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Local activists arrested in W. Virginia for mountaintop removal protest

Wally Bowen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:43:33 +0000

Join us for this Summer Solstice news special featuring coverage of local activists arrested June 17 during a mountaintop removal protest in West Virginia. The half-hour broadcast also includes commentary by MAIN executive director Wally Bowen on the future of MAIN and WPVM. The coal country interview features local citizen journalist Kurt Mann and clean energy activist Dave Hollister. Both the interview and Kurt Mann’s dramatic video footage of activists climbing a Massey Coal Co. dragline machine can be found in the MAIN homepage spotlight at: http://www.main.nc.us.

Earthtone presents Rick Preston @ BoBo Sat. 1/17

onair — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:48:18 +0000

Rick is a legendary West Coast DJ/Producer now living in Santa Cruz, Ca. He’s got an extensive discography with tracks on labels like Glasgow Underground, Amenti, & Viva!

He will also be stopping by the WPVM studios for an interview with Adam from the Nighttime Swerve.!!! Stay tuned for that broadcast.



Wordplay: Rare Birds
onair — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:24:28 +0000
Jazz fans will like this show. Thomas Rain Crowe and Nan Watkins dropped in to talk about their new book of interviews with great composers and players, Rare Birds, published late last year by the University Press of Mississippi. And if you’re going to talk about music, you really should play some, right? So the show features full tracks by Charles Lloyd, Philip Glass, Eugene Friesen, Sathima Bea Benjamin, and the Abdullah Ibrahim Trio. Enjoy. 



Wordplay this week: Robert B … er, make that Glenis Redmond, Laura Hope-Gill, Sebastian Matthews, and Ryan Walsh
onair — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:10:41 +0000
 Ah, poets … not the promptest people on the earth’s face, are we? If you’d tuned into this week’s Wordplay, you might have thought I’d just repeated last week’s fine show with Robert Bly, and moved on.
True, this week’s show does start off with about 15 minutes of the show with Bly; I’d cued it up when none of my guests had appeared by airtime, and a few minutes later headed the half-block to Malaprops for a cup of coffee. Half way there, though, I saw Glenis Redmond heading in my direction, so I met her and we headed back to the station. A few steps on, Laura Hope-Gill shouted from her car that she’d be there as soon as she parked, and that Sebastian Matthews was on the way. By a quarter after we had gathered in the studio (and Sebastian came along a couple minutes later – and brought with him Ryan Walsh, who’s now helping him edit Rivendell), and at the first break in the Bly show we went live, reading poems and talking over poetry, poets, the upcoming Wordfest, and the new plan for Rivendell for the rest of the hour. Turns out they’d all been to the same Kwanzaa party the night before, and had had a bit too much fun …
Give it a listen.



And if you wanted to catch the Bly show, it’s still available on the archive too, and it’s worth catching.
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Cross-posted at Natures

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Mark Strand reads for RiverSculpture
onair — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:53:14 +0000
Way back in late September, Mark Strand (that Mark Strand – former Poet Laureate, MacArthur Fellowship winner, and on and on, arguably one of the most celebrated poets of the last fifty years) visited Asheville to read for the benefit for RiverSculpture, a cause near and dear to the hearts of his old friends Robert and Arlene Winkler. He actually read twice, once at the home of Ron and Nancy Edgerton, and then again at the local Barnes & Noble. Your intrepid reporter had to head to Hickory for the Spirit of Black Mountain College festival on the 25th, so couldn’t record the B&N event, but did catch the private reading the night before. This week’s Wordplay features that reading.
I’ve included part of a 2007 reading at George Mason University, as well, one in which Strand gave a more chronological overview of his work.
It’s fascinating work, of course. I’d read most of his poems through the years quietly, to myself, and hearing him in person made me aware that I’d missed much of the music. Note to self: poetry needs to be sounded out. Always, no matter how ratiocinative and logopoetic (in Pound’s sense) it might appear.
Robert and Arlene were on hand for the show, and gave listeners out in radioland a primer on RiverSculpture and its mission, and some background on Strand and the readings.
Give it a listen.
Jeff



A bunch of ideas to save OUR (small) world.
onair — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:30:08 +0000

A world of thanks first  to those who show up (170) at the Public Hearing in Reynolds regarding the impact of the CLIFFS on our water quality . 
This week the Paris of the South radio hour invite you to  go to GRENOBLE to visit the 2nd debating forum organized by the leading French paper “Liberation” . Amongst the subjects being discussed during the three day event were the food crisis, ecology, and aid to the developing world. 
Then we still stay in PAris to hear a  special on CONCIERGES , an endengered heritage, an easy solution to bring life , humanity and enhance our social life in those condo and apartments complex  . A great idea for ASHEVILLE ! Courtoisy of RadioFrance International! 
Click on WeLoveMain/Wpvm to hear the show right now . 



Veterans’ Voices for October 22, 2008 – Rebellion, What is it Good For?
onair — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:15:00 +0000
This week on Veterans’ Voices we speak with local lawyers, Bruce Elmore and Frank Goldsmith about rebellion.  Duke University Professor, Michael Hardt joins the conversation by phone from Raleigh.
We have pictures from the VFP & IVAW protest before the final debate, where an Iraq Veteran was trampled by police on horseback.
Iraq War Vet Nick Morgan (photo by Bill Perry)
We discuss what happened and how it could play out in the courts.
If you missed last week’s discussion about Columbus Day, get it before it’s gone.



Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here. 



Special REPORT/The floating houses in Sausalito…Hippies will never died .
onair — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:16:39 +0000
 

Patience , patience THE PARIS OF THE SOUTH Radio Hour is in California showing French tourists how cool American are ! I will be back in November in Asheville .

Meanwhile i stopped by the floating houses in Sausalito and recorded an exclusif interview with one of the eldest and fighters for the preservation and protection against speculators and developpers .

Meet jane , Tom and Melinda …The energy of the Seventies …Dreamers of a reality : Happiness in the bay of San Francisco at an affordable cost !
Long Live our community radio ! Please support our fundraising soon to come !

Cheers Francois



Veterans’ Voices for October 8th, 2008 – Keep Space for Peace Week
onair — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:11:04 +0000
This week on Veterans’ Voices we will play part two of our talk with Yana Pitner, UNCA Professor of European History and Russian-American, about the Georgia / Russia conflict and historical perspective. Additionally, we will talk to Bruce Gagnon. He serves as Secretary/Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. He has been working on space issues for the past 20 years and helped create the GN in 1992. He has been named to Helen Caldicott’s Nuclear Policy Research Institute Board of Advisors. For 15 years he coordinated the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice. He was trained as an organizer by the United Farmworkers Union.
If you missed last week’s interview, part 1 with Yana Pitner, get it before it’s gone.
Next week: The truth about Christopher Columbus.
Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here. 



Veterans’ Voices for October 1st, 2008 – Part One – Russia/Georgia Conflict
onair — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:36:20 +0000
This week on Veterans’ Voices we will play part one of our talk with Yana Pitner, UNCA Professor of European History and Russian-American, about the Georgia / Russia conflict and historical perspective. 

In our art segment we play Russia by Russian artist, Bichevskaya Zhanna.

If you missed last week’s interview with Yvette Coil, wife of a Veteran and member of the Kent State Antiwar Committee, get it before it’s gone.
Next week: Our talk with Yana Pitner continues and it’s ‘Keep Space for Peace Week‘!!
Tune in to Veterans’ Voices at 5 pm every Wednesday or stream/podcast here.