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All Time Favorites ( 10)
Over 24 years of TUC Radio production a few programs have become unforgettable. Here they are.

Amazing Speakers & Events ( 76)
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.

Creative Communities ( 23)
Practical solutions for a new society (includes a 5-part series on how to print your own community money)
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- Banking ( 1)
- Simple Technologies ( 1)
- Transition Towns ( 1)

Environment and Climate Change ( 39)

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- Actions ( 1)
- Melting Ice ( 5)
- Sea Level ( 1)
- The ocean ( 3)

Films
Two years ago I started filming all my radio programs. Here are the most intriguing, interesting, helpful, unusual or rare film in that growing collection.
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- Films on DVD ( 34)

Food & Water ( 20)

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- Clean Water ( 1)
- Safe Food ( 3)
- Seed Sovereignty ( 1)

Foreign Policy

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- Imperial US ( 4)
- Middle East ( 19)
- Palestine ( 5)

Globalization ( 3)

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- Corporate Power ( 1)

Inside U.S.

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- 9/11 ( 7)
- Civil Rights ( 5)
- Economics ( 3)
- Government ( 10)
- Internet ( 1)
- Labor ( 3)
- Politics ( 11)
- Racism ( 2)

Live Recordings ( 1)

Michael Parenti ( 1)
An archive of speeches by this insightful author/researcher about how our societal institutions no longer serve us - Themes are: Globalization, US Intervention, Racism, the Media the cost of Empire and a discourse on Julius Caesar, rebel or dictator?
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- Michael Parenti Audio CDs ( 46)
  Audio CDs of Michael Parenti.
- Michael Parenti Films on DVD ( 30)
  Included are archival films transferred from VHS (come back for updates ..)

Native Nations ( 1)
Native peoples speak on the destruction of their lands and their cultures, which are inseparable
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- Environment ( 12)
  The effect of environmental degradation
- Sovereignty ( 15)

Newest Catalog Items ( 461)
If you can't see the program you are looking for on this list use the search form at top of this website to locate it in the Catalog.

Nuclear ( 2)

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- Nuclear Power ( 4)
- Nuclear Weapons ( 11)

Technology

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- Biotechnology ( 1)
- Radiation ( 1)

The Arts ( 6)

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- Philosophy ( 3)

Women ( 1)

Press Conference from the Norwegian Young Sea ICE Expedition – N-ICE2015

By MariaDecember 28, 2016Melting Ice

ONE self contained 29 min. program
In the winter of 2015, an ice-bound Norwegian research vessel drifted with the shrinking Arctic ice for half a year while an international team of 70 scientists worked to better understand the effects of rising temperatures and changing sea ice.
It was the first wintertime Arctic Sea ice experiment to study the thinning ice pack. Data from submarines since 1958 and from satellites since 1972 had already shown that the frozen area in the Arctic is diminishing, the ice is getting thinner, multi year solid old ice is disappearing and the Arctic ocean is warming. However nobody had stayed with the ice for 6 months.
Since 1928 the Norwegian Polar Institute has done scientific research, mapping and [ . . . ]

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How does the melting Arctic affect the rest of the world?

By MariaDecember 21, 2016Melting IceArctic, Climate Change

NOAA’s Arctic Report Card 2016
ONE self contained 29 min. program
The Arctic is now warming twice as fast as the global average. That’s the finding in the 11th Arctic Report Card released on December 13, 2016, at the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. NOAA’s Arctic Research Program Director, Jeremy Mathis, said about the year 2016: “Rarely have we seen the Arctic show a clearer, stronger or more pronounced signal of persistent warming and its cascading effects on the environment than this year.”
The Arctic Report Card, by a team of 61 scientists from 11 nations, lists the many ways in which the warming Arctic affects sea level rise, ocean and air circulation as well as weather in the [ . . . ]

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Faster Than Forecast: The story ice tells about climate change – Professor Jason Box

