Before President Obama granted clemency, Manning was serving 35 years in prison, the longest sentence for a leak in U.S. history
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Headlined Show, The People Speak March 25, 2018
Umaymah Mohammad talks to host Elizabeth Valencia about her organization - Young Muslim Collective.
Headlined Show, Sri and Kira Live March 25, 2018
Living without BS! What the Retrograde will reveal!
March! Wow! Here we are and the Mercury retrograde has now come forward in its direct position and will carry us through early May! This has been a month of HONESTY and expansion, of release and re-claiming our true self.
So how does your life look when you honestly clear out the BS and get Clear? How can the energy of this “long” retrograde assist you? What is ready to reveal as we culminate the first three months of 2018 and unify Shanti, Bhakti and Ananda?
Important questions that provide REAL answers to the moments just ahead! You may want to take notes during the show and for sure will want to listen to this one again and again as Sri & Kira lovingly share what you need to know TODAY!
This show is LIVE and the phone lines are open! Your questions and mini soul reading requests are welcome!
Headlined Show, Shadow Politics March 4, 2018
Our guest CaDori believes "If you don't put yourself first, no one else will!" In her new inspirational book for women and girls "Women Put Yourselves First and Be Happier," she reminds everyone that when on an airplane, passengers are instructed to put their own oxygen mask on first before assisting others. She believes it is the same in real life. CaDori is a registered nurse by profession and the founder of CaDori Helping Hands, a non-profit charity to help people in need. She recognizes the growing power of women in business and has spoken to empower young girls and women at the "Chicks with Class" girls' camp, and was featured in Empower Magazine based in Houston, Texas. As an entrepreneur, CaDori developed her own "I Love Me" clothing line and is currently writing her second book, and a cookbook, to be released in 2018. CaDori presently hosts "Tuesday Talks with CaDori" on the AMFM247 Broadcasting Network.
Headlined Show, The War Report on Public Education March 4, 2018
This week Dr. Miller provides a model for creating the New Urban Positive Youth Development Public High School that will serve a larger purpose. He will outline and explain the schools' vision, mission, goals, curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher education and training. This is a model where students and teachers are natural researchers. This is a must-listen for all of our listeners who want to create a new future for our schools, our teachers, our parents and our communities via the Positive Youth Development Model Movement. Next Sunday, March 11, 2018 will be our last show on the air after 4 years of broadcasting.
Headlined Show, Insight Out...the Naked Truth March 4, 2018
If we look at the multifarious happenings that media keeps informing us of. (keeping in mind what media shows you is just a tiny fraction of the billions of events that are happening every moment, (and that's just on this planet)
but still, you're still asking the question "why" are we human beings so recalcitrant, stupid, stubborn, idiotic, divisive and cruel as well as good, honest, cooperative, respectful, civil, thoughtful and caring....well....knowing why could be useful.
If so, then join Rochelle and I this morning for our show, "Insight Out--the Naked Truth" 8 AM PT....a re-broadcast of the program when "Why" was our featured phrase of the week,which we first premiered on March 7, 2017--and what a day it was!!
Here's how we described the advance notice of the program at that time:(what was actually said on the program which ou can now hear turns out to be very curious--sure surprised us!)
"Why?"
I ask myself that all the time, so, coincidentally tonight's featured phrase/word of the week is "Why?
Like, why do we do this show every week? If you think it's because of the big bucks, guess again.
There are other compelling issues that are demanding the answer to the question, "Why?"
Why do we exist?
Why is our country/government so divided?
Why do men have nipples?
On the other hand as Werner Erhard often said at his EST seminars, the answer to "Why" is the booby prize. In other words, does it really matter why?
It matters if the "why" is referring to the motivation for anything, or if the "why" is the reason for something to be done, it can matter a lot.
Suffice it to say that for such a tiny word, "why" opens up a huge can of possible reasons, which is "why" we're going to get into the "why" tonight.
Can you join us this morning at 8 AM. If not, "why" not? Are you too busy? If so, why? or???
Our conversation will be riddled with insights, humor, music, surprises and guest characters. And if you want to know why, you'll just have to tune in.
Until the morning , we are your hosts,
Errol & Rochelle Strider.....why not?
Every Day is a New Day
Guest, Women Up International
May 24, 2017
The mission of Women Up International is to be a catalyst for unprecedented vibrant living despite past victimization and trauma in our lives.
The mission of Women Up International is to be a catalyst for unprecedented vibrant living despite past victimization and trauma in our lives.
