A lecture given at MIT by Joseph Cirincione of the Center for American Progress February 22, 2007 about which countries get nuclear weapons and which don't--with a focus on Iran.

Wayan Vota is director of IESC-Geekcorps.

Geekcorps pairs skilled volunteers from US and European high tech companies with businesses in emerging nations for one to four month volunteer tours, although many volunteers have extended their stays for much longer. Volunteers have served in 14 nations including Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Vietnam and Morocco, and have completed over a hundred projects. Geekcorps became a division of the International Executive Service Corps in 2001. The group is now officially known as the IESC-GeekCorps, and is located online at geekcorps.org

Tony Ellis reads from his latest poetry collection and discusses ghostwriting projects including "On the Wings of a White Horse", Oni Vitandham's story of her escape from the killing fields of Cambodia.

San Francisco-based writer Doug Gorney tells all about ghost-writing sports hero autobiographies.

Gil Alba

Gil Alba. Former New York City Police Department Dectective, Mr. Alba now heads up Alba Investigations, www.gilalba.com. Gil has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, and the O'Reilly Factor.

Noel Boxer

Mr. Boxer worked in the Clinton White House and is now the country coordinator in the Republic of the Congo for the non-profit, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,
www.ndi.org/.

Kembrew McLeod is author of the Oboler Award winning book Freedom of Expression, and the documentary films Copyright Criminals and Money for Nothing.
Kembrew is currently Associate Professor at University of Iowa, in the Department of Communication Studies.
This audio file is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 2.5 license. If you find it useful or interesting, please consider donating a few bucks to this station (KRUU).

John Wilbanks is currently the Executive Director of Science Commons

2007. Jan 22-i telefonos interju - magyar nyelven - eredetileg 2007. Jan 28-an sugarozva a "Magyar Egyveleg" musor reszekent. (In Hungarian. Please see the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble Interview above for the English translated/dubbed version)

English dubbing of the below referenced interview originally played under the Hungarian soundtrack as part of the rebroadcast of the "Speaking Freely" show on Jan 25/2007 ..
Translated by Laszlo Papp ...
Dubbing is made with the help of Jimmy Moore.

On this show I've spoken to editors from the Public Library of Science - Mark Patterson and Virginia Barbour - and to the Executive Director of Science Commons, John Wilbanks. They are all involved with the production and distribution portion of the Open Acces equation. What happens on the other side? How does Open Access affect an institution in the developing world, and does the model really have the promised benefits?

Are the problems stated by the Open Access movement "real", or just marketing?

To answer these questions, and to get a clear perspective from the end-user-side of Open Access, I spoke with Jennifer Papin-Ramcharan. Jennifer is the Engineering and Physical Sciences Librarian at the University of the West Indies, in Trinidad and Tobago. Jennifer agreed to talk to me about her experiences with Open Access.

This episode revolves around the issue of Conspiracy Theories.

Ethan Zuckerman founded GeekCorps, GlobalVoices and is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

After I spoke with Wayan Vota, currently Director of IESC-GeekCorps, about the work of Geekcorps in Mali. I wanted to get some more insights into why Geekcorps came into existence, from the person who founded the organization. But more importantly, I wanted to find out what has been learned from the collaborative model, global volunteerism, and the experiences working in Africa towards a better
society.

Ethan talked to me for almost 90 minutes, about his GeekCorps experiences, his work with the Berkman Center, and his ongoing work as a global activist. This is the abbreviated 45 minute version of the interview. The longer version is available by request.

Melissa Hagemann, my guest today on Open Views, is the program manager for the Information Program at the OSI. Melissa was profiled as a Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Innovator in December 2006 for her work promoting and facilitating Open Access.

Melissa could well be given the credit for the sucess of the Open Access movement. Considering the initiative is just over 5 years old, it's impressive that organizations as large as the National Institutes of Health have mandated are considering instituting that all the reseach they fund be released under an Open Access model and deposited into PubMed Central, the online digital library maintained by the NIH. Essentially this makes all NIH funded peer-reviewed articles completely freely available to anyone who wants it.

This week's show features hosts Kelley Custer and Brian Robbins with guest Ben Stallings.  Ben spent a year riding 7000 miles on a recumbent bike, visiting ecovillages and other green projects on the way.   After his journey, he settled in Fairfield, where he continues to live a car-free life.  Ben discusses  his trip and the benefits and challenges of life without a car. 

This week's guest on Open Views is Michel Bauwens , founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives at P2PFoundation.net.

