#wbai

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Lallan Schoenstein

Up until the very last breath of his 89 years, on Dec. 25, Ralph Poynter fearlessly rallied to fight racism, oppression, and injustice.

#Ralph Poynter #Black liberation #NYC #teachers #UFT #NYPD #WBAI #obit #Struggle La Lucha

[oldisnewradio]

Liza!!!

Known for her belting, I think she is one of our best ballad singers! This Week on Everything Old Is New Again Radio Show's March 10th & 13th broadcasts, we feature the music of Liza Minnelli ("Softly, Slowly" - a broadcast of ballads)

Some of the ballads from her career that we will hear: *You Are For Loving *Charles Aznavour's Quiet Love *More Than You Know (Vincent Youmans / Billy Rose / Edward Eliscu) of course, *A Quiet Thing and *Spring Is Here And MORE!

Visit www.oldisnew.org for more info!

EverythingOldIsNewAgainRadioShow #45thYear #PopStandards #GreatAmericanSongbook #Jazz #Showtunes #Cabaret #broadway

#everythingoldisnewagainradioshow #45thyear #popstandards #greatamericansongbook #jazz #showtunes #cabaret #broadway #everything old is new again #wbai

[garadinervi]

The Guerrilla Art Action Group, Action Interwiev at WBAI Radio Station, «Radiotaxi» – Vibrazioni del sonoro, No. 10, Designed by Sarenco and Franco Verdi, Lotta Poetica, Verona / Studio Morra, Napoli, 1983 [supplement «Lotta Poetica», No. 15/16, October/November 1983] [Forschungsplattform, Zentrums für Künstlerpublikationen / Forschungsverbund Künstlerpublikationen, Bremen. Fondazione Bonotto, Molvena (VI)]

#graphic design #art #performance #vinyl #supplement #magazine #cover #magazine cover #the guerrilla art action group #jon hendricks #poppy johnson #silvianna #joanne stamerra #virginia toche #jean toche #wbai #radiotaxi #sarenco #franco verdi #lotta poetica #studio morra #forschungsplattform #zentrums für künstlerpublikationen #forschungsverbund künstlerpublikationen #1980s

[airchexx]

Gary Byrd on 1600 WWRL New York | 1979

Gary Byrd on 1600 WWRL New York | 1979

   WWRL 1600 New York – Gary Byrd – 1979 Courtesy: Rob Frankel Through the 1960s, 70s, and into the 1980s, New York’s 1600 WWRL was the AM R&B leader. With a fast pace, slick jingles, & hip on air personalities, the station sizzled. Some of the jocks who graced the microphones at WWRL include, Bobby Jay, Frankie Crocker, Don “Early” Allen, Jeffery Troy, Jerry Bledsoe, Hank Spann, &…

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#1600 #Gary Byrd #New York #WBAI #WBLS #WWRL

[silvercrane14]

NO NOT CRYING. THOUGH I DID CRY. ITS FUCKING KURT COBAIN. I GOT KURT COBAIN IN HIT MUSICAL THE LIGHTNING THIEF

KURT COBAIN IS IN THE LIGHTNING THIEF???

#crane answers #xisu i love you #no image id #caps #tw caps #sorry its been a whilw. wbay

[29121996]

.

#can admit that tbe apokogy has . eased some fucked angry part of my brain #at least for now. im hoping for Good tho . #i just . i rlly hope he meant it. i rlly do. #given . he apologised for smth i KMOW he wouldnt have realised without somw genuine #reflection . it has to be genuine AJDJDJDJ #bc dawg that kinda conclusion . u wouldve only realised if someone had told u and/or you thought abt ur own behaviour. #i just still cant believr i apologised for my wrong doings n the saw him within the next 2hrs. how disgusting #was so humbled actaully. like . ok. cool. #just 4 the record i signed an internal nda on this. so i refuse to talk abt it aith anyone #except here (now. ive banned my twt after recent shit) my therapist . whenever my irl brings this up #bc she does. n i do too. but . yea hes a frequent topic #but so am i apparently. he talks abt me quite a bit aupposedly. #n shed have no real reason to say this to me either . i dont think she was aware she was telling me that . #anyway. sook. hes such a sook #both derogatory and affectionately. how is that possible. #apology did show growth btw. like he apologised 4 a few things . n did give me an odd explanation of stuff. #not rlly - just said other shit was goijg on . n idk wbay thats even referencing too honestly. #bc he shut me out for a long time . so fuck knows #but . was a novel for him tbh. been a while simce he sent me a message of that length