Women Up International - Co-Founders / Co-Owners:
- Kaelen Revense
- Becky Norwood
- Amy Ballon
Women Up International fuels inspiration, ignites hearts, and sparks inner-healing that radiates out to our world. Our mission is to be a catalyst for unprecedented vibrant living despite past victimization and trauma in our lives.
Our Million Women Message Movement unites women who are determined to make a positive global impact by breaking the cycle of abuse and victimization, standing up for those who cannot stand for themselves, and empowering each other to love, forgive, heal and vibrantly thrive.
Our members are women making a conscious choice to take back and own their power, fall in love with who they are authentically, live intentionally and be a force for change in our world.
Through Women Up International, they enjoy the ability to speak up, stand up, find their own truth and command their inner power sparking a life time of empowering experiences and a sisterhood of support.
CONTACT:
@WomenUpInternational
support@womenupinternational.com
Dare To Dream
Guest, DAVID WATSON
May 24, 2017
Deep-Trance Channeler, workshop leader, author, psychotherapist and life strategist.
Deep-Trance Channeler, workshop leader, author, psychotherapist and life strategist.
David Watson is a popular channeler, workshop leader, author and life strategist in Toronto, Canada. David is a gifted Deep-Trance Channeler who has been channeling a Soul Group called the Willows since 1986. David works in the style of Edgar Cayce. From a deep trance state he answers questions and queries about health, relationships, spiritual matters, past lives, career and much more. The Willows are a Group of Entities who claim their numbers from both the physical and ethereal planes. David is also a practicing psychotherapist specializing in stress counseling and soul purpose work. David's learnings have led him to commit to sharing his philosophy worldwide through his book 'The Conscious Omniverse' as well as his many webcasts over the years. His desire is to help others free themselves from the limiting beliefs and fears of an uncertain future and live the life they choose to live.
The People Speak
Guest, John Pilger
May 23, 2017
Filmmaker/Journalist
Filmmaker/Journalist
John Pilger was born and grew up in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. He launched his first newspaper at Sydney High School and later completed a four year cadetship with Australian Consolidated Press. "It was one of the strictest language courses I know," he says. "Devised by a celebrated, literate editor, Brian Penton, the aim was economy of language and accuracy. It certainly taught me to admire writing that was spare, precise and free of cliches, that didn't retreat into the passive voice and used adjectives only when absolutely necessary. I have long since slipped that leash, but those early disciplines helped shape my journalism and writing and my understanding of moving and still pictures".
Like many of his Australian generation, Pilger and two colleagues left for Europe in the early 1960s. They set up an ill-fated freelance 'agency' in Italy (with the grand title of 'Interep') and quickly went broke. Arriving in London, Pilger freelanced, then joined Reuters, moving to the London Daily Mirror, Britain's biggest selling newspaper, which was then changing to a serious tabloid.
He became chief foreign correspondent and reported from all over the world, covering numerous wars, notably Vietnam. Still in his twenties, he became the youngest journalist to receive Britain's highest award for journalism, Journalist of the Year and was the first to win it twice. Moving to the United States, he reported the upheavals there in the late 1960s and 1970s. He marched with America's poor from Alabama to Washington, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. He was in the same room when Robert Kennedy, the presidential candidate, was assassinated in June 1968.
His work in South East Asia produced an iconic issue of the London Mirror, devoted almost entirely to his world exclusive dispatches from Cambodia in the aftermath of Pol Pot's reign. The combined impact of his Mirror reports and his subsequent documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, raised almost $50 million for the people of that stricken country. Similarly, his 1994 documentary and dispatches report from East Timor, where he travelled under cover, helped galvanise support for the East Timorese, then occupied by Indonesia.
In Britain, his four-year investigation on behalf of a group of children damaged at birth by the drug Thalidomide, and left out of the settlement with the drugs company, resulted in a special settlement.
His numerous documentaries on Australia, notably The Secret Country (1983), the bicentary trilogy The Last Dream (1988), Welcome to Australia (1999) and Utopia (2013) all celebrated and revealed much of his own country's 'forgotten past', especially its indigenous past and present.
He has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, which have also won numerous US and European awards, such as as the Royal Television Society's Best Documentary.
His articles appear worldwide in newspapers such as the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Il Manifesto (Italy). He writes a regular column for the New Statesman, London. In 2001, he curated a major exhibition at the London Barbican, Reporting the World: John Pilger's Eyewitness Photographers, a tribute to the great black-and-white photographers he has worked alongside. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigous Sophie Prize for '30 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.' In 2009, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.