Peer-to-Peer (or P2P) is most often thought of in terms of the file-sharing computer networks that have been vilified by the recording and movie industry associations, for allegedly permitting (if not encouraging) rampant digital content "piracy". But Michel takes the concept of peer networks, to the realm of society. We're creating a new world, where peer production is taking on traditional societal models. The most obvious example is Wikipedia - an encyclopedia designed to be created by collaborators, and gaining sufficient momentum (and arguable credibility) to take on the likes of
Brittanica. The success of the Wikipedia project could be attributed to peer production - basically global collaboration amongst a like-minded group.

A discussion of world events with a focus on the global ecovillage movement.

Yesterday on "In Depth With Erika Richards", we only skimmed the surface of a topic that is both emotional and complex.  In the studio today, we invited three guests to discuss the issue of CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, and their impact on both the environment and economy locally and statewide.  The four of us tiptoed around an issue that everyone seems to have an opinion about. No...not just an opinion...but a passionate opinion that defines quality of life on all levels.

My guests included:

   - Ron Sieren, a local small hog farmer and outside salesman for Reiff Grain and Feed;

   - Jim Flinspach, a grain farmer and president of the Jefferson County Farm Bureau; and

   - Jim Rubis, President of Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors, an organization founded to run interference on the proliferation of large corporate hog operations in the county and state.

(This recording is also available from archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/OpenViewsCoryDoctorow)

Cory Doctorow is currently a mostly full-time, award-winning science fiction author. His novels are all released under Creative-Commons licenses, and can be downloaded directly from his website at Craphound.com. Cory won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer for 2000, the Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom in 2003, and in 2004 he won the Sunburst award for best Canadian Science Fiction Book for his short story collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.

An interview with Global Ecovillage Network board member Giovanni Ciarlo from the GEN ecovillage in Huehuecotl, Mexico by BBC filmmaker Stuart Tanner and Planet Erstwild's James Moore.

Lonnie Gamble, KRUU host of Abundant Planet and founder of Fairfield's Abundant Ecovillage, joins the conversation, offering his insights and furthering the discussion with Giovanni.

Click the link to give a listen. 

Jeffrey Smith is the author of "Seeds of Deception," the explosive expose of the health dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods, and the forthcoming "Genetic Roulette." He will share his experiences as an investigative reporter, author and world-wide speaker; including his research methods, writing process, and how he integrates his writing and speaking careers.

Interview with Alexandra Berta in Hungarian with English dubbing.

Dubbing was made possible with the help of Livia Papp. 

Alexandra weboldala:  http://alexafolk.impressive.hu

Interview with Alexandra Berta in Hungarian - for English dubbed version click here ...

 
On Friday April 13th, guest host Clyde Cleveland interviewed Congressman Ron Paul of Texas (R) on Planet Erstwild.  Paul is running for president.  Clyde Cleveland ran for governor of Iowa as the Libertarian Party candidate in 2002. Reason Magazine interviewed Paul about his presidential bid earlier this year. Asked what issues he would emphasize, Paul responded:

"Everything I’ve talked about for twenty years! I think the biggest thing for Republican primary voters is that most Republicans are turned off right now. They’ve had a beating and are reassessing their values. They have to decide what they believe in. The Republican Party has become about big government conservatism, and Republicans need to hear the message they used to hear: that conservatives are supposed to be for small government."

Richard Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. In 1999 he launched the Connexions project, a non-profit start-up that is aiming to bring the idea of "Rip, Mix, Burn" into the academic world. Connexions is a way for authors, educators, and learners worldwide to collaborate on all kinds of educational materials.

Richard vision is to revolutionize how we interact with textbooks, to make them more interesting, more current, and more relevant to individual academic curricula and institutions. The music world has benefited greatly by the ability to rip tracks, remix them into a different lineup, and customize tracks by our musical tastes. This is what Connexions will do for textbooks - create custom educational material to fit the learning/teaching styles of every user.

Other talks by Rchard Baraniuk: 

Wendy Seltzer founded and leads the Chilling Effects clearinghouse, a project to study and combat the ungrounded legal threats that chill activity on the Internet. She also helped start and now leads
the Openlaw project, an experiment bringing
the methods of open source and Free Software development to legal
argument in the public interest. 

Ms. Seltzer is currently visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, where she will be teaching Internet Law and Privacy. She was previously a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, focused on intellectual property and free speech issues. She is also a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Ken Malloy interviews KRUU DJ Rodney Franz.

