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Monday, August 8, 2005

Channel: Wakeup Call Podcast

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8AM HOUR We look at Jamaica’s 43rd anniversary of independence, its achievements over that period and the challenges facing the nation in the years ahead. Then we focus on the latest decision from the NCAA to ban the use of Native American mascots by college teams in post-season tournaments. We are joined by Lakota Olympic Gold medalist, runner Billy Mills. We’ll end with one of the most talented rock drummers to emerge in the 80’s, Living Color’s Will Calhoun, who will join us in studio. Don Rojas on the Politics and Culture of the Caribbean COMMENTATOR: Don Rojas, WBAI’s former GM, currently developing a Caribbean Internet radio station (CaribWorldRadio.com) based here in New York in collaboration with the Carib-News. Are Native American Mascots offensive? National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) Thinks so. GUEST: Billy Mills, Lakota, Olympic Champion, the first and only American to win a gold medal in the 10,000m. race in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He set an Olympic record of 28 minutes 24.4 seconds & author of Wokini: A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Understanding GUEST: Gail Dent, NCAA spokeswoman Will Calhoun live in studio! GUEST: Will Calhoun, Award winning drummer for Living Colour GUEST CO HOST: Andrea Clarke, Host of Sister From Another Planet, WBAI, Friday 10pm-12pm Listen to our third hour 7AM HOUR We analyze week one of back-door UN ambassador John Bolton. Hear what Dennis Haliday has to say. Then we’ll travel south to Venezuela where important local elections took place this Sunday, we’ll look at the challenges to President Chavez’s party – the strongest of which came from the Left. Plus, the world youth festival has opened in Caracas and we’ll check out what’s going on. Also, last week was a heavy week, musically, as we lost several musical treasures and we pay tribute to them, including the late, great Cuban musician Ibrahim Ferrer who died this weekend in Havana. Inside the Corridors of Power ~ The United Nations GUEST: Denis Halliday, Former Head of UN Iraq Program GUEST: Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies Venezuelan Elections & Youth Festival Opens! GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, Professor at Princeton University currently living in Caracas and working with community media social movements Musical Treasures Lost Little Milton, Blues singer and guitarist Al McKibbon, jazz bassist Lucky Thompson, Jazz saxophonist Ibrahim Ferrere, Cuban sonero Remembering a Cuban Great: Ibrahim Ferrer REPORTER: Louis Head, Director of Cuba Research and Analysis Group – An organization dedicated to promoting exchange between the people of the US and Cuba Listen to our second hour 6AM HOUR We’ll take you on an audio journey of what took place during the Grassroots Radio Conference this weekend. And with the NYPD now conducting “random” searches on the subways, do we have to submit to a search? Finally, we’ll see how a murder in Westchester has turned into a vicious campaign against the cities homeless population Grassroots Radio Conference Recap CLIP:Intro Collage, produced by WUC’s own Doug George CLIP:Interview with Prometheus board member, Sakura Saunders, conducted by WUC’s Kat Arron. CLIP: Antiracism Collage, produced by Jamie Heim of KBOO. CLIP: Collage on people of color at the GRC, produced by Adrienne Lawby of KPFA and Jamie Heim of KBOO CLIP: Interview with Jericho co-chair, conducted by former Wakeup Call Producer, Sara Barz. Rights Behind “Random” Searches REPORTER: Kena Snyder of Radio Rootz Scapegoating the Homeless in Westchester REPORTER: Don DeBar of WBAI GUEST: Dennis Hanratty is a community activist from Munt Vernon who heads Mt Vernon United Tenants Listen to our first hour


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