Our semi-occasional weekly round-up of the most absurd and head shaking news!
Click on the small triangle or mp3 link to hear it as broadcast on the Arts Express program this week on WBAI FM NYC, WBAI.org and Pacifica affiliates across the nation
“Last week I gave my personal remembrances on the death of political activist, organizer, thinker and writer Mitchel Cohen. I was able to find a really extraordinary recording that was made by Mitchel and Robert Gold on a trip they took to Cuba in 1992. While they were there, they got to attend a kind of informal talk given by Assata Shakur, who, of course, was an American Black Panther, arrested by the police for murder, put in prison and then freed in a daring escape. From there she went to Cuba which welcomed her with open arms…”
Click on the mp3 link or small triangle above to hear the talk as broadcast this week on the Arts Express radio program, heard on WBAI FM NYC, WBAI.org and Pacifica affiliates across the country.
“This past week, we lost Mitchel Cohen, a passionate radical Marxist activist, thinker, writer, environmentalist, organizer, poet, and Phil Ochs fan, who was seemingly everywhere, connected to everyone on the left, including here on WBAI and Pacifica. It seemed like there was hardly a protest, demonstration, civil disobedience, or conference that he wasn’t a part of in one way or another…”
Click on the small triangle or mp3 link above to hear our remembrance of Mitchel, as broadcast this week on the Arts Express radio program, heard on WBAI FM NYC, WBAI.org and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.
