 1990. The U.S.
information officer I spoke to said her biggest fear is that in
Haiti there are leu'ge numbers of young men with guns and
no food and no money.
To order a copy of Diary of an African American Attorney
in Haiti, write to Roy Smith at: 277 Broadway, Suite 1410,
New York, N.Y. 10007.
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Thanks for the Megawatts
By Malcolm Howard
Malcolm Howard reports for the WBAI Evening News. His
documentary on James Bay will be part of our special
Thanks^ving Day proff-amming beginning at 2:30PM on
Thursday, November 2^h.
Hydro-electric dcuns built on the LaGrande River in the
'70s introduced a new phrase to the 14,000 Cree Indians
living around James Bay in Northern Quebec: Nimass
aksiwin, or "fish disease," became a household word to
Crees in the mid '80s after they learned that pike, trout, and
other fish they pulled from the LaGrande contained
mercury.
Below the placid surfaces of LaGrande's reservoirs, the
invisible toxin formed when methane, released from rotting
plants, combined with inorganic mercury, which leached
from newly-submerged soil. The Cree's heavy fish diet
brought the mercury into their bloodstream and many
suffered neurological damage. About two-thirds of the
people m Chisasibi (a town of 2,000 Crees who were
relocated after the dams made their previous island home on
the LaGrande unsafe) have higher than normal mercury
levels. Some elders have 20 times normal levels.
But the Quebec-owned power monopoly that built the
LaGrande dams isn't done yet: It wants to build another 16
dams m the Eeyou Astchee -the Cree word for their
homeland. Although the utility, Hydro-Quebec, plans to
spend $62 billion to dam almost every river flowing into the
James and Hudson Bays, its immediate plans call for three
huge dams on the Great Whale River, which feeds into
Hudson Bay.
The Cree and Inuit (the Cree's northerly neighbors) say
another huge hydro-electric project would drive their
centuries-old lifestyle of hunting, trapping, and fishing to
extinction. Flooding would destroy calving areas for caribou,
submerge nesting areas for geese, and put Indian hunting
and trapping grounds under water. Dams on Great Whale
would engulf 2,700 square miles -the equivalent of sinking
southern Vermont or all of Long Island.
Hydro-Quebec, meanwhile, boasts that it is flooding only
one percent of the 440,000-square-niile James Bay region.
What H-Q doesn't say is that the one percent they would
flood is the only productive land for Crees and the only safe
haven for wildlife. In that sense, Hydro-Quebec's dams are
Uke smart bombs: They only target valleys where bears,
beavers, fox, geese -and other animals the Cree rely
on -find shelter on the wind-swept, subarctic tiaga. The
natural infrastructure devastated by the dams, therefore, is
far beyond what is actually covered by water. In fact, a
watershed the size of Maine and New York combmed would
be affected. But even the reservoirs are mind boggling:
Because the Eeyou Astchee is mostly flat, water from
dammed-up rivers spreads out over the land Uke spilt milk
on a dinner table. Reservoirs on the LaGrande inundated
almost 10,000 square miles.
Perhaps the most sickening part of it all is that 60 percent
of the power which would be created by the proposed dams
on the Great Whale River will go to televisions, toasters, and
air conditioners (radio stations, too) in New York State. The
state's power authority has signed two contracts with
Hydro-Quebec worth $19 billion. Unless those contracts are
cancelled by November 1992, Quebec's debt-ridden utility will
get the American capital it needs to build the dams.
"Up until 20 years ago, we didn't use electricity even to
cook," says Matthew Mukash, a Cree anti-dam activist. "So it's
hard for us to hear how cities to the south, with used car lots lit
all night Uke footbaU fields, need aU this power."
The Cree and environmentaUsts argue that if the New York
Power Authority (NYPA) put even a fraction of the money
destined for Hydro-Quebec into conservation programs. New
Yorkers won't need out-of-state power. Beyond that, money for
installing better heating, lighting, and energy distribution systems
would create 25 to 30 jobs per milUon dollars spent;
Hydro-Quebec's dams would gamer only six jobs per milUon.
In the process, H-Q would bulldoze the first roads to Great
Whale, an isolated community of 1,000 Cree and Inuit
("Eskimo") where the Great Whale River meets Hudson Bay.
Hydro-Quebec would also build three airports (at least one of
them big enough for 747s), slash a path through Cree hunting
areas for 12,000 high-tension power poles, and erect a
temporary factory town for 4,000 workers only 30 miles from the
sleepy seaside village.
Meanwhile, the town's namesake wiU be reduced to a trickle
one-fifth its current size. "This river is a major calving area for
the beluga [whale] herd," says Peter Papialuk, who runs a
hunters' support program in Kuujjuaaraapik, the Inuit side of
Great Whale. Changes in the salt water content near the river's
mouth wiU change drastically and the belugas, which use the
rivers to molt, wiU disappear. So wiU the age old Inuit tradition
of launching canoes into Hudson Bay and hunting them.
I began my (volunteer) career as a WBAI reporter after the
Gulf War, and since then, most of my time has been spent
covering the James Bay story. One thing I've learned:
Hydro-dams are not the problem, they're a symptom.
The United States, like other consumer- or industrial-based
societies, has a habit of exporting the side effects of its energy
addictions to far away, or "remote," areas populated by people
of non-Europeans descent. The war against Iraq is only the most
glaring example. Now, in the shadow of burning Kuwaiti oil
fields, President Bush's national energy strategy ignores
innovation and conservation and caUs for oU exploration in the
Arctic National WildUfe Refuge, home of Athabascan Gwich'in
people.
But that's just another story with a similar plot. Among the
resources being grabbed from native lands are uranium and coal
for power plants, trees for paper pulp, and water to process this
pulp. Meanwhile, rainforests are razed for hamburger meat
How long can this go on?
"The fact is, a culture based on conquest is not sustainable,
and that's something we as indigenous people have come to
understand very weU," says Winona LaDuke, an environmental
activist and Anishinabeg (Chippewa) from Minnesota. That
industrial society is encroaching on both of Earth's poles, and is
muUing over greenhouse cities on Mars, shows that our leaders
understand very Uttle about survival.
I'm glad to teU the James Bay story during the month when
many of us celebrate Thanksgiving because it's an example of
Native Americans stiU showing European-based societies how to
survive in the world we share. You see, if the Cree can help us
change the wasteful ways of our state's power authority, we
won't just save North America's last untouched wilderness. And
we won't just be saving an indigenous culture that's lasted
thousands of years. We'll save money on Con Ed bills. And
that's something I'd be particularly grateful for.
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Top: Dale House, a Cree from Chisasibi, a town 1 ,000 miles north of NYC. Bottom: Nearby spillway on the LaGrande River. Photos by Kirk Condyles.
If You Missed It, It's Because
They Missed It
by Ken Nash
Ken Nash is co-Producer, with Mimi Rosenberg, of
Building Bridges: Your Community-Labor Report, heard
every Thursday from 7:30-8:30PM.
On Saturday, August 31, 1991, between 250,000 and
325,000 workers and their allies marched on the capital
demanding a reversal of the failed policies of the '80s with
regard to health care, anti-scab legislation, and aid to the
cities. Solidarity Day II, which took its name from the first
Solidarity Day 10 years ago when half a million people
marched on Washington in protest of President Reagan's
breaking of the PATCO strike, was a huge success— but you
would never know it by watching the network news or by
reading New York's Sunday newspapers. Of the media bigs,
only Cable Network News (CNN) treated the march as a
major news story, and the Daily News was the only paper to
give out the AFL-CIO's crowd estimate of 325,000.
ABC's early evening broadcast devoted less than one
minute to shots of the march, excerpts from AFL-CIO
President Lane Kirkland's speech, and a close-up of one of
the march's many delegations. CBS's 11 o'clock news gave
the shortest treatment, omitting even the marcher's
demands. NBC's early evening broadcast did mention the
demands, although it did so more as an afterthought. The
network's 11 o'clock news added on a longer piece, but the
emphasis was placed on the growing weakness of today's
labor movement. NBC's parent company. General Electric,
must surely have been pleased.
CNN is hardly a pro-labor station— but it is a news
station. They carried two major 2 and 1/2 minute stories, the
first presenting good visuals of the march and scenes of
numerous speakers and participants stating their demands.
They also caught the tension between the march's domestic
and foreign policy themes and devoted almost the entire last
half of the broadcast to U.S. labor's role in Eastern
European unions. The second piece focused on labor's
demand for a national health care system. Numerous polls
were examined showing that most Americans would pay
higher taxes to achieve that goal. Other shorter pieces on
CNN throughout the early evening showed U.S. workers
marching in Washington, and many of these segments led off
their broadcasts.
The Sunday Times, Newsday, and the Sunday News all
buried their coverage deep within the papers. The Times and
News articles were short and accompanied by a march
photo; Newsday chose to save the photo for a follow-up
page. Only the Sunday News quoted the AFL-CIO and D.C.
police estimate of 325,000 people zilong with the Federal
Parks Service's "official" estimate of 250,000. The News and
Newsday offered the clearest exposition of the major goals of
the march, with Newsday quoting many New York City rank
and file unionists, including our own Alberta Wright of
Brooklyn.
If tens of thousands of workers marched in Moscow, it
would be front page news. When a few thousand Right to
Lifers harass women seeking legal abortions in Wichita,
Kansas, that too gets priority. But when the AFL-CIO, which
represents millions of workers, brings 325,000 of them to
Washington on a hot August day to vent their anger over the
outrages of the past decade and demand changes for the
future, they get diminished by the networks and news dailies
of the Big Apple. Theodore Bikel, President of Artists and I
Actors of America, pleaded at the march for the »
Administration to consult with us— not to insult us. Well, it
doesn't have to insult us. That's what the big three networks
and New York City's newspapers are for.
Photo of Solidarity Day II courtesy of the AFL-CIO.
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Photo by Bliott and Fry from Christine
Sandfords book, Ethiopia Under Haile Selassie.
