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From The Station Manager
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From the Station Manager - Berthold Reimers
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Berthold Reimers
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WBAI Family,
To combat "Fund Drive fatigue", we have lined up a series of fun and interesting broadcasts and in-person events during the month of June.
On the weekend of June 7th to the 9th, WBAI will be broadcasting live from the Left Forum, airing talks and discussions featuring everyone from Jill Stein, Noam Chomsky, and Oliver Stone to Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. We will also be staffing a table, and welcome all WBAI listeners to stop by and say hello!
Later in the month, on June 30th, WBAI will present a special day of Pride Parade programing. The six hour special broadcast will include live dispatches from the parade, as well as interviews from this year's Dyke March, TransJustice Day of Action and Drag March in addition to opportunities for listeners to win free tickets to LGBT themed theater events in the city.
We also have the pleasure of airing Radio Bloomsday 2013, hosted by Janet Coleman of Cat Radio Café. Radio Bloomsday is a 7 hour live, nationwide reading of James Joyce's Ulysses. You can find more information about Radio Bloomsday 2013 bellow, in the "Events" section.
And remember, if you sign up to become a WBAI Buddy between now and June 8th, you will receive a complementary subscription to The Nation, in addition to the WBAI Tote Bag , a WBAI Buddy Perks card and the knowledge that you are helping reduce the number of Fund Drive days on WBAI!
Happy Listening,
Berthold Reimers
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Please click here: Calendar for an extensive list of upcoming events
- May 8- June 6, WBAI MAY FUND DRIVE - Listen to your favorite shows - some at extended
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June 16, Sunday 7pm-2am , Radio Bloomsday 2013: In Search of a Father - This year's broadcast includes a kaleidoscope of global artistic talent united by a passion for getting under the hood of the most influential novel of the twentieth century - James Joyce's Ulysses. Artists include Alec Baldwin, Aaron Beall, Charles Busch, Bob Dishy, Janet Coleman, Frank Delaney, Paul Dooley, Roma Downey, David Dozer, Michael Elias, Anne Enright, Jim Fletcher, Judy Graubart, Tony Hendra, Susanna Lindsay-Norris, Marc Maron, John McDonough, Paul Muldoon, Johnny O'Callaghan, Bob Odenkirk, Brian O'Doherty, Roger Norris, T. Ryder Smith, John Spinks, Amy Stiller, Jerry Stiller, Kate Valk, Derry Woodhouse and Zeroboy.
At 11pm, Caraid O'Brien will revisit her acclaimed Molly Bloom monologue as a dialogue that Molly Bloom has with herself performing together with Bernadette Quigley (In America, Law & Order). Musicians appearing live on the broadcast include All Ireland button accordion champion, Martin O'Connell, fiddle player Marie-Louise Bowe, singer Eileen Ruby, Steven Antonelli, Ralph Martin, Johnny Coughlan, Brad Maestas and Keith Connolly.
Radio Bloomsday is a seven hour nationwide live broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network "where artists interpret James Joyce's Ulysses." Coinciding with Father's Day, this year's program highlights the many different, sometimes tender and often difficult relationships between Fathers and their children seen throughout Ulysses. WBAI and the Pacifica Radio Network have been broadcasting marathon performances of James Joyce's Ulysses for over 30 years. Since 2008, Radio Bloomsday has been directed by Caraid O'Brien in collaboration with Janet Coleman, WBAI's Arts Director. KPFK in Los Angeles will also carry the broadcast.
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with Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Wallace Shawn, Jerry Stiller and more!
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- June 30, Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm: WBAI's LGBT Pride Special Sunday
Celebrating a year of massive advances for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, and broadcast as tens of thousands march through the streets for the City's annual LGBT Pride Parade, Out-FM will explore those victories (as well as continuing challenges). We'll share LGBT voices you aren't hearing elsewhere on Pride, from an audio documentary in which leading LGBT thinkers and activists discuss how to prevent the kind of violence against LGBT people we've seen so much of recently in New York, to popular out writer Sarah Schulman discussing her latest award-winning books, to intimate portraits of LGBT people doing important work around the world, to AIDS activists organizing in the 32nd year of the ongoing epidemic. Mixing politics with celebration, Out-FM will also run in-depth interviews with out writers, artists, and entertainers.
Sprinkled throughout the six-hour Pride Special will be live dispatches from the parade, LGBT comedy sketches, and pre-recorded street interviews from this year's Dyke March, the TransJustice Day of Action, and the Drag March. Throughout the day, there will also be free tickets for listeners to some of the best LGBT-themed theater in the city. THE WBAI PRIDE FEST TABLE: SAY HELLO -11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hudson St. between Abingdon Sq. & W. 14th St.
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Host Highlights
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Folk Fundraiser for WBAI
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On May 22, Wednesday evening, every seat in the Community Church on 35th Street in Manhattan was filled as WBAI listeners and staff enjoyed an amazing concert and discussion with Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) and his daughter's duo, Bethany and Rufus. The concert was organized by Building Bridges's Mimi Rosenberg and volunteer Jim Krivo. Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Receives the Staten Island Peacemakers Award  | | Tiokasin Ghosthorse |
"This message is brought to you by Mother Earth.
Love me, respect me and appreciate me.
For I am the giver of air, water and land from which all your sustenance derives..."
