28.5 min - Malachi Ritscher is a unique casualty of the Iraq war. He publicly burned himself to death (self-immolation), as a protest rather than pay taxes that would go to kill others in the Iraq War. He committed the most painful form of suicide in a public way to bring attention to the case for ending the war. This is from his "Mission Statement," the internet suicide note he left, which the corporate press completely ignored. Thanks to the failings of this press to provide coverage and perspective, instead of just passing on propaganda, the war continues . . .

More information can be found at: http://www.savagesound.com/gallery100 http://www.iheardyoumalachi.org/

Performed by Elliot Crown.

28.5 min -The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs most famous book, helped change the blind acceptance of urban planners and their grand schemes to remake cities into unlivable places. Jacobs ended Robert Moses's reign of bad building and urban destruction. With the misguided development of the Bloomberg administration today, Jane Jacobs's work is as important as it ever was. Readings from Jane Jacobs, at the Judson Church, NYC.

28.5 min - The story of a governmental organization bending over backwards to serve one of New York State's real estate barons, Bruce Ratner. Ratner is a former New York City official who went to law school with former Governer George Pataki.

Under Pataki, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) was directed to take 22 acres in Brooklyn for Ratner. In its 5 year effort (to date) to take people's private homes and give them to another private citizen, the ESDC has played every trick in the book, including supporting race baiting to soften the neighborhood.

In July, 2009 the ESDC stooped to a new low by having a required public hearing on a revised project plan it was not going to release until after the hearing. Will this "outlaw organization," as it was called by one state senator, succeed in further degrading New York's Eminent Domain laws so that any well-connected billionaire can point to any neighborhood and tell the ESDC to take it for him?

With Kevin Powell, NY City Councilperson Letitia James, NY Senator Velmanette Montgomery. Assemblyperson Jim Brennan, homeowner Daniel Goldstein, mayoral candidate and performance artist Rev. Billy, former NYCLU chief Norman Seigel, and many others.

28.5 min - FBR presents a look at electronic election fraud and vote suppression from 2000 to 2008 and what we must do to stop corporate control of the voting booth to bring about Election Integrity and Reform to uphold our most fundamental right to vote. Rebecca Mercuri, Ph.D., Electronic Voting Computer Expert, Penny M. Venetis, Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law, Newark, NJ and Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU and author of Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 – 2008 discuss vote counting technology, election fraud, disenfranchisement, vote flipping, malfeasance, hacking and the DRE voting machines now in use across the country and why we must repeal the Help America Vote Act.

28.5 min - Author and Activist, Antonia Juhasz, discusses her book, The Tyranny of Oil, and what we must do to stop it. Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse presents Ms. Juhasz's brief history of the oil industry and how deregulation and reconsolidation have created concentrated financial giants that are destroying our economy and the environment.

28.5 min - A reframing of the Wall Street bailout protests as a need for a collectivist, urban movement by leading social theorist David Harvey, Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. FBR presents Battle of the Bailout, an exploration of the urban artistic and activist movements as they rally against exploitative control as the dominant political system. From the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the financial market collapse and 850 billion dollar bailout, and the culture of fear in the United States, Harvey calls for the urban movement to collectivize and recognize their right to the city as a fight for the city. Based on the writings of Henri Lefebvre as presented by Harvey . Includes footage of the September 25th No Bail Out actions on Wall Street, featuring members of Code Pink and UFPJ and David Harveys speech at the Creative Time Democracy in America exhibit. Also includes the anarchist ice cream truck from the Center for Tactical Magic as a tool for social engagement.

Want to know how the corporations will steal the 2008 election? Learn about "caging lists" and the real reason the U.S. Attorneys were fired, (and more).

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Brooklyn Underground Railroad
Talk Show

28 min 57mb
The City and AKRF have conspired to make Brooklyn's
Underground Railroad history disappear - for a parking lot.

Condemned
For
Christmas

28 min 57mb
Celebrate the Christmas season with the Prospect Heights Action Carolers, as they try to cheer up their neighbors who are having their homes condemned for Christmas by politicians in collusion with a powerful developer.  60 families and 13 businesses face government evictions this season with their homes being given to one well connected billionaire. 

28 min 57mb
Bill Batson talks about eminent domain, the Underground RR, and Ratner's Landgrab

show a: donald ofinn and scott turner pt 1 freddys desc

show b: donald ofinn and scott turner +patti hagan2

2 Episodes.

show a: liza ian millie dan g and jen levy pt 1

show b: liza ian millie dan g and jen levy pt 2 tenant x

Freddy’s in the House – A discussion of Borough President Marty Markowitz’s new proposed welcome to Brooklyn Road sign “Brooklyn’s in the House” and what it means to tenants , owners and neighbors living under the threat of eminent domain and urban “blight” in the “footprint” of the proposed Atlantic Railyards project near Freddy’s Bar. Guests: Daniel Goldstein, condo owner in a Ratner acquired property, Millie & Ian, Jennifer Levy, South Brooklyn Legal Services, and tenant X, a former renter who sold to Ratner now under a gag order not to speak out against the project.

2 Episodes.

show a: yee and durkin, immigration attorneys pt 1

show b: yee and durkin, immigration attorneys pt 2 + tenant x