1:00 Labbrish. Rastafari. On Novem-
ber 2, 1930 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
in what may still be the ultimate spec-
tacle on the African continent for the
twentieth century, Haile Selassie I was
crowned KING OF KINGS, LORD
OF LORDS, CONQUERING LION
OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
ELECT OF GOD, LIGHT OF THE
WORLD, KING OF ISRAEL, KING
OF ZION, DEFENDER OF THE
FAITH, and EMPEROR OF
ETHIOPIA. This event did a little
more than just capture the imagination
of the world.
In Jamaica, a group of people saw
Haile Selassie not simply as the
Emperor of Ethiopia, but as the
returned JESUS CHRIST Haile Selas-
sie was, for these people, GOD AL-
MIGHTY incarnate. Our program will
explore the phenomenon of Rastafari.
Its doctrine and social and cultural un-
pact on Jamaica and the world will be
discussed with author Horace
Campbell and one of the movement's
central figures, Douglas Mack.
Produced by Habte Selassie.
Sunday 3
honor of the composer's 190th
birthday.
9:30 Here ofa Sunday Morning. Early
music with Chris Whent.
11:30 Hard Work. Live radio with
Mike Feder.
1:00 Con Sabor Latino. Issues and
music from the Latino community,
with Mickey Melendez and Hernando
Alvaricci.
5:30 Latino Journal with Santiago
Nieves.
6:00 The WBAI News, including a
review of the week's stories.
6:30 Ryan's (Only in) NewYorlc Host
Lee Ryan celebrates our favorite city
with the Usual Suspects- Joyce West
and Marie Becker.
7:30 Outlooks. Alternative Healing for
AIDS. Join Liz Gewirtz as she inter-
views HIV antibody-positive minority
women and men who are living with
"AIDS," and the acupuncturist who
has treated them. Liz will be entertain-
ing phone calls!!
8:30 Emanations. Live radio with the
Emanations Collective -Michael G.
Haskins, Ulysses T Good, and Theron
Holmes-Clarke- focusing on the
African American community.
10^30 The Creative Unity Collective
Show. This is ridiculous! We have to
give in Folio copy way too early! It's
only October 3rd! Who knows what's
happening in the world! Has Clarence
Thomas been confirmed? Who knows,
I don't know! I can't think of anything'
to write! You listeners will just have to
take my word for it, it'll be an interest-
ing show. Please listen. There'll be
somethin' on it you'U like! Stereo, 2 hrs.
12:30 News Rebroadcast
1:00 Carrier Wave with Sidney Smith.
3:00 Everything Old Is New Again.
Music of the theater and more, with
host David Kenney.
5:00 Cosmik Debris. Words and music
from the Void with Rocky and
Pandora.
7:00 Martin SokoPs Through the
Opera Glass. Regina Fiorito-Sokol,
Executive Producer. This morning we
present a Bellini Birthday Bash in
Monday 4
6:00 The Morning Show with Rosemari
Mealy...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...the Morning Show contmues.
9:30 All Mixed Up with Peter Bochan.
Noon Natural Living. Health and nutri-
tion issues with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Ufe. WBAI's Uterary series
presents Ted Moone/s Trajfic and
Laughter. What do southern Califor-
nia, high-level diplomacy. Cape Town
politics, sex, and an L.A. disc jockey
have in common with the fate of the
earth? Join us on the L.A. freeway of
love for our radio adaptation of Ted
Mooneyes latest comedic thriller. Per-
formed with members of the Bad
Neighbors Theatre Company and
directed by Phillip Suraci. Produced
and adapted by Piera Paine for the
ArtsDepartment. Trajfic and Laughter
will be heard on Shelf Life through
November 27.
1:30 Philippines in Focus. Politics, cul-
ture, art, news, and music by and
about Filipinos in the United States
and in the Motherland. Produced by
Wesley Macawili and Veena Cabreros-
Sud.
2:00 Haitian Plerspectives. T\me in as
producer J. Raynald Louis takes a
look at the current political situation
in Haiti. Also: news, issues, and view-
points from the city's Haitian com-
munity.
3:00 The Write Stuff. In this special ex-
tended edition of The Write Stuff,
Brandon Judell and Carletta Walker
host a rousing roundtable discussion
with John Preston and contributors to
his two new books, Hometown: Gay
Men Write About Hometown Where
They Belong and The Big Gay Book.
Guests include Arnie Kantrowitz,
Michael Bronski, and other gay
notables and some on the fringe of gay
notability.
4:30 Ihlkback! Live call-m radio with
Malachy McCourt.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 World View. Samori Marksman
hosts this national satellite broadcast
looking at international issues.
8:30 Sequoyah. Native American news
and issues from the Public Affairs
Department.
■■Ill- niwii !■ iimiihiiiimiii
9K)0 Soundscapes: Explorations in
Radio, Sound, and Music presents^
Celebration of Non-commercial Radio.
On October 4, 1991, WBAI's sister sta-
tion, KPFA in Berkeley, celebrated the
dedication of its new $3 million build-
ing and studio with a nationally broad-
cast musical event featuring the work
of composer Lou Harrison.
"For the ceremonial opening of the
new building..." says Harrison, "the
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Founda-
tion commissioned me to write a
piece, and I was delighted that KPFAs
music director, Charles Amirkanian,
hoped that it might be based on
Gamelan, perhaps the most beautiful
kind of orchestra on our planet.
"In the piece, I touch upon refer-
ences to the European part of
Asia...and since I wrote much of the
work during President Bush's war in
the Middle East, I set a text by Mark
TVain about President McKinle/s war
in the Philippines, a similar kind of
thing....In the final section, I have
made a valedictory setting of a section
of the magnificent testimony of Chief
Seattle to the Yankee power in
Washington." That testimony follows:
Where is a man without the beasts?
If the beasts were gone, men would die
from great loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts
soon happens to man.
All things are connected.
This we know.
The earth does not belong to man;
man belongs to the earth.
This we know.
All things are connected
like the blood which unites one family.
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls
the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life,
he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web
he does to himself.
A Celebration of Non-commercial
Radio was produced by Charles
Amirkhanian and engineered by Jim
Bennett and Michael Yoshida.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 L'Chaim with Betsy Lenke.
1:30 Walden's Fond. Animal rights,
ecology, politics, spirituality and
music. Hosted by Shelton Walden.
3:30 Half Rist 3 with Michael G. Late
night/early morning talk radio with
Michael G. Haskins.
Tuesday 5
Election Day
6:00 The Morning Show with Laura
SydeU...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 The Morning Show continues with
reports from the Middle East and
Africa; produced by Sheila Ryan and
2Lenzile Khoisan.
9:30 Third World Gallery. Music with
Chico Alvarez.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Tbd Moone/s Traffic and
Laughter. Produced and adapted by
Piera Paine for the ArtsDepartment.
1:30 Ikhrin Voices of the Arab World.
Musician Mounir Bashir Speaks and
Plays. Host Barbara Nimri Aziz talks
with this leading Arab musician about
Iraqi music and its regional influences;
recorded in Baghdad.
2:00 Frontlines Middle East with
Phyllis Bennis.
3:00 The Loose Groove. The Arts-
Department magazine with views,
reviews, news, muse, you(s), and ticket
^ve-aways, too(s).
4:30 Thlkback! Live call-in radio with
Lynn Samuels.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Econonews with Maarten De Kadt
and Marilyn Neimark.
8^30 AIDS: P^ths to Self-Empower-
ment and Living. Join Bob Lederer,
Betsy Lenke, Nicholas Cimorelli, and
Katrina Haslip for topical, provocative
reports from the world of immune en-
hancement.
9:00 Jazz Sampler with Bill Farrar.
10:00 That Old Time Religion. Bill
Canaday presents a survey of African
First Tuesday:
Countdown '92
Exactly one year before the next
U.S. Presidential election, WBAI's
Public Affairs Department will begin
a monthly examination of the various
candidates seeking the Presidency.
This special series will be heard the
first Tuesday of each month and In-
crease in frequency as the election
approaches. The producers of Be-
hind the News, Where We Live,
Econonews, and AIDS: Paths to Self-
Empowerment and Living will com-
bine their resources to make this a
comprehensive and effective effort.
Produced by Samori Marksman,
Sally O'Brien, Zenzile Khoisan, Maar-
ten De Kadt, Marilyn Neimark, Bob
Lederer, Betsy Lenke, and Nicholas
Cimorelli.
WBAi and the Learning Alliance
present a:
COMEDY NIGHT
BENEFIT
An evening of comedy and satire
with NYC's liottest, funniest sociaily
relevant comics. Our benefit is sure
to hieip you iaugfi througfi tfie eve-
ning as you support tfie Learning
Alliance and WBAI radio.
WBAI Tafkback\ host
Lynn Samuels presents:
• Brett Butler
• Jonathan Solomon
• Scott Blakeman
• Judith Sloan
• Mindfields
Friday November 15
7:45PM
RS.41
West 11th St.
(just west of 6th Ave.)
$10 $15 $25*
^$25 and up partially tax deductible
For information call (212) 226-7171
American and White Gospel music m
the English language from the United
States and the English-speaking
Caribbean.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 Late Night Live Eclectic Radio
with Carletta Joy Walker.
1:30 Weaponry. Tonight's show marks
the begiiming of a two-month special
Weaponry series, East Wind Rain: The
Road to Pearl Harbor. Producers Tom
Wisker and Jim Dingeman will explore
the issues and interpretations concern-
injg the outbreak of the Pacific War
with in-depth analysis of and commen-
tary on the diplomatic, strategic,
miUtary, and intelligence history of the
period. Scholars, appropriate music,
and authentic voices of the period will
be a part of this series airing through
December.
3:30 Punk and Hardcore with Susan
Brown.
Wednesday 6
6:00 The Morning Show with Shelton
Walden...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...the Morning Show continues.