The People Speak
Guest, Evan Greer
May 23, 2017
Activist/Singer/Songwriter/Organizer
Activist/Singer/Songwriter/Organizer
Evan Greer is a trans/genderqueer activist singer/songwriter, parent, and organizer based in Boston. She writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! Evan tours internationally as a musician and speaker, and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin’ bluegrass singalongs, Evan has been honored to collaborate, tour, and share stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Talib Kweli, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Immortal Technique, Hari Kondabolu, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Pamela Means, Anti-Flag, Downtown Boys, Against Me!, The Coup, Anne Feeney, Oi Polloi, Dispatch, Dirty Projectors, Holly Near, and Chumbawamba. She's currently the campaign director for Fight for the Future, the viral digital rights nonprofit. Evan writes regularly for The Guardian and Huffington Post, has been a guest on All Things Considered, and has been interviewed about her activism by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, TIME Magazine, NBC, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Democracy Now!, The Atlantic, CNN, Mother Jones, and even Fox News.
Evan is Campaign Director of Fight For the Future...
Fight for the Future is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 whose mission is to ensure that the web continues to hold freedom of expression and creativity at its core. We seek to expand the internet's transformative power for good, to preserve and enhance its capacity to enrich and empower. We envision a world where everyone can access the internet affordably, free of interference or censorship and with full privacy.
Our goal—always—is to build tech-enhanced campaigns that resonate with millions of people, enabling them to consolidate their power and win historic changes thought to be impossible. In 2012 we organized the largest online protest in history, an internet-wide strike against web censorship which defeated the SOPA and PIPA bills. More recently, our Battle for the Net campaign drove nearly four million people to contact the FCC resulting in the game-changing passage of net neutrality rules (a “First Amendment” for the Internet). Here’s exactly how we did it. Our Reset the Net campaign organized around protecting the privacy of hundreds of million of internet users.
Our accomplishments are testament to the notion that with the right approach and creative activism, the public interest can prevail—even over some of the most entrenched political forces in the world. For more details on these and other accomplishments, check out a timeline of the events leading up to and immediately after the SOPA strike.
Evan has been also been at the forefront of supporting the humane treatment and release of Chelsea Manning who had her sentence commuted by President Barack Obama.
Why I Fought for Chelsea Manning
by Evan Greer
Chelsea Manning is my friend, but I’ve never seen her face to face, or given her a hug.That’s because Chelsea has been in prison for the last seven years, sometimes held in conditions that the United Nations considers to be torture. She has been serving what was meant to be a 35-year sentence — all for helping to expose some of the U.S. government’s worst abuses by making public thousands of military documents. This week, Chelsea will be released. I have to type those words again to believe them.
This week, Chelsea Manning will walk out of an all-male, maximum-security military facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, and begin the rest of her life.This moment may never have come. Chelsea attempted to take her own life twice over the last year of her incarceration, after years of abuse and harassment at the hands of the U.S. government. She was first locked up as a whistleblower, but as a transgender woman behind bars she was systematically denied medically recommended health care, and routinely subjected to degrading treatment even as the Obama administration trumpeted its support for LGBTQ rights.
Chelsea’s release is a victory for human rights and the future of freedom of expression. And it’s a testament to the power of grassroots organizing. If not for the hundreds of thousands of people from across the political spectrum who spoke up, rose up, and fought for Chelsea’s freedom, I firmly believe that she would not be with us today.Well before I met Chelsea, a strong network of activists, lawyers, journalists, nerds, veterans, free speech advocates and LGBTQ folks were rallying around her, drawing public attention to her case and ensuring that the U.S. government’s persecution of this brave woman did not go unnoticed.
"By refusing to remain silent Chelsea Manning has shifted the world in ways that will benefit so many."
Through my work at Fight for the Future, I connected with Chelsea and began to speak with her regularly on the phone. She is one of the most compassionate and humble people I have ever met. Whenever we would speak, in spite of the inhumane conditions of her incarceration, she would always ask me how I was doing — what could she do to help?
Chelsea has always been motivated by a driving desire to help others and make the world a better place. And by refusing to remain silent she has shifted the world in ways that will benefit so many, from other trans people living in America’s prisons to those in the crosshairs of our foreign policy.