Former President Jimmy Carter in Iowa City on April 18

on Palestine: Peace not Apartheid

For an article on this event, click here. 

Ken Malloy interviews Warren Wechsler

Janet Atwood, coauthor of "The Passion Test" shares her passion for writing.

[ The is the little black box Dain supplied KRUU to store the No-Fi Field Guide Cassette Tapes in. It sits on the shelf behind James desk ]

Episode #1 of the No-Fi Field Guide. Original air date of April 28, 2007

Below low tech, above water, beneath the sky, across the fire
It's Dain Daller - your outstanding inspoken No-Fi Field Guide.

 Icon Art Radio interviews Michael and Charlotte Cain about their art and travel to India.

Episode #2 of the No-Fi Field Guide. Original air date of May 5, 2007.

James Moore interviews Amir Elubadi, an Arab-Israeli who grew up in Israel and was a member of the national soccer team. He discusses a wide range of topics including the inequities of life in Israel for a native Arab, the struggle in Palestine and more. His native town is located in the center of Israel five miles from the West Bank. 

Writers' Voices with Monica and Caroline welcomes Jennie Rothenberg-Gritz home to Fairfield and to KRUU-FM this Friday at 1 p.m.

Jennie Rothenberg-Gritz moved to Fairfield at the age of six and is an alumna of both Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment and Maharishi University of Management. She earned her masters degree in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2002 and went on to internships at Time Out London and The Atlantic Monthly. She spent two years as senior editor at Moment, a national magazine founded by Elie Wiesel, before joining the Atlantic Monthly staff full time. She is currently one of two editors responsible for all web content at The Atlantic online.

Lawrence Liang is the founder of the Alternative Law Forum  located in Bangalore India. He is also the legal lead for Creative-Commons India which was launched on January 26, 2007.

Lawrence Liang's work in the area of intellectual property, and specifically his position against concepts like intellectual property are what interested me in interviewing with him. He has been working towards mapping the ideas of Open Source into the cultural domain.

Lawrence authored "The Guide to Open Content Licenses ", a handbook of different Open licenses and their applicability.

Music this week by Ben Othman

My guest this week goes by the pseudonym CameraGirl. She is the lead technical coordinator for Burning Man , and is in charge of getting all the Information Technology pieces working in the desert location that Burning Man manifests itself in.

CameraGirl, aka Heather Gallagher, gave me some insights into what makes Burning Man happen, and where the open and transparent models of the free culture world intersect with the societal exprimentation and performance art that the event is about.

Music this week by Aor Agni

Ari Berman, based in Washington, DC, is a contributing writer for The Nation, a contributor to The Notion and a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at The Nation Institute.

Today's topics will include Congressional votes on Iraq, immigration compromise, and the significance of the leaked memo advising Hillary Clinton to skip campaigning rigorously in Iowa.

James Moore interviewed nationally syndicated progressive talk show host Stephanie Miller, a rising superstar in talk radio.

Ranked 36th in the nation this year by Talkers Magazine, the Los Angeles-based Miller recently did a three-day stint at MSNBC in the wake of Don Imus' unseemly demise. She is a part of the Jones Media Network, the nation's largest independent radio network. Her average weekly listenership is over 1.25 million.

Steve Young calls the Stephanie Miller Show "the most entertaining political show in morning radio."

Dennis James interviewed the Starlings on Gravel Road Radio May 29, 2007.

Having captured the ears of fans both in the Northwest and beyond following their 2006 release of debut album “Songbook”. Based out of Seattle, The Starlings have had a successful 2006: accolades from notable sources as Maverick Magazine and Americana UK; a live appearance on renowned radio station KEXP's Audioasis; eight weeks on John Richards’ (KEXP) “Top Ten Northwest Bands”; prominent performances shared with the likes of Todd Snider, The Avett Brothers, Michelle Malone, and numerous NW artists. Featured in a 2-page spread in the March 2007 issue of Maverick Magazine (UK), The Starlings are bringing their blend of Americana country and folk music to an ever broader stage, garnering fans from all corners of the musical spectrum.

This Politickin with Ari Berman show includes

1/ A review of last night's second Democratic debate in New Hampshire

2/ The impact of Republican hopeful Fred Thompson on the '08 race

3/ The affect of John McCain's attacks on Republicans over the issue of immigration

Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation, Puffin Foundation writing fellow at the Nation Institute, Fairfield Native and has appeared on C-Span, MSNBC, and FOX as a political analyst.

