Maria Gilardin learned radio in the KPFA news department in 1980 and
was one of the founders of the women's department. She co-wrote the
GATT Guide for the Earth Summit in Rio, was founding producer of the
national weekly public-affairs show Making Contact, and is a member of
the International Forum on Globalization.
Since 1993, Maria has written and produced radio on
global trade and great ideas of local resistance to globalization.
ARTICLES ABOUT MARIA
Gallery
Statement for the opening of
TOASTING THE END OF CAPITALISM
Click here to look at the Collages
and some of the Photos
"NoneSuch Space
presents the photography and vivid Giclee prints of hand cut collages
by Bay Area artist, Maria Gilardin. Her work ranges from spoofs on
automobile culture, to corporate takeover of farms and dreams of
escaping techno-economic absurdity."
"Some of us
no longer waiting
to see which will fail first
the economic system that feeds on us,
or the natural system
that nourishes us
sever our ties to the status quo,
declare our independence from things
and raise our glasses . . . to the end of capitalism!"
-Maria Gilardin.
East
Bay Express - review of art show, July 2008
An activist's artistic
double-take on Life in These United States.
"Toasting
the End of Capitalism at NoneSuch Space is Gilardin's two-pronged take
on the state of the nation. Her social-documentarian photographs
include "Earthquake, San Francisco Marina," showing a
Loma-Prieta-damaged building under TV klieg lights; .. Her
Dadaist/Surrealist montages include "Tasting Room," in which a gigantic
turkey dinner sits on a showroom floor next to Cadillacs (one afire);
and "Hard Rain," a scene of eco-apocalypse, with buildings crumbling
and burning, and cars falling from a flaming heaven. Can capitalism
learn to behave? Stay tuned."
SF Chronicle -
review, July 2008
"Journalist
and radio producer Maria Gilardin is well known in the Bay
Area for her social-justice activities, but the NoneSuch Space gallery
aims to show off her work as an all-around creative force... The show
is titled "Toasting
the End of Capitalism."
Oakland
Hills Examiner - review - July 2008
"Surprisingly, Maria’s a great artist with a sense of humor
too. While her radio shows are quite serious, her visual artwork
provides an amusing counterbalance."
Ukiah
Daily Journal review, April 2009
“ We've all just
been fired by capitalism, changing our world from an 8 hour work day to
a 24 hour work-free day. Now, how do we make creative use of our
time?" That’s the theme of Maria Gilardin's show at One Earth!
Gallery.
The first article ever written about TUC Radio
and
me:
SF BAY GUARDIAN, June 1996
"Gilardin's TUC
Radio continues to report on the untold story: the impact of the big
corporations on society. And despite the massive and growing barriers
preventing her type of public-affairs programming from getting on the
air, TUC is reaching thousands of listeners around the world."
WELCOME
TO TUC RADIO
My
Strawbale House
I got many
requests for pictures of my straw bale house. Here
are photos - from bale delivery to the
passive solar floor, and the almost completed solarium, spanning six
years.
Thanks
to all of you who have supported TUC Radio. Looking around my
new home there is so much evidence of your contributions. You have
helped me buy everything this house is made of from straw bales and
lumber to roll roofing and nails – a little over $15,000 over
the past
5 years.
The land
I
am 8 miles from the nearest town on a three mile dirt road.
There is no water, electricity or other utility. We are collecting
rainwater, pumping drinking water from a spring 2 miles away and are
using an outhouse. "Out" is over 200 feet away - a long way when it
snows!
This is so far from "civilization" that we have occasional encounters
with brown bears and mountain lions. Coyotes come often at night,
hunting for plentiful deer. There are rattlesnakes living under my
house and inside the retaining wall. Some neighbors kill rattlers near
their homes. I decided to let them live,
treat them with respect and wear boots.
This is an old "back to the land" community. Many of the neighbors who
moved here 30 years ago are still living here. I'm helping in a garden
that has nourished 5 children, who have all left the ranch, in return
for an abundance of vegetables, berries, and fruit. We are canning
together in the summer. Another neighbor has a small farm with chickens
and goats and we get eggs, cheese and occasional meat from them.
