Amazing Speakers & Events

Including speakers such as Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Winona LaDuke, Ward Churchill, Michael Parenti, Vandana Shiva, Howard Lyman, Ralph Nader, Maude Barlow, Alexander Cockburn, Kathy Kelly, and Andreas Toupadakis.

Arming The Heavens

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Weapons

Reading from the US Air Force Transformation Flight Plan
One of TUC Radio’s best received programs was a reading from the Project for the New American Century document on Rebuilding America’s Defenses that predicted the war on Iraq. In that document the authors, among them Cheney and Rumsfeld, laid out a plan to place weapons in space in order to maintain US global reach and military superiority. Like other predictions in the PNAC document the arming of space is becoming a reality. In early 2005 the Air Force posted their Transformation Flight Plan on their web site. The plan discloses strategies for global dominance, refers to new space weapons based on laser and microwave, and makes the case for nuclear power [ . . . ]

Helen Caldicott on 9/11 – Hope In The Age Of Terrorism

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Weapons

The renowned anti nuclear campaigner, physician and author of the recent: The New Nuclear Danger returns from her home in Australia. She reminds us that we are living in a time of increased danger from the new space weapons program. There are programs in place to modernize nuclear weapons and use nuclear material in space. The events of 9/11 are used to expand and finance these programs. She begins with a moving appeal for peace.
Recorded in September 2002 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, the talk is divided into two self-contained parts and can also be played as a one hour special.
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Helen Caldicott – The New Nuclear Danger

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons

As a young pediatrician in Australia, Helen Caldicott learned about the medical consequences of nuclear war. That changed her life. She eventually campaigned in the US for nuclear disarmament. Now, over 30 years later, concerned about the US plans to build more nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, she has returned with a new book and new plans . Her book is called: The New Nuclear Danger. She hopes to establish an institute to support speakers with expertise in nuclear war, energy, radioactive waste, and nuclear disarmament.
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Side B: Farewell to America: Andreas Toupadakis
The Greek chemist made headlines for a few days in early 2000 when he resigned from the nuclear weapons [ . . . ]

Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Reactors and Weapons

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons

Recorded before an overflow audience at Sonoma State University in October, 1998, this is a sharp snapshot of the current status of nuclear affairs. From “Mobile Chernobyl” to “subcritical” testing and the dangerous stock piles in the former Soviet Union. This is both a highly informative talk as well as an inspiring call to action.
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Helen Caldicott: Hiroshima Day 1996

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Power

Anti-nuclear campaigner and author Helen Caldicott spoke about the planned transport of nuclear fuel from power plants and the scheduled launch of the Cassini Probe, which carried 72 pounds of plutonium into space. A moving, inspiring, informative speech. (60 minutes, 1996)
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Manhattan Project #2 – Dr. Andreas Toupadakis & Dr. Helen Caldicott

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Weapons

Dr. Andreas Toupadakis, a chemist, left Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in January of this year at the height of his career and joined the peace movement. After working at Los Alamos and Livermore, Toupadakis found that, instead of working on the safe disposal of nuclear weapons, he was asked to work on what he calls Manhattan #2, a new, space based weapons system. He is introduced by Dr. Helen Caldicott. (Recorded L. A. 4/4/2000)
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Reference in this talk for “Manhattan #2”: <www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace> Click at: Vision for 2020
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Andreas Toupadakis: Hiroshima Diary

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Weapons

In January of 2000, the Greek born chemist Andreas Toupadakis resigned from a nuclear weapons program at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He found that, instead of working on the safe disposal of nuclear weapons, he was asked to work on what he calls Manhattan #2, a new, space based weapons system. He has since become an eloquent campaigner against nuclear weapons. In August of 2000 he was invited to speak at a memorial service for the Japanese victims of the bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima. He returned deeply moved by his meetings with survivors. This is a very personal conversation based on his diary and the photos he brought back.
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Akira Tashiro on Depleted Uranium