[vere-flores]

ASTRAY - mayhaps Flora and Xhilohrnia get lost while on vacation?

-> a comprehensive list of scenarios (♡)

47.  ASTRAY :  for both muses to take a detour and lose their way.

@nascentwaves

___

Flora was anxious, to say the least. She had no clue where they were right now. A pit formed in the base of her stomach, but she tried not to show Xhilohrnia just how anxious she was, even if it was already obvious to the other female. Keeping her arms wrapped around her to comfort them both, Flora nuzzles against her cheek.

"I-I don't know where we are, but everything will be okay, I promise. We'll get out of this together." Hopefully, they wouldn't stay lost for long. Hopefully, something familiar would show up to indicate where they were.

#{ ♡ ; letters. } #{ ♡ ; nascentwaves. } #nascentwaves #This was asdfghjkl Kinda bad imo #I also left it vauge again for you to use your imagination about wbay the exact scenario is #If you want

[just-about-nothing]

all the call signs for pacifica stations are so satisfying ‘wpfw’ ‘kpfk’ ‘kpfa’ ‘kpft’ ugh! theyre so good <3

#i rant #pacifica stations #i’m leaving wbai out bc i don’t like it as much. nyc takes the f as usual #tbh wpfw is my favorite i looooove that station

[stillunusual]

Suzanne Ciani - Concert At Wbai Free Music Store (1975)

#Suzanne Ciani #Concert At Wbai Free Music Store #electronic music #buchla #buchla concerts #1970s #1975

[mostlysignssomeportents]

2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down under enshittification

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

It's been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:

https://www.2600.com/

2600 has published hundreds of issues in which digital spelunkers report eagerly on the things they've discovered by peering intently at the things no one was supposed to even glance at (I'm proud to be one of those writers!). They've fought legal battles, including one that almost went to the Supreme Court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

They created a global network of meetups where some of technology's most durable friendships and important collaborations were born. These continue to this day:

https://www.2600.com/meetings

And they've hosted a weekly radio show on NYC's WBAI, Off the Hook:

https://wbai.org/program.php?program=76

When WBAI management lost their minds and locked the station's most beloved hosts out of the studio, Off the Hook (naturally) led the rebellion, taking back the station for its audience, rescuing it from a managerial coup:

https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786

But best of all, 2600 gave us HOPE – both in the metaphorical sense of "hope for a better technological tomorrow" and in the literal sense, with its biannual Hackers On Planet Earth con:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth

For decades HOPE had an incredible venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania (memorialized in the phreak anthem "PEnnsylvania 6-5000"), a crumbling pile in midtown Manhattan that was biannually transformed into a rollicking, multi-day festival of forbidden technology, improbable feats, and incredible presentations. I was privileged to keynote HOPE in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D7APjmVbk

But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.

But HOPE wasn't lost. In 2022, the ever-resilient 2600 crew relocated to Queens, hosted by St John's University – a venue that was less glamorous that the Hotel Pennsylvania, but the event was still fantastic. Attendance fell from 2,000 to 1,000, but that was something they could work with, and reviews from attendees were stellar.

Good thing, too. 2600 is, first and foremost, a magazine publisher, and these have been hard years for magazines. First there was the mass die-off of indie bookstores and newsracks (I used to sell 2600 when I was a bookseller, and in the years after, I always took the presence of 2600 on a store's newsrack as an unimpeachable mark of quality).