By MariaDecember 14, 2016Melting Ice

ONE self contained 29 min. program
At years’ end 2016 denial of climate change is being promoted at the highest level of the incoming Trump administration in the US. This in spite of the fact that even the coldest parts of planet earth are now warming at an unprecedented rate.
Professor Jason Box is one of the world’s experts on the Greenland ice sheet. He is professor in glaciology at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. He moved to Denmark to be closer to the one field of study that he is dedicated to with a kind of passion and sense of responsibility that is unusual for a tenured Professor. While working at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State [ . . . ]

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Winona LaDuke on Standing Rock – The test of civil society

By MariaDecember 7, 2016SovereigntyNative Americans

ONE self contained 29 min. program
On her way home from one of many visits to Standing Rock, the Native American activist and author Winona LaDuke stopped in Chicago and gave a talk at the Newberry Library to a standing room only audience.
Winona LaDuke lives on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is working on climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice. She is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and Program Director of Honor the Earth.
Winona LaDuke’s talk in Chicago was framed by her clear headed assessment of the extraordinary risk that the fracking oil boom and the network of pipelines pose to our survival she offered examples how to break free from our addiction [ . . . ]

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Standing Rock Water Protectors are receiving eviction orders

By MariaNovember 30, 2016Sovereignty

The US Army Corps of Engineers and the North Dakota governor
issue 10 day notices to Oceti Sakowin camp
ONE self contained 29 min. program
This program is being recorded on November 29, 2016, less than a week before a December 5 deadline set by the Army Corps of Engineers as well as the Governor of North Dakota to vacate the several thousand inhabitants of Oceti Sakowin the most significant camp of the water protectors at Standing Rock.
The Standing Rock protests began in the Spring of 2016 in reaction to the construction of Energy Transfer corporation’s Dakota Access pipeline. It is designed to carry oil extracted by fracking. The pipeline would run from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to southern Illinois, [ . . . ]

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Captain Paul Watson: When the Oceans Die We Die

By MariaNovember 23, 2016The ocean

ONE self contained 29 min. program
When Captain Paul Watson – co-founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society returned from exile in France, TUC radio broadcast an interview with him that surpassed in downloads all programs of 2016 except for one. So here is an update on occasion of the beginning of the Japanese whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.
Sea Shepherd is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Their 1977 founding mission is to end the destruction of habitat and the slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans. Their decades long practice of aggressive non-violence has led to charges of piracy. However Sea Shepherd’s legal team defends the organization’s right to enforce international conservation laws in neutral waters.
Courts in many [ . . . ]

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ARCHIVE for Standing Rock: Military Response 

By MariaNovember 8, 2016Environment, SovereigntyNative Americans

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States 
This first part of the program brings you Dunbar-Ortiz’ description of North America before invasion, the emergence of the US concept of a chosen people, the development of the role of the US military as a force for genocide that seamlessly transitioned into the US foreign wars, the role of militias, a brief history of AIM, the American Indian Movement, and the consequences of the Gold Rush in California.
During Q&A Dunbar-Ortiz was asked about an earlier book by her. The Great Sioux Nation, published in 1977, came out of the 1974 Wounded Knee trials where Dunbar-Ortiz was an expert witness.   Her answer evoked the history of the armed takeover of Wounded Knee by [ . . . ]

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Ralph Nader “Breaking Through Power”

By MariaOctober 26, 2016Politics

This talk was recorded by me on October 18, 2016, at City Lights Books in San Francisco – just three weeks before election day. Nader talked about his new book – published by City Lights under the title “Breaking Through Power – it’s easier than we think”. From the advance reviews we knew that he was not going to advocate for any party, blue, red or green – in spite of his own former affiliation with the Green Party – and not even for Sanders in particular. He has a specific plan how to take power ourselves and apply it directly to Congress without the mediation or intervention of any party.
Part two of this program begins with a summary of [ . . . ]

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Julia Whitty – For Love and Protection of the Deep Ocean

By MariaOctober 12, 2016The ocean

I met Julia Whitty in August 2010 after her investigation of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster. This is an updated program of a memorable evening triggered by the August 2016 release of the movie: Deepwater Horizon that makes no mention of the ecological consequences.
In a small Northern California town where she lives she was giving a reading from her book: Deep Blue Home, An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean. That book had been described as: “breathtakingly learned and lyrical, written with humor, reverence and curiosity.”
Julia Whitty is a diver, former nature documentary filmmaker, author and environmental correspondent for Mother Jones. She explained why the deep ocean is the foundation of life for the upper layer of the sunlit sea. Many [ . . . ]

