Now up on the archive: Sunday Monitor

[SophieZ]

Haven't heard this radio show before?

Some past guests include:
Kevin Phillips, John Dean, Charles Lewis, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Ellsberg, Arianna Huffington, William Rivers Pitt, David Cobb, Sibel Edmonds, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Gore Vidal, Robert Fisk, Greg Palast, Scott Ritter, Mark Crispin Miller, Medea Benjamin, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Jim Hightower, Ted Rall, John Nichols, Bob Fitrakis, Ohio State Senator Teresa Fedor, Michael Parenti, Kate Kendall, David Ray Griffin, Laura Flanders, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Amy Goodman, John Sayles, Thomas Frank, Pratap Chatterjee, and Howard Zinn.

Here's what they had yesterday -- listen on archives.



It's your world. Understand it!

June 26, 2005: Sunday Monitor

KPFT - Pacifica Radio

listen online at www.kpft.org

in Houston, 90.1 FM

or, in Galveston, 89.5 FM

6 pm Central
. . . 7 pm Eastern
. . . . . 4 pm Pacific


<> 6:00 pm CDT -- HEADLINES

<> ~6:10 pm CDT-- SHANNON YOUNG in OAXACA

We will speak live with our reporter Shannon Young in Oaxaca. Over a hundred people, including thirty-one press workers with Noticias, the largest newspaper in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, have been trapped inside of their office building for over a week by an unruly mob. They are running out of food. Shannon tells us that "Noticias is really the only major media covering the very blatant government corruption in Oaxaca; this enrages the powers-that-be. The fact that state politicians can so openly attack the best-selling newspaper in the state so openly and with such total impunity is sending a very clear and threatening message to honest and critical journalists throughout Mexico - "Report what we tell you to or there will be serious consequences"."

<> ~6:15 pm CDT-- GUEST 1: CHIP PITTS



Chip Pitts spoke with us two weeks ago about the latest Amnesty information on prison abuse at places like Guantanamo. Chip will be in the studio with us today to update us.

He is an international attorney, investor/entrepreneur, and law educator who advises businesses on international, strategic, intellectual property, marketing, legal, and ethics matters. He is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford University Law School and is a frequent speaker, writer, and commentator on ethical globalization, human rights, and foreign affairs. Previously Treasurer of the Amnesty International USA Board, he is also a volunteer leader with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee movement and the corporate social responsibility movement, and currently serves on Advisory Boards of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Accountability (University of Texas at Dallas), and the ACLU of Dallas. Pitts has worked in South Africa against apartheid, represented both the U.S. government and Amnesty International, and provided pro bono representation to hundreds of victims of human rights abuses from all over the world.

<> ~6:30 pm CDT-- GUEST 2: SUSAN KLOPFER



The trial and conviction this week of one former Klansman in the 1964 deaths of civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman* has put a spotlight on Mississippi -- its past...and its present.

Today we will take you deep into that past with Susan Klopfer, a journalist based in the Mississippi delta. It's been said that "If you understand Mississippi, you understand democracy." Susan believes that in order to move forward, we must know where we've been, and she will take us through some stories that have never been told about the people of this area -- some uplifting, some chilling.

Since her move two years ago to Parchman, Mississippi, Susan's energetic pursuit of the history of her new residence has resulted in a big new book, to be released next week: "Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited." Her research includes interviews conducted by eyewitnesses and participants in the events, plus newspapers, books, journals and magazines, documents, letters, diaries, and oral histories from various libraries, archives and private collections.

Susan previously has written a book called The Emmett Till Book. She is a former acquisitions and development editor for Simon & Schuster and is an award-winning journalist for her investigative reporting in Missouri. She also reported for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

We will ask Susan about the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a publically-funded organization that used spying, dirty tricks, and media manipulation to prop up white supremacy in Mississippi. Arising after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court desegregation decision, the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission played a significant yet little-understood role in Mississippi history, 1955 to 1972. To see a small sample of the 80,000 documents available on the Sovereignty Commission, go to http://themiddleoftheinternet.com/sovcomslideshow.html

The introduction to the book can be read at:
Website: http://themiddleoftheinternet.com/

* Note: Andrew Goodman was the college-age son of Carolyn and Robert Goodman, both of whom were prominent members of the Pacifica National Board during the 1960s.

In 1965, Emmett Till was brutally murdered at age 14, about ten miles from where Susan lives. The two men tried for the murder then were acquitted by an all white, all male jury. The jury deliberated only 67 minutes -- one juror told a reporter that they wouldn't have taken so long if they hadn't stopped to drink pop.

One hundred days after Emmett Till's murder, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus, launching the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott and the civil rights movement.
She has said she was thinking about him.

EMMETT TILL



SUNDAY MONITOR HOSTS:
Mark Bebawi and Pokey Anderson


ARCHIVES are at
http://www.kpftx.org/archives/kpftsignal/index.php
Just look for SUNDAY MONITOR and the date of the show.

SAMPLE OF SHOWS STILL AVAILABLE ON ARCHIVES:

David Ray Griffin - May 15

Robert Parry, author of Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq - June 5

Kathleen Wynne, Harri Hursti of Black Box Voting. Bob Fitrakis, author of Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? Essential Documents - June 19

[glitch]

1. Wow! Talk about riches!

I love a good audio archive, thanks for posting!

[SophieZ]

2. glitch, you're welcome!