Thankfully for 2600, their audience is (unsurprisingly) a tech-savvy one, so they were able to substitute digital subscriptions for physical ones:

https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions

Of course, many of those subscriptions came through Amazon's Kindle, because nerds were early Amazon adopters, and because the Kindle magazine publishing platform offered DRM-free distribution to subscribers along with a fair payout to publishers.

But then Amazon enshittified its magazine system. Having locked publishers to its platform, it rugged them and killed the monthly subscription fees that allowed publishers to plan for a steady output. Publishers were given a choice: leave Amazon (and all the readers locked inside its walled garden) or put your magazine into the Kindle Unlimited system:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/arp/B0BWPTCP4K?deviceType=A1FG5NAKX0MRJL

Kindle Unlimited is an all-you-can-eat program for Kindle, which pays publishers and writers based on a system that is both opaque and easily gamed, with the lion's share of the money going to "publishers" who focus on figuring out how to cheat the algorithm. Revenues for 2600 – and all the other magazines that Amazon had sucked in and sucked dry – fell off a cliff.

Which brings me to the present moment. After 40 years, 2600 is still at it, having survived the bookstorepocalypse, the lunacy of public radio management, the literal demolition of their physical home by an evil real-estate developer, and Amazon's crooked accounting.

This is 2600, circa 2024, and 2024 a HOPE year:

https://www.hope.net/

Once again, HOPE has been scheduled for its new digs in Queens, July 12-14. Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close:

https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update

It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. Email may be the last federated, open platform we have, but mass concentration has created a system where it's nearly impossible to get your email delivered unless you're willing to play by Gmail's rules:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/

For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."

The enshittification that keeps 2600's emails from being delivered to the people who asked to receive them is even worse on social media. Social media companies routinely defraud their users by letting them subscribe to feeds, then turning around to the people and organizations that run those feeds and saying, "You've got x thousand subscribers on this platform, but we won't put your posts in their feeds unless you pay us to 'boost' your content":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

Enshittification has been coming at 2600 for decades. Like other forms of oddball media dedicated to challenging corporate power and government oppression, 2600 has always been a ten-years-ahead preview of the way the noose was gonna tighten on all of us. And now, they're on the ropes. HOPE can't sell tickets unless people know about HOPE, and neither email providers nor social media platforms have any interest in making that happen.

A handful of giant corporations now get to decide what we read, who we hear from, and whether and how we can get together in person to make friends, forge community, rabble-rouse and change the world. The idea that "it's not censorship unless the government does it" has always been wrong (not all censorship violates the First Amendment, and censorship can be real without being unconstitutional):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/

What can you do about it? Well, for one thing, you can sign up for HOPE. It's gonna be great. They've got sub-$100 hotel rooms! In New York City!

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv

If you can't make it to HOPE, you can sign up for a virtual membership:

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv-virtual-attendee

You can submit a talk to HOPE:

https://www.hope.net/cfp.html

You can subscribe to 2600, in print or electronically (I signed up for the lifetime print subscription and it was a bargain – I devour every issue the day it arrives):

https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals

2600 is living a decade in the future of every other community you care about, weird hobby you enjoy, con you live for, and publication you read from cover to cover. If we can all pull together to save it, it'll be a beacon of hope (and HOPE).

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

#pluralistic #2600 #hackers #magazines #publishing #kindle unlimited publishing #kindle #enshittification #monopoly #end to end #competition #events #nyc #hope #hackers on planet earth #amazon

[oldisnewradio]

Happy Birthday Shirley Jones!

Happy Birthday Shirley Jones! Born on this day March 31st in 1934. What a delight and sheer joy having her as a guest in studio with me. She came to the station with her husband Marty Ingels, who joined us on-air! Boy, what Fun! And what great stories! We could have chatted all night long!

