Monday, November 12, 2007

Other Items -- Anthony Arnove on WBAI today 2 to 3 pm EST

Anthony Arnove is on the radio today.  Rachel forwards this heads up about NYC's WBAI::
 
Monday, November 12, 2-3pm
CAT RADIO CAFE
Actress Angelica Torn and playwright Paul Alexander on their new production of "Edge," a play about poet Sylvia Plath;; documentary filmmakers Regina Weinreich and Catherin Hiller Warnow on their newly released DVD, "Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider"; and author Anthony Arnove on "Rebel Voices," the stage adaptation of his and Howard Zinn's  "Voices of a People's History of the United States." Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.
WBAI/NY, 99.5FM
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Rebel Voices is playing now through December 16th at Culture Project  and is based on Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's best-selling book Voices of a People's History of the United States. It features dramatic readings of historical voices such as war resister Camilo Mejia, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Malcom X and others will be featured. Zinn will take part in the November 18th presentation (the official opening night -- but performances are already taking place) and poet Staceyann Chinn and musician Allison Mooerer will hed the permanent cast while those confirmed to be performing on selected nights are Ally Sheedy (actress and poet, best known for films such as High Art, The Breakfast Club, Maid to Order, the two Short Circuit films, St. Elmo's Fire, War Games, and, along with Nicky Katt, has good buzz on the forthcoming Harold), Eve Ensler who wrote the theater classic The Vagina Monologues (no, it's not too soon to call that a classic), actor David Strathaim (L.A. Confidential, The Firm, Bob Roberts, Dolores Claiborne and The Bourne Ultimatum), actor and playwright Wallace Shawn (The Princess Bride, Clueless -- film and TV series, Gregory and Chicken Little) and actor, director and activist Danny Glover (The Color Purple, Beloved, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Rainmaker, Places In The Heart, Dreamgirls, Shooter and who appeared on Democracy Now! today addressing the US militarization of Africa) The directors are Will Pomerantz and Rob Urbinati with Urbinati collaborating with Zinn and Arnove on the play. Tickets are $21 for previews and $41 for regular performances (beginning with the Nov. 18th opening night). The theater is located at 55 Mercer Street and tickets can be purchased there, over the phone (212-352-3101) or online here and here. More information can be found at Culture Project.
 
The Los Angeles Times offers text, photos and audio on Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller. The (new) text is a two-part series by Luis Sinco -- the first part ran yesterday, the second part today.  Martha notes this from Joshua Partlow and Ann Scott Tyson's "Hurdles Stall Plan For Iraqi Recruits" (Washington Post):
 
The U.S. effort to organize nearly 70,000 local fighters to solidify security gains in Iraq is facing severe political and logistical challenges as U.S.-led forces struggle to manage the recruits and the central government resists incorporating them into the Iraqi police and army, according to senior military officials.  Gen. David H. Petraeus and other top commanders have hailed the initiative to enlist Iraqi tribes and former insurgents in the battle against extremist groups but leaders of Iraq's Shiite-dominated government have feared that the local fighters known as "volunteers" -- more than 80 percent of whom are Sunni -- could eventually mount an armed opposition, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.
 
The intended mess Bully Boy created.  Meanwhile, Missy Ryan (Reuters) reports on another Iraqi civilian killed by mercenaries in Iraq, this time by DynCorp who shot dead an Iraqi cab driver in Baghdad Saturday. James Glanz (New York Times) reports 3 "witnesses said the taxi had posed no threat to the convoy, and one of them, an Iraqi Army sergeant who inspected the car afterward, said it contained no weapons or explosive devices" and quotes the Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul-Karim Khalaf declaring, "They just killed a man and drove away."
 
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