Supreme Court sells out America
The recent decision to allow corporate money to be unlimited and more direct is one of the worse decisions in the history of the court. It opens the door to full blown fascism as Mussolini defined it and as President Obama stated in the State of the Union, will allow foreign corporations to be able to influence our elections. Alito seemed to indicate he disagreed but was unavailable to explain how he disagreed. Alito is obviously a fascist leaning judge if not a full blown fascist. He and Roberts should be held accountable and be forced to expose why they allowed such a hideous decision to be made. Good for Obama for bringing it out.
Ted Kennedy
Today as we pay our tributes to Ted Kennedy and his passing, I would like to recall the influence this man had on my life. He rose above political positions and fought for those who offered little or no support for his political career. He saw his brothers Jack and Bobby murdered and his older brother Joe die while serving his nation. Ted could have done it the easy way, but he refused as he fought for the little guy.
I heard his words about his brother Robert and 8 words he said stuck with me and remain a key to my doing the things I do. Those words: “He saw wrong and tried to right it”. The same time he called for people to work to make good things happen and spoke of love and understanding.
He will be missed.
August 16th Show
Guest: Patricia Likens of Salt River Project and Rebecca Schneider
S. R. P. is wanting to increase it’s electrical rates 8.8% and some say even more. Patricia will give the S.R.P. reasons and try to explain some of SRP’s plans.
Rebecca Schneider ran against Jeff Flake and likely will run against him next time. She attended the Jeff Flake Town Hall Meeting on Monday and she and I will discuss this meeting.
As always, we will take calls and talk to people from the Katrina Area who have updates or stories from that area.
August 9 Show
Shawn Sahms and I talked and straightened out the problem getting in contact that caused him not to be on last Sunday so he will be with us this Sunday. Also I will have a guest that is with Support our Veterans Organization that helps gets veterans into homes. We also are trying to get Salt River Project people to talk about their rate increase request although may be a later show. Lots of topics to cover but we will try to get all we can in. As always your calls are welcomed.
August 2nd Show
Guest: Paul Saltzman and Shawn Sahms
Paul Saltzman is the filmmaker of the HBO and Sundance Film Festival Documentary “Prom Night in Mississippi” We will hear more about this story of Morgan Freeman’s hometown Charleston Mississippi and how this small Mississippi Delta Town is dealing with overcoming racism.
Shawn Sahms is the son of Doug Sahms who started the Texas Tornados and launch the career of Freddie Fender and more. Shawn has continued the group that is one of the icon groups of Tex Mex Music.
July 26 Show
Guest: Lecia J. Brooks
Director, Civil Rights Memorial Center
Interim Director, Teaching Tolerance
Southern Poverty Law Center
also may have a special guest who I am waiting to see if they are available. The special guest is Rep. Marsha Blackburn. Her office and I are working on finalizing the details and if she is on we will extend the show for another hour so it will be a live interview. This is not finalized but it looks pretty likely.
Topic is Racism.
Prom Night in Mississippi movie aired on HBO and is based in the hometown of Actor Morgan Freeman. First time that the small delta town of Charleston Ms. had a prom that allowed blacks and whites to attend, but as could be expected it was met with some resistence. We will discuss this movie but will also go beyond it to discuss racism in our nation. We here in Arizona have our own racism that is causing problems that are very much like the racism that is shown in the film as well as the racism I saw growing up. As always your calls will be welcomed.
July 19th Show
Special Guest: Mayor Tommy Longo of Waveland Ms.
The Mayor will join us to answer questions about the ongoing situation in his town. We have heard several stories from Waveland which the mayor will give the city’s position and side of the current issues facing the city of Waveland.
We will also talk about current events and issues we have experienced recently and as always, your calls will be welcomed.
July 12th Show
Topic: Current Events and activism
I have several topics that I want to touch on, but the biggest is what we are doing and what we can do. Your calls are welcomed. John Niems will be a guest and talk about current events as well as his upcoming album.
Help For Delliecia
Items and things that will help her.
HOUSING to live in.
housewares: pots, pans, silverware
furniture: adult and kid size beds, sofa, dressers, etc.
appliances: TV, radio, toaster, iron
MONEY DONATIONS to pay bills and help buy needed basic goods
post in comments if you can help
July 5th Show
The listeners voted and by unanimous vote they said to do a live show so we will be live.
The show will be of a special nature where callers are encouraged to call in on the topic of
What America is to Me and what I feel America should be.
What we are hoping for is to be able to get folks to tell what America is in their own lives today and how they hope it will be in the years to come. It has been pointed out for decades that America means different things to different people and not everyone has the same view of what is. Remember the First Lady saying she has never been as proud to be an American as she is now? The black people had to live like they were not part of the nation and yet today many feel they are finally true Americans since Obama won the Presidency. So we want to know what America is to you, but also it would be incomplete if we didn’t ask what you want to see America mean in the future.
The call in line is (602) 275-4130 or toll free at (800) 385-1566. also you can call in on the WQRZ-FM line 228-463-1035