Tell Somebody
A weekly public affairs program on KKFI-FM 90.1, Kansas City community radio.

KKFI’s Mike Murphy was the guest host for the January 17, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody.

On the show Mike talked to Laura Jung of SOA Watch about a recent court case involving school of the Americas, played audio from a Kansas City event marking the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and talked to Bev Harris of Black Box Voting.

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On November 27, 2011, I gave a talk on independent media and the journalism crisis at the All Souls Sunday Forum at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Kansas City, Missouri. 

"The UU Forum, Kansas City’s longest ongoing conversation, has offered a platform for the discussion of significant issues since 1943. Guest speakers typically focus on issues of political, social justice, moral, educational and artistic significance..."

This talk borrowed heavily from The Death and Life of American Journalism by Robert McChesney and John Nichols, but also includes a lot of my own observations after six years of producing and hosting Tell Somebody on 90.1 FM KKFI Community radio in Kansas City.

Where does the internet fit in as cause or solution of the journalism crisis?  How do the "Occupy" phenomenon and the Move to Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United v FEC relate to the journalism crisis? What should the future role of community radio be?

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The January 10, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features www.movetoamend.org spokesman David Cobb talking about the Occupy the Courts actions to be held across the country on January 20 and January 21, including the occupation of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C., the scene of the crime.

This show also inlucdes audio from the oral arguments in the Citizens United v FEC case.

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Occupy KC held what they billed as a New Orleans-style jazz funeral march in Kansas City, and the January 3, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody has some of the highlights.  Also, KKFI's Mike Murphy stopped for a visit to Occupy Columbus, Ohio, and finally a look back at the first weeks of Occupy KC.

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Direct download: ts_2012_01_03.mp3
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The December 27, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, the last show of the year, took a look back to the start of the year on the show.  Segments include two former workers at the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, where 85% of the parts for nuclear weapons or made or procured, journalist/film maker Sue Wilson on right wing radio in the wake of the Gabi Giffords shooting, Jeremey Alderson on the national broadcast/telecast of The 2011 Homelessness Marathon originating in Kansas City on KKFI, and why the move to amend the US Constitution to overturn Citizens United and media reform/journalism crisis are the two fundamental issues that every activist needs to be mindful of if they hope to be effective on any other issue.

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L to R: Kevin Zeese, Lt. Dan Choi, Ray McGovern, Col. Ann Wright

On the December 20, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody - attorney, Occupy Washington D.C. organizer and Bradley Manning Support Network spokesman Kevin Zeese spoke about the pre-trial hearing of Bradley Manning, and 27 year veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern spoke about the National Defense Authorization Act and the indefinite detention of US civilians.  Will the 2012 NDAA lead to the use of the military to put down Occupy protestors?

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Direct download: ts_2011_12_20.mp3
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The December 13, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody features investigative journalist Greg Palast talking about his new book, Vultures' Picnic - In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores. 

After that, we'll here part of a speech given in Kansas City on  December 11 by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly.

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Direct download: ts_2011_12_13.mp3
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Former FBI agent Coleen Rowley was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine in 2002.

On the December 6, 2008 edition of Tell Somebody, my June, 2008 interview with Coleen Rowley at the National Conference on Media Reform in Minneapolis was re-aired.

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Direct download: ts_2011_12_06.mp3
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On the Novemeber 29, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody we re-broadcast a show from May, 2011 that was never podcast.  The show featured Kansas City NBC Action News investigative reporter Russ Ptacek discussing his work on the Bannister Federal Complex and the workers there who were sickened by exposure to toxic substances.

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Direct download: ts_2011_11_29.mp3
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The November 22, 2011, edition of Tell Somebody has an interview with Christine Shearer, author of Kivalina, A Climate Change Story, news of Obama's FCC Chair Julius Genachowski's plans to trash media cross-ownership rules, and part of a Bradley Manning Support network press conference about his upcoming pre-trial court date.

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Direct download: ts_2011_11_22.mp3
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