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| Saturday, 05 August 2006 | |
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July 31, at 11am
Brad Taylor brings us some queer activist responses to the Israeli war of terror, and Pedro Angel Serrano interviews Martine, a Limp Wrist band member.
Hello - welcome to Out-FM - Pacifica and WBAI’s progressive radio hour for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of New York City and for 50 miles out from the city on 99.5 FM as well as around the world, streaming live on the web at wbai.org. I’m Brad Taylor - I’m your host today from the Out-FM collective - and we have a great show for you - But I feel that it wouldn’t be right to go on with show today without taking a moment to express my sorrow and outrage at the unconscionable air strike by the Israeli air force yesterday against a private building sheltering noncombatants in southern Lebanon that killed 60 people over half of them children. I don’t think it appropriate to say more here, but my heart goes out to the surviving families of all the civilian victims of this unjust attack and I want to lend my voice to calls for an end to our own government’s support of Israel’s unjustified bombardment and invasion of Lebanon. That said, I can now go on with the show. Our first piece today will serve as an announcement of an exciting event coming up this Saturday organized by Welfare Warriors, the welfare reform and peoples’ empowerment group coming out of Queers for Economic Justice. And you’ll hear my interview with Chris Scarano and Ra Findley of Welfare Warriors. Then we’ll hear our resident punk prophet Pedro Angel Serrano’s interview with Martín Sorrondeguy, the front performer for the well-known queer hard-core punk band Limp Wrist. And after that we’ll have my interview with the very respected peace activist, Irish Queer and anti-occupation organizer Emmaia Gelman. I got a chance to walk with Emmaia during Saturday’s very large and positive march across the Brooklyn Bridge for an end to Israeli attacks in Lebanon and Gaza, an immediate cease-fire, an end to the occupation of Palestine and an end to U.S. aid to Israel. So let’s have a little musical break now, and when we come back, we’ll hear from the Welfare Warriors. |
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