Chelsea is a great connector. From behind bars, without access to the Internet and prevented from speaking directly with the press, Chelsea still managed to share herself with the world. She ran a Twitter account, and wrote a column for The Guardian. She even drafted a piece of cyber security legislation, which Fight for the Future delivered to lawmakers’ desks.
When prison officials targeted Chelsea and threatened her with solitary confinement, a broad coalition of organizations worked together to defend her. We gathered hundreds of thousands of petition signatures, and flooded officials with phone calls, tweets and messages demanding basic dignity and humane treatment.
We protested in the streets, at the Pentagon, at the prison, at pride parades. We rallied artists, technologists, libertarians, queer folk and rock stars.
The U.S. government wanted to erase Chelsea Manning along with the crimes that she exposed. We helped keep her in the spotlight, and ensured that she was never forgotten.
When Chelsea walks through those prison doors on Wednesday, everything will change. She’ll have the chance to make her own choices and define her own destiny for the first time in her adult life. She’ll be a prominent and outspoken transgender woman — one who has already inspired so many of us.
It was an honour to fight for Chelsea’s freedom. After all, she has dedicated her life to fighting for mine.
Tom Morello, Thurston Moore Contribute to Chelsea Manning Benefit Compilation
Graham Nash, Against Me!, Downtown Boys, more lend songs to raise money for whistleblower
Tom Morello, Thurston Moore, Graham Nash and more have contributed songs to a new compilation benefiting whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Chiaki Nozu/WireImage/Getty
Tom Morello, Thurston Moore, Graham Nash, Against Me! and more contributed songs to a new benefit compilation, Hugs for Chelsea, celebrating Chelsea Manning's release from prison. Manning's friend and activist Evan Greer organized the compilation, with proceeds going directly to Manning to help her cover basic living expenses as she returns to the free world Wednesday after seven years of incarceration.
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Hugs for Chelsea also includes contributions from Amanda Palmer, Anti-Flag, Downtown Boys, Priests, Kimya Dawson and Sammus. While the majority of the comp comprises previously released material, it also includes unreleased tracks from Ted Leo, Screaming Females and Mirah. Greer also plans to keep adding songs to Hugs for Chelsea.
Several songs on Hugs for Chelsea are specifically about Manning, who, in 2013, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks (former President Barack Obama commuted her sentence in January). Thurston Moore's "Chelsea's Kiss" is a benefit track the former Sonic Youth rocker released in 2016, while Graham Nash shared "Almost Gone" – a collaboration with James Raymond – in 2013 to protest the particularly harsh conditions of Manning's incarceration.
"Chelsea Manning is one of my heroes," Nash said. "Anyone that has the courage to disturb the 'status quo,' to 'rock the boat' as she did is very brave and what she did was show some truth to the American people about what the government was doing in our name."
"As a transgender artist who fights for my community, it's hard to overstate the impact that Chelsea has had by sharing herself with the world," Greer tells Rolling Stone. "From her legal battles for access to hormones and appropriate clothing items to her highly publicized hunger strike, Chelsea fought for all trans people and secured victories that will benefit so many of us."
"She's been through so much and she needs our support," Michael Stipe added in a video promoting the project. "[Proceeds from the album will] help cover her basic needs as she transitions our of seven years of incarceration."
Along with Hugs for Chelsea, Greer and Manning's attorney, Chase Strangio, have set up a GoFundMe page to help raise additional funds for Manning.
Life Changes Show
Guest, Megan Zimring
May 22, 2017
Marketing Executive in the world of professional sports to Evolutionary Astrology and Soul Empowerment Coach
Marketing Executive in the world of professional sports to Evolutionary Astrology and Soul Empowerment Coach
MEGAN ZIMRING
After eight years as a Marketing Executive in the world of professional sports, Megan decided to shift gears and commit to her passion for activating the highest states of human potential through Evolutionary Astrology and Soul Empowerment Coaching.
Once an Elite Athlete & Olympic hopeful who ultimately overcame a debilitating spinal fusion, Megan deeply understands how it feels to function at polarized ends of the spectrum; from the fiery passion at the pinnacle of success to the pain of having it all taken away and the transformative process that occurs in between. It is in using Astrological insight and intuitive healing to guide others through their own evolutionary process that Megan has found her greatest passion of all.
Having studied martial arts and ancient wisdom traditions for over 14 years, Megan utilizes a variety of techniques in her work including sound therapy with Tibetan singing bowls, Reiki energy healing, mindfulness training, Spiritual Psychology, eastern medicine, and metaphysical principles in order to maximize client experience. A certified Evolutionary Astrologer, Megan helps clients optimize current planetary energies while positioning them to gain a profound level of self understanding using the wisdom of the stars.