The sense of empowerment that comes from our independence from the
system can be challenged when the water line breaks who knows where,
the sun does not shine for days on end and I'm using candles to
conserve the charge in the batteries for another TUC Radio program, the
chainsaw does not start when a tree is down across the road, blocking
the way to town - the list can be long.
But occasional visitors, unless I put them to work chopping firewood,
only see its beauty - and I do too, every day.
Moving here
I decided to
move here because the cost of living is less than half of city life.
This is the only way to keep TUC Radio and me going without a
retirement plan. I transfered all of TUC Radio and my life here in the
summer of 2008. Two
weeks later the worst fires (the Summer Solstice Lightning Fires)
since records were kept swept through the area and came close to my
house. For 6 weeks the forests were burning on two sides - in the
canyon
to the North and around the famous sites of Montgomery (Red)Woods and
Orr Hot Springs to the West.
Neighbors helped each other - even those who were not on speaking
terms. In the end we were in awe of the fires we had seen and very
happy that we had worked together so well and survived.
Living here:
(come back for updates ..)
November 12, 2009
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Phone line
- the only connection to "civilization".
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Just in time for the
winter rains I replaced my old phone line with 400 feet of shielded
cable. The old line had been chewed on by mice and dug up by wild pigs
as it crosses the forest floor to the nearest phone connection. Now I'm
ready to do interviews by phone.
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September 22, 2009
First Day of Autumn
The
solitary semi wild plum tree across the meadow is heavy with sweet
fruit. The trunk bears the scars of brown bear claws from
previous years. I am harvesting as much as I can to keep the tree safe.
The bears often break down the whole tree when they harvest. My solar
food dryer is full, and I made two batches of plum jam. The raccoons
came last night and broke down the fence around my winter squash plant.
It's all about sharing.
July
20/21, 2009
Our first fire of the year. The Sheppard
fire started in Robinson Creek.
I was at the location in the picture on the left today
(July 21).
The smoke is gone. Thanks to the amazing pilots who flew out of Ukiah!
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CALFire
plane - dropping retardant.
Photos:
Ukiah Daily Journal
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July
5, 2009
My neighbor gave me an oak tree.
It had fallen three days ago during the night. About 2 1/2 foot in
diameter at the base, the trunk and crown of the tree had buried a fork
in a back road cutting off access for two houses. The tree is one of
the best gifts I have received. We do not cut trees for firewood. We
wait for them to fall - and often they fall in very inaccessible places
where it is impossible to load the rounds into a truck. Now I am the
proud owner of a chainsaw and am learning how to use one of the more
dangerous tools in the outback.
June 27, 2009
Recorded Helen Caldicott in Berkeley
Program is finished - listen to it on the Newest Programs page.
June 21, 2009
I went to the memorial for the attorney
Susan B. Jordan at the Dark Horse Ranch on the Old River Road. I will write more about
it when I am able. It was an afternoon to remember for many, many
reasons. If you knew her you will guess why, if you don't come back and
read more.
June
19/20, 2009
We had the annual solstice party
in the barn at the ranch house. Yesterday I helped clean out the
old huge hay barn for the dance. It had been a year since the last
party and mice had moved into
the sofas, big abandoned birds nests were in the rafter, and even deer
had somehow gotten inside. We ended up using a
garden hose to wash the ancient floor boards and the stage that had
been built into one end of barn in the early days of the "back to the
landers".
Today David Raitt, Bonnie's brother, came with his band. He joked about
bands, even very famous ones, playing in small venues because there is
much less touring due to the economic downturn. Bands, who love music,
play obscure clubs, like the Blue Wing Saloon, because they want to
stay together and play and see people dance.
You don't know the Blue Wing Saloon? It's
in Lakeport, right next to the Tall(-)man Hotel. Monday is blues night
- no cover.
come back for updates ..
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"When looking for a name, I came across a
pilot's handbook and found the acronym TUC, an aeronautical term.
"Time of Useful Consciousness" is
the time between the onset of oxygen deficiency and the loss of
consciousness.
These are the brief moments in
which a pilot may save the plane."
Maria
Gilardin
ARTICLES BY MARIA
Apocalypse Now
How Mankind Is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth
"This headline
appeared in the London Independent in early February of 2005, following
a conference at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, England, where 200 of the
world’s leading scientists issued the most urgent warning to date: that
dangerous climate change is taking place today, and not the day after
tomorrow."
www.dissidentvoice.org
September 21, 2005
Who Killed Martin
Luther King?