Those were the opening words from the acceptance speech of WBAI's own Tiokasin Ghosthorse, as he received the Staten Island Peacemakers Award at the Make Food Not War dinner of Peace Action of Staten Island.
Listen to Tiokasin Ghosthorse on First Voices Indigenous Radio every Thursday morning at 9:00AM. Tiokasin will be moderating a panel at the Left Forum - see details under "Programming" section below.
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Desi K. Robinson
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**Editors Note: The picture to the left had an incorrect caption in the May e-Newsletter for WBAI Producer Desi K. Robinson, host of Women in the Making which can be heard the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 2-3pm.
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Interns + Volunteers
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INTERN OF THE MONTH: Christopher Graham
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"First of all, it is a great honor to be highlighted as an intern during my time here at WBAI. I am a senior mass communications major from Claflin University, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Originally from the Bronx, New York, I was raised around great music and people of different cultures and persuasions. When I was younger, I was able to travel to Africa twice to experience the aesthetic and historical experiences the countries of Ghana and Mali had to offer. So naturally, when I discovered Afrobeat Radio here on 99.5 WBAI, I was immediately intrigued. From the moment that I saw the internship opportunity online until now, this has been a pleasant experience that will only continue to greater heights. Currently, I am doing research for Afrobeat Radio producer Wuyi Jacobs who will be a panelist at the Left Forum in early June. Thank you to WBAI for noticing me amidst other great candidates." SPRING/SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
Internships (credit and non-credit) internships in audio engineering, marketing, accounting, graphic design, social media networking, event planning, general station support, and business organization. Please email a resume, days/hours of availability, and areas of interest to:
internship@wbai.org.______________________________________________________________________________________________
**VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE WBAI TABLE AT THE LEFT FORUM June 7-9 Volunteers are needed to help out with our table at the Schimmel Center, Pace University on Spruce St. in lower Manhattan, June 7th, 2013 3:00pm through June 9th, 2013 7:30pm- free entry to the panels. Please contact Andrea Katz by Wednesday June 5 at andrea@wbai.org
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Listener Commentary
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To Gary Null:Congratulations, you're latest video on GMO is beyond excellent. It is the best thing on the net, you are free to use my endorsement on this video- great work. -Dr Ronald Klatz MD, DOCo-Founder/President-American Academy ofAnti-Aging Medicine
If we were to break off from Pacifica and attach ourselves to City College our station could survive as long as CUNY exists. Pacifica has given us insufficient support and mislead us in many ways. We pay a dues to Pacifica, but only get ordered around. Has Pacifica done anything to help us keep our space in the Empire State Building? Did Pacifica help us move to CUNY? We should offer free field training to all CUNY communication majors in exchange for remaining where we are and having CUNY plus all the listeners pay for the use of the space in the Empire State Building. The stress and craziness will be greatly reduced. We can focus on quality programming and cease those endless and too frequent fund-raising Marathons. -Judith Ackerman
Listeners: Please email
and tell us what your favorite WBAI show is and why.
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Please send your comments, complaints, or compliments related to any program subject matter aired this month toListenercommentary@wbai.orgwith "Listener Comment" in the subject line. Submissions should be limited to 400 words and please include your full name and location. We reserve the right to edit where deemed necessary.
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Programming
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WBAI LEFT FORUM BROACAST SCHEDULE:
Regular programming will be pre-empted during these times
Friday June 7, 2013 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Opening Plenary Addressing the connections between the creation of a thriving biosphere and the transformative conditions of ecology and economy needed to sustain it, plenary speakers will bring three unique left perspectives to bear upon these most pressing challenges of our times. Featuring: Christian Parenti, Jill Stein and Immanuel Wallerstein. Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 12:00 PM - 2:00 PMLive from the Left Forum with WBAI News reporter Rebecca Myles interviewing speakers and participants. Saturday, June 8, 2013 - 2:00 PM - 3:30 PMLunch Panel with Noam Chomsky Saturday, June 8, 2012 - 7:30 - 9:30 PMMobilizing for Eco-logical, Eco-nomic Transformation Oliver Stone, Peter Luznick, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Donna Murch and Greg Wilpert on the Untold History of the United States. (Broadcast will be preceded and followed by 1/2 hour pre-recorded highlights) Sunday, June 9, 2013 - 5:30 - 7:30 PM - Closing PlenaryBolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, John Bellamy Foster and Tadzio Muller
SEE WBAI HOSTS PARTICIPATING IN THESE LEFT FORUM PANELS:Tiokasin Ghosthorse of First Voices Indigenous Radio:
"Indigenize Our Paradigms: Restoring Sacred Sustainability"". Saturday, 6/8, 05:30pm - 07:10pm in room W614.Wuyi Jacobs of Afrobeat Radio:"Engaging the African Youth and Young Professionals in Africa's Sustainable Development". Sunday, 6/9, 10AM-11:50AM in room W619. "The African Diaspora Re-engaging with Africa". Sunday, 6/9, 12PM-1:50PM in room W618. "Africa and the 21st Century Governance and Security Challenges; Prospects for Ecological and Economical Transformation". Sunday, 6/9, 3PM-4:50PM in room W619 Richard Wolff of Economic Update: "Workplace democracy and democratic ownership: Moving from theory to strategy". Sunday 6/9, 12:00pm - 01:50pm in the Schimmel Center Theater. |
Berthold Reimers - General Station Manager
WBAI Pacifica Radio
250 Vesey St, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10282
(347) 903-2986
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