WBAI studios are right next to the East River, in the mandatory zone A evacuation area. We will be forced to vacate our studios on Saturday August 27th at 5PM. At that time, we are planning on airing 24 hours of prerecorded programming. Once that ends, or is disabled for any reason, we will carry programming from our sister station KPFK in Los Angeles.

PRAISE THE PREZ! If today weren't the 102nd birthday of Lester Young, I wouldn't feel so compelled to continue the Prez celebration. Last week's program, presumably available on-line at archives.wbai.org featured tunes recorded between May 1939 and May 1940 with the Count Basie Orchestra, and showcased the sheer organization of the Basie Band: many of the tunes exist in only one take, and each demonstrates just how much musical "information" can be packed into the 3 minute side of a 78 rpm recording. This morning, longer performances drawn from the jam-session style concerts of Jazz at the Philharmonic, and we'll hear the Prez playing alongside Bird and Bean. (That would be Mssrs Charles Parker and Coleman Hawkins, respectively.)

Guests this week:
Patricia Rojas, who coordinates the Hunger Hotline for WhyHunger. WhyHunger works to end hunger both in the US and abroad supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment. It was founded in 1975 by the late musician Harry Chapin & current Executive Director Bill Ayres. The National Hunger Hotline 1-866-3-HUNGRY, refers individuals in need of emergency food assistance to soup kitchens, food banks, government programs & community organizations in their neighborhoods.

Sasha Lilley, giving a talk on understanding the economic crisis, as well as challenges and opportunities for the left. She is the editor of Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult. Lilley is host of the Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain. Marsha Gildin is a Master Teaching Artist for Elders Sharing the Arts, based in Fort Greene. ESTA affirms the creative potential of older adults and upholds their time-honored role as bearers of history and culture by using the power of the arts to transmit their stories and life experiences for the benefit of all generations.

This show will probably be pre-empted due to our studio evacuation.
Concert pianist, scholar and radio gadfly James Irsay holds forth.

This show will probably be pre-empted due to our studio evacuation.
Host David Kenney presents three "be a deejay" segments. One segment, by Richard Steiger, focuses on the FOLK & POP SOUNDS of the 60's and 70's. Also, Larry Vryva will do a segment on his career in the WORLD OF MUSICAL COMEDY.
For more, see David Kenney's website oldisnew.org.

Poet/performance artist Todd Shalom on upcoming walks of Elastic City, the conceptual walks organization he founded in 2010; writer and translator Nicholas Elliott reads poems recently published in the summer issue of Bomb magazine; and actress and social activist Bridgit Antoinette Evans on the NEA New Play Award winner, SEED, soon to be presented off-Broadway by the Classical Theater of Harlem and the Hip Hop Theater Festival. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

You can now join hundreds of WBAI listeners who became members by purchasing the DVD of "Zeitgeist: The Movie" with a pledge of $55.

The film is not what many assume. The original Zeitgeist was actually not a "film", but a performance piece, which consisted of a multi-media event using recorded music, live instruments and video. The event was "tossed" up on the Internet arbitrarily. The work was never designed as a film or even a documentary in a traditional sense - it was designed as a creative, provoking, emotionally driven expression, full of artistic extremity and heavily stylized gestures.

Hosts Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash are proud to announce that Building Bridges has just received an International Labor Communication Association’s (ILCA) outstanding Media Competition Award for our production, "Municipal Workers Fightback," based on three-hours of live coverage of the Mass Rally of NYC Public Workers Against Cutbacks on June 16, 2010. The program can be accessed at our web site.

The National Association of Black Journalists announced the winners for its 2011 Salute to Excellence Awards.  The competition honors work from print, television, radio, online, photojournalism and public relations.  Winners were announced Saturday, August 6, 2011 at an annual gala celebration during NABJ's 36th Annual Convention and Career Fair in Philadelphia, the largest gathering of minority journalists in the country.

2011 SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE WINNERS
Radio Documentary - "Curtis Mayfield - Keep on Pushin" - The Midnight Ravers

CONGRATULATIONS TO SHAWN RHODES AND TERRY WILSON, AND THE REST OF THE MIDNIGHT RAVERS FAMILY.

Radio Free Eireann and Explorations are pre-empted.

WBAI will air special programs on Monday September 5th from 6AM Midnight.
6AM - 8AM Caribbean Day Parade coverage
8AM - 9AM Democracy Now
9AM - 6PM Caribbean Day Parade Coverage continues
6PM - 7PM To Be Announced
7PM - 11PM Building Bridges Labor Day Special
11PM - Midnight Health Action Special

What's going on at WBAI. Department heads and the general manager provide an update.

A live broadcast from the Riverside Church.

WBAI will have special broadcasts on Sunday September 11th from 6AM - Midnight. This will include a national broadcast from Noon to 9PM.

WBAI will have special fundraising September 12th and 13th from 6AM - Midnight. More to come.

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.

Feminists Demand Freedom from Sexual Assault and Harassment
We agree: Rape is always about power and domination; it is sexualized violence.

The Program Director is responsible for WBAI programming. The position is full-time, exempt and non-union. The Program Director reports to the General Manager and is a member of the stations management team.

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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