9:30 Ghosts in the Machine: Women in
Pop. The divas of pop, funk, punk, rap,
reggae, and other good-for-your-soul
styles in music, scene reports, and in-
terviews. With host Victoria Starr.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Ufe. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Mooney*s Jhaffic and
Laughter,
1:30 A Positive Mind with Armand
DiMele.
2:30 Foodamour with Bernard Leroy.
Tips on food and food-related sub-
jects, with reviews and interviews.
Illustration by Evelyn Dean
3:00 Foraging with the ""Wildman" with
naturalist "Wildman" Steve BrilL
Beware the Batwoman! Naturalist and
environmental activist Kathleen Ad-
kins, a.k.a. the Batwoman, discusses
her adventures studying our
misunderstood flying mammals,
4:00 Pickney Place. The storytellmg
program produced by Malika Lee
Whitney.
4:30 Ihlkback! Live call-in radio with
Malika Lee Whitney.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind The News. An in-depth
discussion of the da/s events.
7:30 The Cutting Edge: Black News
and Views. Produced by Dred-Scott
Keyes.
8:00 Explorations. Science and peace
issues with Michio Kaku.
9:00 Orr the Hook with Emanuel
Goldstein, our resident techno-punk.
10:00 The Personal Computer Show.
Host, Joe King. Co-hosts, Hank Kec
and David Burstein. Produced in
cooperation with the New York
Amateur Computer Club.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 Earthwatch with Robert Knight
broadcasting from a point directly
above the center of the earth.
1:30 Stay tuned...
3:30 Nightshirt Late night weirdness.
Movies and America with Mike
Sargent and Chris Taylor.
Thursday 7
6:00 The Morning Show with Santiago
Nieves...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...the Morning Show continues.
9:30 Shocking Blue. Music with
Delphine Blue.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's Uterary series
presents Ted Moone/s Traffic and
Laughter.
1:30 This Way Out. The international
magazine for and about the lesbian
and gay community.
2:00 An Afternoon Outing. Larry
Gutenburg claims that the radio drive
in gay broadcasters suggests a biologi-
cal need to spread the words of gay
pride year round. Proof will be
provided on today's outing with Larry.
2:30 Visit New Grimston, Anyway. A
comedy series about how city govern-
ment is run — really. Today's episode:
The Gangs Are Both Here. Brian is
chosen by Neil to speak to an assembly
of two warring street gangs, the Plum
Street Pings and the Warren Street
Whizzes. A ZPPR Production.
3H)0 Art Breaking. Charlie Finch on
the issues, personalities, and deals of
the art world.
4H)0 Back to Basics with host Marcia
McBroom. A talk show for and about
youth and adults who care about our
youth. Produced by the For Our
Children's Sake Foundation.
4^30 Tklkback! Live call-in radio with
Playthell Benjamin.
1 6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News. An in-depth dis-
cussion of the day's events with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Building Bridges: Your Com-
munity Labor Report Produced by
Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg.
8:30 Radio Free Eireann. A show on
Ireland and the Irish Freedom strug-
gle. Produced by Mick Dewan and
John McDonagh.
9:00 New York Collage with Nancy
Rodriguez presenting the best in
Caribbean and Latin music.
10:00 Afrikaleidescope with Elombe
Erath.
IIHM) News Rebroadcast
11:45 Late Night with Paul Mclsaac.
1:30 Live Radio with Bob Fass.
3:30 Live Air— or is it Dead Air?
Anyway, music and live stuff with
partners in crime David Nolan and
Doug Cheesman.
Friday 8
6:00 The Morning Show with Mario
Murillo...
8:00 Undercurrents with Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting.
8:30 ...the Morning Show continues.
9:30 Musical Expressions with
R.B. Isles. This morning's show fea-
tures Fred Cole (Nat's brother).
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
l.-OO Ruby III, A Journey into the
Cosmic and Comic. TTie Clay People.
Mother Kapoor asks Ruby's help in
tracking down her son, Rodant. A
Boatman steers Inanna to the eerie
city of the Clay People. A ZBS
Production.
1*30 Healthst}ies. Current issues in
health care with WBAI's Nursing and
Health Resources Network.
2:30 Altemativa Latina. The
Altemativa Latina Collective brings
you a bilingual program focusing on
the politics, culture, and history of
Latin America.
4:30 Friday Arts Magazine with host
Joseph Hurley. Featuring 77z^ Screening
Room at 5:30 with Paul Wunder.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
7:00 Stay tuned...
8:00 Working Title. Readings
produced by Alina Avila. Tonight's
show features New York poet Patricia
Spears Jones, author of Key of
Permanent Blue and Mythologidng
Always: Seven Sonnets.
8^30 A Moveable Feast. Contemporary
American literature with host Tom
Mtale. Tonight, Joy Harjo reads
poems from Mad Love and War and
talks about poetry, jazz, and the Native
American experience.
9:00 Home Fries, Live radio, comedy,
music, and call-ins with Fred
Herschkowitz.
10:30 Strange Vibrations from the
Hardcore with the Black Rock
Coalition.
Midnight Nightflyte. Music with Chet
Jackson and Bob Bolder. Produced by
Kim Jackson.
3:00 Lightshow. Spotlighting inde-
pendence in and out of the performing
arts, with hosts Frederick GeoBold
and Sheila Hill.
Saturday 9
5:00 Hour of the Wolf. Science fiction,
fantasy, enchantment, and the imagina-
tion. Live radio with Jim Freund.
7:00 As I Please with Simon Loekle.
8:30 Any Saturday. Live radio with
David Rothenberg.
10:30 Lunchpail. Live radio with Paul
Gorman.
Noon Housing Notebook. Housing is-
sues and news with Scott Sommer of
the Metropolitan Council on Housing.
1:00 Piper in the Meadow Straying.
Folk music with Edward Haber.
2:30 Women's Programming. Execu-
tive Producer, Valecia Phillips.
4:00 Hear and Now. Contemporary
sounds with Cynthia Bell and Julie
Lyonn Lieberman.
5:00 Soundtrack with host Paul
Wunder. All about the cinema with
contributors Dr. Joy Browne, Marcia
Pally, and Stuart Klawans.
7:00 The Golden Age of Radio. Vintage
radio with Max Schmid. Electronically
re-channeled to simulate stereo.
The THal of the Catonsville Nine
9:00 The Ti-ial of the Catonsville
Nine. Tonight the players of New
York City's Colony Theatre take part
in this radio adaptation of Dzmiel
Berrigan's play based on the 1960s
trial in Catonsville, Maryland of nine
war resisters who poured napalm on
draft records and set them ablaze. The
nine defendants used this action, their
arrest, and their trial to call attention
to the foreign and domestic policies of
the U.S. government and military.
The Vietnam conflict is behind us—
as are Grenada, Panama, Iraq....The
location changes, but the genocidal
policies remain the same. Produced by
Dred-Scott Keyes and Edward
McMuUan for WBAI radio.
THE ORIGINAL POLITICAL COMIC BOOK OF THE '80s AND '908
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11:00 Radio Unnameable. Live radio
with Bob Fass.
1;00 Labbrish. Live radio with Habte
Selassie.
Sunday 10
5:00 Heresy, where radio sings, cries,
whispers, shouts, and laughs— with a
woman's voice. Fiction, poetry, music,
and current events through a woman's
eyes, hands and mind. With Sharon
Griffiths.
7:00 Martin Sokol's Through the
Opera Glass. Regina Fiorito-Sokol,
Executive Producer. This morning we
salute Isabella Colbran, the
phenomenal soprano for whom Ros-
sini wrote 10 operas.
9130 Here ofa Sunday Morning. Early
music with Chris Whent.
11:30 Hard Work. Live radio with
Mike Feder,
1:00 Con Sabor Latino. Issues and
music from the Latino community,
with Mickey Melendez and Hernando
Alvaricci.
5:30 Latino Journal with Santiago
Nieves.
6:00 The WBAI News, mcluding a
review of the week's stories.
6:30 Ryan's (Only in) New York. Host
Lee Ryan celebrates our favorite city
with the Usual Suspects- Joyce West
and Marie Becker.
7^30 The Gay Show. Join the queerest
show on the radio. Larry Gutenburg,
Bob Storm, Allan Ross, Marie Becker,
and others offer the latest in news,
reviews, and interviews of and with the
gay/lesbian community.
8:30 Emanations. Live radio with the
Emanations Collective -Michael G.
Haskins, Ulysses T. Good, and Theron
Holmes-Clarke— focusing on the
Afric£m American community.
10:30 J Smooth's Underground Rail-
road. J Smooth: HIP HOP Radioac-
tivist/Aural Graffiti Artist/Language
Vandal/Cultural Terrorist... The
Underground Railroad: HIP HOP
Music/HIP HOP Culture/The
NOWSTEP to the '90s.
12:30 News Rebroadcast
1:00 Back of the Book. Pussifica T. Catt
interviews a U.S. Senator who makes
money on the side by selling canned
flatulence. Pope Weaselpenis XVI ex-
plains why he has nominated Porky Pig
for sainthood. In an Op-Ed piece,
Elmer Fudd reveals that Porky is ac-
tually the Anti-Christ. If there's time.
Space Aliens will deliver the people of
earth an ultimatum, otherwise your
host will prattle on about what a mess
his life is. Free Form Live Radio by R.
Paul Martin.
3:00 Everything Old is New Again.
Music of the theater and more, with
host David Kenney.
Monday 11
Veterans Day
6:00 The Morning Show with Rosemari
Mealy...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...The Morning Show continues.
9'3Q The Bemie Fleshkin Show. Rock
n' roll and comedy adventure.
Noon Natural Living. Health and nutri-
tion issues with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Moone/s Trajfic and
Laughter. Performed with members of
the Bad Neighbors Theatre Company
and directed by Phillip Suraci.
Produced and adapted by Piera Paine
for the ArtsDepartment.
1:30 Philippines in Focus. Politics, cul-
ture, art, news, and music by and
about Filipinos in the United States
and in the Motherland. Produced by
Wesley Macawili and Veena Cabreros-
Sud.