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Sea Shepherd Ocean Protectors – Captain Paul Watson

By MariaOctober 4, 2016Environment and Climate Change

This is ONE self contained program
Paul Watson was cofounder of Greenpeace and led the campaigns against the slaughter of baby seals in the late seventies. When Patrick Moore became president of Greenpeace Canada he halted direct action and forced Watson out. Today Patrick Moore is a spokesperson for Monsanto and the nuclear industry.
Paul Watson never stopped his involvement in direct action. After his ouster from Greenpeace he founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. (SSCS) It’s an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization. Their mission is to end the destruction of habitat and the slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans.
Paul Watson is both praised and criticized for Sea Shepherd’s practice of aggressive non-violence. He says that some laws and conventions [ . . . ]

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Arctic Amplification, Climate Change, and Global Warming – New Challenges from the Top of the World

By MariaSeptember 21, 2016Melting IceArctic, Climate Change

Professor Peter Wadhams
With increasing urgency Wadhams is calling attention to the disappearing sea ice of the Arctic. In his most recent book, A Farewell to Ice, he writes: “Our planet has changed color. Today, from space, the top of the world in the northern summer looks blue instead of white. We have created an ocean where there was once an ice sheet.”
In a lecture in Milan, Italy, in May 2015, Peter Wadhams explained how the melting of the Arctic affects the rest of the world. He listed seven major areas, among them sea level rise, emission of methane, and extreme weather events that we already experience.
Peter Wadhams is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist. He has made more than [ . . . ]

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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Sustainable Development and Deep Decarbonization

By MariaSeptember 7, 2016Environment and Climate Change

How the world lost a quarter century in the quest to get to zero carbon emissions, protect biodiversity, alleviate poverty and bring about sustainability for all.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author and syndicated columnist. His monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries.
He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize. That’s the global prize for environmental leadership. The New York Times called him “probably the most important economist in the world.”
Sachs was appointed University Professor at Columbia University in 2016, and also serves as Professor of Sustainable Development, and of Health Policy and Management at Columbia. Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty [ . . . ]

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The Project for the New American Century

By MariaAugust 10, 2016Imperial US

A reading from the document by Mime Troupe founder R.G. Davis
Introduced by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The paper was commissioned by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and others in the year 2000, before any of them were in government. The think tank, the Project for the New American Century, produced a blueprint for a system of world-wide US military dominance and intervention. The document remained secret until 2002 when it was discovered by the Scottish Sunday Herald.
The program opens with the peace poem: “Speak Out” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, features General John Allen’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president with Bernie Sanders supporters shouting “no more war”; and ends with a reading by SF Mime Troupe founder R.G. Davis from the bone [ . . . ]

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Who’s Counting – Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics – ARCHIVE

By MariaJuly 19, 2016All Time Favorites, Banking, Newest Catalog Items

Marilyn Waring was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting. This GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market and recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment.
At age 22 (in 1974) Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings at AUT University in Auckland and really her life as a [ . . . ]

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TUC Radio LIVE recordings

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Live Recordings

Maria Gilardin is taping many more interesting events than fit into the weekly schedule. Here are a few unedited, LIVE recordings that represent the rich cultural and political life of the Bay Area and beyond.
Helen Caldicott
Lecture In Mill Valley on April 11/2002
Helen Caldicott’s book, The New Nuclear Danger, has been released and she is now on a book tour. This talk before an overflow audience drew an enthusiastic response. (unedited recording)
code: A201 To order a copy click here: $8.00
Helen Caldicott
Lecture In Berkeley on January 25/2002
Helen Caldicott is back from Australia and now campaigns against the new STAR WARS, as well as nuclear and laser weapons in space. (unedited recording)
code: A202 To order a copy click here: $8.00
Greg Palast
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