The Occupy Wall Street movement is an important grass roots coalition which aims to speak in the voice of the "many" embittered Americans. The disaffected, mostly youthful, protesters argue that the banks and Wall Street have consolidated so much capital and power that human beings no longer matter in this society. The organizers made the decision to march on, and to occupy, Wall Street, to bring attention to the fact that 1% of the population controls the resources of the other 99%. This disparity in resources, finances and jobs, which has begun to be felt viscerally in the middle class, has been a reality in, and disproportionately affecting, communities of color for some time now.


See videos (live at times) and live chat at livestream.com/ globalrevolution (Livestream requires Flash so this won't work on iPhones and iPads).

WBAI is having a membership drive from October 5th through November 1st. The programming schedule varies during fund drives. See the schedule for Oct 5th through 9th and October 10th through the 16th. After the fund drive, we return to our regular schedule.

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The fundraising special of Eco-Logic will be devoted to the health, environmental, safety and economic dangers from the Indian Point nuclear power plant on the Hudson River.

Barbara Glickstein, producer and host of WBAI's Healthstyles is also co-director of the Center for Health, Media & Policy (CHMP) at Hunter College. Join her for the fall HEALTH IN FILM & NEW MEDIA series, a project of the Center which begins October 19th with a very special screening of ALL OF US, a film by Emily Abt. ALL OF US is about women and AIDS in NY, but it's not a tragedy, it's a story of resilience, sisterhood and courage. The event is free and open to the public. Q&A with film maker. Seating is limited and rsvps are essential, chmp at hunter.cuny.edu.
LOCATION: CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, Main Auditorium, 2nd floor, 2180 Third Avenue at 119th Street, Manhattan.

Joy of Resistance is proud to offer WBAI listeners 20 advance DVDs of !Women, Art, Revolution, a still-in-theaters feature-length film documenting one of the most important contemporary art/political movements. Official selection: Sundance, Toronto, San Francisco and Human Rights Watch Film Festivals. Forty two years in the making, it tells the story of how the Feminist Art Movement took on the exclusive club of the white male art establishment and opened up space for women and People of Color in Museums, Galleries and Collections--broadening the definition of "Art." Includes rare footage of early feminist performance art, museum pickets & gallery invasions, interviews with over 40 artists include: Faith Ringgold (African American artist pioneer of the rebellion), Judy Chicago (whose "Dinner Party" provoked the House of Representatives to pass an amendment banning it) and the Guerrilla Girls, (the anonymous poster artists in Gorilla masks). Soundtrack: Carrie Brownstein (Sleater Kinney). Each DVD comes with a Graphic Novel illustrated by Dell Comics' Spain Rodriguez! Additional premiums: signed posters by Guerrilla Girls, Faith Ringgold - signed books: "Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes."

Tim Wise: On White Privilege

For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, he offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well. An ideal introduction to the social construction of racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege. This DVD can be yours for a donation to WBAI of $50 (this includes shipping).

"Slutwalk" came to New York City October 1st. The first Slutwalk was a protest of women being blamed for rape, after a Toronto police rep's statement that women should "avoid dressing like sluts" if they don't want to be raped. Similar protests have now spread to 100 cities around the world.

WBAI is looking to fill a managerial position working closely with the WBAI management team to co-ordinate fund-raisng and grant related activities.

Calling all instrumentalists, puppet-makers, creative people and fans of WBAI. We invite you to join the Artsy Fartsy Show’s walking float for the 2011 Village Halloween Parade, Monday October 31, 2011.

In the spirit of the popularity and uniqueness of the beloved Annual WBAI Craft's Fair, we are launching a new holiday tradition that we hope will win as much favor. We invite you to donate services, opportunities and/or "goods" to an online auction that will run from Thanksgiving 2011 through the first week of December. For more see the September 2011 edition of our newsletter or email auction at wbai.org.

Try the Premiums Customer Care Hotline: 212.209.2845 or fill out an online form (also available from: About Wbai-> Premium Customer Care).

We are in great need of saving WBAI archives of invaluable reel to reel interviews and live music shows going back 40 years! We have an opportunity to have them cold stored, preserved, and digitally archived by a team of professional archivists. NYU Archival Studies Graduate Studies students have volunteered to assist as well.

The reels contain interviews and performances by: Bob Dylan, Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Fidel Castro, the Bush's, Naomi Klein, Ruben Blades, Gil Scott-Heron, Utrice Leid, Jesse Jackson, Tito Puente, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, Odetta, Bernard White, Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Samori Marksman, Pete Seeger, Elombe Brath, etc.

Thanks to an outpouring of support from thousands of people concerned about proposed budget cuts, Congress passed a budget bill that preserves federal funding for public broadcasting. The funding for a few programs was unfortunately cut, but the basic funding for fiscal year 2011 was saved.

Feb. 6, 2011: WBAI is proud to announce its exclusive partnership with Al Jazeera English. Hear the story first right here on WBAI. The world is changing, don't be left behind! Get the real story, the whole story from 5am to 6am. Al Jazeera-English on WBAI 99.5 FM the only Left left. Listen to the latest Al Jazeera English show in our online archives ... and listen to our exclusive special coverage of Egypt at 6:30 PM daily. For more information call 212-209-2800. PDF flyer

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