BE HAxftR.>DU5. -s YOOB- HEINLTK.
2:00 Veterans Day Special. Join
Weaponry producers Tom Wisker and
Jim Dingeman as they explore the
status of veterans in America today.
There will be readings of fiction, criti-
cal commentary, guests from several
veterans organizations, including
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
( WAW), and of course, all the ap-
immmfm
mimwfjfjixnmi-
propriate music you've come to expect
from Jim and Tom.
4:30 Ihlkback! Live call-in radio with
Malachy McCourt.
6.*00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 World View. Samori Marksman
hosts this national satellite broadcast
looking at international issues.
8:30 Sequoyah. Native American news
and issues from the Public Affairs
Department.
9:00 Soundscapes: Explorations in
Radio, Sound, and Music. Country
Blues Reconsidered. Spend two hours
with host Tom Pomposello and the
great bluesmen of yesteryear— Blind
Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton,
Bukka White, Robert Johnson, Missis-
sippi John Hurt, Skip James, Lightnin'
Hopkins, Reverend Gary Davis, and
more — in this extravaganza of vintage
78RPMs, field recordings, rare inter-
views, and commentary.... The roots of
it all!
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 The Moorish Orthodox Radio
Crusade. Xerox-zines, Sufism, and
other fun for brainiacs with Peter
Lamborn Wilson.
1:30 Late Night Live Radio. Host
Danah Geffen speaks with Chris Griscom
of the Light Institute of Galisteo.
3:30 Mass Backwards. The word of
Satan revealed via host Mad Max.
Tonight, two tales of Eastern Bloc Dys-
topia (in honor of Veterans Day?):
Renaissance Radio's adaptation of
Yevgeny Zamyetin's 1920 Russian
novel WE, which has been called the
handbook of the subjugation of man;
and a WPA Theatre radio version of
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
by Czech playwright Karel Capek.
MADA M'l MADAM!
T\iesday 12
6:00 The Morning Show >^ith Laura
SydeU...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...the Morning Show continues
with reports firom the Middle East and
Africa; produced by Sheila Ryan and
Zenzile Khoisan.
9*30 Third World Gallery. Music with
Chico Alvarez.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Tbd Moone/s Traffic and
Laughter.
130 Tkhrin Voices of the Arab World.
A Children's Arabic School in Brook-
lyn: A Visit. Host Barbara Nimri Aziz
is joined by teachers and children in
this exploration of how Arabic
children are being taught and what
facilities are available in New York to
encourage their Arabic heritage.
2:00 The Alliance Report. Produced in
association with the National Alliance
of Third World Journalists.
3:00 The Loose Groove. The Arts-
Department magazine with views,
reviews, news, muse, you(s), and ticket
give-aways, too(s).
430 Ihlkback! with Lynn Samuels.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
730 Where We Live. Producers Sally
O'Brien and 21enzile Khoisan present
the voices of the disenfranchised and
U.S. political and social issues generally
ignored by the mainstream media.
830 AIDS: VaXhs to Self-Empower-
ment and Living. Join Bob Lederer,
Betsy Lenke, Nicholas Cimorelli, and
Katrina Haslip for topical, provocative
reports from the world of immune en-
hancement.
Mississippi Fred McDowell electrified Delta rhytlims: "I do not play no rock 'n
roll, y'all. Jus' the straight 'n natch'l blue." Featured on Soundscapes with Tom
Pomposello on Monday, November 1 1 at 9:00PM. Photo by Chris Strachwitz.
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IIHH) News Rebroadcast
11:45 Late Night Live Eclectic Radio
with Carletta Joy Walker.
1:30 Weaponry. East Wind Rain: The
Road to Pearl Harbor. Producers Tom
Wisker and Jim Dingeman continue
their exploration of the issues and in-
terpretations concerning the outbreak
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3:30 Monsters from the Id. Punk rock
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Wednesday 13
6:00 The Morning Show with Shelton
Walden...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 .^the Morning Show continues.
9:30 Ghosts in the Machine: Women in
Pop with host Victoria Starr.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Moone/s Thaffic and
Laughter.
1:30 Gray Panther Report with Lydia
Bragger.
2:30 Foodamour with Bernard Leroy.
3:00 Foraging with the '*Wildman" with
naturalist "Wildman" Steve Brill.
Today's episode: Surviving in the
Wilderness. Naturalist Tom Squier
draws on his experiences as a military
survival instructor and his Native
American heritage to explain how
people can use readily available
natural resources intelligently in emer-
gency situations.
4:00 Pickney Place. The storytelling pro-
gram for children and the child in all
of us. Produced by Malika Lee Whitney.
4:30 Ihlkback! with Malika Lee
Whitney.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 The Cutting Edge: Black News
and Views. Produced by Dred-Scott
Keyes.
8:00 Explorations. Science and peace
issues with Michio Kaku.
9:00 Off the Hook with Emanuel
Goldstein, our resident techno-punk.
10:00 The Personal Computer Show.
Host, Joe King. Co-hosts, Hank Kee
and David Burstein.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 Earthvi^tch with Robert Knight
broadcasting from a point directly
above the center of the earth.
1:30 Stay tuned...
3:30 Nightshirt. Late night weirdness.
Movies and America with Mike
Sargent and Chris Taylor.
Thursday 14
6:00 The Morning Show with Santiago
Nieves...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...the Morning Show continues.
9^30 Shocldng Blue. Music with
Delphine Blue.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Moone/s Traffic and
Laughter.
1-30 This Way Out. The international
magazine for and about the lesbian
and gay community.
2:00 An Afternoon Outing. WBAI's
weekly news magazine for and about
the gay and lesbian community, with
host Gon2^o Aburto.
2:30 Guess Who*s Stopping *BAI?
Community radio maven Andrew
Bailey drops in with his manic
monologues and more.
3:00 Art Breaking. Charlie Finch on
the issues, personalities, and deals of
the art world.
4:00 Back to Basics with host Marcia
McBroom. A talk show for and about
youth and adults who care about our
■•I i>Tira inariM
youth. Produced by the For Our
Children's Sake Foundation.
4:30 l^Ikback! with Playthell Benjamin.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Building Bridges: Your
Community Labor Report Produced
by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg.
S:30 Radio Free Eireann with Mick
Dewan and John McDonagh.
9:00 New York Collage with Nancy
Rodriguez presenting the best in
Caribbean and Latin music.
10:00 Latin America and Caribbean
Report News and views from the
hemisphere. Produced by Annette
Walker.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 Late Night with Paul Mclsaac.
1:30 Live Radio with Bob Fass.
3:30 Morning Dew. A program
devoted to the music of the Grateful
Dead. Produced by Lance Neal; sound
by Deyan Ivanovic.
Friday 15
6:00 The Morning Show with Msirio
Murillo...
8:00 Undercurrents with Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting.
8:30 ...the Morning Show continues.
9*30 Musical Expressions. Live from
WBAFs Studio A! Host R.B. Isles
presents The Rob Silverman Trio.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Ruby III, A Journey into the
Cosmic and Comic. The Punishing
Stones. Professor TJ Teru excavates a
sunken city of the Nullians, The Big
Ooze, in sejirch of the "Ultimate
Game." Meanwhile, a paleontologist
escorts Inanna to some talking stones
who make unforgivable puns. A ZBS
Production.
1'30 Stay tuned...
2:30 Alternatlva Latina. The
Alternativa Latina Collective brings
you a bilingual progrzun focusing on
the politics, culture, and history of
Latin America.
4:30 Friday Arts Magazine with host
Joseph Hurley, featuring The Screening
Room at 5:30 with Paul Wunder.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
7:00 Stay tuned...
8:00 Behind the Screens. Movie mat-
ters with Jan Albert.
8:30 A Moveable Feast Contemporary
American literature widi host Tom Vitale.
Tonight, David Gates reads from his first
novel, Jemigan, and talks about mad
protagcmists and Beckett.
9:00 Home Fries. Live radio, comedy,
music, and call-ins with Fred
Herschkowitz.
10:30 Unsung Heroes. Music with
Jordyn Tyson.
Midnight The Midnight Ravers. The
thematic exploration of connections
between African, American, Jamaican,
and Caribbean music with Terry
Wilson, Dro, Ben Mapp, and Dred-
Scott Keyes. Every show is guziranteed
to be a special.
3:00 Lightshow. Spotlighting inde-
pendence in and out of the performing
arts, with hosts Frederick GeoBold
and Sheila Hill.
Saturday 16
5:00 Hour of the Wolf. Science fiction,
fantasy, enchantment, and the imagina-
tion with Jim Freund.
7:00 As I Please with Simon Loekle.
8:30 Any Saturday. Live radio with
David Rothenberg.
10:30 Lunchpail. Live radio with
Paul Gorman.
Noon Housing Notebook. Housing is-
sues and news with Scott Sommer.
1:00 Piper in the Meadow Straying.
Folk music with Edward Haber.
2:30 Women's Programming with
Safiya Bandele.
4:00 Hear and Now. Contemporary
sounds with Cynthia Bell and Julie
Lyonn Lieberman.
5:00 Soundtrack with host Paul
Wunder. All about the cinema with
contributors Dr. Joy Browne, Marcia
Pally, and Stuart Klawans.
7:00 The Golden Age of Radio. Vintage
radio with Max Schmid. Colorized.
9:00 World Music Special
11:00 Radio Unnameable. Liye radio
with Bob Fass.
1:00 Labbrish. Live radio with Habte
Selassie.
Sunday 17
5:00 Heresy, where radio sings, cries,
whispers, shouts, and laughs— with a
woman's voice. Fiction, poetry, music,
and current events through a woman's
eyes, hands and mind. With Sharon
Griffiths.
7:00 Martin SokoPs Through the
Opera Glass. Regina Fiorito-Sokol,
Executive Producer. Manya's favorites.