This
article is based on the remarkable work of Dr. William Pepper who
exonerated James Earl Ray
"In
1977 the family of Martin Luther King engaged an attorney and friend,
Dr. William Pepper, to investigate a suspicion they had. They no longer
believed that James Earl Ray was the killer. For their peace of mind,
for an accurate record of history, and out of a sense of justice they
conducted a two decade long investigation. The evidence they uncovered
was put before a jury in Memphis, TN, in November 1999. 70 witnesses
testified under oath, 4,000 pages of transcripts described the
evidence, much of it new. It took the jury 59 minutes to come back with
their decision that Loyd Jowers, owner of Jim's Grill, had participated
in a conspiracy to kill King, a conspiracy that included J. Edgar
Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the
Memphis Police Department (MPD), and organized crime. That verdict
exonerated James Earl Ray who had already died in prison.
The
news of the verdict, in one of the most important national security
trials in modern history, was suppressed. And to this day - with very,
very few exceptions - the public does not know that this trial took
place and what the outcome was."
www.dissidentvoice.org
April 4th, 2008
UNOFFICIAL COMMENTS ON
MY RADIO PROGRAMS
Many of my radio programs have a personal
angle that I do no not mention in the recording.
NEWS FROM
MARIA
(posted September 23, 2009)
I went to San Francisco to attend the 9/11 film festival and recorded
two very interesting segments:
DAVID RAY
GRIFFIN:
Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?
A list of arguments why bin Laden had been dead for a
while.
13:33 minutes
and
After the World Premiere of the third edition of :
LOOSE CHANGE 9/11
An American Coup
- the film makers Dylan Avery and Corey Rowe answered questions.
Here is the recording.
27:03 minutes
CHANGING
THE MONETARY SYSTEM
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Many thanks to Carol
Brouillet who first inspired me to look at the most amazing secret in
plain sight: The creation and control of MONEY
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By
luck, past connections, and a degree of
obstinacy I have come up with four new programs on a radical analysis
and change of the monetary system.
There
are two reasons: The first - of course - is the collapse of the present
system which
allows us to look at the Federal Reserve, the power of banks to create
money, and the upward distribution of wealth.
The second is the
desire and wish to help each
other, create safety nets, with community exchange and credit clearing
systems. You can find them on the Newest Programs or the Community section
as:
Tom Greco: THE END OF MONEY AND THE
FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION,
Stephen Zarlenga: THE AMERICAN MONETARY ACT; Paul Grignon: MONEY AS
DEBT and - The People of Ithaca print their own
money.
The photo is by
Sergio Lub. I was recording Tom Greco on May 5, 2009
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LIVING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE
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Helen Caldicott and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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They
have not met in person - but both are trying to express what living in
the Nuclear age means. I had just recorded Helen again (at the end of
June 09) who - for over 30 years - has so passionately described the
consequences of radiation - when I got an e-mail from Lorenzo Milam
(Who took the idea of community radio and popularized it.)
Milam wrote:
Ferlinghetti was
slightly entangled in my life .. What I wanted to tell
him (and never got to do so) was that he changed my life. I was working
at KPFA as a volunteer in 1959, and one night they played Ferlinghetti
reading "Tentative Description of a Dinner to Promote the Impeachment
of President Eisenhower" I thought, "How great it would be to have that
disc played in Washington D.C."
Milam
then helped Pacifica get the license for WPFW. I had never heard about
this piece and asked Ferlinghetti, who is now 90 years young, to read
it again, 51 years
later. The picture on the left is a frame from the 8 1/2 minute
film that I made on July 12, 2009. Ferlinghetti had seen Nagasaki a few
weeks after the atom bomb destroyed it. That experience changed his
life. The Tentative Description is less about Eisenhower than about all
Presidents
since then; and about the "strange rain that would never stop .. and
perverted pollen blown on sunless seas - eaten by irradiated fish who
spawned up cloudleaf streams and fell upon our dinner plates."
Here is a 7 min. 37
sec. audio recording of Ferlinghetti
reading.
