June 18, 2020
I opened with “He’s in the Jailhouse Now” and then welcomed our first guest, Anthony Rayson. He read us several reports from prisoners.
Our second guest as usual was Philip Farruggio. His column The Empire’s Executioners? led of his segment (which we call It’s the Empire, Stupid.) It was an incisive look at the role of police in maintaining the status quo for the super-rich and powerful.
Our third segment featured Larry Pinkney who warned about parasitic political pimps who were using the George Floyd situation to political advantage. He called for honesty, ridiculed the idea of ‘white guilt’, and encouraged us to communicate with each other and find ways to grow. We had a very interesting conversation which took the whole segment; usually Larry doesn’t give us that much time and I really appreciated this one.
For the final segment I played my prerecorded interview with Frank Cordaro of the Des Moines Catholic Worker, who discussed the way we humans normalize any situation, including the pandemic. I closed with a column from MK Davis where he talked about the human condition, with an example where he shared a photo of a bird for the ‘hive mind’ of social media, producing a unanimously WRONG identification… all those who responded had failed to listen to the entire description and jumped to the photo, completely ignoring the size context that MK provided. Very interesting talk to close the show.
Anthony Rayson
Anthony is a monthly columnist, appearing in the third week of each month. Anthony Rayson is an American anarchist activist and author. He runs the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro and publishes many zines and pamphlets. DePaul University Archives and Special Collections holds a collection of Rayson’s zines, as well as his compiled political writings […]
Frank Cordaro
Frank is a weekly guest on our show. Frank Cordaro is a member of the Des Moines Catholic Worker. He is a former Catholic Priest. He has himself spent years and years in federal prison for crossing the line at Offutt, and more recently has been jailed for actions against the drone facility in Des […]
Larry Pinkney
Larry is a monthly columnist, appearing on the third week of each month. Larry James Pinkney is an American political activist. A former member of the original Black Panther Party, and the Republic of New Africa, he served nine years in prison in Canada and the US. Pinkney also served as co-chair of the San […]
M. K. Davis
M.K. is a monthly columnist, appearing on the third week of each month. M.K. Davis has spent years studying Bigfoot/Sasquatch. He is an expert on the Patterson-Gimlin film. He hosts a Bigfoot radio show with Don Monroe, Bigfoot Central. M.K.Davis has been researching the Patterson Sasquatch film for the last 18 years. He has traveled […]
Philip Farruggio
Phil is a weekly guest on our show. Philip A Farruggio is son and grandson of Brooklyn, NYC longshoremen. He is a free lance columnist (found on WorldNewsTrust.com, TheSleuthJournal.com, Information Clearing house, Op Ed News, Dandelion Salad, Activist Post, Dissident Voice and many other sites worldwide). Philip works as an environmental products sales rep and […]
Chuck Gregory
Co-founder and co-host of the show, Chuck lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife Lorraine and assorted exotic pets. He was fortunate to attend Friends Central School in the late ’60s to hone the already strong core beliefs instilled in him by his parents Wayne Lawrence and Marjorie Mock Gregory. His education continued at […]