Ari was interviewed this past Thursday by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now about his recent article for The Nation entitled "Hillary Inc", an expose of Hillary Clinton's corporate team of advisors.

John Ong on Writers' Voices

Ari Berman discusses the latest happenings out of the nation's capitol with Planet Erstwild's James Moore.

Topics:
1. Iraq
--Korea-type presence
--casualty figures
2. Immigration
--bill collapsing in Senate/impact of conservative grassroots
mobilization
3. '08 race
--some updates on Ari's Nation article about Hillary which the New York Times and others picked up

Measures of progress or lack thereof in Iraq:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/opinion/10ohanlon.html?_r=1&oref=sloginnyt Story on union complaints about Mark Penn:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/05/1682/
Ari's follow-up blog:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=203527
Paul Krugman column:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/11/1798/
Nation edit on immigration:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070611/editors2

Check out the BioTour website at www.biotour.org and/or at myspace: myspace.com/BioTourProject

Vegetable Oil Powered Bus - Solar Electricity

BioTour is a journey that aims to enliven the sustainable energy movement, while exploring the depths of America—the people, land, and culture.

BioTour educates about global warming, peak oil and sustainable energy, bringing people together for discussion, exploration and celebration. The BioTour project demonstrates a different way of living and conceiving of energy, one in which human civilization exists in balance with the natural world.

Co-directors Ethan Burke and Alan Palm purchased the BioBus in August of 2006 and were inspired to expand BioTour into a year-round full-time project traveling to all 48 of the continental United States. BioTour now has a new partner, co-director and documentarian, Cat Hainfeld, who specializes in web design, videography, and photography. Brian Burke has joined to round out the crew, and BioTour is ready to kick off the Spring 2007 Tour in April.

Monica & Caroline interview Claudia Petrick, editor of the Iowa Source.

She discusses her 24 years as publisher of the popular regional monthly magazine based out of Fairfield.

Today's discussion will cover "Sicko", the new Michael Moore film about healthcare which our Washington DC correspondent and Nation contributing writer Ari Berman saw over the weekend.

Other topics include Dennis Raimondi's upcoming interview with former
Congressman David Bonior who is now John Edwards' national campaign
manager and Barack Obama's big money take for the 2nd quarter as well
as his visit to Fairfield tomorrow.

Facilitating the discussion are Speaking Freely's Dennis Raimondi and Planet Erstwild's James Moore.

Dennis Raimondi interviews presidential candidate Barack Obama

Dr. David Lipman is currently the Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is a division of the National Library of Medicine within the National Institutes of Health . NCBI was created by Congress in 1988 to do basic research in computational biology, and to develop computational tools, databases and information systems for molecular biology.

After medical training, Dr. Lipman joined the Mathematical Research Branch of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) as a Research Fellow. In his research on computational tools, he developed the most widely used methods for searching biological sequence databases. There are thousands of citations to Dr. Lipman’s methods in papers which have used them to discover biological functions for unknown sequences and which have thereby advanced the understanding of the molecular basis of human disease.

Doc Searls is one of the co-authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as we know it , and Senior Editor of Linux Journal.

In August, 2005, Doc recieved the fist annual Google O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator.

In 2006, Doc was named a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Dean Jansen is part of the Special Projects team at the Participatory Culture Foundation. The PCF is the non-profit organization which creates the Democracy Internet TV Platform, soon to be named Miro.

DemocracyPlayer aims to change the way mass-media works, by giving control of Internet TV back to the public. You can control how you download, re-mix, and distribute different video channels. In essence DemocracyPlayer lowers the bar for anyone to create their own online TV channel.

Ronaldo Lemos is the director of the Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro, and Project Lead for Creative Commons in Brazil.

Ronaldo Lemos was professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Sao Paulo Law School and at the Brazilian Society for Public Law (SBDP). Professor Lemos is the author of several articles published in Brazil and abroad, and of two books, Comercio Eletronico (2001) and Conflitos sobre Nomes de Dominio e Outras Questes Juridicas da Internet (2003). He earned a J.D. from the University of Sao Paulo Law School, a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, and a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Sao Paulo.

Professor Lemos coordinates the Intellectual Property area at the FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro. He works with the Brazilian Federal Government in the implementation of its Free Software program, and with the Ministry of Culture in the implementation of its digital culture policy. He is one of the four members appointed by the Ministry of Justice to its electronic commerce commission.

