Some great things at the station lately

Dear all,

I'd like to contribute some positive and anti racist vibes to the board, via terrific programs I've heard lately on BAI. I say anti racist in the sense that, whenever one is focusing on learning or comprehending something very intelligent or interesting or mind expanding that another person is saying, then racism and/or denegration is somehow absent or very much diminished. At least that is my personal experience.

So here are some real positives I've heard lately. They bring us back to the notion of WBAI as a kind of open air all too self secret club for cool and enthusiastic ideas

There was a program and premium featuring
(?Dr.) Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau, who is just brilliant in the scope of his knowledge and insights. This guy is terrific. He has a website (with others) at
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/Home.php .
The music alone there is unbelievable. The drumming!
See especially http://www.abibitumikasa.com/Market.php , about15 minutes in.
We should use it as a premium, a theme song, something. Talk about music that could pull people in to the station, wow!
His philosophy is deep and different, rooted in village tradition. I recommend it immensely. If someone here can point me to the URL for the WBAI interview last week, I'd really appreciate it.
(That's the idea of the web, working together cooperatively.)
What about giving him a few hours to teach on BAI.. He might take it as advertising for his institute.

There was a 2 hour special program on Haiti yesterday (I think) interviewing Edwidge Danticat, an author, originally from Haiti, who has written a new autobiographical memoir called Brother, I'm Dying, nominated for the National Book award. Again, wow! The book was a premium. Again, I'd appreciate a URL to the program. This author shows real intelligence and humanity. I learned a lot.

The producers of "Beyond the Pale" are pretty uniformly amazing in the amount they are able to teach me in a short time.

For me, about 15 - 25 % of the programs I hear on BAI "click" to stimulate a lot of further self learning. Each such program takes days to weeks to research and even partially absorb. Each corresponds to what a friend of mine once called a "big learn", the first time one is exposed. Gee, what more could one ask from radio? In other words 15-25% is plenty for me given the amazing quality of these intervals. Also I don't listen all that much.

These programs are, to me, personally, big sucesses. Let's generate more traffic advertising these terrific accomplishments on this bulletin board, and then figure out how to advertise the station better.

Disclaimer: Although I am running for the LSB on an independent and "anti JUC" platform, I am happy to admit that many people must be doing something right to get programs like these on over and over again. I don't really know whom. My candidacy is focused on the station facing facts and breaking even financially very soon because it has to, and us acting better toward one another, not denigrating the great work on the station. If and when the station is doing OK financially, I'll be happy to bow out.

Thanks,
Seth Goldberg