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Weapons

During the Gulf War in 1991, US and UK forces used a new weapon against Iraq. This new weapon, the depleted uranium (DU) projectile, is radioactive. Unlike atomic or hydrogen bombs, it involves no nuclear fusion or fission but nine years after the end of the war, adverse health effects from DU exposure continue to manifest themselves among military personnel and civilians in Iraq and Yugoslavia where the fighting took place, and among US and British veterans and their families. Tashiro traveled through the US, UK, and Iraq to cover this story. He is a senior staff writer for the Chugoku Shimbun, a daily newspaper with a morning edition circulation of 735,000. The Chugoku Shimbun was founded in 1892 and [ . . . ]

Burning Warheads as Fuel for Nuclear Reactors?

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, Nuclear Power

Mary Olson with Jackie Cabasso
Recently a significant announcement by the Bush administration reversed a 20-year-old policy. The US and Russia will now re-process plutonium from nuclear weapons as fuel for nuclear reactors.
Mary Olson is the expert on nuclear reactors with the North Carolina office of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service ( NIRS ). She is concerned about the prospect of fueling aging nuclear reactors with plutonium, recognized as the most dangerous substance on earth. In addition to making nuclear power even more dangerous, she says, this new program is also a concealed nuclear weapons program. New, pure weapons-grade plutonium is generated inside the reactor.
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Comedy Special: Behind every terrorist there is a Bush

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, The Arts

With Will Durst, Rene Hicks, Bill Santiago, David Rovics and Drew Dellinger
Recorded LIVE at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco on 2/1/04 at a benefit for the International Inquiry into 9-11. Bill Santiago called this event “The first ever Bush bashing super-bowl party”. He felt honored to attend. Humor can be more radical than “straight” talk. David Rovics sings: Who would Jesus bomb? The theme of 9/11 comes up throughout. http://www.deceptiondollar.com
Comedienne Rene Hicks was the MC for the Comedy Special. She is comfortable in tiny clubs and on national TV. She was the first African American woman ever nominated for the American Comedy Awards. Drew Dellinger is a poet, rap artist and activist; Amy Goodman called David [ . . . ]

Brave New Voices – The Youth Poetry Movement

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, The Arts

Youth Speaks is a Bay Area nonprofit, with satellite workshops around the country. They are providing a safe space for high school students to put their thoughts and emotions on paper and on the stage. Since the founding of Youth Speaks in 1996 the youth poetry movement has spread to many places, including Seattle, New York City and even abroad.
Places to hear the young poets are the Teen Poetry Slam, Brave New Voices and the Bringing the Noise Reading Series. Every event inspires many more teens to join workshops where they learn from each other honest writing and critical thought. You will be amazed at the youth of the speakers on this program, most are just 16, the range of [ . . . ]

The Life And Times Of Utah Phillips

By MariaJuly 4, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, The Arts

Utah talks about his life and how he became an activist
Utah Phillips said he never put it all together quite like this. From his childhood to Korea, his work with transients and migrants, his discovery of anarchism and pacifism and how to use music as a weapon, this is a moving, honest account of an extraordinary life.
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Burning Man & The Caucasian-Americans

By MariaApril 20, 2016Amazing Speakers & Events, The Arts

Burning Man is four stories tall and glows neon at night: a wooden man-sculpture which is burned each year in the vast expanse of the Black Rock desert of Nevada. This sound collage is part of a post-modern carnival of the absurd. Also: What would America have been without the Caucasian-Americans, with their magnificent shopping malls, their colorful polyesters, and their landfills? This anthropological comedy is based on Beverly Slapin’s workbook for children. 60 minutes
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Memorial for Allen Ginsberg

By MariaApril 20, 1997Amazing Speakers & Events, The Arts

On Sunday, April 20, 1997, the huge synagogue Emanu-El in San Francisco was filled with fellow poets and friends remembering the life of the Beat/Buddhist/Rebel poet Allen Ginsberg. Among the speakers were Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, Robert Haas, and Gary Snyder.
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