{"id":10166,"date":"2013-08-01T06:05:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2014-01-18T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T05:12:04","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-voting-rights-suppressed-peaceful-80-year-olds-arrested-whistleblowers-convicted-theres-something-happening-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10166","title":{"rendered":"KPFK ‘BradCast’: Voting Rights Suppressed, Peaceful 80-Year Olds Arrested, Whistleblowers Convicted — There’s Something Happening Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this week’s BradCast<\/i> on KPFK<\/a>\/Pacifica Radio, I covered both the nation’s most extreme voter suppression law<\/a> in North Carolina (and the facts<\/i> behind its passage) and the precedent setting verdict in the Bradley Manning case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But at the heart of it all is something else — a primal, patriot scream perhaps, as exemplified by the arrest of 83-year old Robert Plummer, Jr.<\/a> at the state capitol in NC last week (Plummer is a Korean War hero who was also<\/i> arrested on the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Martin Luther King on Bloody Sunday<\/a> in Selma, AL during the 1965<\/i> march for voting rights, and by the arrests of 80- and 85-year old Joan and Tom Kemble<\/a> for singing in the Wisconsin state capitol in the same dark week.<\/p>\n

The Kembles joined me live on the show to talk about their arrests at the daily sing-along that has been going on every day since Gov. Scott Walker’s radical anti-union bill was passed two years ago, and to sing a song or two before their next trip to the pokey for peacefully singing in protest to petition their government for redress of grievances. (Please help all of the WI arrestees pay their legal bills and fines at SolidaritySingAlong.org<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

As usual, there was much more, including Desi Doyen and the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, in between. I hope you’ll give it a listen. I think you’ll enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below…<\/i>
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