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Jason Klumb - Regional Administrator, General Services Administration
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 06/15/2010 - 10:30pm
Jason Klumb, Administrator for the Heartland Region of the General Services Administration, sat down with Tell Somebody in his south Kansas City office to talk about how he called in doctors from the Centers for Disease Control to look into health concerns among former and current workers at the Bannister Federal Complex. More information at www.tellsomebody.us
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Exposed to radioactive promethium - Ivory Mae Thomas
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 06/01/2010 - 4:25pm
A little over twenty years ago, Ivory Mae Thomas was at work on the night shift cleaning offices at the Kansas City branch of the US nuclear weapons complex when someone came to her and said "I've got bad news for you. ...our machine had a little leak, and we discovered you stepped in radiation." They took her to an emergency room at the plant, took her clothes, scrubbed her down, and came to her house in the middle of the night and scrubbed it down. Thomas says she was never told exactly what she had been exposed to until a local television reporter dug it out with FOIA requests twenty years later.
On this edition of Tell Somebody, Ivory Mae Thomas and her son talk about her exposure to radioactive promethium in 1989.
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Dr. Helen Caldicott - Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, & Kansas City
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 05/25/2010 - 2:30pm
Dr. Helen Caldicott, a pediatrician, has, according to her biography at www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org, "devoted over 35 years to educating the public and policymakers about the medical hazards of nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and ecological collapse, and the necessary remedy of citizen participation."
Dr. Caldicott will be coming from Australia to Kansas City to speak on June 17, 2010 (more information at www.tellsomebody.us), and she got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and Kansas City.
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Free Press' Tim Karr - FCC's Ominous Intentions?
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 05/18/2010 - 5:59pm
Tim Karr, Campaign Director for Free Press and SaveTheInternet.com responds to the Kansas City Star's editorial on Net Neutrality headlined as FCC"s ominous intimidation imperils free growth of the Internet.
Also, Kansas City Activist Mary Lindsay gives some of the history leading up to the right wing activist Supreme Court's recent Citizens United v FEC decision.
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Coleen Rowley, Ray McGovern, Mignon Clyburn
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 05/11/2010 - 2:15pm
The May 11, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody features former FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley talks about the Quarles ('ticking time bomb') public safety exception and former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern talks about how "Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America." But first, a few excerpts from FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn's speech made the orning of the broadcast to a Free Press Media Summit. Check out all the links at http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/05/coleen-rowley-and-ray-mcgovern-tonight.html
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Antonia Juhasz - The Tyranny of Oil
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Mon, 05/10/2010 - 11:25am
On the May 4, 2010 editon of Tell Somebody, I played just a few minutes of a phone interview I did with Antonia Juhasz in October, 2008 about what was then her brand new book The Tyranny of Oil - The World's Moswt Powerful Industry - and What We Must Do to Stop It. After listening again, I decided to post the entire interview here.
Juhasz is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies and a senior analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus. She is on the National Advisory Committee of Iraq Veterans Against the War and on the Board of Directors of Coffee Strong. She has taught at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Masters Program and as a guest lecturer on U.S. Foreign Policy at the McMaster University Labour Studies Program in a unique educational program with the Canadian Automobile Workers Union.
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Puppy Mills, Oil Spills, & the Prince Who Crawled From the Sewer
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 05/04/2010 - 9:37pm
Barbara Schmitz, Campaign Manager for Missourians for the Protection of Dogs talks about puppy mill reform, Tyson Slocum, Director of Public Citizen's Energy Program talks about the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf, and, from the Tell Somebody archive, part of an October, 2008 conversation with Antonia Juhasz on The Tyranny of Oil. And what did Democracy Now! have to say about Blackwater's Erik Prince? Be sure to check out the links at www.tellsomebody.us
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Sick and Dead Workers from Toxic Exposure at Kansas City Plant - Wayne Knox
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 04/27/2010 - 12:28pm
Wayne Harrison Knox, Operational Health Physicist from Atlanta came to Kansas City to do his own investigation deaths and illnesses among current and former workers at the Bannister Federal Complex, and he stopped by to talk to Tell Somebody.
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Kansas City & Nuclear Weapons Policy - Alicia Dressman
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 04/20/2010 - 12:18pm
"As one White House official put it off the record, 'April is all nukes all the time.'"
On April 8, 2010, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was signed in Prague. On this edition of Tell Somebody, Alicia Dressman, a volunteer with the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and PeaceWorks KC explains some of the issues related to START and how this is relates to the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex and Kansas City's prominent role in the complex.
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Public Citizen- Supreme Court on Binding Arbitration -& Spring Break for Homeless
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 04/06/2010 - 12:09pm
This week on Tell Somebody, we have sample some audio from the Spring Break for the Homeless event put on by Richard Tripp's Care of Poor People, Inc., www.coppinc.com and then get an explanation of Rent-a-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson, a case on mandatory binding arbitration heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, from Deepak Gupta, staff attorney at the Public Citizen litigation group. www.citizen.org Finally, an excerpt of Bill Moyers speaking at a national conference on media reform. www.freepress.net
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Healthcare Legislation - A Step in the Right Direction?
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 03/30/2010 - 7:50am
On this edition of Tell Somebody, Dr. Carole McArthur and Prof. Mike Wood discuss the recently passed healthcare legislation.
Carole McArthur, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Oral Biology, UMKC School of Dentistry; Professor, Department of Pathology, Truman Medical Center
Mike Wood, adjunct professor at the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. Wood was among the early architects of Prime Health, one of the first HMO's in the country.
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Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star editorial board member, on the state of journalism
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 03/23/2010 - 12:37pm
Several recent shows have talked about the current state of journalism, and on this edition of Tell Somebody, Kansas City Star columnist and editorial board member Lewis Duiguid comes to the KKFI studio to share his viewpoint. Duiguid is the author of the award-winning 2004 book A Teacher's Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today, and of Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union in 2007.
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Care of Poor People Spring Break and DART House Nightmare
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 03/16/2010 - 12:27pm
Richard Tripp, author, cab driver, and founder of Care of Poor People, Inc. www.coppinc.com, is looking for your help feeding and clothing the homeless in Kansas City. Tripp returns to Tell Somebody to talk about the 20th annual Spring Break for the homeless coming up Saturady April 3, 2010.
In the second half of the show, Jessica Logsdon and Jeff Helkenberg give us a view of their DART house nightmare- they bought a house in the Northeast neighborhood of Kansas City, thought they had dotted all the 'i's' and crossed all the 't's', but ended up being arrested for trespassing in their own house because it was tagged as a drug house on a list that appears and disappears like a Cheshire cat, first in Kansas City MO territory, then in Jackson County, leaving nothing behind but an evil grin.
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John Nichols - Betting on our Better Angels
KKFI Programs - Tell Somebody - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 1:02pm
John Nichols and Robert McChesney's new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again has been much in the news lately. Recently I spoke to McChesney about it on the air and for this edition of Tell Somebody, I decided to give another listen to what John Nichols had to say kicking off a week of media reform events Alice Kitchen and I organzied with help from Friends of Community Media and other groups in Kansas City with help from www.freepress.net and Common Cause in October, 2008.
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Tom Klammer
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