9:30 Here ofa Sunday Morning. Early
music with Chris Whent.
11:30 Hard Work. Live radio with
Mike Feder.
1:00 Con Sabor Latino. Issues and
music from the Latino community,
with Mickey Melendez and Hernando
Alv£U"icci.
5:30 Latino Journal with Santiago
Nieves.
6:00 The WBAI News, including a
review of the week's stories.
6-30 Ryan's (Only in) New York. Host
Lee Ryan celebrates our favorite city
with the Usual Suspects— Joyce West
and Marie Becker.
7-30 Outlooks. "Dish Radio" Magazine
Special. Join Gary Lacinski and Liz
Gewirtz as they host the "Dish Radio"
magazine special— live! Segments in-
clude a debut of a lesbian soap opera,
the director of GMHC talking about
the upcoming Dance-A-Thon, gay
holiday shopping, and more!
8*30 Emanations. Live radio with the
Emanations Collective — Michael G.
Haskins, Ulysses T. Good, and Theron
Patrick O'ConneJI and Elizabeth McGovem in a SoundPiay production of In-
geborg Bachmann's radio drama, The Good God of Manhattan. Monday October
1 8th at 9:00PM on Soundscapes.
Holmes-Clarke — focusing on the
African American community.
10:30 The Creative Unitj' Collective
Show. We must apologize for the out-
burst in the Folio copy of November
3rcL We've been under a lot of pres-
sure lately, and, well, /know, some-
times you say things you don't really
mean. We apologize to all parties
concerned for our unprofessional be-
havior. The Creative Unity Collective
recognizes the need for prompt receiv-
ing oi Folio copy. Sorry. Oh yeah, lis-
ten. Stereo, 2 hrs,
12:30 News Rebroadcast
Noon Natural Lining. Health and nutri-
tion issues with Gary Null
1H)0 Shelf Life. W^AI's literary series
presents Ted Moone/s Traffic and
LMU^ter. Performed with members of
the Bad Neighbors Theatre Company
and directed by Phillip Suraci.
Produced and adapted by Piera Paine
for the ArtsDepartmenL
1:30 Philippines in Focus. Produced by
Weslev Macawili £ind Veena Cabreros-
Sud '
2:00 Haitian Perspectives with J.
Raynald Louis.
IHW Carrier Wave with Sidney Smith. 3:00 Stav tuned..
3H)0 Everything Old Is New Again.
Music of the theater and more, with
host David Kenney.
Monday 18
fen IW Moming Show with Rosemari
Mealy...
8K)0 Undercurrents
8:30 ..Jhe Moming Show continues.
9J0 All Mixed Up with Peter Bochan.
4K)0 Conversation in the Arts.
Producer Lee Lowenfish presents
mo\ie score composer and jazz great
Johnny MandeL
4:30 Talkback! Live call-in radio with
Malachy McCourt.
feOO The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7*30 World View. Samori Marksman
hosts this national satellite broadcast
looking at international issues.
SJO Sequoyah. Native American news
and issues from the PubUc Affairs
Department.
9:00 Soundscapes: Explorations in
Radio, Sound, and Music with
Andrew Phillips. The Sound-
Play/Horspiel Series of radio drama
continues with Ingeborg Bachmann's
The Good God of Manhattan. At first,
the accidental meeting of Jan and
Jennifer in Grand Central station
seems banal. But after a one-night
stand in a cheap hotel, their love affair
becomes more passionate and all-con-
suming. They move to higher and
higher floors in the hotel trying to find
a language and resfxjnse to the inten-
sity of their love. Bachmann's play is a
painful examination of the relationship
between women and men and challen-
ges the audience to ask whether ideals
still make sense in a "practical" world,
whether they are still possible in a
world that sanctifies war, exploitation
and murder.
Directed by Carey Perloff and trans-
lated and produced by Faith Wilding,
this play features Elizabeth McGovem
and Patrick O'Connell, with music by
Elizabeth Swados.
IIHX) News Rebroadcast
11:45 L'Chaim with Betsy Lenke.
1:30 Wal den's Pond. Animal rights,
ecology, politics, spirituality and
music. Hosted by Shelton Walden.
3:30 Half Past 3 with Michael a Late
night'early morning talk radio with
Michael G. Haskins.
Tbesday 19
6KX) The Moming Show with Laura
SydeU...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 .~tbe Moming Show continues
with reports from the Middle East and
Africa; produced by SheUa Ryan and
Zenzile Khoisan.
9-JO Third Worid Caller); Music with
Chico AK'arez.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Moone/s Traffic and
LMughter.
1:30 Tkhrir. Voices of the Arab Worid.
Jerusalem. This afteraoon's show
begins a series of programs focusing
on cities of the Arab world. Host
Barbara Nimri Aziz presents songs
and poetry which capture the city's his-
tory and culture, and residents talk
about the intimacies of living and
growing up in Jerusalem's neighbor-
hoods.
2HX) Frontlines Middle East with
Phyllis Bennis.
3KX) Live from The Public Theater
Feeling Good Forever. Arthur T.
Wilson's play, Feeling Good Forever,
is designed to promote communica-
tion on AIDS prevention. It addres-
ses issues concerning abstinence,
condoms, risky sexual behavior, and
drug abuse, while highlighting peer
pressure, self-esteem, and the open
dialogue necessary between parent
and child through humor and a
devil's advocacy point of view.
General health information will be
presented in thought-provoking seg-
ments that reveal the three faces of
AIDS: HIV, ARC, and full blown
AIDS. To reserve a seat at the Public
Theater (no admission charge), call
(212) 598-7185. But if you can't be
there, tune in!
4:30 Tklkback! with Lynn Samuels.
6.-00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7HN) Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Ex:ononews with Maarten De Kadt
and Marilyn Neimark.
8:30 AIDS: Paths to Self-Empower-
ment and Living. Join Bob Lederer,
Betsy Lenke, Nicholas Cimorelli, and
Katrina Haslip for topical, provocative
reports from the world of immune
enhancement.
9:00 Jazz Sampler Special with Bill
Farrar.
ll.-OO News Rebroadcast
11:45 Late Night Live Eclectic Radio
with Carletta Joy Walker.
1:30 Weaponry. East Wind Rain: The
Road to Pearl Harbor. Produced by
Tom Wisker and Jim Dingeman.
3^30 Punk and Hardcore with Susan
Brown.
Wednesday 20 Thursday 21
6:00 The Morning Show with Shelton
Walden...
8,-00 Undercurrents
8:30 «.the Morning Show continues.
9--30 Ghosts in the Machine: Women in
Pop with host Victoria Starr.
Noon Natural Living with Gary NulL
1:00 Shelf Life, WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Moone/s Traffic and
Lmi^ter.
1:30 A Positive Mind with Armand
DiMele.
2:30 Foodamour with Bernard Leroy.
3:00 Cycling and Recycling. A
forum on New York City
grassroots ecological activism
with Carl Hultberg of the Village
Green Recycling Team and
Charlie Komanoff of
Transportation Alternatives.
4H)0 Pickney Place. The storytelling
program produced by Malika Lee
Whitney.
4i30 lalkback! with Malika Lee Whimey.
6,-00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7HX) Behind The News with Samori
Marksman.
I'M The Cutting Edge: Black News
and Views with Dred-Scott Keyes,
8:00 Explorations, Science and peace
issues with Michio Kaku,
9:D0 Off the Hook with Emanuel
Goldstein, our resident techno-punk.
10:00 The Personal Computer Show.
Host, Joe King. Co-hosts, Hank Kec
and Da\id Burstein.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 Earthw^tch with Robert KnighL
1-30 Staytuned.„
3:30 NightshifL Late night weirdness.
Movies and America with Mike
Sargent and Chris Taylor.
6HX) The Morning Show with Santiago
Nieves...
8K)0 Undercurrents
8:30 .„the Morning Show contiflnes.
9-30 Shocking Bloc. Mnsicwidi
Delphine Blue.
Media Network
and th€ Hunter College
Department of
Communications Present:
Repackaging
Paradise:
Media Strategies For
A New Worid
November 23 and 24
at Hunter College
RePadcaging Paradise will view the
upoNning quincentennial celebration
as the latest in a long series of media
miarepresefitations of "America." It
wil emphasize the multiplicity of
voices that are redefining America by
creating thdr own medu images. The
CDTifererKewilf fieature panels;
workshops and saeenings.
bell hooks
Keynote address
Other speakers will include
producers Richard Fung, Jackie
Shearer, Elia Suleiman and Ela
Troyano; Peggy Berryhill (Radio
Smithsonian); Tomas
Ybarra-Frausto (The Rockefeller
Foundation); actress Danitra
Vance; and journalist Robert Allen
Warrior.
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The Guns of November
Midnight on Thursday November 21st
WBAI marks the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the assassination of John F.
Kennedy with our Thursday late night and Friday early morning producers
examining the question, "Who killed JFK?" Were George Bush and Richard Nixon
in Dallas on that fateful day? Tune in as we try to answer these and other questions.
Produced by the Public Affairs Department; with Paul Mclsaac, Bob Pass, David
Nolan, Doug Cheesman, Samori Marksman, and Mario Murillo.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Mooney's Traffic and
Laughter.
1:30 This Way Out The international
lesbian and gay magazine.
2:00 An Afternoon Outing. Larry
Gutenburg claims that the radio drive
in gay bro£idcasters suggests a biologi-
cal need to spread the words of gay
pride year round. Proof will be
provided on today's outing with Larry.
2:30 Conversation in the Arts. Kathleen
Mock is a folk musician who has per-
formed at CBGB's, Beowolf, and Sine.
Her music expresses daring themes;
her voice is beautiful both in timbre
and resonance of truth. T\ine in for
your heart, mind, and soul. Produced
by Floraine Kay.
3:00 Art Breaking with Charlie Finch.
4:00 Back to Basics with host Marda
McBroom. Produced by the For Our
Children's Sake Foundation.