#everythingoldisnewagainradioshow #45thyear #popstandards #greatamericansongbook #jazz #showtunes #cabaret #broadway #wbai #everything old is new again

[thegroovyarchives]

80′s/90′s Local Television Thanksgiving Station IDs/Bumpers Part 3 1. KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1987 2. WCIX-TV, Miami/Ft Lauderdale, Florida, 1989 3. WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995 4. WCBS-TV, New York, New York, 1995 5. KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1988 6. KTTV-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1984 7. WBAY-TV, Green Bay/Fox Cities, Wisconsin, 1990 8. WABC-TV, New York, New York, 1995 9. WXYZ-TV, Detroit, Michigan, 1984 10. WLUK-TV, Green Bay/Fox Cities, Wisconsin, 1990 Part 1 (x) Part 2 (x)

#Thanksgiving #vintage television #vintage ephemera #vintage design #80's #90's

[garadinervi]

Adrienne Rich reads her poetry, from her last book 'The Will to Change', and also recent uncollected poems, (1 reel (28 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mon), Produced by Mimi Anderson, WBAI, Pacifica Foundation, New York, NY, December 2, 1972

#poetry #reading #notation #visual writing #adrienne rich #mimi anderson #pacifica foundation #1970s

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Harry Smith - Sing Out! on WBAI with Barbara Dane & Irwin Silber, April 1965

A feisty / folky hour of radio from way back in 1965. I've been immersed in the Harry Smith universe for a couple months now, thanks to John Szwed's remarkable bio Cosmic Scholar, which I followed up quickly with Paolo Igliori's American Magus. Obviously, Smith is fascinating character — and the Anthology of American Folk Music is just the tip of the iceberg.

The Anthology, however, is the main topic of discussion on the Sing Out! show, which Harry seems bemused/amused by; he had put the whole thing together well over a decade before and had definitely moved on to other things. But Smith must've been pleased that as the 1960s kicked into high gear, his collection of oddball vernacular folk was proving to be deeply influential.

While listening to Harry spar (playfully, mostly) with Irwin and Barbara here, I kept trying to think who his voice reminded me of — and then I realized ... it was a guy who knew the Anthology backwards and forwards: Jerry Garcia.

#harry smith #barbara dane #irwin silber

[29121996]

.

#going insane i wanna ask to borrow $20 and see if my irl is down ti play $10 worth of pool games #bc i am going Insa e being in yhis housr !!!! i wanna go out !!! #am seriiusly . like praying i get some kind of money so i csn . #its not thst i need to get drunk to play its that i WANT to after the last . 4 days ive had seruously. #i wanna get a lil wasted n hit some pool balls i am Dying . #not having a job has rlly limited my ability to do shit i am going to c r y #ik shit will happen as its supposed to but MY GOD i dont wanna be inside anymore but i cant go for a drive at all #n thetes literally nothing else to do in this shit hole of a town #so FUCK . #i just m am terrified ti ask my dad to borrow the money for fun shit #even tho . ive done fuck all for fun n i hsvent borrowed money for anytghi g except impirtant shit #but like . i just . idk whay to do abt it . #today has been fucked n id like to shut my brsin off abt it all . like rlly all i wanna do isnplay pool w mynfriend :( and drink 1-2 drinks #n idk if hed even givr it to me. i isually wouldnt ask but i just . idk wbay else to do #hopefully tmr night i can get out of this damn house fr

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

For the third time in five weeks, a 16-year-old boy has died after sustaining on-the-job injuries at an industrial site, as lawmakers in several states advocate loosening child labor laws that protect minors from hazardous work.

The latest teen death was Friday night at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, authorities said. It’s the third worker death at the plant since December 2020.

Duvan Tomas Perez, who NBC News reported moved to the U.S. from Guatemala six years ago, was cleaning machinery as part of a sanitation crew when he became trapped in equipment on a conveyor belt. He died at the scene, police and the poultry company said.

The company said that it appears that the child “should not have been hired” and that his age and identity were misrepresented on his hiring paperwork with an outside staffing company.

“We are devastated at the loss of life and deeply regret that an underage individual was hired without our knowledge. The company is undertaking a thorough audit with the staffing companies to ensure that this kind of error never happens again,” it said in a statement Thursday to HuffPost.

His death follows two other teens’ deaths in Wisconsin and Missouri.

