*** Also, the first broadcast of Long Island activist Brian O’Hare’s new song “Thanks to the Banks”.

Follow the Climate Justice movement at the following websites:
www.ActForClimateJustice.org
www.ClimateSOS.org
www.Social-Ecology.org

Interviews with actor/director Elizabeth Ruf Maldonado and actor Louis Williams, whose play — “The Iron Heel” (from the novel by Jack London) — opened on September 24th at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan.

Also, the WBAI radio Local Station Board elections are underway, and Mitchel Cohen writes the following to all WBAI members:

Ballots must be returned and received by the station’s post box by October 15th.

If you are a member but have NOT received a ballot and the mailings of various groups of candidates, please email election@wbai.org immediately,  include your name and mailing address, and cc me as well. It again appears that hundreds of people have not received ballots.

Here are my preferred candidates and the order in which to vote for them. If you’d like me to discuss the very important issues involved, feel free to write to me directly at mitchelcohen@mindspring.com. You can also read more about the issues at www.takeforwardWBAI.org .

Please be sure to rank ALL of these candidates, with #1 being your favorite, #2 your second choice, and so forth. It is very important that all of these be ranked. Here goes:

#1 Mitchel Cohen

#2 Alex Steinberg

#3 Austin Kelley

#4 Elizabeth Brown

#5 Frank LeFever

#6 Andrea Katz

#7 Lionel Legros

#8 Ken Laufer

#9 Andrew Aaron

#10 Teresa Palmer

#11 Shanti Rica

#12 Manijeh Saba

#13 Chris Farrell

#14 Jeff Peress

#15 Sam Weinreb

#16 Arun Aguiar

#17 Jonathan Asculai

#18 Linda McDonald Carter

#19 Andrea Fishman

Mitchel Cohen interviews candidate for NY City Council Mark Winston Griffith, in a ride-ranging discussion of how to organize locally and why run for office.

Guest Fran Luck discusses the Women’s Liberation movement and “What is radical feminism”. Fran’s terrific radio show, “Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio,” can be heard once-a-month on WBAI (99.5 FM) in NYC.

Music:
Dory Previn, “Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister”
Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band, “Mountain Moving Day”
Simone White, “I Didn’t Have Any Summer Romance”

And the first volume of Lanier’s biography “THE DARK  LADY; THE WOMAN WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE” can be bought online at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16441192/The-Dark-Lady-the-Woman-who-wrote-Shakespeare-Vol-1
CONTACT EMAIL; Darkladyplayers@aol.com .

The first 50 listeners who write to DarkLadyPlayers@aol.com will be sent Volume 1 for FREE!

- Philippine workers in Saudi Arabia to be whipped and imprisoned for holding a “gay” party, while U.S. government says nothing.

- Mitchel Cohen talks about his trip to Europe and his speaking engagements and activities in France and Germany.

- Arrests under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, as reported in the Berkeley underground newspaper, Slingshot. http://www.AETA4.org

- NYC Mayor Bloomberg rounding up and gassing geese.

- The life and death of Chicago surrealist Franklin Rosemont.

- Political prisoner Daniel McGowan’s letter about secret “Communication Management Units” at Marion prison, and the psychological experiments done on Moslem and political prisoners in the U.S.  http://www.SupportDaniel.org

- Elections in Iran, and the debate within the U.S. Left. Professor Kaveh Ehsani vs. James Petras.