4*30 Tklkback! with PlaythcU Benjamin.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind The News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Building Bridges: Your
Community Labor Report Produced
by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash.
8:30 Radio Free Eireann with Mick
Dewan and John McDonagh.
9:00 New York Collage. The best
Caribbean and Latin music with host
Nancy Rodriguez.
10:00 Afrikaleidescope with Elombe
Brath.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
12:00 The Guns of November (see box)
Friday 22
6:00 The Morning Show. Host Mario
Murillo continues our look at "Who
kiUed JFK?"
8:00 Undercurrents with Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting.
8:30 ...the Morning Show continues.
9:30 Musical Expressions. HostR.B.
Isles features Kenny Barron.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Ruby III, A Journey into the
Cosmic and Comic. The Gate of
Temptation. Professor Tbru and Ruby
enter the Nullians' Grand Chamber
only to find the "Ultimate Game"
stolen. And defying a terrifying war-
rior, Inanna miraculously passes
through the Gate of Temptation. A
ZBS Production.
1:30 Healthstyles. Ciu-rent issues in
health care with WBAI's Nursing and
Health Resources Network.
2:30 Altemativa Latina. The bilingual
program focusing on the politics, cul-
ture, and history of Latin America.
4:30 Friday Arts Magazine with host
Joseph Hurley. Featuring The Screening
Room at 5:30 with Paul Wunder.
6.-00 The WBAI Evening News
7K)0 Staytuned^
i8.*00 Working Title. Readings
produced by Alina Avila. This
evening's show features an excerpt
from Geoffrey Fox's novel about two
women revolutionaries in Latin
America, Welcome to My Contri.
8:30 A Moveable Feast. Contemporary
American literature with host Tom
Vitale. Tonight, Mary McGarry Morris
reads fromyl Dangerous Woman and
talks about creating emotionally dis-
turbed heroes.
9H)0 Home Fries. Live radio, comedy,
music, and call-ins with Fred
Herschkowitz.
10:30 Strange Vibrations from the
Hardcore with the Black Rode Coalition.
Midnight Nightflyte. Music with Chet
Jackson and Bob Bolder. Produced by
Kim Jackson.
3H)0 Lightshow with hosts Frederick
GeoBold and Sheila Hill.
Saturday 23
5:00 Hour of the Wolf. Science fiction
and fantasy with Jim Freund.
7:00 As I Please with Simon Loekle.
8:30 Any Saturday. Live radio with
David Rothenberg.
10:30 Lunchpail. Live radio with
Paul Gorman.
Noon Disabled in Action Speaks. Deirf
Issues, Deaf Rights. Novelist/disability
rights activist Jean Stewart, whose hus-
band is Deaf, will host the second of
this two-part series. Her guests
include writer Judith Treesberg and
South African Deaf activist Lindsay
Dunn. TVeesberg, whose powerful jour-
nalism has appeared in TTie Nation
and elsewhere, edits The Bicultural
Center News and is the mother of a
Deaf daughter, Dunn is President of
Black Deaf Advocates. Join three out-
spoken Deaf rights champions in a
freewheeling discussion of cultural
oppression of Deaf people by the
dominant hearing culture, police
brutality against Deaf people, racism,
and other pressing concerns to the
Deaf community.
IKM) Piper in the Meadow Straying.
Folk music with Edward Haber.
2:30 Women's Programming. Executive
Producer, Susan Heske.
4:00 Hear and Now. Contemporary
sounds with Cynthia Bell and Julie
Lyonn Lieberman.
5:00 Soundtrack with host Paul
Wunder. All about the cinema with
contributors Dr. Joy Browne, Marcia
Pally, and Stuart Klawans.
7:00 The Golden Age of Radio. Vintage
radio with Max Schmid. DigitzJly trans-
ferred from original wire recordings.
Evangelline playwright Sarah Miller.
9:00 Evangeline. "He had a wild look
in his eye, like a fire fl/d got caught
in his head or something..." Evan-
geline is an evocative play by Sarah
Miller, directed by Robert Brush,
with music by Gary Helm, and
, produced by Vision Quest Produc-
tions. Tonight's program was
recorded in performance at CB's
Gallery on the Bowery and includes
an interview with the playwright and
director by WBAI host. Sue Renee
Bernstein.
11:00 Radio Unnameable. Live radio
with Bob Fass.
1:00 Labbrish. Live radio with Habte
Selassie.
Please -pay your
pledge!
Sunday 24
5:00 Maya Motion. With the elements
of music, conversation, speeches, and
street sound, this early morning am-
biance will set the tone for listeners to
meditate on a few of the ideas holding
concern in today's world. Produced by
Paul Ruest/Argot Network.
7:00 Martin Sokol's Through the
Opera Glass. Regina Fiorito-Sokol,
Executive Producer. Michael Scarola
samples some of the Met's more
recent complete recordings of works
by Wagner, Donizetti, and Verdi.
9^30 Here of a Sunday Morning. Early
music with Chris Whent.
11:30 Hard Work. Live radio with
Mike Feder.
1:00 Con Sabor Latino. Issues and
music from the Latino community,
with Mickey Melendez and Hernando
Alvaricci.
5:30 Latino Journal with Santiago
Nieves.
6:00 The WBAI News, including a
review of the week's stories.
6:30 Ryan's (Only in) New York. Host
Lee Ryan celebrates om favorite city
with the Usual Suspects— Joyce West
and Marie Becker.
7i30 The Gay Show. Join the queerest
show on the radio. Larry Gutenburg,
Bob Storm, Allan Ross, Marie Becker,
and others offer the latest in news,
reviews, and interviews of and with the
gay/lesbian community.
8:30 Emanations. Live radio with the
Emanations Collective— Michael G.
Haskins, Ulysses T. Good, and Theron
Holmes-Clarke- focusing on the
African American community.
10:30 J Smooth's Underground
Railroad. TWo hours of HIP HOP
music and culture from J Smooth, the
original HIP HOP radio activist and
critically acclaimed aural graffiti artist.
12:30 News Rebroadcast
1:00 Back of the Book. He's short, he's
fat, he's ugly, he's consistently im-
pecunious, he lacks ambition, he's a
slob, he's horny, he's your host. From a
distance he sees her: the butch woman
on the subway. Six feet tall, bicycle
Composer Burton Lane Is featured on Out There on Their Own with Joseph
Hurley. Tuesday, November 26th at 10:00PM.
shorts, short hair, hairy armpits and a
down of hair on her legs, unshaven for
who knows how long. She wore a
scowl. Can this crush be saved? In a
culinary segment. Hector and Anvil
find that this year's turkey crop is miss-
ing the part where the pinfeathers
were supposed to go. Itchy T. Echidna
covers the promotion of the new
"McBirdButt" sandwich. Free Form
Live Radio by R. Paul Martin.
3:00 Everything Old is New Again.
Music of the theater and more, with
host David Kenney.
Monday 25
6:00 The Morning Show with Rosemari
Mealy...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...The Morning Show continues.
9-30 All Mixed Up with Peter Bochan.
Noon Natural Living. Health and nutri-
tion issues with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Mooney's Traffic and
Laughter. Performed with members of
the Bad Neighbors Theatre Company
and directed by Phillip Suraci.
Produced and adapted by Piera Paine
for the ArtsDepartment.
1^30 Philippines in Focus. Produced by
Wesley Macawili and Veena Cabreros-
Sud.
2:00 Human Rights in America. Dis-
cussions with Lloyd D'Aguilar and Joy
James.
3:00 City in Crisis: An Environmental
Roundtable. Producer Evelyn 1\illy
Costa and guests examine the city's
many environmental problems and dis-
cuss £dternatives to our current course.
4:00 Conversations in the Arts. Dardne
Thomas talks with African
Griot/musician Abdou Rahman
Mangary.
4^30 Ihlkback! Live call-in radio with
Malachy McCourt.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 World View. Samori Marksman
hosts this national satellite broadcast
looking at international issues.
8*J0 Sequoyah. Native American news
and issues from the PubUc Affairs
Department.
9:00 Soundscapes: Explorations in
Radio, Sound, and Music presents
Distal Audio Broadcasting, Part I.
Tonight's show is an investigation of
digital audio broadcasting (DAB) —
it's already here and soon it will
change the way you hear the world.
DAB, audio distributed by satellite,
means you could tune to WBAI on
your car radio in New York and drive
to California listening to BAI all the
way (if you actually wanted to do
that!). But will this actually happen?
Probably not. How will digital radio
alter what we hear? Radio sound will
be "CD sound" for a start. And the an-
noying reception loss we experience
because of "shadowing" and "multi-
pathing" will be eliminated. What will
it do to FM and AM radio? What will
happen to non-commercial radio?
Produced by Jake Glanz.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 The Moorish Orthodox Radio
Crusade. Xerox-zines, Sufism, and
other fun for brainiacs with Peter
Lamborn Wdson.
1:30 Late Night Live Radio with Danah
Geffen.
3:30 Mass Backwards. The word of
Satan revealed via host Mad Max.
AMANAP, LANAC A, NALP A,
NAM A!
T\iesday 26
6:00 The Morning Show with Laura
Sydell...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...The Morning Show continues.
9:30 Third World Gallery. Music with
Chico Alvarez.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Mooney's Trcj^^c and
Laughter.
1'3Q Thhrin Voices of the Arab World.
Water Use and Drainage from the West
Bank. Water expert Dr. Kamal Abdul
Fattah, a professor at Bir 2Leit Univer-
sity, speaks with host Barbara Nimri
Aziz about water needs and the politi-
cal implications of the region's
developing water crisis.
2:00 The Alliance Report. Produced in
association with the National AUiance
of Third World Journalists.
3:00 The Loose Groove. The Arts-
Department magazine with views,
reviews, news, muse, you(s), and ticket
^ve-aways, too(s).
4:30 l^lkback! with Lynn Samuels.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Where We Uve. Producers Sally
O'Brien and Zenzile Khoisan present
the voices of the disenfranchised and
U.S. political and social issues generally
ignored by the mainstream media.
