Radical Oberlin

Deep Ecology

2010-04-11T20:17:00.001-07:00

This, then, is the radical environmentalism show. The start-up clip got a little clipped, so you can find the whole thing by Satish Kumar here. click the link: Radical Discourse #6 - Deep Ecology

for extra material: here's the transcript and audio of a dank talk by Derrick Jensen (who'll be here April 22nd at 8pm in Craig Lecture Hall, Mountain Justice Summer's website, the Earth First! Journal, and a song that was too profane to play on-air:

The Daisy Cutters - Pollute the World

(We're gonna try to go back and get the Queer theory show up asap - it'll just be a couple hours of recording)

(Over the Next Weeks)

2010-03-28T18:45:00.000-07:00

Also, here's the schedule of shows to come:

4-4 Queer Theory
4-11 Deep ecology
4-18 Drug War
4-25 Radical Women's health/Free Schools
5-2 Radical Judaism

We air live Sundays at 7pm on WOBC 91.5 FM Oberlin College and Community Radio.

#5: Race

2010-03-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Everybody who helped on this one and called in! Shows're getting more n' more seamless:

Radical Discourse #5: Race (click the link)

#4: Israel/Palestine

2010-03-28T18:10:00.000-07:00

The fourth episode went off somewhat more seamlessly that the third, and is chalk full of brilliant analysis and questions, including questioning whether there is in fact anything inherently "radical" about a critique of Israel's actions in the Palestinian Territories.

Radical Discourse #4: Students for a Free Palestine, Israel/Palestine (du clique)

#3 Anarchism & Situationism

2010-03-28T17:43:00.000-07:00

Comrades! (right...) It's been too long. The second show drizzled somewhat, and ended up being mostly musical and scarcely discursive at all, so i won't post that one, except to give this delicious song by Billy Bragg, the original This Land is Your Land (listen for the verse on private property), and Tchkung!'s classic Smash it Up...(it's been skeazy putting these vids in - this'll have to do...

But we got right back on track with Number 3: (do click)

Radical Discourse #3: Of Anarchism & Situationism

Something went funny with the StreamRipper and it seems to have positioned some part of Alice's show at the beginning of ours, but the bulk of it is there - it jumps right into the fray a couple minutes in. Kind of a rhizomatic dealing with these two concepts, but it's solid enough. I'll try to load up a more succinct definition of the term that got chopped at the beginning. The Chomsky video Steven is referencing is [here]

Apologies again for the huge noise in the background and multiplicities of simultaneous vocal tracks. One more (A) slogan: La sola iglesia que ilumina es la que arde. Dig it. (I don't mean like that)

#1 Debut: Talking About Talking

2010-02-21T20:55:00.000-08:00

Here's the first show. Aired today at 6pm. We're having a meeting this Friday at 3pm in Azariah's Cafe in Mudd Library to discuss the curve of the show for the rest of the semester. Click the Link:
Radical Discourse #1 on WOBC - February 21 2010
I'm hosting it on www.enormousface.com for now, until I can figure out how to load it directly onto the blog. Please Leave comments, critique, etc. Within a few days the show should be up on WOBC's blog too.

Radical Oberlin Launch

2010-02-14T15:01:00.000-08:00

Oberlin has remarkably little space given to intellectual discourse outside of the classroom, and we want to work to change that, to bring it, to fertilize an arena here for important ideas. With luck, this website will be able to interface between the many activist and radical groups here at Oberlin and serve as a locus of organization.

We also intend to bring about 3 hours of weekly podcast information/theory-based educational programming for the Oberlin Community, because Education and dissemination are the foundation of every social transformation. The best programming will be broadcast on WOBC Sunday afternoons. We'll have history segments, headlines, readings from texts, interviews, discussions, folks calling in, and music. Mostly politics, but we'll run the gamut and invoke radical art/body/radical-psychology/theater of the oppressed stuff too, yarn everything in and out as much as possible. Earth-First will Tag-Team a section, Students for a Free Palestine will contribute, Oberlin activists against Prisons might pitch in, an Amnesty International Update, Gender Issues, Queer & feminist Theory, Examinations of Privilege, Activist round-ups & Updates, Pedagogical Method, Guy Debord, Vegan Manifestos, a Milieu of Social Critique, the whole Shah-Bang: we will come at things from a variety of perspectives, disagree with each other, but foster conversation.

Check back soon for more updates.