#5 - Looking Outside
| October 16, 2005- Length: 0 bytes
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(02:01 - 09:10) Downtown Hamilton is well populated, but not usually a tourist destination. A lot of folks there are just scraping along. Wayne MacPhail visits his hometown downtown on a Saturday night in his documentary Just Getting by, for a view of the area, go to this map . Or, drop by the rabble podcast network Flickr site. We've posted a pic of Gore Park there.
(09:16 - 10:27) Auntie.com has an objet lesson for an artist who's feels that she's not helping society get any prettier. Got a question for auntie? Email a short sound file to rabbleradio@gmail.com
(10:28 - 13:42) President George W. Bush's new favorite appointee to the Supreme Court is Harriet Miers. Keith Gottschalk's been thinking about that, and David Frum too. Why, he asks, is it so hard for some people to "get" what Bush does?
(13:44 - 19:06) Author Andrea Curtis takes us to the depths of her true tale of a family shipwreck in Into the Blue, and reveals the shocking truth about Jessica Alba. http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679312529
(19:13 - 24:37) This week in Homebrew, Raul Gatica, award winning author and indigenous activist from Oaxaca explains why when it comes to the Mexican media, the Coalition of Indigenous Communities of Oaxaca (www.nodo50.org/ciposee) no other alternative but to take it over themselves. Music provided by Navid Navab and Scott Deneau.
(24:38 - 25:36) Find out how to help rabble.ca's membership grow.
(25:45 - 27:49) The Roaches Will Survive, say The Republic of Safety! And they've got their own country, so who are we to disagree. CAPITAL: Torontopia, Ontario. GEOGRAPHY: Landmass features dangerous curviness and jagged riffs. EXPORTS: punk rock music with a danceable beat and a political flavour. CULTURE: Traditional modes of dress include fishnets, matching extravagance, and menacing all-black menswear. FOREIGN POLICY: Strongly in favour of cultural and musical exchange, minus the space weapons. http://www.republicofsafety.ca/
(27:50 - 31:44) Cathi Bond's been drawing from her deep well of movie knowledge to pick out the best in animation.
(31:45 - 35:00) In this episode, FierceLight, Velcrow Ripper asks "What is the Sacred?" and Rabbi Michael Lerner replies, "Wow." Music by Ripper, as well from the west coast art collective Inter.Mission, from the feature documentary 'ScaredSacred.' www.scaredsacred.org
(35:00 - 37:28) The Prize Queen is back, wondering about wiretapping. Tell her which Member of Parliament to tap, and she'll wire you a t-shirt.
(37:29 - 40:56) From the Republic of Safety to The Moon. The Moon is the tune we'll finish off with today. http://www.republicofsafety.ca/