Ethan Zuckerman joins me again on this week's Open Views, to talk about his current venture, Global Voices. The project is a citizen journalism initiative aimed at providing visibility into the global blogosphere. The project is not just a blog, and it's not a repository for journalists. Instead the objective is to bring out the voices in the global community and get a sense of what issues are being discussed around the world.

Ethan Zuckerman was a guest on Open Views a few months back, as founder of GeekCorps. Since his departure from GeekCorps he has become a fellow at the Berman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard Law School, which is where he co-founded Global Voices.

In 2002, Sunil Abraham was elected as a Fellow of Ashoka.org, an international organization whose mission is to promote positive social change by investing in social entreperneurs with innovative solutions that are sustainable and replicable.

Mahiti is the for-profit company that Sunil founded in 1998, in order to create simple, effective, and affordable solutions for non-profit and volunteer organizations, so that they could do their work better.

Sunil's work as an activist using free/open-source tools, his projects with organizations such as the Open Society Institute, the International Open Source Network, AsiaSource, and his presentations to a long list of both private, and public orgnizations have made him both an important and admired member of the larger Free and Open Source worlds. In addition to this non-profit he is also a successful social entrepreneur, as the Ashoka.org fellowship recognizes.

Gary Garles interviews Bill Payne, co-founder of seminal rock band Little Feat.

Payne discusses how he contacted Frank Zappa's record label Bizarre Records, hooked up with Lowell George, and talks about the joy Little Feat experiences simply playing music. 

Major-General Scott Gration is in Iowa stumping for Presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Gration, a 32-year career Air Force service member, now retired, was born and raised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He accompanied Senator Obama on a tour of Africa and is currently one of his top military advisors.

He speaks with Planet Erstwild's James Moore about his perspectives on Africa and why he believes Obama is the right choice for America.

Click on the picture for a Newseek article on Gration by Michael Hirsch

Number Thirteen

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U.S. Congressman Dave Loebsack

US Congressman Dave Loebsack grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. Dave attended Iowa State University, where he earned a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree. Dave then went on to earn a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Davis. In 1982, Dave moved back to Iowa and became a political science teacher at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. Today, Dave has the honor to serve as a Professor Emeritus at Cornell College.

Congressman Loebsack is currently serving his first term in the United States House of Representatives. He represents Iowa’s Second Congressional District which encompasses much of Southeastern Iowa. He serves on The House Education and Labor Committee and The House Armed Services Committee.

Michael R. Otterson

Michael Otterson has served as director of media relations for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints since 1997. Mr. Otterson was born and educated in England. For 11 years, from 1965-1976, he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Britain, Australia and Japan, with emphasis on politics and business

Today on Writer's Voices, Monica & Caroline interview teacher and author Bisi Gwamna, originally of Nigeria, now living and teaching at Iowa Wesleyan in Mount Pleasant.

The Sunlight Foundation was founded in January 2006 with the goal of using the power of the Internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives are doing.

Bill Allison is Senior Fellow at the Sunlight foundation, and a veteran investigative reporter. Greg Elin is the chief data architect at Sunlight Labs, the technology wing of the Sunlight Foundation.

Vera Franz is Program Manager of the Open Society Institute's Information Program. In this capacity she leads the Open Information and Intellectual Property Reform programs.

The Information Program supports four initiatives which enable access to knowledge in poorer countries: a project on the reform of intellectual property; the eIFL library consortium; the Open Access Initiative, and an East-East translation program.

Vera Franz talked to me about the detailed problem with the current intellectual property/policy regimes around the world and the OSI's strategy for combatting the issues. Her experience monitoring and working with trade organizations such as the WTO and WIPO provides perspective on how the people drafting these regulations and policies deal with Open Source, Free Culture and transparent processes in general.

Jeffrey L. Smith, founder and president of SEO Design Solutions, a Chicago web design company, discusses writing for web publications as a tool to promote yourself and establish an area of expertise. Part two features poet/performers Freddy Niagara Fonseca and Karen Carter reciting Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale."

Marc Falkoff is an assistant professor at the Northern Illinois
University College of Law and attorney for 17 Guantanamo prisoners.

This Thursday, Get to Know local carpenter, boat builder, children story author Victor Orne.

Host Ken Malloy visits with Mr. Orne about building the better mousetrap, as well as his life before moving to Fairfield Iowa, 19 years ago. Another enjoyable program you won't want to miss.

Set your dial, and stay awhile.

New Mexico

Today's show focuses on the Congressional testimony of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker regarding progress-or lack thereof--in Iraq.

Also discussed is a BBC/ABC survey of Iraqi sentiment towards the U.S. surge.