8:30 AIDS: Plaths to Self-Empower-
ment and Living. Join Bob Lederer,
Betsy Lenke, Nicholas Cimorelli, and
Katrina Haslip for topical, provocative
reports from the world of immune en-
hancement.
9:00 Stolen Moments. Jazz with
Mahmoud Ibrahim.
10:00 Out There on Their Own: Burton
Lane. Composer Burton Lane has
had one of the longest and most il-
lustrious careers in the history of
Broadway and Hollywood. In his over
five decades in the business, he has wit-
nessed the rise and fall of the movie
musical and significant changes on
Broadway. Lane has worked with
great collaborators ranging from Alan
Jay Lerner to E.Y. "Yip" Harburg to
Fred Astaire, and he has composed
the music for Broadway shows includ-
ing Fm/an'j Rainbow and On a Clear
Day You Can See Forever, and movies
such as Royal Wedding. Tbne in tonight
as the comj)oser comes to Out There
on Their Own to talk about his life and
his music. WBAJ's long-running series
of theatrical profiles is produced and
hosted by Joseph Hurley, with en-
gineermg by Paul Ruest and George
Wellington.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 Late Night live Eclectic Radio
>^ith Carletta Joy Walker.
1:30 Weaponry. East Wind Rain: The
Road to Pearl Harbor. Produced by
Tom Wisker and Jim Dingeman.
3:30 Monsters from the Id. Pimk rock
from the dark side of your brain, with
Ed Banger and Sue Real.
Wednesday 27
6:00 The Morning Show with Shelton
Walden...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...The Morning Show continues.
9:30 Ghosts in the Machine: Women in
Pop with host Victoria Starr.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
im Shelf Life. WBAI's literary series
presents Ted Moone/s Traffic and
Laughter.
1'30 Gray I^nther Report with Lydia
Bragger.
2:30 Foodamour with Bernard Leroy.
3.*00 Seventh Inning Stretch. Today's
sports hour highlights baseball's Hot
Stove League; with Lee Lowenfish.
4:00 Pickney Place. The storytelling pro-
gram for children and the child in all
of us. Produced by Malika Lee Whitney.
4:30 Iklkback! with Malika Lee
Whitney.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Voodoo Dread: IWelve Hours of
Jimi Hendrix (see box)
Thursday 28
Thanksgiving Day
6:00 Hie Morning Show with Santiago
Nieves...
8:00 Undercurrents
8:30 ...The Morning Show continues.
9:30 Shocking Blue. Music with
Delphine Blue.
Noon Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Arts Department Thanksgiving
Day Special
1:30 This Way Out. The international
magazine for and about the lesbian
and gay community.
2:00 An Afternoon Outing. WBAI's
weekly news magazine for and about
the gay and lesbian community, with
host Gonzalo Aburto.
2:30 A Thanksgiving Day Special. As
most "Americans" sit down to turkey
and stuffing dinners in celebration of
Thanksgiving, this country's in-
November 27-28
7:30PM - 6;00AM
The awesome talent that
traversed our earth to our
eternal pleasure and benefit,
Jimi Hendrix, will be the
object of our attention on
the 49th anniversary of his
advent. Join Lance Neal,
Roxanne Whitaker, and
Habte Selassie for an ex-
ploration with author David
Henderson and others.
Naturally, Hendrix will be
there. l\ine in and enjoy
with us for twelve uninter-
rupted hours, Jimi Hendrix—
^^Voodoo Dread,
Jimi
NOVEMBER 27, 1942 - SEPTEMBER 18, 1970
HENDRIX
The Great National Debate on
^Multiculturalism'
Saturday November 30th 8:30AM-6:00PM
Against the backdrop of a variety of studies showing that the U.S.' non-European
population will outnumber its European — or white — one by the early 21st century, a
heated debate is ra^g across the United States of America over what is to be
taught — and who should teach it — in our institutions of learning. Words and phrases
such as "multiculturalism," "Afrocentricity," "people of color," and "curriculum of
inclusion" have all become household concepts in the daily discourse.
T\me in as WBAI presents a 9-hour special on this all-important issue which brings
together leading scholars and education activists for discussion, debate, and analysis
of the relevant issues.
Among the guests will be historians Howard Zinn, PhiUp Foner, Gerald Home, Dr.
Molefe Asante, Leonard Jeffries, Josef Ben Jochannan, Jan Carew, Francis
Fitzgerald, Blanche Wiesen Cook, and others. The program will also feature Native
American and Asian spokespersons on a variety of issues relevant to the topic, along
with WBAI producers Rosalba Rolan, Sandra Rodriguez, Annette Walker and Ed
Haber. Produced by Samori Marksman. (Illustration by Renee Curran.)
digenous cultures have little to
celebrate, seemg the holiday as an in-
sult to their culture and identities.
Time in this afternoon as Native
American, and other, activists and
scholars share their views of the
hoUday, along with discussions of is-
sues of concern to Native Americans.
Featured will be Ingrid Washinanook
of the American Indian Movement
(AIM), Ward Churchill, author of
Agents of Repression, WBAI news
reporter Mdcolm Howard on the
James Bay dispute, and others.
Produced by the Public Affairs
Department.
6:00 The WBAI Evening News
6:45 Undercurrents Highlights
7:00 Behind the News with Samori
Marksman.
7:30 Building Bridges: Your
Community Labor Report Produced
by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg,
8:30 Radio Free Eireann with Mick
Dewan and John McDonagh.
9:00 Revolutionary Rhythms with
WBAI's resident ethnomusicologist,
Neva Wartell.
10:00 Latin America and Caribbean
Report with Annette Walker.
11:00 News Rebroadcast
11:45 Late Night with Paul Mclsaac.
1^30 Live Radio with Bob Fass.
3:30 Morning Dew. A program
devoted to the music of the Grateful
Dead. Produced by Lance Neal; sound
by Deyan Ivanovic.
Friday 29
6:00 The Morning Show with Mario
Murillo...
8:00 Undercurrents with Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting.
8:30 Report to the Listener
9^30 Musical Expressions with R.B.
Isles.
Noota Natural Living with Gary Null.
1:00 Ruby III, A Journey into the
Cosmic and Comic. The Rise and Fall
of Rodant Kapoor. While Kapoor and
his family are shopping in Magnifico,
he hears the voice of Zumzammim, the
Dark Force, which promises him the
Secret Knowledge. A ZBS Production.
1'3Q Crafts Fair Goes Silver. Starting
next week, the WBAI Holiday Crafts
Fair marks its 20th anniversary. This
small community event has grown into
the oldest and largest wmter crafts
show in the United States. To begin
our celebrations, WBAI producer
Peter Schmideg presents a special half-
hour documentary tracing the fair's
history, featuring Crafts Fair Director
Matt Alperin, past and present artists,
and surprise guests.
2H)0 Stay tuned...
2:30 Altemativa Latina. The
Alteraativa Latina Collective brings
you a bilingual program focusing on
the politics, culture, and history of
Latin America.
4:30 Friday Arts Magazine with host
Joseph Hurley, featuring TTie Screening
Room at 5:30 with Paul Wunder.
6.-00 The WBAI Evening News
7K)0 Stoytuned^
8.-00 Behind the Screens. Movie mat-
ters with Jan Albert.
8:30 A Moveable Feast with host Tom
Vitale. Tonight, Michael Chabon reads
from his collection of stories, A Model
World, and talks about models in fictim
and in life.
9:00 Home Fries. Live radio, comedy,
music, and call-ins with Fred
Herschkowitz.
10:30 Unsung Heroes. Music with
Jordyn Tyson.
Midnight The Midnight Ravers. The
thematic exploration of connections
between African, American, Jamaican,
and Caribbean music with Terry
Wilson, Dro, Ben Mapp, and Dred-
Scott Keyes.
3K)0 Lightshow. Spotlighting inde-
pendence in and out of the performing
arts, with hosts Frederick GeoBold
and Sheila Hill.
Saturday 30
5:00 Hour of the Wolf. Science fiction
and fantasy with Jim Freund.
7:00 As I Please with Simon Loekle.
8:30 The Great National Debate on
"Multiculturalism" (see box)
6:00 Soundtrack with host Paul
Wunder. All about the cinema with
contributors Dr. Joy Browne, Marda
Pally, and Stuart Klawans.
7:00 The Golden Age of Radio. Vintage
radio with Max Schmid. World AIDS
Day covercige begins.
9:00 Live from the Nuyorican Poets*
Cafe! "A Day Without Art" special
program from New York's Loisaida.
11:00 Radio Unnameable. Live radio
with Bob Fass.
1:00 Labbrish. Live radio with Habte
Selassie.
World AIDS Day
November 30th at
7:00PM
through
Mmmm;
WBAI radio will join the Worid Health
Organization, Visual AIDS, Red Hot
and Blue, ACT UR and others in the
worldwide effort dedicated to increas-
ing awareness of the issues and ques-
tions related to prevention, education,
and governmental and individual
responses to AIDS.
The United Nations' Worid Health
Organization chose one day for re-
searchers and activists to air and
share information. The arts
community's Visual AIDS developed
"A Day Without Art" to remember and
respond.
Here on WBAI, we will participate by
presenting art and information not
available in other media -from old-
time radio to storytelling to opera -
and by adding unique perspectives to
what information is already out there.
We'll also feature, from 9:00-1 1 :00PM,
a live broadcast from the Nuyorican
Poets' Cafe. We will continue our AIDS
awareness programming with our
regular Sunday producers throughout
December 1 st.
Mark your calendars -and listen for
more information. Coordinated by
Betsy Lenke.
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WBAI Local Board Meeting
November 21 8t
6:30PM at:
WBAI
505 Eighth Ave. (at 35th St.)
Open meeting -all welcome!
Cover credits:
Photo by
Marie Masciovecchio.
Typesetting by
219 Type.
In the Real World...