Here
is the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ61bdAWYoE
Here is the text (as
pdf file) in the original publicat
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Please help keep it that way
Over 75,000 people have downloaded programs within the last year. They
came from 123 countries, many universities, and even the government and
the military download – what exactly I can't tell from my site
statistics. But since posting the interview on climate change with
James
Hansen, NASA, government downloads have increased 15 fold!
Downloads have changed dramatically over the last 11 years. Initially
only radio stations picked up the programs for broadcast. But now so
many of you have high speed lines that it is easy for you to listen on
line or download.
I watched this development with pride and anxiety. Will anybody
continue to buy CDs and DVDs – the
only source of funding for TUC Radio? Friends advised me to
limit or shut off access. I refused.
It is true - TUC radio can no longer survive by CD sales. The
difference is made up from donations and subscriptions, which now
amount to almost 25% of the
budget. They come in via PayPal or as checks in the mail to: TUC Radio
/ P.O. Box 44 / Calpella, CA 95418.
I will continue to keep this site free and hope that you will continue
to support it. I learned how to do radio from Quakers who believed in a
tradition of
gift giving. In an increasingly commercialized world, where everything
is now for sale, they decided to offer radio for free hoping for
listener sponsorship.
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TAX
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ISEC
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Attention Victoria
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write TUC Radio in the memo line.
Thank you!
Maria Gilardin
This independent
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noncommercial and free programming since 1992.
Please donate
to
help me keep it free and open to All!
Income to TUC for August fell short by over $1,000.
In
August 10,472 free downloads were made.
Only 36 programs were sold as CDs. $380 was given in donations.
Donations and CD or DVD sales are TUC's only income.
PLEASE HELP!
DONATIONS
FOR AUGUST 2009
$10
on August 7, 2009 from Gerald W.
$10 on August 8, 2009 from S. Kellerman
$20 on August 8, 2009 from Mark J.
$100 on August 8, 2009 from Sergio L.
$10 on August 11, 2009 from Franco J.
$10 on August 16, 2009 from Patrick
McC. in Munich, Germany
$20 on August 16, 2009 from Nancy H. from Aliso
Viejo, CA
$50 on August 22, 2009 Brian R.
TOTAL DONATIONS FOR AUGUST: $240
TOTAL SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR AUGUST:
$125
SALES ON LINE VIA THIS WEB SITE: $132.86
CASH SALES FOR AUGUST:
$253
TOTAL APRIL INCOME:
$750.86
However the operating
cost for TUC is $2,000 per
month
August was not a very good month for TUC Radio and me.
DONATIONS
FOR JULY 2009
$10 on July 4, from Todd B. from
St. Petersburg, FL
$10 on July 5, from Patrick
McC. in Munich, GERMANY
$25 on July 7, from James A. C. from Oslo,
NORWAY
$100 on July 8, from Dale L.
from Chicago, IL
$5 on July 13, from Shaun H.
Beverly, MA
$25 on July 13, from Jeff L.
Amherst, MA
$10 on July 14, from Claire R. from Alamosa, CO
$25 on July 14, from Pat M. Cordova, AK
$50 on July 16 , from John P.
from Jamaica Plain, MA
$25 on July 16 , from Frank H.
$1,500 on July 17 , from the C. Family
$100 on July 18, from Karen and Mark from West
Hartford, CT
$50 on July 18, from Zach T.
from Longmont, CO
$20 on July 19, from Mark D. from Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA
$10 on July 20, from
Leonard J. from Braintree, MA
$10 on July 21, from Holger P. from Denver, CO
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SALES
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FOR JUNE
$5 on June 1, 2009 from Shaun H.
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from Tucker, GA
$10 on June 2, 2009 from Jim G. from WUML in NH
$100 on June 3, 2009 from Pat M.
Seattle, WA
$80 on June 5, 2009 from Margaret
M.
from WI
$25 on June 7, 2009 from Roy L.
from Woodinville, WA
$250 on June 9, 2009 from Michael H.