To reference Ari Berman's blog today from the Nation, click on: "Questioning Petraeus' Crediblity".

Titles of two BBC articles are a study in contrasts:

"U.S. Surge has Failed"

"U.S. Surge Plan in Iraq 'Working'"

The first, a survey of 2000 Iraqis in 450 neighborhoods from all 18 provinces, shows 70% expressing that security has deteriorated in the area of the surge, that conditions are worse for politcal dialogue, reconstruction and economic development. Only 29% think things will get better in the next year (compared to 64% two years ago). And forbodingly, nearly 60% of Iraqis see attacks on US-led forces as justified. (93% of Sunnis vs 50% of Shia.)

The second is the more upbeat assessment of General Petraeus. He informed Congress U.S. military objectives were "largely being met". Ambassador Crocker said he believed it was possible for the US to see its goals achieved in Iraq, that security was attainable, but it would not be achieved quickly,

Hey folks, Corey Hickenbottom here. Let me tell you about this fella Ken Mottet.

Ken Mottet lives in Chicago and is known as the Mayor of Rockabilly. Ken is the host of The Otherside, a music video show out of Chicago. He plays acoustic rythm guitar for the great honky-tonk, country boogie, western swing band, Gin Palace Jesters. He emcees rockabilly events all across the country. He's a former stand-up comic. He's a very cool cat. He is also from Fairfield.

On this Saturday's Local Yokels, I will be live in the studio with Ken Mottet. Ken will be performing live on the air. He's also bringing a copy of the nearly finished new album by Gin Palace Jesters! It's going to be a blast and I would recommend not missing it!

Further interview with Ken may appear on my regular show, Folkabillyrockblues.

New Mexico

Nation contributing writer Ari Berman made the trek up to Iowa Senator Tom Harkin's 30th Steak Fry yesterday with James Moore, which included speeches by six of the Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards and Joe Biden.

Hear what they have to say about the day's event which drew over 12,000
of the Democratic faithful, setting a record for attendance.

It's Politickin with Ari Berman Mondays at 1pm

[Rebroadcast Wednesdays at 7am]

"Hannah Riley Bowles" is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and on the staff of the Center for Public Leadership. She is engaged in research on negotiation and leadership. She is interested in how people negotiate for resources and opportunities to advance into leadership positions and when gender differences tend to arise in negotiation expectations and performance. She teaches and has conducted case research on leadership in crisis and complex multi-party conflict. Earlier in her career, she was a research associate at Harvard Business School, Strategic Environmental Associates, and Conflict Management Group.

She was a technical advisor to the Minister of Natural Resources, Energy & Mines of Costa Rica and served in 1995 on the Costa Rican delegation to the UN Climate Change negotiations. She was fellow at the Argentinean National Institute of Public Administration, the West German Parliament, and Oxford University's Forestry Institute. Bowles is the faculty director of Women & Power, the Kennedy School's executive program for women leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors. She won the Kennedy School's 2003 Manuel Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has a DBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPP from the Kennedy School, and an AB from Smith College.

Writers' Voices with Monica and Caroline welcomes Fairfield author James Meade this week, Monday morning at 8.

Meade has written over 25 books, ranging from computer how-to books to "The Answer to Cancer: Is Never Giving it a Chance to Start."

Join us for another stimulating conversation on the writing process and how to get published.

Recorder experiments, little people & big foot, propane tanks & windchimes.

New Mexico

Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach has recently been named the new director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics.

Mr. Leach has agreed to take a leave from Princeton University, where he is the John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Prior to his arrival at Princeton, Leach served 15 terms in Congress as a Republican representative from eastern Iowa. During his congressional career he served as chairman of the House Banking and Financial Services Committee and the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and was author or co-author of several significant pieces of legislation, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, reforming the financial services industry. He was educated at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, and the London School of Economics.

This will be the former Congressman's second appearance on Speaking Freely.

Craig Jessop,
Music Director, Mormon Tabernacle Choir

When Jessop became music director of the Choir in October 1999, he stepped into a position tailor-made for him. Not only had he served as the Choir's associate director from 1995 to 1999, he had also been a member of the Choir for four years during college. Growing up, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was his musical inspiration.

Under his leadership, the Choir has continued to live up to its tradition of excellence and has explored new territory in the musical and performance realms. As the music director of not only the Choir, but also the Orchestra at Temple Square and the Temple Square Chorale,

Jessop draws on the strengths of these three entities and combines them as appropriate to enhance the level of musical excellence in performance.