Megan is a graduate of Rice University in Houston Texas (B.A. Psychology & Sports Management)
Life Changes Show
Guest, Corey Keisler
May 22, 2017
Pianist, Composer, Sound Healer and Hands of Light practitioner
Pianist, Composer, Sound Healer and Hands of Light practitioner
COREY KEISLER
Corey Keisler has been playing piano for more than three decades. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Berklee College of Music. Corey has been working in the music and healing arts with small and large groups throughout the United States during his career. He is a composer, sound healer, and Hands of Light practitioner. Corey is most known for playing Sunrise Ceremonies at local California festivals.
Corey is a cross between Tom Kenyon, Jonathan Goldman, and Yanni. His deep grounded shamanic toning cathartically heals the wounds of the soul. His ability to take large groups of people into their own unique sound allows for their souls to be sonically liberated. His cosmic piano playing allows the soul to soar to celestial heights.
Corey’s music has been critically acclaimed and has been praised by Grammy Award winning composer Ricky Kej – Wings of Samsara. “As the album name suggests, Corey Keisler’s piano works wonders with its truly healing notes….”
A Fireside Chat
Guest, Julian Rose
May 20, 2017
Organic Farming GMO Free Zone Activist Writer Essays Teacher Farmer
Organic Farming GMO Free Zone Activist Writer Essays Teacher Farmer
Julian is a champion of organic farming, and a hands-on President of the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside. He and his partner co-launched a highly successful ‘Campaign for a GMO Free Poland’ while leading a high profile defense of peasant farmers who he holds-up as the true guardians of biodiversity throughout the world. Regular listeners to BBC radio 4′s Framing To-Day will have heard Julian’s 2007 series of once monthly “Letters from Poland” passionately highlighting the crisis provoked by forcing ‘corporate globalization’ onto traditional family farming communities. As a result, there are now GMO FREE zones established in Poland, leading the way throughout the global community.
Additionally, Julian is a brilliant author whose articles pierce to the very core of one’s being: “Reverse-Engineering the Illuminati” and "Learning from indigenous wisdom and knowledge– To change society a cultural revolution in activism is needed". His first book is called Changing Course for Life. His new book is available at Amazon Books this month: “In Defense of Life: Essays on a Radical Reworking of Green Wisdom. You can find all of his material, books, research and thoughts on his website:
Peaceful Planet
Guest, Joanna Prentis
May 20, 2017
Author researcher, Past life regressionist, teacher
Author researcher, Past life regressionist, teacher
Bio for Joanna Prentis. D.Hyp.
I was born in Bangalore, southern India. Just before my third birthday, my family returned to Scotland where I spent most of my childhood and teenage years. After I left school, I travelled extensively, married and lived in Hong Kong for two and a half years and then ten years in the West Australian bush, where my three children were born. It was there that my interest in Alternative medicine and education began and also in organic farming, metaphysics and meditation. With a local nurse we ran a Homoeopathic and Radionic practice.
I returned to the UK in 1979 and later trained as a pre-primary and primary Montessori teacher, this led to me educating my two youngest daughters, Katinka and Larissa at home for a few years.
I have certificates in various healing modalities and hold a foundation diploma in Humanistic Psychology. I also trained with Ursula Markham in Hypnotherapy and Past Life therapy and have diplomas in these also’
With my eldest daughter Tatanya, we set up the Starlight Centre in 1988, a centre for healing and expansion of consciousness. Over the years Tatanya introduced us to many innovative techniques and interesting people. We did two firewalks led by Essasani who at that time worked with Chris Griscom at her Nizhoni school in Santa Fe.
In 1999 we closed the centre to concentrate on producing our books. I now speak Language of Light and continue healing, but most of my sessions are now done on Skype, unless someone lives in the UK.
We also worked with Mary Pat and Fred Fuchs (film producers) and script writer Jo Boyle for nearly four years as advisors for their film, based on our Essene Trilogy, but have not, as yet, been able to raise the funds to finance this film.
OUR BOOKS are available through any good bookseller , but also through Ozark Mountain Press. amazon.co.uk and amazon.com Joanna will discuss her new revelations about Jesus and Mary Magdalene in her latest book, the Magdalene Version, Secret Wisdom from a Gnostic Mystery School! Don't miss this show in our Holy grail series.
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