$100 on June 10, 2009 from
anonymous
$100 on June 11, 2009 from Gregory
S. from East Palo Alto, CA
$10 on June 18, 2009 from Neil R.
from L.A., CA
$50 on June 28, 2009 from Jerry in
Newton, MA
$250 on June 28, 2009 from
anonymous in Willits, CA
$50 on June 29, 2009 from H. Kern
in Chico, CA
TOTAL DONATIONS FOR JUNE: $1,100.00
TOTAL
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR JUNE: $110
SALES
ON LINE VIA THIS WEB SITE: $187.28
CASH SALES FOR MAY: $65
TOTAL
JUNE INCOME:
$1,462.28
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DONATIONS
FOR MAY
$10 on May 4, 2009 from Patrick
McC. in Munich, Germany
$65.08 on May 7, 2009 from Peter C.
in San Francisco, CA
$500 on May 13, 2009 from Betty S.
Bay Area, CA
$5 on May 15, 2009 from Ken W.
Berkeley, CA
$20 on May 16, 2009 from Brad,
KQRP-LP, Modesto, CA
$5 on May 18, 2009 from Richard L.
Durham, NC
$1 on May 19, 2009 from Shaun H.
Beverly, MA
Shaun wrote:
Read your message about how much you'd take in
if everybody who downloaded
paid a dollar.
Seemed like a good idea.
$100 on May 20, 2009 from Felipe
McK.
Berkeley, CA
$120 on May 25, 2009 from Gregory
R. Valley Village, CA
$2 on May 26, 2009 from Shaun H.
Beverly, MA
Thank you Shaun
for following through with your good idea!
$250 on May 27, 2009 from RG W.
from Taos, NM
$20 on May 28, 2009 from Pat M.
Seattle, WA
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TOTAL
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR May: $110
SALES ON LINE VIA THIS WEB SITE: $257.53
CASH SALES FOR MAY: $40
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$1,505.61
FREE DOWNLOADS IN MAY ARE
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DONATIONS
FOR APRIL
$100
on April 1, 2009 from Linda G.
$20 on April 2, 2009 from Patrick
McC. in Munich, Germany
$50 on April 2, 2009 from Stefan L.
in Rosendale, NY
$5 on April 3, 2009 from Jeremy H.
in Bonney Lake, WI
$20 on April 5, 2009 from L.M. in
Manchester, CT
$20 on April 15, 2009 from Rosemary
K. in Dorchester, MA
$20 on April 19, 2009 from Bill M.
in Arcata, CA
$10 on April 22, 2009 from Glen S.
in Dallas, TX
$25 on April 27, 2009 from Doris R.
TOTAL DONATIONS FOR APRIL: $270
TOTAL SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR APRIL: $110
SALES ON LINE VIA THIS WEB SITE: $248.43
CASH SALES FOR APRIL: $20
TOTAL APRIL INCOME:
$648.43
However the operating
cost for TUC is $2,000 per
month
FREE DOWNLOADS IN APRIL:
9,712
If each had donated just $1 per download I would have received $9,712 -
a dream! April was not a very good month for TUC Radio and me.
NOTES AND LETTERS about TUC and MARIA
What people have said about TUC
Radio:
The letters below are from my collection, going
back 17 years.
"Incredible
production!"
"...the most comprehensive and interesting documentaries we've
heard....We honor and are inspired by your work."
- Joe
Bernard, RFPI, Costa Rica
"Since 1980
the artist turned activist and radio producer has generated
groundbreaking programs on the third world debt crisis, Wal-Mart,
biotechnology and globalization."
- San
Francisco Bay Guardian
"I heard your
program on KPFK, Los Angeles: "The Emperor has no Clothes". You have
given me more knowledge and insight than any other program I have yet
encountered."
- R.M.,
State Prison, Norco, CA
"Along with
David Barsamian and Counterspin, you help me and thousands of others
obtain the information we need to retain our sanity."
- David
Turner,
San Francisco, CA
"Maria
Gilardin is a resourceful investigative journalist who not only looks
at the
events of the day, but puts them into a deeper context - one that gives
you an understanding of the powerful forces that exist in the country
today."
- Michael
Parenti, author and public speaker, Berkeley, CA
Jerry Mander, Director and founder of the IFG, wrote into my
copy of the
IFG publication: Alternatives to Economic Globalization
For my dear
friend Maria -
You have been a number #1 supporter of all this and a great
colleague and friend.
I really appreciate you and your work.
Thank you,
Jerry
12/15/02
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