Author, musician, and intuitive counselor Janet Sussman is Monica and Caroline's guest on Writers' Voices this week, Friday at 1 pm and Monday Oct 1 at 8 am. In addition to discussing her published works and writing process, we will be treated to some tracks from Janet's recent CD, "Subtle Bodies."

From Janet's website (www.timeportalpubs.com) :
A pioneer in the field of time and consciousness, Janet is the author of The Reality of Time (2005) and Timeshift: The Experience of Dimensional Change (1996), both published by Time Portal Publications. Both books has received consummate praise by notable individuals such as Jean Houston and Fred Alan Wolf.

As a musician, Janet works with transformational music and sound to clear and awaken the energetic centers.

Join Planet Erstwild host James Moore for a lively discussion with Twin Galaxies co-founder Walter Day.

Walter, a 30-year resident of Fairfield, is featured prominently in the new full-length documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters". The movie is opening Friday September 29th at the Co-Ed Theater.

Walter will explain his role in the story and several of the controversies swirling around this film which has received many favorable reviews and even some "Oscar" buzz.

Tonight’s show is presented fully in the spirit of creative commons and open source programming...finally. It’s been a year since KRUU opened its doors and raised its tower-of-power (happy 1 year anniversary
everybody!) and I began broadcasting on a radio station again (thank you, FCC).

As a musician who writes and plays his own tracks, the concept of having my music available for free just didn’t make sense. Open Source? Creative Commons? Hmmm..Sounded like Latin to me. No comprende amigo.

But the awesomeness has finally taken hold. Things have clicked. The pieces have come together. Now I get it.

It is a pleasure to finally have come around to understanding that we might be at a point in the evolution of humankind where giving does in fact equate to getting when all is said and done. Tonight’s show will therefore be music sourced from a creative commons/open source/listen-like-it-buy-it-sometime-if-you-can kinda thing… which means that for three hours you’ll be listening to the sounds and energy of two net-labels, indigo*magenta and the Broque label.

Walter Frederick ("Fritz") Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota on Jan. 5, 1928, the son of Theodore Sigvaard Mondale and Claribel Cowan Mondale. He spent his boyhood in the small towns of southern Minnesota, where he attended public schools. After he helped manage Hubert H. Humphrey's first successful U.S. Senate campaign in 1948, he earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1951. After completing service as a corporal in the U.S. Army, Mondale received his LL.B (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1956, having served on the law review and as a law clerk in the Minnesota Supreme Court.

After a year of playing my own original, fresh and interesting music for the listeners of KRUU FM 100.1 and KRUUFM.COM, I have never once been a disc-jockey who introduced each piece and discussed where or how the music was inspired and created. I would simply weave together 3 hours of totally original journey music and put it out there for you to enjoy, daring you to take from it what you could...

Until now.

Tonite I will be selecting and discussing music I composed between May and October of 2006. During the broadcast I will be playing various selections and discussing (sometimes at length) such details as: the historical significance of each piece, the other artists involved in collaborative efforts, and the move of my old record label freakie people records [now put to rest] towards becoming a net-label focused on creative commons compositions.

[the new net-label as of january 1, 2008 is called BEAUTIFUL ETERNAL]

If you're a fan of the music I've composed and have ever wanted to know more about the music or the artist, this is your chance.

Jeff Porter, author of "Oppenheimer is Watching Me" speaks about his book and writing process with Monica and Caroline.

Porter, a teacher in the English Department at the University of Iowa, specializes in literary nonfiction, documentary film, and digital media, with particular emphasis on science and technology. "Oppenheimer is Watching Me" takes literary nonfiction in a new direction by combining a very personal childhood memoir with a close-up look at some of the most historically signficant events of the time.

Tonite's show continues on with the original compositions of Obvious World's SoundRETROSPEKTIVE... there's tek-hop, drum n' bass, house, experimental and ambient compositions, along with a 30 minute mix --- all designed specifically for you.

The pieces grew from a deep desire to meld together the forms of hip hop with other genres, and then to just explode with odes to great new age psychedelic tribal gatherings organized by little elves in the thick mysterious forest.

Glad to have you travelling along on this adventure!
Love, Light and Blessings!