Michael Schuls, 16, died on June 29 after sustaining injuries at the Florence Hardwoods logging company in Florence, Wisconsin. Michael was attempting to unjam a wood-stacking machine when he became pinned under machinery on a conveyor belt, resulting in what the coroner identified as traumatic asphyxiation, The Associated Press reported.

Will Hampton, 16, died on June 8 in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, after becoming injured while working at the Lee’s Summit Resource Recovery Park landfill. The high school sophomore became pinned between a tractor-trailer rig and its trailer, resulting in his death, police said in a statement.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating all three deaths, a Labor Department spokesperson confirmed to HuffPost.

OSHA has also made a referral to the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division for possible child labor violations concerning hazardous occupations in the Wisconsin case and a separate referral in the Missouri case to determine if the child was legally employed.

Federal labor laws allow children 16 and older to be employed in all occupations as long as the jobs are not declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor. The Labor Department’s website features a list of such hazardous occupations and specifies that “most jobs” in meat and poultry plants ― including equipment cleaning ― are banned.

Minors are also prohibited from being employed “inside and outside of places of businesses that use machinery to process wood products,” with a few exceptions, including if an adult relative supervises the child.

The Wisconsin teen’s father also worked at the sawmill and was at the site that day, Green Bay station WBAY reported, though the child was alone in the building when the incident happened, and he wasn’t found until 17 minutes later, The AP reported.

In the case of the Mississippi teen killed, the child wasn’t working directly for Mar-Jac Poultry as he had been hired by an outside agency. “These hiring companies often aren’t the most reliable when it comes to finding qualified, legal workers,” said Jordan Barab, former deputy assistant secretary of labor at OSHA from 2009 to 2017.

“These temp agencies don’t have any scruples at all. They don’t have any national reputation to uphold. They’re just trying to sell workers, basically,” he told HuffPost. “And then the main company claims they had no idea, the temp agency [says it] was ‘fooled by false certifications.’ Well, obviously this kid did not look 18.”

OSHA has been going after this “to a certain extent,” he said, with the administration citing both the place of employment and the hiring company when a regulation is broken.

Barab partially blamed the nation’s ongoing shortage of labor for the hiring of children because employers are trying to avoid paying more for qualified workers.

“You have some employers who are basically going after the most vulnerable workers, the workers with the least ability to fight back or question anything. Who could be more vulnerable than (A) children and (B) immigrant children?” Barab said.

The COVID-19 pandemic, affordable child care, a rise in remote work and retiring workers are among the reasons cited for the labor shortage.

Regardless of the risks, lawmakers in several states have proposed weakening child labor protections in a bid to expand the workforce with low-paying labor.

In Wisconsin, where one of the three children died, lawmakers are advocating for lowering the age to serve alcohol in bars and restaurants to 14. It would be a nationwide first if approved, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Another bill introduced in Minnesota proposes allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to work in or around construction sites.

In Iowa, the state Senate in April passed a bill that would allow children to work more days and longer hours, but in conflict with the current limits set by federal law, as Iowa State Daily reported.

The Biden administration back in April urged U.S. meat companies to ensure they are not unknowingly or knowingly hiring children illegally. This followed revelations that more than 100 children were working for a company that cleans slaughterhouses. The children’s work included handling hazardous equipment, like razor-sharp bone saws.

An estimated 160,000 children are injured annually in the U.S. while working. Of these injuries, 54,800 warrant emergency room treatment, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws has increased by 37% within the last year, according to a March report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The report identified 10 states that have introduced or passed bills within the last two years that would weaken child labor standards.

#us politics #news #huffington post #2023 #child labor #child labor laws #workplace deaths #working class #workers #worker's rights #workplace injuries #Duvan Tomas Perez #Mississippi #Mar-Jac Poultry #Michael Schuls #Florence Hardwoods #Wisconsin #Will Hampton #Missouri #Lee’s Summit Resource Recovery Park landfill #Occupational Safety and Health Administration #department of labor #biden administration #Jordan Barab #child labour #unfair labor practices #labor shortage #National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health #Economic Policy Institute