Phyllis Bennis {Frontlines Middle East on alternate
Tuesday afternoons) is a regular contributor to The
Amsterdam News. She is also editor of a new anthology,
A Gulf Crisis Reader (Interlink Publishing, Brooklyn), in
which she has a chapter, "False Consensus: George
Bush's United Nations." Laura Flanders also has a
chapter in the book, "Media Mind Games and The War,"
which analyzes U.S. press coverage of the Gulf crisis. In
September, Laura said a sad goodbye to Undercurrents y
where she was Senior Producer. She then went off to
Washington, D.C. to co-host the Robert Gates
Confirmation Hearings. This month she will attend the
Journalists for Peace Conference in Helsinki^ where she'll
represent Pacifica Radio and Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR) .... Sandra Rodriguez manages and
sings with Mario Bauza's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra.
Rosalba Rolon is Executive Director of PREGONES
Theater in the Bronx. They are co-producers of the
Women: Love, Song, and Struggle editions of the
Saturday afternoon women's programming slot .... On
Tuesday, November 12, during National Children's Book
Week, Malika Lee Whitney and the Pickney Players will
perform in a program entitled "Songololo!" which features
African, Caribbean, and African American stories with
music. Catch it at the Countee Cullen Library, 103rd St.
and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. Malika will also participate
in the annual gathering of the National Association of
Black Storytellers in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina . . . .
Scott Sommer {Housing Notebook) is the new president of
the Legal Services Staff Association, District 65AJAW.
That's the local that was on strike for 16 weeks from April
to July. Scott was the strike coordinator. They won! . . . .
Shelton Walden (Walden's Pond and the Wednesday
Morning Show) was a participant
People of Color Environmental
Washington, D.C. in late October . . ,
luck to Patrice Comninel, the
Coordinator since May 1989, and
in the First Annual
Conference held in
. Good-bye and good
station's Volunteer
to Jennifer Bernet,
Operations Director and long-time producer, who is
expecting a child in November.
Compiled by Annette Walker
Producer
WBAI traveled to Jersey Qty in September to play softball with the Renegades, a team sponsored by ACT-UP/NY, From left to right: Jose Santiago,
Tom Vitale, Anthony Sloan, Michael Laing (a friend of Creative Unity's Yusuf Lamont), Betsy Lenke, and Monica DeFeo. The next game will be in New
York in the spring -all are welcome, so stay tuned for details.
To the Editors representing the WBAI
community:
A vitriolic letter against me was publtshecl
in the October Foiio. It is curious that the one
letter you chose to print is so out of syrx: with
the overwhelmingly favorable resporwe to my
16 August 1991 1-hour broadcast 'Bush's Boy
in the Kremlin -Mikhail Gorbachev's Sys-
ten^tic Sabotage and Destruction of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics."
Of the 74 letters that have reached me from
WBAI listeners, I opened 46, every one of the
46 compliment nrty presentation....
The WBAI top management is apparently
embarrassed by my event-proven correctness
and its own irresponsibility during the political
cataclysm of the past years. Its prior official
analyst on the Soviet realm is so acceptable to
the New World Order as to be inviteUe onto
MacNeil/Lehrer. Its meager attention to the
Bush/Gorbachev/Yeltsin coup has tieen almoet
exclusively reactive to, not anticipatory of same,
generally in step with ttie media herd. Too often
...when Ted Koppel has not been interested,
WBAI has not been interested. And connections
have not been explained....
Very ti^uly yours, Stephen Wohl
Mechanical engineer
Inventor
Ardent anti-fascist
Rockaway Beach, NY
Dear WBAI,
Enck>sed is a check in response to your
current marathon and the inaeditsle volume of
information, induding the Thomas hearings.
Gates hearings, and the link between Inslaw,
lrar>-Contra, October Surprise, eto.
I had to use VCR tepes, recorcSng in simul-
cast nrxxle, to record your broadcasts, because
120-minute audio cassettes arent bng enough.
Also, I hope to be around (alive) tong
erwugh to see the Inslaw case made fully public
and fully exposed. That may only be possible if
reporters don't keep notes, but send diaries,
eto. to a distant connputer, probably by modem.
Please, stay safe while you investigate this
story.
Bruce R.
Bayside, NY
Dear WBAI,
This is all I can afford. I was thrilled when
the new transmitter went on Saturday night
You're coming in loud and clear -hooray!
Again, thanks for providing a forum for urv
signed artists like myself to be heardi
Sincerely,
SandaA.
New York City
W
BAI:
am subsaibing because your alternative
perspective news and feature coverage should
continue.
The Thomas hearings and report on the
Trench" abortion drug, which I listened to in my
car from work, are excellent examples.
But please, some of your people should
tone down their overpolarized generalizations
about groups.
By resorting to extrenne and stereotypical
remarks, they promote the very kind of behavior
they purport to be against. ..Biut-
Good Luck
A listener
Dear Fred GeoBold,
Just a note to say thank you!" very much
for inviting me to be a guest on Lightshow on
September 20th — I enjoyed the experience and
kx)k forward to future broadcasts and possible
'Lightshow Live" gigs shoukj you start those up
again.
Sincerely,
Jan Corliss
New Jersey
Dear Chet:
We tiie brottiers at C-95, 17 Lower, on
Rikers Island are avid listeners to your Nightflyte
program and are very glad that you are keeping
a very special part of the past alive. However, I
wish very much that your show could be ex-
tended. Perhaps support from your lister)ers is
very important in keeping the linnited time tiiat
you do have, and I hope and truly believe tiiat
you get the donations that are needed in keep-
ing WBAI's Nightflyte alive and all other broad-
casts that are instrumental to the Black
Awareness Conscience and community in
keeping our heritage alive in Black news.
So keep up the good work Chet and to the
people - support and keep all segments of
WBAI-FM alive, please! That you very nrxjch.
Yours truly in tiie sti-uggle.
Buteh K.C. & tiie 17 Lower Posse
Big Low- Down
Big Dukey Skip
Gus-Mo
Razz-A-Dazz
Dear Malika Lee Whitney,
Basically I have enjoyed working at the
radk) statkxi. I have learned a fot about inrv
provisation and spontaneity. I think one of tiie
hardest things for me is cold reading, but I am
glad I was forced into it I think that once tiiis is
mastered, you can do anything. One of the
things I wouki like to see happen is more
audience participation and feedback on Pick-
ney Place.. .we could hear and talk atiout a tot
of tiie listener's interests....
Anotiier thing that is great about the racfio
station is there is the power to present certain
social political views that aren't represented too
often in media.
Maya Jones
WBAI Intern
Pickney Place/Talk Back
Dear Friends,
The staff and Board of the Center for Con-
stitutional Rights wish to thank the staff and
Board of WBAI for nanning CCR as one of your
community organizations of the year and for tiie
award given on October 6, 1991 at the WBAI
Festival '91.
Just as you take pride in your work whk:h
gives a voice to communities and social change
movements which don't have the kind of media
access available to those with power and
wealth, the Center takes great pride in being a
fighting voice for these movements t»efore tiie
courts. Our respect for how well you do your
work makes us especially proud that you have
tiiought to recognize us with tiie award.
It also gave us great pride when you asked
us to represent you in defending WBAI's view
of its professional responsibilities. In tiie 1970s,
when the Manhattan District Attorney issued a
grand jury subpoena for tapes of broadcasts
and imprisoned station manager Ed Goodman,
the Center was proud to have been your voice
in court as you defended the important profes-
sional issues involved in broadcast freedom.
Likewise, during tiie Gulf War, we were proud
to represent Pacifica News when other media
would not teke a stand against press censor-
ship.
BACKTALK!
Thanks again for the honor you have be-
stowed on us. We sleep better because we
know you're on tiie air.
Sincerely,
Jinsoo Kim
Sara Rios
Co-Interim Coordinators
Dear Charlie Rnch,
I want to express my appreciation to you for
inviting me and Jeffrey Keough to talk witii you
last month on Art Breaking about The Drawing
Center's most recent exhibition, "Seeing
Through 'Paradise': Artists and the Terezin Con-
centiation Canp."
The response to the show has been ex-
ti'aordinary, tiianks to tiie attention you and
others in the media gave tiiis exceptional work.
You will be pleased to know that the show
is indeed going on to Houston before it is
returned to Czechoslovakia.
Best regards.
Ann Philbin
W
BAI:
'Thank you for the amazing progrannming!!
I recentiy graduated from Oberlin College, and
when I got back to Suburban New Jersey, pjfelt
so isolated and cut off from the progressive
community I was a part of at Oberlin. Now BAI
is part of my salvation! Looking at the
mainstream media makes me sick to my
stomach— all tiie lies! So thank you BAI for
letting me have a ray of tiuth during my time at
home.
How 'bout a program on anti-racist educa-
tion? How do we do it? What is it? Is it different
from multicultural education? How do we do it
in schools, out of schools? Suggestions: June
Jordan, Chandra Mohanty....lf I think of others,
I'll let you know.
Thanks. (If I had more money, I'd give it!)
Love.
Elana
New Jersey
Bequest
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WBAI
in your will and estate
planning.
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at 21 2-279-0707.
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station Manager
Valerie van Isler
Development Director
Daria Kashian
Program Director
Andrew Phillips
Interim Operations Director
David Nolan
Operations Assistants
Max Schmid, Sidney Snnith, Shelton
Walden.Tom Whelan
News Editors
Amy Goodman, Jennie Bourne
News Reporter
Jose Santiago
Public Affairs Director
Mario Murillo
Arts Director
Anthony J. Sloan
Business Officer/Bookkeeper
Osorio Potter/Gloria George
Subscriptions/Computing
Allen Markman, April Greene
Receptionist
Fred Kuhn
Premium Coordinator/Fulfiilment
Dorothy Altman/Sharon Thomas
Chief Engineer
Bill Wells
Interim Maintenance Engineer
Gracen Challenger
Production Engineers
Paul Ruest, George Wellington
Chief Announcer
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