-Obvious World

This Sunday night beginning at 11pm (eastern) there will be a barrage of beautiful music from some inspiring friends of mine. C. Threw throwing down a brand new mad series of rhymes we worked on together, Shaunbak will be sharing some of his seriously secret brand new tekno compositions mixed live for 50 minutes and then Yacob (aka: Yakob, Yakob Crin Cran, Rafael, RAW-FI. L, and Jacob Shier) will be showcasing exclusively for us, a massive 70 minutes of his original compositions ranging from funky disco to sweet ambient drum and bass to cool tekno. All in the true spirit of CREATIVE COMMONS.

Please tune in and enjoy the evening with us!
Maximum Love, Light and Blessings


Obvious World

This week on Speaking Freely, host Dennis Raimondi has a short interview with Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giulliani. Giulliani, the former mayor of New York City, who was traveling through Iowa, is the Republican national frontrunner, though he is presently fourth in the polls in Iowa.

A lawyer, businessman, and politican from the state of New York, Giuliani served in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney.

Giuliani later served two terms as as Mayor of New York (1994–2001). Giuliani gained international attention during and after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2001, Time magazine named him "Person of the Year" and he was knighted by Quenn Elizabeth II.

This week on Speaking Freely, host Dennis Raimondi has an interview with former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who came into KRUU-FM studios.

Wilson was in town stumping for Hillary Clinton. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is the CIA covert operative allegedly outed by administration officials in retaliation for Wilson's Op-ed piece in the NY Times. Wilson's personal and direct challenge caused the President to withdraw claims Bush made in his 2003 State of the Union address that Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium for nuclear weapons, the White House's central justification for invading Iraq.

Plame has just released a book, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House," about her experiences which led to Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby being convicted of perjury. Libby's sentence was commuted by President Bush this past July. 'Fair
Game' was the term the president's then-chief strategist, Karl Rove, used regarding the vicious smear campaign unleashed against Plame and Wilson, in hopes of softening the serious blow to White House credibility.

Monica and Caroline's guest on Writers' Voices this week is Huston Diehl, professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of "Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School, 1970," published by the University of Iowa Press.

When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything.

She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn."

Tom Savage is author of the book "A Dictionary of Iowa Place Names"

TONITE: new music by james burkhart and then some wild trax i wrote ten years ago, and finally a launch into the stratosphere with original music written by my good mate fox techno.
PEACE
-Obvious World

Michelle Obama, wife of United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Ms. Obama received her BA with honors from Princeton University and her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama

Jacob Soboroff, representative of WhyTuesday.org

Why Tuesday is an effort to make America's democracy stronger through increased voter participation.

www.whytuesday.org

Tonite's show will feature Creative Commons music from across the world...net-labels such as BROQUE.DE, MIKROTONIK and more..

There will be soothing pieces of chill-out, a touch of tekno, a very thick drum n' bass mix from the Sonic Walker folks, and then wind down the evening with a special niche blend of downtempo.

LOVE LIGHT AND BLESSINGS!
-Obvious World

Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term expired January 4, 2007. Romney is a Republican candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.

He is a former CEO of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, and the co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He also served as president and CEO of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games held in Salt Lake City.

Howdy, y'all.

On Thursday morning's Crooked Sisters Radio Hour, I'll be interviewing one of my favorite songwriters out there, Mary Gauthier.

Mary is not only one of the most powerful songwriters I've heard in a long, long time, she also has an amazing life story.

Professor Peter Suber joins me this week on Open Views for an in-depth look at some of the historical background for Open Access, the current state of OA around the world, and the challenges posed by traditional publishing companies.

Peter Suber is currently Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, a Washington DC based public interest group working to defend your rights in the emerging digital culture.

He is also Senior Researcher at The Scholarly Publication and Academic Research Coalition (SPARC), and Research Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Earlham College in Richmond Indiana.

Suber was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, the Advisory Board of American Library Association Information Commons, and the Board of Governors of the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publishing.

He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, writing, speaking, and other forms of advocacy.

See also: Richard Poynder's recent interview with Prof. Suber, and Suber's Open Access Newsletter

Heather Ford is a South African who has worked in the fields of Internet policy, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the Executive Director of iCommons, a UK private charitable corporation.

Incubated by Creative Commons,
iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united
global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to
knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.

Heather joins me on Open Views to talk about her work at iCommons, the challenges of leading an international Free Culture organization, and Free Culture in South Africa.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), started by Richard Stallman, is an advocacy organization promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. These rights are part of what the FSF considers as the freedoms for users of computer software:

• The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
• The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

John Sullivan is the Campaigns Manager at the FSF, and has been involved with the BadVista, PlayOgg and Defective by Design educational campaigns, aimed at shedding light on the restrictions imposed on consumers of technology.