Tribeca Radio Podcasts

Steal This Radio
With Mitchel Cohen

An Hour of Mayhem, Music & Ecology

This Week: Show #6

Cultural commentator and NY Green Party activist
Paul Gilman provides a fascinating glimpse into
the politics and raison d'être of Heavy Metal
music -- an unusual review, to say the least.
Paul comes to the studio fresh from his weekend
at Black Sabbath's reunion concert in New Jersey.

ALSO: Mitchel Cohen discusses
JewsAgainstTheWar.org's antiwar petition signed
by numerous Rabbis and leaders of the Jewish
community; and also opposition to Barnes &
Noble's blocking of a book reading by noted
Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa at its Bayside,
Queens, bookstore under the guise of expressing
"concern" for "sensitivity" to the Jewish
community. The shopping mall in which the Barnes
& Noble is located is owned by Cord Meyer
Development, run at one time by CIA agent Cord Meyer, Jr. and now by his son.

The mysterious death of Meyer's wife will forever
claim a place in history for Meyer, even if his
corporation's founding in the late 1800s of
Elmhurst and Forest Hills, Queens, have escaped
down the memory hole. As the daughter of the
editor-in-chief of the Washington Post, Mary
Meyer was on intimate terms with John F. Kennedy
when he was President. She was murdered a year
after Kennedy's assassination, and her diary was
confiscated by James Engleton, the CIA's top counter-intelligence officer.

Mitchel Cohen also discusses the brewing
opposition at the University of Massachussetts
(Amherst) to awarding Bush's former
Chief-of-Staff Andrew Card an honorary degree in
return for Card's help in securing federal funding for the University.

Music:_Megadeth, "Holy Wars ... The Punishment Due"
Black Sabbath, "The Mob Rules"
The Roches, "The Bells" (music by Phil Ochs, poetry by Edgar Allan Poe)
Dave Van Ronk, "Outside a Small Circle of Friends" (written by Phil Ochs)
AND, a vintage 1984 Mitchel Cohen performing one
of his own songs, "The Presidential Waltz"

Opening theme: Mario Savio, speaking in Berkeley,
1964_Theme Song: Dave Rovics, "Jenin

E-mail: mitchelcohen@mindspring.com